HBSE Class 12 Question Paper 2021 English Special

CLASS : 12th (Sr. Secondary) Code No. 222 Series : SS-April/2021 Roll No. ENGLISH (Special) (Academic) (Only for Fresh/School Candidates) Time allowed : 2 21 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 Number on the question paper. • Before answering the question, 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 friend telling him to avoid watching those TV channels which spread fake news and do hate-mongering. 15 OR Write a letter to the Editor drawing attention to lack of health facilities in your district. 222 P. T. O.

(2) 222 2. Write a paragraph in about 100 words on any one of the following : 15 (a) Role of media in shaping public opinion (b) Harms of excessive TV watching (c) Youth and Politics (d) Need for Water conservation 3. Write a paragraph of about 100 words on any one of the following : 15 (a) One may smile and smile and still be a villain (b) Beauty needs no ornament. (c) Two wrongs don't make a right (d) A pen is mightier than a sword 4. Make a precis of the following passage in about one-third of its original length and suggest a suitable title : 35 Nationalism, of course, is a curious phenomenon which at a certain stage in a country's history gives life, growth and unity but, at the same time, it has a tendency to limit one, because one thinks of one's country as something different from the rest of the world. One's perspective changes and one is continuously thinking of one's own struggles and virtues and failing to the exclusion of other thoughts. The result is that the same nationalism which is the symbol of growth for a people becomes a symbol of the cessation of that growth in the mind. Nationalism, when it becomes successful, sometimes goes on spreading in an aggressive way and becomes a danger internationally. Whatever line of thought you follow, you arrive at the conclusion that some kind of balance must he found. s 222