12th Core English Model set of 2020
XA- ENA- (COPM.) – A (CORE)
Science/Commerce/
Arts
2001 (xii)
No. of Questions: 12] [ No. of Printed Pages
: 8
2020
ENGLISH (CORE)
(Compulsory)
Full Marls – 100
Pass Marks – 33
Time – 3 Hours
Candidates are required to give their answers in
their
Own words as far as practicable.
Figures in the right margin indicate full marks.
All questions are compulsory.
General Instructions:
i)
This questions paper contains 12 (Twelve) questions altogether in 3 (three)
sections.
ii)
All the answers must be correctly numbered as in the question paper.
iii)
All the parts of a question must be written together.
iv)
Strictly adhere to the word limit, if given in each question.
v)
Answers the questions must be in the context of the instructions given therein
XA- ENA- (COPM.) – A (CORE) 2001 (xii)
Science/Commerce/
Arts
Section
– A
(Reading
Comprehensive and Note Making)
(Marks: 20)
1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions
that follow:
Residents
of the Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, where Ustad Bismillah Khan was born on March 21,
1916, were in shock. His cousin 94 years old Mohd Idrish had tears in his eyes.
Shubhan Khan, the care-taker of Bismillah’s land, recalled “Whenever in
Dumraon, he would give rupees five to the girls of the locality.”
He
was very keen to play Shehnai again in the local Bihariji’s Temple where he had
started playing Shahnai with his father, Bachi Khan, at the age of six. His
original name was Quamaruddin and became Bismillah only after he became famous
as a Shahnai player in Varanasi.
His
father was a official Shehnai palyer of Keshav Prasad Singh, the Maharaja of
erstwhile Dumraon estate, Bismillah used to accompany him. For Bismillah Khan,
the connection to music began at very early age. By his teens, he had already
become a master of the Shehnai .On the day India gained freedom, Bismillah
Khan, then a sprightly 31 years old, had the rare honour of playing from Red
Fort. But Bismillah Khan, won’t just be remembered from elevating the Shehnai
from an instrument heard only in wedding and naubatkhanas to one that was
appreciate in concert halls across the world. His life was a testimony to the
plurality that is India. A practicing Muslim, he would take a daily dip in the
Ganga in his younger days after a bout of kusti in Benai Baga Akhada. Every
morning, Bismillah Khan would do riyaaz at the Balaji Temple on the banks of
the river. Even during his hours in a Varanasi hospital, music didn’t desert
Bismillah Khan. A few hours before he passed away on Monday the Shehnai wizard
hummed a thumri to show that he was feeling better. This was typical of a man
for whom life revolved around music.
Throughout
his life he abided by the principle that all religions are one. What marked
Bismillah Khan was his simplicity and disregards for the richest that come with
musical fame. Till the very end, he used a cycle rickshaw to travel around
Varanasi. But the pressure of providing for some 60 family members took its
toll during his later years.
Answer the following question
a)
what would Bismillah Khan do whenever he was in Dumraon? 2
b)
When and how did he come to be known as Bismillah? 2
c)
What kind of man was Bismillah Khan? 2
d)
How can you say that music was Bismillah Khan’s soul? 2
e)
What unusual thing did he do on the day he passed away? 2
f) Why were the residents of the Bhirung Raut Ki
Gali in shock? 2
2.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Whether work should be placed among the
cause of happiness or among the cause of unhappiness may perhaps be regarded as
a doubtful question. There is certainly much work which is exceedingly irksome
and an excess of work is always very painful. However, work is not to most
people less painful than idleness. There are in work all grades, from mere
relief to tedium up to the profoundest delights, according to the nature of the
work and the abilities of the worker.
Most
of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from
drudgery. At times they may find relief
by hunting big game in Africa or by flying round the world, but the number of
such sensations is limited, especially after youth is past. Accordingly, the
more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they were poor.
Work
therefore is desirable, first and foremost as a preventive of boredom, for the
boredom that a man feels when he doing something out of compulsion; though
uninteresting work is as boring as having nothing to do. With this advantage of
work, another is associated, namely that it makes holidays much more delicious
when they come. Provided a man doesn’t have to work so hard as to impair his
vigour, he is likely to find for more zest in his free time that an idle man
could possibly find.
The
second advantage of most paid work and some unpaid work is that it gives
chances of success and opportunities for ambition. In most work, success is
measured by income and while our capitalistic society continues, this is
inevitable. However dull work may
be,
it becomes bearable if it is a means of building up a reputation. Continuity of
propose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness and that comes chiefly
through work.
a) On the basis of your reading the above
passage, make notes on it using headings and sub-headings. Use recognizable
abbreviations, wherever necessary. 5
b)
Write a summary of the above passage in about 80 words.
3
Science/Commerce/ Arts
Section
– B
(Advanced
Writing Skills)
(Marks: 35)
3. You are Sikha, student of Ram Krishna Women
College, Giridih. Your college is
going to organize “A Yoga Day” in the college field. Draft a notice
inviting the students to take part in it, not more than (50 words)
5
OR
You are Amit, manager of
State Bank Of India. You need an expert male English teacher for your children
to improve their writing and speaking skill in English. Draft an advertisement
in no more than 50 words to be published in The Times of India, Ranchi,
Jharkhand.
4. You are Sangita/Sachin recently attended a
marriage party of your friend. Write a report on the basis of your observation
to be published in The Times of India.
Words limit about 125 words)
10
OR
Recently you have celebrated Teacher’s Day of 5th
September. Prepare a report about the event to be published in the school
magazine (Word limit about 125 words)
5. Write a letter to the Editor of The Hindu,
Ranchi expressing your concern about the disadvantages of using Polythene bags
and its bad effect. 10
OR
Write a letter to the Branch Manager of State
Bank of India, Main Branch Bank More, Dhanbad in the reference of adding your
phone no. from your account. You are Arpana/Sameer.
6. Write an article on excess using of mobile
phone by the youngster and how does it affect their lives. (words limit 2oo
words) 10
OR
Write an article on how to stop reckless driving
that causes terrible road accidents. (words limit 200 words)
XA- ENA- (COPM.) – A (CORE) 2001 (xii)
Science/Commerce/ Arts
Section – c
(Literature)
(Marks: 45)
7. Read
the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
“Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last
Friday
morning, I saw my mother, beside me, doze,
open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a
corpse and realized with pain
that
she thought away,
a) Name the poem and
the poet. 2
b) Where was the poet going by driving her car? 1
c) What did the poet notice about her mother? 1
d) Why was the poet mother’s face looking like
that of a corpse? 0
OR
“The stunted unlucky heir
of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled
disease,
His lesson, from his desk. At back of
the dim class
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in
a dream,
Of squirrel’s game, in tree room, other than
this.”
a)
Who
is the ‘unlucky heir’? 2
b) What has the boy inherited? 1
c) Who is sitting at the back of the dim classroom? 1
8.
Answer any three of the following questions in about 35 words each: 2 x 3 = 6
a) Why is the future of these children ‘painted with fog’?
b) Why has mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
c) List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.
d) What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
9. Answer any five of the following questions in about 35 words
each: 2 x 5 = 10
a) What did Franz see the most surprising thing in the class that
day?
b) What misadventure had happened once with Douglas?
c) From where did the Peddler
get the ideas of the world being a rattrap?
d) Who was Rajkumar shukla?
e) Who was Kothamangalam Subbu and what was his role in Gemini studios?
f) What were dreams of Sohpie that she wanted in her life?
10. Answer the following question in about 150 words : 10
How does child labour destroy the life of
children and snatch their childhood.
OR
What was sharecropping? How did M. Gandhi play
an important role in Champaran movement?
11. Answer the following question in about 125 words:
7
What did Maharaja do to find required number of
tigers?
OR
Write the character sketch of Dr. Sadao?
12. Answer the following questions in about 35
words each: 2x4 = 8
a) Who is Charley? What does he
think about Grand central Station of New York?
b) Why is Antarctica important
for humankind?
c) Who is Jo? How does she
respond to her father’s storytelling?
d) Who were Mr. Lamb and Derry? How did they
become friend?
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