Comprehensive Passages HSEB/ NEB 2075 Old Questions | English Class 11

Comprehensive Passages HSEB/ NEB 2075  Old Questions of Compulsory English Class 11

HSEB/ NEB 2075: Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. [5*2=10]

To become a professional athlete, a person must stay healthy and physically strong. A soccer star should be able to run faster and faster than most other athletes. A basketball player has to be able to take a block, and shoot while other powerful players are trying to stop him. Athletes need the support of their families. Finally, to make a career in sports, the player must be able to avoid injuries. Many young athletes have to quit because they have sports injuries from playing year after year. So a powerful, agile, and resilient body is essential.

Another factor that contributes to a successful career in sports is a strong mind. An athlete must be able to manage stress and focus on the game. A tennis player might feel a lot of stress, which could interfere with her ability to concentrate. She might hit the ball out of the bounds. A crowd of people yelling at a basketball pitcher might make him throw balls instead of strikes. To succeed, an athlete must be able to play under this kind of pressure. Athletes need the right kind of equipment to perform at their peak. In addition, an athlete must be able to make quick, strategic decisions. Making the right decision to pass or shoot, for example, is extremely important, especially in team sports.

Questions

i. What are the basic requirements of a professional soccer athlete and what should an athlete be able to avoid?

ii. What has a basketball player to be able to do?

iii. Why do many young athletes have to quit their profession?

iv. List any three words which talk about the physical requirement of a player.

v. What should be the minimum criteria of an athlete? explain. 

HSEB/ NEB 2075: Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. [5*2=10]

Every day, millions of us climb into our cars and set off on journeys to work, to the shops, or just to enjoy ourselves. And once inside our cars, few of us are inclined to spare a thought for the environmental impact of driving in heavy traffic. Advertising consistently portrays cars as symbols of personal status and freedom and a source of comfort and convenience.

But the costs of our car-dependent lifestyles are becoming increasingly serious. The hours-long traffic jams, demand new roads, increasing air pollution and the threat of climate change are all issues we must tackle sooner rather than later. Nearly all countries have traffic problems, which can be hard to solve. It is a well-known fact that cars and buses unlike bicycles use lots of petrol and create a deal of pollution. Local people can reduce some of the problems by choosing to walk rather than drive. If we can’t get people to walk or share vehicles, we should put more pressure on scientists to build solar-powered electric engines.

Questions

i. Why do people climb into cars?

ii. How does advertising portray cars?

iii. What serious issues should we tackle sooner or later?

iv. What is the obvious truth mentioned in the text?

v. How can local people reduce the problem of traffic jams? 

HSEB/ NEB 2075: Read the following passage and answer the following questions given below. [5*2=10]

A motorist using a wireless telephone might be worried about having an accident, even while being reassured that if one were to happen, he or she should call for help. Recently some scientists and laypeople Have expressed alarm at another possible danger- that the use of mobile phones itself may harm the user’s health, perhaps even causing cancer.

There is a good reason to be concerned. The widespread use of hand-held mobile phones means that many people routinely place radio frequency (RF) transmitters against their head - in some European and Asian countries, a majority of the adult population does so.

Since world war II, there has been a massive amount of research on the biological effects of RF energy, nearly all of it funded by the government. Most of this research has involved fields at 915 and 2450 MHz, close to the frequencies used by mobile phones.

But, despite these claims by cell-phone makers, little of this research proves that mobile phones are safe. A few of the studies on whether RF exposure is dangerous to animal tissue have involved standard toxicology work – the sort that a chemical or pharmaceutical company would do to gain regulatory approval for a new product. In addition little of the research deals specifically with the kind of pulse-modulated energy transmitted by newer generations of digital phones or with the exposure conditions typical of those produced by cell phones.

Questions

i. What are the disadvantages of using a wireless telephone?

ii. What does RF stand for?

iii. On what the research has been concentrated since world war II?

iv. Who funds for such research?

v. What could be the possible title for the passage?


HSEB/ NEB 2075: Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. [5*2=10]

The belief that animals can sense an earthquake before it occurs has been held since at least the ancient Greeks. Apparently, animals of all kinds act in peculiars way just prior to an earthquake. Many animals have more sensitive auditory capacities than humans, and perhaps because of this, react to ultrasound originating from fracturing the rock. Some researchers have also pointed out that some animals can pick up variations in the earth’s magnetic field occurring near the epicenters of seismic events. Examples of unusual animal behavior include dogs barking for hounds and wild animals appearing confused or losing their natural fears of people. Some people claim that even fish, reptiles, and insects engage in abnormal behavior at this time. Such strange behavior occurs from just moments before to a couple of weeks in advance of the quake.

A famous example of the successful use of animal behavior to predict a quake occurred in China in 1975 when the authorities ordered the evacuation of the city of Haicheng just a few days before a 7.3 magnitude quake, thus saving the lives of thousands of people.

The notion that animals could be used as an early warning signal to alert people of impending earthquakes is not supported by proven evidence. A scientist in California did a study to see if there is a correlation between dogs running away from the home and there occurring an earthquake. He did not find that dogs ran away any more often before an earthquake than at other times during the three years of study. Even the famous story of animals saving thousands of people in China in 1975 was disputed. Apparently, some tiny earthquakes occurred first and this alerted the authorities to evacuate the city.

Questions

i. What special sense perceptions of animals can predict earthquakes?

ii. What sorts of unusual behaviors of animals alert people prior to the earthquake?

iii. Explain the point of a dispute about saving thousands of people in China.

iv. How do some people argue that the prediction of earthquakes is unreliable?

v. Summarize the main points discussed in the passage.

HSEB/ NEB 2075: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. [5*2=10]

Mahabir Pun of Nepal is among the seven individuals who received the 2007 Roman Magsaysay Award by the board of the Trustees of the Roman Magsaysay Award Foundation ( RMAF). Pun has won the award for community leadership for his innovative application of wireless computer technology in Nepal, bringing progress to remote mountain areas by connecting his village to the global village. Pun, 52, is a resident of Myagdi district, Western Nepal.

Pun is the fourth Nepali national to win the coveted award also known by some as the Nobel prize of Asia. Dr. Sanduk Ruit, Head of the Tilganga Eye Center in Nepal had received the award in 2006 for placing Nepal at the forefront of developing safe, effective and economic procedures for cataract surgery, enabling the needlessly blind in even the poorest countries to see again. Nepal’s renowned Journalist, Bharat Dutta Koirala, received the award in 2002 for his outstanding contribution to the development of journalism in Nepal. Late Mahesh Chandra Regmi was the first Nepali to receive the award in 1977.

Questions

i. Why was Mahabir Pun recognized with Roman Magsaysay Award?

ii. What is the contribution of Sanduk Ruit?

iii. Who is the first Nepali to receive the award?

iv. What is the acronym of the Roman Magsaysay Award Foundation?

v. In which part of Nepal is the Myagdi district?

HSEB/ NEB 2075. Read the following passage and answer the following questions given below. [5*2=10]

Simon and Matrena understood who it was that had lived with them, and whom they had clothed and fed. And they wept with awe and with joy. And the angel said, “ I was alone in the field naked”. I had never known human needs cold and hunger , till I became a man. I was famished, frozen and did not know what to do. I saw, near the field I was in a shrine built for god, and I went to it hoping for the shelter. But the shrine was locked and I could not enter. So I sat down behind the shrine to shelter myself, at least from the wind. The evening drew on. I was hungry, frozen and in pain. Suddenly I heard a man coming along the road. He earned a pair of boots and was talking to himself. For the first time since I became a man, I saw the mortal face of a man, and his face seemed terrible to me and I turned from it. And I heard a man talking to himself of how to cover his body from the cold in winter, and how to feed his wife and children.

Questions

i. How did Simon and Matrena overcome with emotion?

ii. Why were human needs unfamiliar to the angel?

iii. Why did the angel go to the shrine?

iv. How did the face of a man appear to the angel?

v. What was the man worried about?

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