GUJARAT SECONDERY & HIGHER SECONDERY EDUCATION BOARD GANDHINAGAR
July 2022-23
EVALUATION BASED ON QUESTION BANK
ST- 12 (GENERAL STREAM)
SUB:-ENGLISH
(013)
SECTION-A
v
Write whether the sentences
are True or False:[Select any two] [Questions: 1&2] [2]
1. The success of Disneyland totally changed Walt.
2. The customer is much aware
about technology.
3. Walt was the central figure for all creations
of the company.
4. The first step is to open her
HEART to install love.
5.
The customer needs to begin connecting to other HEARTS
in order to get upgrades.
6. Roy Disney is no more but his influence still lingers over the studio.
7.
Walt studied cartooning in Kansas City and started
little animated company in Chicago.
8. When love is installed, our heart fills up with neat files called pleasure.
9. Walt used to see gloomy through
the saddest cartoon.
10. Walt was only fifteen years old when he decided to try his luck
in Hollywood.
11. The final judgement was always unquestionably Roy’s.
12. Disneyland shows Walt’s vision and his stubborn determination.
v Find out and write
the nearest meanings:[Select any two]
[Questions :
3 &4] [2]
1. Everlasting : external - eternal - evergreen - everywhere
2. Stubborn : obstinate - strict - obvious - stupid
3. Rills : River - Cave - Stream - Pond
4. Industrious : lazy - ignoble - genius - hard working
5. Fillip : soothe - irritate - mesmerized - excitement
6. Virtuoso : exceptional - stubborn - potpourri – extravagance
7. barrier :
path -free -problem -obstacle
8. counsel :
advise -help -co-operate -aid
9. Eligibility : unsuitable -worthless -fitness -useless
10.
Forbidden : prohibited -permitted -admitted -independent
11.
Hectic : free - minded - very busy - horrible
12.
Optimism : pessimism - negative - perspective - positive
v Select the most appropriate language functions from the brackets
and write them against sentences :( expressing result,
habitual action in the past, expressing contrast,
exclamation, expressing reason,
expressing purpose, supposition)[Select any two] [Questions:5 & 6] [2]
1. We used to participate in the annual
function.
2.
Though we played
well, we couldn’t
win the match.
3.
The sum was so difficult
that I couldn’t solve it.
4. Lata is too old to sing a song in live performance.
5.
My brother used to get up early during exam time.
6. In spite of my warning, he jumped into river.
7.
How easily we won the match!
8.
Ramu plays cricket
as if he were Virat Kohli.
9.
We go to school with a view to getting good education.
10. The teacher scolded him because he was disobedient.
11.
I am so intelligent that I can solve any sum.
12. Though the weathe was bad, we went
outside.
13.
Maya sings songs as if she were a great
singer.
14. Inspite of working hard,
he didn’t get good result.
15. Hurrah! I have got the First Rank.
SECTION-B
v Read the extract and answer the questions:[Select any one]
[Questions:7
to 10] [4]
(a)
For my imaginative, industrious brother left enough
projects in progress for the rest of us busy for many, many years. Walt was a complex man. To the writers, producers and animators who worked with
him• he was a genius who had an extraordinary ability
to add an extra stroke
of imagination to any story
or idea.
1. Why was Walt a genius
for the writers
and animators?
2. Which two adjectives were used by the writer
for Walt?
Customer Service Rep: You’re welcome. Click on the following files and
then copy them to the “MY HEART” directory: FORGIVENESS.DOC, SELFESTEEM.TXT, REALIZEWORTH.TXT and GOODNESS.DOC. The system will overwrite any conflicting
file and begin patching any fault programming. Also, you need to delete SELFCRITIC.EXE
from all directories, and then empty your recycle bin afterwards to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.
3.
Which file does the customer need to delete?
4. Why should the customer empty recycle bin?
(b)
Customer Service Rep: No problem. LOVE will automatically
erase PASTHURT. EXE from your current
operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. LOVE will eventually overwrite LOWESTEEM.
EXE with a module of its own called HIGH ESTEEM .EXE. However you have to completely turn off
GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. Those programs prevent
LOVE from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ma’am?
1. Which file may remain in permanent memory?
2. Which of
the following sentence is true?
a. LOVE will automatically erase HIGH ESTEEM
.EXE.
b. LOVE will eventually overwrite LOWESTEEM. EXE.
The overwhelming success of Walt’s “crazy
idea” triggered a dramatic about- face
in the Disney fortunes. Yet success never changed Walt. He remained the simplest of men. He hated parties, and
his idea of a night out was a burger and chili
at some little restaurant. His only extravagance was a miniature railroad that ran around the grounds
of his home.
3. Did money
change Walt’s nature?
4. What did
Walt not like?
(c)
The apple orchard and weeping willows stand green and
beautiful at our old farm, where Walt sketches his first animals.
I recall how Walt and I would snuggle together in bed and hear the haunting
whistle of a locomotive passing in the night.
Our uncle Mike was an engineer and he’d blow his whistle – one long and two shorts –just for us. Walt never lost his love for trains. Years
later an old fashioned train was one of the first attractions at Disneyland.
1.
What did Uncle
Mike do for Walt and his brother?
2.
Where did Walt sketch his first animals?
Customer Service Rep: LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules
to everybody you meet. They will in turn share it with other people
and they will return some really neat modules back to
you.
Customer :
I will. Thank
you for your help.
3.
Which programme
is a freeware?
4.
Why should
we give the freeware of LOVE to everyone?
(d)
My brother Walt is no more, yet his influence lingers
like a living presence over the
studio where he turned out the cartoons, nature films and feature movies that made him known and loved around the
world. Even now, as I walk around the
studio crew, I half expect to encounter that tall, country –boy figure head bowed in thought
about some new project.
1. What made Walt Disney loved and known around the world?
2. Describe Walt Disney’s appearance as given in the extract.
Customer: It says "ERROR 412 - PROGRAM
NOT RUN ON INTERNAL
COMPONENTS". What does that mean?
Customer
Service Rep: Don't worry ma'am, that's a common problem. It means that the LOVE program is set up to run on
external HEARTS but has not yet been run
on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming things, but in non- technical terms it means you have to
"LOVE" your own machine before It can "LOVE" others.
Customer: So what should
I do?
3. What is the customer’s problem according to the Customer Service
Representative?
4. How can the customer solve the error?
(e)
Walt was so much the driving force behind all we did,
from making movies to building
Disneyland that people constantly mention his name as if he were still alive. Every time we show a new picture or
open a new features at Disneyland, someone
is bound to say. “I wonder how Walt would like it?” and when this happens I personally realize that it was
something he himself had planned. For my
imaginative industrious brother left enough projects in progress to keep the rest of us busy for many years.
1. Who was the driving force?
How?
2. Which qualities of Walt
Disney have been mentioned in the extract?
Customer: Let me see….I have PASTHURT. EXE, LOWESTEEM.EXE, GRUDGE.EXE and
RESENTMENT.COM running
right now.
Customer Service Rep: No problem.
LOVE will automatically erase PASTHURT. EXE from your current operating
system.
3. Which of the following programme is
not running ? (A)PASTHURT.EXE
(B)LOWESTEEM.EXE (C)LOVE (D)GRUDGE.EXE
4.
What can automatically erase PASTHURT.EXE ?
SECTION-C
v Read
the extract and answer the questions:[Select Any One Paragraph] [Questions:11 &12] [2]
Orphaned (lost his parents) at a very young age, Salim
was bought up by his maternal uncle.
As a child, Salim Ali was given an expensive air gun as a present and spent all
his time shooting sparrows around the
house. One day he noticed that one of the sparrows he had shot at had a yellow throat. He couldn’t hold his curiosity
and approached his uncle. His uncle
who was equally clueless took him to the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) in the hope of finding an answer.
There, the honorary secretary, W.S. Milliard also told him about the variety of sparrows. That day, Salim decided
that he was going to be an ornithologist.
1. By whom was Salim Ali brought up? Why?
2. Give a one word of substitute: ‘A person who studies birds’
After returning to India, Salim tried to get
a job as an ornithologist with the Zoological Survey of India,
but was rejected since he did not have an M.Sc. Ph.D. degree. He decided to study further
to acquire eligibility Salim went to Germany and got trained
under Professor Stressman, an
acknowledged ornithologist in Berlin. However, when he came back to India,
he found out that there were still
hardly any opportunities in his profession.
1.
Why was Salim Ali not given
a job as an ornithologist?
2.
Why did Salim Ali go to Germany?
One afternoon
while waiting for her husband to finish a business meeting, Mansi toured an art museum. She was looking
forward to a quiet view of masterpieces.
A young couple
viewing the paintings ahead of her chattered nonstop between themselves. She observed them a moment and
found the lady only taking all the time. Mansi
thought of the man and admired his patience for putting up with her constant parade of
words.
1. Where did Mansi tour one afternoon?
2. What made Mansi get
disturbed in the museum?
Mansi learned something about patience, courage
and love, that day. She saw the
patience of young wife describing paintings to a person without sight and
the courage of a husband who would
not allow blindness to alter his life. Mansi witnessed the love shared by the two people as she watched his couple walk away with their arms intertwined.
"Really her words are
his vision" said Mansi.
1. What did Mansi learn that day?
2. 'Really her words are his vision' means
(a) He was obedient.
(b) He could
visualize the world through the words of his
wife.
(c) His wife's words were
true.
Before the final game, life was
ordinary, daily routine. Each day I awakened
with a mental list of tasks I
had to complete before the end of the day. My life wasn't too complicated: class, soccer practice,
studying and sleep. Often I returned home from
soccer field after
heavy practice to study until the early hours
of the morning.
1. How was the author's
life before the final game?
2. What were the tasks of the author
in routine life?
Having accepted well to my daily routine, I never imagined it would be
altered. However, my life changed the
day on the final game. It was the last game of the tournament; and winner would achieve
'championship.' My team had been under vigorous
physical training for the past
four years in anticipation of this day. But emotionally we were ready as well. I was ready. I entered the game
with the mindset that the title was in our hands. We deserved it because our desire to win was great!
1. What had
the author not imagined?
2. What was the goal of the winner?
"Captains!" called the referee. I approached the center of the
field, and with confidence, looked in
the eyes of my opponent while giving her a powerful handshake, wishing her luck. As I took my position on the field,
I knew it was time for the final game to begin. I took a deep breath and reassured myself that I would give this
game best of my abilities as if it were the last game I ever played.
1. What did
the author do when the referee
shouted 'captains!'?
2. What did
the author reassure herself
before the game started?
v
Read the stanza and
answer the questions:[Select Any Two Stanza]
[Questions: 13 to 16] [4]
The vapours rise
To the morning
skies, Clad in a purple glory; While the love-light glows On th’ Eternal Snows Upon the Summits
hoary.
1. What does the vapour do?
2. Where does love light glow? How is it?
And the
breaking day Sends the first faint ray
Of Love’s
undying fountains, While the heart
feels the thrills Of the voice from the
hills
And the Soul that dwells in the mountains.
1. What does the heart feel?
When?
2. Find out the pairs of rhyming words.
And the morning
dews And mellow hues
Paint her cheeks with fairy fingers
While o’er the rills
And the
sun-kissed hills, The love-light gently lingers.
1. What are her cheeks painted with?
2. Find out the pairs of rhyming words?
In days gone by
I used to be A potter who would
feel
His fingers
mould the yielding clay To patterns
on his wheels;
But now through
wisdom lately won, That pride has died away;
I have ceased
to be the potter And have learned to be the clay.
1. What did the poet
learn to be?
2. What happened to the potter
after getting wisdom?
In other days I
used to be A poet through whose
pen
Innumerable
songs would come To win the hearts
of men;
But now through
new-got knowledge Which I had not had
so long,
I
have ceased to be the poet
And have learned to be the song.
1. Why did the poet
cease to be a poet?
2. Why did he write countless songs?
In bygone times I used to be
A dreamer who
would hurl On every side an Insolence Of emerald and pearl;
But now that I
am kneeling At the feet of the Supreme
I have ceased
to be the dreamer And have learned to be the dream.
1. In the
bygone times, what does the underlined word mean?
(a) Future
(b) Present (c) Past (d) Now-a-days
2. What has the poet learned at last?
SECTION-D
✦ Do as directed:[Select Any One
Paragraph][Question:17] (2)
1.
Besides Africa, Gir National Park in
Gujarat is the only place in the world where
you can spot lions roaming free in the wild. The real discovery channel
of India is situated approximately 65Kms South East of Junagarh
District.
Start like this : Besides
Africa, Gir National Park in Gujarat was ..............
2.
Narendranath was interested in
spirituality from a young age and he meditated
before the images
of deities. Naren was naughty and restless as a child.
Start like this : Narendranath is ..................
3.
Pranav has invented a digital watch. We can send
message through it. We receive e-mail also.
Start like this: Pranav
had invented....
4.
Jalpa requests you to look at the picture.
What do you notice? Isn't it funny?
Start like this : Jalpa requested
...
5.
We have not found our grandfather in such happy mood. When we go into the room,
he keeps busy himself in any work. When we ask, he doesn’t reply us also. Start like this: We had not…
6.
Mr. J. D Trivedi served in this school for many years.
He taught English
in the higher secondary section. The students showed love and
gratitude towards him. Start like this: Mr. J. D. Trivedi
has been serving…
v Render the following dialogue into indirect speech: [Select Any One Paragraph][Question:18] (2)
1.
Alpesh said, “Where are you going?”
Kalpesh said, “To the market."
2.
"Let's visit the science exhibition", said Rajvi.
“What a good suggestion! We'll surely go", said Dhyey.
3.
“What are you doing now?” said Sneha. “Reading
a book.” said Jyoti.
4.
“What a nice dress it is! From where have
you bought it?” said Sakshi.
“From America.” said Bhoomi.
5.
“What will you teach us, Sir?” said Priya.
“ Today I will teach you ‘Indirect
Speech’.” said the teacher.
6.
“What a wonderful movie it
is!” said Jalpa. “Are you talking about ‘Forensic’?” said Nisha.
SECTION-E
Email Writing:[Select Any One] [Question:19] [5]
1.
Mrs. Kashish Gupta writes an email to branch manager
statebank.com requesting him
to check the differences in the entries of the passbook. Request for corrections
if any.
2.
Miss Salina Raval written an email to amazingkart.com requesting them to replace the TV he has purchased as the
piece is not working properly. Draft an email on amazingkart@zmail.com
on his behalf in about 100 words.
3.
Miss Rupal Shah writes an email to gpoahmdrrpost.com requesting the branch
postal officer to compensate for
the parcel of the books received through their
relief road branch. Draft
an email in about 100 words.
4.
You are the head of cultural programme
of the cultural club. Write an email to your friendto
invite him to the cultural
programme to be held next week.
5.
Patel Darshna M. sends an email to ABC sports@gmail.com
requesting them to put an order for sport item ordering for school. Draft an email to ABC sports@gmail.com on hisbehalf in about 100 words.
OR
Report Writing:[Select Any one]
1.
Draft a brief report on your visit to a Home for Aged.
2.
Draft a brief report on how the Independence Day was celebrated in your school.
3. Draft a brief report on how the Environment Day was celebrated in your school.
4.
Draft a brief report on how the World Yoga Day was celebrated in your school.
5.
You, with your classmates have visited a Book Fair in Mehsana.
Write a report in about 100 words on it.
