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

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Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, Gandhinagar
UNIT TEST-3
Standard: 12 Subject Code: 006

Subject: English (FL) Medium: English

Time Allotted: 1 Hour Total Marks: 25

Instructions: -

[1] There are 3 sections in this question paper. All the questions (1-21) are compulsory to answer.

[2] Maintain the sequence of the questions.

SECTION A

Read the following passage and the questions given below it. Choose the correct answer. [04]

From the beginning, however, I had an aversion to the water when I was in it. This started when I
was three or four years old and father took me to the beach in California. He and I stood together in
the surf. I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me. I was buried in
water. My breath was gone. I was frightened. Father laughed, but there was terror in my heart at the
overpowering force of the waves. My introduction to the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool revived
unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence. I paddled
with my new water wings, watching the other boys, and trying to learn by aping them.

1. The narrator’s experience at the beach in California was ___________.
a. fearsome b. awesome c. wholesome d. gleesome

2. Here, ‘my breath was gone’ means that ____________.
a. the narrator had become unconscious
b. the narrator was lifeless
c. the narrator had trouble in breathing
d. the narrator noticed his breath moving

3. Father’s take on the narrator’s experience was ___________ with the narrator.
a. in apposition c. in association
b. in accordance d. in contrast

4. Despite of his aversion to the water, the narrator _________________.
a. did not find courage to learn swimming
b. gathered confidence to learn swimming
c. went to Y.M.C.A. to watch other children swimming
d. motivated other children to learn swimming

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Read the following passage and the questions given below it. Choose the correct answer. [04]

Six hundred and fifty million years ago, a giant amalgamated southern supercontinent –Gondwana—
did indeed exist, centred roughly around the present-day Antarctica. Things were quite different
then: humans had not arrived on the global scene, and the climate was much warmer, hosting a
huge variety of flora and fauna. For 500 million years Gondwana thrived, but around the time when
the dinosaurs were wiped out and the age of the mammals got under way, the landmass was forced
to separate into countries, shaping the globe much as we know it today.

5. Gondwana is described as a _______________ southern supercontinent.
a. massive and integrated c. huge and incohesive
b. insignificant and assimilated d. trivial and unified

6. Things were different about six hundred and fifty million years ago as ________________.
a. humans were existent c. the climate was warmer
b. flora and fauna were less in variety d. Gondwana was not a supercontinent

7. Gondwana flourished till the time _______________.
a. when the dinosaurs and the mammals coexisted
b. when only the mammals were there
c. when humans were there
d. when the dinosaurs were not wiped out

8. How did the countries come into existence?
a. The landmass was forced to separate when the humans fought for their separate
land.
b. The landmass was forced to separate when the Dinosaurs fought for separating the
supercontinent.
c. The landmass was forced to separate after the existence of the dinosaurs and when
the mammals got underway.
d. The landmass was forced to separate when the dinosaurs and the mammals denied
coexistence.

SECTION B

Answer the following questions in about four to five sentences each. [04]

9. How did the instructor ‘build a swimmer’ out of Douglas? Answer with reference to ‘Deep
Water’.
10. What did Douglas do to make sure that he had conquered his fear of water?

Answer the following questions in about four to five sentences each. [04]

11. ‘The Tiger King’ is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ the
literary device of dramatic irony in the story?

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12. Explain the programme ‘Students on Ice’ with the reference to ‘Journey to the End of the
Earth’.

SECTION C

Fill in the blanks (13-17) with an appropriate word. Write only the answers maintaining the
proper sequence of question numbers. [05]

{ ducked specimen deep bruiser rippling }

I had not been there long when in came a big ___13____ of a boy, probably eighteen years old. He
had thick hair on his chest. He was a beautiful physical ___14____, with legs and arms that showed
____15____ muscles. He yelled, “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ____16_____?” With that he
picked me up and tossed me into the _____17_____ end.

Do as Directed. [04]

18. I went to the pool when no one else was there. (Make it Affirmative)

19. When my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump. (Use ‘No sooner … than …’)

20. Icy horror would grab my heart. (Change the Voice)

21. The yellowish light was going out. (Add a Question Tag)