Modal Question paper

2021-22
English
Class - 12

Time : 3 hr 15 min Max Mark- 100

General Instruction
1. The first 15 minutes are allotted to the candidates for reading the question.
2. All questions are compulsory.
3. Marks are indicated against questions.

Section-A-Reading
Q-1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

A vast blanket of pollution stretching across South Asia is cutting down sunlight by 10 per
cent over India, damaging agriculture, modifying rainfall patterns and putting hundreds of
thousands of people at risk, according to a new study. The startling findings also indicate
that the spectacular economic growth seen here earlier may soon falter as a result of this
pollution. The report also says that the haze caused by pollution might be reducing winter
rice harvests by as much as 10 per cent.

"Acids in the haze may, by falling as acid rain, have the potential to damage crops and
trees. Ash falling on leaves can aggravate the impacts of reduced sunlight on Earth's
surface. The pollution that is forming the haze could be leading to several hundreds of
thousands of premature deaths as a result of higher levels of respiratory diseases", it said.
Results from seven cities in India alone, including Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata,
estimate that air pollution was annually responsible for 24000 premature deaths in the early
1990s. By the mid 1990s they resulted in an estimated 37000 premature fatalities. "The haze
has cut down sunlight over India by 10 per cent (so far) — a huge amount! As a
repercussion, the North West of India is drying up", Professor V Ramanathan said when
asked specifically about the impact of the haze over India. Stating that sunlight was going
down every year, he said, "We are still in an early stage of understanding the impact of the
haze."

Asked whether the current drought in most parts of India after over a decade of good
monsoons was owing to the haze, he said, "It was too early to reach a conclusion. If the
drought persists for about four to five years, then we should start suspecting that it may be
because of the haze."

India, China and Indonesia are the worst affected owing to their population density,
economic growth and depleting forest cover. The preliminary results indicate that the build
up of haze, a mass of ash, acids, aerosols and other particles, is disrupting weather
systems, including rainfall and wind patterns and triggering droughts in western parts of the
Asian Continent. The concern is that the regional and global impacts of the haze are set to
intensify over the next 30 years as the population of the Asian region rises to an estimated
five billion people.
 a) How has the haze over South Asia impacted agriculture?

b) What were the levels of premature deaths estimated in seven major cities during
the 1990s due to respiratory diseases caused by haze?

c) What did he say about the effectof the haze on the current drought in most parts of
India?

d) Why is there overall concern for Asia over the next 30 years?

e) what is the synonym of "particularly'?

(ii) What is the synonym of "disturbing'?

Section B-Writing

Q-2.Write an article on any one of the following topics in about 100-150 words-

a) Women Safety In India

b) The state education today

c) Festivals of India

Q-3. Write a letter of complaint in 120-150 words.

You live in a crowded area in Mumbai. Unauthorized parking of vehicles in your area is
causing a lot of inconvenience to the locals. Write a letter to the Police Commissioner of the
District complaining against this practice. You are Rohan/Rohini, of Sakinaka, Mumbai.

or
You are the Physical Education Instructor of All Saints School. You had placed an order for
sports goods with Bat and Ball Enterprises. When the items arrived you found that some of
them were defective. Write a letter to the Manager, Bat and Ball Enterprises, asking him to
replace the defective items (125-150 words).

Section C- Grammar

Q-4) Choose the correct option to answer the following questions.

(a) Why waste time in playing cards? (Assertive)

(a) Wasting time in playing cards is not good.

(b) Do not waste time in playing cards.

(c) It is wastage of time to play cards.

(d) Playing cards is wastage of time.

 (b) Every mother loves her child. (Interrogative)

(a) Do every mother not love her child?

(b) Does every mother not love her child?

(c) Did every mother not love her child?

(d) Is every mother not love her child?

(c) I do not play hockey. I do not play cricket. (Compound)

(a) I do not play hockey and cricket.

(b) I never play hockey and cricket.

(c) I do not play hockey, do not play cricket.

(d) I play neither hockey nor cricket.

d) Lucy lived in the forest. Wordsworth loved her. (Complex)

(a) Wordsworth loved Lucy who lived in the forest.

(b) Lucy lived in the forest and Wordsworth loved her.

(c) Wordsworth loved Lucy because she lived in the forest.

(d) Lucy lived in the forest so Wordsworth loved her.

e) He saw a lion. The lion was very furious. (Simple)

(a) He saw a very furious lion.

(b) He saw a lion but the lion was very furious.

(c) He saw lion that was very furious.

(d) He saw a lion who was furious.

Q-5 a) Change any one of the following in indirect speech.

i) The teacher said, "What an intelligent boy you are?"

ii) My father said to me, "don’t worry."

 b) Combine any one of the following as directed.

i) She says something. It is true. (complex sentence)

ii) I did not go to lucknow. My brother did not go to lucknow(compound sentence)

c) Change anyone of the following as directed.

i) Her behaviour astonished them. (passive voice)

ii) India is the largest democracy in the world. (comparative degree)

d) Correct any one of the following sentences.

i) I have soundly slept.

ii) He is taller than me.

e) Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make
difference in their meanings clear -

i) Adapt-adept

ii) caste-cast

Q-6) Translate the following passage in English -

भारत एक गौरवशाली प्राचीन राष्ट्र है । प्राचीन काल में हम सम्पन्न थे। दे श में धन-धान्य की प्रचरु ता थी। वक्ष ृ ों
में फूल और फल तथा नदियों में स्वच्छ जल रहता था। लोगों में प्रेम व सौहार्द था। सभी एक-दस ू रे के सख
ु -दःु ख
में भागीदार थे। स्वतन्त्रता के अड़सठ वर्ष बाद भी आज हम पर्ण ू तया सख ु ी नहीं है । हमारी बढ़ती हुई जनसंख्या
और साम्प्रदायिक दं गे प्रमखु समस्याएँ हैं। हमें ही उन्हें सल
ु झाना है । जब तक प्रत्येक दे शवासी इसके लिए
प्रयत्न नहीं करे गा, तब तक समस्या सल ु झ नहीं सकती। आइये , हम सब प्रतिज्ञा करें कि हम दे श में शान्ति,
समद् ृ धि व सखु लाने का हर प्रकार से प्रयत्न करें गे और भारत को पन ु ः 'विश्वगरु
ु ' व 'सोने की चिड़िया' के गौरव
से विभषिू त करें गे।

Section D- Literature

Q-7) Answer the following questions in about 40 words each -

a) What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?

Or

Why does the author say ‘’Garbage to them is Gold’’?

b) What doubts did Edla have about peddler?

Or

Why did Rajkumar Shukla want to take Gandhiji to Champaran?

Q.8. Answer any one of the following in about 80 words.

a) How in your opinion, can Mukesh realise his dreeam.?

b) How did Douglas his fear of water.?

Q.9. Write the central idea of any one of the following poems

a) Keeping Quiet

b) An Elementry School Classroom in a slum

c) My mothers at Sixty-Six

Q.10. Answer the following questions in about 40 words each.

a) What does the third level refer to?

Or

What did the Maharaja mannage to retain his kingdom?

b) Who was Hana? How did sadao marry her?

Or

Why does Jack insist that it was the wizard that was hit and not the mother?

Q.11. Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words.

a) Why is Antarctica the place to go to, to understand the earth’s present, past and future?

b) How is the Grand Central Station a symbol of escape.?