Bihar Board 12th English Model Papers
Bihar Board 12th English 50 Marks Model Question Paper 3
Time: 01 Hours 37.5 Minutes
Full Marks : 50
Instructions
- Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as parcticable.
- Figures in the right hand margin indicate full marks.
- While answering the candidate should adhere to the words limit as far as practicable.
- 7.5 minutes of extra time has been alloted for the candidates to read the questions and follow the instructions carefully.
- All questions are compulsory.
- Use of any electronic device is strictly prohibited.
- This question paper is divided into two sections -Section -A and Section- B.
- In Section -A, there are 25 objective type questions, rach carrying 1 mark. Darken the circle with blue/black ball pen against the correct option on OMR Sheet provided to you. Do not use Whitener/ Liquid /Blade/Nail on OMR Answer sheet; otherwise, the restlt will be treated as invalid.
- In Section-B there are descripttive type questions.
Section – A
Objective Type Questions
Question No. 1 to 25 have four options, out of which only one is correct. You to mark, your selected option, on the OMR-Sheet. (25 x 1 = 25)
Question 1.
A horse is useful animal. (Choose the suitable article)
(A) the
(B) a
(C) an
(D) None
Answer:
(C) an
Question 2.
Ramayana is Holy book. (Choose the suitable article)
(A) the
(B) an
(C)a
(D)None
Answer:
(A) the
Question 3.
‘With the Photographer’ is written by.
(A) Robert Lynd
(B) Jim Corbett
(C) Stephen Leacock
(D) J. C. Hill
Answer:
(C) Stephen Leacock
Question 4.
The machines, helpful to man work by
(A) petrol
(B) steam
(C) power
(D) force
Answer:
(C) power
Question 5.
Choose the correct meaning of the phrase ‘well off’:
(A) rich
(B) poor
(C) average
(D) very poor
Answer:
(A) rich
Question 6.
Choose the correct meaning of the phrase ‘in time’ :
(A) very late
(B) not late
(C) always late
(D) occasionally late
Answer:
(B) not late
Question 7.
He may be at home. I do not know, (Choose the correct option of combination)
(A) I do not know whether he is at home.
(B) I know tiftthe is at home.
(C) I may know he is at tome.
(D) I know he is not at home.
Answer:
(A) I do not know whether he is at home.
Question 8.
The weather was fine. We went for a walk. (Choose the correct option of combination)
(A) The weather being fine, we go for a walk.
(B) The weather being fine, we went for a walk.
(C) The weather had being fine, we go for a walk.
(D) The weather fine, we go for a walk.
Answer:
(B) The weather being fine, we went for a walk.
Question 9.
Choose the correcty spelt word :
(A)terified
(B) terrified
(C)tyrified
(D)tirified
Answer:
(B) terrified
Question 10.
Children obey their parents. (Choose the correct option)
(A) may not
(B) might be
(C) should
(D) must be
Answer:
(C) should
Question 11.
Uriah Heep is the black hearted, mischievous clerk of
(A) Mr. Micawber
(B) Mr. Chillip
(C) Mr. Wickfied
(D) Mr. Spenlow
Answer:
(C) Mr. Wickfied
Question 12.
He wears suits. (Choose the correct option)
(A) plen
(B) plain
(C) plane
(D)plan
Answer:
(B) plain
Question 13.
Sea water must be before you drink it. (Choose the correct option)
(A) altered
(B) filtered
(C) drunk
(D) proceed
Answer:
(B) filtered
Question 14.
He leaves the bed 6 o’clock in the morning. (Choose the correct option)
(A) at
(B) to
(C) with
(D) for
Answer:
(A) at
Question 15.
He is taller than you two inches. (Choose the correct option)
(A) into
(B) since
(C) at
(D) by
Answer:
(D) by
Question 16.
‘On Letter Writing’ is written by. (Choose the correct option)
(A) J. C. Hill
(B) A. G. Gardiner
(C) C.E.M.Joad
(D)R.Lynd
Answer:
(B) A. G. Gardiner
Question 17.
‘Forgetting’is written by :
(A) Robert Lynd
(B) A.G. Gardiner
(C) Carlyle
(D)J.C.Hill
Answer:
(A) Robert Lynd
Question 18.
People forget things because (Choose the correct option)
(A) it is their habit
(B) others make them forget
(C) they wish to forget
(D) they are ill
Answer:
(C) they wish to forget
Question 19.
Rupert Brooke is famous as a
(A) love poet
(B) war poet
(C) nature poet
(D) didactic poet
Answer:
(B) war poet
Question 20.
The photographer’s studio was (Choose the correct option)
(A) very bad
(B) not properly arranged
(C) neatly arranged
(D) broken
Answer:
(B) not properly arranged
Question 21.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ is written by.
(A) Rupert Brooke
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) W.B. Yeats
(D) Rudyard Kipling
Answer:
(C) W.B. Yeats
Question 22.
Walter de la Mare is fomous as a (Choose the correct option)
(A) children’s poet
(B) nature poet .
(C) war poet
(D) romantic poet
Answer:
(A) children’s poet
Question 23.
‘Everyone Sang’ is a poem. (Choose the correct option) .
(A) war
(B)love
(C) (a) & (b)
(D) None
Answer:
(A) war
Question 24.
Mr. Murdstone is the of David. (Choose the correct option)
(A) watchman
(B) servant
(C) aunt
(D) stepfather
Answer:
(D) stepfather
Question 25.
Who has written ‘Echo’ ?
(A) W.B.Yeats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) Edward Thomas
(D) Walter de la Mare
Answer:
(D) Walter de la Mare
Section – B
Non-Objective Questions
Question 1.
Answer any two of the following : (5 x 2 = 10)
(a) What should be the rule about conver-sation ?
(b) Why are order and safety necessary for civilization ?
(c) Why do some people have difficulty in writting letters ?
(d) Why do some people not remember to take medicines ?
(e) Why did the author not mark of spot where he shot the leopard ?
Answer:
(a) The rule about the conversation should be that in company one should take only a fair share of the conversation. One should be polite to another in conversation. When there are two persons, one should take only half of it. The way of conversation should be accommodation and balanced. When one has said a little, one should keep quiet and give his friend and companion a chance and freedom to say something. This is-the best way and manner of conversation.
(b) It is obvious that order and safety are very necessary for civilization because without order and safety, we cannot be able to engage ourselves in higher activities which make up civilization. The inventors, the scientists and the artists are bound to provide order and safety to their creations. Otherwise their creations cannot serve our pupose. As a result the achievements of the scientists, the inventors and artists will fail and they annot survive long. They cannot make beautiful things if order and safety are lacking.
(c) Some people have difficulty in writing letters because they cannot express the atmosphere in which they live in concrete words. They have no gift of self-expression.
(d) Some people do not remember to take medicines. They for get to have medicines because of their dislike for pills of medicines. Most of the people do not like to use medicines as they hesitate to have them. Actually they neglect the medicines.
(e) We know that the author shot a leopard, one day. It was a matter of great courage and bravery. He had fired leopard at the short range. He had seen the bullet strike. The bullet had gone right through the leopard’s body. But the author did not mark the spot.
Question 2.
Show that you have read and understood any one of the poem: (5)
(a) The Daffodils
(b) The Soldier
(c) Echo
Answer:
(a) The Daffodils ‘The Daffodils’ is a beautiful poem by William Wordsworth. The poet was a lover of nature. He saw a close relation between man and nature.
Once the poet was walking along when he came across daffodils. They were count-less, ‘ten thousand’. They were “fluttering and dancing”. They were standing in never ending line beside the lake. The poet lboked at the dance of the waves too but to him the dance of the daffodils was far superior. At that time, the poet could not make out if such beautiful scene was of any use. But once when the poet was in thouhtful and sad mood, the picture of daffodils flashed in his mind. He forgot all his sorrow. His heart began to dance with the daffodils. The poet means to say that beautiful scenes of nature may not give material comforts but it has healing power that removes our sorrow and sadness.
(b) The Soldier : The poem THE SOLDIER by Rupert Brooke speaks about a soldier’s love for his motherland. For a soldier his motherland is more important than anything else. He fights in battles to defend his motherland and may have to lay down his life in an enemy territory.
Here in this poem, which is a sonnet, the poet speaks of such likelihood and expresses his deep feelings for such situation. If he dies in a foreign land fighting a battle, and is buried there, even in death his body will continue to be England’s (‘of a foreign field/That is for ever England’)
Once having imagined himself as having died, he remembers the ‘flowers’, the ‘ways’, the ‘air’, the ‘rivers’ and the ‘suns’ of home and tells us how his ‘body’ was given to him by his motherland-England. The soldier was bom in England and also grew up there (‘whom England bore, shaped).
In the second stanza there is a shift in ideas. From the ‘body’ ‘ in the first stanza the soldier now goes to talk of ‘thoughts’. The thoughts are actually qualities of mind like ‘dreams’, ‘laughter’ and ‘gentleness’ given by England. These are England’s gifts. In death, the soldier will be a part of ‘eternal mind’. And then all his qualities of mind will be spread out everywhere. People will acknowledge him as son of England, of his motherland.
The poem celebrates patriotism and a patriot is not afrid of dying for his country, his motherland.
(e) Echo : ‘Echo’ deals with a very simple him an experience, that is, how does any sound echo. The speaker stood in a forest and said, ‘who called ?’ No sooner it was spoken than the sound returned, ‘who called ? who called ?’ Actually the speaker’s sound traveled through the clear open spaces in the forest. The sound ‘who called ?’ rang in the atmosphere. The birds were puzzled.
They could not locate the source of the sound. The speaker was ho less baffled as to how his words were echoed back, what was the object which returned his sound ?
Tlie speaker stood in the open space of a thick forest. He imagines as if his sound went up to the leaves of the farthest branches of the trees. Those leaves seemed to pass it on to the sun. Beneath the trees the air was drak. When he said, ‘who called’ loudly, the leaves made hissing sound, the dark air carried his cry to the region not known to the speaker.
. In the third stanza of the poem, the poet imagines as if there were some mysterious creatures behind the trees who were looking at him but he was not able to spot them out. Perhaps his call was returned by those mysterious creatures. His simple saying (voice) ‘who called’ was mockingly returned to him in the form of ‘who called ?, who called ?’
The speaker perhaps did not like this mocking tone. He reacted sharply and cried in his loud shrill voice ‘who cares ?’ The wind slowed down. Once again his voice was reflected back and who cares ?, who cares ?’ rang throughout the forest. The speaker heard his own weeping tone.
Question 3.
Write in brief of the novel, “David Copper-field in your own words. (5)
Answer:
‘David Copperfield’ is an important and popular novel of Charles Dickens. It is autobiographical in nature and soaked in humous child from his Childhood to manhood when he becomes a famous writer.
David was a posthumous child. His mother Clara loved him heart and soul. His nurse Pegotty doted on him. He was happy in his childhood but hell broke down when his mother married. Mr. Murdstone who was very cruel and hard hearted. He treated David unkindly. David hated him. David was beaten black and blue. He was confined to his room for five days, later on, he was sent to Salem house where a piece of paper with words. ‘I bite’ was pasted on his back.
In the meanwhile his mother died. He had to come for her burial. His step-father refused to bear the cost of his education. He had to wash and clean bottles to earn his bread. He left for London for his aunt Betsy Trotwood. On the way he was robbed of his helongings. he had to go without food and sleep under the open sky. At last he reached the house of his aunt who arranged for his education. He married Dora and after his death Ages. He learnt typewriting and became a reporter and thereafter a famous writer leading a very happy married life.
(Or)
Give the character-sketch of any one :
(a) Mr. Micawber.
(b) Uriah Heep
(a) Mr. Micawber is a businessman but a very funny one. He is a memorable character of the novel. He is always on the look out for a windfall or something to happen. He has a lot of friends of his tem[erament and generosity.
Despite his poverty and debt he is very honest and places ethics higher than his personal profits. His knowledge of law made him a successful Magistrate in Austrialia.
The novel would have a vacuum had Mr. Micawber not been there. He is a good person and grandiloquent in speech, probably created keeping Dickens father in mind.
(b) Uriah Heep is one of the most important characters of the novel. His role is more vital than David herself. Uriah Heep is red-haired person, a youth of fifteen but looking much older.
He is the villain who has set a web to keep Agnes under his thumb. He wants to destroy those who come in their support Uriah Heep was a clerk in Mr. Wickfield’s office. He also studied law. He was very ambitiuous. He played false with Mr. Wickfield to become his firm partner. He had an evil eye on his daughter Agnes and wanted to marry her. The mother of Agnes was dead. Uriah Heep tried to take advantage of this. He cheats wickfield in may ways. He is the perfect villain of the novel.
He swallows to money of Wickfield. He plots to marry Agnes. He challenges four persons including David. Aa a villain Uriah Heep is perfect. He excites rtpu’- ion, hated and wrath in our hearts. Thus he is really a villain.
Question 4.
Write a paragraph in about 75 – 80 words on any one : (5)
(a) Terorrism
(b) Spring Season
(c) Pollution
Answer:
(a) Terorrism : A major irony of today’s global terrorism is the fact that dreads most and desperately. Osama-bin-Laden was monster created by the American themselves. It all started when the cold war was at its peak and the Soviet union mrched into Afghanistan in 1979. Since the Americans could not encounter militarily, they decided to emply proxy fighters. The American operation of Iraq was also bad to further problem. Various regions in the world including South and South-East Asia. Middle East and Africa are gripped by the terrorist violence.
(b) Spring Season : I like athe spring season most. It is the best season of the year. It is caled the queen of the season. How beautiful the earth looks during this season ! Different kinds of flowers bloom in the spring. The smiling flowers give us a lot of joy. They make us forget our cares and anxieties when we walk in a garden, we are filled with joy. The cuckoo sings with joy. Its sweet notes charm us. Th days of the spring are very pleasant.
The spring brings beautiful sights and charming sounds. This season is neither very hot nor very cold. It is suitable for work. Nature looks fresh and beautiful in this season. Dry and dead leaves are dropped by the trees and fresh green leaves appear on the branches. The atmosphere is filled with fragrance. The humming bees and the chirping birds enchant us. The cool breeze gives us new energy. We enjoy good healtyh during this season. It is the season of joy. That is why I am very fond of this season.
(c) Pollution : In recent years the problem of pollution has become very acture. This problem assumes different forms such as Air pollution, Water pollution, Food polution, Noise pollution, Moral pollution and Paper pollution. All this pollution results from the greed of man for getting more and more money.
Trees have been cut down on an unpeecedented scale and large production by industrialisation has assumed gigantic proportions. So, the nvm cause of air and water pollutions is unabalnced industrial growth and urbanization and deforestation. There is the problem of noise-pollution also. The thus and roar of vehicles, particularly in large cities, is deafening and unbearable. There is no pollution check on the road-worthiness of vehicles nor any restriction on the type of horns being used.