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HBSE Class 12 English SAT-1 Question Paper 2024 Answer Key
Section – A (Reading Skills)
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow : (5 Marks)
It is well said that change is the law of Nature. In our country this change applies well on nature itself. There is hardly any country where nature takes so many turns. For a layman, broadly speaking there are only two seasons Sardi (winter) and garmi (summer). But according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), there are four seasons namely summer, winter, monsoon and autumn. Further, if we go deep into the matter, we find that these seasons have been divided into six categories namely : Vasant Ritu i.e. Spring, Grishm Ritu i.e. Summer, Varsa Ritu i.e. Monsoon, Sharad Ritu i.e. Autumn, Hemant Ritu i.e. pre-winter and Shishir Ritu i.e. winter. All these six seasons have been given two months each from the English calendar. Starting from spring say March, April; they end with winter say January, February respectively. Actually, this change in seasons is a sign of progress. It teaches us to adapt and survive in every type of condition and face every change.
Questions :
(i) In our country, where does the change apply according to passage?
(a) on human nature.
(b) on a layman
(c) on seasons
(d) All of the above
Ans – (c) on seasons
(ii) According to the different views how many seasons are there in our country?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) All of the above
Ans – (d) All of the above
(iii) According to IMD, how many seasons are there in our country?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) All of the above
Ans – (b) 4
(iv) The changes in seasons is an indication of :
(a) Happiness
(b) Sadness
(c) Regression
(d) Progress
Ans – (d) Progress
(v) Antonym of ‘Progress’ is …………
(a) Grow
(b) Regress
(c) Evolve
(d) Advance
Answer – (b) Regress
OR
Human beings are the only creatures who can speak or produce different sounds. Speech is their basic quality. Other creatures cannot speak like human beings and get their requirements fulfilled. They produce sounds or symbols when they need to convey some message to each other. Some people speak only when it is most required. Some people keep on bragging for the whole day. They cannot control themselves. Some of them even don’t know what to speak, when to speak and how to speak. They rarely know that words spoken once can never come back. Sometimes, we listen to the people of saying ‘I take my words back’, funny it is! How can words be taken back? Such a person cannot realize the impact these words have left upon the victim who has been hurt badly. There seems to be no compensation for such a shooting of words. They will always keep on resounding in the memory of the listener. That is why it is suggested to think before we speak. Our words may be a source of happiness or sorrow for others. We must use this art of speaking carefully.
Questions :
(i) Which quality is unique for human beings?
(a) Speech
(b) Happiness
(c) Sorrow
(d) Fighting
Ans – (a) Speech
(ii) How do other creatures speak?
(a) They also speak like human beings
(b) They produce sounds
(c) They produce symbols
(d) They produce sounds and symbols
Ans – (d) They produce sounds and symbols
(iii) What do some people not know?
(a) what to speak
(b) when to speak
(c) how to speak
(d) All of the above
Ans – (d) All of the above
(iv) What keeps on resounding in the memory of listeners?
(a) sound
(b) words
(c) music
(d) symbols
Ans – (b) words
(v) Synonym of ‘Rarely’ is ………..
(a) Hardly
(b) Generally
(c) Regularly
(d) Frequently
Answer – (a) Hardly
2. Read the following passage carefully and make notes on it using headings and sub-headings. Give an appropriate title to it : (5 Marks)
A vast blanket of pollution stretching across South Asia is cutting down sunlight by 10 per cent over India, damaging agriculture, modifying rainfall patterns and putting hundred thousands of people at risk. The startling findings of scientists working with the United Nations Environment Programme indicate that the spectacular economic growth seen in this part of the world in the past decade may soon falter as a result of pollution. Research carried out in India indicates that the haze caused by pollution might be reducing winter rice harvests by as much as 10 per cent, the report said. “Acids in the haze may, by falling as acid rain, have the potential to damage crops and trees. Ash falling on leaves can aggravate the impact of reduced sunlight on earth’s surface. The pollution that is forming the haze could be leading to several hundred thousands of premature deaths as a result of higher levels of respiratory diseases,” it said. Results from seven cities in India alone, including Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata, estimate that air pollution was annually responsible for 24000 premature deaths in early 1990s.
Answer –
Notes :
Title : Pollution and its effects
1. Pollution
1.1 Bad affects of pollution
1.2 Cut down sunlight
1.3 Dmg. agri.
1.4 Rainfall pattern changed
1.5 Life at risk
2. Scientists view on pollution
2.1 Faulty economic growth
2.2 Haze due to pollution reduces rice prod. by 10%
2.3 Acid rain dmg. crops and trees
2.4 Ash reduces sunlight
3. Side effects of haze
3.1. Reduces rice production
3.2 Causes premature deaths due to respiratory diseases
4. Result of pollution in seven cities
4.1 Air pollution causes 24000 deaths in 1990s
Abbreviations:
Damaged – Dmg.
Agriculture – agri.
Production – prod.
Section – B (Writing Skills)
3. Attempt any one of the following : (5 Marks)
The main road leading to your locality has three open manholes causing frequent accidents at night, especially during the rainy season. Write a letter in 120-150 words to the Editor, The Tribune drawing attention of the concerned authorities to this problem of the residents. You are Jatin / Jyoti of Sector 2, Rohtak.
Answer –
| Sector-2 Rohtak 12 July 2024The Editor The Tribune Rohtak Subject : Open manholes Sir, Thank you |
OR
Mentioning the date, time and venue, write a notice for your school notice board for annual sports meet. Encourage students for maximum participation.
Ans –
|
ANNUAL SPORTS MEET Dear Students, |
OR
You are Mr. Ranjit of Karnal. You have recently built a 2-story apartment and wish to sell it. Create an advertisement for the same, which is to be published in the Times of India’s classified column.
Answer –
|
Flat for Sale A newly built 2 story luxury flat, complete with interior furnishings for sale. Flat is located in Karnal, M.G Road, Haryana. It is also in close vicinity of Kalpana Chawla Medical college and Eagle Multi-speciality Hospital. The nearest railway station is 5 mins away. The expected price of the flat: INR 60 lakhs. Contact number: Ranjit– 900xxxxxx. Interested buyers only. Brokers will not be entertained. |
Section – C (Grammar)
4. Attempt any six from eight parts : (1 × 6 = 6 Marks)
(i) Water …………….. (boil) at 100°C. (Verb)
(a) boiled
(b) boils
(c) had boiled
(d) boil
Answer – (b) boils
(ii) It …………… right now. (Verb)
(a) were raining
(b) is raining
(c) raining
(d) rain
Answer – (b) is raining
(iii) He …………. (buy) a mobile last month. (Verb)
(a) brought
(b) was buying
(c) bought
(d) had bought
Answer – (c) bought
(iv) Who hit you? (Voice)
(a) By whom were you hitten?
(b) By whom were you hitted?
(c) By whom were you hit?
(d) Who hit your face?
Answer – (c) By whom were you hit?
(v) Children like sweets. (Voice)
(a) Sweets like children.
(b) Sweets are liked by children and adults.
(c) Sweets are liked by children.
(d) None of these
Answer – (c) Sweets are liked by children.
(vi) Active Voice : Somebody stole the money.
Passive Voice : The money was stolen …………… somebody.
(a) to
(b) by
(c) at
(d) under
Answer – (b) by
(vii) The teacher said, “Don’t make a noise.” (Narration)
(a) The teacher said to the boys do not make a noise.
(b) The teacher said to the boys that do not make a noise.
(c) The teacher ordered the boys not to make a noise.
(d) The teacher ordered the boys that do not make a noise.
Answer – (c) The teacher ordered the boys not to make a noise.
(viii) Direct Speech : Anshu said, “I am a good student.
Indirect Speech : Anshu said that she …………… a good student.
(a) was
(b) is
(c) am
(d) are
Answer – (a) was
Section – D (Literature)
5. Attempt any one extract given below : (1 × 5 = 5 Marks)
My acquaintance with the barefoot rag pickers leads me to Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically. Those who live here are squatters who came from Bangladesh back in 1971. Saheb’s family is among them. Seemapuri was then a wilderness. It still is, but no longer empty. In the structures of mud, with roofs of tin and tarpaulin, devoid of sewage, drainage or running water, live 10,000 rag pickers.
Questions :
(i) Name the chapter from which these lines have been taken.
(a) The Last Lesson
(b) Lost spring
(c) The Rattrap
(d) Deep Water
Answer – (b) Lost spring
(ii) Name the writer of the passage.
(a) William Douglas
(b) Anees Jung
(c) Louis Fischer
(d) None of the above
Answer – (b) Anees Jung
(iii) Which place is situated in the periphery of Delhi?
(a) Dhaka
(b) Bangladesh
(c) Seemapuri
(d) Mumbai
Answer – (c) Seemapuri
(iv) Where did the squatters come from?
(a) Delhi
(b) Mumbai
(c) Dhaka
(d) Bangladesh
Answer – (d) Bangladesh
(v) How many rag pickers live in the periphery of Seemapuri?
(a) 5,000
(b) 10,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 15,000
Answer – (b) 10,000
OR
.……realised with pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away, and
looked out at Young
Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes,
Questions :
(i) Who is the poet of these lines?
(a) Kamala Das
(b) Stephen Spender
(c) Pablo Neruda
(d) Adrienne Rich
Answer – (a) Kamala Das
(ii) What is the name of the poem?
(a) An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
(b) My Mother at Sixty-six
(c) Keeping Quiet
(d) A Roadside Stand
Answer – (b) My Mother at Sixty-six
(iii) Who does ‘she’ refer to in the above stanza?
(a) Poetess’s Aunt
(b) Poetess’s Mother
(c) Poetess’s Daughter
(d) Poetess’s Grandmother
Answer – (b) Poetess’s Mother
(iv) What did the poetess realize with pain?
(a) She had left her wallet at home.
(b) Her mother was old and prone to death.
(c) She had a headache.
(d) Her mother had forgot to take her pills.
Answer – (b) Her mother was old and prone to death.
(v) The mood outside of the car is ……………… that inside the car.
(a) the same as
(b) the opposite of
(c) more messier than
(d) more green than
Answer – (b) the opposite of
6. Why did the Tiger King take a vow to kill one hundred tigers? How do you see the story as a satire? Elaborate. (The Tiger King) (5 Marks)
Answer – The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram’s name was Jung Jung Bahadur. But he came to be known as the Tiger King. When he was born, the Chief astrologer made a prophecy that his death would be caused by a tiger. He should remain very careful of the hundredth tiger. So the Maharaja was forced to start the campaign of killing tigers in self-defence. He started hunting tigers at the age of twenty. His campaign was a great success. Within ten years, he killed seventy tigers. As a result of it, the jungles of his own state left no tiger at all. Then he married a girl from a royal family, in whose state had a large number of tigers. Then he started hunting tigers in the forests of his father-in-law’s state. Very soon he killed ninety nine tigers, just one short of the required one hundred. The hundredth tiger was the wooden tiger toy that the king had given to his son on his third birthday present. It caused his death. Thus we can agree that all these details are humorously presented with an under current of satire in the story ‘The Tiger King!’
OR
What are the steps William Douglas takes throughout the story, in order to conquer his fear of water? (Deep Water)
Answer – When Douglas grew up, he took the help of an instructor to learn swimming. His training went on from October to April. For three months he was taken across the pool with the help of a rope. As he went under, terror filled him and his legs froze. The instructor taught him to exhale under water and inhale through raised nose. He made him kick his legs to make them relax. Then he asked him to swim. He continued swimming from April to July. Still all terror had not left. He swam two miles across Lake Wentworth and the whole length to the shore and back of Warm Lake. Then he overcame his fear of water.
7. Answer any three questions. (2 × 3 = 6 Marks)
(i) What does the third level refer to in the story? (The Third Level)
Answer – The third level refers to the subway of the Grand Central Station that takes passengers to Galesburg Illinois. The third level on the station was a medium of escape for Charley the narrator from the harsh realities of modern life. It provided him a base where he could interweave fantasy and reality.
(ii) What is the aim of the program ‘Students on Ice’? (Journey to the end of the Earth)
Answer – The ‘Students on Ice’ programme aims to take high school students to the ends of the world. It provides them with inspiring educational opportunities which foster in them a new understanding and respect for our planet. It offers the future generation of policymakers a life-changing experience at an age when they are ready to absorb, learn and act.
(iii) What did Mr Hamel say about the French language? (The Last Lesson)
Answer – Mr. Hamel expressed the significance and beauty of the French language, emphasizing that it was the most beautiful language in the world.
(iv) Why was the crofter so talkative and friendly with the peddler? (The Rattrap)
Answer – The crofter was an old man. He had no wife or children. He lived alone in his house. When the peddler knocked at his door and asked for shelter, he was happy to receive someone to talk to in his loneliness. So, he was so talkative and friendly with the peddler.
8. How does the poet ‘Kamala Das’ describe her mother in the poem ‘My Mother at Sixty-Six’? (My Mother at Sixty-Six) (3 Marks)
Answer – The poet describes her mother’s ageing face and her reaction to it without the slightest bit of hesitation. She compares her mother’s face to that of a corpse. She compares her mother’s face with that of the moon on a winter night. This image is not morbid but pleasant. However, both images are used to signal the end of something. The corpse more directly addresses the issue of human life coming to an end.
OR
What kind of an imaginary and ideal world does the poet visualize? (Keeping Quiet)
Answer – The poet longs for a calm, quiet and peaceful world, devoid of all forms of violence, as he visualises ‘togetherness’ of the people in a moment of silence and peace. According to the poet, this moment will give us time in silence for self-introspection, when we can spiritually attain our moral self through a moment of meditation.
This moment will bring an end to all destructive activities in the world. The fishermen will not be killing whales and the men gathering salt will have time to rest their injured hands. Environmental degradation will come to an end. The warmongers will be silenced in a moment of brotherhood to meditate and cleanse their souls. The poet hopes that it will be an ideal world where man will be able to come out from his self-centred attitude to gain moral peace.