Half Yearly Exam -2020

3 Hours Class -12 English MM-100Marks

Long Answer Type Question

Q.1 Explanation with reference to the context- this beautiful child born in squalor and poverty
uneducated in both grammar and manners- had given me a glimpse of the worm soul of India.

Short Answer type question-

Q.2 (a) who was these children, selling basket?

(b) Why did millions of people leave Pakistan for India?

Q.3 Fill in the Blanks-

(a) She pleaded and begged in tone the would………any heat. (Hurt, wring,please, entertain)

(b) The Childern………….. Baskets were sons and daughter of these refugees ( Selling, Buying, seeing,
colouring)

(c) He played ……… me openly ( without, after,with,in front of)

(d) Mother the ………have come. (weeks, season, festival, holidays)

(e) Makhan rushed at Phatik and scratched his …….. and beat him and kicked him.( face, case, chase,
lace)

Q.4 Explanation with reference to the context.

This man is free from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fail; Lord of himself, though not of
lands; And having nothing, he hath all.

Q.5 Write down the central Idea of any one-

(a) Character of Happy life (b) True Beauty

Q.6 Short Answer Type Question-

(a) Why did Shanku Steel the Watch?

(b) What did the child react when he realized that he was lost?

Q.7 Give the Definition of any two with example –

(a) Personification (b) Metaphor (c) Simile

Q.8 Change the form (a) He said “ You must work hard.” (Indirect Speech)

(B) He said that he had heard that news the previous day. (Direct Speech)

(C) By whom was this picture made. (Active Voice)

(D) Tulisidas wrote the Ramayan. ( Passive Voice)

(E) They did not find the road very rough. (Affirmative)

Q.9 (a) Idioms and Phrase- A fool’s Paradise, At a stone’s throw, Black and White

(b) Give synonyms- Defend, Hardship, Idle, Wisdom

(c) Give Antonyms- Ancient, Bold, Dynamic, Victory

Q.10 Write a letter to your father to ask Rs 500 for book purchase during Exam .

Q11. Write an essay- (a) Corona Virus: A Global Epidemic or (b) Narendra Modi: A Global Leader