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यूपी बोर्ड कक्षा 12वी अंग्रेज़ी अर्धवार्षिक पेपर 2022-23

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अनुक्रमांक……….

नाम……………..

177                                                                                                                                                 316 (EF)

2023

अंग्रेजी

( नया पाठ्यक्रम )

समय : 3 घंटे 15 मिनट ]                                                                                                                           [ पूर्णांक : 100

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Note : First 15 minutes are allotted for the candidates to read the question paper. 

Instructions : 

  i)   This question paper is divided into for sections A,B,C and B

  ii)   All question from all the sections are compulsory

 iii)  Marks are indicated against eachquestion

iv)  Read the questions very carefully before you start answering them

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SECTION – A

( Reading )

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1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follow.

   Ram Mohan Roy had sounded the

   theme with his passionate 

   advocacy of social reform ; 

   Vivekanand repeated it with a more

   nationalist timbra, when he 

   declared that the highest form of 

   service of the great mother was

   social service. Other great Indians 

   chief of home was Mahatma 

   Gandhi, developed the theme of 

   social service as a religious duty,

   and the development continuous 

   under Gandhi successors.

   The fever rose very high and all 

   that night the boy were delirious. 

   Bishamber bought in a doctor. 

   Patik opened his eyes flushed with 

   fever, and looked up to the ceiling,

   and said vacantly : “uncle have the

   holidays come yet? May I go

   home? Bishamber wiped the tears

   from his own eyes and took

   Phatik’s lean and burning hands in 

   his own and set by him through the 

   night. The boy begin again to 

   mutter. At last his voice became

   excited, “Mother,” he cried, don’t 

   beat me like that! Mother! I am

   telling the truth.

Whom did Ram Mohan Roy give voice to? 

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Whose words did Vivekananda repeated 

What did Patik kisi first when he opened his eye

Why was the boy grumbling?

What disease was the boy suffering from?

Section – B

(Writing)

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2. Write an article on anyone of the following topics in about 100-150 words :           10

(a) Challengers before our country.

(b) How can we make our environment friendly?

(c) Democracy in the year that follows.

3. Write a letter to the C.M.O of your district requesting him to initiate a vaccination program in your college. 

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Or

Write a letter to your principal requesting him to organise a district level debate on ‘Religion and Politics’in your college.

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Section – C

(Grammar)

4. Choose the correct option to answer the following questions : 5×2=10

(a) Undue favour to place one’s relatives in lucrative posts is called

(i) casteism 

(ii) individualism

(iii) secularism 

(iv) nepotism 

(b) The phrase ‘on the wane’ means

(i) increasing

(ii) developing

(iii) decreasing

(iv) striking 

(c) The synonym of despise is

(i) love                   (ii)hate

(iii) respect            (iv) select

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(d) ‘Rohit has gone before his father come.’

Which words in the above sentence is an error?

(i) gone               (ii) before

(iii)his                  (iv)come

(e) The antonym of severe is

(i) mild                  (ii) bold

(iii)fertile               (iv)hide

5. (a) Change any one of the following into indirect narration :   2

(i) Mohit said to Rita, “Why did you stop here?”

(ii) The teacher said to the children, “Do not quarrel with your sisters.”

(b) Combine any one of the following as directed:       2

(i) The thief was punished. The thief was fined.

                   (Compound sentence)

(ii) When does the train arrive? I do not know the time.

                   (Complex sentence)

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(c) Transform any one of the following as directed :        2

(i) Kashmir is not so hot as Bhopal.

                    (Comparative degree)

(ii) What made you happy?

                    (Passive voice)

(d) Correct any one of the following sentences:           2

(i) He could not secure passing marks.

(ii) If he will come, I shall teach him.

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(e) Use any one of the following pair of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear:          2

(i)pain-pane

(ii)adapt-adept

6. Translate the following into English:         5

भारतवर्ष एक महान देश है। इसका अतीत बहुत ही शानदार रहा है। विदेशी आक्रमणकारियों ने इस देश को लूटने का प्रयास किया। इसकी संस्कृति तथा इसके ज्ञान-विज्ञान को मिटाने का प्रयास किया। परंतु देश प्रेमियों के बलिदान और बहादुरी के कारण वे सफल नहीं हुए। आज भी देश में किसी चीज की कमी नहीं है। यदि दिन दूनी रात चौगुनी बढ़ती हुई जनसंख्या पर नियंत्रण हो जाए तो देश पुनः समृद्ध हो जाएगा।

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Section – D

(Literature)

7. Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:          4+4=8

(a) Who was Mukesh and what was his ambition?

Or

How deep was the pool? What was there inside the water?

(b) What did Hamel say about the French language?

Or

Who was the rattrap seller ? How did he make them ?

8. Answer any one of the following in about 80 words:        7

(a) Why did Rajkumar Shukla invite Gandhiji to Champaran ? How did Gandhiji solve the problems of farmers?

(b) Who is Mukesh different from the other bangle makers of Firozabad?

9. Read the following extract carefully answer the questions that follow.     3×2=6

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Far far from gusty waves

These children’s faces,

Like rootless weeds, the hair was

Torn round their pallor;

The tall girl with her weight-down head

The paper seeming boy, with rat’s eyes.

The stunted, unlucky heir,

of twisted bones,

Reciting a father’s gnarled disease,

His lesson from his desk.

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(a) Who are far from gusty waves?

(b) How are the eyes of paper seeming boy?

(c)”Like rootless weeds, the hair was

Torn round their pallor.”

Point out the figure of speech used in the above lines.

10. Write the central idea of any one of the following poems:          4

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(i) My mother at sixty-six 

(ii) keeping Quiet

(iii)Ant Jennifer’s Tiger.

11. Answer the following questions in about 40 words each : 4+4=8

(a) What did the astrologer tell about the death of the tiger king?

Or

What did the author realize reaching Antarctica?

(b) Who was Geoff Green? What did he offer to the students?

Or

Who was clare? Why was Jack worried about her?

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12. Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:      7

(a) Who was Dr. Sadao? How did he meet Hana and married to her?

(b) What type of garden does Mr. Lamb have? Why does he like it?