Final Exam Model Paper 3

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

The Hill That Turned Green

Rachana’s grandmother remembers when the hill above their village in Kavre was almost bare. People cut its trees for firewood, and every monsoon the soil slid down onto the fields below. About thirty years ago, the villagers formed a community forest user group. They planted pine and chilaune saplings, took turns to guard the hill, and agreed to collect only dead branches. Slowly the hill turned green again. The spring below the forest, which used to dry up every Chaitra, now flows all year round. Last month, Rachana and her science club counted fourteen kinds of birds there in a single morning.

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

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

Sundarbasti Women’s Dairy Cooperative

Who we are

The Sundarbasti Women’s Dairy Cooperative was founded in 2008 by twenty-five women of a village near Bharatpur, Chitwan. Each of them kept one or two buffaloes, but traders paid them a low price for their milk and often paid late. So the women decided to sell their milk together. At first, each member saved one hundred rupees a month, and in 2012 these savings, with a loan from a bank, bought the cooperative’s first milk chilling tank.

What we do

Today the cooperative has 340 members, all of them women, and it collects about four thousand liters of milk every day. The milk is tested for fat and cleanliness when it arrives, chilled, and sold to a dairy in Bharatpur. Members are paid every fifteen days, by the amount and quality of the milk they bring. The cooperative also gives members small loans to buy cattle, and runs training in cattle health and clean milking with the help of the municipality’s veterinary office.

How we are run

Every member has one vote. The general assembly, which meets once a year, elects a committee of nine members for a term of three years. Five percent of each year’s profit goes to a scholarship fund for members’ daughters in secondary school.

Our aim

Our aim is a fair price for every liter and a stronger voice for women in the village.

A. Match the beginnings of the sentences in Column A with their endings in Column B. There is one extra ending that you do not need. (5 × 1 = 5)

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

3. Read the news story given below and do the tasks.

Taxi Driver Returns Bag with Passport and Cash

Pokhara, 12 Mangsir. A taxi driver in Pokhara has returned a bag containing a passport, a visa, a plane ticket and eighty-five thousand rupees in cash to its owner, who was about to leave for work in Malaysia.

Sudip, 26, of Syangja, had taken a taxi from Lakeside to the Prithvi Chowk bus park early on Tuesday morning to catch a bus to Kathmandu. In his hurry, he left the bag on the back seat. He noticed it was missing only when the bus had already left.

The driver, Gopal, 48, found the bag when he stopped for tea about an hour later. “When I saw the passport, I knew that someone’s whole future was inside it,” he said. He took the bag straight to the Area Police Office at Prithvi Chowk, where officers contacted the owner through the phone number written in his passport.

Sudip returned to Pokhara the same afternoon and got his bag back with nothing missing. He offered Gopal ten thousand rupees as a reward, but the driver would not take it. “Give it to your mother before you go,” he told him.

The local taxi drivers’ association has decided to present Gopal with a letter of appreciation next week.

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

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

4. Read the travelogue given below and do the tasks.

Two Days in Bandipur

We left Pokhara early on Friday morning and reached Dumre, on the Prithvi Highway, a little before ten. From there, an eight-kilometer road climbs the hill to Bandipur. Until 1998, when that road was built, there was only a rough track, often closed in the monsoon.

Bandipur sits on a narrow saddle of the Mahabharat range, about a thousand meters high. After the Gorkha kingdom took the Kathmandu Valley in 1768, Newar traders from Bhaktapur settled here, on the trade route between India and Tibet, and the hilltop was free of malaria. You can still see their wealth in the main street: tall brick houses with carved windows and a covered veranda running along almost its whole length, with little shops under it. No vehicles are allowed in the bazaar, so the street belongs to children, chickens and slow-walking visitors.

In the afternoon we visited the town’s old library, which was renovated in 2000, and the shopkeeper who sold us tea told us how Bandipur had declined. When the Prithvi Highway was built in the valley below in the 1970s, the traders followed the road down to Dumre, and the district headquarters moved to Damauli. For years, half the houses stood empty.

On Saturday we got up before dawn and walked to the Tundikhel, a wide, flat ground at the edge of the town. As the sun rose, the snow peaks along the northern sky turned pink, then gold. After breakfast we went down to Siddha Cave, one of the largest caves in Nepal, 437 meters deep, where our torches lit up great columns of stone.

Bandipur today is busy again, this time with visitors. It shows that an old town need not be pulled down to be brought back to life.

A. Choose the correct meaning of the following words from the text. (5 × 1 = 5)

B. The sentences below are about Bandipur’s past. 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)

Last Friday our class visited (a) ………. (a, an, the, no article) National Museum at Chhauni in Kathmandu. We reached there (b) ………. (at, on, in, for) ten o’clock. Our guide, (c) ………. (who, whom, whose, which) grandfather had also worked at the museum, met us at the gate. Each of the galleries (d) ………. (is, are, were, have been) full of old things. Some of the coins on display (e) ………. (were made, made, are making, have made) by hand. We could not take photos inside (f) ………. (because, although, so, unless) it was not allowed. “If we come again, we (g) ………. (will visit, would visit, visited, had visited) the art gallery first,” said my friend Riya. Before we left, our teacher made us (h) ………. (write, to write, written, writing) a short report. It was the (i) ………. (more interesting, most interesting, interestingly, interest) trip of the year. “You enjoyed it, (j) ……….?” (didn’t you, did you, don’t you, weren’t you) our teacher asked on the bus.