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BANGALORE SAHODAYA SCHOOLS COMPLEX PRE BOARD EXAMINATION 2021 ENGLISH (CORE) (Code 301) CLASS XII Time allowed: 90 minutes. Maximum Marks: 40 General Instructions: 1. The Question Paper contains THREE sections. 2. Section A- READING has 18 questions. Attempt a total of 14 questions, as per specific instructions for each question. 3. Section B- WRITING SKILLS has 12 questions. Attempt a total of 10 questions, as per specific instructions for each question. 4. Section C- LITERATURE has 30 questions. Attempt 26 questions, as per specific instructions for the section. 5. All questions carry equal marks. 6. There is no negative marking. I. SECTION - A- READING Read the passage given below. 1. My granddaughter visited last weekend, and while she was here, I asked if she had her brother s new address, as I had a parcel to post. She scrolled through her phone, and I marvelled again at the convenience of technology. A phone, not an address book? While I m not entirely techno-illiterate- I type, after all, on a laptop- I find it hard to grasp the changes that happen so quickly. 2. Here Gran, said Carly when she found the address. I ll write it down for you. 3. Will you put it in my address book? I asked, pointing at the phone table in the hall. They probably don t have phone tables anymore, I mused. Carly picked up the well-worn address book and looked inside, a curious expression on her face. There is hardly any room left to write numbers, she said with a laugh as she wrote what I needed in the margin. And it s full of names you have scratched out. 4. Well, dear, those are people who have passed on, I explained. 5. Dead? asked Carly. 6. Dead, I echoed. I can t press delete , so I just scratch out the names. 7. After Carly left, I picked up my address book and took it into the living room with a cup of tea. I flipped the pages to the beginning and found a date, 1955. That s a lot of years, I thought, and while I never considered this book as being sad, I never looked at it as anything more than a place to store information. But, upon opening the pages I could see the stories it presented- a repository of lives lived and lost, marriages, births, friendships, and changes. Page 1 of 20
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