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ISC Class XII Prelims 2026 : English Paper 1 (English Language) (St. Josephs School, Greater Noida)

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ST. JOSEPH'S SCHOOL GREATER NOIDA PRE-BO0ARD EXAMINATION -2025-26 SUBJECT: ENGLISH I(LANGUAGE) CLASS: XII M.M.: 80 Time: 3hrs. You are allowed an additional 15 minutes for only reading the question paper. You must not start writing during reading time. This question paper has 7 printed pages and one blank page. It has four questions in all. Answer all questions. You are advised to spend not more than 45 minutes on Question 1, 5) minues Question 2, 30 minutes on Question 3 and 50 minutes on Question 4.While answering Multiple Cnoc Questions inQuestion 4. you are required to write only one option as the answer. You should begin eacn answer on a fresh page. The intended marks for questions are given in brackets |] Question 1. Write a composition (in approximately 400-450 words) on any one of the following subjects. (20] (Youare reminded that you will be rewarded for the orderly and coherent presentation of the matter, use of appropriate style and general accuracy of spelling, punctuation and grammar.) () Last year, you visited your grandparents. There, you participated in a local festival. Describe the way people were dressed, the different cultural events and the food sold in the stalls. What were your feelings as you returned from the festivities? (ii) You depended on technology to complete an important task. However, it failed you at a crucial moment. Narrate what happened, your attempts to fix it and the lessons you learnt from this experience. (iii) Parents should not influence their children when choosing the subjects they wish to study. Argue either *for' or against' the given statement. (iv) Humour (v) Clothes define a person. Present your reflections on this statement. (vi) Write an original short story beginning with the following words: "The news came as a pleasant surprise....... Question 2 (i) As an environment correspondent, you visited a riverbank near your city. Writea newspaper report titled 'Pollution Chokes City River.Use the following clues Plastic waste - industrial discharge - sewage flow water quality - aquatic life - fishing community impact Government regulations -enforcement -Eco-Clubs or NGOs Cleaning efforts -citizen participation - Need for sustainable action and awareness. [15] (i) As the head of the student council of your school you have been asked to organise afood festival. The proceeds from the sale will be donated to an animal shelter nearby. Write aproposal in not more than 150 words, outlining the stepsyou would take to make this event a success. [10| Question 3 (i) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each of them in brackets, (a) Assoon as he stepped into the house, Shane's father scolded him for being late. (Begin: Hardly ...........) (b) Although the odds were overwhelming, the crew of the ship navigated the globe. (Begin: Despite ......) (c) Beena is a good dancer as well as a great singer. ..... but also ........) P.G. Wodehouse is the funniest author I have ever read. (Use (d) (Begin: No other ...) (e) His attitude towards his parents has always puzzled me. (Begin: I have (ii) Replace the INCORRECT underlined words to make the following grammatically correct. Do not copy the sentences. sentences meaningful and (a) Put by your best dress. We are going to attend the party. (b) She is so friendly that she gets away with everyone. (c) lmust get up to writing this assignment as it is due tomorroW. (i (d) The engagement was called through at the last moment. (e) () This situation calls about necessary action. Saloni chose to stand up her friend in times of crisis. (g) Their plans felloff due to disagreements in the team. (h) The candidate's name was struck,away the roles on his request. () The player was declared b ld over by the umpire. bowled (() It is a good idea to back on your files onto a memory stick. () Filin the blanks in the passage given below with the anpropriate form of the verb given in brackets. Do not write the passage, but write the verbs in the correct order. When Albert Einstein .J....(be) three years old, his parents .2.... (be) very worried. He .........seem) intelligent, but had not spoken asingle word. They....4....(take) hmto many doctors who ...5.....(say) that they ......6....(find) nothing wrong with the child. One day, at the dinner table, Albert suddenly said, The soup....7....(be) too hot. The shocked parents.....8.....(ask) him why he .......9. (remain) silent for so long. The young child solemnly replied, Everything ....10...(be) in order until now. Question 4 Read the passage given below and answer the questions (i), (ii) and (ii) that follow. 1. 2 Inside the cockpit of the World War II Mosquito plane, Icould make out, against the light of the Moon, the muffled head of its pilot and the twin circles of his goggles as he looked out of the side window towards me. Carefully he raised his right hand till I could see it in the window, fingers straight, palm downwards. He jabbed the fingers forward and down, meaning that we were going to descend and that I should follow him. Inodded and quickly brought up my own left hand so he could see it, first pointing forwards to my own control panel with one forefinger and then holding up my five spread fingers. Finally, I drew my hand across my throat. By common agreement this sign meant that I had only five minutes fuel 3. 4. left and then my engine would cut out. I saw the muffled, goggled, oxygen-masked head nod in understanding and th n we were heading downwards towards the sheet of fog. My plane stopped trembling and plunged ahead of the mosquito. Ipulled back on the throttle, hearing the engine die to alow whistle and the other pilot was back beside me. We were diving straight towards the shrouded land. I glanced at my altimeter: two thousand feet, stilldiving. He pulled out at three hundredfeet. The fog was still bclow us. Probably the fog bank was only from the ground to two hundred feet up, but that was more than enough to prevent aplane from landing without guidance, Icould imagine the stream of instructions coming from the radar hut into the earphones of the man flying beside me, eighty feet away. I kept my eyes on him, following as closely as possible, afraid of losing sight for an instant, watching for his every hand-signal. Two minutes later, he held up his clenched left fist in the window, then opened the fist to splay all five fingers against the glass, indicating that I shouldlower the undercarriage. I moved the lever downwards andfelt the dul thunk as all three wheels went down, happily powered by hydraulic 5. pressure and not dependent on the failed electrical system. The pilot of the shepherd aircraft pointed down again, for another descent. I managed to flick a glance at my fuel gauge: it was on zero, flickering feebly. For God's sake, hurry up, I prayed, for if my fuel failed me nowthere would be no time to climb to the minimum five hundred feet needed for bailing out. Ajet fighter at one hundred feet without an engine is a death-trap with no chances for survival. 6 For two or three minutes he seemed content to hold his position, while the sweat broke out behind my neck and began to run in streams down my back, sticking the light nylon flying suit to my skin. Quite suddenly he straightened out, so fast I almost lost him. I caught him a second later and saw his leftl hand flash the dive signal to me. Then he dipped towards the fog bank, I followed and we were in it, ashallow, flat descent, but adescent nevertheless and from a mere hundred feet, towards nothing. Adapted from: The Shepherd by Fredrick Forsyth () (a) Find asingle word from the passage that willexactly replace the underlined word() in the following sentences: [3] (1) The plane had to go down to avoid crashing. (2) The fog covered the land below. (3) The pilot used an instrument to meASure altitude. (b) For each of the words given below, choose the correct sentence that uses the same word unchanged in spelling, but with adifferent meaning from that which it carries in the passage. (1) Palm (a) The palm tree withstood the storm very well although it's fruits fell down. (2) [31 (b) He held up a palm for silence indicating that we are making noise. (c) His injury on the palm made it difficult for him to write anything down. (d) The boy saw the girl palm the lip-balm into her bag. Land (a) The government expropriated the land for the new and luxurious airport. (b) If you try to land an aeroplane while a storm is on, your plane will crash. (c) Desert land stretches eastward across Arabia into Central Asia. (d) A good head and an industries hand are worth gold in any land. (3) Stream (a) The castle receives a steady stream of visitors all year round. (b) This little stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily. (c) She tucked up her skirt and waded across the stream. (d) Both (b) & (c) (iii) Answer the following questions in your own words as briefly as possible. (a) What was the first instruction of the pilot of the mosquito plane? [2] (b) What was the narrator's reply? [2] (c) How did the other pilot let the narrator know that the wheels had to be lowered? (iv) Describe how the pilot of the Mosquito aircraft guided the narrator to land in not more than 100 [2] words. (Paragraph 3-7) (Failure to keep within the word limit willbe penalised.) [8]

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