Svyasa University, Bangalore 2009 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) INDIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE BOARD ISC Class XII - Question Paper

him that ice was not far away. Most of these important signals were passed on to the officers, but 1 was not. It was a signal from a different ship, the Mesaba, reporting
icebergs in front of the Titanic.

(3) When it arrived, Phillips was hard at work. Many of the travellers had sent news or
info or orders by wireless during the day to their friends in England or
America. Phillips was now doing his best to finish off all this work. He was so busy that he did not report the ice immediately. The signal lay on his table, half forgotten.

(4) The 2 men who were watching for icebergs, Fleet and Lee, suddenly saw
something dark just in front of the ship. They immediately rang the ship’s bell, and
Lee telephoned to the officer of the watch to report the iceberg.

(5) The necessary orders were provided at once, though it is impossible to stop a great ship
immediately, especially if it is moving at about twenty-five miles an hour. But the
officer did his best. The engines were stopped and then started again to pull the ship
backwards. The steel doors were closed. The ship was turned away from its straight
course. But it was all too late. Too late!

(6) The ship struck the iceberg with its side while it was still moving forwards. It struck the ice again with a different part of its side. In a few moments 6 great holes were
made in the steel. Water rushed in, not in 1 place, but in separate places covering
three hundred feet. The steel doors were therefore useless.

(7) Captain Smith soon understood that nothing could save his ship. At a quarter past
twelve in the early morning he ordered the wireless officer to send out the ship’s position and the letters CQD, which is the call for help. It told the world that the
Titanic was sinking. The impossible was happening.

(8) At 1st the people on board did not believe that the ship was sinking. They had been
told that it could not sink, but they understood the truth when the captain gave the
order to prepare the boats. Women and children were ordered into the boats first, but
a few wives would not leave their husbands and did not go.

(9) a few women had to be pushed into the boats and some, had to be thrown in. It was
hard to leave the big lighted ship, and to go in a small boat on the dark icy sea.
Many brave acts were done that night, but 1,503 people lost their lives. And so the
Titanic went down beside the huge iceberg that destroyed it.

(10) When day came, a different ship, the Carpathia, arrived and picked up all those that
could be obtained. It took to New York only 705 men and women. The wireless officer
Mr. Phillips, and Captain Smith were not among them.

Adapted from “Behind the Headlines”
By G.C. Thornley

(a)
(i) Use every of the subsequent words, as used in the passage, in a sentence of your own construction so as to bring out its meaning very clearly. Using the word in a situation very similar to the passage will be penalized.
(1) report (line 14)
(2) course (line 19)
(3) moments (line 21)

(ii) For every of the words provided beneath write a sentence of at lowest 10 words, using the identical word unchanged in form, but with a various meaning from that which it carries in the passage:
(1) watch (line 14)
(2) sink (line 29)
(3) acts (line 34)

(iii) Explain, in the situation of the passage, in not more than 2 phrases of your own, the meaning of every of the subsequent expressions taken from the passage. (Merely using phrases will not do).
(1) …on his table, half forgotten. (line 11)
(2) Many brave acts were done that night. (line 34)

(b) ans the subsequent ques. briefly in your own words:
(i) How did the officers of the Titanic know that there were icebergs in the area? [2]

. (ii) Why was the signal from the Mesaba particularly important?

. (iii) Why was this signal not passed on to the officers?

. (iv) Why were the steel doors useless?

(c) In not more than 60 words and with close reference to the last 3 paragraphs, provide an account of The Sinking of the Titanic.

Earning:   Approval pending.