Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara Second Semester Exam 2024-25

 Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara

         Second Semester Exam 2024-25.   

                Sub - English.                       Marks 80

Section I- Prose

(Reading for comprehension, Language study, Summary & note making)

1. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

When he came to Mrs. Adis's cottage he paused a moment.Only a small patch of grass lay between it and the road, and he looked in at the lighted, uncurtained window. He could see Mrs. Adis stooping over the fire, taking some pot or kettle off it. He hesitated and seemed to wonder. He was a big, heavy, working man, not successful, judging by the poverty of his appearance. For a moment he made as if he would open the window, then he changed his mind and went to the door instead. He did not knock, but walked straight in.

The woman at the fire turned quickly round.

"What, you, Peter Crouch!' she said. 'I didn't hear you knock.

'I didn't knock ma'am. I didn't want anybody to hear."'How's that?"

"I'm in trouble. His hands were shaking a little.

'What have you done?"

I shot man, Mrs. Adis.

"You?"

Yes I shot him."

"You killed him?"

"I don't know."

For a moment there was silence in the small, stuffy kitchen. Then the kettle boiled over and Mrs Adis mechanically put it at the side of the fire.. She was a small, thin woman with a brown, hard face, on which the skin had dried in innumerable small, hair like wrinkles. She was probably not more than forty-two, but life treats some women hard in the agricultural districts of Sussex, and Mrs. Adis' life had been harder than most.

What do you want me to do for you, Peter Crouch?" she said a little sourly.

"Let me stay here a bit. Is there nowhere you can put me till they've gone?"

"Who's they?"

"The keepers."

"Oh you've had a quarrel with the keepers, have you?"

"Yes. I was down by Cinder Wood seeing if I could pick up anything, and the keepers found me. There were four to one, so I used my gun."

A1 State whether the following sentences are true or false and rewrite.

1) Peter Crouch entered in Mrs. Adis cottage through the window.

Answer:- false

2) Mrs. Adis was not happy to see Petter Crouch.

Answer:- true

3) Peter knocked the door then entered in Mrs. Adis cottage.

Answer:-  false 

4) Mrs. Adis led a rich and comfortable life.

Answer:-  false 

A2 Complete the web.

Answer:- 

Appearance of Mrs. Adis.

Small,thin,brown,hard face,dried skin,hair like wrinkles 

A3 Find the reasons that forced Peter to shoot down a person. 2

Answer:- 

because 

1. Peter Crouch was hunting illegally.

2. The keepers spotted him.

3. There were four keepers against the lone Peter Crouch.

A4 Personal response.

Suppose you have done something wrong with your friend. Explain how would you handle the situation.

Answer:- If have done something wrong with my friend at that time I feel sorry for my guilt. I will tell him that I will not repeat the mistake again.

A5 Language study.

1) He could see Mrs. Adis stooping over the fire, taking some pot or kettle off it. 1

(Use 'be able to' in given sentence)

Answer:-

 He was able to see Mrs. Adis stooping over the fire, taking some pot or kettle off it.

2 ) He would open the window.

(Choose the alternative showing the correct passive voice of the given sentence.)

i) The window would been open by him.

ii) He would be open the window.

iii) The window would be opened by him.

Iv) The window would opened by him.

Answer:- The window would opened by him.

A6 Form nouns from the following words using suffixes.

Answer:- 

i) hesitate = hesitation 

ii) Judge.  = Judgement 

iii) heavy = heavier /heaviness 

iv) treat = treatment 

1. B) Non Textual Grammar.

B1 Do as directed.

1) I met Vasu....... the college library........ Sunday.

(Rewrite the sentence using correct preposition.)

Answer:-  in,on

2) The mother looks after her child.

(Choose the alternative to get correct form of rhetorical question.)

a) The mother looks alfter her child ?

b) Didn't the mother look after her child?

c) Doesn't the mother looks after her child?

d) Doesn't the mother look after her child.

Answer:-

 Doesn't the mother look after her child.

3) We can make happy to someone by our words.

(Identity the replaced version of the statement using the auxiliary of obligation.)

a) We might make happy to someone by our words,

b) We must make happy to someone by our words.

c) We Should make happy to someone by our words.

d) We have made happy to someone by our words.

Answer:-b) We must make happy to someone by our words.  

B2 Spot the error in the given sentences and rewrite the correct sentence.

Both the partners have signing this agreement in haste.

Answer:- 

 Both the partners have signed this agreement in haste.

2. A) Read the following extract and complete the acitivities given below. 12

In 1945 in Bay Roberts, Canada, a Year-old boy saw something in a shope window that set his heart racing. But the price-five dollars was far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family.

Reuben couldn't ask his father for the money. Everything Mark Earle made fishing, Reuben's mother, Dora, stretched like elastic to feed and clothe their five children.

Nevertheless, he opened the shop's weathered door and went inside. Standing proud and straight in his flour-sack shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, "but I don't have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me?"

"I willl try," the shopkeeper smiled. "Folks around here don't usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should keep for a while."

Reuben respectfully touched his worn cap and walked out into the May sunlight. The bay rippled in a freshening wind that ruffled his short hair. There was purpose in his loping stride. He would raise the five dollars and not tell anybody.

Hearing the sound of hammering front a side street, Reuben had an idea.

He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails purchased in burlap sacks from a local factory. Sometimes the sacks were discarded in the flurry of building, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents apiece.

That day he found two sacks, which he took to the remaining wooden factory and sold to the man in charge of packing nails. The boy's hand tightly clutched the small five-cent pieces as her ran the two kilometers home.

A1 Choose two correct sentence from the following alternatives. 2

1) Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family.

2) Reuben needed five cents to buy the object.

3) Reuben found ten sacks and earned five cents.

Answer:-1) Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family.

4) Reuben has flour-sack shirt and washed out trousers.

A2 Rearrange the following statements in order as they occured in the extract.

1) He found two sacks.

2) A Year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing.

3) He told the shopkeeper what he wanted.

4) He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site.

Answer:-

 4) He ran towards the sound and stopped at a construction site.

1) He found two sacks.

2) A Year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing.

3) He told the shopkeeper what he wanted.

A3 Give reason.

Reuben couldn't ask his father for money.

Answer:- 

because Rubens father earned by fishing.

Their means of earn are very few . His mother stretched like elastic to feed and clothe to their five children.

A4 Write your own experience of buying the thing that you like most. 2

Answer:- when I was in 10th standard I wanted to buy tape recorder so I worked in a sugar factory for that and finally purchased it.

A5 Language study.

Do as Directed

1) He opened the shop's weathered door and went inside.

(Choose the correct alternative showing the use of 'Not only ..... but also' in given sentence.)

a) He opened not only open the shop's weathered door but also went inside.

b) He did not only the shop's weathered door but also went inside.

c) He opened the shop the shop's weathered door not only but also went inside.

d) He was not only opened the shop's weathered door but also went inside.

Answer:-

d) He  not only opened the shop's weathered door but also went inside.

2) He ran towards the sound. (Choose the correct alternative to Indentify the tense used in above sentence.)

a) Simple past tense.

b) Present perfect tense.

c) Perfect past tense.

d) Simple present tense.

Answer:- Simple past tense 

A6 Indentify the words from the passage with opposite meaning of the following words.

Answer:-

a) buy = sell

b) save = spend 

c) long  = short 

d) lost = found 

B) Summary Writing

Write a summary of the above extract with a suitable title, with the help of the points.

 About that thing that boy saw a shop ....... family condition Reuben's dicision ..... found sacks.

B) Note Making.

Read the following passage and complete the three diagram below.

There are four types of computers: Supercomputers, Mainframe computers, Mini computers and Microcomputers. Supercomputers are of special high capacity computers used by very large organizations such as NASA. Mainframe compers are capable of great processing speeds and data storage. For example, insurance companies use them to process information about millions of policyholders. Mini computers, also known as mid range computers, are comparatively small in size. Departments of large companies typically use them for specific purposes. For example, productions departments use them to monitor certain manufacturing process and assembly line operations. Microcomputers are least powerful but widely used and the fastest growing type of computers. There are four types of microcomputers. Desktop computers is too big to carry around. Laptop computer is portable. A Table PC is very easy to use and carry. The fourth one is handheld computer which is the smallest one and is designed to fit into the palm of one hand.

Types of Computers

↓.                                ↓.                ↓.           ↓

Super Computers. Main frame. Mini micro 

                                          ↓

Section II Poetry

3. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded Filled with permutations of possibilities.

The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points linked by bridges all hang in the grace of mathematics. They build and will not stop. Even the sea draws back and the skies surrender.

They erase the flaws, the blemishes of the past, knock off useless blocks with dental dexterity. All gaps are plugged with gleaming gold. The country wears perfect rows of shining teeth.

Anaesthesia, amnesia, hypnosis.

They have the means. They have it all so it will not hurt. So history is new again. The drilling goes right through the fossils of last century.

The piling will not stop.

But my heart would not bleed poetry. Not a single drop to stain the blueprint of our past's tomorrow.

A1 Pick out the statements which aptly depicts, the theme of the poem. 2

1) In the poem the speaker memorises the past.

ii) The poet laments helplessly.

The poet describes the unstoppable force of modernization.

iv) The poet proposes to stop modernisation.

Answer:- 

ii) The poet laments helplessly.

The poet describes the unstoppable force of modernization.

A2 Explain the term 'Anaesthesia' used in the poem.

Answer:-  in this poem planners powerful politicians and builders make use of anaesthesia and do their work it means they hypotenuse people.

A3 Personal Response.

Give any two drawbacks of the development of roads and increase in vehicles.

Answer:- 

A4 Poetic device.

Identify and explain the figure of speech in the following line. 'useless blocks with dental dexterity.

Answer:- Alliteration, metaphor 

B) Appreciation.

Write the appreciation of the poem with the help of the following aspects. There is another sky,

Never mind silent fields-

Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness there; Never mind faded forests, Austin, Here is a little forest, Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum:

Whose leaf is ever green;

Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come !

Points About the poem's poet and the title.

* The theme.

* Your opinion about the poem.

* Poetic devices and the language. * Message, values, morals in the poem.

Section III - Writing Skills

4. A) Complete the activities as per the instructions given below.

Attempt any one of the following activities.

i) Letter Writing.

Write a letter to your Principal requesting him/her for issuing a duplicate Leaving Certificate for you.

--OR--

ii) E-mail.

Write an E-mail in a proper formal to invite your friend to celebrate your birthday.

B) Attempt any one of the following.

i) Expansion of Idea

Expand the following idea with the help of the points given below.

Write your answer in about 100 words.

'Necessity is the mother of invention'.

* Importance of invention. Use of the term 'mother'.

* Examples/Proof. Human tendency of invention. Conclusion.

ii) Blog Writing.

Write a blog in a proper format on 'Eat Healthy - live Healthy' with the help of the following points in 100 to 150 words.

* Healthy eating habits.

* Nutrition.

* Do's and Don'ts.

Need of balance diet.

Std-11th

iii) Film Review.

Draft a review of any film/movie that you have recently watched.

Prepare your review with the help of given points.

* Name of the movie/year of release,

• Producer/Director,

* Casting. • Technical aspects: Music/ Photography.

* Theme/ storyline in brief.

* Your opinion.

C) Attempt any one of the following activities.

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i) Appeal.

Imagine your college is going to conduct a campaign for cleanliness.

Prepare an appeal in the form of an advertisement write-up with the help of the following points.

- Use attractive slogan. Prepare a suitable logo an the theme.

- Make persuasive appeal for active participation

. - Add your own points.

ii) Report Writing.

Write a report on the celebration of 'Republic Day' in your college. - Students assembled. Arrival of Chief Guest.

Flag hoisting.

- Patriotic songs.

- Vote of thanks.

- Speeches.

- Cultural programme.

iii) Leaflet.

Prepare a small travel leaflet for a place of your choice with the help of following points.

- How to go there? - Importance of the place.

Where to stay?

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- What to see. - Shopping attractions. Add your own points.

iv) View- Counter view.

Prepare a paragraph to be used in the 'Counter-View' section on the following topic.

'Politics should be kept out of College Campuses.

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You can take help of the following points included in the 'View' section.

View Section

Politics should be kept out of college campuses.

* Students politics in India has more to do with politics and very little

with the students.

* It gives birth to students leaders who are surrounded by psycophants and least bothered about real problems of the students

* Big money, big campaign enter into the compuses and they are

difficult to control.

* Campus politics results in loss of study time.

D) Attempt any one of the following activities.

i) Speech.

You are an active member of an NGO working for tree-conservation.

Prepare a speech for the school or college students where you are invited on the occasion of 'The World Earth Day' to guide them about

tree planting. Use following points.

* Introduction. Air, water and noise pollution.

* Benifits of tree planting.

* Do's and don'ts.

* Living in harmony with nature.

Std- 11th

ii) Compening.

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Sub - English

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Your colleghe has organised one day 'Yoga Day' programme for students. As a compere draft a script for the whole fuction maintaining

the sequence of the following points.

- Welcoming the guests/Introduction.

- Welcome song.

- Lightning the Lamp.

- Felicitation.

- Introductory speech.

- Yoga Day programme. Presidential speech. Vote of thanks.

iii) Dialogue writing.

Write a dialogue between you and your friends on the topic 'Power of Education'. Write at least 8-10 dialogues.

iv) Interview.

Imagine, you have to cunduct an interview of a famous personality from the field of sports. With the help of the given table and points, draft questions to be asked the interviewee.

* Name of the interviewee. Area of success. Date/Venue/Time.

* Duration of Interview - Questions.

1) Interest development. 5) Schedule.

2) Idols in life.

3) Early learning/training.

4) Motivation.

6) Strengths.

7) Best performation.

8) Message.

Section IV - Literary Genre - Drama

5. A) Complete the activities given below as per the instruction. i) Pick out the odd element from the group and write it.

1) The Doll's House, Look Back in Anger, An Enemy of the people, Ghosts.

2) Static, dynamic, internal, flat.

3) Language, monologue, setting, theme.

4) Shakespeare, Anton chekhov, Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill.

ii) Match the pair.

'A'.                                            'B

1) Conflict

'

a) main idea.

Plot

Theme

iv) Dialogue

B ) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below.

b) essence of Drama.

c) involves two speakers.

d) pattern/ series of events.

1) Describe the character of 'The Sergeant'.

ii) Explain the theme of the drama 'The Rising of the Moon'.

C ) Answer in about 50 words to the questions give below.

i) Oberon and Titania fight for the custody of the Indian boy.

Give reason.

ii) Explain the setting of the play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

D) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below.

i) Narrate the plot of the play 'An Enemy of the People'.

ii) Explain the character sketch of 'Dr. Stockmann described in the play 'An Enemy of the people'.

Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara Std-XII. 2024-25 Preliminary Examination

 Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara

Std-XII.                2024-25

Preliminary Examination

Marks- 80

English (Activity Sheet)

Section-A-Prose

(Reading for comprehension, Language Study, Summary, Mind Mapping.)

Q.1A) Read  the extract and complete the activities given below.

Sports: When watching a cricket match, we are shown so many permutations and combinations of statistical analysis. A gigantic data has been created over a period of time from the recording of matches, training sessions and workouts. The data enables a sportsperson to study his performance as well as of the other players worldwide. It has tremendously helped in improving individual as well as team performance. The sensors embedded in the sports equipment help us to understand our game from close quarters. The sensors help us to understand the field conditions, the weather, individual performance etc. Video analytics help us to see each and every performance minutely.

Advertising: Advertisers are one of the biggest players in Big Data.

Be it Facebook, Google, Twitter or any other online giant, all keep a track of the user behaviour and transactions. These internet giants provide a great deal of data about people to the advertisers so that they can run targeted campaigns. Take Facebook, for example, here you can target people based on buying intent, website visits, interests, job roles, demographics and what not. All this data is collected by Facebook algorithms using Big Data analysis techniques. The same goes for Google, when you target people based on clicks you will get different results and when you create a campaign for leads then you will get different results. All this is made possible using Big Data.

A1 Rewrite the statements and state whether they are true or false.

a) The Big Data helps a sportsperson to study the performance of worldwide players.

b) Video analytics do not help us to see each and every performance minutely.

c) Advertisers get benefit from Big Data to know the interest of buyers.

d) Facebook, Google, Twitter are called online giants.

Answer:- 

True

False 

True 

True 

A2 Describe the benefits of the sensors embedded in the sports equipment.

Answer:- Sensors help a person 

• to understand the game from close quarters 
• to understand field conditions 
• to understand the weather conditions 
• to understand individual performance.
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A3 Explain the process of using Big Data by Facebook and Google.

Answer:- Facebook can target people based on buying intent , website visits interest  job rolls demographics by using algorithms.

Google target people based on clicks you will get different results and when you create campaign for leads then you will get different results.

A4 Give your opinion about sharing personal information on social media. 2

Answer:- Shearing personal information on social media is harmful to us because nowadays many hackers are on your watching. They steal your data and use that data for fraud call and it increases cyber crimes.

5)Language study. Do as directed.

1) Video analytics help us to see each and every performance minutely. (Choose correct alternative to frame a 'wh' question to get the underlined answer.)

a) What help us to see each and every performance minutely?

b) Who help us to see each and every performance minutely?

c) How help us to see each and every performance minutely?

d) Where help us to see each and every performance minutely?

Answer:- What help us to see each and every performance minutely?

i) Advertisers are one of the biggest players in Big Data.

(Choose the correct alternative that gives the transformation of the given sentence in Positive Degree.)

a) Very few players in Big Data are as big as advertisers.

b) No other players in Big Data is as big as advertiser.

c) No other players in Big Data as big as advertiser.

d) Players in Big Data is as Big as advertiser.

Answer:-Very few players in Big Data are as big as advertisers.

A6 Vocabulary.

Use the following words appropriately in the blank spaces.

(Facebook, Google, track, transactions.)

a) ...... gives various search results.

Answer:- Google

c) Many person expect 'like' to the posts which they share on

Answer:-track

b) Police kept ....... of criminals.

Answer:- Facebook 

d) They made ........ of money using net banking.

Answer:- transaction 

B) Language study. (Non-textual Grammer.)

B1 Do as directed.

1) There was ...... farmer who grew superior quality rice every year, his rice won prizes in ...... states competition.(Use the correct articles and rewrite the sentence.)

Answer:- a,the

2) Saina Nehwal was introduced Karate at tender age but abandoned it when she was told to stop it. 

(Rewrite the sentence by using an appropriate prepositions.)

Answer:-2) Saina Nehwal was introduced to Karate at a tender age but abandoned it when she was told to stop it. 

iii) The quiz master said, "When did Quit India Movement take place ?"1

(Choose the correct alternative to change the sentence into indirect speech.)

a) The quiz master said that when Quit India Movement had taken place.

b) The quiz master asked that when Quit India Movement had taken place.

c) The quiz master asked when Quit India Movement taken place.

d) The quiz master asked when was Quit India Movement taken place.

Answer:-The quiz master asked when Quit India Movement had taken place.

B2 Spot the error and rewrite the sentence.

She is more shorter than her brother.

Answer:-She is shorter than her brother.

2. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

In the coming years, requirements for rapid changes in the skills of a large number of people in period of say three to five years may become a continuous feature when new technologies are Introduced into the economy. Such rapid changes will occur in all sectors, underlining how the agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors are intertwined. In the agricultural sector there will be better optimization of input resources like seeds, soil conditioning, fertilizer micronutrient mixes, pesticides and so on, as well as changes in the overall agriculture management. The agriculture sector may also use information technology much more intensively than it uses now. In the use of remote sensing through satellites for regular monitoring of crops and soil conditions or water resources, or for better weather forecasts through satellites and ground borne systems. Or in the use of modern communications to be in closer touch with old or new markets. Water quality may be monitored more carefully in the future whether for human or animal consumption.Rapid Improvements in advanced sensors would make it possible to have such sensing system at affordable prices in many of our sectors.

In the industry and manufacturing sector, of course, the use of sensors, and modern electronics and information technology will be continual feature requiring rapid reorientation of the skills of not only the workforce but also the entire management including the board level operations. Installation of IT system for all these sectors, training persons at all levels and maintaining and improving their skills would be a major service industry. Despite voluminous growth in the banking and insurance sector, processing and transactions have been carried out by largely manual means. A national network of banking and insurance business has to emerge. This lack adversely affected efficiency and is a major cause of the high rates charged for financial services. The introduction of IT for various operations at the earliest has become a necessity. This means use of computers for near total electronics data management and the use of telecommunications and multimedia data, adopting a total system approach.

A1 Complete the web by writing the different input resources in the agriculture sector.

Input resources in the agricultural sectors

Answer:- Following are the input sources in the agriculture sector 

Seeds 

Fertilizer 

Soil conditioning 

Pesticides 

A2 Find out two changes that can be brought in agricultural sector with the help of the modern communication technology.

• Answer:- with the help of modern communication technology we can
• Touch with old or new market 
• Water quality may be monitored more carefully 
• Rapid improvements in advance sensors would make it possible to have such sensing system at affordable prices.

A3 "The introduction of IT for various operations at the earliest has become necessity." Guess out the reasons for it. Write your answer in five to six sentences.

Answer:- The introduction of IT for various operations at the earliest has become  necessity. This means use of computers for near total electronics data management in the use of telecommunications and multimedia data adapting a total system approach.

A4 Digital literacy has become necessity and an important aspect of modern day-to-day life. Write your views.

Answer:-

Digital literacy is not a luxury; it's a necessity in today's era. The digital transformation has not only changed the way we live and work but has also created a vast array of job opportunities. Companies are actively seeking professionals with advanced knowledge of digital tools and services.

A5 Language study.

Do as directed.

1) Such rapid changes will occur in all sectors.

(Choose the correct Rhetorical question form of the sentence fromt The given options.)

a) Was such rapid changes occur in all sectors ?

b) Isn't such rapid changes occur in all sectors ?

c) Won't such rapid changes occur in all sectors ?

d) changes oco in all sectors ?

Answer:-c) Won't such rapid changes occur in all sectors ?

2) Water quality may be monitered carefully in the future.

(Choose the correct option replacing the modal auxiliary showing more definite.)

a) Water quality ought to be monitored carefully in the future.

b) Water quality shall be monitored carefully in the future.

c) Water quality will be monitored carefully in the future.

d) Water quality must be monitored carefully in the future.

Answer:-c) Water quality will be monitored carefully in the future.

A6 Vocabulary:

Find out the words from the extract which mean.

a) optimization

b) intertwined

c) pesticides

d) voluminous

Answer:-

a) optimization =improvements

b) intertwined= mixed 

c) pesticides = 

d) voluminous= large 

B) Summary writing.

Write the summary of the above extract by using the following points. Need of information technology.... need of digital skills.... development economy.... various sectors banking sector service rendering to people.

C) Mind Mapping.

Develop a 'Mind Mapping' frame/design your own ideas topic sports and its varieties.

Section - B - Poetry

(Poetry and Appreciation)

3. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

Is anybody happier because you passed his way?

Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?

This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;

Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?

Did you give a cheerful greeting to the friend who came along?

Or a churlish sort of "Howdy" and then vanish in the throng?

Were you selfish pure and simple as you rushed along the way,

Or is someone mighty grateful for a deed you did today?

Can you say tonight, in parting with the days that's slipping fast, That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed? Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said;

Does a man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?

Did you waste the day, or lose it, was it well or sorely spent?

Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?

As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say, You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?

- Edgar Guest

A1 Complete the table giving the essential good things one has to do every time given in the extract.

The essential good things one has to do

Answer:- 

cheerful greetings 

Kind words 

Mighty and grateful

A2 Explain the line "You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today."

Answer:- 

Poet advised us to make our living useful.

With the help of of our good deeds God may gift us one more tomorrow.

A3 Give your ways to develop good social relationships with others.

Answer:- for developing good social relationships l

Help others 

Give them love and respect 

A4 Name and explain the figure of speech in the following line.

"Did you waste the day or lose it, was it well or sorely spent ?"

Answer:-

Alliteration 

Interrogation 

A5 Poetic creativity.

As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say.

Answer:-

B) Appreciation:

Read the extract and write the appreciation of the poem given below.

Weavers, weaving at break of day,

Why do you weave a garment so gay?......

Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,

We weave the robes of a new-born child. Weavers, weaving at fall of night,

Why do you weave a garment so bright?..

Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green, We weave the marriage-veils of a queen.

Weavers, weaving solemn and still, What do you weave in the moonlight chill..

White as a feather and white as a cloud, We weave a dead man's funeral shroud.

Section - C - Writing Skills

4. A) Complete the activities as per the instructions given below. Attempt any one of the following activities.

1) Drafting a Vitural Message:

Imagine you are Rahul/Jyoti studying in 12th standard. You are going to attend an International Awareness Programme in New Delhi the next week.

Draft a message in about 100/150 words to convey the same to your classmate. Give your own reasons to support your message.

2) Statement of Purpose:

You wish to pursue your gradution/diploma at a reputed university in any of the streams of your own choice, either arts, commerce, science, management, medicine, agriculture, engineering, law or any other degree you have in your mind. You have fixed your career goals and also have similar background to achieve your dreams. Taking help of the above points/information write a 'Statement of Purpose' in about 100/150 words as a part of your application process to get admission at a university of your choice.

3) Group Discussion:

You and your three friends (John, Irfan and Ravina) are selected as a team for group discussion for a reputed T.V. Channel. The topic of discussion is 'Importance of English Literature'. Write suitable dialogues for each participant giving his/her opinion on the topic.

B) Attempt any one of the following activities.

1) E-mail writing:

Imagine that you are a shopkeepers of gift articles. A customes had given order for purchasing articles but you have some difficulties for giving delivery in time due to shortage. Write on email to him/her apologising for the delay. Dear besk

2) Report writing:

You are a respresentative of the N.S.S. unit of your college. Write a brief report of the camp in which various social activities including cleanliness have been conducted by all the participants.

3) Interview.

Imagine you wish to conduct an interview of a 'social worker'. With the help of the format given below, draft questions on the given fields.

Name if the interviewee

Field/Reputation

Date/Venue/Time

Questions

Question based on:

1) Early interests

2) Challenges faced

3) Role model/s

4) Achievements/Awards

5) Feedback

6) Family support

7) Government support

8) Future plans

C) Attempt any one of the following activities.

1) Speech Writing:

Imagine you have to delivers a speech on the topic 'Save Earth Save Life' on World Environment Day in your jonior college. Draft a speech in about 100/150 words that you wish to deliver before the audience.

2) Compering:

Imagine your school/Jr, college has organised a farewell function for the students appearing for H.S.C. examination. As a compere draft a script for the whole function maintaining the sequence of the following points.

- Welcoming the guests.

- Introduction

- Felicitation

- Important speeches

- Concluding remark

- Vote of thanks

3) Expansion of Idea:

Expand the following idea with the help of the points given below.

"Experience is the best teacher"

- It's practical and non theoretical experience

- Learn from situations

- Direct and first had knowledge

- Real life versus Bookish

D) Attempt any one of the following activities.

1) Review:

Write a review of a film which you liked most with the help of following points.

* Story/Theme

* Producer/Director

* Special features of direction

* Characters: Conflict

* Music/Dance/Songs/Photography etc.

Your opinion

2) Blog:

Write a 'Blog' in a proper format on "Necessity of social awareness" regrading cleanliness/Hygiene in about 100/150 words.

3) Appeal:

Prepare an appeal through your organization for Eye Donation. Use the following points.

a) Give programme.

b) Make persuasive appeal.

c) Venue and date.

d) Contact information.

Section - D - Writing Skills

(Literally Genre - Novel)

5. A) Complete the activities given below as per the instructions.

A1 Pick out the odd element from each line.

a) Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Daniel Defoe, Anthony Burgess.

b) Mystery, Style, Conflict, Character.

c) The turn of the screw, Aphra Behn, Rajmohan's wife, Jane Eyre.

d) Drama, Novel, Psychology, Poetry.

Answer:-

A2 Choose the correct alternatives and rewrite the sentences.2

a) The novel as a literary genre has a history of about ....... years. (two thousand five hundred, two thousand, five hundred.)

Answer:- two thousand 

b) The new literature written in the 18th century was characterised by ..... (mystery, fantasy, sprit of realism.) 50g

Answer:- spirit of realism 

c) In...... novel, the surface meaning is different from the symbolise meaning. (Allegorical, Dystopian, Gothic.)

Answer:- Allegorical 

d) ........ has coined the phrase. 'Stream of consciousness'

(Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, William James.)

Answer:- William James 

B) Answer in about 50 words the questions given below.

B1 Describe how Ricky Braithwaite manage to bring about a change in the behaviour of his students.

B2 How does Mr. Braithwaite manage to increase the cultural exposure of the class ?

C) Answers the following.

C1 Elaborate the following quote in the light of Phileas Fogg's Venture.. 2

C2 Phileas Fogg knocked detective fix down - Give reason/s.

D) Answers the questions given below.

D1 Describe how Sherlock Holmes discovered the connection between Miss. Morstan receiving precious pearls with Major Sholto.

D2 How does the mystery of Bartholomew's murder lead Holmes to track down small ?

Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara Special Rehearsal Examination 2024-25

 Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara

Special Rehearsal Examination 2024-25

Std-XII     Marks-80

Time-3.00 Hrs                   Sub - English

Section-A-Prose

(Reading for comprehension, Language Study, Summary, Mind Mapping.)

1. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

"I feel like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly," she said, making Robert Haydon stop just to hear her say that, just to reassure herself by furbishing up a poor weak-kneed phrase and so showing how detached she was, how witty, that she did not feel in the least out of anything. And, of course, Robert Haydon answered something, quite polite, quite insincere, which she saw through instantly, and said to herself, directly he went (again from some book), "Lies, lies, lies!" For a party makes things either much more real, or much less real, she thought; she saw in a flash to the bottom of Robert Haydon's heart; she saw through everything. She saw the truth. This was true, this drawing-room, this self, and the other false. Miss Milan's little workroom was really terribly hot, stuffy, sordid. It smelt of clothes and cabbage cooking; and yet, when Miss Milan put the glass in her hand, and she looked at herself with the dress on, finished, an extraordinary bliss shot through her heart. Suffused with light, she sprang into existence. Rid of cares and wrinkles, what she had dreamed of herself was there-a beautiful woman. Just for a second (she had not dared look longer, Miss Milan wanted to know about the length of the skirt), there looked at her, framed in the scrolloping mahogany, a grey-white, mysteriously smiling, charming girl, the core of herself, the soul of herself; and it was not vanity only, not only self-love that made her think it good, tender, and true. Miss Milan said that the skirt could not well be longer; if anything the skirt, said Miss Milan, puckering her forehead, considering with all her wits about her, must be shorter; and she felt, suddenly, honestly, full of love for Miss Milan, much, much fonder of Miss Milan than of any one in the whole world, and could have cried for pity that she should be crawling on the floor with her mouth full of pins, and her face red and her eyes bulging that one human being should be doing this for another, and she saw them all as human beings merely, and herself going off to her party, and Miss Milan pulling the cover over the canary's cage, or letting him pick a hemp-seed from between her lips, and the thought of it, of this side of human nature and its patience and its endurance and its being content with such miserable, scanty, sordid, little pleasures filled her eyes with tears.And now the whole thing had vanished. The dress, the room, the love, the pity, the scrolloping looking-glass, and the canary's cage-all had vanished, and here she was in a corner of Mrs. Dalloway's

drawing-room, suffering tortures, woken wide awake to reality. But, it was all so paltry, weak-blooded, and pettyminded to care so much at her age with two children, to be still so utterly dependent on people's opinions and not have principles or convictions, not to be able to say as other people did, "There's Shakespeare! There's death! We're all weevils in a captain's biscuit" - or whatever it was that people did say.

A1. Name the following.

1) The person who said something quite polite and insincere to Mabel.

Answer:- Robert Haydon 

2)The person for whom Mabel was full of love and fondness.

Answer:- Miss Milan 

3)The bird mentioned in the passage.

Answer:- Canary 

iv) Mabel was in a corner of this person's drawing room.

Answer:- Dalloway

A2. Write short information about Miss Milan.

Answer:- 

Miss Milan was poor and hard working. 

Her face was red and her eyes bulged. Her pleasure in life were few and cheap. 

She was  patient and had to endure a lot of difficulties. 

A3. "I feel like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly. Explain this remark of Mabel.

Answer:- Mabel had a inferiority complex in her mind. She felt like flies trying to crawl over the edge of saucer.She felt like unfashionable and dull in appearance. 

A4. Name some simple things that make you feel happy. Explain why it is so.

Answer:- Happiness depends upon our mind.  I feel happy when 

• I help others. 
• I play cricket. 
• I am in my friends and family members. 
• I complete home work. 

  A5. Language study. 2

Do as directed.

1) Miss Milan's little workroom was really terribly hot, stuffy, sordid.

(Choose correct alternative to rewrite the given sentence as an exclamatory sentence.)

a) How terrible hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Milan's little workroom was!

b) What a terrible hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Milan's little workroom was!

c) How a terrible hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Milan's little workroon was!

d) How terrible hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Milan's little workroom was.

Answer:- a) How terrible hot, stuffy, sordid Miss Milan's little workroom was!

il) She saw the truth. (Choose the alternative to identify the correct tense.)

a) Past continuous tense.

b) Simple past tense.

c) Past perfect tense.

d) Past perfect continuous tense.

Answer:-b) Simple past tense.

A6. Vocabulary.

Match the words in column A correctly with their meanings in column B.

Words                       Meanings

1) dowdya         gloomy and drab

ii) dingy     b) unfashionable

suffused   c) folds or creases in the skin

iv) wrinkles           d) filled with

Answer:- 

Daudy= unfashionable

Dingy =gloomy and drab 

Suffused = filled with 

wrinkles= folds orcreasesintheskin

B) Language study. (Non-textual Grammer.)

B1. Do as directed / Transformation of sentence.

1) A child spends a major portion of his life in taking formal education.

(Choose the correct alternative that indicates modal auxililary showing 'obligation')

a) A child should spend a major portion of his life in taking formal education.

b ) A child must spend a major portion of his life in taking formal education.

c) A child will spend a major portion of his life in taking formal education.

d) A child can spend a major portion of his life in taking formal education.

Answer:-b ) A child must spend a major portion of his life in taking formal education.

There is no allowance for manners and intellectual damage in these matters. (Choose the correct alternative that indicates 'as well' in the given sentences) 

a) There is none of allowance for manners as well as intellectual damages in these matters.

b) There is always a allowance for manners as well as intellectual damages in these matters.

c) There is no allowance for manners as well as intellectual these matters. damages in

d) There is a definite allowance for manners as well as intellectual damages in these matters.

Answer:-c) There is no allowance for manners as well as intellectual these matters.

Radha invites my family members on my birthday for celebration. (Choose correct alternative to frame a Wh question to get the underlined answer.)

a) When Radha invited my family members for celebration? 

b) When Radha invite my family members for celebration?

c) When do Radha invite my family members for celebration? 

d) When does Radha invite my family members for celebration ?

Answer:- b) When does Radha invite my family members for celebration ?

B2 Spot the error.

Success can be achieve with hard work only.

Answer:- Success can be achieved with hard work only. 

2. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

Some people can just never wake up early. They munch their breakfast on the way to work. They have excuses ready when they reach office late. They miss trains on a regular basis. They have never seen a sunrise or met the milkman. Until a loved one turned over a new leaf recently, she was one such late riser. Try as she might, she couldn't help pressing the snooze button a hundred times before she finally got up. She felt terrible about this tendency but there was nothing she could do about it. Come morning, she would just not be able to shrug off the desire to sleep a while more. Only when divine intervention answered her prayers recently was, she able to join the early birds' club. Another relative has no plans of joining this league though. She is rather unabashed waking up past noon on a daily basis. To be fair, her husband is a media personality who typically arrives home from work past midnight. That does indeed give them sufficient justification to stay longer in slumberland each morning. This practice does lead to certain oddities though. He goes for his morning walk at 1p.m., heatwaves and appalled onlookers not with standing. They once returned from a night out only to meet the neighbour's son who was off on an early morning jog! Early risers clearly have the edge in life. By the time most of us wake up, they have been through their morning rituals, enjoyed their walk, had their tea and read the daily news. They're also likely to have made long distance calls before dawn to those similarly inclined. Thus, by the time sun warms up they're likely to have discussed all varieties of 'men, matters and affairs' with a dozen people.

A1. Complete the following sentence choosing the correct alternatives. 

 i) He goes for a morning walk at 1 p. m., because ....... 

a) He arrives from work past midnight.

b) He has to stay in bed for a longer time till late morning.

c) He has a special plan for early morning. 

d) He does not to like to join early bird's club.

Answer:-

a) He arrives from work past midnight.

b) He has to stay in bed for a longer time till late morning.

A2. Complete the following web.

Effects of rising late

Answer:- Following are the effects of rising late 

• They munch their breakfast on their way. 
• They have excuses ready when they reach office late. 
• They miss trains on regular basis. 
• They have never seen the sunrise or met a milkman. 

A3. Early risers have the edge in life. Explain.

Answer:-Early risers have the edge in life because 

• By the time most of us wake up they have been through their morning rituals 
• Enjoyed their work 
• Had their tea and read the daily news. 

 A4. State two benefits about early rising people.

Answer: Benefits of early riser

• Reach office in time. 
• Do their daily chores properly 
• Spend quality time with family and friends 
• Enjoy their work. 

AS . Language study. (Do as directed.)

1) She felt terrible about this tendency but there was nothing she could do about it.

(Choose the correct option to rewrite the given sentence using 'Although)

a) Although she fill terrible about this tendency, there was nothing she could do about it.

b) Although she felt terrible about this tendency, there was nothingshe could do about it. 

c) Although she felt terrible about this tendency but there was nothingshe could do about it.

 d) Although she felt terrible about this tendency, there was nothing she can do about it.

Answer:-b) Although she felt terrible about this tendency, there was nothingshe could do about it. 

2) They have never seen a sunrise or met the milkman.

(Choose the correct option to rewrite the given sentence using'neither....nor')

a) They neither have seen a sunrise or met the milkman.

 b) They have seen neigher a sunrise nor a milkman.

c) They have neigher seen a sunrise nor met the milkman.

 d) Neigher have they seen a sunrise nor a milkman.

Answer:-c) They have neigher seen a sunrise nor met the milkman.

A6. Find out similar meaning words from the extract for the following words.

a) Clarification

b) Strange things

c) Sleep

d) Dimisss

Answer:-

a) Clarification= excuse 

b) Strange things = terrible 

c) Sleep= slumber /snooze 

d) Dimisss=

B) Summary writing.

Write the summary of the above extract with a suitable title with the help of given points/hints. (Late risers... problems... early risers... at an advantage) 3

Answer:- 

C) Mind Mapping.

You and your family are thinking to visit a hill station during this summer. Prepare a Mind Mapping frame for it with the help of the following points. Place to visit, Mode of Transpot, Accommodations, stuff to carry with you and anything that comes in your mind related to it.

Answer:- 

Section B

Poetry

(Poetry and Appreciation)

3. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

When I had money, money, O!

I knew no joy till I went poor,

For many a false man as a friend

Came knocking all day at my door.

Then felt I like a child that holds

A trumpet that he must not blow

Because a man is dead I dared

Not speak to let this false world know.

Much have I thought of life, and seen How poor men's hearts are ever light; And how their wives do hum like bees About their work from morn till night. So, when I hear these poor ones laugh, Poor men, think I, need not go up

And see the rich ones coldly frown

So much as rich men should come down.

When I had money, money, Ol My many friends proved all untrue, But now I have no money, Of My friends are real, though very few.

A1. State whether the following sentences are true or false and rewrite In the past 

i)poet had many friends but no real friend.

ii)Poet feels like a child who can blow the trumpet which he held as he pleases. iii)According to the poet poor people not need to be rich, but much rich people must be poor

Iv)When poet become poor, he had many real friends.

Answer:- 

True

True 

False 

True 

A2. Give reasons.

1) Friends came knocking all day at the poet's door.

Answer:- when the poet was rich he had many friends. They were being friendly because he had money. 

1) Poor man's wife hum like bees.

Answer:- poor men have no worries. So their wives are busy and don't have the time to wish for fancy things or gossip. So happy man have a happy busy wife. 

A3. Personal response.

"Money can not purchase happiness and contentment. Explain

Answer:- Yes money can not purchase happiness and contentment because happiness is in the mind.If the  person is satisfied with what he have ,it is real happiness. 

A4 Poetic device.

Find put and explain the figure of speech of the following line-

And how their wives do hum like bees."

Answer:-

 Onomatopoeia

The word 'hum' imatitate the humming of bees.

AS. Creativity:

Compose four to six lines on 'friendship".

Answer:- 

B) Appreciation:

Write the poetic appreciation of the extract given below.

Weavers, weaving at break of day, Why do you weave a garment so gay?......

Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,

We weave the robes of a new-born child.

Weavers, weaving at fall of night, Why do you weave a garment so bright?........

Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green, We weave the marriage-veils of a queen.

Weavers, weaving solemn and still, What do you weave in the moonlight chill.......

White as a feather and white as a cloud, We weave a dead man's funeral shroud

About the poem/poet and the title.

The theme.

Poetic style.

The language/ poetic devices used in the poem.

Special features.

Message, Values, Morals in the poem.

Your opinion about the poem.

Std.12th

(6)

Sub. - English

Section-C-Writing skills

4. A) Complete the activities as per the instructions given below. Attempt any one of the following activities.

1) Drafting vitural message:

Rahul comes home from office and notice the door of his flat/ house is locked. As he had another key with him, he opens the door and enters the house. On table he finds a note left for him by his wife saying that she had to rush to the school of her son who has met with an accident. She also has written if any emergency is there. She will inform him immediately. She has also told him to take his evening snacks and he could heat it in microwave if he wants it hot, and has asked him to be very careful while handling microwave switch. Draft a message which Rahul's wife has left for him.

2) Statement of Purpose:

You love acting and want to hecome a T.V./Film actor/actress. You have taken Part in many drama competitions held in your college and have also acted in street plays. You are a good Bharat Natyam dancer too. You are fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil. Prepare a statement of purpose for admission to the film and Television Institute of India, Pune.

3) Group Discussion:

You and your three friends (Kiran, Sharad and Savita) are selected as a team for group discussion for a reputed T.V. Channel. The topic of discussion is 'Importance of English Literature'. Write suitable dialogues for each participant giving his/her opinion on the topic.

B) Attempt any one of the following activities.

1) E-mail writing:

'Your friend who has moved from his/her village to the city and is finding it difficult to cope with his/her changed life. Suggest ways for him/her to open himself/herself and to adjust in a better way to the situation.

Write an E-mail in about 100-150 words to your friend.

2) Report writing:

"Your Junior College rcently organised a 'Book Reading Competition on the occasion of the birthday of former president of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. You are the students representative.

Write a report of the competition in about 100-150 words.

Std.12th

(7)

Sub. - English

3) Drafting Interview Questions:

Imagine that you are going to interview a very well-known social worker. Prepare a set of 8 to 10 questions focussing on his/her social behaviour and the activities he/she carries out.

Name if the interviewee

(distinguished personality)

Area of success/Reputation

Date/Venue/Time

Duration of Interview

Questions:

1) Reaction after award.

2) Family background.

3) Instance to join social work.

4) Opinion about social service.

5) Changes expected in people.

6) Work priority.

7) Policy against corruption.

8) Dream for state.

9) Message.

C) Attempt any one of the following activities.

1) Speech Writing:

Imagine that you have taken part in an Elacution competition. You have selected the topic. 'Nature our Best Friend'. Draft a speech in about 100 to 150 words.

2) Compering:

Imagine, you are given an opportunity to compere a programme organized at your college with reference to 'Yoga Day'. As a compere, draft the whole programme script deciding the flow of the overall programme. You may take help of the following points.

1) Prayer/welcome song introduction.

2) Felicitation, yoga demonstration.

3) Poresidential address.

4) Vote of thanks.

5) Any other important point.

3) Expansion of Idea:

Expand the following idea in about 100 to 150 words with the help of the points given below.

'Books are our best friends.'

* Importance of reading books.

* Impacts of books on our mind.

* Role played in our life.

* Outcomes of reading books.

* Add your own points.

D) Attempt any one of the following activities.

1) Film Review: 

Write a review of a film that you have recently seen. Write your review based on any four points given below. * Name of the characters. (Main and supporting roles.)

* About the story / theme of the film.  Why did you like or not like the film.

* Special features / novels ideas.

Music/dance/songs/action/direction.

• Should others watch this film / would you recommed your to enjoy it / watch this film / why?

2) Blog Writing:

Write a blog in a proper format on 'Positivity in Life' with the help of

the points (100 to 150 words.)

• Problems in life. Accepting facts and flaws. * Reorganization / restart. Human instinct / fight back.

3) Appeal Writing:

Prepare an appeal on the topic 'Avoid Fast Food' with the help of following points. (100 to150 words.) Effects on body and mind.

* Attraction of fastfood items.

* Ways of avoiding fast food.

* Appeal to society.

Options for fast food.

SectionIV (Literary GENRE - NOVEL)

5 . A) Do the following as per the instructions.

A1. Match the following columns properly.

'A' column                        'B' column

1 ) The novel of         a) Mary Shelley

manners

2) Gothic novels     b) George Eliot

3) Psycholigical novel   c) Ann Radcliff

4) Novel based on     d)Frances Burney

science              

Answer:-

A' column                        'B' column

1 ) The novel of         d)Frances Burney

manners

2) Gothic novels      c) Ann Radcliff

3) Psycholigical novel  = George Eliot 

4) Novel based on     = Mary Shelley 

A2) State whether the following sentences are true or false.

1) Theme is the central idea in novel. 

2) Antagonist is the main character in the novel.

3) Plot and character are affected due to setting.

4) Conflict in the story creates dull and boring atmosphere.

Answer:- 

1) True 

2) False

3) True 

4) False 

B) Write the answers of the following questions in about 50 words. 4

 B1. Explain the role E. R. Braithwaite in chaning the mind of students in theextract 'To sir, With love.' 

2 B2. Explain how the setting of the extract contributes to the theme of the novel. 2

C) Write the answers of the following questions in about 50 words. 4

C1. Write the central idea of the given extract 'Around the World in Eighty Days.

C2. Describe the character sketch of Aouda from the view point of Fogg in the

extract 'Around the World in Eighty Days'. 2 

D) Write the answers of the following questions in about 50 words. 4

D1. You really are an automation, a calculating machine-elaborate the following lines in the light of the novel or extract 'The Sign of Four'.

D2. Describe the significance of Mary Morstans Visit to the Lyceum Theatre with Holmes and Dr. Watson in the extract 'The Sign of Four. 2

Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara First Semester Exam 2024-25

 Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara First Semester Exam

 2024-25

Std: XI         Marks 50        Sub - English  

               Section I Prose

(Reading for comprehension, Language study, Summary)

A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

Meg went back to toast her feet and read "Ivanhoe", and Jo began to dig paths with great energy. The snow was Light, and with her broom she soon swept a path all round the garden, for Beth to walk in when the sun came out and invalid dolls needed air. Now, the garden separated the marches' house from that of Mr. Laurence. Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still countrylike, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets. A low hedge parted the two estates. On one side was an old, brown house, looking rather bare and shabby, robbed of the vines that in summer covered its walls and the flowers, which then surrounded it. On the other side was a stately stone mansion, plainly betokening every sort of comfort and luxury, from the big coach house and well-kept grounds to the conservatory and the glimpses of lovely things one caught between the rich curtains. Yet it seemed a lonely, lifeless sort of house for no children frolicked on the lawn, on motherly face ever smiled at the windows, and few people went in and out, except the old gentlement and his grandson.

To Jo's lively fancy, this fine house seemed a kind of enchanted palace, full of splendors and delights which no one enjoyed. She had long wanted to behold these hidden glories and to know the Laurence boy, who looked as if he would like to be known, if he only knew how to begin. Since the party, she had been more eager than ever, and had planned many ways of making friends with him, but he had not been seen lately, and Jo began to think he had gone away, when she one day spied a brown face at an upper window, looking wistfully down into their garden where Beth and Amy were snow ballinng one another.

"That boy is suffering for society and fun," she said to herself. "His grandpa dose not know what's good for him, and keeps him shut up all alone. He needs a party of jolly boys to play with, or somebody young and lively, I've a great mind to go over and tell the old gentleman sol"

A1) State whether the following sentences are true or false and rewrite.

1) The wall separated the Marches' House from that of Mr. Laurence

Answer :- false

2) Beth and Amy were playing the game of snow ball throwing.

Answer :- True 

3) Laurie was isolated and needed to be socialized.

Answer :- True 

4) His grandpa knows what's good for him.

Answer :- False 

A2)  Complete the following web diagram; describing the atmosphere at home in Marchs' family.

House Of March

• Answer :-
•  Old brown house 
• Bare and shabby 
• Children played all around 
• Presence of mother 

A3)  "That boy is suffering for society and fun" (Guess the meaning of this statement)

Answer :- 

The line "that boy is suffering for society and fun " means

• He was alone .
• He did not have any company or friends 
• His life was boring .
• He did not have any fun.

A4) " Friends play an important role in our life" Do you agree? Justify your answer

Answer :- 

Yes, I agree that friends play an important role in our life  

• He makes us Happy in our difficult times. 
• Share joy with us.
• Cheer you when you were sad.
• Motivate you when you were fail.

A5 Do as directed

1) The boy is suffering for society and fun. (Choose the correct alternetive to identify the tense used in the given sentence)

a) Present perfect tence

c) Present Continuons Tense

b) Simple Present Tense

d) Past Continuous Tense

Answer :- c) Present Continuons Tense

2) Meg went back to toast her feet (Choose the correct from of rhetorical question from given options)

a) Is meg went back to toast her feet?

b) Don't Meg go back to toast her feet ?

c) Didn't Meg go back to toast her feet ?

d) Did Meg go back to toast her feet ?

Answer :- c) Didn't Meg go back to toast her feet ?

A6 Match the words given in 'A' with their meaning given in'B' 

'A'                                             'B'

1) Sacque          a) Dirty

ii) Doze              b) Short jacket and hood

iii) Wistfully     c) Sleep

iv) Shabby         d) Longingly

• Answer :- 
• Sacque = short jacket and hood 
• Doze = Sleep 
• Wistfully = Longingly 
• Shabby = Dirty 

1. B) Non Textual Grammar

1) Madhuri is ....Model and ...artist.

(Fill in the blanks with suitable articles)

• Answer :-  a,an

2) Students can meet me ........... 11:30 am............ Tuesday. (Fill in the blank with suitable Preposition)

• Answer :-  at , on

3) If it increases the sale of goods, industry prospers.

(Choose the correct use of unless for the given sentences)

a) Unless it increases the sale of goods industriy prospers

b) Unless it increses the sale of good, industry does not prospers

c) Unless it does not increses the sale of goods, Industry propers

• Answer :- b) Unless it increses the sale of good, industry does not prospers

2. A) Read the first activitiy. Read the extract and then do all the activities.

Most people over a certain age will have discovered relaxing qualities of music. But slower music has tangible medical benefits too, researchers have found. Beethoven's slower symphonies were found to reduce the blood circulation, including a state of physical calm which may have benefits for stroke and heart attack victims. The effect was so dramatic that scientists believe music could be used instead of drugs in some cases to reduce heart rate and blood pressure. It might come as little surprise that fast, loud music had the opposite effect. But that does not mean that all modern music should carry a health warning.

It was tempo rather than style which had the most marked effect on cardiovascular activity. Faster music and more complex

rhythms speeded up breathing and blood circulation. Irrespective of style, with fast classical and techno music having the same impact. Similarly, slower or more meditative music had the opposite effect with raga creating the largest fall in heart rate. The study also found that passive listening to music induces varying levels of arousal, depending on the tempo. While calm is induced by slower rhythms or pauses in the music.

A1 Complete

1) Give Effects of louder Music.

Answer :-

1. It affects on cardiovascular activity. 
2. It speeded up breathing. 
3. It speeded up blood circulation.
4. Creating the larger fall in heart rate. 

A2) Slower Music has tangible medical benefits explain. 

Answer :- Slower Music has tangible medical benefits researchers have found that slower symphonies were found to reduce the blood circulation which may be beneficial for stroke and heart attack victims. 

A3) Guess the intention of writing this extract.

Answer :-

I think following is the intention of writing this extract 

• For telling the importance of music. 
• Qualities of music. 
• Medical benefits of music. 
• Effects of music. 

 A4)  Hearing Music is good or bad. Give your opinion

Answer :- As per my opinion hearing music is good for our mind,body and soul. It creates good impact on our body and mind. 

A5 Do as Directed

1) Most people over a cartain age will have discovered relaxing quali ties of music (Rewrite using Modal auxiliary that denotes less certainty)

a) May b) Must c) Should d) Would

Answer :- may

2) Faster music and more complex ehythms speeded up breathing and circulation. (Choose the correct passive voice from the follow ing alternative)

a) Breathing and circulation speeded up Faster music and more complex rhythms.

b) Breathing and circulation were speeded up by faster music and more complex rhythms.

c) Breathing and circulation was speeded up by faster music and more complex rhythms.

d) Faster music and more complex rhythms had been speeded up by breathing and circulation.

Answer :-b) Breathing and circulation were speeded up by faster music and more complex rhythms.

A6 Write Four words from the extract that are related to medical field.

Answer :-

Symphonies

Rhythms 

classical

techno music 

B) Summary Writing

Write a brief summary of the above extract with the help of the points given below suggest a suitable title for it.

Benefits of music

effects of faster

music

effects of slower music etc.

Section II Poetry

3. Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

Sitting in a porch way cool, Sunlight, I see, Dying fast, Twilight hastens on to rule Working hours have well-nigh past. Shadows run across the lands: But a sower lingers still,

Old, in rags, he patient stands. Looking on, I feel a thrill Black and high, his silhouette Dominates the furrows deep!

Now to sow the tesk is set.

Soon shall come a time to reap. Marches he along the plain To and fro, and scatters wide From his hands the precous grain; Muse i, as I see him stride. Darkness deepens. Fades the light. Now his gestures to mine eyes Are august; and strange; his hight seems to touch the starry skies

A1)State whether the following statements are True or False.

i) The poet abserves the sower sittiing in the garden.

ii)The sower marches to and fro to scatters the precious grain far and wide.

iii) sower's actions seem august to the poet.

iv) The sower's hight is actually touching the starry skies.

Answer :-

i) false 

ii) True 

iii) True 

 iv) false 

A2)The word 'Marches' suggests.

Answer :- The word 'marches ' suggests  that farmers or sower is the incharge of the place and control the activities that take place there. He also knows what has to be done.

A3)Give any four problems of the farmers in your area.

Answer :- following are the problems faced by farmers of my area

• Problem of proper electricity 
• Problem of capital.
• Climate change. 
• Inadequate knowledge of advanced technology. 

A4)Pick out two examples of alliteration from the extract and write down.

Answer :-

1. Seems to touch the starry skies. 

2.soon shall come a time to reap. 

Section III Writing Skills

4. A) Complete the activities as per the instructions given below.

i) Letter Writing.

Write a letter of application to the principal requesting him to issue a duplicate copy of Leaving Certificate. Use the following informantion. Applicant: XYZ college, KBP Junior college Pune

Class XI, Division- A, Register No, 10011

Reason: Qulified for Bank clerical exam, have to submit the document

ii) E-mail Writing

Write an E-mail to the muncipal commissioner requesting take urgent action against bad condition of roads.

E-mail Address: muncipal@yahoomail.com

--OR--

Give condition of roads. Expect quick action.

B) Complete the activities as per the instructions given below.

i) Expansion of Idea

Expand the idea innerent in the following proverbs "As you Sow shall you reap".

Use the following points:

Explain the proverb, Give examples, Give message given in the proverb, Your opinion about the proverb.

--OR--

ii) Blog Writing

Write a blog in a proper format on 'Cycling A better way to commute in about 100 to 150, with the help of following points.

i) Cheap way of transportation

1) Beneficial to health

Energy saver

iv) Pollution free

Section IV Drama

5. Complete the activities given below as per the instruction.

A) Rewrite the sentences choosing the correct alternative

1)..................... is a composition in verse or prose to be acted on the stage.

a) Novel

b) Poetry

c) Prose

d) Drama

Answer :- Drama

2) Monologue is

a) Speaking to oneself

b) Speaking to audiance

c) Speaking to the fellow character

d) A Speech

Answer :- Speaking to oneself

B) Match The information

'A'                                      'B'

i) Comedy   a) Remains the same                                         throughout the story

ii) Tragedy   b) Develops Through the                               experiences and evolves as                           a    dramatic persons

iii) Round character c) Is a story with                                                   happy ending

iv) Flat Character    d) Is a story with the                                        happy ending

Answer :-A'                                      'B'

i) Comedy         =          happy ending

ii) Tragedy= d) Is a story with the                                        sad ending

  

iii) Round character = b) Develops Through the                               experiences and evolves as                           a    dramatic persons

iv) Flat Character    a) Remains the same                                         throughout the story

                              

Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara Std-XII First Semester Examination 2024-25

 Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara

Std-XII

First Semester Examination 2024-25

Marks - 50                   Sub - English

Section- I Prose

(Reading for Comprehension, Language study, Summary)

1. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

He had left his village without any previous thought or plan. If he had continued there he would have carried on the work of his forefathers namely, tilling the land. living, marrying, and ripening in his cornfield and ancestral home. But that was not to be. He had to leave home without telling anyone, and he could not rest till he left it behind a couple of hundred miles. To a villager it is a great deal, as if an ocean flowed between.

He had a working analysis of mankind's troubles: marriage, money, and the tangles of human ties. Long practice had sharpened his perception. Within five minutes understood what was wrong. He charged three pies per question, never opened his mouth till the other had spoken for at least ten minutes, which provided him enough stuff for a dozen answers and advices. When he told the person before him, gazing at his palm, "In many ways you are not getting the fullest results for your efforts," nine out of ten were disposed to agree with him. Or he questioned "Is there any woman in your fam- ily, maybe even a distant relative who is not well disposed towards you?" Or he gave an analysis of character: "Most of your troubles are due to your nature. How can you be otherwise with Saturn where he is? You have an impetuous nature and a rough exterior." This endeared him to their hearts immediately, for even the mildest of us loves to think that he has a forbidding exterior.

The nuts vendor blew out his flare and rose to go home. This was a signal for the astrologer to bundle up too, since it left him in darkness except for a little shaft of green light which strayed in from somewhere and touched the ground before him. He picked up his cowrie shells and paraphernalia and was putting them back into his bag when the green shaft of light was blotted out. He looked up and saw a man standing before him.

A1. Choose two sentences from the following that describes the gist of the extract.

a) The astrologer was efficient in his job.

b) The astrologer travelled a long distance.

c) The astrologer charged very less for giving his opinion.

d) The astrologer was a good listener and that helped him to read the minds of his customers

Answer :- 

b) The astrologer travelled a long distance.

d) The astrologer was a good listener and that helped him to read the minds of his customers

A2.Complete the following:

i) The nuts vendor ..........

ii)He picked up ......

iii)he had continued there

 iv) within five minutes

Answer :- 

i) The nuts vendor blew out his flare and rose to go home.

ii)He picked up his cowrie shells and paraphernalia and was putting them back into his bag. 

iii)he had continued there he would have carried on the work of his forefathers namely tilling the land , living, marrying and ripening in his cornfield.

 iv) within five minutes understood what was wrong. 

A3.Give reason.

"The astrologer never opened his mouth till the other had spoken for at least ten minutes. Give reasons behind his act.

Answer :-

 i) He was good at reading people. 

ii) He obtained information from their talk.

iii) He could understand their problems. 

iv) He could analyse their character. 

A4. Do you believe in astrology ? justify your answer.

Answer :- No I don’t believe in astrology  because believing in astrology is one type of superstitions.

A5.Do as directed:

i) He could not rest till he left it behind a couple of hundred miles.

(Choose the correct able to form of the sentence from the options given below.)

a) He is not able to rest till he left it behind e couple of hundred miles.

b) He was not able to rest till he left it behind a couple of hundred miles.

c) He has not been able to rest till he left it behind a couple of hundred miles

d) He will not able to rest till he left it behind a couple of hundred miles.

Answer :- b) He was not able to rest till he left it behind a couple of hundred miles.

ii) The nuts vendor blew out his flare and rose to go home.

(Choose the correct simple sentence form of the sentence from the options given below.)

a) The nuts vendor blowing out his flare, rose to go home.

b) Blowing out his flare the nuts vendor to rose to go home.

c) Blowing out his flare, the nuts vender rose to go home.

d) Blowing out his flare and the nuts i vendor rose to home.

Answer :- c) Blowing out his flare, the nuts vender rose to go home.

A6.Vocabulary:

Find words from the extract which meas

1) inherited from an ancestor. = Ancestral 

2) material.= paraphernalia 

3) members of past generations. = forefathers 

4) impulsive. = impetuous 

B) Language study.

Do as directed

1) Netra is always interested in school excursions.

(Choose the correct Rhetorical question form of the sentence from the given options)

1) Hasn't Netra always been interested in school excursions?

1) Is Netra always interested in school excursions ?

iii) Was Netra always interested in school excursions?

iv) Isn't Netra always interested in school excursions?

Answer :-iv) Isn't Netra always interested in school excursions?

2) They all stood around and looked at him.

(Choose the correct alternative to write it with 'not only - but also.)

i) They all not only stood around but also looked at him.

ii) They all stood not only around but also looked at him.

iii) Not only they all stood around but also looked at him.

iv) They all stood not around only but also looked at him.

Answer :-i) They all not only stood around but also looked at him.

3) Spot the error and rewrite the correct sentence.

1) Summers in Delhi are extreme hot. 

Answer :-1) Summers in Delhi are extremely  hot.

2. A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below. The nests of parrots were neatly crafted holes in the trunks of palm trees. I continued to wonder how they made these holes on the hard trunks until I saw the patient work of the woodpeckers. They were the carpenters and their long, sharp and strong beaks, chisels. They make the holes (in search of worms inside the weak spots of the trunks) and the parrots occupy them. If I heard the sound tak, tak, tak, I knew it was a woodpecker chiselling a hard trunk. I would go after him. It seems that the woodpecker is the only bird which can walk perpendicularly on the tree trunks! How beautiful the sight was! Its strong legs, red crest, the dark red stripe on the face and black beak and the tak, tak, tak sound used to captivate me.

One of the coconut trees near the pond was thunderstruck. It was a headless trunk for a long time and there were at least three parrot nests on its top. I have seen many parrots entering the holes and coming out to bring food to their little ones. One day, I saw the tree was being cut. I rushed to the site and begged the tree cutters to spare the trunk as it was the home of many a parrot. But I was laughed at and the tree fell with a great thud. I ran to the top end to see two just hatched chicks thrown out of their nest and smashed to death. I looked into all the nests and saw smashed eggs in two of them and one little chick in the other one. Fortunately, the little one survived the fall. I brought it home. The chick can be identified as a parrot only by the shape and colour of its beak. No feathers had come out. I carefully fed it with milk and within two weeks it began to eat bananas; and two months later, it started to fly and I let him fly away. But he wouldn't fly long. He used to linger on the coconut trees in our compound and when I reached home from school, he would fly down and land on my head!

I would show him my finger and he would jump on to it from my head and drink the milk I offered him in a little plate. By putting the sharp end of the upper beak stationary in the plate, he would drink the milk by moving his tongue and lower beak to and fro. Then he would fly on to my shoulder and eat paddy from my palm. He put each grain between his upper and lower beaks and deftly removed the chaff, pressing the lower beak against the upper beak; and swallowed the rice. After filling his little stomach he would go into his cage and sleep putting his head inside his right wing. I would close the cage and put it near my pillow. At 6 sharp in the morning, he would start to be restless and the moment I opened the cage, he would fly on to my head and from there to my hand and then would drink some milk in haste and fly away like an arrow.

A1. Read the following statements and pick out the correct statements:

a) The writer didn't care for the little chick.

b) The writer begged the tree-cutter to spare the trunk of coconut tree.

c) The nests of parrots were neatly crafted by the woodpecker.

d) The parrot swallowed rice without removing the chaff.

Answer :-

 False 

True 

True 

False 

A2.Complete the flowchart which shows the activities done by the writer to bring the chicks at home.

The writer saw a tree was being cut

Answer :-

The writer saw a tree was being cut

Writer begged the tree-cutter to spare the trunk 

Writer was laughed at and the tree fell with a great thud. 

Writer brought little chick to his home. 

A3.Describe the daily routine of the parrot after getting up early in the morning.

Answer :- After getting up early in the morning writer opened the cage and parrot would fly on his head

A4.Birds should be protected, but not caged. Explain.

Answer :- Yes birds should be protected but only in natural  habitat so that they can experience the freedom of life. Caged birds are like prisoners. 

A5. Do as directed:

1) After filling his stomach he would go into his cage.

(Choose the correct option from the following which shows correct transformation of above sentence by using 'used to')

1) After filling his stomach be used to go into his cage.

i) After filling his stomach he used to went into his cage.

iii) After going into cage he used to fill his stomach.

iv) After filling his stomach used to he would go into his cage.

Answer :- 1) After filling his stomach he used to go into his cage.

2) I saw the patient work of woodpecker.

(Choose the correct alternative of 'Present Perfect tense as an answer rewrite.)

1) I seen the patient work of woodpecker. i) I had seen the patient work of woodpecker.

iii) I have seen the patient work of woodpecker.

iv) I am seeing the patient work of woodpecker.

Answer :- iii) I have seen the patient work of woodpecker.

A6. Make meaningful sentences of your own by using the given words. 2

1) linger

 Oxford Languages

Answer :-"we are thankful that she didn't linger on and suffer"

ii) restless

Answer :-"she's restless because of her worries about her daughter"

B) Summary Writing:

Write a 'summary' of the above extract by using the following points.

* Writer's observation of woodpecker the tree cutting incident- care for the chick routine of the parrot-

Section-II Poetry

3. Read the extract and complete the activities given below: 8

All things were joyful on that day; The sea-birds scream'd as they wheel'd round, And there was joyance in their sound.

The buoy of the Inchcape Bell was seen

Adarker speck on the ocean green, Sir Rolph the Rover, walk'd his deck, And he fix'd his eye on the darker speck.

He felt the cheering power of spring, It made him whistle, it made him sing; His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness.

His eye was on the Inchcape float; Quoth he, "My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape Rock,

And I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok. The boat is lower'd, the boatmen row.

And to the Inchcape Rock they go: Sir Ralph bent over from the boat, And he cut the Bell from the Inchcape float.

A1. Pick out there two lines from the extract that show the joyful atmosphere. 

Answer :- Following lines show the joyful atmosphere 

All things were joyful on that day; The sea-birds scream'd as they wheel'd round, And there was joyance in their sound.

A2.Explain:

Answer :-

"I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok."

Explain the above line from the extract.

Answer :- The Rover was in the joyful mood but he wanted to trouble Abbot by cutting the Inchcape Bell he placed. Ralph decided to undo his good work. 

A3. What do you learn from the actions of the good and the evil from the extract ?

Answer :- I learned that " as you sow so shall you reap " from good as well as evil work from the extract. 

Answer :-

A4. Name and explain the figure of speech in the following line: 2

"The Sun in the heaven was shining gay."

Answer :- It is an example of imagery 

The Sun shown bright and made the morning cheerful. 

Or

Metaphor 

Section III - Writing Skills

4. A) Complete the activities as per the instruction given below:

1) E-mail Writing:

Draft an email in a proper format to be sent to a famous and distinguished personality in order to invite him/her for the 'Prize Distribution' programme organized by the college authorities to be held at your junior college campus. Give complete programme schedule and details about the event.

--OR--

2) Appeal:

Your college has organised a Blood Donation Camp in connection with Republic Day, Youngsters are expected to donate blood. Prepare an appeal with the help of the following points.

An effective slogan

Use a logo or a picture

Blood donation - worthy cause

No loss of strength

Most Precious act. Time, venue and date

B) Speech:

Points:

I) As a president of a laughter club you are asked to render a speech on the advantages of laughing. Prepare a speech with the help of the following

Describe the advantages of laughing

Give day to day examples

Give some scientific reasons

--OR--

Expand the following idea with the help of the points given below

II) Expansion of Idea:

(100 to 150 words):

'The wise man has long ears and a short tongue!'

- Listening adds to your knowledge

- Speaking to the points catches attention.

- One should be a good listener

Section IV (Litarary Gener-Novel)

5. Complete the activities as per the instructions given below:

I) Match the column 'A' with 'B'.

Column A                    Column B

1) Virgil                       d) Ecologues

2 Immigrant author  c) Kazual Ishigura

3 John Bunyan     b) The Pilgrim's                                                      progress

iv) Marry shelley        a) Frankenstein

II) Choose the correct alternatives and rewrite the Sentences:

a)............ do not have any trace of the ancient classical heritage.

i) Drama and novel

ii) Poem and novel

iii) The Periodical Essay and novel

b) The novel as a litavary genre has a history of about ............ years.

1) One thousand years

Two thousand years

iii) Three Thousand years

c) ...............has been described as the world's first novel.

i) Tale of Genji

ii) Morte De Authur

iii) The canterbury Tales

d) The word 'epistolary derives from the ............. word.

i) Spanish

i) Latin

ii) Italian