MBOSE Class 12 Sample Question Paper 2027 English Core

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SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER
Subject: English Core
Class – XII
Full Marks: 80 Time: 3 Hours
General Instruction:

i. Write all answers in the answer script
ii. Attempt all parts of a question together at one place
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iii. This question paper has 8 questions. All questions are compulsory.
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Section A: Reading Skills,
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Section B: Grammar and Creative Writing Skills and
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Section C: Literature.
Attempt all questions based on specific instructions for each part. Write the
correct question number and part thereof in your answer sheet.
vi. Separate instructions are given with each question/part, wherever necessary.
vii. Adhere to the prescribed word limit while answering the questions.

Q.No. Question Marks

(SECTION : A)
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1. Read the given passage carefully.
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The art of living is learnt easily by those who are positive, observant
and optimistic. From humble and simple people to great leaders in
History, Science or Literature, we can learn a lot about the art of living, by
having a peep into their lives, autobiographies or biographies. The daily
routines of these great men not only reveal their different, maybe unique
life styles but also help us learn certain habits and practices they followed.
Here are some: read, enjoy and follow in their footsteps as it suits you.
A private workplace always helps. Jane Austen asked that a certain
squeaky hinge should never be oiled so that she always had a warning
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whenever someone was approaching the room where she wrote. William
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Faulkner, lacking a lock on his study door, detached the doorknob and
brought it into the room with him. Mark Twain’s family knew better than
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needs a workplace where we can work on our creation uninterruptedly.
Equally we need our private space too!
A daily walk has always been a source of inspiration. For many
artists, a regular stroll was essentially a creative inspiration. Charles
Dickens famously took three hour walks every afternoon, and what he
observed on them fed directly into his writing. Tchaikovsky made do with
a two-hour jaunt but wouldn’t return a moment early; convinced that
doing so would make him ill. Ludwig van Beethoven took lengthy strolls
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after lunch, carrying a pencil and paper with him in case inspiration
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struck. Nineteenth Century composer, Erik Satie did the same on his long
hikes from Paris to the working-class suburb where he lived, stopping
under street lamps to jot down ideas that came on his journey; it’s
rumoured that when those lamps were turned off during the war years, his
music declined too. Many great people had limited social life too. One of
Simone de Beauvior’s close friends puts it this way: “There were no
receptions, parties. It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity
deliberately constructed so that she could do her work.” To Pablo the idea
of Sunday was an “at home day”.
The routines of these thinkers are difficult. Perhaps it is because they
are so unattainable. The very idea that you can organize your time as you
like is out of reach for most of us, so I’ll close with a toast to all those who
worked with difficulties. Like Francine Prose, who began writing when
the school bus picked up her children and stopped when it brought them
back; or T.S. Eliot, who found it much easier to write once he had a day
job in a bank than he had as a starving poet and even F. Scott Fitzgerald,
whose early books were written in his strict schedule as a young military
officer. Those days were not as interesting as the nights in Paris that came
later, but they were much more productive – and no doubt easier on his
liver.
Being forced to follow someone else’s routine may irritate but it
makes it easier to stay on the path. Whenever we break that trail ourselves
or take an easy path of least resistance, perhaps what’s most important is
that we keep walking.

On the basis of your understanding of the given passage answer the
following questions. 1x5=5

A Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives

I The passage is about________________
(a) How to practice walking
(b) Walking everyday
(c) The life of a genius
(d) What we can learn from the routines of geniuses.

II The writers in the past_______________
(a) Followed a perfect daily routine
(b) Enjoyed the difficulties of life
(c) They did not get any privacy
(d) They did not mind visitors

III Jane Austen asked that a squeaky__________ should never be oiled.
(a) floor
(b) door
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(d) board

IV Some artists resorted to walking as it was____
(a) An exercise

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(c) Essential for improving their health
(d) Helpful in interaction with others.

V Mark Twain’s family would___ to draw him out of his study
(a) whistle to him
(b) bang on the door
(c) call out loudly
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(d) blow a horn.
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(i) Why do you think Graham Green hired a secret office?
(ii)g What was the rumour about Erik Satie’s productivity?
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(iii) What was Tchaikovsky convinced of if he returned a moment early from
his two-hour jaunt?
(iv) What was Simone de Beauvior’s social life like?
(v) What makes it easier for one to stay on the path?

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Human life changes constantly
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something lavish. Then slowly, a even the
people and were considered as
average or the common men on
the street, like a cobbleraor a vegetable vendor, could be seen having a
cell-phone. In the world today, even young kids and school going children
are found busily chatting away on their mobile phones. Now, kids as
young as seven and eight, too, have started owning a mobile phone.
Studies recommended that mobile phones should only be given
to children above sixteen years of age. Children below the age of sixteen
should not be given mobile phones since their brain is too sensitive to
withstand the effects of mobile radiation. Since the tissues in the brain and
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body are still developing, these radiations can cause cell damage. Due to
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severe in those radiation levels. Experts also believe that there is a link
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between childhood cancer and mobile phone usage among children.

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given mobiles or not. The responses received was formulated into a pie
diagram as under:

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7% No, never - 43%

20% Yes, but not during class -
43% 30%
Yes, but only in emergency -
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Yes, no restrictions - 7%
30%

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer the following
questions:
i) What is the minimum age prescribed by the studies to give mobile 1
phones to children?
ii) Why does the author say that life changes constantly? 2
iii) Which word in the passage means ‘extravagant’? 1
iv) Mobile phones affect children’s _____________the most. 1
a) Heart
b) Brain
c) Kidneys
d) Lungs

v) State whether True or False: 1
Childhood cancer is not linked to mobile phone usage.
vi) What percentage of parents and teachers are against giving mobile 1
phones to students in any situation?
a) 43% b) 30% c) 20% d) 7%
vii) Why is it not recommended to give mobile phones to children below 1
sixteen years of age?
viii) Give a suitable title for the passage. 2

(SECTION – B)
(MARKS : 20)
GRAMMAR & CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS

3 Answer the following questions as directed :- 1x10=10
a. We are taught English by Mr. Smith. (Change to Active Voice)
b. The boy said, “How happy I am!” (Change to Indirect Speech)
c. I saw Richard when I’m on the flight. (Correct the sentence)
d. She always finishes her work on time. (Change to Negative
Sentence)

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a word:
e. Pick the word similar in meaning to the given
Fortify –
(i) topple (ii) destroy (iii) reproduce (iv) strengthen
f. Pick the word opposite in meaning to the given word:
Minuscule –
(ii) Impressive (ii) minute (iii) massive (iv) menial
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(i) Translucent (ii) Translusent (iii) Transluscent (iv) Tranclucent.
i. Pick the word that is spelled incorrectly:
(i) Commentary (ii) Argument (iii) Bouquet (vi) Forefeit
j. Rearrange the following words or phrases to make a meaningful
sentence:

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CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS
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4 Attempt any one of the following.
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(a) To encourage studentsato
has planned a one-day trek for students of class XII. As the head
boy/girl, write a notice in 50 words giving necessary information to the
students.

(b) Your school recently organized a Quiz Competition for students of
classes X and XII. As the Secretary of the Organizing Committee, write
a report of the event to be published in your school magazine.
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CLARION PUBLIC SCHOOL
requires
Teacher of English

Qualification: Post Graduation in English

Skills Required: Communication, classroom management and
adaptability along with strong organizational
abilities, creativity and patience.

Experience: Minimum 2 years in teaching.

Apply with detailed bio-data to:

The Principal,
Clarion Public School,
75, Abbot Avenue,
New Delhi.
SECTION : C
(40 MARKS)
LITERATURE
5 Answer the following questions by choosing the correct answer from the 1x10=10
given alternatives:

i. In the open field back of the saw-mill the Prussian soldiers were
(a) marching
(b) drilling
(c) singing
(d) whistling.

Ii. Sanita’s hands move________ like the tongs of a machine.
(a) automatically
(b) swiftly
(c) smoothly
(d) mechanically

iii. The Peddler did not want to go up along to the manor house and be
received by the owner like an old regimental________
(a) acquaintance
(b) friend
(c) comrade
(d) captain

iv. Which of the following is the capital of Champaran?
(a) Sevagram
(b) Cawnpore

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(d) Motihari

v. The only information that the workers at Gemini Studios had about
the visitors was that he was a _____ from England.
(a) actor
(b) scholar
(c) Poet
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vii. What sort of a moment would it be if there were no engines, no
rush?
(a) Extraordinary
(b) strange
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(c) circling
(d) winding.

ix. Trees sprinting, the ______children spilling out of their homes.
(a) Cheerful
(b) happy
(c) laughing
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6 Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that
follows:

(A) “Poor man! It was in honour of this last lesson that he had put on his
fine Sunday clothes, and now I understood why the old men of the
village were sitting there in the back of the room”.

i) Why does the narrator refer to M. Hamel as ‘poor man!’? 1
ii) What dress was M. Hamel wearing on that day? 1

(B) “I sometimes find a rupee, even a ten rupee note,’ Saheb says, his
eyes lighting up. When you can find a silver coin in a heap of
garbage, you don’t stop scrounging, for there is hope of finding
more. It seems that for children from what it means to their parents.
For the children, it is wrapped in wonder; for the elders, it is a means
of survival.

i) Which emotion of saheb is revealed in the phrase, ‘his eyes 1
lighting up’?
(a) Anxiety
(b) Envy
(c) Happiness
(d) Greed

ii) What does garbage mean to the elders? 1

(C) “ ‘I am thinking of this stranger here,’ said the young girl. ‘He walks
and walks the whole year long, and there is probably not a single
place in the whole country where he is welcome and can feel at home.
Wherever he turns he is chased away. Always he is afraid of being
arrested and cross-examined. I should like to have him enjoy a day of
peace with us here- just one in the whole year’.”

i) What did Edla want for the peddler? 1
ii) What does the expression, ‘he is cross-examined’ suggest? 1

(D) “Driving from my parent’s
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her
face ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with pain
that she was as old as she looked.”

i) How did the poet describe her mother’s face? 1
ii) What did the poet realise? 1

(E) “Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens
of a world of green. They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace

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i) Why are the tigers described as ‘denizens of a world of green’? 1
ii) Why are they not afraid of the men? 1

7. Answer the following questions briefly (Any ten): 1x10=10
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i) What did M. Hamel have to say about the French language?
ii) When, according to the author, will Sarita know ‘the sanctity of the
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iii) Why was Edla Willmansson happy to see the gift left by the peddler?
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Champaran Movement?
v) What amount of repayment did the big planters think Gandhi would
demand?
vi) Why did the author, Asokamitran, appear to be doing nothing at the
studios?
vii) How did Kamala Das try to put away the thoughts of her ageing

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xi) What does ‘massive weight of uncle’s wedding band’ indicate?
xii) What are the things that cause suffering and pain to Keats in his
poem ‘A Thing of Beauty’?
xiii) What language was to be taught in Alsace and Lorraine after the
last lesson in French?
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i. What changes did the order from Berlin cause in the school that day?
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B. Answer any one of the following Questions. 5

i. What is the kind of pain and ache the poet, Kamala Das, feels in ‘My
Mother at Sixty-Six’?

ii. Things of beauty, according to Keats, ‘Move away the pall from our
dark spirits’. Discuss with reference to the poem, ‘A Thing of Beauty’.

iii. The Tigers’ description as ‘Chivalric’, in the poem, ‘Aunt Jennifer’s
Tigers’, is a contrast to that of Aunt Jennifer. Explain.

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