Rayat Shikshan Santha, Satara First Semester Examination 2022-23

 Rayat Shikshan Santha, Satara

 First Semester Examination

 2022-23

Marks-50                                 Std-XII

                      Sub-English

Instructions: 

All questions are compulsory. There may be internal options .

Answers are to be written in complete sentences. One word atawers or incomplete sentences will not be given credit .

Figures /diagrims Charts/ Tablete, should be drawn and presented completely with proper answers write as instructed

Use of colour per pencils etc is not allowed (Black pen allowed)

Section-1: Prose

(Reading for Comprehension, Language study, Summary)

1. Al Read the extract and complete the activities given below.

Banking, Finance and Trading With the Big Data analytics, the investment puter of the people can be studied New insights have enabled the banks and finance companies to come with suitable plans. Big Dats has enabled smooth functioning of these agencies And institutions Banking and finance sector is uning Big Data to predict and prevent cyber-crimes,card fraud detection, archival of audit trails, etc. By analyzing the past data of their customers and the data on previous brute force attacks banks can predict future attempts Big Data not only helps in predicting cyber crimes, but it also helps in handling issues related to missed-transactions and failures in net banking It can even predict possible spikes on servers so that banks can manage transactions accordingly

       The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is using Big Data tomonitor finan cial markets for possible illegal trades and suspicious activities. The SEC uning network analytics and natural language processors to identify possible frauds in the financial courts High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is an area where Big Data finds a lot of use today.

Here, Big Data algorithms are used to make trading decisions. Today, the majority of equity trading now takes place via data algorithms that increasingly take into account signals from social media networks and news websites to make, buy and sell decisions in split seconds.

 Al Complete the diagram

Use of Big Data for

Banking and finance sector

Ans:- 

1) Predict and prevent cyber-crimes ,Card fraud detection,Archival of audit trails. 

2) Bank can be predict future attempts of fraud by analyzing data. 

3) To monitor financial markets for possible illegal trades. 

4) Big Data algorithms are used to make trading decisions.

A2 Describe the use of Big Data for the secianties Exchange Commission. 

Ans:- The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)is using Big Data to monitor financial markets for possible illegal trades and suspicious activities. The SEC is using network analytics and natural language processors to identify possible frauds in the financial markets. 

 A3 Explain the importance of Big Data analytics for the banks and finance companies. 

Ans:- Big Data helps you in handling issues related to missed-transactions and failures in net banking. 

Big Data algorithms are used to make trading decisions and buy and sell decisions in split seconds. 

A4) Write any four benefits of social media.

Ans:- 

i) faster and easier communication

 ii) For exchanging study material.

 iii) for connecting to the world 

iv) For growing your business. 

A5 Lange Study:

1) Big Data has enabled smooth functioning of these agencies and institutions.

(Begin the sentence with 'smooth functioning of....)

Ans:- Smooth functioning of these agencies and institutions have been enabled by big Data. 

2) Here Big Data algorithms are used to make trading decisions.

(Rewrite using a gerund in place of the underlined word)

Ans:- Here Big Data algorithms are used  make making trading decisions.

A6) Write any four words related to banking from the extract

Ans:- transaction, financial, audit, customer 

BI) Language Study/Grammar Non-Textual Grammar 

Do as directed.

i) Use the correct articles and rewrite the sentence

Please give me ...bottle of water and..... ice cube. 

Ans:-Please give me a bottle of water and an ice cube. 

ii) As soon as the caption gave an order, the soldiers fired. 

[Choose the correct alternative to get No Sooner.......form of the given sentence)

a) No sooner the captain gave an order than the soldiers fired 

b) No sooner did the captain give an order than the soldiers fired.

C) No sooner does the captais give an order than the soldiers fired

d] No sooner has the captain given an order than the soldiers fired.

iii) You have narrated a very romantic book.

(Choose correct alternative to make the given sentence exclamatory)

a) What have you narrated a very romantic book! 

b] What book you have narrated a very romantic!

C) What a romantic book you have narrated!

d] What a romantic book you have narrate! 

Q2. A Read the extract and complete the activities given below:

One day I developed indigestion. After resisting my wife's entreaties for several weeks, I went casually to consult a friendly colleague. I expected a bottle of birth and an invitation to bridge. I received instead the shock of my life a sentence to six mothe complete rest in the country on a milk diet. had a gastric ulcer

The place of exile, chose after excruciating contention, was a small farmhouse near the village of Tarbert in the Scottish Highlands. Imagine a lonely white washed steading set on a rain-drenched loch amid ferocious mountains rising into grey mist, with long- horned cattle, like elders of the kirk, sterly munching thistles in the fore ground. That was Fine Farm Conceive of a harassed stranger in city clothes arriving with a pain in his middle and a box of peptonizing powders in his suitcase. That was I

Nothing is more agonizing to the active man than enforced idleness. A week of Fyne Farm drove me crazy. Debarred from all physical pursuits, I was rediced to feeding chickens and learning to greet the disapproving cattle by their Christian names:Casting aside desperately for something to do, I had a sudden ideu. For years, at the back of my mind, and pursed the vague illusion that I migh write. Often, indeed, in ubiguarded moments, I had remarked to my wife, "You know, I believe I could write a novel if I had time. "at which she would smile kindly across her knitting, murmur, "Do you dear? and tactfully lead me back to talk of Johnnie Smith's whooping cough.

Now, as stood on the shore of that desolate Highland loch raised my voice in surge of self-justification: "By Heavens! This is my opportunity Gastric ulcer or no gastric ulcer, I will write a novel." Before could change my mind I walked straight to the village and bought myself two penny exercise books.

Al Rewrite the following sentences and state whether they are True or False. 

a) The writer was not serious about his visit to the doctor.

True 

b) The writer found it amazing to feed the chickens and to greet the animals. 

False 

c) Though the writer wanted to write a novel, he was not fully prepared for it.

 True 

d) After much debate, the writer choose a city as the place for complete rest. 

False 

A2) Complete the following sentences giving suitable responses.

i) The writer was shocked for being advised a complete rest because......

Ans:- because he didn't expected long rest he only expected a bottle of bismuth and an invitation to bridge. 

ii) After a week on the Fype farm the writer felt crazy because.............

Ans:- because he was active man and now he was in idleness.He was doing job like feeding chickens and learning to greet the animals by their Christian names. 

A3 The writer was confident about writing a novel, point out expressions from the extract showing his confidence.

Ans:- Following expressions shows  writers confidence. 

i) I raised my voice in surge of self-justification. 

ii) this is my opportunity 

iii) gastric ulcer or no gastric ulcer, I will write a novel. 

A4 Write four words from the box which are nearest in the meaning of ward,

Optional, compulsory, aveedable, mandatory regired, pemeribed, voluntary preventable.

 "enforced"

Ans:- Compulsory, mandatory, prescribed, required 

A5 Have you ever been advised a complete rest by the doctor? Write about your feelings during the period of rest.

Ans:- yes once I was advised complete rest for one month by doctor.  At that time I was so bored. I was tired by sleeping in the same room for whole month. 

A6 Language Study. (Do as directed)

Choose the correct passive structure of the following senticoce

Texpected a bottle of bismuth and an invitation to bridge

Ans:-

a) A bottle of bismuth and an invitation to bridge was expected by me.

b] A bottle of bismuth and an invitation to bridge had been expected by me

c) A bottle of bismath and an invitation to bridge were expected by me.

d] A bottle of bismath and an invitation to bridge had expected by me

ii) Choose the correct simple present Tense for the following sentence from the given options

I walked straight to the village

a) I walks straight to the village

c] I walking straight to the village

b] I walk straight to the village

B) Summary

Write the summary of the above extract with a suitable title. Take help of the given points/hints

(indigestion..... consult a friendly colleague - a gastric ulcer- a small farmhouse-nature-

thought to write book)

Section-II: Poetry-(8 marks)

2. 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 tailing 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?

Al State whether the following statements are 'true' or 'flase"

il Poet asks the reader some probing questions.

True 

ii) He urges the reader to utilise their day in a good way.

True 

iii) He requests the readers not in wish people unnecessarily.

False 

v] He inspires that good behaviour makes our life happy and peaceful.

True 

A2 With the help of the lines given below make a list of the behavioural traits to be avoided related to the points given to you.

i) To the people who come across

Ans:- Do not speak them rudely 

To the friend who comes to meet you

Ans:- churlish and selfish 

A3 Write your own experience when you felt pleasant because of someone's kind behaviour.

Ans:- Once I was in Mumbai for NDA exam. I was late for exam. And not familiar with roads in Mumbai. At that time one army man helped me given me lift to exam center. 

A4 Write rhyming pairs and rhyme scheme of the second stanza.

Ans:- way

Today 

Through 

You 

Rhyming scheme   aa bb

Section III-Writing Skills (08)

4. A1)  Complete the activities as per the instructions given below,

1) E-mail Writing.

Write an e-mail to the editor of the newspaper to raise the complaint about

bad condition of roads. Use the points:

Request to publish the news

Real situation of roads

Give suggestions.

Write e-mail to: editor lokmat@xyz.com

OR

Appeal Writing.

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

points

Give programme

Make a persuasive

Venue and date

Contact information

BJ Complete the activities as per the instructions given below:

1] Speech Writing:

Prepare a speech on 'Be Ready for Competitive Exam" for the elocution contest

to be held in your college.

Use following points to develop your speech.

⚫ importance of competitive exams.

preparation techniques

future opportunities

career.

2) Expansion of Idea:

Expand the following idea by using the points

"Time and tide wait for none"

• Meaning of the proverb

*Importance of time

• Proper time management

Add your own points.

Section-IV (Literary Genre-Novel)

5. Al Complete the following statements.

i] The two types of conflicts that the plot may have are.

Ans:- internal and external conflicts 

ii] The word 'picareque is originated from

Ans:- Spanish word 'picaro'

The epistolary novel presents the narrative through.

Ans:- series of correspondence or other documents 

iv) In the eighteenth century middle class could get the time for reading and discussing the novels because

Ans:- the spread of the machines 

A2 Match the novelist and novel.

Novelist

1] Virgil=b] Ecologues

2] Malory=a) Morte De Arthur

3) Oroonoku=] Aphra Behn

4] Daniel Define=dj Robinson crusoe

To the friend who comes to meet you