HBSE Class 12 Question Paper 2023 English Special

CLASS : 12th (Sr. Secondary) Code No. 222 Series : SS/Annual-2023 Roll No. ENGLISH (Special) ACADEMIC/OPEN (Only for Fresh/Re-appear/Improvement/Additional Candidates) Time allowed : 3 hours ] [ Maximum Marks : 80 • Please make sure that the printed pages in this question paper are 2 in number and it contains 4 questions. • The Code No. on the right side of the question paper should be written by the candidate on the front page of the answer-book. • Before beginning to answer a question, its Serial Number must be written. • Don’t leave blank page/pages in your answer-book. • Except answer-book, no extra sheet will be given. Write to the point and do not strike the written answer. • Candidates must write their Roll No. on the question paper. Except Roll No. do not write anything on question paper and don't make any mark on answers of objective type questions. • Before answering the questions, ensure that you have been supplied the correct and complete question paper, no claim in this regard, will be entertained after examination. Note : (i) Attempt all questions. (ii) Marks are indicated against each question. 1. Write a letter to your teacher requesting him to take extra class for weak students. 15 OR Write a letter to the Editor drawing attention to ever increasing drug addiction among youth. 222 P. T. O.

(2) 222 2. Write a paragraph in about 100 words on any one of the following : 15 (i) Wide-spread hatred and intolerance in Society (ii) Pleasure of reading (iii) Role of Education in poverty alleviation (iv) Ever-increasing unemployment 3. Write a paragraph in about 100 words on any one of the following : 15 (i) A bird in hand is better than two in the bush (ii) The pea is mightier than the sword (iii) When the going gets tough, the tough get going (iv) No man is an island 4. Make a precis of the following passage in about one-third of its original length and suggest a suitable title : 35 Power and possession have been central pursuits of modern civilization for a long time. The blocked out or distorted other features of the western renaissance which promised so much for humanity. What people have been and are still being taught to prize are money, success, control over the lives of others, acquisition of more and more objects. Modern social, political and economic systems, whether capitalist, fascist or communist, reject in their working the basic principle that the free and creative unfoldment of every man, woman and child is the true measure of the worth of any society. Such unfoldment requires understanding and imagination, integrity and compassion, cooperation among people and harmony between the human species and the rest of nature. Acquisitiveness and the pursuit of power have made the modern man an aggressor against everything that is non-human, an exploiter and oppressor of those who are poor, meek and unorganized, a pathological type which hates and distrusts the world and suffers from both acute loneliness and false pride. S 222