GSEB Std 12 General Question Paper 2020 English SL (English Medium)

GUJARAT SECONDERY & HIGHER SECONDERY
EDUCATION, GANDHINAGAR

UNIT TEST-3
STD- 12 (GENERAL) Max. Marks:-25
Subject:-ENGLISH (013) Time:-1.00 hours

1. There are total 23 Questions in this Unit Test Paper.
2. Options are internal.
3. Write the answers of this Unit Test in a note book.

SECTION-A
 Write whether the sentences are True or False: [3]
1. Nana was suffering from a sort of dissociative personality disorder.
2. Expect to be lucky.
3. Nana lived with Nani for over a century.

 Find out and write the nearest meanings: [3]
4. Anticipate: participate, terminate, foresee, regret
5. Counsel: advise, help, cooperate, aid
6. Reprimand: love, scold, hate, call
 Select the most appropriate language functions from the brackets
and write them against sentences :(Express Exclamation, Expressing
Condition in the past, Expressing Result, Supposition) [3]
7. Mrs. Shah sings songs as if she were Neha Kakkar.
8. What an interesting subject English is!
9. Had Radha worked fast, she would have completed her project.
 Select the most appropriate response: [2]
10. Keyur: How do you wish to drive your bike?
Yogit :………………………….(Showing Choice)
a) Though I drive my scooter slowly, I reach my school in time.
b) I wish to drive my bike very fast.
c) I would rather drive my bike slowly than driving it fast.
d) I drive my bike very slowly so I reach my school late.

11. Teacher: Have you finished your project, Vatsal?
Vatsal: ………………………………….(Showing Contrast)
a) I tried sincerely to finish my project.
b) AS I was ill, I could not finish my project.
c) I tried my level best but I could not finish it.
d) If I had time, I would have finished it.
 Select and write the most appropriate questions to get the
underlined words/phrases as their answers: [2]
12. You should think twice before you speak.
a) What should you do before you speak?
b) When should you think?
c) How often should you think before you speak?
d) How should you think before you speak?
13. Nana also kept quibbling with Nani for silly reasons.
a) When did Nana keep quibbling with Nani?
b) Why did Nana keep quibbling with Nani?
c) Where did Nana keep quibbling with Nani?
d) How did Nana keep quibbling with Nani?
SECTION-B
 Read the extract and answer the questions: [6]
I had a friend, Dr K. D. Kamble, a psychiatrist. I called him over. He talked
to Nana at length- for hours. Most of the time, Nana kept quiet. He did not
answer most of Dr Kamble’s queries. But when he did, he spoke like Nana
normally did and his own voice.
14. Who was a psychiatrist?
15. Did Nana answer mostly?
He must have been what, about eighty-five, and yet he would find
something to grumble at everything Nani did. He would keep quibbling
with her, as if they were two people who had just married in the first flush
of love and were still discovering each other. At times a petty quarrel
would push them into long silence. They would stop talking to each other
for days together. When we would try to intervene, all Nana would quip,
‘it happens, son; it happens… it takes time to adjust to each other.’
16. Who was about eighty-five years old?
17. What was the result of the petty quarrel between Nana and Nani?

When we breathe, there is a microscopic movement of the cranial bones which
in turn allows the cerebrospinal fluid to move freely through the spinal column
and the skull. When tensed or upset and don’t breathe deeply enough, this can
result in bones in the skull becoming slightly stuck together so that the fluid
cannot circulate properly.
18. What happens when we breathe?
19. What happens when we are tensed or upset?
SECTION-C
 Read the following stanza and answer the questions: [3]
In
a dark cave
flows
a dark river
And on
Its stony bank
there sits
a man,
Old
as the Sun-
or
older
Weaving
a yarn
of
rainbow
and
humming
a song.
20. What kind of river it is?
21. How is the man?
22. What was the man doing?
 Write a short note focusing on questions: [3]
23. The title ‘The Adjustment’
• How did Nana behave with Nani?
• How did Nani adjust with Nana?
• What was Nana’s condition after Nani’s death?
• What happed to Nana?
• How did Nana adjust with Nani?
• How did the family adjust with Nana?