MPSOS Class 12 Question Paper 2021 English

Total No. of Questions: 11 Total No. of Pages: 08

Higher Secondary Exam., December - 2021
302
Subject: ENGLISH
Time: 03 Hours Maximum Marks: 100

Instructions :-
(i) Attempt all questions.
(ii) ESP set has a choice.
(iii) Write in a neat and clean hand writing.

Q.1 Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions given
below : -
Nationalism, of course, is a curious phenomenon which at a certain
stage in a country’s history gives life, growth, strength and unity, but at
the same time, it has a tendency, to limit one, because one thinks of
one’s own country as something different from the rest of the world.
One’s perspective changes and one is continuously thinking of one’s
own struggles and virtues and failings to the exclusion of other thoughts.
The result is that the same nationalism, which is the symbol of growth
for a people becomes a symbol of the cessation of that growth in mind.
Nationalism, when it becomes successful, sometimes goes on spreading
in an aggressive way and become a danger internationally. Whatever
line of thought you follow, you arrive at the conclusion that some kind of
balance must be found. Otherwise, something that was good can turn
into evil. Culture, which is essentially good become not only static but
aggressive and something that breeds conflict and hatred when looked
at from a wrong point of view. How are you to find a balance, I don’t
know. Apart from political and economic problems of the age, perhaps
that is the greatest problem, today because behind it there is a

tremendous conflict in the spirit of man and a tremendous search for

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something it cannot find. We turn to economic theories because they
have an undoubted importance.
It is folly to talk of culture or even of God. When human being starve
and die. Before one can talk about anything else one must provide the
normal essentials of life to human beings. That is where economics
comes in. Human beings today are not in the mood to tolerate this
suffering and starvation and inequality when they see that the burden is
not equally shared. Others profit while they only bear the burden.
Questions : -
(1) Nationalism is a symbol of - [1]

(a) pride (b) growth

(c) culture (d) humbleness

(2) Culture is essentially good but becomes - [1]

(a) dynamic (b) static

(c) worse (d) rotten

(3) We can find balance when we turn to - [1]
(a) economics (b) history
(c) culture (d) geography
(4) The word ‘starve’ in the passage means - [1]
(a) hunger (b) poverty
(c) lack of strength (d) diseases
(5) According to Nehru, Nationalism is a ……… phenomenon - [1]
(a) natural (b) cultural
(c) curious (d) ethical
(6) What is the verb form of ‘conclusion’? [1]

(a) include (b) conclude

(c) conclusive (d) concludable

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(7) It is folly to talk of culture when: [1]
(a) human beings starve and die
(b) the burden is not equally shared
(c) culture becomes aggressive
(d) nationalism becomes successful
(8) The noun form of tolerate is - [1]
(a) tolerance (b) tolerable
(c) tolerably (d) toleration
(9) When does a society become static? [2]

(10) According to Nehru when it is folly to talk about culture or God? [2]

Q.2 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given

below :-

Cycling survives as a popular past time because it yields pleasure
and benefits. First of all, cycling provides exercise. Of cycling, many
people hastily say that it is ‘hard work’, but a fit and practised rider does
not agree with this verdict. The art of easy cycling must be cultivated but
once it has been acquired, a long day’s run should not unduly tire any
normal rider. Nobody has better described the exercise of cycling than
the late Twells Brex, who said “you move along by your own grand
efforts”. Many of us wish to use our legs and lungs as well as our eyes.
An active and healthy person ought not to be contented to travel always
as a mere passenger- “like an image pushed from behind”, as Stevenson
says, that is not life. It is often said that the cyclist cannot travel as fast
as the motorist. Admitting this, the cyclist may be permitted to ask if it is
always desirable that travel should involve modern motoring speeds (or
accidents). It is the enjoyment of a traveller in search of pleasure to be
measured merely in miles, or what is worse in miles-per-hour?

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Surely the cyclist pedalling calmly along at a modest twelve miles
an hour is able to assimilate scenery more easily, more completely and
with more enjoyment, than the hurrying occupant of a car! If bicycles
were unobtainable, most keen cyclists would become trampers rather
than motorists.
Questions : -

(a) Read the above passage carefully, make notes on it using
acceptable abbreviations and add a suitable title. [5]
(b) Prepare a summary of the above passage. [3]
Q.3 Write an essay on any one of the following topic - [7]

(i) Importance of games and sports.

(ii) Science and its wonders.

(iii) The book I like most.

(iv) Power of press in democracy.

(v) An Indian Festival.

Q.4 Write an application to the secretary Board of Secondary Education,

M.P. Bhopal to issue you a duplicate copy of your mark sheet. [6]

OR

Write a letter to your friend inviting him to spend his vacation with you.

Q.5 (a) Edit the following passage for mistakes in spelling, punctuation
and grammar. [5]
Doctor Benson moved his hand very slowly and very carefully
below the seat until he fell the leather holster, in which he always
carried with him, his automatic pistol. He draw out the pistol slow
and held it in the darkness at his side. Doctor Benson stopped the

car quick and pushed the nose of his gun into Evan’s Side.

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(b) Fill in the blanks with suitable words given in the brackets - [5]

(i) I think it …………………...……. rain today. (may, can’t, might)

(ii) The tallest of these boys …………….……….. next door to me.

(have lived, have living, lives)

(iii) My grandfather is hard …..…………..……. hearing. (of, on, to)

(iv) ………….….. he was late, he was fined. (As, though, due to)

(v) He did not have ……………………..…. milk. (some, little, few)

(c) Do as directed : (Any five) [5]
(i) We did it. (Change into negative)
(ii) He said, “we all are here”. (Change into indirect narration)
(iii) We pray in the evening. (Make Emphatic )
(iv) He did not break his leg. (Change into question)
(v) I /had /exam /a lot of / during /time. (Rearrange the words to
make a meaningful sentence)
(vi) The fan was high. I could not touch it. (Combine with too ...to)
Q.6 (a) Read the following extract and answer the questions given below - [5]
Tembu and his sister and mother were plunged in grief for two
whole days, but life had to go on, and a living to be made, and all
the responsibility now fell on Tembu. Three nights later, he was at
the cutting, lighting the signal- lamp for the overland mail.
Questions : -
(i) Who were plunged in grief?
(ii) How many days were they plunged for?
(iii) On whom did the responsibility fall after Baldeo’s death?
(iv) When was Tembu at work?

(v) What Job was he doing?

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(b) Read the poem carefully and answer the questions given below it - [5]

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

Questions : -

(i) Name the poem.

(ii) What according to the poet is the poor life?

(iii) What does the poet mean by the word care?

(iv) Who is ‘we’ referred to?

(v) Which word rhymes with ‘care’?

Q.7 Answer the following questions - (Any five) [2×5=10]
(i) What difference does the writer see in his mother’s nature and his
grandmother’s?
(ii) What would we gain if we were to melt the polar ice?
(iii) How did the doctor realise that he was not looking at his own
watch?
(iv) What did the writer miss, when he lost his sight?
(v) Why was Tembu not afraid of anything?

(vi) Why do you think, Aradhana was late in coming to the stage?
Q.8 What does Nehru wish for India’s future? [4]

OR

Why had the intruder come to Gerrard’s house?

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Q.9 Answer the following questions - (Any four) [2×4=8]

(i) Why had the scorpion entered the hut?

(ii) Which road did the poet take? Why?

(iii) What is “Dead habit” contrasted with?

(iv) How can the beauties of nature dance?

(v) Why was the poetess not able to read the books?

ESP Science
Q.10 Match the items in column ‘A’ and their description given in column ‘B’ [10]

Column ‘A’ Column ‘B’

(i) Solar cooker (a) The central part of an atom.

(ii) Nucleus (b) Require partial shade

(iii) Cockscomb, Lily, poppy (c) Atoms having the same

and marigold require number of protons but

different number of neutrons.

(iv) Isotopes (d) Full sun

(v) Petunia, Pansy, phlox (e) A simple technological device

that can exploit solar energy.

Q.11 (i) Why is it not advisable to water the plants after sunset? [2½×4=10]

(ii) What is emotional stress? How does it affect the body?

(iii) What is chain reaction?

(iv) What are the basic constituents of our diet?

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OR

ESP Receptionist

Q.10 (i) What are the special skills required for managing a telephone? [10]

(ii) List some of the material that may help a receptionist in her work?

Q.11 Rewrite the following first as request and then write out replies to each [10]

request.

(i) Shut the door.

(ii) Type the memo.

(iii) Let me start first.

(iv) Sit down.

(v) Don’t worry.

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Higher Secondary Exam., December 2021
Model Answer
302
Subject: ENGLISH
A.1 (1) Growth (1)
(2) Worse (1)
(3) Economics (1)
(4) Hunger (1)
(5) Curious (1)
(6) Conclude (1)
(7) Human being starve and die (1)
(8) Tolerance (1)
(9) The culture is essentially good but become static when looked from
a wrong paint of view. (2)
(10) According to Nehru, it is folly to talk about culture or God when
human beings starve and die. (2)
A.2 Passage - (5)
(a) Title : cycling : Good exercise –
(i) Cycling : A popular past time.
(ii) Provides experience, pleasure and exercise.
(iii) It is not a hard work.
(iv) In cycling we move along by own glad offers.
(v) Cycling gives move pleasure than motorist.
(vi) Cycling is not a motoring speed.
(vii) It is desirable speed.
(viii) Cycling is enjoyable motoring is thrill.

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(b) Summary - (3)
Cycling is a popular past time. It yields pleasure and benefits. It
gives exercise it is not a hard work. It is a desirable work. No doubt
its speed is not faster than motor speed but it is safe enjoyable and
desirable. In cycling we use our legs and lungs as well as our eyes.
It bicycles were obtainable, must keen cyclist would become
tempers rather than motorist.
A.3 Introduction (2)
Body (4)
Conclusion (1)
A.4 Format (1)
Body (4)
Subscription (1)
A.5 (a) Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar- (5)
Doctor Benson moved his hand very slowly and very carefully below
the seat until he Felt the leather holster, in which he always carried
with him, his automatic pistol. He drew out the pistol slowly and held
it in the darkness at his side. Doctor Benson stopped the car quickly
and pushed the nose of his gun into Evan’s side.
(b) Fill in the blanks -
(i) May (1)
(ii) Lives (1)
(iii) Of (1)
(iv) As (1)
(v) little (1)
(c) Do as directed - (5)
(i) We did not do it.
(ii) He said that they all were there.
(iii) We do pray in the evening.
(iv) Did he not break his leg.
(v) I had a lot of time during examination.

(vi) The fan was too high for me to touch it.

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A.6 (a) Extract And Answer -
(i) Tembu and his sister and mother were plunged in grief. (1)
(ii) They were plunged in grief for two whole days. (1)
(iii) The responsibility fell on Tembu after Baldeo’s death. (1)
(iv) Tembu was at work after there nights. (1)
(v) He was at the cutting, lightening the signal lamp for the (1)
overland mail.
(b) Poem carefully and answer the questions
(I) Name of poem is “Leisure”. (1)
(ii) According to poet a life which is full of cares and worries and
we have no time to stand and stare is a poor life. (1)
(iii) ‘Care’ means ‘worries’ (1)
(iv) ‘We’ means ‘human beings’. (1)
(v) ‘Care’ rhymes with ‘stare’. (1)
A.7 Answer the following - (5×
×2=10)
(i) His grand mother is peaceful and relaxed, but his mother is highly
strung, tense and nervous.
(ii) We will get another continent, the Antarctica with its wealth of
minerals.
(iii) The doctor realised that, because the crystal was cracked and the
top was broken.
(iv) He missed the colours of butterflies and birds. He also missed to
recognize the faces of his mother and father.
(v) Tembu was not of raid of anything because his father had killed the
tiger, he had the axe with him, and he knew how to use it.
(vi) She was late, because having learnt that she was an adopted child
she was mentally dis furled.
A.8 Nehru wishes for India’s future that India should advance on the material
plane and a classless and casteless society is built where every individual

has full opportunity to grow according to his worth and ability. (4)

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OR
A.8 He had come to Gerrard’s house to see and speak to him, to know

Gerrard’s style of dressing, talking etc. and then kill him. He had planned

to live a free and comfortable life as Gerrard.

A.9 Answer the following - (4×
×2=8)

(i) Ten hours of heavy rain had driven him inside the hut.

(ii) The one which was less travelled by, because it was grassy and in

a very good condition.

(iii) The words Dead habit are contrasted with “Heaven of freedom”.

(iv) The dance of the beauties of nature would be trees swaging in the

breeze, waves leaping up, bees dancing etc.

(v) The poetess was unable to read the books, because she was too

young at that time.

ESP Science

A.10 Column A Column B (10)

(i) Solar cooker (a) A simple technological device

that can exploit solar energy.

(ii) Nucleus (b) The central part of an atom

(iii) Cockscomb, Lily, poppy (c) Full sun

and marigold require

(iv) Isotopes (d) Atoms having same number

of Protons but different number

of Neutrons.

(v) Petunia, Pansy, phlox (e) Require partial shade

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A.11 (i) It is not advisable to water the plants after sunset because the soil
becomes too wet and plants may become diseased. (2½)
(ii) Emotional stress means emotional responses caused by fear. It
affects the body by causing actual physical damage or even death
through serious diseases. (2½)
(iii) ‘Chain reaction’ is a self propagating process of disintegration of the
uranium uncles. (2½)
(iv) The basic constituents of our diet are proteins, fats and
carbohydrates. (2½)

OR
ESP Receptionist
A.10 (i) For managing a telephone, one require both skill and tact besides (5)
of course a little bit of training and practice. You must be a good
speaker. Be able to speak clearly and distinctly in a polite and
courteous words. Be brief and keep to the point without seeming
abrupt or rude. You must be a good listener too, listen carefully and
attentively as you will have to take quick decision, and give replies
according to what you hear.
(ii) A receptionist has to be familiar with a great deal of information. She
is generally called upon to do various types of services, like booking
an accommodation in Hotel, reserving a seat on a flight or in a train,
or even to call an emergency service of ambulance and so on. A
receptionist therefore has to keep handy large number of leaflets,
guides, brochures and other print material of various hotels, travel
agents, Airlines, besides the telephone directories of various states

Railway time tables and timings of important buses etc. (5)

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A.11 (i) “Please shut the door.”
“Yes, I have shut the door.”
Thank you. (2)
(ii) “Please, Type the memo”
“Yes, I will type it”
Thanks. (2)
(iii) “Please, let me start first”
“Sure, I don’t mind”
Thank you very much (2)
(vi) Please, sit down
“Thank you” (2)
(v) Please, don’t worry. (2)
Thank you very much.

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