English Core Term 2 Sample 2021-2022 Commerce (English Medium) Class 12 Question Paper Solution

Read the passage given below.

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer the questions given below.

1. Cite a point in evidence, from the text, to suggest that the writer's post-Jaws fear was not justified.
2. State any one trait of the writer that is evident from lines 5-10 and provide a reason for your choice.
3. People thought the writer was ‘either brave or very stupid’. Why did some people think that he was ‘very stupid’?
4. Why does the writer say that people who know sharks intimately tend to be least afraid of them?
5. Rewrite the given sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with another one, from lines 10-20.
   Some academicians think that reward, as a form of discipline, is a simple right or wrong issue.
6. What does the use of the phrase ‘benign light’ suggest in the context of the writer’s viewpoint about tiger sharks?
7. Select a suitable phrase from lines 15-25 to complete the following sentence appropriately.
   I agree the team will find this experience tough, but competing will be easier next time after they get this tournament ______
8. Apex predators serve to keep prey numbers in check. How can we say that tiger sharks are apex predators?
9. Analyse why having a large litter is one of the features that empower tiger sharks to emerge, winners, if global warming persists.

Read the passage given below.

Based on your understanding of the passage, answer the questions given below.

1. What does the researcher mean by ‘changing food preferences'?
2. Why was this survey on the food consumption of adolescents undertaken?
3. With reference to the above figure, write one conclusion about students' consumption of energy-dense drinks.
4. What can be concluded from the ‘no intake’ data of fruit consumption versus energy-dense snacks, with reference to the above figure?
5. There were gender differences observed in the consumption of healthy foods, according to the survey. Substantiate.
6. Why is ‘affordability’ recommended as a significant feature of a school canteen policy?
7. Identify a word from lines 9-18 indicating that the questionnaire was specifically designed to be completed by a respondent without the intervention of the researcher collecting the data.

You are Natasha, residing in Pune. Your cousin, from the same city, is hosting your grandmother’s eightieth birth anniversary and has extended an invite to you. He has also requested your assistance with the arrangements needed. Draft a reply of acceptance, in not more than 50 words.

You are Shantanu, residing at Ghar B-94, Balimela Road, Malkangiri. You come across the following classified advertisement in a local daily. Write a letter, in about 120-150 words, applying for the position of a volunteer for the Each One Teach One campaign.

The efforts of 400 volunteers working with the NGO, 4 Literacy, in the district of Malkangiri, Odisha, were lauded by the District Collector, Shri V. Singh (IAS). As a staff reporter of ‘The Odisha Bhaskar’, write a report about this in 120-150 words covering all the details of the event, such as training, teaching and infrastructure involved in the ‘Each One Teach One’ campaign, initiated by the district administration in association with the NGO.

Mistaken identity led to a discovery of a new one for the rattrap peddler. How did this impact him?

As the host of a talk show, introduce Rajkumar Shukla to the audience by stating any two of his defining qualities. You may begin your answer like this:

Meet Rajkumar Shukla, the man who played a pivotal role in the Champaran Movement. He ______

Adrienne Rich chose to express her silent revolt through her poem, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers, just as Aunt Jennifer did with her embroidery. Explain.

Rationalize why Keats uses the metaphor ‘an endless fountain of immortal drink’ in his poem, A Thing of Beauty.

How do you think Derry’s mother contributes to his sense of alienation and isolation? (On the Face of It)

Validate John Updike’s open-ended title, ‘Should Wizard Hit Mommy?’.

How does Keats’ poem, A Thing of Beauty appeal richly to the senses, stimulating the reader’s inner sight as well as the sense of touch and smell? Write your answer in about 120-150 words.

Colin Dexter, the author of Evans Tries an O-level employs the red herring technique of intentionally misleading readers by placing false clues to keep the plot enigmatic. Substantiate with reference to the text, in about 120-150 words.

Biographies include features of non-fiction texts - factual information and different text structures such as description, sequence, comparison, cause and effect, or problem and solution. Examine Indigo in the light of this statement, in about 120-150 words.