CLASS XII

MID TERM EXAMINATION

ANSWER KEY
Reading Passage – 1
1. b. Huge and diversified
2. d only 3 Recent times pose more challenges to humans than before
3. b . There were no economic, political and social system
4. a . Humans started migrating and held goat-herds .
5. b. Emerged
6. d. The beginning of the labour issues and evolving of the traders and
merchants.
7. c . B,C,D,A
8. b. The stages of man’s development professionally and economically.(
history of mankind)
9. 4,1,2,3
10.d
Passage II

i. 3 and 4
ii. Economic development
iii. Image 2
iv. 2 and 4
v. Public institutions
vi. Absence of around 25% of teachers everyday
vii. Enrolled
viii. 3,2,4,1

III. Answer any four out of the five questions given, with reference to the context
below.
i. b
ii. c
iii. b
iv. d
v. d
IV Answer any six of the seven questions given, with reference to the
context below.
i. a
ii. d
iii. d
iv. Option 3
v. c
 vi. d
vii. c

V. Deep water
i. c
ii. a
iii. d
iv. a
v. a
VI Lost spring

i. a
ii. c
iii. b
iv. b
v. a
VII keeping quiet
i. c
ii. b
iii. d
iv. c
v. d

VIII Enemy
i. a
ii. b
iii. a
iv. c
v. d

IX. Attempt the following.

i. b
ii. a
iii. d
iv. c
v. c
vi. c
vii. c
viii. b
ix. b
x. c
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