Final Exam Model Paper 1

1. Read the text given below and do the tasks.

Phulmaya’s Water Jar

Phulmaya lives in a village in Dailekh. Every morning she fills a big jar at the stone tap below her house, and until last year she drank straight from it. Last Shrawan, after a week of heavy rain, she and her little brother both got diarrhea. The health worker at the ward clinic gave them oral rehydration solution and asked where their drinking water came from. “Rainwater washes dirt from the fields into the tap,” she explained. “Boil your water for one minute, or filter it, and always keep the jar covered.” Now Phulmaya boils a pot of water every evening, lets it cool, and pours it into a clean jar with a lid. Nobody in the family has fallen ill since then.

A. Choose the correct answer. (5 × 1 = 5)

2. Read the text given below and do the tasks.

The Pillar That Pointed to a Birthplace

In the Sacred Garden at Lumbini, in Rupandehi, stands a stone pillar more than two thousand years old. It was set up by Ashoka, the Mauryan emperor, who came to the place in the third century BCE, twenty years after he became king. The words cut into it, in the ancient Brahmi script, say that he came himself and worshipped there “because the Buddha Shakyamuni was born here”. Ashoka also made the village of Lumbini free of taxes, so that it paid only an eighth share of its crops.

For centuries the pillar’s message was lost. In the seventh century CE, the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang saw the pillar broken in two and lying on the ground. He did not mention any writing on it; perhaps the inscription was already hidden. In December 1896, the ground around the pillar was dug up under General Khadga Shumsher Rana, with the German archaeologist Alois Anton Führer, and the old inscription was found, still sharp because it had lain underground for so long.

Until then, nobody was sure where Lumbini was. The inscription showed that this was the place. Today Lumbini is a World Heritage Site, listed by UNESCO in 1997, and pilgrims from many countries come to the Maya Devi Temple beside the pillar to chant and meditate.

A. Write ‘True’ for the true statements and ‘False’ for the false ones. (5 × 1 = 5)

B. Answer the following questions. (5 × 1 = 5)

3. Read the brochure given below and do the tasks.

Simle Danda Community Homestay, Tanahun

Stay with a family. Live like a villager.

Simle Danda is a Magar village on a ridge above the Seti River, a 40-minute drive from Damauli. Twelve families welcome guests into their own homes.

What you can do

• Watch the sun rise over the Annapurna and Manaslu ranges from the viewpoint.
• Join in the day’s work: cutting grass, milking the buffalo or planting maize.
• Learn to weave a doko, a bamboo basket, with our elders.
• Enjoy the Ghatu dance, performed by the village’s girls in spring.

Food and rooms

Guests eat with their host family: dal-bhat with fresh vegetables, millet roti and homemade yogurt. Each house has one or two clean guest rooms, and every home has a toilet and hot water.

Prices

Rs. 2,500 a night for each person, with three meals. Children under ten pay half price. Ten percent of every payment goes to the village school.

Please remember

Take off your shoes before you enter the kitchen, ask before you take photographs of people, and carry your plastic waste back with you.

To book, contact Januka Magar of the Homestay Committee at least three days before you arrive.

A. Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the text above. (5 × 1 = 5)

B. Answer the following questions. (5 × 1 = 5)

4. Read the science article given below and do the tasks.

The Lake That Keeps Growing

High in the Everest region, at about 5,010 meters, lies Imja Tsho, one of the fastest-growing glacial lakes in the Himalayas. It sits at the snout of the Imja and Lhotse Shar glaciers, and its water is held back by a moraine: a loose wall of rock, gravel and ice that the glacier pushed up long ago.

The lake has not always been there. On a satellite image taken in 1962, there were only a few small ponds on the surface of the glacier, covering about 0.03 square kilometers in all. As the climate warmed and the glacier melted, the ponds merged into one lake in the 1970s. By 2000, the lake had spread over about 0.8 square kilometers, and by 2009 it covered more than one square kilometer, over thirty times the area of the first ponds.

A lake like this is a hazard. If the moraine gives way, perhaps after an avalanche or an earthquake, millions of cubic meters of water can rush down the valley in a few hours. Scientists call this a glacial lake outburst flood, or GLOF. Villages, bridges and trails along the Dudh Koshi River below Imja Tsho could be swept away.

To reduce the danger, the Nepal Army, Nepal’s Department of Hydrology and Meteorology and the United Nations Development Programme built an outlet in 2016 and drained more than four million cubic meters of water from the lake. Warning systems have also been set up below some dangerous lakes, such as Tsho Rolpa in Dolakha, so that people downstream can be told to move to higher ground.

But draining a lake is slow and costly work, at a height where people cannot work for long, and the glaciers go on melting. The surest way to protect the mountains’ lakes is to slow down the warming of the planet itself.

A. Match the words from the text in Column A with their meanings in Column B. There is one extra meaning that you do not need. (5 × 1 = 5)

B. The sentences below tell the story of Imja Tsho. Write the number of each sentence’s place in the order in which the events happened (1–5). (5 × 1 = 5)

C. Answer the following questions. (5 × 1 = 5)

9. Reproduce the following sentences as instructed in the brackets. (6 × 1 = 6)

10. Choose and copy the best answer for the numbered blanks below. Rewriting is not compulsory. (10 × 0.5 = 5)

Zeenat runs (a) ………. (a, an, the, no article) small tailoring shop in Nepalgunj. She opened it (b) ………. (in, on, at, since) 2019 with a loan from a women’s cooperative. Her first customer was a teacher (c) ………. (who, which, whose, whom) needed a kurta for Dashain. Today, each of her three sewing machines (d) ………. (run, runs, are running, have run) from morning till evening. Last month she had the shop (e) ………. (paint, painted, to paint, painting) bright blue. (f) ………. (Although, Because, Unless, So) the work is hard, she loves it. “If you learn a skill, you (g) ………. (will never be, would never be, had never been, never were) poor,” she tells her daughter. Zeenat sews very (h) ………. (careful, carefully, care, more careful), so her clothes fit perfectly. Next year, her daughter (i) ………. (is taught, will be taught, was taught, has taught) to sew by her. “Girls (j) ………. (should, mustn’t, needn’t, can’t) learn a trade too,” she says.