UNIT TEST NO -1
SUB- ENGLISH Std.- 12th. Mark's -25
Q. 1 Read the following extract and answer the questions given below.
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An excited buzz broke out among the crowd. It sounded like a lot of fun.No one was usally allowed to enter the King special Garden. He had planted trees from all over the world in that garden and it was said to be filled with all kinds of beautiful and strange plants.
Right on time the next day everyone gathered at the gate of the garden.At the same time the king had told them the gards open the gates and handed out the sacks. Men ,women and children started roaming around the beautiful garden .They spotted juicy apples and plump mangoes hanging from trees .They pick these still they picked this till they saw ripe tpomegranates brusting with juice grapes and colourful flowers no one has seen before. people went about picking whatver they wished for and feeling their sacks with them.
But as they walked further into the garden it become wilder more like a forest and there they saw trees Madden with apples of golds mangoes of silver and flowers studded with gems and jewels!
Everyone emptied their sacks of the fruits they had collected earlier and started madly filling them up with this precious fruits and flowers. They all forgot that they had said they had more than enough for their needs at home greed took over their Minds and all they could think about was adding more and more valuable to their sacks. The fruits which they had picked earlier and had tested to be as sweet as nectar now lay in hips around the garden forgotten and left to rot.
1) what did the Guards do at the given time?
2) what did the people see as they walked further into the garden?
3) what did the people do when they saw the precious fruits and flowers?
4) do you like people from King Amrits Kingdom ?Why?
5) do as directed.
I) .......United Kingdom is .....island surrounded by the English Channel.
( use proper articles)
II) Pune city recorded 41.8 millimetre rain ....... the 3 hours between 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. ..... Saturday.
( use proper prepositions)
III) opening the gates the Guards handed out the sacks.
( make it compound sentence)
6) find any two
adjectives from the passage
Q.2 read the following extract and answer the questions given below. 4
If you do not get lowered in your own eyes .
while you Raise yourself in those of others
if you do not give into gossips and lies
Rather heed them not saying ,who bothers
you may be the person I am looking for
if you do not give into gossips and lies
Rather heed them not saying ,who bothers
you may be the person I am looking for
If you Crave not for praise when you win
and look not for sympathy while you lose
and look not for sympathy while you lose
If cheers let not your head toss or spin
And after a set-back you offer no excuse
you may be the person I am looking for .
you may be the person I am looking for .
1) what should you be cautious of when raising yourself in the eyes of others?
2) do you give excuses or blame others when you fail in some attempt? give your reasons?
3) pick out example of antithesis from the extract.
4) pick out the pairs of rhyming words and rhyme scheme from the extract.
Q.3 you intend to visit and interview popatrao Pawar the sarpanch of ideal village prepare a set of 8 questions to be asked for him.
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Q.3) write a letter to the sarpanch of your Gram Panchayat complaining about the irregular water supply in your area.
Q.4) write a tourist leaflet on any one of the historical place in the Maharashtra . 5
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Q.4) prepare a speech to be delivered on the occasion of teacher's day in your college.
........ Best of luck......
