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Class 12 - English Core

Sample Paper 06

Maximum Marks: 40
Time Allowed: 90 minutes

General Instructions:

1. The Question Paper contains THREE sections.

2. Section A-READING has 18 questions. Attempt a total of 14 questions, as per specific instructions for each
question.
3. Section B-WRITING SKILLS has 12 questions. Attempt a total of 10 questions, as per specific instructions for
each question.
4. Section C-LITERATURE has 30 questions. Attempt 26 questions, as per specific instructions for each
question.
5. All questions carry equal marks.
6. There is no negative marking.

READING

Question No. 1 to 10 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

Land-use Changes in India

Land-use in a region, to a large extent, is influenced by the nature of economic activities carried out in
that region. However, while economic activities change over time, land, like many other natural
resources, is fixed in terms of its area. At this stage, one needs to appreciate three types of changes that
an economy undergoes, which affect land-use.

i. The size of the economy (measured in terms of value for all the goods and services produced in the
economy) grows over time as a result of increasing population, change in income levels, available
technology and associated factors. As a result, the pressure on land will increase with time and
marginal lands would come underuse.
ii. Secondly, the composition of the economy would undergo a change over time. In other words, the
secondary and the tertiary sectors usually grow much faster than the primary sector, specifically
the agricultural sector. This type of change is common in developing countries, like India. This
process would result in a gradual shift of land from agricultural uses to non-agricultural uses. You
would observe that such changes are sharp around large urban areas. The agricultural land is
being used for building purposes.
iii. Thirdly, though the contribution of the agricultural activities reduces over time, the pressure on
land for agricultural activities does not decline. The reasons for continued pressure on agricultural
land are:
a. In developing countries, the share of population dependent on agriculture usually declines
much more slowly compared to the decline in the sector’s share in GDP.
b. The number of people that the agricultural sector has to feed is increasing day by day.

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India has undergone major changes within the economy over the past four or five decades, and this has
influenced the land-use changes in the country. There are two points that you need to remember
before you derive some meaning from this figure. Firstly, the percentages shown in the figure have
been derived with respect to the reporting area. Secondly, since even the reporting area has been
relatively constant over the years, a decline in one category usually leads to an increase in some other
category. Four categories have undergone increases, while four have registered declines. Share of the
area under forest, the area under non-agricultural uses, current fallow lands and net area is sown have
shown an increase. The following observations can be made about these increases:

i. The rate of increase is the highest in the case of areas under non-agricultural use. This is due to the
changing structure of the Indian economy, which is increasingly dependent on the contribution
from industrial and services sectors and the expansion of related infrastructural facilities. Also, an
expansion of area under both urban and rural settlements has added to the increase. Thus, the
area under non-agricultural uses is increasing at the expense of wastelands and agricultural land.
ii. The increase in the share under forest, as explained before, can be accounted for by the increase in
the demarcated area under forest rather than an actual increase in the forest cover in the country.
iii. The increase in the current fallow cannot be explained from information pertaining to only two
points. The trend of current fallow fluctuates a great deal over years, depending on the variability
of rainfall and cropping cycles.
iv. The increase in net area sown is a recent phenomenon due to the use of culturable wasteland for
agricultural purposes. Before which it was registering a slow decrease. There are indications that
most of the decline had occurred due to the increases in area under nonagricultural use.
1. What happens to the size of the economy over a period of time usually?
a. It decreases
b. It vanishes
c. It remains constant
d. It increases
2. What factors lead to an increase in the size of the economy?
a. Increasing population

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b. Change in income levels

c. All of these
d. Option-2
3. How does the composition of the economy in developing nations undergo a change?
a. The secondary, tertiary, and primary sectors grow at a similar pace
b. The secondary and tertiary sectors usually grow much faster than the primary sector
c. All of these
d. The secondary and tertiary sectors grow slower than the primary sector
4. On what factor does the land-use in a region depend upon to a large extent?
a. Nature of the working population in that region
b. On the size of the population of that region
c. On the topography of that region
d. Nature of economic activities carried out in that region
5. Land ________ in terms of its area over a period of time.
a. becomes invisible
b. diminishes
c. is fixed
d. increases
6. On what factor does the land use depend upon?
a. All of these
b. The pressure on land for agricultural activities
c. The composition of the economy
d. The size of the economy
7. What is the economic status of India?
a. Superpower
b. Developing
c. Underdeveloped
d. Developed
8. What is the proportion of land occupied by forests in the year 1950-51 and 2014-15?

a. Option-A
b. Option-B
c. Option-C
d. Option-D
9. Since the past how many years, India has undergone major changes within the economy?
a. Past 100 years
b. Past 10-20 years
c. Past 70-80 years
d. Past 40-50 years
10. What happens to the number of people when the agricultural sector has to feed on economic views?
a. It remains constant
b. None of these

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c. It decreases day by day

d. It increases day by day
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Question No. 11 to 18 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

People, generally are emotionally attached to their place of birth. But millions of people leave their
places of birth and residence. There could be a variety of reasons. These reasons can be put into two
broad categories:

i. push factor, these cause people to leave their place of residence or origin; and
ii. pull factors, which attract people from different places. In India, people migrate from rural to
urban areas mainly due to poverty, high population pressure on the land, lack of basic
infrastructural facilities like health care, education, etc.

Apart from these factors, natural disasters such as floods, drought, cyclonic storms, earthquakes,
tsunami, wars and local conflicts also give an extra push to migrate. On the other hand, there are pull
factors that attract people from rural areas to cities. The most important pull factor for the majority of
the rural migrants to urban areas is the better opportunities, availability of regular work and relatively
higher wages. Better opportunities for education, better health facilities and sources of entertainment,
etc. are also quite important pull factors.

11. Based on the stories of four characters in the passage, choose the option that lists the statements that
are TRUE with respect to life in their own villages.
A. The city gives everything but not the pleasure of family members and children.
B. Villagers often suffer from poverty and they lack basic health services
C. All villagers have to survive through the fatal tsunami.
D. Children remain deprived of education in villages.
a. B and D
b. C and D
c. A and C
d. A and B
12. Based on the given stories of Subbalaksmi and Manohar Singh, pick the option that lists the main

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reason which causes more worry to one of them.

a. All family members have been washed away by a tsunami in the village.
b. She has to work as a domestic servant and rag-picker.
c. He is away from his family members and children.
d. He has to work and earn extra income by doing overtime.
13. In the comic strip above, out of the four characters, one has no regrets of leaving the village because of
a strong emotional push factor and that character is ________.
a. Mohan Singh
b. Arif Khan
c. Subbalakshmi
d. Manish Gawarkar
14. Which of the following statements is NOT substantiated by information about Manish Gawarkar?
a. Lack of leisure time is one drawback of a city.
b. Life in Mumbai is better than life in Bhandara.
c. Mumbai is the city to pursue his dream.
d. Bhandara provides no chances of going abroad.
15. Arif Khan though puzzled, has two reasons which don’t let him leave his village. Weighing the
constraints in the form of a bar graph will result in which of the following most suitable of the four
graphs:
A. His wife is sick and suffering from tuberculosis and has a financial crunch.
B. He has taken land on lease and he can provide education to children.

a. Option (3)
b. Option (4)
c. Option (2)
d. Option (1)
16. Arrange the given pull factors from the least likely to the most likely cause of shifting places of birth
and residence, as per the order stated by the writer:
A. better opportunities for education
B. cyclonic storms
C. poverty
D. pressure of population
a. D, A, B, C
b. C, B, A, D
c. C, D, B, A
d. B, D, C, A
17. According to the passage, one of the reasons for Subbalakhsmi and Mohan Singh do not wish to go back
to their places of birth or residence is that the:
a. absence of family members and children in the new city.
b. amount of wages they get in the city is far more than they get in their villages.
c. the city gives financial security which could help them in rearing their families.
d. the places they come from are not liked by them.

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18. Pick the option that lists statements that are NOT TRUE according to the passage.
A. Push factors are quite a compulsion for rural people to move to a city.
B. All those who migrate to cities have to bear the separation of their families.
C. Pull and push factors are equally responsible for migration from rural areas to city.
D. Only educated youth are shifting their residence in search of jobs.
a. A and D
b. B and C
c. B and D
d. A and B
WRITING -A

Question No. 19 to 23 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

Vikram wants to hire a receptionist for his school.

19. What kind of advertisement should be preferred?

a. Classified
b. Display
c. None of these
d. Both
20. What will be the heading of his advertisement?
a. JOB WANTED
b. SITUATION WANTED
c. ACCOMMODATION WANTED
d. SITUATION VACANT
21. What must not be added to this advertisement?
a. School's last year's balance sheet
b. Name of the company
c. Contact details of the company
d. Address of the company
22. What should be mentioned in this advertisement?
a. Salary
b. Othere perks
c. Name of the job required
d. All of these
23. What will make this advertisement a perfect one?
a. All of these
b. Catchy title/heading
c. Brief but clear details
d. It's well-written phrases
WRITING -B

Question No. 24 to 30 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

You are Debashree, a resident of Siliguri, Assam. You have to write a letter to the editor of the national
daily drawing attention to the difficulty faced by differently-abled people at tourist places.

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24. Select the option with relevant aspects that Debashree should select, for this letter.
i. The newspaper’s name
ii. Attached proof of the newspaper subscription
iii. Debashree’s address
iv. Formal tone
v. Expected date of the letter’s receipt
a. (i) and (v)
b. (ii), (iii) and (iv)
c. (i), (iii) and (iv)
d. (iii) and (iv)
25. Select the appropriate subject for this letter.
i. Drawing attention towards differently-abled people
ii. The Differently-abled: Neglected or Misunderstood.
iii. Tourist places are an inconvenience to differently-abled people
iv. Inconvenience Faced by the Differently-abled at Tourist Spots
a. Option (ii)
b. Option (iii)
c. Option (i)
d. Option (iv)
26. Which option should Debashree select, to elaborate on the difficulties faced by the differently-abled?
B
A
Unsuitable visiting timings
Absence of ramps for wheelchairs
Tourist guides untrained in sign
Unclean toilets
language
High ticket-prices
Lack of braille-script

C
D
Absence of ramps for wheelchairs
Unclean toilets
Tourist guides untrained in sign
High ticket-prices
language
Unsuitable visiting timings
Lack of braille-script tourist pamphlets
a. Option (iv)
b. Option (iii)
c. Option (ii)
d. Option (i)
27. Debashree shares some suggestions in her letter, to address the issue. Select the option that helps her
complete these suggestions, appropriately.
In my opinion, the media can play a pivotal role in transforming people’s (i). ________ Also, (ii). ________
against negligence to the needs of the differently-abled, at the tourist spots, shall go a long way in
bringing about a positive change.
a. perceptions and attitudes, cautioning the authorities
b. beliefs and traditions, composing songs
c. interactions, keeping minimum interference
d. preferences, protesting
28. Which of the following will not be needed in Debashree's letter?
a. Using paragraphs
b. Using correct sentences

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c. Using pictures
d. Checking spellings
29. Which of these should Debashree avoid using in her letter?
a. Cannot
b. Wouldn't
c. I am
d. Do not
30. Select the option that correctly justifies the choice of the concluding portion of this letter
i. I expect the authorities to take action on this issue, Please post my thoughts in your newspaper.
ii. I hope my views get published in the columns of your newspaper so that this issue may garner
more public support and awareness.
a. No, to Option (i) because of the informal tone.
b. No, to Option (ii) because of the certainty in the tone.
c. Yes, to Option (ii) because of the tone of polite expectation.
d. Yes, to Option (i) because of the authoritative tone.
LITERATURE

Question No. 31 to 35 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

I jumped over the bench and sat down at my desk. Not till then, when I had got a little over my fright,
did I see our teacher had on his beautiful green coat, his frilled shirt, and the little black silk cap, all
embroidered, that he never wore except on inspection and prize days. Besides, the whole school
seemed so strange and solemn. But the thing that surprised me most was to see, on the backbenches
that were always empty, the village people sitting quietly like ourselves.

31. How did the whole school seem?

a. All of these
b. Solemn
c. Strange
d. Quiet
32. Which subject did the teacher profess?
a. Spanish
b. French
c. English
d. German
33. What does the word solemn mean?
a. Grave
b. All of these
c. Sober
d. Sedate
34. Who is the teacher?
a. Hauser
b. Alphonse Daudet
c. M.Hamel
d. Franz
35. Why was he dressed in his formals?

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a. For it was his last lesson in French

b. For he had to attend a wedding
c. For he had to juggle an inter-school competition
d. For he had to attend an award ceremony

Question No. 36 to 40 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

I used every way I knew to overcome this fear, but it held me firmly in its grip. Finally, one October, I
decided to get an instructor and learn to swim. I went to a pool and practised five days a week, an hour
each day. The instructor put a belt around me.

36. What did the author finally decide?

a. To call father
b. To quit swimming
c. To get an instructor and learn to swim
d. None of these
37. How much did he practise in a pool?
a. Only weekends, four hours each day
b. Two days a week, five hours each day
c. Six days a week, an hour each day
d. Five days a week, an hour each day
38. Why did he decide to get an instructor?
a. To learn to swim
b. To overcome his fear
c. To exercise daily
d. None of these
39. The synonym of grip is:
a. grasp
b. All of these
c. hold
d. clutch
40. What is the fear mentioned in the above lines?
a. Fear of height
b. Fear of being alone
c. Fear of water
d. Fear of fly

Question No. 41 to 45 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

..............I saw my mother,

beside me,
doze, open-mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with
pain..............

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41. Where was the poet driving to?

a. Cochin airport to home
b. None of these
c. To Home
d. Home to the Cochin airport
42. Who is I?
a. The poetess
b. A little girl
c. A doctor
d. A young boy
43. What did she realise with pain?
a. She had lost their bag
b. She suffered from an injury
c. Her mother had grown very old
d. She had to leave her house
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44. How did the poetess feel on this realization?
a. Delighted
b. Sad
c. Enthusiastic
d. Enraged
45. Name the poet of the given lines?
a. Kamala Das
b. Sarojini Naidu
c. Vikram Seth
d. Ruskin Bond

Question No. 46 to 50 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the
questions:

Hana, working hard on unaccustomed labour, saw a messenger come to the door in official uniform.
Her hands went weak and she could not draw her breath. The servants must have told already.

46. Why is Hana working hard on unaccustomed labour?

a. all the servants had left the job.
b. She wants to be habitual of working alone.
c. She is tired of serving the patient.
d. She is not a hard-working woman.
47. Why the messenger had come?
a. To take Dr. Sadao, as General was in pain.
b. To check whether there is enemy or not.
c. To arrest Dr. Sadao.
d. To help Hana at work.
48. Who is the author of the above-mentioned lines?
a. Colin Dexter
b. Susan Hill

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c. Pearl S. Buck
d. Jack Finney
49. What servants must have told?
a. Dr. Sadao was doing something wrong
b. Dr. Sadao is not a good doctor.
c. Dr. Sadao had given shelter to an American soldier
d. Dr. Sadao had decided not to operate the General
50. The synonyms of labour is:
a. leisure
b. work
c. rest
d. idleness
51. What does the phrase, put on clean clothes signify in the poem, Keeping quiet​​?
a. To wear white clothes
b. To wear washed clothes
c. To wear new clothes
d. To have clean minds
52. According to Mukesh's grandmother, what is his father's destiny or Karam in the prose Lost Spring?
a. The profession of making bangles
b. The profession of being a doctor
c. The profession of being a social helper
d. The profession of making glass furnitures
53. Who made the following statement in the prose Lost Spring - "It takes longer to build a school"?
a. A group of young boys
b. Saheb
c. Mukesh
d. The narrator
54. Who is the author of the prose titled Deep Water?
a. Asokamitran
b. Anees Jung
c. Christopher Silvester
d. William Douglas
55. What is the message conveyed in the poem An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum?
a. Develop art, culture, and literature in society
b. Progress and development between two different groupus of the society
c. Breaking the barrier between rich and poor
d. Contrast between two incompatible worlds
56. What are the author's best-known works? (Third Level)
a. Science fiction and nature
b. Science fiction and thrillers
c. English and Science fiction
d. Science and history fiction
57. In the prose The Third Level, where had Sam disappeared according to Charley?
a. Chicago, 1984
b. Galesburg, 1894
c. New York, 1950
d. Times Square, 1894

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58. What does the phrase, truck with death refer to in the poem, Keeping quiet?
a. Association with death
b. Death due to truck accident
c. Have a truck
d. To ride a truck
59. How did the servants react when Dr Sadao told them about the wounded American soldier?
a. Impressed by Dr. Sadao
b. Very aggressive
c. Started hating Sadao's family
d. Shocked and terrified
60. What was the color of the school walls? (An elementary school classroom in a slum)
a. Light brown
b. Pure white
c. Bright off-white
d. Pale yellow

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Class 12 - English Core

Sample Paper 06

Solution

READING
1. (d) It increases
Explanation: It increases
2. (c) All of these
Explanation: All of these
3. (b) The secondary and tertiary sectors usually grow much faster than the primary sector
Explanation: Nature of economic activities carried out in that region
4. (d) Nature of economic activities carried out in that region
Explanation: Nature of economic activities carried out in that region
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5. (c) is fixed
Explanation: is fixed
6. (a) All of these
Explanation: All of these
7. (b) Developing
Explanation: Developing
8. (a) Option-A
Explanation: Option-A
9. (d) Past 40-50 years
Explanation: Past 40-50 years
10. (d) It increases day by day
Explanation: It increases day by day
11. (d) A and B
Explanation: A and B
12. (c) He is away from his family members and children.
Explanation: He is away from his family members and children.
13. (c) Subbalakshmi
Explanation: Subbalakshmi
14. (b) Life in Mumbai is better than life in Bhandara.
Explanation: Life in Mumbai is better than life in Bhandara.
15. (c) Option (2)
Explanation: Option (2)
16. (c) C, D, B, A
Explanation: C, D, B, A
17. (c) the city gives financial security which could help them in rearing their families.
Explanation: the city gives financial security which could help them in rearing their families.
18. (c) B and D
Explanation: B and D
WRITING -A
19. (a) Classified
Explanation: Classified

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20. (b)
SITUATION WANTED
Explanation: SITUATION WANTED

21. (a) School's last year's balance sheet

Explanation: School's last year's balance sheet
22. (d) All of these
Explanation: All of these
23. (a) All of these
Explanation: All of these
WRITING -B
24. (c) (i), (iii) and (iv)
Explanation: (i), (iii) and (iv)
25. (d) Option (iv)
Explanation: Inconvenience Faced by the Differently-abled at Tourist Spots
26. (b) Option (iii)
Explanation: C
27. (a) perceptions and attitudes, cautioning the authorities
Explanation: perceptions and attitudes, cautioning the authorities
28. (c) Using pictures
Explanation: Using pictures
29. (b) Wouldn't
Explanation: Wouldn't
30. (c) Yes, to Option (ii) because of the tone of polite expectation.
Explanation: Yes, to Option (ii) because of the tone of polite expectation.
LITERATURE
31. (a) All of these
Explanation: All of these
32. (b) French
Explanation: French
33. (a) Grave
Explanation: Grave
34. (c) M.Hamel
Explanation: M.Hamel
35. (a) For it was his last lesson in French
Explanation: For it was his last lesson in French
36. (c) To get an instructor and learn to swim
Explanation: To get an instructor and learn to swim
37. (d) Five days a week, an hour each day
Explanation: Five days a week, an hour each day
38. (a) To learn to swim
Explanation: To learn to swim
39. (b) All of these
Explanation: All of these
40. (c) Fear of water
Explanation: Fear of water
41. (d) Home to the Cochin airport

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Explanation: Home to the Cochin airport

42. (a) The poetess
Explanation: The poetess
43. (c) Her mother had grown very old
Explanation: Her mother had grown very old
44. (b) Sad
Explanation: Sad
45. (a) Kamala Das
Explanation: Kamala Das
46. (a) all the servants had left the job.
Explanation: all the servants had left the job.
47. (a) To take Dr. Sadao, as General was in pain.
Explanation: To take Dr. Sadao, as General was in pain.
48. (c) Pearl S. Buck
Explanation: Pearl S. Buck
49. (c) Dr. Sadao had given shelter to an American soldier
Explanation: Dr. Sadao had given shelter to an American soldier
50. (b) work
Explanation: work
51. (d) To have clean minds
Explanation: To put on clean clothes means to have a change in one's attitude, that is being without
malice and hatred towards our foes.
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52. (a) The profession of making bangles
Explanation: Mukesh and his family were residents of Firozabad which was famous for its glass
bangles and was the centre of India's glass-blowing industry. The people of Firozabad were acquainted
only with the art of making bangles that they had passed on to their successive generations. Hence,
Mukesh's grandmother said that it was his father's Karam, his destiny to make bangles and pass on his
skill to Mukesh and his brother.
53. (d) The narrator
Explanation: The narrator had asked Saheb whether he would go to a school if it were to be built by
her and Saheb's reply was in affirmative. After a few days when Saheb asked her if her school was
ready, she was embarrassed at having made a promise which was never meant to be kept and told him
that it took longer to build a school.
54. (d) William Douglas
Explanation: Deep Water is an autobiographical account by William O. Douglas and is an excerpt
taken from his famous work titled Men and Mountains. In this essay he talks about his fear of water
and thereafter, how he finally overcame it.
55. (d) Contrast between two incompatible worlds
Explanation: Stephen Spender conveys the message of social justice and class equalities by presenting
two contrasting and incompatible worlds. He provides a way out. For achieving any significant
progress and development the gap between the two worlds must be abridged. This can be done only by
breaking the barriers that bind the slum children in dark, narrow, cramped holes and lanes. Let them
be made mentally and physically free to lead happy lives. Only then art, culture, and literature will
have relevance for them.
56. (b) Science fiction and thrillers

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Explanation: Science fiction and thrillers

57. (b) Galesburg, 1894
Explanation: The narrator hailed from Galesburg where he had attended school but later shifted to
where his present-day residence stands. The narrator used to tell his friend, Sam, about Galesburg who
liked the sound of the place. Hence, when Sam disappeared the narrator suspected that he would be
there in Galesburg, in 1894.
58. (a) Association with death
Explanation: The poet craftily focused on the inevitability of death and at the same time, he suggested
that he did not wish to have any association or interaction with death.
59. (d) Shocked and terrified
Explanation: When Dr Sadao informed his servants about the prisoner, all were shocked and terrified.
The gardener remarked that his master should not save the wounded man as nature had tried to
kill him twice.
60. (d) Pale yellow
Explanation: The school walls were of pale yellow color and it signified the degenerative condition of
the school walls. The poet highlighted the pathetic view of the school walls by comparing them with
'sour cream'.

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