Half Yearly Examination- 2024

Class - 12
Subject – English
Section-B
Section- A (2) Write an article on any one of the following topics in
(1) Read the following passage carefully and answer the about 100-150 words. (4)
questions that follow: (5) (a) Child labour (b) Pollution in India
The real ornament of woman is her character, her (c) Health is wealth
Purity. Metal and stones can never be real Ornaments. (3) Write a letter to editor about frequent electricity
The name of woman like Sita and Damayanti has become breakdowns. (3)
sacred to us for their unsullied virtue, never for their or
Jewellery, if they wore any. My asking for you, your Write an application to the principal, requesting him
Jewellery has also a wider significance. Several sisters to grant you full concession in fee.
have told me that they feel all the better for getting rid of (4) Choose the correct option to answer the following
their Jewels. I have called this an act of merit in more questions: (6)
ways than one. No man or woman is entitled to the (a) The life history of a man written by himself
possession of wealth, unless he or she has given a fair
share of it to the poor and the helpless. It is a social and (i) Biography (ii) autobiography
religious obligation and has been called a sacrifice by the (iii) Novel (iv) None of these
Bhagavad Gita. He who does not offer this sacrifice has
(b) Phrase "Kith and kin';
been called a thief. The Gita has enumerated many forms
of sacrifice, but what greater sacrifice can there be than (i) Birth Parents (ii) Fake Friends
to serve the poor and the needy? For us, today, there can (iii) Friends (iv) Relatives
be no sacrifice higher than to forget the distinctions of
high and low and to realize the equality of all men. I also (c) The synonym of acute' is
wish to bring home to the women of India that real (i) Nice (ii) Accidental (ii) Severe (iv) curious
ornamentation lies not in loading the body with metal
(d) The antonym of Virtue' is
and stone, but in purifying the heart and developing the
beauty of soul. (i) Fraud (ii) crime (iii) Vice (iv) Wickedness

(i) What is the real ornament of 'woman'? (e) His legal……….is Mohan.
(ii) What thing has been called a sacrifice by the (i) heir (ii) hare (iii) hier (iv) hair
Bhagavad Gita? (5) (a) Change any one of the following in indirect speech
(iii) What is considered to be a greater sacrifice? (1)
(iv) Where does the real ornamentation lie? (i) He said to me, "where are you going today?"
(v) Which word, in the passage, is the opposite of
(ii) The Principal said to me," is your father well how?
“insignificance"?
(b) Change any one of the following sentences: (1) (9) Read the following stanzas and answer the questions
based on there: (5)
(i) He was too tired to work. (Complex sentence)
A thing of beauty is a joy forever it loveliness
(ii) Bihar is hotter than Assam. (Positive Degree)
increases, it will never Pass into nothingness; but will
(c) Change the following sentences into voice (2) keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet
dreams, and health, and quite breathing.
(i) Why does he write a letter? (Passive voice)
(i) Who has composed these lines ?
(ii) Let the child not be beaten (Active voice).
(ii) What is a joy forever?
(6) Translate the following passage in English - (3)
(iii) What will a thing of beauty provide us?
हम अपनी मातृभाषा से ेम करना चािहए। हमे दुसरी भाषा
का भी स मान करना चािहए। हम अं ेजी और िह दी के िव ान हो सकते (iv) What will happen with a thing of beauty?
है ले कन कालीदास और शे सिपयर नही बन सकते है। िव ाथ य को (v) What does the poet feel about a thing of beauty?
सदैव अ छी कताब का अ ययन करते रहना चािहए।
(10) Answer any two of the following question in about
Section D-Literature 40 words each. (4)
(7) Answer any two of the following in about 40 words (i) What was the third level? Where was it situated?
each: (4)
(ii) Who was the tiger king? What was the astrologer's
(i) What did Hamel say about the French language?
prediction?
(ii) Who was Mukesh? Where did he belong and what
(iii) How did the author reach Antarctica?
was his ambition?
(11) Answer any one of the following question in about
(iii) How deep was the pool? What was there inside the
80 word each. (3)
water? (i) How did Charley enter in the third leve?
(iv) What was the importance of garbage for children (ii) Why did the tiger King decide to marry?
in Seemapuri?
(12) Write the central Idea of any one of the following
(8) Answer any one of the following in about 80 words. poems. (3)
(3) (i) A Thing of Beauty (ii) My mother at Sixty Six
(i) How is Mukesh different from the other bangle
mate of Firozabad? (iii) Keeping Quiet

(ii) Describe Douglas's struggle at the pool? What