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

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

Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness, but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

(a) Whose loveliness will keep on increasing?

(b) Identify the phrase which says that 'it' is immortal.

(c) What is a 'bower'?

(d) Why do we need sweet dreams, health and quiet breathing in our lives?

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

Old

familiar ache, my childhood's fear,

but all I said was, see you soon,

Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and

smile... ... ...

a) What does the phrase, 'familiar ache' mean?

b) What was the poet's childhood fear?

c) What do the first two lines tell us about the poet's feelings for her mother?

d) What does the repeated use of the word, 'smile' mean?

Answer any four of the following in 30 – 40 words each:
(a) How did his experience at the YMCA swimming pool affect Douglas?
(b) What hospitality did the peddler receive from the crofter?
(c) Aunt Jennifer;s efforts to get rid of her fear proved to be futile. Comment.
(d) What does Stephen Spender want to be done for the children of the school in a slum?
(e) What kind of life was enjoyed by crown prince Jung Bahadur till he reached the age of twenty?
(f) Where, when and how did Dr. Sadao meet Hana?

Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words: 

Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
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Perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with
death.

(a) How can we bring about a 'huge silence'?
(b) Why is silence called 'huge'?
(c) What do we do for lack of understanding?
(d) What does this lack ultimately lead to?

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

(a) How could the peddler enter the forge without being noticed by the blacksmith?

(b) At Champaran what did the British landlords want from the sharecroppers?

(c) How does the poet show the futility of Aunt Jennifer's efforts?

(d) Stephen Spender in his poem, 'An elementary School Classroom in a Slum' paints a dismal picture of poverty. Comment.

(e) How did Evans have the last laugh at the Governor?

(f) How did the General plan to get rid of the American POW?

Every year in the central park of the city a flower show is held in the month of February. Your school has received a circular from the District Collector inviting your students to visit it. Write a notice in about 50 words informing the students about the show and advising them to go and enjoy it. You are Navtej/Navita, Head Boy/Head Girl Sunrise Public School, Surat.

Sarvodays Education Society, a charitable organisation is coming to your school to distribute books among the needy students. As Head Boy/Head Girl, Sunrise Public School, Surat, write a notice in about 50 words asking such students to drop the lists of books they need in the box kept outside the Principal's office. You are Navtej/Navita.

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

I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realized with
pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away,.......

(a) What worried the poet when she looked at her mother ?
(b) Why was there pain in her realization ?
(c) Why did she put that thought away ?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.

Answer any four of the following in 30 – 40 words each 

(a) What precautions were taken for the smooth conduct of Evan's O-Level examination ?

(b) How did Jo want the Roger Skunk story to end ?

(c) What makes human beings love life inspite of all the troubles they face?

(A Thing of Beauty)

(d) What is suggested by the phrase, 'massive weight of Uncle's wedding band' ?

(e) How did Douglas remove his residual doubts about his fear of water ?

(f) Why did M. Hamel write 'Vive La France' on the blackboard ?

Answer the following in 120-150 words:
Giving a bribe is an evil practice. How did the Tiger King bribe the British officer to save his kingdom ? How do you view this act of his ?

Answer the following in 120-150 words: 

Dr. Sadao was a patriotic Japanese as well as a dedicated surgeon. How could he honour both the values ? 

Answer the following question in 120-150 words :
Describe the circumstances which keep the workers in the bangle industry in poverty.
 

Answer the following question in 120-150 words : 

Edla proved to be much more persuasive than her father while dealing with peddler. Comment.

Answer the following in 120-150 words :

Describe the ironical situation in which Silas Marner had to leave Lantern Yard.

Answer the following in 120-150 words : 

Within a few days of his arrival in Iping, people became suspicious of Griffin. Why?

Answer the following in 120-150 words:

Describe Dolly Winthrop as the most lovable character in George Eliot's 'Silas Marner'.

Attempt a character sketch of Marvel.

Your club is going to organise an interclass singing competition. Write a notice in about 50 words inviting names of the students who want to participate in it. Give all the necessary details. You are Navtej/Navita, Secretary, Music Club, Akash Public School, Agra.

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

and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, ......

(a) How can the trees sprint?
(b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(c) What did she observe?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.