HP Board 12th Class Model Test Paper 2023 English

QUESTION PAPER (TERM - II) (2022-23) count the number of times the word 'and' has been
CLASS - +2 used in the Bible. Because they work accurately
and at high speeds. They save research workers
SUBJECT - ENGLISH
years of hard work. This whole process by which
Time : 3 hours M.M. : 50
machines can be used to work for us has been
• Note:- All the questions are compulsory. called 'automation'. In future, automation may
Observe word limit whereever prescribed. enable human beings to have for more lesiure than
Section-A (Reading) they have today. The coming of automation is
bound to have important social consequences.
1. Read the following passage carfully and answer
the questions that follow:- 3. Some years ago, an expert on automation, sir Leon

1. Out of the greatest advances in modern Bagrit, pointed out that it was a mistake to believe
technology has been the invention of computers. that these machines could think. There is no
They are already widely used in industry and possibility that human beings will be controlled by
universities. Now there is hardly any sphere of machines. Though computers are capable of
human life where computers fast towards a learning from their mistakes and improving on their
situation when a computer will be as much a part performance.They need detailed instructions from
of man's daily life as a telephone or a calculator. human beings to be able to operate. They can
2. Computers are capable of doing extremely never, as it were, lead independent lives or 'rula
rule
complicated work in all branches of learning. They the world' by making decisions of their own.
can solve the most complex mathematical 4. Sir Leon said that in future, computers would be
problems or put thousand of I unrelated facts in developed which would be small enough to be
order. These machines can be put to varied uses. carried in the pocket. Ordinary people would then
For instance, they can provide information on the be able to use them to obtain valuable information.
best way to prevent traffic accidents, or they can Computers could be plugged into a

national network and be used like radios. For man is going to live with the help of his blood
instance, people going on a holiday could be picture. Computers are the most efficicent
informede about weather conditions; car drivers servants man has ever had an there is no limit to
could be given alternative routes when there are the way they can be used to improve our lives.
traffic jams. It will also be possible to make tiny (a) On the basis of your understanding of this
translating machines. This will inable
enable people, who
passage, answer the following questions with the
do not share a common language, to talk to each help of given options:-
other without any difficulty or to read foreign
1. Computers save research workers from years of
publications.
labour ..............
5. It is impossible to asses the importance of a
(a) by learning from previous mistakes
machine of this sort, for many international mis
understandings are caused simply through our (b) by working speedily and accurately
failure to understand each other. Computers will (c) by compiling and checking lists of figures
also be used in ordinary public hospitals. By (d) by showing all the calculations on the
feeding a machine with a patients symptoms, a monitor
doctor will be able to diagnose the nature of his
2. Translating machines can help us ..............
illness. Similarly, machines could be used to keep
(a) relieve the dullness of clerical work
a check on patients health record and bring it up
to data. Doctors will therefore have immediate (b) have a common language in the world
access to great many facts which will help them (c) translate difficult passage into English
in their work. Book keepers and accountants too, (d) overcome the difficulty of understanding
could be relieved of dull clerical work, for the a foreign language
tedious task of compiling and checking list of
3. In the future, small sized Computers will help man
figures could be done entirely, by machines
..............
computers will also be able to tell the exact age a
(a) in obtaining desired information

(b) by working like a radio 2. Read the following passage and answer the
(c) in getting relief from traffic jams questions that follow:-
(d) all the above are true 1. Child labour has been sought in the country since
4. As regards the longevity of a person ............. the middle of the 19th Century when factories first
(a) Computers will be able to tell the exact age made an appearance. Since children in most
one is going to live industries provide the same productivity as adults,
(b) Computers will give one as long life as one and in sevearl cases even. More, but at a far lower
wants cost, they were soon recognized as a means to
lower overheads and increase profits. However,
(c) Computers will maintain one's medical
Progressed,
as the industrial revolution. Progressied,
record
gradually the people become aware of the torture
(d) Computers will cure ones small ailments.
they were subjecting their children to both
(b) Find the words from the given choices that
mentally and physically. But even as the country,
have the same meaning :
continued to progress at various levels, it lagged
(i) invention
behind in terms of the wherewithal and
(a) automation (b) complex prosperity, needed to take care of the new soical
(c) creation (d) objection relations which hade sprung up, with the result
(ii) consequence that wages for workers were abysmally low and it
(a) failure (b) result was difficult for a family to survive on one man's
wages. This is when human resources became
(c) task (d) initiate
the only true assets families had and every pair
(iii) Symptoms
of working hands, including those of children, was
(a) indications (b) importance engaged in earning livelihood.
(c) record (d) performance 2. And once child labour had made an appearance
4+3=7 in the job market, employees soon began to

prefer working children to working adults, for not an advertisement in not more than 50 words for
only could they give the same output as an adult publication in the 'To Let' column of the Hindustan
worker at a much lower cost but were also more Times giving all necessary details.
nimble and agile and more amenable to discipline. Or
The layers prefer children because their high
You need a stenographer for your office. Write a
profits depend largely on child labour.
brief and to the point advertisement for the
3. It is indeed lamentable that pover ty even 'situations vacant column of a newspaper. 3
complex parents and guardians to barter their
compell
4. You are Arjun/Anita of 20, Rose Garden,
children for money. A number of young children
Chandigarh. Write a report in about 125 words on
are sold by their parents or pledged as bonded
the 'Annual Prize Distribution'. Function of your
labour.
school, to be published in your school magazine.
(A) On the basis of your reading of the above
Or
passage make notes on it, in points only, using
wherever You are Rishita/Rohit, a reporter of a newspaper.
recognisable abbreviations whereever
Write a report in, about 125 words about 'A House
necessary. Supply an appropriate title to it.
On Fire' you recently witnessed. 4
(B) Write a summary of the above passage in
5. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper
about 80 words. 3+2=5
expressing your concern about rising prices of
Section-B (Writing)
petrol, diesel and essential commodities.
3. Draft a notice for your school notice board giving
Or
details about your lost wrist watch.You are Kartik/
You are M.A. B.ed from H.P. University and have
Kavita of GSSS Kangra.
qualified TET. Write an application to the principal
Or
of GSSS Hamirpur for the post of lecturer in
You are Anita/Ankit of Civil Lines, Mandi.You wish History. 4
to let out a portion of your newly built house. Draft

6. Write an article on 'Health is Wealth'. 2. What do you mean by pall?
Or (a) Fall (b) Darkness
Write an article in about 130–150 words on Dowry (c) Coffin (d) Grave
System. 4 3. What is the name of the poet of the poem 'A
Section-C (Literature) Roadside stand'?
7. Read the extract and answer the questions that (a) John Keats (b) Robert Frost
follow:- (c) Pablo Neruda (d) Kamala Das 3
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie 8. Answer any five of the following questions
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by briefly:-
The tigers in the panel that she made 1. What do you think the servants thought
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid Gandhiji to be another peasant?

1. Name the poem and the poet. 2. Why was the office boy frustrated? Who did
he show his anger on?
2. What will the tigers do after Aunt's death?
3. Why do most celebrity writers despire being
3. Who had made the tigers and where?
interviewed?
Or
4. What are some of the positive views on
Answer the following questions by giving
interviews?
suitable answers from the given options:-
5. What were the options that sophie was
1. What does some shape of beauty do?
dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her
(a) It removes the dullness from our lives from having such dreams?
(b) It gives us joy forever 6. Sophie and Jansie was classmates and
(c) It removes the sadness from our heart friends. What were the differences between
(d) All of the three them that show up in the story? 5x1=5

9. Answer the following in about 125–150 words:-
Why do you think Gandhiji considered the
Champion episode to be a turning point in his life.
Or
Why was Kothmangalam Subbu considered No. 2
in the Gemini Studio? 5
10. Answer the following in about 125–150 words:-
What is that draws Derry towards Mr. Lamb inspite
of himself?
Or
The two accounts that you read in the chapter
'Memories of Childhood' are based in two distant
cultures. What is the commonality of theme found
in both of them? 5
11. Answer the following in about 20 words:-
1. Who is Mr. Lamb?
2. What is the moral issue that the story, 'Should
Wizard H.E. Mommy' raises?
3. What do you think was Jo's problem?
4. What kind of a person who Evans?
5. Mc Leery
Will the injured MC Leery be able to help the
prison officers tarck Evans?
6. Who was Bama. 5x1=5