Bihar Board Class 12th English 2020 Question Answer : प्रिय विद्यार्थियों, “Mindbloom Study” (#1 Online Study Portal For Bihar Board Exams) आपके लिए लाया है Bihar Board Class 12th English 2020 Previous Year Question Paper ।
SECTION – A (Multiple Choice Question)
1. She hurt ……
(A) yourself
(B) herself
(C) itself
(D) himself
2. Choose the correctly spelt word.
(A) waist
(B) weist
(C) weaist
(D) waest
3. Rekha sings ……
(A) less well
(B) very well
(C) more well
(D) much well
4. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) He is the honoured man
(B) He is a honoured man
(C) He is a honourable man
(D) He is an honourable man
5. He spoke ……
(A) with a loud voice
(B) at a loud voice
(C) in a loud voice
(D) to a loud voice
6. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) He is the better student of the class.
(B) He is the best student of the class.
(C) He is a best student of the class.
(D) He is a best students of the class.
7. I think you ……
(A) hearted
(B) heartily
(C) heart
(D) with heart
8. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) Fifty rupees is not much
(B) Fifty rupees are not much
(C) Fifty rupees have not much
(D) Fifty rupees was no much
9. He is …… to buy a flat.
(A) gone
(B) went
(C) going
(D) go
10. He went …… college.
(A) at
(B) to
(C) in
(D) by
11. What you do ……me.
(A) does not concern
(B) had not concern
(C) may not concerned
(D) will not concerned
12. The dog is lying on the floor ……the table.
(A) in
(B) on
(C) into
(D) under
13. …… she travel with us yesterday?
(A) Can
(B) Does
(C) Didn’t
(D) May
14. He is strong. He can lift this box. (Choose the correct combination)
(A) He is strong enough to lift this box
(B) Strong is the enough to lift this box
(C) The box can be lifted by him
(D) Lifted by him can be the box
15. You are …… the poor (Choose the correct option)
(A) will help
(B) help
(C) helping
(D) had helped
16. All …… Hari were present.
(A) accept
(B) expect
(C) exceed
(D) except
17. The man came …… me. (Choose the correct preposition)
(A) of
(B) since
(C) toward
(D) into
18. Most of the candidates ……
(A) he passed
(B) having passed
(C) have passed
(D) will passed
19. ……your work carefully.
(A) Do
(B) Was
(C) Have
(D) Be
20. Choose the correctly spelt word.
(A) Circumstance
(B) Curcumstance
(C) Cirrcumstance
(D) Caircumstance
21. Choose the correctly spelt word.
(A) Groops
(B) Greops
(C) Griopus
(D) Groups
22. They were …… a noise. (Choose the best active voice)
(A) made
(B) making
(C) make
(D) to making
23. Choose the correctly spelt word :
(A) Pentor
(B) Peintor
(C) Painter
(D) Peantor
24. It has just …… ten. (Choose the correct option)
(A) strike
(B) strucked
(C) struck
(D) stricking
25. There weren’t ……apples on the table.
(A) lesser
(B) much
(C) many
(D) some
26. A child whose parents are dead is ……
(A) lonely
(B) orphan
(C) single
(D) alone
27. I am …… English. (Choose the correct option)
(A) learning
(B) learn
(C) learned
(D) learn’t
28. The room will be cleaned by Ramu. (Choose the correct active voice)
(A) Ramu had cleaned the room
(B) Ramu was to cleaned the room
(C) Ramu will clean the room
(D) Ramu will to clean the room
29. Radha sings a song. (Choose the correct option)
(A) A song was sung by Radha
(B) A song is sung by Radha
(C) A song has sung by Radha
(D) A song were sung by Radha
30. The farmer ……the field. (Choose the correct option)
(A) ploughing
(B) plough
(C) ploughs
(D) will ploughing
31. You …… come to school in time.
(A) should
(B) can’t
(C) mustn’t
(D) couldn’t
32. “He is playing tennis” said Rita. (Choose the correct option)
(A) Rita my say that he plays tennis
(B) Rita and that he was playing tennis
(C) Rita said that he plays tennis
(D) Rita had said that he plays tennis
33. He showed great …… (Choose the correct option)
(A) patience
(B) patient
(C) patients
(D) patiens
34. I do not …… Rita any more.
(A) seeing
(B) has see
(C) seen
(D) see
35. Meera …… off the light and went to sleep.
(A) turn
(B) turned
(C) turning
(D) will turn
36. …… students are present in the class.
(A) All
(B) Total
(C) Whole
(D) Entire
Instruction : Question from 37 to 60 are based on the prescribed texts.
37. Keki Daruwala is a recipient of Sahitya Academy Award in ……
(A) 1982
(B) 1983
(C) 1984
(D) 1985
38. “That thou lov’st mee, as thou say’st,’ is from
(A) Snake
(B) To Soldier
(C) Song of Myself
(D) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
39. Seibei was passionately interested in ……
(A) toys
(B) gourds
(C) fruits
(D) music
40. “Nurses to the grave are gone” is from
(A) An Epitaph
(B) Fire-Hymn
(C) Now the Leaves are Falling Fast
(D) The Soldier
41. David Copperfield was written by
(A) D. H. Lawrence
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) Rudyard Kipling
42. English developed into a single, standard ……
(A) Queen’s English
(B) King’s English
(C) Prince’s English
(D) Princess English
43. The Prose-piece …… is a speech Delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.
(A) Indian Civilization & culture
(B) I have a dream
(C) The Earth
(D) A Marriage Proposal
44. Dr. Zakir Hussain had also served as the Governor of ……
(A) West Bengal
(B) Assam
(C) Bihar
(D) Karnataka
45. “The Gitanjali” was written by
(A) Shiv K. Kumar
(B) Jayanta Mahapatra
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
46. Langland is a well known writer of …… English literature.
(A) Post modern
(B) Old
(C) Modern
(D) Middle
47. The voice of few women raised in warning cannot be heard ……
(A) Over the problems of the society
(B) In the western technology
(C) over the humming and throbbing of our machines
(D) In the cries of our children
48. W.H. Auden won the ……Prize in 1948.
(A) Pulitzer
(B) Man Booker
(C) Noble
(D) Sahitya Akademi
49. The Anglo-Saxons were …… people.
(A) Persian
(B) Germanic
(C) Greek
(D) Latin
50. Force is designed of excite …….
(A) sorrow
(B) laughter
(C) jealousy
(D) hatred
51. All that the Johnsons had was the ……
(A) earth
(B) house
(C) hotel
(D) shop
52. Gandhiji died at the hands of fanatic of ……
(A) 31st October, 1984
(B) 15th August, 1947
(C) 30th January, 1948
(D) 26th December, 1950
53. ‘The wasteland’ was written by
(A) John Keats
(B) T. S. Eliot
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) W. B. Yeats
54. ‘Summer in Kolkata’ is a collection of poems by :
(A) Kamala Das
(B) Keki N. Daruwala
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) John Keats
55. And the nightingale is dumb And the …… will not come.
(A) trolls
(B) prams
(C) angle
(D) distress
56. Who was ‘light of step and heart’?
(A) a beautiful lady
(B) an ugly lady
(C) an old lady
(D) a mad lady
57. The taming of …… animals made life much pleasant.
(A) wild
(B) voracious
(C) weak
(D) domestic
58. “Was it cowardice, that I dared not him?”
(A) Song of Myself
(B) The Soldier
(C) Snake
(D) Fire-Hymn
59. “A Marriage Proposal” was written by
(A) Zakir Hussain
(B) H. E. Bates
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Anton Chekhov
60. ‘I believe that the civilization India has evolved is not to be beaten in the world’ is form ……
(A) Indian Civilization and Culture
(B) India Through a Traveller’s Eyes
(C) The Earth
(D) Bharat is My Home
SECTION – B (Descriptive Type Question)
1. Write an essay on any one of the following in about 150-200 words.
(a) Importance of Computer
(b) Newspapers
(c) The Happiest Day of My Life
(d) A Village Fair
(e) Your Hobbies
2. Explain any one of the following :
(a) In no part of the world, and under no civilization, have all men attained perfection.
(b) Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.
(c) Nanukaka opened the silver snuffbox and took a pinch.
(d) But I shall be told that it is neither number, nor multiplicity of pleasures that make the glory of man.
3. Explain any one of the following :
(a) They who on another keepe
Alive, ne’r parted bee.
(b) Snakes moved
Among books, I was then two young.
(c) The nearest Tower of Silence was a thousand miles
The fire-hymn said to me, “You stand forgiven.”
(d) To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
and fill all fruits with ripeness to the core.
4. Write a letter to your friend describing a road accident.
Or, Write a letter to the Health officer of your town about mosquito menace in your locality.
5. Answer any five of the following in about 40-50 words :
(a) How did the Under Secretary change his appearance to accompany Nanukaka ?
(b) Why does Dr. Zakir Hussain call India “The young state of ancient people”?
(c) What is immediate impact of poverty in medical field?
(d) What do you mean by the term ‘free press’?
(e) What did Benjy understand about the business of hens?
(f) What, according to Lomov, is the main defect of Leap?
(g) Why was the land between Bombay and Madras finished?
(h) How did Seibei’s father react to the teacher’s complaint ?
(i) Has civilization taught us to be more friendly towards on another?
(j) What are the ‘trials and tribulations’ that Martin Luther King, Jr. talks about?
6. Answer any three of the following in about 100-120 words :
(a) Write the summary of any one of the following poems :
(i) Now the leaves are Falling Fast
(ii) Fire-Hymn
(iii) Snake
(b) Write the Summary of any one of the following prose pieces :
(i) Bharat is my Home
(ii) The Artist
(iii) A Pinch of Snuff
(c) Write a note on English as a global language.
Or, What led English borrowings?
Or, Write a note on Indian English.
(d) Match the name of the poets given in List A with their works in List-B :
List-A List-B
(a) Walter de la mare (i) Macavity : The Mystery Cat
(b) Rupert Brooke (ii) To Autumn
(c) John Keats (iii) The Soldier
(d) T. S. Eliot (iv) Snake
(e) D.H. Lawrence (v) An Epitaph
(g) Translate any five into English :
(i) तुम खुश रहोगे।
(ii) बड़ों का आदर करो।
(iii) हरीश मूर्ख है।
(iv) क्या किसान मेहनती होते हैं?
(v) बच्चे मैदान में खेल रहे हैं।
(vi) मैंने चाय पी है।
(vii) वे लोग कब तैयार होंगे।
(viii) आज बहुत ठंड है।
7. Read the passage and answer the question that follow :
‘Prevention is better than cure’, and it is recognized that the only way to get rid of malaria completely is to get rid of the mosquitoes which cause it. Malaria does not occur in desert areas because mosquitoes cannot breed there. The only way to destroy mosquitoes is to prevent their breeding in stagnant water. This can be done by keeping all ponds and pools covered with a film of kerosene oil, kills them.
Questions :
(a) How can malaria be prevented?
(b) How can we prevent the breeding of mosquitoes?
(c) Why doesn’t malaria occur in desert areas?
(d) Make sentences with – Malaria, Prevention.
Or, Write a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title :
An ideally good man is intensely religious and avoids bad habits such as smoking and drinking. He does not use indecent language. He is professionally dutiful and takes active interest in promoting virtues such as patriotism and fellow-being amongst his colleagues and family.
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