Maharashtra 12th Std Model Question Paper English

DAY —— 01 SEAT NUMBER

2024 II 21 1100 (E)
J-801

ENGLISH (01)

Time : 3 Hrs. ( 16 Pages ) Max. Marks : 80

Important instructions :
(1) Each activity has to be answered in complete sentence/s. One word answers will
not be given complete credit. Just the correct activity number written in case of
options will not be given credit.
(2) Web diagrams, flow charts, tables etc. are to be presented exactly as they are
with answers.
(3) In point 2 above, just words without the presentation of the activity format/design,
will not be given credit. Use of colour pencils/pens etc. is not allowed. (Only
blue/black pens are allowed.)
(4) Multiple answers to the same activity will be treated as wrong and will not be
given any credit.
(5) Maintain the sequence of the Sections/Question Nos./Activities throughout the
activity sheet.

SECTION - I : PROSE
(Reading for Comprehension, Language Study,
Summary and Mind Mapping)

Q. 1. (A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below : (12) [16]
This is what Camus meant when he said that “what
gives value to travel is fear” — disruption, in other words,
(or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits
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behind which we hide. And that is why many of us travel not
in search of answers, but of better questions. I, like many
people, tend to ask questions of the places I visit, and relish
most the ones that ask the most searching questions back
of me: “The ideal travel book,” Christopher Isherwood once
said, “ should be perhaps a little like a crime story in which
you’re in search of something.” And it’s the best kind of
something, I would add, if it’s one that you can never quite
find.
I remember, in fact, after my first trips to Southeast
Asia, more than a decade ago, how I would come back to
my apartment in New York, and lie in my bed, kept up by
something more than jet lag, playing back, in my memory,
over and over, all that I had experienced, and paging wistfully
through my photographs and reading and re-reading my
diaries, as if to extract some mystery from them. Anyone
witnessing this strange scene would have drawn the right
conclusion : I was in love.
When we go abroad is that we are objects of scrutiny
as much as the people we scrutinize, and we are being
consumed by the cultures we consume, as much on the
road as when we are at home. At the very least, we are
objects of speculation (and even desire) who can seem as
exotic to the people around us as they do to us.
All, in that sense, believed in “being moved” as one of
the points of taking trips, and “being transported” by private
as well as public means; all saw that “ecstasy” (“ex-stasis”)
tells us that our highest moments come when we’re not

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stationary, and that epiphany can follow movement as much
as it precipitates it.

A1. Read and rewrite the following sentences and state
whether they are True or False : (2)
(a) A traveller may sink in love with his travel-
memoirs.
(b) One gets inspected as he inspects the world
around him.
(c) Quest for something may end in more mystery.
(d) Staying in comfort at home gives one more
happiness than travelling.

A2. Match the persons given in column ‘A’ with opinions/
characteristics given in column ‘B’ : (2)
Column ‘A’ Column ‘B’
(1) Narrator a) ideal travel should be
like a crime story.
(2) Camus b) in love with his
memoirs.
(3) Isherwood c) more happy when on
move.
(4) Traveller d) fear gives value to
travel.

A3. Give reasons : (2)
“We are objects of scrutiny,” because ................
(i) _____________________
(ii) _____________________

A4. “Travelling is an interesting teacher.” Write your views (2)
in 3-4 sentences.

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A5. Do as directed : (2)
(i) I like to ask questions of the places I visit.
(Choose the correct tense form of the above
sentence from the following options and rewrite.)
(a) Simple past tense
(b) Simple present tense
(c) Past perfect tense
(d) Present perfect tense
(ii) I would come back to my apartment in New York.
(Choose the correct option using ‘used to’ for the given
sentence and rewrite.)
(a) I use to come back to my apartment in New
York.
(b) I have used to come back to my apartment
in New York.
(c) I used to come back to my apartment in New
York.
(d) I had used to come back to my apartment in
New York.
A6. Find out the words from passage which mean : (2)
(i) reminiscence
(ii) exhilaration

B1. Language study — (4)
Do as directed :
(1) Avneesh said, “Sanchit, what are you doing in the (1)
garden at this time?”
(Identify and rewrite the correct ‘indirect narration’
from the following options.)

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(i) Avneesh asked Sanchit what he was doing in the
garden at that time.
(ii) Avneesh wanted to know from Sanchit his cause
of being there in the garden.
(iii) Avneesh asked Sanchit whether he was present in
the garden at that time.
(iv) Avneesh asked Sanchit whether he was doing in
the garden at that time.
(2) Neeraj Chopra may not participate in the world (1)
championship due to ankle injury.
(Choose the correct option from the following
sentences which uses a more definite modal auxiliary.)
(i) Neeraj Chopra cannot participate in the world
championship due to ankle injury.
(ii) Neeraj Chopra will not participate in the world
championship due to ankle injury.
(iii) Neeraj Chopra should not participate in the world
championship due to ankle injury.
(iv) Neeraj Chopra might not participate in the world
championship due to ankle injury.

(3) Unless you are confident, you will not succeed. (1)
(Choose the correct option from the following options
to change the sentence beginning with ‘If.....’)
(i) If you are confidence you will get success.
(ii) If you have confidence you will get success.
(iii) If you are confident you will not get success.
(iv) If you are not confident you will get success.

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B2. Spot the error and rewrite correct sentence : (1)
He prescribe medicine alongwith a few exercises to his
patients.

Q. 2. (A) Read the following extract and complete the activities (12) [18]
given below :
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the
greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not
work. It has been tried again and again; by the people of the
Middle Ages, and also by the French Revolution, a secular
movement which reasserted the Brotherhood of Man. And
it has always failed. The idea that nations should love one
another, or that business concerns or marketing boards
should love one another or that a man in Portugal should
love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard — it is
absurd, unreal, dangerous. ‘Love is what is needed,’ we
chant, and then sit back and the world goes on as before.
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And
we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of
civilization, something much less dramatic and emotional is
needed, namely tolerance. Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It
is boring. It is negative. It merely means putting up with
people, being able to stand things. No one has ever written
an ode to tolerance, or raised a statute to her. Yet this is the
quality which will be most needed after the war. This is the
sound state of mind which we are looking for. This is the
only force which will enable different races and classes and
interests to settle down together to the work of
reconstruction.
The world is very full of people— appallingly full; it
has never been so full before, and they are all tumbling over

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each other. Most of these people one doesn’t know and
some of them one doesn’t like. Well, what is one to do? If
you don’t like people, put up with them as well as you can.
Don’t try to love them; you can’t. But try to tolerate them.
On the basis of that tolerance a civilized future may be built.
Certainly I can see no other foundation for the post-war
world.

A1. Choose two correct alternatives which define the theme
of the extract : (2)
(i) Love is a greater force in private as well as in
public affairs.
(ii) To rebuild civilization we need tolerance more than
love.
(iii) Patience is the solution in any sort of confrontation.
(iv) When you do not like people, nations or
civilizations, you need to love them to change them.

A2. Complete the following table with the help of the
extract : (2)
Give one merit and one demerit of ‘Love’ and
‘Patience.’
Love (i) .
(ii) .

Patience (i) .
(ii) .

A3. Write how we can build up a civilized society; with the
help of the extract. (2)

A4. ‘Love and tolerance are the true indicators of a (2)
civilized person.’ Justify.
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A5. Do as directed : (2)
(i) It has been tried again and again.
(Identify the correct Active Voice of the above
sentence from the given options and rewrite.)
(a) They had tried it again and again.
(b) They has tried it again and again.
(c) They tried it again and again.
(d) They have tried it again and again.

(ii) It is the sound state of mind which we are looking
for.
(Identify the correct simple sentence from the
given options and rewrite.)
(a) It is the sound state of mind and we are
looking for it.
(b) We are looking for the sound state of mind.
(c) We are looking for it but it is the sound state
of mind.
(d) The sound state of mind is looked for.

A6. Match the words in column ‘A’ with their meanings in
column ‘B’. (2)
Column ‘A’ Column ‘B’
(i) Secular (a) feeling of great friendship
and understanding between
people.
(ii) Absurd (b) a society which has its own
highly developed culture
and ways of life.

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(iii) Civilization (c) not connected with any
religion.
(iv) Brotherhood (d) not at all logical or sensible.

(B) Summarising : (3)
Write a ‘summary’ of the above extract by using the following
points.
(Love as a force — its limitations — tolerance — need of
tolerance)

(C) Mind Mapping : (3)
Prepare a mind map on ‘Effects of Music on Human Life’
using your ideas/thoughts/concepts to illustrate.

SECTION - II : POETRY
(Poetry and Appreciation)

Q. 3. (A) Read the extract and complete the activities given below : (10) [14]

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
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The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

A1. Select and write the two statements from the given list
which justify the theme of the poem. (2)
(a) The poet is blunt and direct in his expression of
love.
(b) Internal beauty is as important as the external
beauty.
(c) The poet is in love with lady’s outward beauty.
(d) Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder.

A3. Write your idea of ‘a beautiful person’ in your own
words. (2)
A4. Find out and explain an example of ‘Antithesis’ from
the given extract. (2)

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A5. Compose a poem of your own in about 2 to 4 lines on
the topic ‘Beauty’. (2)

(B) Appreciation : (4)
Read the extract and write the appreciation of the poem :

They hear no sound, the swell is strong;
Though the wind hath fallen they drift along,
Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,-
‘O Christ! it is the Inchcape Rock!’

Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair;
He curst himself in his despair;
The waves rush in every side,
The ship is sinking beneath the tide.

But even in his dying fear
One dreadful sound could the Rover hear,
A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell,
The Devil below was ringing his knell.

SECTION - III
(Writing Skills)

Q. 4. Complete the activities as per the instructions given below : [16]
(A) Attempt ‘Any One’ of the following activities : (4)
Drafting a virtual message :
(i) Manisha, a graduate girl, misses her college bus. Her
father has gone for his regular morning walk. She needs
his bike to appear for her entrance test. Draft a virtual
message in about 50 words that she would write to her
father.
OR

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Statement of Purpose :
(ii) Imagine, after your HSC, you wish to pursue a degree
in ‘Bachelors in Communication Skills,’ in a reputed
university in India or abroad.
Prepare a ‘statement of purpose’ (SOP) in about
150 words which will help you to get admission in your
dream university.
OR
Group Discussion :
(iii) Imagine, your class has attended a guest lecture on
“Career Development.” Write the group discussion in
the form of dialogues associated with this lecture among
3 to 4 student participants.

(B) Attempt ‘Any One’ of the following activities : (4)
E-mail :
(i) Draft an E-mail to the manager of a company to request
him/her to give you an opportunity as an apprentice to
serve you as an experience for your career development.
OR
Report Writing :
(ii) Imagine your class attended a session on “How to
win?” conducted by an expert speaker. Write a report
on the session especially the relevant points in about
150 words.
OR
Interview :
(iii) Imagine you have to conduct an interview of a ‘Famous
Actor.’ With the help of the format given below, draft
questions on the given fields. (Do not change the
sequence of the questions.)

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Name of the interviewee :
Field / Reputation
Date / Venue / Time
Duration of Interview
Questions
Questions based on :
(1) Motivation
(2) Initial Preparation
(3) Support
(4) Idols / Gurus / Teachers
(5) First Break
(6) Public response
(7) Recognition
(8) Goals / Dreams

(C) Attempt ‘Any One’ of the following activities : (4)
Speech :
(i) Imagine you are preparing for an elocution competition
and you wish to speak on the topic ‘Green Revolution.’
Draft a speech in about 150 words on the given
topic.
OR
Compering :
(ii) Imagine you are given the responsibility to ‘compere’
a programme by your college authorities. You need to
prepare your script on the programme titled ‘Cultural
Fest 2024.’ Draft the script to decide the flow of the
programme. You may take help of the given points.
— Prayer
— Lighting of the lamp
— Introduction
— Felicitation
— Cultural Fest Programme
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— Speech of the Chief Guest
— Presidential address
— Prize distribution
— Vote of thanks
OR
Expansion of Idea :
(iii) Expand the following idea with the help of the points
given below (100 to150 words) :
‘Manners Maketh Man’
Essential Virtues
— Politeness
— Speech, tone, gestures and action
— To be courteous and amiable

(D) Attempt ‘Any One’ of the following activities : (4)
Review :
(i) You have recently read a famous book/magazine. Write
a ‘Review’ on the same with the help of the following
points :
— title, front page, back page
— language, features, contents
— Pictures, quality, presentation
— Values, vision and variety
OR
Blog :
(ii) Write a ‘Blog’ in a proper format on ‘Body Language’
with the help of the following points (100 to 150 words):
• Meaning and features.
• Characteristics and scope
• Benefits / Importance
• Uses / Ways to utilize
OR
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Appeal :
(iii) Prepare an ‘Appeal’ on the topic ‘Traffic Rules for
Safety Measures’ with the help of the following points
(100 to 150 words) :
• Ignorance and lack of knowledge and information
• Purpose / need of obeyance
• Avoid accidents / need of society
• Discipline

SECTION - IV
(LITERARY GENRE - NOVEL)

Q. 5. (A) Complete the activities given below as per the instructions : (4) [16]
(i) Match the columns : (2)
Column ‘A’ Column ‘B’
(1) Novel (a) Greek Romances
(2) 18th Century (b) Middle class readers
Literature
(3) 2nd to 6th Century (c) A long narrative fiction
(4) Newspapers and (d) Spirit of Realism
magazines
(ii) Choose the correct alternatives and rewrite the
sentences : (2)
(a) The novel that bears more than one level of
meaning is called _____ novel.
[ Realistic / Allegorical / Historical ]
(b) _____ novel is concerned with the protagonist’s
overall growth from childhood to adulthood.
[ Bildungsroman / Utopian / Gothic ]
(c) _____ novel is a novel based on the author’s life.
[ Epistolary / Psychological / Autobiographical ]

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(d) The novel based on an imaginary community
possessing the ideal qualities is called _____ novel.
[ Utopian / Epistolary / Picaresque ]

(B) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below : (4)
(i) Write a character-sketch of the narrator E.R. Braithwaite
in ‘To Sir With Love’. (2)
(ii) Consider ‘student-teacher relationship’ as one of the
themes of ‘To Sir With Love’. (2)

(C) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below : (4)
(i) Appreciate Phileas Fogg as the protagonist of ‘Around
the World in Eighty Days.’ (2)
(ii) The most interesting part of the extract ‘Around the
World in Eighty Days’ is its climax. Discuss. (2)

(D) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below: (4)
(i) Mary Morstan encourages Dr. Watson to get involved
in her case. Justify the statement with reference to ‘The
Sign of Four.’ (2)
(ii) Write the importance of various places such as
‘Holmes’ residence, Lyceum Theatre and unknown
destination with reference to ‘The Sign of Four.’ (2)
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