Class 11th English Up board Annual exam paper solution 2025
कक्षा 11वी अंग्रेजी यूपी बोर्ड वार्षिक परीक्षा पेपर का सम्पूर्ण हल 2025
UP Board Annual Examination Paper 2025
Class - XI
Subject -English
Time: 3 Hours 15 Minutes. MΜ.: 100
Section 'A' - Reading
Q1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
We become conscious of our weakness the moment we are placed in some responsible position. We then try to prove equal to the task. If we are ever tempted to go astray, it is the thought which prevents us from doing so. Does the editor ever care to weigh his words when he launches his fiery denunciation day in and day out against the government? But let him have a seat in the cabinet. No one is so thoughtful, so wise, so farsighted as he. Or take the case of a young man. How reckless and irresponsible he is! But let him marry and have children. The same wild youth is now transformed into a sober and grave householder.
(a) What does the writer want to convey through the passage? 3
(b) What is the meaning of the expression "To prove equal to the task"? 3
(c) What changes a reckless youth into a sober and grave householder? 3
(d) What change do you find in the editor when once he gets a seat in the cabinet? 3
(e) (i) Which word in the passage is the opposite of 'responsible'? 1
(ii) What does the word 'to go astray' mean in the passage? 1
(iii)Which word in the passage means' aware of? 1
Section B-Writing
Q2. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. 5
(1) How you can best improve your English depends on where you live and particularly on whether or not you live in an English speaking community. If you hear English speaking everyday and mix freely with the English speaking people, it is on the whole an advantage. On the other hand, it is often confusing to have the whole language poured over you at once. Ideally, s step-by-step course should accompany or lead up to this experience. It will also help a great deal
if you can easily get the sort of the English books you are interested in.
(2) To read a lot is essential. It is illogical not to venture outside the examination 'set books' or the 'text books' you have chosen for intensive study. Read as many books in English as you can, not as duty but for pleasure. Do not choose the most difficult books you find with the idea of listening and learning as many new words as possible. Choose what is likely to interest you and be sure in advance that it is not too hard, you should not have to be constantly looking up new words in the dictionary, as that deadens interest and checks real learning. Look up a word here and there. but as a general policy try to push ahead, guessing what the words mlean form the context. It is extensive and not intensive reading that normally helps you to improves your English. You should enjoy the feeling which extensive reading gives, of having some command over the language. As you read, you will become more and more familiar with words and sentence patterns you already know, understanding them better and better as you meet them in more and more contexts, some which may differ only slightly from others.
(3) Some people say that we can learn to speak a language better withthe help of a book. To believe in this is to believe that the spoken language and the written language are quite different things. There is a too great deal common between the two. In learning the patterns and vocabulary of the written form, we are learning to a considerable extent of the spoken form too. We are, in fact, learning the language and not merely one form of language.
(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes on it, using recognizable abbreviations wherever necessary Also supply an appropriate title to it.
(b) Write a summary of the above passage.
Q3. Write an essay on any one of the following topics in about 200 words.8
(a) Indian Education System
(b) Bio-farming: Its Necessity Today
(c) The Problem of Pollution
(d) Challenges Before Indian Democracy
Q4. The youth of the country are very vigilant these days and feel concerned about the problems being faced by the people. Write a letter to the Editor of a national daily urging him to highlight the role of the youth in eradicating the problems of poverty, unemployment and corruption. You are Rani/Rohit, 15, Sector 5, Gurgaon. 7
Section 'C' Grammar & Translation
Q5. Choose the correct option to answer the following questions:
(a) Government by one person is called:
(i) Democracy
(ii) Anarchy
(iii) Autocracy
(iv) Plutocracy
(b) The phrase 'set off' means:
(i) to leave a place
(ii) to hate a place
(iii) to start to go
(iv) to be forced to go
(c) The synonym for 'bane' is:
(i) boon
(ii) curse
(iii) blessing
(iv) reward
(d) He has been living in Varanasi since three years.
Which word is an 'error' in the sentence?
(i) years
(ii) has
(iii) since
(iv) three
(e) The antonym of 'ability' is:
(i) unability
(ii) inability
(iii) disability
(iv) incapability
Q6. (a) Change any one of the following to indirect speech:2
(i) The teacher said, 'All men are mortal".
(ii) Rita says, "I shall do it".
(b) Combine one of the following as directed:
(i) You must work hard or you will not succeed.(Simple Sentence)
(ii) He is certain of being able to help his friend.(Complex Sentence)
(c) Transform any one of the following as directed:
(i) She is writing a letter to her father.(Passive Voice)2
(ii) Shyam is taller than any other boy in the class.(Superlative degree)
(d) Correct any one of the following sentences:
(i) My friend Ramu is junior than me.
(ii) Deers are grazing in the forest.
(e) Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear:
(i) Birth-Berth
(ii) Complement-Compliment
Q7 Translate the following passage into English:
मुशी प्रेमचन्द को कौन नहीं जानता? जानता? अधिकाधिक लोगों ने उनकी कहानियों तथा उपन्यासों को पढ़ा है। उनकी कहानियों तथा उपन्यासों में गाँव में रहने वाले निर्धन तथा मध्यम वर्गीय परिवार के लोगों की झलक मिलती है। उन्होंने गाँव रीति-रिवाज, सामाजिक बुराईयों, जमींदारों के अत्याचार तथा अंधविश्वासों के विषय में खुलकर लिखा है। उन्होंने यह सिद्ध किया कि साहित्य समाज का दर्पण होता है।
Ans – Who does not know Munshi Premchand? Most of the people have read his stories and novels. His stories and novels give a glimpse of the poor and middle class families living in villages. He has written openly about villages, customs, social evils, the misdeeds of landlords and superstitions. He proved that literature is a mirror of society.
Section-D Literature
Q8. Answer any one of the following questions in not exceed 60 words:
(a) "They remain the richest royal collection ever found and have become the part of the pharaoh's legend." Explain the statement.
(Discovering Tut:the Saga Continues)
(b) Give a brief account of Professor Gaitonde's stay and study of history books at Town Hall Library. What riddle was he keen to solve?(The e Adventure)
Q9. Answer the following questions in not to exceed 30 words each:4+4-8
(a) How did the disaster strike Wavewalker?(We're Not Afraid to Die.. if We Can All Be Together)
(b) Why did the author take the shortcut to Mount Kailash?(Silk Road)
Q10. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: 3x2=6
And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
(a) What question does the poet ask the rain?
(b) What does the expression "Soft-falling shower" suggest?
(c) What language does the poet receive in the answer?
Q11. Write the central idea of any one e of the following poems:
(a) A Photograph
(b) Childhood
(c) Father to Son
Ans - A Photograph Central idea The poem also compares the internal state of nature to the momentary state of humans. The title "A Photograph" suggests that the cardboard frame stands for lack of durability, hinting at the lack of permanence of human life.
The central idea of a poem is the main theme or underlying message that the poet wants to convey. It is the essence of the poem, often reflecting the poet's thoughts, feelings, or observations about a particular subject.
Q12. Answer any one of the exceed 60 words: following questions in not to 7 (a) Describe the narrators' second visit to Mrs. Dorling's house?(The Address)
(b) Why does Mrs. Pearson press Mrs. Fitzgerald for personalities changing bodies once again so that both of them can come back in their real selves? (Mother's Day)
Q13. Answer the following questions in not to exceed 30 words each: 4+4=8
(a) Where did Mourad hide the horse for more than one month and Why?(The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse)
(b) What were the doctor's obligation towards the child and the mother?
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