UP Board Solutions for Class 12 English Model Paper
UP Board Solutions for Class 12 English Model Paper
Section ‘A’
(i) Explain with reference to the context any one of the following passages :
(a) Politically and economically India faces many problems of great difficulty, and no one can forecast her future with any certainty. But it is safe to predict that, whatever the future may be, the Indians of coming generations will not be unconvincing and self-conscious copies of Europeans, but will be men rooted in their traditions, and aware of the continuity of their culture. Already, after only seven years of Independence, the extremes of national self- denigration and fanatical cultural chauvinism are disappearing. We believe that Hindu civilization is in the act of performing its most spectacular feat of synthesis.
(b) Compassion, daya, is the quality which is more characteristic of women than of men. I read recently a book which speaks about the decline of womanhood, and says that this is so because there is a decline in compassion. In other words, the natural quality of women is compassion. If you do not have compassion, you are not human. It is therefore, essential for every human being to develop the quality of considerateness, kindness and compassion. Without these qualities we are only human animals, nara pasu, not more than that.
(c) When an artery becomes blocked, the portion of the heart muscle it feeds, dies. This leaves scar tissue–it may be no larger than a small marble, but it can be half the size of a tennis ball. How serious the trouble is depends on the size
and position of the plugged artery.
(ii) Explain with reference to the context any one of the following extracts : ‘
(a)
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into
fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
(b)
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
(c)
The wounded snake its hood unfurls
The flame stirred up doth blaze,
The desert air resounds the calls
of heart-struck Lion’s rage
2. Answer one of the following questions in not more than 30 words : 4
(a) What misery did partition between India and Pakistan cause to the people?
(b) What are the opportunities available to women in present times?
3. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with suitable words or phrases given below the sentences : 4 × 1 = 4
(a) It was a ………… porter giving me a hint that this was my station.
[(a) healthy (b) handsome (c) friendly (d) cruel ]
(b) John hardly …………. thinks of me which is good.
[(a) never (b) ever (c) always (d) sometimes ]
(c) The ‘Upanishads’ will not …………. to inspire the ment of thought.
[(a) cease (b) crease (c) breeze (d) greese ]
(d) I do not know which of us into the ………. ……….. first.
[(a) carriage (b) courage (c) cartridge (d) cottage]
4. Give the central idea of any one of the following poems : 6
(a) My Heaven
(b) The Song of the Free
(c) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
5. Answer one of the following questions in not more than 75 words : 8
(a) “In Portia’s personality, we find a blend of beauty and brain.” Comment.
(b) How is Jessica’s elopment connected with the plot of the play?
6. Answer two of the following questions in not more than 30 words each : 4 + 4 = 8
(a) What was the first demand of the child while accompanying his parents to the fair?
(b) How had Gyan Babu to put in his resignation?
(c) Where did Sanku work?
7. Define ‘Hyperbole’ and give an example of it. 2 + 2 = 4
Section ‘B’
8.
(a) Change the following into indirect form of speech (any one) :
(i) The teacher said to me very angrily, “Why have you come?” Have I not told you, never to see your face again”‘?
(ii) He said, “Thank you”.
(b) Combine the following sentences as directed within the brackets (any one): 2
(i) A tiger was hungry. He killed a bullock. The bullock was hefty. (into simple sentence)
(ii) He ran so quickly. He soon overtook his father. (into complex sentence)
(c) Transform the following sentences as directed within the brackets (any one): 2
(i) No sooner, I entered the room, than he started rebuking me. (into affirmative sentence)
(ii) He begged his father to forgive him.(into passive voice)
(d) Correct two of the following sentences : 1 + 1 = 2
(i) Two miles are not a long distance.
(ii) He returned back only yesterday.
(iii) The news is very good to be true.
(iv) He is very interested in games.
9.
(a) Give the synonyms of the following words : 3 x 1 = 3
(i) Efficient
(ii) Lament
(iii) Champion
(b) Give the antonyms of the following words : 3 x 1 = 3
(i) Domestic
(ii) Reveal
(iii) Aware.
(c) Use the following words in sentences of your own so as to bring out the difference in their meanings clearly : 1 + 1 = 2
(i) Career
(ii) Carrier.
(d) Substitute one word for the following expressions: 3 x 1 = 3
(i) Which is contrary to law.
(ii) A child whose parents are dead.
(iii) Eclipse of the moon.
(e) Use three of the following idioms/phrases in your own sentences so as to bring out their meanings clear: 3 x 1 = 3
(i) Hue and cry
(ii) Black sheep
(iii) Beat about the bush
(iv) In black and white
(v) A fool’s paradise.
Translate the following into English:
10.
भारतवर्ष एक महान देश है। इसका अतीत बहुत ही शानदार रहा है। विदेशी आक्रमणकारियों ने इस देश को लूटने का प्रयास किया। इसकी संस्कृति तथा इसके ज्ञान-विज्ञान को मिटाने का प्रयास किया। परन्तु देशप्रेमियों के बलिदान और बहादुरी के कारण वे सफल नहीं हुए। आज भी देश में किसी चीज की कमी नहीं है। यदि दिन दूनी रात चौगुनी बढ़ती हुई जनसंख्या पर नियंत्रण हो जाये तो देश फिर समृद्ध हो जाएगा। पर्यावरण प्रदूषण देश की एक बड़ी समस्या है। इस ओर प्रत्येक देशप्रेमी नागरिक को जागरूक होने की आवश्यकता है। आपसी भाईचारा और मेल-जोल की भावनों को सदैव बढ़ावा देने की आवश्यकता है। भारत एक महान देश था, आज भी है और सदैव रहेगा।
11. Write an essay on one the following topics in about 250 words : 12
(a) Youth Unrest
(b) Your Views on Terrorism
(c) True Journalism
(d) Bio-farming : Its Necessity Today
(e) My Favourite Book
12. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow :
It is most intensely true that above all things, the interest of your whole life depends on your being diligent, not what it is called today, in this place where you have come to get education. Diligent ! that includes in it all virtues that a student can have. I mean it to include all those qualities of conduct that lead on to the acquiretment of real instruction and improvement in such a place. If you believe me, you are young, your’s is the golden season of your life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is the seed-time of life, in which, if you not sow or if sow tares, instead of wheat, you cannot expect reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little.
(a) Attempt a summary of the above passage.
(b) Give a suitable title to the above passage.
(c) Explain the italicized portions.
(d) What type of seed we should sow in our life-time?
(e) How will you say that life depends on your being diligent? 1
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