AHSEC| CLASS 12| ENGLISH| QUESTION PAPER - 2023| H.S. 2ND YEAR
2023
ENGLISH
Full Marks: 100
Pass Marks: 30
Time: Three hours
The figures in the margin indicate
full marks for the questions.
SECTION – A
(Reading Skill: 10
Marks)
1. Read the following passage carefully:
Air pollution is
an issue which concerns us all alike. One can willingly choose or reject a
food, a drink or a life comfort, but unfortunately there is little choice for
the air we breathe. All, what is there in the air is inhaled by one and all
living in those surroundings.
Air pollutant is
defined as a substance which is present while normally it is not there or
present in an amount exceeding the normal concentrations. It could either be
gaseous or a particulate matter. The important and harmful polluting gases are
carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ozone and oxides of sulphur and nitrogen. The
common particulate pollutants are the dusts of various inorganic or organic
origins. Although we often talk of the outdoor air pollution caused by
industrial and vehicular exhausts, the indoor pollution may prove to be as or a
more important cause of health problems.
Recognition of
air pollution is relatively recent. It is not uncommon to experience a feeling
of ‘suffocation’ in a closed environment. It is often ascribed to the lack of
oxygen. Fortunately, however, the composition of remarkably constant all over
the world. There is about 79 per cent nitrogen and 21 per cent oxygen in the
air; the other gases forming a very small fraction. It is true that carbon
dioxide exhaled out of lungs may accumulate in a closed and overcrowded place.
But such an increase is usually small and temporary unless the room is really
airtight. Exposure to poisonous gases such as carbon monoxide may occur in a
closed room, heated by burning coal inside. This may also prove to be fatal.
What is more
common is a poorly ventilated home is a vague constellation of symptoms
described as the sick-building syndrome. It is characterized by a general
feeling of malaise, headache, dizziness, and irritation of mucous membranes. It
may also be accompanied by nausea, itching, aches, pains, and depression. Sick
building syndrome is getting commoner in big cities with the small houses which
are generally over furnished. Some of the important pollutants whose indoor
concentrations exceed those of the outdoors include gases such as carbon
monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and organic substances like
spores, formaldehyde, hydrocarbon aerosols and allergens. The sources are
attributed to a variety of construction materials, insulations, furnishings,
adhesives, cosmetics, house dusts, fungi and other indoor products.
Smoking of
tobacco in the closed environment is an important source of indoor pollution.
It may not be high quantitatively, but significantly hazardous for health. It
is because of the fact that here are over 3,000 chemical constituents in
tobacco smoke, which have been identified. These are harmful for human health.
Obviously, the
spectrum of pollution is very wide and our options are limited. Indoor
pollution may be handled relatively easily by an individual. Moreover, the good
work must start from one’s own house.
On the basis
of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions:
(a) What is an
air pollutant? 1
(b) In what forms
are the air pollutants present? 2
(c) Why do we
feel suffocated in a closed environment? 1
(d) What is sick
building syndrome? Mention some of its major symptoms. 1+1=2
(e) How is
smoking of tobacco an important source of indoor air pollution? 2
(f) Find a word
in the passage which means “the state or process of dying from being deprived
of air or unable to breathe”. 1
(g) Give an
antonym of “reject.” 1
SECTION – B
(Advanced Writing
Skill: 25 Marks)
2. You are Anwesha/ Anirban, Director of “Scholars’
Academy”, an institute that provides coaching to students for appearing in
various competitive examinations. Write an advertisement for publication in a
newspaper. (Word Limit: 50 words) 5
Or
Design a poster
in not more than 50 words to create awareness about the need of energy
conservation. 5
3. You attended a Book Fair in your town organized by a
local NGO in which a number of reputed publication houses of the country
participated. Write a detailed account of the event in 100-125 words to be
published in a newspaper. 10
Or
You are Jahnavi/
Javed. Your school has organized a Street Play on the occasion of the
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26.
Prepare a report on that event in 100-125 words to be published in your school
magazine. 10
4. Write a letter to the Manager of a bank reporting the
loss of your passbook and requesting him to issue a duplicate one. 10
Or
You are
President of the English Literary Forum of your college. Write a formal
invitation inviting Dr. D. Baruah, a noted scholar to speak on the occasion of
the “World Poetry Day” to be held on March 21. 10
Or
Draft an
application for the post of a Sports Teacher in Udayan Girls’ High School, Dibrugarh
in response to their advertisement that appeared in the Assam Tribune date 10th
February, 2023. Prepare a biodata to be enclosed. You are Sunil/ Sunita. 10
SECTION – C
(Grammar: 20
Marks)
5. Change the form of the narration of any two of the
following sentences: 2x2=4
(a) The
gentleman said to the salesman, “What is the price of this Dictionary?” The
salesman said to him, “It is a bit expensive. But I can give it to you at a 10
per cent discount”.
(b) I asked the
old lady where Professor Sarmah lived. The lady replied regretfully that she
didn’t know.
(c) The girl
said to the teacher, “Madam, I am weak in English and seek your advice.” The
teacher said, “Read the text thoroughly and try to express your ideas in simple
correct English.”
(d) “Let’s buy
some milk and prepare milkshake for us”, said Rruna. “The milkshake were
drinking now is utterly tasteless.”
6. Change the voice of any three of the following
sentences: 1x3=3
(a) He was
instructed by his coach to play that shot.
(b) Please give
me some more time.
(c) Is the
gardener watering the plants?
(d) Rome was not
built in a day.
(e) The girl is
reading a novel.
(f) I saw a road
accident yesterday.
7. Rewrite any five of the following sentences using the
verbs given in brackets in their correct tense forms: 1x5=5
(a) This family
(live) in this place since 1970.
(b) She (go)
home when we met her.
(c) We reached
the stadium after the match (start).
(d) Ice (float)
on water.
(e) if I (be you,
I would not do that.
(f) He suddenly
realized that he (leave) the bag in the bus.
(g) We already (have)
breakfast.
8. Rewrite any four of the following sentences filling in
the blanks with appropriate prepositions: 1x4=4
(a) They will
come here ________a month.
(b) I am sorry
________what I have done.
(c) She usually
falls _______her bicycle.
(d) He is taller
than you _______three inches.
(e) I am not
satisfied ______my performance.
(f) The police
ran _______the thief.
9. Rewrite any four of the following sentences as
directed: 1x4=4
(a) This fact is
too evident to require any proof. (Use ‘so… that’ instead of ‘too… to’)
(b) I shall remember
your help forever. (Make it negative without changing the meaning)
(c) Having
completed her project here she returned to her native country. (Change it into
a complex sentence)
(d) She is the
tallest girl in the classroom. (Change it into comparative degree. (Make it interrogative)
(e) No one can
do this: (Make it interrogative)
(f) There is a
slight difference between the two shades (Rewrite the sentence by using the
adjective form of ‘difference’)
(g) As he was
ill, he could not appear in the examination. (Change it into a simple sentence)
SECTION – D
(Textbooks: 45
Marks)
10. Read the following extracts and the questions that
follow:
(a) “But soon
Put that
thought away and looked out at
Young
Trees sprinting,
the merry children spilling
Out of their
homes”
Questions:
(i) Who looked
out at the young trees? 1
(ii) Which
thought did the speaker put away? 1
(iii) What do
young sprinting tree signify? 1
(iv) What did the
speaker see the children doing? 1
Or
(b) “It would be
an exotic moment
Without rush,
without engines,
We would all be
together
In a sudden
strangeness.”
Questions:
(i) What does
‘it’ refer to? 1
(ii) To whom is
the poet speaking? 1
(iii) What would
be moment like? 2
11. Answer any three of the following questions in 30-40
words: 2x3=6
(i) Why was the
roadside stand built?
(ii) How did the
travellers on the highways react to the roadside stand?
(iii) What does
Pablo Neruda wish to achieve by keeping quiet?
(iv) What kind
of images does the poet use to signify her mother’s ageing decay in the poem
‘My Mother at Sixty-Six’?
(v) What
according to Keats, makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and
sufferings?
12. Answer any five of the following questions? 1x5=5
(a) What
creatures did the writer notice on the Peacock Island?
(b) What are
epiphytes?
(c) What did
Gandhi do to improve the health condition in the Champaran villages?
(d) Which book
by Louis Fischer has been reviewed as one of the best books ever written on
Gandhi by Times Educational Supplement?
(e) Whom did
Saheb observe standing at the fenced gate of the neighbouring club?
(f) Who is the
writer of the story “The Last Lesson”?
(g) Which is the
only occasion that Sophie gets to see Casey in person?
(h) Name the
sports for which Sophie’s father had a strong passion.
13. Answer any five in 30-40 words: 2x5=10
(a) Why did Sophie
share her feelings with her brother Geoff and not with her father?
(b) Why
according to the writer, the advice she gave to Saheb seems hollow”
(c) What
explanation does the author offer for the children not wearing footwear?
(d) What does
Rowntree talk often in ‘Memoirs of a Chota Sahib’?
(e) How was a
solution to the problems of indigo sharecroppers of Champaran found?
(f) Why did M.
Hamel write “Viva La France” before dismissing his class?
(g) What changes
came over Frantz after he heard M. Hamel’s announcement?
14. Answer any one of the following questions in 80-100
words: 5x1=5
(a) “Civil
disobedience had triumphed, the first time in modern India” – Show, referring
to the prose-piece ‘Indigo’, how this had happened?
(b) Describe the
author’s experience with bats in the Rajapara forest bungalow as depicted in
‘Memoirs of a Chota Sahib’.
15. Answer any one of the following questions in 125-150
words: 7x1=7
(a) What are the
different ways in which Mr. Lamb tries to change Derry’s attitude to life?
(b) Describe the
ironical ending of the story, “The Tiger King”.
(c) There are
moments in life when we have to make hard choices between our roles as private
individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalty. Discuss with
reference to the story, “The Enemy”.
16. Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40
words: 2x4=8
(a) Why does the
Tiger King get his name?
(b) Why did the
servants leave Dr. Sadao’s house?
(c) Which trait
of Mr. Lamb attracted Derry towards him?
(d) Why did it
take Bama to reach home in 30 minutes instead of 10 minutes?
(e) What is the
significance of Uruka?
(f) How is the
Meiji made?
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