BSEB CLass XII English Model Question Papers 2017 : Bihar School Examination Board
Organisation : Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB)
Class : XII
Paper: English
Document Type : Model Question Papers
Year : 2017
Website : http://www.biharboard.ac.in/model-question-papers/
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English Model Question Papers :
Time : 3 Hours 15 minutes
Full marks : 100
Related : BSEB English Model Question For Matric Examination 2016 : www.pdfquestion.in/8763.html
Instructions to the candidate :
1. Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
2. Figures in the right hand margin indicate full marks.
3. Write group number and question number with every answer
Answer all Questions :
Group – A :
1. Transform the following sentences as directed without changing the meaning : 3
(a) You are too lazy to walk. (Remove ‘too’)
(b) Human nature cannot change. (Into Interrogative)
(c) Can a man live for ever? (Into Assertive)
2. Fill in the blanks with suitable modal auxiliary verbs : 3
(a) You ………… give up smoking.
(b) ………… God bless her!
(c) You ………… respect your elders.
3. Combine the following simple sentences into one complex sentence : 3
(a) You will waste your time. It is certain.
(b) He was found guilty. He was hanged.
(c) This is the house. I built it.
4. Change the following sentences into indirect speech : 3
(a) My father said to me, “Two and two is four.”
(b) He said to me, “Where are you going?”
(c) The teacher said to me, “Man is mortal.”
5. Write an essay in about 150 words on any one of the following : 10
(a) Unity is strength
(b) Pollution
(c) Benefits of Yoga
(d) The Season you like most
(e) The value of discipline
6. Change the following sentences into passive voice : 3
(a) They are playing cricket.
(b) Someone stole my book.
(c) He laughs at me.
7. Choose the correct tense forms of the verbs given in brackets and fill in the blanks with them 3
(a) She …………. (go) to Delhi last week.
(b) Columbus …………. (discover) America.
(c) They just …………. (finish) the work.
8. Use the following idioms and phrases in sentences of your own so as to bring out their meaning clearly 3
(a) Get into
(b) Keep on
(c) Look at
9. Make a precis of the following passage and suggest a suitable title : 7
Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. He was a self made man. His father was a poor farmer. Abraham Lincoln worked first as a wood-cutter. But he wanted to make progress in life. He learnt how to read and write. He got a job as clerk, thenhe was a store-keeper and then a postmaster. He studied law in spare time. He became a lawyer. He took up politics. Soon he was well-known as an orator. In 1860 he made a famous speech against slavery. At that time, slaves were kept in the southern states of America. Same year he was elected president of America. He was a great and good man. He was the greatest President of the United States.
10. Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:4×3=12
Jumman had an old relation, a maternal aunt, who had some property. Thus she transferred to him by a deed on the understanding that she would be welllooked after. So long as the deed remained unregistered, non was so obliging to the old lady as her nephew, non so considerate to her. Her every wish was anticipated and cheerfully carried out. But everything changed the moment the deed was registered. Jumman, who used to wait dottingly on his old aunt now became supremely indifferent.
Questions :
(i) Who had a maternal aunt?
(ii) Who was Kariman?
(iii) Whose wish was anticipated and cheerfully carried out?
(iv) Who became supremely indifferent after the registration of the deed?
Group-B :
12. Match the poets given in List – A with appropriate titles from List – B : 5
List – A List – B
(a) John Keats (I) The Soldier
(b) Rupert Brooke (II) Song of Myself
(c) Walt Whitman (III) To Autumn
(d) D.H. Lawrence (IV) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
(e) T.S. Eliot (V) Snake
13. Name the poets who wrote the following lines : 5
(a) I harbour for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy.
(b) For he’s the master criminal who can defy the law. He’s the bafflement of Scotland yard, the Flying Squad’s despair.
(c) Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too –
(d) There is a house now far away where once I received love. That woman died, The house withdrew into silence, snakes moved.
(e) Cold, impossible, ahead Lists the mountain’s lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in their last distress.
14. Write in short, the summary of any one of the following poems : 5
(a) Sweetest Love I Do Not Verify
(b) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
(c) An Epitaph
(d) Fire-Hymn
Group-C :
15. Name the authors of the following prose pieces : 3
(a) Ideas That Have Helped Mankind
(b) A Child Is Born
(c) Bharat Is My Home.
16. Complete the following sentences on the basis of your textual reading : 2
(a) Dr. Radha Krishnan never lost his faith in ……………….
(b) In many traditional societies in Africa and India, the biological family is deliberately weakened by enforced ……………….
17. Summarise one of the following pieces : 10
(a) How Free is the Press
(b) India Through Traveller’s Eye
(c) The Artist
Group – D :
18. Name the authors of the following books: 5
(a) David Copperfield
(b) Arms And The Man
(c) Paradise Lost
(d) Coolie
(e) As You Like It
19. Write a short note on the future of English in India? 5
Or
Write a short note on Middle English.
20. Name any five Indian English novelists. 5
Or
Name any five English poets.