PSEB 12TH ENGLISH SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER SEPTEMBER 2024
Class - 10+2 Paper English - (G) Time: 3 hrs. M.M. 80
Section (A) (10x1=10 )
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it. The world now produces 460 million tonnes (MT) of plastic every year double of what it did 20 years ago. And at this rate plastic production will treble by 2060. That's because affordable, durable and flexible plastic is in every thing from packaging to clothes and beauty products. Unfortunately more than 70% of plastic products have a short useful life and they add to the heap of toxic waste. Globally only 9% of plastic waste is recycled while 22% finds its way into landfills, oceans, rivers and lakes. There it damages the soil, poisons groundwater, chokes marine life and enters the food chain, posing a serious health hazard.
According to experts, plastics have two main problems. Firslly they are not biodegradable as waste, which exceeds 350 MT a year. They can persist hundreds of years as waste. Secondly. plastics are often carriers of toxic chemicals that have been introduced to make them usable. Heavy metals like chromium endocrine distrupting chemicals etc, leach out from plastic packaging and products like feeding bottles, teethers and electronic plastic products during use or during waste disposal and recycling. They can cause cancer, neurological disorders etc with even a low dose over a prolonged use.
To fight plastic pollution, experts recommend making better, environment friendly plastics. Materials should be made that are degradable plant-based materials should be used instead of crude oil based products. Toxic chemicals in plastics can be substituted with safer additives to make them easier to recycle. Single use plastic should be banned.
(1) How many million tones (MT) of plastic waste was being produced 20 years ago
(a) 460 MT/year (b) 230 MT/year (c) 100 MT/year (d) 690 MT/year
(2) Where does 22% of plastic waste go into?
(a) landfills (b) oceans (c) rivers and lakes (d) all of these
(3) Plastic materials are widely used because plastic is :- (a) durable (b) flexible (c) affordable (d) all of these
(4) What are the health hazards of prolonged use to plastics?
(a) cancer (b) neurological disorders (c) both (a) and (b) (d) None
(5) What does plastic waste do when it finds its way into water bodies?
(a) poisons ground water (b) chokes marine life (c) enters fool chain (d) All of these
(6) Which chemicals leach out from plastic material during use, disposal and recycling?
(a) Chromium (b) Endocrine descriptive chemicals (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None
(7) How can we deal with single-use plastic?
(8) For how long can plastic wastes persist in the environment?
(9) To fight plastic pollution, what can be the alternative to crude oil based plastics?
(10) How can the toxic chemicals is plastic be replaced?
(B) Read the following passage and answer the questions below:- (6x1=6)
Less obviously, but just as significant, are the social reasons behind he modern urge to travel. Foreign journeys were, at one time expensive and difficult for most of the people to organise, in fact, an indulgence for the wealthy. Today, cheap airfares and package holidays have made foreign travel fashionable for many, especially for those who spend their lives working in crowded cities and in industry. Travel to foreign countries in now within the reach of families who only thirty years ago would have hardly dreamt of such a thing. Indeed, for some, it has become a matter of personal pride to boast of. The more the time spent abroad, and the more glamorous and far flung the destination, the better. Indians are now looking beyond the beaches of Goa to Miami beaches or to the mountains of Alps or the Niagra Falls or even the safaris of Africa for a new and vastly different experience: Travel companies have been quick to advertise the cultural and educational advantages of such holidays, selling wildlife exploration trips of the Amazon or the ancient temples of the east just as earnestly as they once did the 'Magic of Rome'or the 'Splendour of Ancient Athens'.
( 1) What has made foreign travel fashionable now?
(a) internet (b) cheap airfares and package holidays
(c) leisure (d) All of these
(2) What was once considered an indulgence for the wealthy?
(a) Foreign travel (b) Playing chess
(c) plying on the ice (d) None of these
(3) Where do the Indians look forward to go for holidays now a days
(4) How do the travel companies attract their customers?
(5) Fill in the blank with a suitable word from the passage? Mumbai is one of the most---- cities in India.
(6) Match the words in A with their meaning in B:-
A B
Expensive sincerely
Earnestly freely costly.
Section - (B) (4)
Write a precis of the following paragraph in your own words and give it a suitable title.
Chandigarh is a city of attractions for tourists. One of the favourite places of all the tourists is the Sculpture Garden near Sukhna Lake which is spread over an area of 40 acres. After the name of its creator, it is named Nek Chand's Rock Garden. Nek Chand started creating it secretly in his spare time in 1957. He spent first seven years mostly in collecting the waste material on his bicycle and recycling it in a hut made in the jungle. The garden was developed secretly by him, but it was accidently discovered by the authorities in 1975. It was opened for public view in 1976. Every day, it is visited by hundreds of tourists, who are mesmerized by the beautiful sculptures of soldiers, dancing women, animals, birds and cascading water-falls. A characteristic feature of he Rock Garden is that all the sculptures are made of stone, recycled ceramics, industrial waste, broken household items like crockery, bangles, tubes, cycle-parts, tiles and toilet fixtures etc. Another interesting feature is that one has to pass through many doorsways, archways and concrete lanes leading to courtyards and chambers. Nek Chand planned the layout of the garden based on the fantasy of a lost kingdom. Now where in the world do we see such a beauty created out of waste.
3. Imagine you are Parth Singh . You live at # 15 Model Town, Moga. Write a letter to the Commissioner your Municipal Corporation Complaining about the insanitary conditions in your locality. OR
Imagine you are Suman. You live at # 1082, Grand Avenue, Mohali. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing your views on the growing use of unfair means in the examinations these days. (5)
(4) Write an e-mail to your new employer thanking him for the interview. OR (3)
Explain the following newspaper headline in 15 to 20 words :- Declared Dead, Newborn Found Alive
(5) (a) Translate into Punjabi/Hindi:- (any two) (2)
(1) God willing, we will meet again. (2) You don't like me. (3) Will she prepare tea for us?
(2) He was honoured for his honesty. (Change into compound sentence) Change the voice :- (any two)
(b) Translate into English: (any two) (2)
(1) ਮਹਿਮਾਨ ਰੋਟੀ ਘਰ ਹੀ ਖਾਣਗੇ । मेहमान रोटी घर पर ही खाऐंगे।
(2) ਰੋਗੀ ਦੀ ਹਾਲਤ ਬਿਹਤਰ ਹੋ ਰਹੀ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ। रोगी की हालत बेहतर हो रही है।
(3) ਬੱਚਾ ਹੋ ਰਿਹਾ ਸੀ । बच्चा रो रहा था।
6. Do as directed :- (Grammar) (10)
(a) Fill in the blanks with appropriate determiners.
(1) Miss lin speaks-------- Chinese. (a/an/the/ no article needed)
(2) Give me -----------milk. (Some/any)
(3) I have ----------friends in the city. (much / many)
(b) Fill in the blanks with suitable gerund / participle:-
1) I am afraid of __________the truth. (tell)
(2) We gave him a-------= complaint. (write)
(c) Transformation of sentences:-
(1) The teacher is too weak to control the class. (remove 'too').
(2) He was honoured for his honesty. ( Change inti Compound sentence)
(d) Change the voice :- ( any two)
(1) Does she knows you?
(2) She was given a rose by me.
(3) This pot Contains milk.
Change the narration:- (any one)
(1) He said to me, "I do not believe you.
(2) The shopkeeper said to the boy, "What do you want to buy?
Section (C) 'Literature Textbooks'
7. Answer the following objective type questions:- (10)
(1) Why did the parent teacher meeting end fruitlessly ?
(2) Philip loved to work at the bakery. (True/False)
(3) What was the proposal given to the poor farmer by the money lender?
(4) Civility oils the machine------life. (Fill in the blank)
(5) Philip became famous by playing one of these marches
- (a) The cariappa March
- (b) The Washington Post
- (c) The Manekshaw March
- (d) None of these
(6) Which days is most difficult for children?
(7) What was the real aim of Miss Beam's school?
(8) A -----is a lizard which changes its colour suiting its surroundings.
(9) Bishamber was a heartless man. (True/False)
(10) Choose the correct option:-
Bholi's school teacher felt the satisfaction of ______
(a) an artist (b) a dancer (c) a singer (d) none of these
8. (a) (4)
Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow:-
And I have learned too To laugh with only my teeth
And shake hands without my heart. I have also learned to say, 'Goodbye',
When I mean 'Good-riddance': To say 'Glad to meet you,
Without being glad; and to say 'it's been nice talking to you,' after being bored.
Answer any four of the following questions :-
(1) Name the poem and the poet.
(2) What has the poet learnt to do with his feelings?
(3) What is the meaning of laughings with only my teeth?
(4) What kind of life is the poet living?
(5) Who is the speaker in the poem?
OR
I am the heat of your hearth on the cold winter nights, the friendly shade
Screening you from the summer sun, and my fruits are refreshing draughts
quenching your thirst as you journey on.
- (1) Name the poet and the poem..
- (2) List the things the woods give us.
- (3) How can the woods give us heat as well as coldness?
- (4) Name the figure of speech used in the line... the friendly shade screening you fro summer sun.
- (5) Who is the speaker in the lines?
(b) Write the central idea of the poem :- The Echoing Green OR Friendship (3)
9. Answer any three of the following questions in about 20-30 words;- 3 x2 =6
- (1) Describe the physical appearance of Hassan when he met his teacher after several years ?
- (2) How did Philip manage to get a clean dress?
- (3) Why did the millionaire not reveal the fact of his affluence to the bank officials?
- (4) What does a conductor in the bus generally think about the passengers?
- (5) What were the good qualities of the conductor?
10. Answer any two of the following questions in 20-30 words :- 2x2 =4
- (1) Why were the children acting to be blind, deaf or lame?
- (2) How was Hryukin's bleeding finger a flag of victory?
- (3) Why did the other children make fun of Bholi?
11. Answer any one of the following questions in 60-70 words :- (3)
Draw a character-sketch of the bus-conductor in your own words. OR How did 'lateral thinking' help the millionaire?
12. Answer any one of the following questions in 60-70 words :- (3)
Give a brief character-sketch of otchqumyelov. OR
Ramlal was not worried about his children except Bholi. Why?
13. Good Handwriting. ( 5)
