Bihar Board 12th English 100 Marks Model Question Paper 2

Time 3 Hrs, 15 Minutes
Full Marks: 100

Instructions

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as for as practicable.
Figures in the right hand margin indicate full marks.
While answering the candidate should adhere to the words limit as far as practicable.
15 minutes of extra time has been allotted to the candidates to read the questions and follow the instructions carefully.
All questions are compulsory.
Use of any electronic device is strictly prohibited.
This question paper is divided into two sections Section-A and Section-B.
In Section-A, there are 50 objective type questions, each carrying 1 mark. Darken the circle with blue/black ball pen against the correct option on OMR sheet provided to you. Do not use Whitener/Liquid/Blade/Nail on OMR Answer Sheet; otherwise, the result will be treated as invalid.
In Section-B there are descriptive type questions.

Section – A

Objective Type Questions

There are 50 objective type questions, each carrying 1 mark. Darken the circle with blue/black ball pen against the correct option on OMR Sheet provided to you. 50 x 1 = 50 Follow the instructions carefully:

Choose the most suitable answer from the choices given below [ 50 x 1 = 50 ]

Question 1.
Who do you tell a lie ? (Choose the best passive voice)
(a) Why a lie is told by you ?
(b) Why is a lie be told by you ?
(c) Why is a lie told by you ?
(d) Why is a lie being told by you ?
Answer:
(b) Why is a lie be told by you ?

Question 2.
We are taught grammar by Mr. Singh. (Choose the best active voice)
(a) Mr. Singh teaches us grammar.
(b) Mr. Singh teaching us grammar.
(c) Mr. Singh taught us grammar.
(d) Mr. Singh will teach grammar.
Answer:
(a) Mr. Singh teaches us grammar.

Question 3.
I……. here since morning. (Choose the correct tense form)
(a) am waiting
(b) have been waiting
(c) had been waiting
(d) will be waiting
Answer:
(b) have been waiting

Question 4.
You have been riding non-stop for hours. You be very tried. (Choose the correct auxiliary verb)
(a) must
(b) can
(c) ought
(d) would
Answer:
(a) must

Question 5.
She ran out of the room. She was Screaming.
(Choose the correct combination)
(a) She ran to the room Screaming
(b) She run out the room Screaming
(c) She had run to the room Screaming
(d) She ran out of the room Screaming
Answer:
(d) She ran out of the room Screaming

Question 6.
you mind standing up for a moment ? (Choose the correct auxiliary verb)
(a) Would
(b) Could
(c) Should
(d) Can
Answer:
(a) Would

Question 7.
I………… interested in metaphysics. (Choose the correct verb form)
(a) am always
(b) have always been
(c) had always been
(d) wi 11 always been
Answer:
(b) have always been

Question 8.
He said, “I have got a Toothache”.
(Choose the correct indirect narration)
(a) He says he has got a Toothache.
(b) He said he have a Toothache.
(c) He said that he had got a Toothache.
(d) He had said that he got a Toothache.
Answer:
(c) He said that he had got a Toothache.

Question 9.
She thanked me. (Choose the correct direct narration)
(a) She said to him. “Thank you”
(b) She says to him. “Thank you”
(c) She say to me, “Thank you”
(d) She said to me, “Thank you”
Answer:
(d) She said to me, “Thank you”

Question 10.
My brother did not her. (Choose the meaningful expression)
(a) Chose
(b) Choosing
(c) Choose
(d) Chosen
Answer:
(c) Choose

Question 11.
at a very high speed in dangerous. (Choose the meaningful expression)
(a) Driving Cars
(b) Cars driven
(c) Drive Cars
(d) Cars driving
Answer:
(a) Driving Cars

Question 12.
She six books on Indian Mythology. (Choose the meaningful expression)
(a) have written
(b) has written
(c) will written
(d) be written
Answer:
(b) has written

Question 13.
This material is different….. that (Choose the correct preposition)
(a) to
(b) with
(c) at
(d) from
Answer
(d) from

Question 14.
He climbed…………. the ladder. (Choose the correct preposition)
(a) at
(b) on
(c) of
(d) in
Answer:
(b) on

Question 15.
He has been absent……. Monday. (Choose the correct preposition)
(a) since
(b)for
(c)from
(d) by
Answer:
(a) since

Question 16.
Choose the correct sentence;
(a) Sid can play Tennis as good as his brother.
(b) Sid will play Tennis as well as his brother.
(c) Sid can play Tennis as well as his brother.
(d) Sid had played Tennis as good as his brother.
Answer:
(a) Sid can play Tennis as good as his brother.

Question 17.
Choose the correct sentence:
(a) I have a home work to do.
(b) I have home work to do.
(c) I will have home work to do.
(d) I having home work to do.
Answer:
(b) I have home work to do.

Question 18.
Choose the correct sentence:
(a) That was sure a mistake
(b) This was a sure mistake.
(c) That may be sure a mistake,
(d) That was surely mistake.
Answer:
(d) That was surely mistake.

Question 19.
He…..if we had taken our food. (Choose the best option)
(a) asked
(b) asks
(c) will ask
(d) had ask
Answer:
(a) asked

Question 20.
All depends on…………. the examination. (Choose the best option)
(a) has passing
(b) will passing
(c) his passing
(d) had passing
Answer:
(c) his passing

Question 21.
You…………. not go to attend the meeting. (Choose the best option)
(a) can
(b) need
(c) may
(d) would
Answer:
(a) can

Question 22.
When Radha…………. back, she will sleep. (Choose the best option)
(a) will come
(b) comes
(c)came
(d) has come
Answer:

Question 23.
Would you mind…………. to my house, please ? (Choose the best option)
(a) to come
(b) have come
(c)came
(d) coming
Answer:
(a) to come

Question 24.
She is most beautiful girl. (Choose the best article)
(a) an
(b) a
(c) the
(d) no article required
Answer:
(c) the

Question 25.
My sister…. a dress for her birthday last week. (Choose the best option)
(a) buy
(b) buyed
(c) will buy
(d) bought
Answer:
(d) bought

Question 26.
Kamlesh has been is house for a few days. (Choose the best option)
(a) repaired
(b) repairing
(c) had repaired
(d) will repair
Answer:
(b) repairing

Question 27.
Sita fell the rickshaw. (Choose the best option)
(a) from
(b) of
(c) down
(d) off
Answer:
(a) from

Question 28.
You can do it (Choose the best option)
(a) yourself
(b) himself
(c) herself
(d) themselves
Answer:
(a) yourself

Question 29.
Choose the correct spelling:
(a) families
(b) famalies
(c) famillies
(d) famlies
Answer:
(a) families

Question 30.
What time does the bus central London ? (Choose the best option)
(a) leave to
(b) leave for
(c) leave at
(d) leave in
Answer:
(b) leave for

Question 31.
‘There is a house now far away where once I received Iove’- is from the poem :
(a) Song of myself
(b) Ode to Autumn
(c) My Grandmother’s House
(d) Snake
Answer:
(b) Ode to Autumn

Question 32.
The Soldier is a poem. (Choose the correct option)
(a) love
(b) happy
(c) nature
(d) war
Answer:
(d) war

Question 33.
Kamala Das is poetess. (Choose the correct option)
(a) American
(b) Indian
(c) African
(d) Nigerian
Answer:
(b) Indian

Question 34.
‘Fire-Hymn’ is composed by : (Choose the correct option)
(a) D.H. Lawrence
(b) K.N. Daruwala
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) W.B. Yeats
Answer:
(b) K.N. Daruwala

Question 35.
‘I celebrate myself and sing myself-is written by : (Choose the correct option)
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) W.H. Auden
(c) J. Keats
(d) W.B. Yeats
Answer:
(a) Walt Whitman

Question 36.
The word ‘drama’ comes from a word. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Latin
(b) Scandinavian
(c) Greek
(d) American
Answer:
(c) Greek

Question 37.
The snake looked at the poet…………. (Choose the correct option)
(a) happily
(b) confusingly
(c) sadly
(d) vaguely
Answer:
(d) vaguely

Question 38.
The speaker in ‘Fire-Hymn’ belongs to religion. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Indian
(b) African
(c) Zoroastrian
(d) Nigerian
Answer:
(d) vaguely

Question 39.
Macavity is full of…………. (Choose the correct option)
(a) happiness
(b) sadness
(c) selfishness
(d) deceitfulness
Answer:
(d) deceitfulness

Question 40.
‘The ScholarGipsy’ has been written by: (Choose the correct option)
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) Robert Bridges
(d) J.m. Synge
Answer:
(a) Matthew Arnold

Question 41.
Seibi was a twelve year old boy. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Chinese
(b) Japanese
(c) African
(d) Indian
Answer:
(a) Chinese

Question 42.
Our ancestors enjoyed Rule. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Nice
(b) Society
(c) Home
(d) Nation
Answer:
(c) Home

Question 43.
Martin Luther King dislikes discrimination (Choose the correct option)
(a) caste
(b) sex
(c) religion
(d) racial
Answer:
(d) racial

Question 44.
Lomov is a man of temperament (Choose the correct option)
(a) happy
(b) Negative
(c) sad
(d) nervous
Answer:
(d) nervous

Question 45.
Bertrand Russell was a Philosopher and a (Choose the correct option)
(a) historian
(b) scientist
(c) mathematician
(d) geologist
Answer:
(c) mathematician

Question 46.
is called the father of the modern novel. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Richardson
(b) Fielding
(c) Johnson
(d) Dryden
Answer:
(a) Richardson

Question 47.
are rulers of ancient Egypt. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Americans
(b) Africans
(c) Iranians
(d) Pharaohs
Answer:
(d) Pharaohs

Question 48.
Pearl S. Buck is an writer.
(a) American
(b) Indian
(c) Iranian
(d) African
Answer:
(a) American

Question 49.
‘I Wave a Dream’ is a speech delivered by (Choose the correct option)
(a) Germaine Greer
(b) Shiga Naoya
(c) H.E. Bates
(d) Martin Luther king,
Answer:
(d) Martin Luther king,

Question 50.
Jr Nanukaka was the narrator’s (Choose the correct option)
(a) maternal uncle
(b) father
(c) cousin
(d) mother
Answer:
(a) maternal uncle

Section – B

Non-Objective Type Questions

Question 1.
Write an essay in about 150-200 words on any one : [8]
(a) A Cricket Match
(b) My Aim in Life
(c) Importance of Sports
(d) Evils of Dowry
(e) A Visit to a place of Historical Importance?
Answer:
(a) A Cricket Match : A Cricket math is both educative and interesting. I am very fond of cricket. I saw a cricket match only last Sunday. It was played between our school and D. A. V. School Danapur. We were the first to open the innings. We made 150 runs. Our captain was the most successful batsman. He scored 80 runs. The successful bowler of the rival team was Rajesh. He took 5 wickets. The rival team could score only 120 runs. They lost their first four wickets for twenty runs. He pushed our bowlers. Our fast bowler Ravi was very’ successful). He took eight wickets for 90 runs. We won the match. It was a great day for us.

(b) My Aim in life: Everybody has a certain ambition in his life. A life without an ambition is like a ship without a rudder. People have different ambitions in their lives. My aim in life is to become a lecturer. There are many reasons for adopting this profession. After passing my B.A. I well do my post graduation in English. I will specialize in this subject.

A teacher is a nation builder. He guides his students through his personality. It is a very noble profession even. He turns the students, to become a useful citizen of a good country. He feels young in the company of his students. He always learns and accumulates knowl-edge. It is he who fills worth in his students. May God fulfil my dream !

(c) Importance of Sports: Games and sports have an important place in our life. They give both pleasure and profit. They are the best recreation and the best from of exercise. They keep us fit, active and cheerful. Games are our good teachers as well. They teach us many usefual lessons.They develop in us the qualities of fair-play, team-spirit and discipline. They teach us to work and enjoy together, for no game can be played alone. While playing the games we have to follow the rules strictly. These days our country needs good players. Our record in games has been far from good so far. So in the interest of our ownselves as well as for our country we should understand the value of games. This is why I like sports.

(d) Evils of Dowry : Ours is a male dominated society. Woman has been relegated to a secondary place of marginal importance in the family. She has been reduced to a thing, not a human being. The recent spate in the cases of bride burning exposes the hollowness of our social and cultural system. The torture of married women and cases of bride burning is so rampant in lower middle class urban families. The birth of a female child is still considered to be a burden on the parents. Giving a young girl in marriage has never been an easy thing. It is a very long practice to give a hefty dowry to the bridegroom and his parents so that they may give a respectable place to the bride in the family.

Beauty, good features, culture and qualification may be important but a fat dowry overweighs all thse considerations. Even in the modern world where women are marching ahead in all walks of life, the evil practice of the dowry system continues. The greedy inlaws settle the amount of dowry before fixing the date of marriage. Naked materialism and consumerism have only whetted the appetite of the dowry seekers.

The dowry amount depends upon the social and economic status of the prospective bridegrooms. Demand for Marutis, Hero-Honda motor – bikes, music systems, V.C.R. and costly furniture and utensils is grow¬ing in the marriage market. But still the greed of dowry seekers remains unsatiated. Bride-burning is not a rare phenomenon in India. The
Anti-Dowry Act, 1976 must be given more teeth for eradicating this social stigma. The dowry seekers should be socially boycotted and given exemplary punishments. The public and voluntary organisations should come forward to root out his evil practice from our society.

(e) A Visit to a place of Historical Importance : A visit to a historical place is both interesting and educative. Last year I had a chance to go to Agra. My uncle lives there. One day we went to see the Taj. I had already read about this wonder of the world in the history book. I was very anxious to have a look at it. When we were face to face with this monument, I stood spell-bound. I was surprised to see the beauty of the Taj. It reminded me of the past glory of India. It appeared to me like a dream in marble. I was surprise to see the Mughal art. The marble work in the hall is worth-seeing. We enjoyed the peace and beauty around. I can never forget the memory of the Taj.

Question 2.
Explain any one of the following: (4 x 1 = 4)
(a) The ways of managing childbirth in traditional societies are many and varied.
(b) It is obvious that we know more than animals do, and it is common to consider this one of our advantages.
(c) Religion is ever present in Indian life, in its best as well as in its worst aspects.
Answer:
(a) Child birth in different traditional socities is managed in different ways which are collectively and culturally accepted and practised. A pregnant woman has to observe various to boos, rituals and customs. Generally she is sent to her parents home for child-birth. There she has to stay at least for there months. When the child born in seven days old, a new dress for the child and a new sari for the mother are brought. She is looked after by the whole family. This gives the mother a sense of security and fearlessness.

The modern technology has, no doubt, reduced the mortality of women during child birth but it has also deprived them of the important experience of child birth. The whole process of child birth has become menchanical. It is no longer a matter of community celebration. In the absence of joint families child rearing has become a tough job.

(b) Human being are different from animals in such a manner that there are 21 as his intellectual and moral qualities that separate the human beings from animals. It is obivious that we know more than animals do, and it is common to consider. It is one of our advantages. Animals can’t think like human beings, because of that human beings have extra-ordinary thinking power. It has highly sensitive power. The human beings are one of the most developed and advanced animal.

(c) India is a country of unity amidst diversity. Indians are passionate and religious by nature. They are well civilized and very fond of their guests. They belong to different religions and speak different languages but idealism permeats the life of every Indian. They have clean habits and like simple food. Purity is observed in every sphere of life.

The elders are respected and the weak and disabled in the family are well looked after. People are getting politically consious and the country’s political leadership is selfless and dedicated to the welfare of people. However Indian villages are still wallowing in poverty, in equality and unemployment. The life of Indian farmers is very hard. Their children are weak and malnourished. These things need immediate attention.

Question 3.
Explain any one of the following : (4 x 1 = 4)
(a) Here lies a most beautiful lady, light of step and heart was she
(b) Broken, yet rebellious, I swore this time To save it from the sin of forgiving
(c) The voice of my education said to me He must be killed
Answer:
(a) “The poem may be called an elegy. It has been composed by an eminent morden poet. Walter de la Mare. In the poem, the poet has moarned the transitoriness of love and beauty. This epitaph is in the memory of a lady the poet loved heart and soul but who betrayed his love being proud of her beauty. The lady was very beautiful but she was not aware of the fact that her beauty would not last for ever. Nothing in this world is permanent. She was proud of her beauty. She betrayed the love of the poet though it is the poet who remembers her even after her death. No one else remebers that lady now. In this way, the poet has snubbed the frailty of his beloved in this epitaph.

(b) ‘Fire-Hymn’ is a very heart-touching poem composed by the famous Indo-Anglian poet, Keki N. Daruwalla. Here, the poet has described how that dead body of his son was consigned to the flame of fire after his death at a cremation ghat though his Parsi religion forbade it.

At the out set, the poet presents a horrible and shocking sight of a burning ghat at night. The dead body is put on a funeral pyre. Then the fire is lit. Sometimes, the fire fails to perform its duty wholly and the limbs are life half burnt. The poet was compelled to cremate the dead body of his son because the nearest. Tower of Silence was a thousand
miles away. He feels guilty of neglecting his religious ritual but he vows to free the fire from the sin of ‘forgetting’ because the fire is worshipped by the Parsis.

(c) Snake is one of Lowrence’s best animal poems, written whilst is was living in sicily. It explores the relationship between human and one of the most feared reptiles on earth a venomous snake. One day the poet finds a snake moving towards the water tank of drink water. It was the hot day of summer and snake was very thirsty.

The snake looked very handsome and majestic. It reached the tank and began to sip water. The poet was watching everything. His old education told him to kill the snake but his heart was refusing to do so. He was in a conflict of what to do and what not to do. Finally he threw a log of wood to the snake, the snake suiftly returned to its hole and the poet was left regretting his action.

Question 4.
Write a letter to your sister, in about 100 words, asking her to visit your place in the holidays. [5]
Answer:
Dear Sister
Date-12/02/2018

How are you i hope you are fine, where had you gone for holidays. Next time please come to Patna here there is lots of fun. we can both have fun here visit place monuments like Golghar, Eco-park, chankya- cave etc.

Sister Please come to patna. I am planning to take leaves during that time from coaching classes after examination. I hope I had answered most of your doubls. I am really looking forward to meet you soon. Do write me once you recived this letter.

Regards
Your brother
Anmol

(OR)

Write a letter to your Headmaster in about 100 words, asking him for permission to use the library after school hours.
Answer:
To,
Date-24/02/2018
The headmaster
H.N. Inter College, Pumia
Sub.-Prayer for using library

Sir.
I beg to state that our school has reputed library with a lot of books. I am student of class 10 + 2 (Science). I am economically weak student. I want use library after school our so that my study continue.

In the circumstances above. I pray and hope that you would be kind enough to give an order to use the library.

I remain Sir,
Four most obedient pupil
Poonam Kumari
Roll: 01, Class: 10 + 2
Section :
A Group: Science

Question 5.
Answer in about 40 to 50 words any five of the following: (2 x 5 = 10)
(a) What is civilization in the real sense of the term ?
(b) Why is Zakhir Hussain overwhelmed ?
(c) In what dress did the author go to the Minister along with Nanukaka ?
(d) What does Martin Luther say about the life of negroes ?
(e) What are the dramatic structures of a tragedy ?
(f) Name two works of Shakespeare.
(g) Why and how did the snake come out of the hole ?
(h) Why is Macavity called a criminal ?
Answer:
(a) Civilization in the real sense of the term consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants

(b) Zakhir Hussain overwhelmed by all of the love and affection coming his way on his birthday. It would take forever to thank everyone individually so here he offered his heartfelt gratitude for all the birthday wishes.

(c) Author came in an outlandish car with a uniformed chauffer, secondly he dressed himself like a herediatry pundit from princely state. This is what he did to impress the minister.

(d) The Megro is part of that huge community who seek new freedom in every area of life.

(e) There are five dramatic structure:

The exposition- In the exposition, the background information that is heeded to understand the story is prided.
Rising action-During the rising action, the basic conflict is complicated by the introduction of related secondary conflicts, including various obstacles that frustrate the protagonist’s attempt to reach his or her god.
Climax-That third act is that of the climax or reversal of peripeteia, which marks a change for the worse in the protangonist’s affair. In tragedy circumstances which have previously been good for the tragic hero will now begin to turn bad.
Falling action-During the falling action, the conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist unravels, with the protagonist (tragic hero) lossing against the antagonist.
Denouement-The tragedy ends with a catastrophe in which the protogonist is worse off than he or she was at the begining of the narrative and is inevitable given the circumtances of the plot.

(f) Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays and over 150 short and long poems. Two work of Shakespeare is- The merchant of Venice and A midsummer Night’s dream.

(g) Poet threw a long of wood to the snake. The snake suiftly returned to its hole and the poet was left regretting his action.

(h) ‘Macavity’ is a mock-epic poem where the poet has described the theft-activities of a cat named Macavity which is never caught red-handed. Macavity commits several mischiefs with dexterity and promptness but neither the Scotlandyard nor any agency has been able to catch Macavity. The poet, therefore calls it. ‘The Hidden Paw’ and ‘Master Criminal’.

It cheats people at cards, takes away meat from the meat-safe, drinks milk and steals jewels and files of important treaties.

Question 6.
Write the summary of any one of the poem
(a) Song of myself
(b) To Autam
Answer:
(a) The poem “Song of Myself has been composed by Walt Whitman. He was the most individualistic literary figure that America has produced. He tells about himself in this poem. The poet enjoys himself and sings for the self. But the poet is not different from others. He tell himself that every atom of his blood belongs to his soil. He always assumes everything which is right. He also says that every atom of blood is the same in all human beings. He wanders in the support of his pain which given him pain as a spike comes and touches the skin. He watever says, says that from his heart he says that everyone of this world comes one by one. He always keeps feelings or thoughts in mind either good or bad. He is ready at every danger in his life.

He accepts that life is not a bed of roses. It is full of difficulties and also happiness. It is a finest gift given by God. Here there are too many people two fight for the religion, religious festival. That is not good. Everyone should think that there is nothing in life. So always be happy and try to make other happy.

(b) John Keats was a great lover of Nature. In the poem ‘Ode To Autumn’ he describes the beauty and characteristic spirit of Autumn in a series of memorable pictures. There he reveals the principle of beauty in nature in the autumn. New leaves and fruits grow on trees. There is neither heat of summer not bitterly coldness of winter. Nature looks beautiful everywhere. Wind blows friendly Birds sign in a fine tune. People are happy.

They can do their work easily is this season. Mostly they have good health. It makes a person perfect. The sum conspires with the autumn slightly. Its rays make the fruit fleshy, fat and testy. Everywhere in the nature remains calm and cool.

(OR)

Write the summary of any one of the prose
(a) How Free is the Press
(b) Bharat is My Home
Answer:
(a) How free is the Press : Without a free there can be no free people is a things that all free people take for granted. We need to discuss it nor will we at this moment discuss the restrictions placed upon the press in time of war. At such times all liberties have to be restricted. Free people must see to it that when peace come full freedom is restored. In the meantime, it may be wholesome to consider what that freedom is, and how far it is truly desirable.

It may turn out to be no freedom at all, or even a more freedom to tyrannies. For tyranny in fact, the uncontrolled freedom of one man, or one gang, is to impose, its will on the world. When we speak of the freedom of the press, we usually mean freedom in a very technical and resticted sense-namely-freedom from direction or censorship by the government. In this respect, the British press is under ordinary conditions, singularly free.

If can attack the policy and political character of minister, interfere in the delicate machinery of foreign diplomacy, conduct campaign to subject the constitution, incite citizens to discontent and rebellion, expose scandals and foment grievances. With almost perfect liberty on occasion, it can become a weapon to coerce the governemt to conform to what is aserts to be the will of the people.

So far, this is all to be good, occasionally this freedom may, produce disastrous hesitations and inconsistencies in public policy or tend to hamper the swift execution of emergency measures, but generally speaking it works to secure and sustain that central doctrine of ‘Democracy’ as we understand it-that the stat is not the master but the servant of the people.

The press as a whole, and in technical and restricted sense, is thus pretty free in a peaceful Britian. There is no shade of political opinion that does not somehow contrive to express itself. But is we go on to imagine that any particular organ of the press enjoys the larger liberty of being a forum of public opinion, we are gravely mistaken.

Every newspaper is engaged to its own set of overloads and in its turn, like the unmerciful servant, exercises a powerful bondage upon its readers and one the public generally tended. We may say that the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the unofficial censorship of the press but the censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

(b) The extract “Bharat is My Home” is taken from the speech of Dr. Zakir Hussain. He delivered his speech in 1967 after taking the oath as President. In his speech Dr. Zakir Hussain pledges himself to the service of the totality of India’s culture.

In his speech he said that he assumed his office of the president in a spirit of humanity and total dedication. He would abide by the constitution of India. He pledges to the service of absolute values The author in his speech has given the importance of tech growth of national culture and national character. According to him our past culture is not dead and static; it is alive and dynamic. Our past culture is the base of developing the quality of our present and the prospects of our future.

Dr. Zakir Hussain in his speech pledges himself to the loyality of our past culture. He also pledges his loyality to his country. He promises to work for the welfare of its people without distinction of cast, colour and creed. He further says “The whole of Bharat” is my “home and its people are my family”. He pledges to make his home strong and beautiful. The people will lead a prosperous and graceful life. Since our family is big we will have to labour hard. Each of us shall have to participate in building new life of the nation. He says that situation demands that we shold work more and more. Our work should be silent, sincere, solid and steady.

According to the author there are two aspects of work – individual and social. A man should work for his personal requirements. A person should be free to develop his personal, physical and moral values under strict discipline. But an individual can not grow in full perfection without the help of society. So, individual and society are co-related and interdependent.

At last the author says that our state will not be just an organization of power, but a moral organization. To Mahatma Gandhi, state power or individual power should be used only for moral purposes. The author promises to devote his time to the welfare of the people of Bharat.

Question 7.
Write a note on American English
Answer:
American english sometimes called ‘united states english or ‘U.S. English’ is the set of varieties of the english languge native to the united states of America.

English is the most widely spoken langauge in the united states and is the common language used by the federal government, considered the ‘de facto’ language of the country, despite being given official status by 32 of 50 state governments.

The use of english in united states is a result of English and British colonization of the Americas. Written American English is standardized across the country, there are several recognizable variation in the spoken language, both in poronunciation and in vernacular vocabulary.

(OR)

What is difficulties faced by Indians in Learning English?
Answer:
Different people can have different difficulties and problems in learning english. They make different mistakes in English pronunciation, grammar, orthography and vocabulary usage.

Each learner has his own issues but the most common that I felt in our Indian is Lack of vocabulary, Grammar, Correct Pronunciation, Hesitation in Speaking. If we come to solution it will be easy to discuss it in the same sequence.

Question 8.
Match the Poets Given in List A with their Work In List B.

(a) – (ii)
(b) – (v)
(c) – (iv)
(d) – (iii)
(e) – (i)

Translate any five of the following sentences into English

हमेशा सच बोलो।
जाड़े के बाद वसंत ऋतु आती है।
कल मेरी भेंट राजन से हुई।
सच्चा मित्र संसार में दुर्लभ है।
वह कई वर्षों से घर नहीं आया है।
वह एक अच्छा तैराक है।
भारत का इतिहास गौरवशाली है।

Answer:

Always speak the truth.
Spring season comes after rainy season.
I met Rajan yesterday
True friend is rare in the world.
He has not come to home for many years.
He is a good swimmer
The History of India is glorious.

Question 9.

What did Sarojini Naidu’s father want her to choose as a career ?
What did Sir Edmund advise Sarojini Naidu ?
Why was he disappointed by her poems ?
What did he advise her ? Did she follow his advice.

Answer:

Sarojini Naidu’s father want her to choose as a career to become a great mathematician or scientist.
Sir Edmund advise Sarojini Naidu to write something about her own country and from then onwards.
Because they had nothing of the East in them.
He advised her to write something about her own country. After that Sarojini Naidu devoted herself to writing verses India.

(OR)

Write a precis’ of the following passage and give a suitable
title.
Human life consists of a succession of small events, each of which is comparatively unimportant, and yet the happiness and success of every man depend upon the manner in which these small events are dealt with. Character is built upon little things well and honorably transacted. The success of a man in business depends upon his attention to little things. The comfort of a household is the result of small things arranged and duly provided for. Good government can only be accomplished in the same way be well regulated provision for doing little things,
Answer:
Title-The vision of success.
For successful life, small event and thing built is necessary. The success of a man in all area of life depends upon his attention to little thing. The comfort of a household is the result of small things arranged and duly provided for.