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Paper English 12th
( Examination from Home)
All questions are compulsory. Attempt the questions and submit the paper with your subject teacher at school within a week. You can take help from books or notes. Students should not take help from other students. It is a self evaluation test and students must attempt it honestly in their own hand writing.
Section A ( unseen passages)
Q1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow-: . -5
I had an earnest desire to meet my friends, to talk to them , to make mischiefs, to tease them and to play with them. Though I occasionally encountered with them in my way to shopping or going to my fields or doing my chores but it could not fulfill my desires of being with them . In school we spent more than six hours learning various subjects and also ,at intervals, playing different games and making mischiefs. I was not so intelligent and occasionally my teachers chided me for neglecting my studies. So I often invented excuses to stay away from the school and the teachers . It appeared to me very boring to get prepared for school everyday and to attend the classes. My all veins froze in the morning. I was abhorrent of class, lessons and discipline. I often thought of running away in some deserted lands where nobody disturbed your sleep, where nobody bothered you . But now the school being closed for more than six months due to covid -19 pandemic, the teachers and all my classmates , the books and homework and everything connected with school looked very relishing and I prayed that schools were opened again and I asked my teachers day after day about it. I realised that school is the best place of life and school hours are the best hours of life and the teachers are the most lovable persons on the earth who forgive your mischiefs, punish you tenderly and always have a supporting hand on your back like a friend, a father or a big brother. My dear teachers!
a). Where did the speaker desire to go? What was his attitude earlier?
b). Why were the schools closed? How did the speaker feel when schools were closed ?
c). Why did everything connected with schools look relishing to the speaker?
d). What was final realisation of the speaker?
e). Pick out the word from the passage which is similar in meaning to i) deep ii) attractive or fascinating
Q2. Read the passage and make notes.5
Millions of species live on earth . Some live on land, others live in water. There are some who live on land as well as in water. Depending on the habitat they live in, their bodies become adapted to that place. Terrestrial, aquatic and amphibians that is we call them as per their habitats . Terrestrials live on land, aquatic in water and amphibians can live both on land and in water. Those living on land have lungs to breathe. They inhale oxygen from the atmosphere and exhale carbon dioxide. They can't breathe in water. Aquatic animals can't survive on land because they does not have lungs to breathe. They have gills . On the other hand, the amphibians can breathe both on land and in water.
Section B ( Grammar and writing skills)
3. a) Fill in the blanks with appropriate form of verb 2×4=8
i) H usually------------ ( wear) shirt and trousers but today he -----------( wear) a dhoti and kurta.
ii) Babar, the Mugal invader, ------ ( demolish) The Ram Temple in Ayodhya and -------- ( build) a mosque there.
iii) Olympics ------- ( organise) next year.
b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles.
i) ----- tiger is a ferocious animal.
ii) He gave me-------- important message.
iii) It is ------ biggest question.
c) Fill in the blanks with suitable modals.
i) It is cloudy. It ........rain today
ii) She ..........speak five languages.
iii) He ---------- not face a lion.
d) Change Narration.
i) He said to me," I am playing now."
ii) She said to me, " Do you know me?"
iii) My mother said to me,"Obey the elders."
Q4. You are Arun of GSSS ABC. You lost your English book somewhere in the school. Write a notice for the notice board of your school for this. 5.
OR
Recently your school observed a cleanliness week in your school. Write a report on it.
Q5. Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 150 words. 5.
I. My Hobby
2. A Birthday Party
3. How I Spent My Last Sunday
Q6. Write a letter to the SHO of your locality complaining about poor law and order situation in your area. Invent all necessary details. 5
Section C - Textbooks
a) Flamingo:-
Q7 a) Read the passage and answer the questions that follow:- . 5
It had happened when I was ten or eleven years old. I had decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A. in Yakima that offered exactly the opportunity. The Yakima river was treacherous. Mother continually warned against it and kept fresh in my mind the details of each drowning in the river. But the Y.M.C.A pool was safe. It was two or three feet deep at the shallow end and while it was nine feet deep at the other, the drop was gradual. I got a pair of water wings and went to the pool .I hated to walk naked into it and show my skinny legs. But I subdued my pride and did it.
1. Name the lesson and its author.
2. When did the narrator decide to learn to swim?
3. Why does the writer say that Y.M.C.A. was safe?
4. What did the writer's mother remind him of?
5. Pick out the words from the passage which are similar in meaning to.
I) Dangerous ii) brought under control.
b) Write in brief about Franz's Teacher M.Hamel . Or. 5
Write in brief a note on the sharecropping system in Champaran.
c) Answer any five in 30-40 words each.
5×2=10
1. What orders had come from Berlin?
2. What was Saheb looking for in the garbage?
3. What made the paddler accept Edla Williamson's invitation?
4. What was Pancake and what was it used for?
5. What is "The Name of the Rose' about?
6. What was Sophie's plan after school?
7. What is Ferozabad famous for?
(b) poetry section
Q8. Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow-: 5
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead:
All lovely tales that we have heard or read:
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring into us from the heaven's brink.
1. Name the poem and the poet.
2. What is the grandeur associated with the mighty dead?
3. Who are the mighty dead?
4. What effect does the ' immortal drink ' produce on us?
5. What does the poet mean by the immortal drink?
(b) Answer the following in about 100 words -:
a) What is message of the poem ' Keeping Quiet'? 3×2=6
b) How Dou know that the poet's mother was old and weak?
(c) Supplementary Reader - Vistas
Q9 Answer in about 150 words- 5
Who was Evans ? How was he arrested and how he managed to escape the prison.
OR
What does the third level refer to? Do you think the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
Q10 Answer in 30-40 words each-: 3×3=9
a) How does Jo want the story to end and why?
Or
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
b) Take care of small things and big things will take care of themselves. Comment on it .
OR
Who was Sadao? Where was his house?
c) How does Derry get into Mr. Lamb's garden ? OR
Describe Zitkala- Sa's experience on her first day in the ' land of apples'?
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