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Model Paper-2019
ENGLISH (Only Paper)
Class-12
Time: 3 Hr. 15 Min. Max. Marks : 100
Instruction: First 15 Minutes are allotted to the candidates
for reading the question paper.
Note: i) This paper is divided in Section-A and Section-B.
Both the sections are compulsory.
ii) Question No. 11 has three parts: I, II, and III.
Attempt only one part of Question No. 11.
iii) All other questions are compulsory.
Section A
1. Explain with reference to the context any one of the
following passages: 8
a) I was a prisoner, completely surrounded, unable to
move. The most diligent, aggressive vendor was a
beautiful girl of nine right in front of me. She had a
lovely basket with handle; and she wanted a rupee
and a half for it or about thirty cents. She was an
earnest pleader. There were tears in her eyes. She
pleaded and begged in tones that would wring any
heart.
b) He only is fitted to command and control who has
succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.
The hysterical, the fearful, the thoughtless and
frivolous, let such seek company, or they will fall for
lack of support; but the calm, the fearless, the
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thoughtful and grave, let such seek the solitude of the
forest, the desert and the mountain-top, and more
power will be added to their power, and they will
more and more successfully stem the psychic currents
and whirlpools which engulf mankind.
2. Answer any one of the following questions in not
more than 30 words: 4
a) Why was Phatik excited to go to Calcutta?
b) How is smoking injurious to health?
e) What are the three important qualities of a
valuable life?
3. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the
most suitable words given within the brackets:
1x4 = 4
a) I flicked him ____________ again. (with, into, in, off)
b) The charm and _________ of the Indian way of
life will continue. (pace; graciousness, tales,
hierarchy)
c) Makhan only moved to a more ___________ position.
(comfortable, unbearable, easy, critical)
d) Just the same I ______ he would give me a few
breaks. (wish, want, like, beg)
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4. Answer any one of the following questions in about
75 words: 8
a) How does Portia save Antonio?
b) Write a character sketch of Shylock.
5. Answer any two of the following questions in about
30 words each: 4+4=8
a) Why did Sanku want to steal the gold watch?
b) Why did the astrologer run away from his
village?
c) What was the plight of the child after he had lost
his parents?
6. Explain with reference to the context any one of the
following extracts: 8
a) The breezy call of incense - breathing morn,
The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,
The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
b) My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farm house near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
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7. Write the central idea of any one of the following
poems: 6
a) Character of a Happy Life.
b) A Lament
c) My Heaven
8. Write the definition of any one of the following figures
of speech with two examples: 2+2= 4
a) Metaphor
b) Personification
c) Hyperbole
Section - B
9. a) Change any one of the following sentences into
indirect form of speech: 2
i) The teacher said to the student, "My Son! Work
hard if you want to make your career."
ii) The old lady said, "Peacocks dance with joy when
it is about to rain."
b) Change any one of the following sentences as
directed within the brackets: 2
i) He is very poor. He cannot purchase a Car.
(Simple Sentence)
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ii) The picture was interesting. We enjoyed it very
much. (Compound sentence)
c) Transform any one of the following sentences as
directed within the brackets: 2
i) Have you not stolen the bag?
(Passive voice)
ii) No other boy is so intelligent as Shyam.
(Superlative degree)
d) Correct any two of the following sentences:
1x2 = 2
i) One should do his duty.
ii) Physics are an interesting subject.
iii) Either he should eat mango or apple.
iv) Please give me a ten rupees note.
10. a) Use any three of the following idioms/phrases in
your own sentences so as to bring out their
meanings clearly: 1x3 = 3
i) a bone of contention
ii) a feather in one's cap
iii) an axe to grind
iv) a Herculean task
v) in a fool's paradise
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b) Write antonyms of the following words: 1x3=3
i) barren
ii) flexible
iii) voluntary
c) Write synonyms of the following words: 1x3=3
i) confess
ii) enormous
iii) splendid
d) Substitute one word for the following
expressions: 1x3 = 3
i) that which is fit to be eaten
ii) one who believes in fate
iii) absence of governance
e) Use the following words in sentences of your
own so as to bring out the differences in their
meanings clearly: 1+1 = 2
i) cell
ii) sell
PART - I
11. Translate the following into English: 10
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igys yM+kbZ dqN euq";ksa ds chp gksrh FkhA fQj dchyksa esa
gksus yxhA fQj jkT;ksa esa gqbZA ijUrq vc yM+kbZ ns'kksa ds
chp yM+h tkrh gSA fQj Hkh [Link] gj gkyr esa ogh gksrk
gSA euq"; ds jDr dh ufn;k¡ cgrh gSaA yksx ejrs gS]a
fL=;k¡ fo/kok vkSj cPps vukFk gksrs gSaA dgus esa rks fdlh
,d ns'k dh thr gksrh gS] ijUrq vly esa vktdy dh
yM+kbZ esa fdlh dh Hkh thr ugha gksrhA fdlh us Bhd gh
dgk gS fd Hkfo"; esa yM+kbZ esa thfor jgus okyk ejus okys
dks vPNk le>sxkA
Or
PART - II
a) Give the substance of the following poem in your own
words in about 80 words: 4
I thanked God . . . .
The one who gave me hope to live
The one only who can forgive
The one who died on a cross
. . . . to save humanity that is lost.
The one who gave His words . . .
So I give you my heart, to you Lord.
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b) Write a summary of the following passage in
about 60 words: 6
Man is the architect of his own life. If he
makes a proper division of his time and does his
duties accordingly, he is sure to improve and
prosper in life, but if he does otherwise, he is
sure to repent when it is too late and he will have
to drag out a miserable existence from day to
day. When he finds himself helpless and is not
able to recall the last days, he will cry over the
spilt milk. To kill time is as culpable as to commit
suicide, for our life is nothing but the sum total of
hours, days and years. Youth is the golden season
of life. In youth the mind is pliable and soft and
can be moulded into any form we like. If we lose
the morning hours of life, we shall have to repent
afterwards. It is called by Carlyle 'the seed of life'.
If we sow a good seed, we shall reap a good
harvest, when we grow up.
OR
PART - III
a) Write a short essay on any one of the following
literary topics in about 120 words: 6
i) Keats as a romantic poet
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ii) Victorian novel
iii) Plays in 20th Century
iv) Blank verse
v) Elegy
b) Match the literary works of List-A with their
authors in List-B. 4
List-A List-B
i) Paradise Lost Shakespeare
ii) Candida Milton
iii) Essays of Elia Shaw
iv) Hamlet Charles Lamb
12. Write an essay on any one of the following topics in
about 200 words: 12
a) Safety of women in India
b) Mobile Phones-Boon or Bane
c) Importance of Books in our life
d) Need to Save Trees
e) My Favourite Author
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13. Read the following passage carefully and answer the
questions that follow:-
The real object of education at which every true
teacher is aiming and for which every true student is
working, is to draw out, train and discipline, the
faculties of the mind, those faculties that the boy will
want to use when he comes to be a man. And right
education is not cramming of the boy's memory, but
the evolution and training of his powers of observing,
reasoning and judging. You are not here only to pass
examination or to observe your teacher's knowledge,
you are here to develop your faculties of the mind -
spiritual, intellectual, moral, physical - so that
hereafter you may use them in the service of God and
men, to the credit and honour of your country, your
families and yourselves.
a) What is the real object of education? 2
b) What should the students aim at? 2
c) i) Explain the underlined word. 1+1=2
ii) Write a suitable title for the passage.
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