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Maharashtra HSC 12th Class 12 2015 : English Paper 1 (English Language)

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www.vidyarthiplus.com Board Question Paper : March 2015 BOARD QUESTION PAPER : MARCH 2015 Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80 SECTION A (Reading Skill, Grammar, Vocabulary, Note-making and Summary) Q.1. (A) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: (11) [15] Chandan spotted his cheerful face in the crowd and beckoned him forward. Then he asked, Tell me, are you not sad you had to leave behind so much of wealth that suddenly came your way? The man said, I didn t pick the jewelled fruits and flowers. I had picked some of the lovely, tasty fruits and had eaten my fill of them, In my sack I had kept some others for my little daughter who is at home. I had thought she would enjoy these tasty apples and mangoes. But when I saw there was no other way to go across the stream, I did not think twice about leaving my sack by the river. My little girl can get tasty fruits from some other garden too! But I am so happy the King let us all wander around his garden, looking at the trees and plants and animals. He is a great king for having created this place of beauty, and it was a pleasure walking around there. Finally a smile appeared on King Amrit s face. Chandan turned to him and said, Your Majesty, I hope you now realize that people s contentment does not end with having enough food or money. They also need to be truly happy inside. Only then will they not be swayed when they gain or lose wealth. That is a lesson that everyone-whether a king or a commonerneeds to remember. The King nodded, as did his subject. What lesson do you learn from this extract? For what reasons did the young man leave his sack by the river? How did the young man appreciate the king? Do you think wealth can give true happiness? Give reasons. Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed: (i) My little girl can get tasty fruits from some other garden too! (Rewrite the sentence using modal auxiliary expressing Certainty .) (ii) I had picked some of the lovely tasty fruits. (Identify the tense in the sentence.) (iii) It was a pleasure walking around there. (Rewrite the sentence using infinitive form of the word underlined.) Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B : A (i) (ii) (B) cheerful contentment (a) (b) (c) (d) B satisfaction merciful encouragement happy (1) (2) (2) (2) (1) (1) (1) ( ) ( ) Grammar (Do as directed): (4) (i) One of _______ most common causes of malnutrition is _______ unhealthy lifestyle. (Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles.) (1) (ii) The police _______ Monday arrested five men _______ cheating city businessmen. (Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions.) (1) 335 www.vidyarthiplus.com www.vidyarthiplus.com Std. XII: English (iii) Q.2. (A) How did you enjoy your college picnic? said Mohini to Meena. It was wonderful. I can never forget it. (Change it into indirect speech.) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: (11) [15] The animals organized a school. They adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum all the animals took all the subjects. The duck was excellent in swimming. In fact, better than his instructor. But he made only passing grade in flying and was very poor in running. Since he was slow in running, he had to stay after school and also drop swimming in order to practise running. This was kept up until his webbed feet were badly worn and he was only average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school, so nobody was worried about that, except the duck. The rabbit started at the top of the class in running, but had a nervous breakdown because of so much makeup work in swimming. The squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed frustration in the flying class where his teacher made him start from the ground up instead of the treetop down. He also developed a Charlie horse from overexertion and then got a C in climbing and D in running. The eagle was a problem child and was disciplined severely. In the climbing class, he beat all others to the top of the tree, but insisted on using his own way to get there. At the end of the year, an abnormal eel that could swim exceedingly well and also run, climb and fly a little had the highest average and was valedictorian. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) What were the special features of animal school? Why was the duck, an excellent swimmer, average in swimming? Why was the experience of the squirrel miserable? What efforts will you take to score good marks in your examination? Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed: (i) The duck was excellent in swimming. (Frame a Wh-type question to get the underlined part as an answer.) (ii) The duck was better than his instructor. (Change the sentence into positive degree.) (iii) The squirrel was excellent in climbing. (Mention the function of the underlined gerund.) (1) (2) (2) (2) (1) (1) (1) Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B : (i) (ii) (B) (2) Column A valedictorian frustration (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) Column B feeling of annoyance dunce school topper validity ( ) ( ) Note-making: Read the following extract and complete the tree-diagram given below: (4) The brief, bright streaks of light in the night sky are known as meteors. Those that fall all the way to the ground are called meteorites. Meteorites can be divided into three broad categories: iron, stony-iron, stony. Iron meteorites are mostly made of metals nickel and iron. They are not very common. Nearly 50,000 years ago, an iron meteorite, Canyon Diablo, which created a crater nearly a mile wide and 6 feet deep, known as Meteor Crater, was found in Arizona. 336 336 www.vidyarthiplus.com www.vidyarthiplus.com Board Question Paper : March 2015 Stony-iron meteorites rarely land on our planet. They are made of iron-nickel alloy mixed with non-metallic matter similar to the outer layers of the earth. Such a meteorite weighing more than one and a half tons was found in Huckitta, Australia in 1924. There are three sub-types of stony meteorites. The first is the chondrites which make up 86 percent of meteorites. Carbonaceous chondrites are another rare type of stony meteorites. The most famous of these fell in Murchison, Australia in 1969. It contains evidence that life on earth did not begin here. The last type, the anchondrites are also rare. Scientists say that such matter was once part of Mars and our own moon. Meteorities Iron Stony-Iron Not common Made of nickel and iron e.g. _______ Q.3. (A) _______ Rare _______ 1 tons meteorite found in Huckitta, Australia in 1924 Carbonaceous Chondrites _______ Stony Anchondrites Rare e.g. Murchison, Australia Has evidence that life on earth did not begin here Rare _______ Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: (11) [15] Dairy farming is a major livelihood followed by many households in rural areas. This includes rearing milk cattle-cows, buffaloes, goats and sheep. There is a shortage of milk in the country as consumption in both urban and rural areas has risen sharply. Dairying is an important source of subsidiary income to marginal farmers and agricultural labours. They play a very important role in milk production of the country. In 1986-87, about 73 percent of rural household owned livestock. According to the National Sample Survey of 1993-94, livestock sector produces regular employment to about 9.8 million persons in principal status and 8.6 million in subsidiary status, which constitute about 5 percent of the total work force. The manure from animals provides a good source of organic matter for improving soil fertility and crop yields. The gobar gas obtained by processing dung is used as a fuel for domestic purposes and also for running engines to draw water from wells. The surplus fodder and agricultural by-products are gainfully utilized for feeding the animals. Since agriculture is mostly seasonal, there is a possibility of finding employment throughout the year for many persons through dairy farming. The milk processing industry is a small one. Only 10 percent of all the milk produced is delivered to some 400 dairy plants. A specific Indian phenomenon is the unorganized sector of milkmen and vendors, which handles around 65-70 percent of the national milk production. They collect milk from local producers and sell it in both urban and non-urban areas. (1) (2) (3) What is the main theme of the extract? How is dairy farming beneficial for farmers besides getting milk? What information does the National Samples Survey of 1993-94 provide? (1) (2) (2) 337 www.vidyarthiplus.com www.vidyarthiplus.com Std. XII: English (4) How, according to you, can dairy farming improve the financial condition of farmers? (2) (5) Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed: (i) The gobar gas obtained by processing dung is used as fuel. (Rewrite the sentence beginning with People .. .) (ii) The consumption of milk in both urban and rural areas has risen sharply. (Rewrite the sentence using the past perfect tense.) (iii) The milk processing industry is a small one. (Make it a complex sentence.) (1) (1) (1) (6) (B) Form the antonyms of the following words by adding prefixes: (i) fertility ( ) (ii) possibility ( ) Summary: Write a summary of the above extract with the help of the following points and suggest a suitable title. (4) Dairy farming major livelihood income and employment source uses of dung uses of surplus fodder role of unorganised secor. SECTION B (Poetry) Q.4. (A) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: Old women do not fly on magic wands nor make obscure prophecies from ominous forests. They just sit on vacant park benches in the quiet evenings, call doves by their names and charm them with grains of maize. Or, trembling like waves they stand in endless queues in government hospitals. (4) [8] (1) (2) (3) (4) How do old women spend their evenings? How do you take care of your grandparents? Give an example of simile from the extract. Pick out any two pictorial images from the extract. (1) (1) (1) (1) (B) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below: She had such a wonderful face just like a golden flower faded before her prime. I asked her why she was so sad? She told me her baby was killed in Auschwitz, her daughter in Hiroshima and her sons in Vietnam. (4) (1) (2) Why was the mother (Peace) very sad? Why, according to you, should wars be avoided? (1) (1) 338 338 www.vidyarthiplus.com www.vidyarthiplus.com Board Question Paper : March 2015 (3) (4) Name and explain the figure of speech in a golden flower faded before her prime . What effect does the dialogue form create in the extract? the following expression: (1) (1) SECTION C (Rapid Reading and Composition) Q. 5. (A) (B) Read the following extract carefully and rewrite it from the point of view of the writer s mother: (4) [8] You may begin it with : I was still managing Green s My mother was still managing Green s, even though its days were numbered. The day after my return I joined her in the small office, where she sat behind her over-large desk, telephone on her right and the latest paperback western before her, ready to be taken up when nothing much was happening which was fairly often. My mother enjoyed reading westerns particularly Luke Short, Max Brand and Clarence E Mulford much in the same way that I enjoyed detective fiction. Both genres were freely available in cheap Collions White Circle editions published during and just after the War. We discussed the affair of the skeleton in the cupboard, but as there was no longer any mystery about it, there was nothing for me to investigate. However, armed with the keys to the store room, I went down to the basement on my own and made a thorough search of all the old furniture, on the off-chance that another skeleton might tumble out of a cupboard or be found jammed into a drawer or trunk. I did find some old tennis rackets, back numbers of Punch , a cracked china chamber-pot, some old postcards of Darjeeling and Simla, and a framed photograph of King Edward the Seventh, I took the copies of Punch to my room and read the reviews of all the plays that had been running in London between 1926 and 1930, thus becoming an authority on the theatre in England of that period. Read the following extract and convert it into a dialogue between Charles and Oliver: (4) You may begin with : Charles : Being a professional wrestler I must always fight to win. I am a professional wrestler, sir, Charles explained to Oliver, and I must always fight to win, in order to keep my reputation. Anyone who fights me runs the risk of being badly hurt. Plese warn your younger brother, and persuade him to change his mind. But the wicked Oliver thought this was a good opportunity to get rid of Orlando, so he told Charles all kinds of lies about the young man. He pretended that Orlando was bad and ungrateful, and deserved any punishment which Charles could give him, I would, rather you broke his neck than his finger, Oliver said, and you have my permission to do what you like with the boy. So Charles promised to do his best to kill Orlando. If he comes to the fight tomorrow, I ll give him his payment, Charles said. If he can walk away after I have finished with him, I ll never wrestle again. Next day the wrestling match was arranged to take place in front of the Duke s palace. Celia and Rosalind happened to be there when the Duke and his lords arrived, so they decided to stay and watch the fight. Frederick spoke to Orlando, and tried to persuade him not to fight the wrestler, but Orlando was determined. At last Frederick turned to Rosalind and Celia and said : Speak to him, ladies; see if you can persuade him. OR (B) Read the following extract and extend it by adding an imaginary paragraph of your own in about 120 words : I imagined how she must have suffered too, fear, a constant companion. And yet here we were both survivors, in a new world. 339 www.vidyarthiplus.com www.vidyarthiplus.com Std. XII: English There was a camp next to the farm, Roma continued, I saw a boy there and I would throw him apples every day. What an amazing coincidence that she had helped some other boy. What did he look like? I asked, He was tall, skinny, and hungry. I must have seen him every day for six months. My heart was racing. I couldn t believe it. This couldn t be. Did he tell you one day not to come back because he was leaving Schlieben? Roma looked at me in amazement. Yes! That was me! I was ready to burst with joy and awe, flooded with emotions. I couldn t believe it! My angel. I m not letting you go. I said to Roma. And then I proposed to her. SECTION D (Writing Skills) Q.6. (A) (B) (C) Letter Writing: [12] Write any ONE of the following letters : (4) (1) You come to know that the computer you purchased is of poor quality with blurred images. Its warranty period is not yet over. You want it to be replaced with another one. Write a letter in this regard to The Manager, Global Computers, Link Road, Andheri, Mumbai. (2) You want a bonafide certificate in order to register your name in the Employment Exchange Office of your district. Write a letter of application to the Principal of your Junior College requesting him/her to issue you the same. Write on any ONE of the following items as directed: (4) (1) Prepare an Appeal for eye-donation with the help of the following points: (i) Prepare an effective slogan. (ii) Use a logo / picture chart. (iii) Advantages of eye-donation. (iv) Make a persuasive appeal. (2) The annual day gathering function was arranged in your Junior College. It was a grand function with a variety of activities like fun-fare, games and sports, cultural activities, etc. Write a report on it in about 120 words. Write on any ONE of the items as directed: (4) (1) Study carefully the following pie-chart of global mango production and write a short paragraph comparing the production shares in about 120 words. Global Mango Production (Shares in %) 32 Others Mexico 4 5 7 40 India 12 Pakistan Thailand China 340 340 www.vidyarthiplus.com www.vidyarthiplus.com Board Question Paper : March 2015 (2) Prepare a paragraph with an appropriate title to be used for the Counter-view Section on the following topic in about 120 words. Should SMS language be allowed in exams? You can take help of the following points included in the view section. i. ii. iii. iv. View Section Yes, it s revolution against the written word. It s a growing linguistic revolution. It sharpens students ability to think about construction and precision of words. Students will use numerals, punctuation marks and symbols to convey message. It s an art form. Q.7. Answer the following question as per instructions: (4) [7] (A) A college in your area is well-known for its innovative academic activities. Imagine you are a newspaper reporter and assigned to take the interview of the Principal. Frame a set of at least 8 questions regarding Teachers Motivation, Students Discipline, Academic Excellence, Extra Curricular Activities, etc. (B) You intend to take part in the intercollegiate elocution contest. One of the topics therein is Stop Cruelty to Animals and Birds . Prepare a speech on it in about 100 words. (3) 341 www.vidyarthiplus.com

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