Commerce (English Medium) कक्षा १२ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English Core

Answer the following question in 120-150 words: 

The peddler thinks that the whole world is a rattrap. This view of life is true only of himself and of no one else in the story. Comment.

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Good human values are far above any other value system. How did Dr. Sadao succeed as a doctor as well as a patriot? 

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Describe Marvel as an opportunist. 

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George Eliot has portrayed Godfrey as a morally weak character. Comment. 

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How does Dr. Cuss's encounter with Griffin end in a disaster? 

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What kind of life did Silas lead at Lantern Yard? 

After the rains cases of dengue, Chikungunya etc are on the rise in your city. As Principal, Sunshine Public School Manu Vihar, you have decided to allow your students to wear full sleeve shirts and trousers in the school for a period of one month. Write the notice in about 50 words.   

You are Health Secretary, Students Council Citizens Public School, Ram Bagh, Varanasi. The Council has decided to start from the second of October a week-long cleanliness drive around the school. Draft a notice in about 50 words asking the Class XI students to enrol for the drive. 

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:         
Far far from gusty waves these children's faces.  
Like rootless weeds, the hair torn round their pallor;
The tall girl with her weighed-down head.
(a) Who are these children?
(b) Which figure of speech has been used in the first two lines?
(c) Why is the tall girl's head weighed down?
(d) What does the word, 'pallor' mean? 

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:      

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
(a) Why are the tigers called Aunt Jennifer's tigers?
(b) How are they described here?
(c) How are they different from Aunt Jennifer?
(d) What does the word, 'chivalric' mean?

Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words each :                

(a) Why was Franz not scolded for reaching the school late that day?

(b) Sophie was dreaming of so many things in her life. What were they?

(c) Why are the youngsters described as springing? (My Mother at Sixty-six)

(d) In the hot season, how do man and beast get comfort? (A Thing of Beauty)

(e) How did the Maharaja deal with a high ranking British officer who wanted to shoot a tiger?

(f) Having got rid of his stink, what problem did Roger Skunk face?

RJ Public School is located in a Central Government employees residential colony. Cultural Society of the school has decided to organise a fancy dress show on 25^th of January in which each participant will wear the dress particular to his/her region. The aim is to show the cultural diversity of India. As Secretary write a notice in about 50words inviting the names of those who want to participate.    

RJ Public School is located in a Central Government employees residential colony. Cultural Society of the school has decided to organise a fancy dress show on 25^th of January in which each participant will wear the dress particular to his/her region. The aim is to show the cultural diversity of India. As Secretary write a notice in about 50words inviting the names of those who want to participate.    

An NGO has approached your school to offer book grants to the needy students. As Head girl of Sunshine Public School, Aram Bagh, write a notice in about 50 words asking students who are in need to put their requests into the box kept outside the Principal's office. 

Answer any four of the following questions in 30-40 words each:

(a) What did Franz wonder about when he entered the class that day?
(b) What shocking experience did Douglas have at YMCA pool?
(c) Why does Kamala Das compare her mother to 'a pale winter's moon'?
(d) What rich bountry has the heaven given us? (A Thing of Beauty)
(e) Why did the Maharaja have to pay a bill of three lakh rupees to the British jewellers?
(f) What problem did Roger Skunk face when he went to play with his friends. How did he solve it?

Answer the following question in 120-150 words :     

Mrs. Hall is greedy but efficient in her business.

Attempt a character sketch of Mrs. Hall.

Answer the following question in 120-150 words : 

Nancy Lammeter is a typical country girl. Comment. 

The Principal, Sunshine Public School, Dindigul has invited the Inspector of Police (Traffic) to deliver a lecture on 'Road Safety' in her school. Draft a notice in about 50 words informing the students to assemble in the school auditorium 

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:               

At back of the dim class
One unnoted, sweet and young. His eyes live in a dream,
Of squirrel's game, in three room, other than this.

(a) Why is the class dim?
(b) How is the young child different from others?
(c) What is he doing?
(d) What is a tree room?

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:  

Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.

(a) What is Aunt Jennifer doing with her wool?
(b) Why does she find it difficult to pull her ivory needle?
(c) What does 'wedding band' stand for?
(d) Describe the irony in the third line.