Bihar Board 12th English Model Papers
Bihar Board 12th English 100 Marks Model Question Paper 1
Time: 3 Hours + 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
Choose the most suitable answer from the choices given below.
Question 1.
Who gave you permisson to enter? (Choose the best passive voice)
(a) By whom where you given the permisson to enter?
(b) By whom given you permission to enter?
(c) By whom you were given permission to enter?
(d) By whom was given permisson to enter?
Answer:
(c) By whom you were given permission to enter?
Question 2.
He has been decive by his own friend (Choose the best active voice)
(a) His friends had been deceiving him.
(b) His own friends are deceiving him.
(c) His own friends has deceiving him.
(d) His own friends were been deceiving him.
Answer:
(b) His own friends are deceiving him.
Question 3.
They _______ their new car two weeks ago. (choose the correct tense form)
(a) will buy
(b) have bought
(c) buy
(d) bought
Answer:
(b) have bought
Question 4.
What _______ you doing when I ment you? (choosethe best option)
(a) were
(b) was
(c) are
(d) did
Answer:
(a) were
Question 5.
Health is very important. It must not be negleeted. (Choose the correct combination)
(a) Health is very-important to be negleeted.
(b) Health is too important to be negleeted.
(c) Health is not important to be neglectd.
(d) Health has too important to be neglected.
Answer:
(b) Health is too important to be negleeted.
Question 6.
_______ you lend me you book. (Choose the auxiliary verb)
(a) Shall
(b) Will
(c) Must
(d) Have
Answer:
(b) Will
Question 7.
I _______ a letter to her yesterday. (Choose the best verb form)
(a) had written
(b) can write
(c) worte
(d) will write
Answer:
(a) had written
Question 8.
Scorates said, “Virtue is its own reward.” (Chosse the best option)
(a) Socrates said that virtue had its own reward.
(b) Socrates say that virtue has its own reward.
(c) Socrates said virtue is its own reward.
(d) Socrates sasy that virtue was its own reward.
Answer:
(c) Socrates said virtue is its own reward.
Question 9.
He asked me whether I has finished reading the magzine (Choose the best option)
(a) He says to me, “Have you finished reading the magazine?”
(b) He says to me, “Have you finished reading the magazine?”
(c) He says told me, “Have you finished reading the magazine?”
(d) He ordered, “Have you finished reading the magazine?”
Answer:
(c) He says told me, “Have you finished reading the magazine?”
Question 10.
You’ll get used to _______ early moring walks.
(Choose the best meaningful expression)
(a) take
(b) be taking
(c) taking
(d) betaken
Answer:
(a) take
Question 11.
I used _______ to the cinema a lot. (Choose the
best meaning expression)
(a) go
(b) going
(c) to go
(d) to going
Answer:
(c) to go
Question 12.
Have you heard her _______ a joke? (Choose the best meaningful expression)
(a) to tell
(b) to have told
(c) tell
(d) to telling
Answer:
(d) to telling
Question 13.
_______ his surprise, the door was open. (Choose the correct preposition)
(a) To
(b) By
(c) On
(d) With
Answer:
(a) To
Question 14.
The cat jumped _______ the chair. (Choose the correct preposition)
(a) inside
(b) onto
(c) out
(d) at
Answer:
(d) at
Question 15.
I t is a painting a famous painter. (Choose the correct preposition)
(a) by
(b) in
(c) at
(d) for
Answer:
(a) by
Question 16.
Choose the correct sentence :
(a) He gave me many advices.
(b) He gave advices many.
(c) He gave many advices.
(d) He gave m e many pieces of advice.
Answer:
(a) He gave me many advices.
Question 17.
Choose the correct sentence :
(a) There are fewer students in the class today.
(b) There are less students in the class today.
(c) There are heavy students in the class room.
(d) There are much students in the class today.
Answer:
(b) There are less students in the class today.
Question 18.
Choose the correct sentence :
(a) He came here by foot
(b) He came here an foot.
(c) He came here at foot.
(d) He came here over foot.
Answer:
(b) He came here an foot.
Question 19.
I am tired of _______ (Choose the best option)
(a) waiting
(b) had to wait
(c) to wait
(d) wait
Answer:
(a) waiting
Question 20.
I don’t feel like _______ It. (Choose the best option)
(a) do
(b) will do
(c) to do
(d) doing
Answer:
(c) to do
Question 21.
She liked _______ many question at the press conference. (Choose the best option)
(a) being asked
(b) of asking
(c) asked
(d) ask
Answer:
(b) of asking
Question 22.
I’d like _______ to movie this afternoon. (Choose the best option)
(a) to go
(b) will go
(c) going
(d) go
Answer:
(a) to go
Question 23.
It’s Thursday today. Tomorrow it _______ Friday. (Choose the best option)
(a) be
(b) will be
(c) was
(d) will
Answer:
(b) will be
Question 24.
A person who rarely speaks the truth is a _______ (Choose the correct answer)
(a) Crook
(b) Scoundrel
(c) Liar
(d) Hypocrite
Answer:
(b) Scoundrel
Question 25.
I don’t think Rajesh is _______ tho lift this box. (Choose the best option)
(a) Enough stomg
(b) too strong
(c) Stomg enough
(d) strong too
Answer:
(a) Enough stomg
Question 26.
Find the correctly spelt word:
(a) Livelihood
(b) Livlihood
(c) Livelyhood
(d) Livelyhood
Answer:
(a) Livelihood
Question 27.
Find the correctly spelt word:
(a) Sycological
(b) Pshkological
(c) Psychologeical
(d) Sykological
Answer:
(c) Psychologeical
Question 28.
Juhi _______ a blue skirt today. (Choose the best option)
(a) wears
(b) wear
(c) wearing
(d) is wearing
Answer:
(a) wears
Question 29.
The phone _______ Can you answer it please ?
(Choose the best option)
(a) rings
(b) rang
(c) ring
(d) is ringing
Answer:
(a) rings
Question 30.
I am _______ prepared. (Choose the best option)
(a) full
(b) fell
(c) fully
(d) felt
(b) fell
Question 31.
The sentence ‘Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty’ is from (Choose the correct option)
(a) Indian civilization and Culture
(b) A Child is Bom
(c) The Earth
(d) I Have a Dream
Answer:
(a) Indian civilization and Culture
Question 32.
‘Bhara is My home is written by : (Choose the correct option)
(a) Germaine Greer
(b) Shiga Naoya
(c) Pearl S. Buck
(d) Zakir Hussain
Answer:
(b) Shiga Naoya
Question 33.
Dorothy L. Sayers is a/an _______ (Choose the correct option)
(a) novelist
(b) singer
(c) essayist
(d) actor
Answer:
(c) essayist
Question 34.
Shiga Naoya is a short story writer.
(a) Japanese
(b) Chinese
(c) Korean
(d) Malaysian
Answer:
(a) Japanese
Question 35.
Benjy’s parents had rented their land to a man named – (Choose the correct option)
(a) Sanders
(b) Kris
(c) Alexander
(d) Michael
Answer:
(d) Michael
Question 36.
Pearl S. Buck taught in a _______ University. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Chinese
(b) American
(c) African
(d) British
Answer:
(a) Chinese
Question 37.
Anton Chekov began his literary by writing- (Choose the correct option)
(a) short stories
(b) poems
(c) dramas
(d) comic sketches
Answer:
(d) comic sketches
Question 38.
The line ‘O how feeble is man’s power’ – is from : (Choose the correct option)
(a) Fire-Hymn
(b) To autumn
(c) Snake
(d) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
Answer:
(d) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
Question 39.
‘Leaves of Grass’ is collection of poems by- (Choose the correct option)
(a) John Donne
(b) W.H.Auden
(c) T. S. Eliot
(d) Walt Whitman
Answer:
(d) Walt Whitman
Question 40.
‘Whispering neighbors, left and right’ is from- (Choose the correct option)
(a) Fire-Hymn
(b) Now the Leavesa are falling Fast
(c) The Soldier
(d) To Autumn
Answer:
(b) Now the Leavesa are falling Fast
Question 41.
‘Lamia’ and ‘Hyperion’ are weriten by- (Choose the correct option)
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) P.B.Shelley
(c) John Keats
(d) S.T. Coleridege
Answer:
(c) John Keats
Question 42.
Macavity the cat is full of – (Choose the correct option)
(a) cham
(b) deceit
(c) beauty
(d) honesty
Answer:
(b) deceit
Question 43.
Sankes were seen among _______ in ‘My Grand Mother’s House’- (Choose the correct option)
(a) beds
(b) chairs
(c) books
(d) tables
Answer:
(c) books
Question 44.
The line ‘Here lies a most beautiful lady’ is from – (Choose the correct option)
(a) Sanke
(b) To Autumn
(c) Fire-Hymn
(d) An Epitaph
Answer:
(d) An Epitaph
Question 45.
The development of was helped by the introduction of _______ the printing technology. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Old English
(b) Modem English
(c) Middle English
(d) None of these
Answer:
(c) Middle English
Question 46.
‘Untouchable’ and ‘Coolie’ are written by – (Choose the correct option)
(a) R.K. Narayan
(b) B. C. Chattopdhyay
(c) M.R. Anand
(d) S.C. Chatterjee
Answer:
(a) R.K. Narayan
Question 47.
Hamlet’ and ‘Othello’ are written by – (Choose the correct option)
(a) G.. B. Shaw
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Thomas Sachville
(d) T.S. Eliot
Answer:
(b) William Shakespeare
Question 48.
_______ will be common language for use. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Global Standard English
(b) American English
(c) Middle English
(d) British English
Answer:
(a) Global Standard English
Question 49
The world ‘drama’ comes from a _______ word. (Choose the correct option)
(a) Latin
(b) Scandinavian
(c) Indian
(d) Greek
Answer:
(a) Latin
Question 50.
The ‘Romantic Revival’ is associated with- (Choose the correct option)
(a) John Dryden
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) Alexander
(d) John Milton
Answer:
(b) William Wordsworth
Section – B
Non-Objective Type Questions
Question 1.
Write an essay in about 150-200 words on any one of the following (8)
(a) Value of Newspapers
(b) Science in the service of man
(c) Patriotism
(d) If I were a Millionaire
(e) Work is Workshop
Answer:
(a) Value of newspapers:
Information received form different quarters is, fact, treated as news. A newspaper is, thus, paper which contains the most important of such news and carries them to the people in general, it may be called a summary of the important current events.
The newspaper is very important in the life of a civilized nation. It is the medium through which public opinion is expressed. It circulates news and views in which different classes of people are interested. Thus, the teachers, doctors, lawyers, traders, sportsmen, even the children find in it some items of information that interest them.
The newspaper is a powerful means for propagating political views and moulding the opinions of the people towards certain ends. In fact, great change in the administration of a country may be made through the agency of newspapers. It also makes people conscious of their rights and duties and teach them how to protect their rights. Probably the greatest value of newspapers is that they develop and spread knowledge. Through the newspaper we come to know about the views of great thinkers and social refomers.
(b) Science in the service of man:
We are living in an age of science. Miracles of science have changed our lives. The best of the comforts and luxuries that we have today are the contributions of science. Science has made our life easy and comfortable. It has reduced the time, space and distance.
The inventions of science have revolutionized the world of transport. The distance is meaningless today. We have aeroplanes, cars, bullet trains, ships, etc. Within a short time we can cover a very long distance. The world has turned smaller due to these fast means of transport. Man has succeeded in landing on the moon. The means of transport have enabled us to explore the possibility of life on other planet. Space travel is a reality today.
Science has helped us to conquer many deadly diseases. Diseases like tuberculosis and cancer are no longer considered dangerous and incurable. Operations are performed in a painless way. The discovery of X-ray has helped in diagnosis of a disease and in locating an injury or fracture. Electric shocks are a great boon to surgery. In addition, new ultra scanning and plastic surgery are the wonder of science in the field of medicine.
But every silver cloud has a dark lining. Science is both constructive and destructive. It has given nuclear bomb, hydrogen bomb, fighter plane, sophisticated assault guns, pistols and rifles. Laser bombs, missiles and rockets can cause destruction and damage at a distant place.
Thus, science has created as well as annihilated. It is an instrument which needs to be used with rationality. It is a blessing so long as it is used with care and caution. It depends on us how we use it.
(c) Patriotism:
Patriotism is the feeling of love and respect for one’s country. Patriots are known to love their country unconditionally and are proud of it. Every country in the world has its set of patriorts-people who are ready to do anything for their country. However, the spirit of patriotism seems to be fading these days owing to the growing competition in every field as well as the changing lifestyle of people.
In the past, particularly during the British reign, many people came forward to instill the feeling of patriotism among their fellow countrymen. Patriots held meetings, gave lectures and used various other means to inspire the people around them. In the same way, a feeling of patriotism must be instilled in the young generation today too. This must be done when they are still young. School and colleges must fake initiate to instill children with a feeling of love and respect for their country.
Many institutions host functions and organize events on 15th August and 26th January. Patriotic songs are sung and a feeling of patriotism seems to engulf the entire nation around that time. But is this real patriotism? No! Such an atmosphere must be created in general and not just around these special dates. It is then that such a feeling will be instilled in the heart of every citizen forever.
A nation where the youth loves the country and is driven towards improving its condition socially and economically would certainly grow better. A true patriot is the one who’ works hard for the betterment of his country. He contributes his bit towards improving the condition of his country in whatever way he can. A true patriot does not only work towards building his nation but also inspires those around him to do so.
(d) If I were a Millionaire:
If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. But sometimes dream come true. I am poor in life and my wishes are hopelessly small. I live in a state of uncertainty and I never know whether I shall be able to afford my next meal. But there is no check on one’s fancy. Fancy is my luxury. I wish I we a millionaire! As a poor man, I have often experienced that Rich men are generally selfish to the extent of being cruel. Their outlook on life is not human but materialistic.
They forget that to be rich is not to be in human. When I am rich, I shall not forget god and god’s men. A wealthy man can do much good to this world. Wealth often spoils man. Money along with comforts and care brings evil also. Rich men are generally victims to one evil or the other. I have natural dislike for the base and the disreputable. I was born human and shall live a pious and noble life. This duty o penly man owns to god. I shall fulfill this duty. I shall set a noble example before others and shall be a brilliant light for misguided millionaires.
I would very much wish to encourage social service in the country. I shall make a trust which will look after the welfare of orphans. It is a pity that in our country wealthy persons do not possess charitable qualities. I shall lead a noble life an cut down my own expenses so that I may help others to live better. I am a noble-hearted and simple person.That is what I could remain even if become a millionaire
(e) Work is Worship:
Work is what we make it to be. We all have similar work to do. Yet it is the attitude with which one works that makes the difference to it. If one works with irritation and anger it shows in the work. Even if the work is completed, there would neither have been joy during the process of working nor would there be beauty to the work accomplished.
We have work to do as a student. We need to study. We have to go to school. There are assignments and projects to do. We also participate in various curricular and extra-curricular activities during an academic session at school. All this constitutes our work. If we do it grudgingly, we cannot enjoy the education process. If there is joy in what we have to do, it becomes easier to accomplish. Learning then is fun, not a bore or trouble at all.
When we engage in worship we have the sentiment of respect, love, sincerity, simplicity and truth. There is also a sense of devotion, dedication and excellence in worship. If we could bring these values and such a sentiment to the work that we do, we would convert work to worship.
Question 2.
Explain any one of the following. (1 × 4 = 4)
(a) In no part of the world and under no civillization, have all men attained perfection.
Answer:
A man is hot necessarily happy because he is rich or unhappy because he is poor ? The rich are often seen to be unhappy the poor to be happy.
This extract is taken from ‘Indian Civilization And Culture’ is written by M.K. Gandhi. According to Gandhi, the key to real happiness lies in satisfaction. If we indulge in our passions, our desire gradually increases and even if fulfilled, there is a new craving which does not allows us to be happy and content.
The rich people having luxuries desire for yet more comforts and often poor people not taking interest in luxuries and comforts and often poor people not taking interest in luxuries and comfort bridles his passions and thus keeps himself content, satisfied and happy. So, the key real happiness lies in restriction of desires of our giddy mind and usage of hand and feet. Gandhi defines happiness as largely mental condition. Happiness is a stress less, joyful condition of mind.
(b) And as we walk, we make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
Answer:
The past is not dead and static.
Dr. Zakir Hussain says that past is not dead and static, it is not worthless because it is alive, it is dynamic and energetic and it is involved in determining the quality of our present and the prospects of coming future. He says that we cant neglect the past because it is thing which lets us know the attribute of our present, it decides outlook of our future. So, although past is gone, it does keep the strength of deciding thing of present and future.
(c) And suddenly the land was for sale: their land, their earth, which was all they had.
Answer:
The life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
This line has been taken from ‘I have a Dream’. Written by ‘Martin Luther King Jr. Hear the author says that it has the clear meaning that the life of Negro is still like that of a disabled person because if is captivated with the handcuffs of seperation (on basis of race) and the fetters of discrimination.
The Negroes are thought to be inferior to the whites and so are not given the proper rights of a citizen but are tormented every where. In such circumstances Negroes are like a disabled person who can’t do anything on and for its own. They are racially discriminated everywhere and are still fettered. They are tribulated, tortured and tormented. They are not given the right to vote, they are not allowed to go to public palces and are cut off from the society as if they are not humans. This in human act done with them has crippled their life.
(d) Mother was waiting on the doorstep, her face wreathed in smiles.
Answer:
“This tie-and-collar business is no good these days”.
This line has been taken from the stray ‘A Pinch of Snuff written by Manohar Malgoankar.
By the given statement Nanukaka menat that till then tie-and-collar has become a very common dress and if we had to impress somebody, we should leave this tie-and- collar and instead wear traditional clothes.
Question 3.
Explain any one of the following
(a) Nurses to the grave are gone, And the prams go rolling on.
Answer:
These lines have been taken from the poem ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’. Written by W. H. Auden.
These lines dewlls upon the season that when this season come the leaves start to falling fast. It is also meant by a person who slowly goes to its death and at last in a grave like a tree every human life has to destroy. There is no one who can alive Every one is mortal.
(b) I think she was the most beautiful lady.
That ever was in the West Country.
Answer:
These lines have been composed by Walter de lamare. Here Poet says that it is dome of a dead body, where a death body keep. He wants to tell about a beautiful lady which in the Epitaph. She was the most beautiful lady that ever was in the best country but when she was dead her beauty vanishes beauty passes. Because when a body dead everything is cleared about herself.
(c) I think it did not hit him. But suddenly that part of him that was left behind Convulsed in undignified haste. Writhed like lightening, and was gone.
Answer:
These stanza has been taken from the poem “Sanke” is composed by the poet David Herbert Lawrence. When the speaker saw that snkae drinking water at the trough, firsly he doesn’t want to hit it but later when he feel that if he doesn’t hit, it will bite to him. For this thing he wanted to kill it. That’s why he hit it, which was against the sensibility of the speaker.
(d) However, rare-rare it be; and When I crumble, who will remeber This lady of the west country?
Answer:
These lines have been composed by Walter de lamare. When a body dead everything is cleared about herself. The poet loved her so much that when she was dead he was weeping biterly. When the poet listend about her beloved he crumbled will remember. He used to sit her epitaph where she laid down in her bed. So the poet wants to say that if a person loved someone so much never leave alone. Because he is just facing the problems.
Question 4.
Write a letter to your younger sister/brother, encouring her/him to take part in games and sports.
Answer:
Dear Hitesh
I hope that you are doing well in your studies. There is no doubt that studies are the most important part of a student’s life.
I have come to know that you do not play games. This is not good for a student. Health is wealth. Without good health you cannot think of higher studies.
Games are a necessary part of education.They make us healthy and strong. I therefore advise you to take part in games and sports.
Yours sincerely
Anmol
(OR)
Write an application to the Principal of your School/College to issue you the School/College leaving certificate.
Answer:
To,
The Principal,
S.D.+2 High School,
Nalanda
Subject: Request for School Leave Certificate Sir,
Respectfully, I beg to submit that my father has been transferred to Namaul. He is to join there next week. We are shifting there on Monday, the 16th instant. I, therefore, request you to issue my School-Leaving Certificate.
I have returned all the library books and paid all the dues.
Thanking you.
Yours obediently,
Asim Gupta
Roll No. 5
Question 5.
Answer in about 40-50 words, any five of the following (2 × 5 = 10)
(a) How did Nanukaka impress Sohanlal Ratiram?
Answer:
Nanukaka started describing about his VIP status in a very loud voice so that Sohanlal could hear. He firstly talked about hear. He firstly talked about foreign tours and his contacts with politicians and ministers. Then he come to talk shout Hazrat Barkat Ali, the ambassador in such a tone as if they were best friends and this impresses Shoanlal the most.
(b) Why did Zakir Hussain pledge himself to ?
Answer:
Dr. Zakir Hussain pledges himself to service of absolute timeless, values which have been realised. He pledge himself to the loyalty of our past culture, to the service of totality of country’s culture, to work fir its strength and progress and welfare fo its people.
(c) Why does Lomov think that his is a critical age?
Answer:
I have to start leading a steady and regular life. I love got a heart condition, with palpitations all time.
(d) Why did the speaker like the snake?
Answer:
The speaker liked the snake because it looks so innocent. It didn’t show any type of harm to a man. It just came there to drink water.
(e) Why is Macavity termed a ‘criminal’?
Answer:
Macavity is termed as a criminal because he can defeat the law of the master.
(f) In what series does the Sun conspire with autumn?
Answer:
The sun conspires with the autumn so slightly and as a friend. It’s ray makes the fruit fleshy and fat and also tasty.
(g) Why are the Indians quick learners of English?
Answer:
English is a globel language. So Indians are quick lernefs of English for their bright future.
(h) What is meant by the Great Vowel Shift?
Answer:
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1350 and the 1600s and 1700s, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialectts of English.
Through this vowel shift, all Middle English long vowels changed their pronunciation. Some consonant sounds changed as well, particulary those that became silent; the term Great Vowel Shift is sometimes used to include these consonant changes.
English spelling was first becoming standardized in the 15th and 16th centuries and the Great Vowel Shift is responsible for the fact that English spellings now often considerably deviate in their representation of English pronunciations. (3) The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersn (1860-1943), a Danish linguist and Anglicist, who coined the term
(I) What does the poet observe in summer in ‘Song of Myself?
Answer:
He observes a spear in summer.
(j) How did language play a role in human development?
Answer:
Yes, language played a role in human development. At what stage language began is not known, but we may be pretty certain that it began very gradually .Without it would have been very difficult to hands on from generation to generation the inventions and discoveries that were gradually made.
Question 6.
Answer any three in about 100-120 words
(a) Write the summary of any one o f the following poems :
(i) The soldier
(ii) Fire-Hymn
(iii) My Grand Mother’s House
Answer:
(i) The soldier:
“The soldier” is composed by the poet Rupert Booke who was the handsomest young man in England. The poet is saying that when he should die only think that there should be a comer of a field on the earth is hidden from dust. When the war started the dust starts to hid everything and was washed away by the rivers. When was started he wanted a flower which gave love without knowing the definite way where is to go. He always contact with English air of England. He was walking thinking about quarrel war.
He thought himself that nor a evil word came in his mind. A small vibration touched his mind as it lasting for ever. He wanted a peaceful country, it’s his dream and always see this type of sight that there are no wars between two countries. Everyone live a peaceful life. It seemed like a heaven in England to think over it.
(ii) Fire-Hymn:
The poem ‘Fire Hymn’ is highly composed by the poet Keki N. Daruwalla who is the reapient of Sahitya Akademi. His poetry in his own wards. In this poetry he tells is about a ghat which was burning. The ghat was totally burnt but to some extant it was half. Red, light showed their way. The sky seemed like a red ball. The sky is full of smoke which come out from the fire. Many animals were killed and some of then are half cooked. The somke swallour everything and at last leaves ah, which was grey colour,
The poet says that he will never forget this fire, today after twenty five years when he was bom. He say in a praise song that he stand forgiven. He swore that time to save it from the sin of forgiving. He did the things, I mean did mistake, so he was saying to forgive. The poet also show his half burnt fingers. This was the fire which destroy everything.
(iii) My Grand Mother’s House:
The poet of the poem “My Grandmother’s House” is a wonderful creation by “Kamala Das” has written about her grandmother’s house.She also used to live with her grandmother’s in that house, When she was young the house when she was so beautiful where she and her grandmother live a very happy life.
Everything is round that house is good. But when her grandmother died and the speaker lived in other places, the house became so bad condition. Everywhere round that house became pitable. Bushes grew around if when the speaker went there to see the house.
When she reached there she recieved earlier love. She saw her house damage. A strong feeling caught her mind. Everything was changed when she was there but still she was proudly because she reached there and recived loved which she begged at stranger’s door. In this poem, Kamala Das, the speaker told ther bio autography that how she lived when she was too young.
(b) Write the summary of any one :
(i) How Free is the Press
(ii) The Earth
(iii) Indian Through A traveller’s Eye
Answer:
(i) How Free is the Press:
That without a free press there can be no free people is things that al free people take for granted, we need not 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 comes full freedom is restored in the meantime, it may Be wholesome to consider what that freedom is, and how far it is truly destraple.
It may trun out to be no freedom at all, or even a more freedom to tyrannies, for tyramnny is fact, the uncontrolled freedom of one man, or one gang, to impose its will on the world. When we speak of the freedom of the preass, we useally mens freedom in a very techincal and restricted sense- namely, Freedom from direction or cencership by the government. In this respect, the British press is under ordinary conditions.
Singulary free. lt can attack the policy and political charactor of minister interfere in the delicate machinery of foreign deplomacy,conduct campaigns to subject the constitution incite citizens to discontent and rebellion, expose scadals and foment grievance, and generally harry and behabour the servants of the state.
With alomost perfect liberty on occasion, it can become a weapon to coerce the government to conform to what it asserts to be the will of the people. So far, this is all to the good. Occasionally, this freedom may. Produce disastrous heistions and inconsistenceies in public policy, or tend to hemper the suift execution of emergency measures, but generally speaking it works to secure and sustain that central doctive o f Democracy as we understand it-that the state is not the master but the servant of the people. The press as a whole, and in technical and restrict sense, is thus pretty free in a peaceful Britain.
There is no shade of political opinnion that does not some how contrive to express itself. But if we go on to imagine that any particular organ of the press enjoys the larger liberty of being a forum of public opinic opinion, we are gravely mistaken. Every Newspaper is shacked to its own set of overloads and in its turn, like the ummerciful sarvant, exercise a power ful bondage upon its readers and one the public generally inded we may say that the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the press but the unffcial cenforship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
(ii) The Earth:
All that the Johnson had was the earth-very often it seemed as if it were all they had ever had.
It was true that they also had possessions-a plough, a two-wheeled cart, tools, a bony brown mare which slowly dragged the plough and the cart about their rough four- acre plot-but without the earth these things were useless. It was ture that they also had a son.
It was more than thirty years since the Johansons, realising that he was not quite like others, had taken Benjy to a doctor. This doctor had persuaded them that he needed interests that would stregthen his mind. It would be good if they gave him something to do, some occupation, which would help his development. It would help a great deal if they gave him a special interest to feed him sense of responsibility, you are people on the land, the doctor said, let him keep hens.
So for many years Benjy had kept hens, and what the earth was to him mother and father the hens were to Benjy they were almost all he had. When he came from school, cut off by his simplicity form other children, Benjy went straight home to his hens, which He kept in a wire coop that his father had made at the back of the house. At first he kept Ten or a dozen hens, all colours and breeds, brown and specked and black and white, and the coop was small. He fed the hens simply, on scraps from the table, seeded cabbages strung from the write, a -little maize, and on corn-ears which be gleand in the late summer from his father a ocre of stuble.
It is possible that a hen, being a simple creature thrives best on simple treatment. Benjy understood the First as last thi ng about a hen. That it exists for nor had it become highly complicated and commercialilized. Eggs were cheap, hens mysteriously pecked Nourishment off the bore earth. They sat in a home made Nesting-box, on straw, and Laid the eggs expected of then.
(iii) Indian Through A traveller’s Eye:
India had always been part of the background of my life, but I had never seen it whole and for myself until new. Yet the stories that our Indian family doctor and his wife told me when I was child had woven themselves into my growing dreams, and I had long read everything that I could find about that country-from my father I had learned of it through Budhhisam and the life history of the Lord Buddha. What did I go to India to see? Not the Taj Mahal, although I did see it and by moonlight, not Fatehpur Sikri, although I did see it, and not the glories of emprie in New Delhi, although I did see them. I want to India to see and listen to two groups of people, the young intellectuals in
the cities and the peasants in the villages.
These I met in little rooms in the city, in littile houses in the villages, and I heard their plans for freedom. Already the interllectuals believed that another world war was inevitable. They had been bitterly disappointed after the first world war by what they felt were the broken promises of England. The English, they declared, had no real purpose to restore India to the people. I could believe it fresh as I was from China. Where the period of people’s Tutelage seemed endless and self government further off every year.
‘When you are ready for independece, conquerors have always said to their subjects, etcetera ! But who is to decide when that moment comes and how can people learn to govern themselves except by doing it? So the intellectuals in india were Restless and embittered, and I sat though hours watching their plashing dark eyes and.
(c) Write a note on American English.
Answer:
English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and is the common language used by the federal government, to the extent that all laws and compulsory education are practiced in English. Although not an officially established language of the whole country. English is considered the defacto language and is given official status by 32 of the 50 state governments.
As an example, while both Spanish and English have equivalent status in the local courts of Puerto Rico, under federal law, English is the official language for any matters being referred to the United States district court for the territory.
The use of English in the United States is a result of English and British colonization of the Americas. The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the 17th century, followed by further migrations in the 18th and 19the centuries. Since then, American English has developed into new dialects, in some cases under the influence of West African and native American languages. German, Dutch, Irish, Spanish, and other languages of successive waves of immigrants to the United States.
(d) Write a note on the dialects of Middle English.
Answer:
The dialectal position of Middle English is basically a continuation of that of Old English. The most important extralinguistic fact for the development of the Middle English dialects is that the capital of the country was moved from Winchester (in the Old English period) to London by-William the Conqueror in his attempt to diminish the political influence of the native English.
NORTHERN This dialect is the continuation of the North umbrian variant of Old English. Note that by Middle English ti mes English had spread to (Lowland) Scotland and indeed led to a certain literary tradition developing there at the end of the Middle English period which has been continued up to the present time (with certain breaks, admittedly). Characteristice. Velar stops are retained (i.e. not palatalised) as can be seen in word pairs like rigg/ridge; kirk/church.
KENTISH This is the most direct continuation of an Old English dialect and has more or less the same geographical distribution. Characteristics. The two most notable features of Kentish are (1) the existence of / e:/ for Middle English /i:/ and (2) socalled “initial softening” which caused fricatives in word-initial position to be pronounced voiced as in vat, vane and vixen (female fox).
SOUTHERN West Saxon is the forerunner of this dialect of Middle English. Note that the area covered in the Middle English period is greater than in the Old English period as inroads were made into Celtic-speaking Cornwall. This area becomes linguistically uninteresting in the Middle English period. It shares some features of both Kentish and West Midland dialects.
WEST MIDLAND This is the most conservative of the dialect areas in the Middle English period and is fairly well-documented in literary works. It is the western half pf the Old English dialect area Mercia.
EAST MIDLAND This is the dialect out of which the later standard developed. To be precise the standard arose out of the London dialect of the late Middle English period. Note that the London dialect naturally developed into what is called Cockney today while the standard became less and less characteristic of a certain area and finally (after the 19th century) became the sociologist which is termed Received Pronunciation.
Characteristics. In general those of the late embryonic Middle English standard.
(E) Write a note on the Future of English
Answer:
Many people think that the teaching of English is playing havoc with our native regional languages. Even the protagonists of Hindi, our national language, are deadly opposed to it. They think that English is a foreign language and an average Indian can neither understand it. nor express himself in it. Moreover much energy of a child is bei ng wasted in the learning of English. So English should altogether be abolished from this land. Quite opposed to this camp are the phil-Anglians. They believe that English has been in use in India for the last about two centuries. As such, English is no longer a foreign language. Innumerbable words of English are being used in our language of daily use. Particularly in the South, the people prefer English to Hindi.
No doubt, English is a international language. Most of the research work in science and technology in the world is being done through the medium of English. English is the window for westen knowledge to India. A very poor country as India is, it is very difficult to translate all the latest knowledge into national and regional languages. Even if an effort is made in this respect, till the knowledge concerned is translated, the theroy has since changed meanwhile, That is why even countries like China and japan have started giving more attention to the study of English to get the latest knowledge.
It is also argued that our freedom fighters like M.K. Gandhi, JPL. Nehru, Cochlea etc. were greatly influenced by western political thought on freedom through a study of English philosophers, thinkers ans poets. English is said to be a great link between different Indian languages and a strong bond for national integration.
(F) Match the poets is list A with their works in List B
Answer:
(G) Translate any five of the following sentences in English
- क्या तुम उसे पहचानते हो?
- ये बच्चे रोज शतरंज खेलते हैं।
- सुबह से बारिश हो रही है।
- क्या तुम मुझसे नाराज हो?
- यह उसकी कमीज है।
- हमारी कक्षा में पचास लड़के हैं।
- मैं फैसला कर चुका हूँ।
- उसने मुझे पैसे देने से इन्कार कर दिया।
Answer:
- Do you know him?
- These children play chess daily.
- It is rainy since morning.
- Are you angry with me?
- This shirt belongs to him.
- There are fifty student in our class.
- I have decided.
- He refuse to give me money.
Question 7.
Answer either of following
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow :
Native American Indian groups in North American lived in different cultural regions, each of which developed its own customs and traditions. A custom is the specific way in which a group of people do something.This can include how foods are prepared, what clothing is worm, the kinds of celebrations and much more. The set customs developed and shared by a culture over time is a traditions.
- What is a tradition ?
- What is a custom?
- How did the Native American Indian groups live in North American.
- Make sentences with – Develop, Tradition.
Answer:
- The set of customs developed and shared by culture over time is a tradition.
- A custom is the specific way in which a group of people do something.
- Native American Indian groups in North American lived in different cultural regions and each of developed its own custom and tradition.
- Develop – He has developed a good skill. Tradition – Indian tradition is different from western tradition.
(OR)
Write a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title;
Education ought to teach us how to be love always and what to be in love with. The great things of history have been done by the great lovers, saints, men of science and artist, and the problem of civilization is to give every man a chance of being a saint, a man of science or an artist. But this problem cannot be solved unless men desire to be saints, men of science and artist. And if they are to desire that continuously, they must be taught what it means to be these things. .
Answer:
Title – Love
Education must teach us main objects to love. The great loves, scaints, men of science and artist is to give every one a chance of being saint, a man of science or an artist and must taught it.
