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CBSE XII Pre Boards 2015 : ENGLISH CORE (KV Kolkata)

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KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN (KOLKATA REGION) 3rd PRE- BOARD EXAMINATION CLASS XII SUBJECT- ENGLISH CORE TIME ALLOWED- 3 HRS MM-100 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:1. The question paper is divided into three sections- Reading, Writing and Literature. 2. All the questions are compulsory. Choice, if any, is mentioned with question(s) concerned. 3. Follow the word limit. Marks will be deducted for over writing. 4. Marks allotted for each question is mentioned at the end of the question. SECTION A (READING)- 30 MARKS Q.1. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions given under it.(12marks) It is reported that the government is close to finalizing a system of dual pricing for the public procurement of food grains. There would be two basic elements to this system: A fixed Minimum Support Price (MSP) covering the cost of cultivation, as at present, recommended by the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), and variable procurement prices, at the discretion of the department of food, depending on market. According to a working group of the Planning Commission, over the five year period ending 200102 when there was a steep rise in procurement price resulting in accumulation of embarrassing large stock of food grains of over 60 million tonnes with the government, consumption of food grains in the country was reduced, on this account, by at least five million tonnes per annum. The new system by assigning a greater role for private trade can improve the efficiency in the distribution of food grains and substantially cut down subsidies, which can help to step up much needed public investment in agriculture. The proposed dual pricing system is a better alternative than total marketisation of food grain trade by disbanding altogether public procurement at MSP. Such a dismantling could lead to a crash in market prices of food grains in years of food harvest. Even though this may make exports competitive and raise domestic consumption of food grains in the short run, it may undermine food security by sapping producer incentives. The experience of green revolution underlines the importance of assured MSP including the farmers to step up their own investment and effort and derive full benefit from available infrastructure. For the dual pricing system to yield desired results, it needs to be backed by several other policy measures. Since the impetus for crop diversification would be greater in the infrastructurally developed regions like the north-west , this can slow down the growth of food grains output in the country and, in particular, the surpluses procured, unless immediate measures are taken to strengthen public support for irrigation, technology, extension and credit in the rest of the company, especially in the central and eastern regions where there is a large potential as the growth of food grains output has barely kept pace with population growth since the mid-90s. This also calls for more effective public procurement of food grains at MSP in these regions, as farmers have to often sell their produce immediately after the harvest at prices that are lower than MSP. Therefore, dual pricing system can be sustained only through non-price interventions such as infrastructural support for regional dispersal of growth in food grains output. The new system requires better market intelligence forecasts as well as concurrent analyses on prices and sales in markets in India and abroad. i) On the basis of your reading the passage, answer the following questions:5 (a) What are the two elements of dual pricing system for procuring food grains? 1 (b) How will the above proposed system benefit the nation? 1 (c) Mention at least four non food grain item used by the consumer. 2 (d) In order to boost the dual system what urgent measures are needed to be taken? 1 Choose the correct options (1 mark each) 3 (e) The growth of food grain output in the country may be affected if i) ii) Technology is not developed iii) (f) Irrigation is not strengthened All the above. T he dual pricing system can be sustained by i) ii) better market intelligence forecasts iii) (g) Infrastructural support Both (i) and (ii) In the new system the private trade will be i) ii) Discouraged iii) (h) Encouraged Will remain unaffected Trace words from the passage that are the synonyms of the following (1 mark each) 4 i) Extra (para-3) ii) extract(para3) iii) a driving force (para-5) iv) Two roles(para-5) Q.2. Read the poem given below carefully and answer the questions given under it. (10 marks) INDIAN WEAVERS Weavers, weaving at break of day, Why do you weave a garment so gay? Blue as the wing of a bluebird wild, We weave the robes of a new-born child. Weavers, weaving at fall of night, Why do you weave a garment so bright? Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green, We weave the marriage-veils of a queen. Weavers, weaving solemn and still, What do you weave in the moonlight chill? White as a feather and white as a cloud, We weave a dead man's funeral shroud. -Sarojini Naidu Read the questions given below and write the option you consider the most appropriate in your answer sheet. q.2.1.3 (a)Inthe early mornings the weavers weave (i) a bright blue cloth (ii) a dull grey cloth (iii) a soft white cloth (iv) a red coloured veil (b) In the poem the poet addresses (i) Weavers (ii) children (iii) queens (iv) all the above (c) The three stages of life mentioned in the poem are (i) infancy, childhood and senility (ii) infancy, youth and death (iii) infancy, adolescence, middle age (iv) childhood, adulthood and senility q.2.2.Answer the following questions as briefly as possible: 4 (d) Why do you think the marriage veils are woven so bright?1 (e) What link does the poet draw between moonlight chill and death of a person?1 (f) Which are the birds mentioned in the poem?1 (g) Explain Weavers, weaving solemn and still, 1 Q.2.3. On the basis of reading the passage, trace words that are similar in meaning to the following: 3 a) Item of clothing b) fine clothes c) sombre, serious Q.3. (a) On the basis of your reading of the passage given below make notes on it using recognizable abbreviations (Minimum four) wherever necessary. Use a format you consider appropriate. Supply a suitable title. 5 marks 1. Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them; our purpose is to fit them for life. As soon as we realize this fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a system of education which will really prepare children for life. It is not enough just to choose the first system of education one finds or to continue with one s old system of education without examining it to see whether it is in fact, suitable or not. 2. In many modern countries, it has for sometime been fashionable to think that, by free education for all, whether rich or poor, clever or stupid one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough, we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their degrees, they refuse to do manual labour. Conditions are shameful in such countries. 3. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our street and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible disease in our towns. In countries where there are no servants because everyone is ashamed of doing such work, the professors have to waste much of their time doing manual housework. 4. In fact, when we say that all of us must be fit for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us should do whatever job is suitable for our brain, aptitude and ability and secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to the society. It is very bad to be ashamed of work, or to scorn someone else s. Only such type of education can be called valuable to society. (b) Write a summary of the above passage in about 80 words. 3 marks WRITING SECTION (30 MARKS) Q4. You are Rohit/ Rita, Secretary, Welfare Association ABC Colony, Chennai. Write a notice in not more than 50 words to be placed on the notice board informing the residents that there would be no water supply for two days in your colony due to major pipeline repair work. OR You are Kamala/ Kundan, Secretary, Greenland Enterprises Ltd., Delhi-6. Your Chairman has asked you to draft an advertisement for a local daily under the classified columns for the vacant post of one accountant and two office assistants. Draft the advertisement in not more than 50 words. (4Marks) Q5. A Debate competition on How to guard Indian culture in the mess of global cultures today has been hosted by your school . You are Anil/ Anita one of the boys/girls participating. Write a debate in favour or against the topic.(Word limit 150 -200) 10 marks Q.6. You are Rakesh/ Raima. You are greatly concerned about the rough driving done by the youth of the city causing threat to themselves as well as other people on the road. Write a letter to the editor of a local Daily expressing your concern over the matter and suggesting some practical suggestions to get rid of the problem. 6 marks OR You are Radhanath/ Reshmi, the President of Tiger s Club, Chetla, Kolkata. You want to purchase three split ACs for your Club. M/s Cool & Cold, Behala, Kolkata-34 has quoted the lowest rate for the same. Write a letter to the Manager placing supply order for the ACs. (10 Marks) Q.7Mobile phones have become a toy in the hands of the young and old alike. But you have come to know the hazards caused by it to the mature as well as the teenagers. Write an article on the topic Mobile phonesa harmful necessity suggesting some measures to reduce the problems caused by it. You are Rishav / Rekha. (150 200 words) OR There are hard-working as well as work-shirkers in every class. To inspire the students to work hard to achieve their aims, the teacher asks Rounak, a bright boy of the class, to write an article for the school magazine on the topic Work is Worship in not more than 200 words. (150 200 words) LITERATURE SECTION (40 MARKS) Q.8. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: Driving from my parent s Home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother beside me, doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse and realized with pain that she was as old as she looked i) Name the poet. 1 ii) Why does the poet compare the mother s face with that of a corpse? 1 iii) What did she realize with pain ? 1 iv)Where was the poet driving to? 1 OR It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines, we would all be together in a sudden strangeness. i) Name the poet. 1 ii) Which moment has the poet talked about? 1 iii) Why will there be a sudden strangeness . 1 iv) What does the poet mean by the remark without engines . 1 10 marks. Q.9. Answer any four of the following questions in about 30-40 words each. (3 mark each). a) How is Shakespeare wicked and the map a bad example? b) How did Jo want the story to be finished? Why? c) What role did Rajkumar Shukla play in the Champaran movement? d) How did the YMCA pool experience affect Douglas? e) Why did the peddler sign himself as Captain Vohn Stahle? Q.10. Answer the following question in about 125-150 words?( 06 marks) How was the Champaran episode a turning point in Gandhi s life? Or 6 marks The story Going Places highlights the aspirations of youth along with the pain of disappointments leading to daydreaming . Discuss Q.11. Grinding poverty and tradition condemn the children of rag pickers or bangle makers to a life of exploitation. Such children are deprived of all opportunities in life. In spite of that Mukesh has shown courage to fight the battle in his own way by taking up a new job. What lesson do you learn from Mukesh? (06 marks) Q.12. Why did the stranger cause curiosity when he came to the inn run by Mrs, Hall? 6 Q.13.Which of his qualities make Kemp different from Griffin? (06 marks) E code no. PB-2/E1/14

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