HSC Arts (Marathi Medium) 12th Standard Board Exam [इयत्ता १२ वी] - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

Read the following passage carefully and complete the activities.

Occasional self-medication has always been part of normal living. The making and selling of drugs has a long history and is closely linked, like the medical practice itself, with belief in magic. Only during the last hundred years or so, the development of scientific techniques made, diagnosis possible. The doctor is now able to follow up on the correct diagnosis of many illnesses with specific treatment of their causes. In many other illnesses of which the causes remain unknown, he is still limited, as the unqualified prescriber, to the treatment of symptoms. The doctor is trained to decide when to treat symptoms only and when to attack the cause. This is the essential difference between medical prescribing and self-medication.
The advancement in technology has brought about much progress in some fields of medicine, including the development of scientific drug therapy. In many countries, public health organization is improving and people’s nutritional standards have risen. Parallel with such beneficial trends are two which have an adverse effect. One is the use of high-pressure advertising by the pharmaceutical industry which has tended to influence both patients and doctors and has led to the overuse of drugs generally. The other is the emergence of eating, insufficient sleep, excessive smoking, and drinking. People with disorders arising from faulty habits such as these, as well as from unhappy human relationships, often resort to self-medication and so add the taking of pharmaceuticals to the list. Advertisers go to great lengths to catch this market.
Clever advertising, aimed at chronic sufferers who will try anything because doctors have not been able to cure them, can induce such faith in preparation, particularly if cheaply priced, that it will produce-by suggestion-a very real effect in some people. Advertisements are also aimed at people suffering from mild complaints such as simple cold and coughs which clear up by themselves within a short time.
These are the main reasons why laxatives, indigestion-remedies, painkillers, cough-mixtures, tonics, vitamin and iron tablets, nose drops, ointments and many other preparations are found in quantity in many households. It is doubtful whether taking these things ever improves a person’s health, it may even make it worse. Worse, because the preparation may contain unsuitable ingredients; worse because the taker may become dependent on them; worse because they might be taken
excess; worse because they may cause poisoning, and worst of all because symptoms of some serious underlying cause may be asked and therefore medical help may not be sought. Self-diagnosis is a greater danger than self-medication.

Complete the following points with the help of the above text. (Give a suitable title.)

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Match the professions with the desired qualities.

What is your career goal?

Which of your qualities would help you in achieving your career goal?

Given below is a ‘Mind Mapping’ template. Use your ideas/thoughts/concepts to illustrate/develop them. (Develop your ideas in the form of the main branch, sub-branches, and tertiary branches respectively).
Also, write a paragraph on the mind map you have completed.

List the obstacles which might hamper in achieving your goal/s in life. One is done for you.

Discuss and exchange your views with your partner about your career plan.

You must have decided your aim in life. Which institute/university would you like to join for your diploma / graduation? Write a Statement of Purpose as a part of your application to the institute/ university.

Read the dialogue given below and fill in the blanks with the appropriate job terms given above.

Varsha: Vivek, what kind of job are you looking for?

Vivek: Varsha, I want to _______ I don’t like a _______ My present job is not challenging. I am _______ I am not afraid of a _______ and I am a good _______ Moreover this is a _______ I am looking for an opportunity to try new winds

Read the personal detail given below and prepare a suitable Statement of Purpose.

University of Bath, UK is one of the leading Universities for Business Studies. You belong to a business family - wish to start your own business carry forward your family business in the future. In your junior college, you have opted for commerce, scored well in your Std X Board Examination you made a profit in the stall you had put up in the business fair organized by your school/college. Your hobbies are playing cricket/hockey, you get along well with people.

Read the personal detail given below and prepare a suitable Statement of Purpose.

You are an avid animal lover. You have a pet dog and some love birds at home. You are extremely fond of them. You have been a member of bird watcher’s club. You have loved going on a safari. You have taken care of orphan animals, or animals who are hurt. In school you loved Biology. You wish to make a career in this field. The University of Cambridge offers an excellent course/program which would boost your career. Make a Statement of Purpose which will help you to get admission to this University.

Browse different websites and find out the universities offering best courses in Life Sciences, Arts, Sports, Music, Engineering and Medicine. Collect and share any other additional information related to the course which seems important.

Given below is a two-way communication cycle or the process of communication.

Can you guess the role of the sender and the receiver in this process? What do we encode? What do we decode?

People send messages to others for different purposes. Mention at least five purposes/ reasons for which messages are generally sent.

Given below is a tree-diagram explaining two major types of messages. Complete the blank boxes in the diagram. One is done for you.

In pairs, enact the given conversation between Rakesh and Mrs. Sarkar.

• Rakesh: Hello, may I speak to Dr Sarkar?
• Mrs. Sarkar: He has gone to the hospital to attend the OPD. May I know who is speaking?
• Rakesh: Yes. I am Rakesh Sood. My wife has been having a severe headache since yesterday. Since this morning she has also developed a high temperature. I would be very grateful if the doctor could come over to our place to examine her.
• Mrs. Sarkar: Of course. Please let me note down your address.
• Rakesh: It is B-49, New Colony.
• Mrs. Sarkar: I will give him your message as soon as he returns.
• Rakesh: Thank you.

Mrs. Sarkar had to leave for the school where she teaches. So she wrote a message to her husband. Draft the message in not more than 50 words.

Using information from the dialogue given below, write the message which Amrita left for her brother, Sourajit. (Do not leave out any vital information or add any new information).

• Shekhar: Is this 28473892?
• Amrita: Yes. May I know who is speaking?
• Shekhar: I am Shekhar. I want to speak to Sourajit. I am his friend from IHM, Goa.
• Amrita: I am his sister. Sourajit is not at home at the moment. Can you ring up a little later?
• Shekhar: I shall be a little busy. Actually, I have got a placement at the Hotel Mumbai and will have to join with immediate effect. So right now I am trying to get all the formalities completed. This is the news that I wanted to give Sourajit. Will you do that for me? Also tell him that I will let him know my new cell phone number as soon as I get one.
• Amrita: I’ll do that. Bye and all the best.

Amrita had to leave for office. So she wrote a note for Sourajit. Draft her message in not more than 50 words.

Develop a ‘Mind Mapping’ frame/design to show the ‘Benefits of games and sports’ to the students. You can take the help of the following points in order to develop each of them into further branches:
(Fitness and stamina, team spirit and sportsmanship, group behavior, killer's instinct, will to win)

Rajat comes home from school and finds the door locked. Since he has a duplicate key he enters and finds a note from his mother kept on the table. In it, she explains that she had to rush to the hospital with Mrs. Manohar, their neighbor, who had met with an accident. She has also written that he should have the rice and curry kept on the dining table for lunch. He could heat the food in the microwave oven if he wanted to, but he should be very careful while handling the switch.

Draft the message which Rajat’s mother left for him.

Browse the net to find innovative ‘Message Templates’.