CBSE Class 11 English Sample Paper Set 07

CBSE Class 11 English Sample Paper Set G. It’s always recommended to practice as many sample papers as possible before the examinations. Students can download the sample papers and also question papers of previous years to practice and score better marks in examinations. Refer to other links too for more sample papers.

Section - A

MENDING WALL

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

that sends the frozen ground swell under it

and makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

the work of hunters is another thing

I have come after him and made repair

where they have left not one stone on a stone,

but they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

to please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

No one has seen them made or heard them made

But, at Spring mending time, we find them there

I let my neighbor know beyond the hill

and on a day we meet to walk the line

and set the wall between us once again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.

To each the boulders that have fallen to each •

and some are leaves and some so nearly balls

We have to use a spell to make them balance;

"Stay where you are until our backs are turned"

We wear our fingers rough with handling them,

Oh! Just another outdoor game.

One on a side, it comes to little more;

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard

and eat the cones under his pines. I tell him,

he only says, "good fences make good neighbors"

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If Icould put a notion in his head;

"Why do they make good neighbors ? Isn't it

Where there are cows ?" But here there are no cows.

Before I build a wall I'd ask to know

what I was walling in or walling out.

And to whom Iwas likely to give offense.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall.

That wants it down, "I could say "elves" to

him" But it is not elves exactly and I'd rather

he said it for himself. I see him there

bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top.

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me,

not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father's saying,

And he likes having thought of it as well

He says again "good fences make good neighbours."

1.1. Choose the correct option :

(a) What is the poem about ?

(i) A wall

(iii) Boulders

(b) What does the poet have on his side ?

(i) Pine trees

(iii) Apple orchard

(ii) Frozen ground

(iv) Gaps in the wall

(ii) Big boulders

(iv) Cones under pines

(c) According to the neighbour what do fences make ?

(i) Good people

(ii) Bad neighbours

(iii) Good neighbours

(iv) Bad people 

1.2. Answer the following questions briefly :

(i) What has the poet come to do ?

(ii) Why is the poet meeting his neighbor ?

(iii) According to the poet a wall is not needed at all. Give his explanation for such a view.

(iv) How does the neighbour's view differ ?

(v) What does a stone age savage man signify ?

(vi) What is the poet's opinion of his neighbour as they depart ?

1.3. Find words from the poem that are similar in meaning to the given words :

(i) Mend (ii) Magic (iii) Idea

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