Bihar Board Class 12th English 2014 Question Answer : प्रिय विद्यार्थियों, “Mindbloom Study” (#1 Online Study Portal For Bihar Board Exams) आपके लिए लाया है Bihar Board Class 12th English 2014 Previous Year Question Paper ।
GROUP – A
1. Fill in the blanks with right verb forms given in the brackets :
(a) The preacher speaks as if he …… God. (to be)
(b) He …… from Patna yesterday. (return)
(c) The flowers …… sweet. (smell)
2. Change the following sentences into passive voice :
(a) Can he do it?
(b) Let him do it.
(c) Who disturbed the class ?
3. Read carefully the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Ministry of Environment and Forests has directed Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to have state-level recovery plans for the Great Indian Bustard. The proposed plan will aim at long-term conservation of both bustard species in Kutch in Gujarat. With this state-level initiative, it is expected that the conservation of and habitat restoration for GIB will get a boost. Officials in the Bombay Natural History Society said many vital and bio-diverse habitats such as grasslands and species inhabiting the Great Indian Bustard continue to remain neglected.
Question :
(a) What has the Ministry of Environment and Forests directed the states?
(b) What does the proposed plan aim at?
(c) What did the officials in the Bombay Natural History say?
(d) Use the following words in the sentences of your own:
(i) Conservation (ii) Habitat (iii) Recovery
4. Fill in the blanks with suitable modal auxiliaries :
(a) …… he live long!
(b) He …… do it.
(c) We ……obey our parents.
5. Make a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title :
The press, as a whole, and in this technical and restricted sense, is thus pretty free in peaceful Britain. There is no shade of political opinion that does not somehow contrive of express itself. But if we go on to imagine that any particular organ of the Press enjoys the larger liberty of being a forum of public opinion, we are gravely mistaken. Every newspaper is shackled to its own set of overlords and, in its turn. Like the Unmerciful Servant, exercises a powerful bondage upon its readers and on the public generally. Indeed, we may say that the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
6. Frame meaningful sentences using the following idioms and phrase in them :
(a) Put up with (b) Bear with (c) Give out
7. Combine the following simple sentences into one complex sentence each :
(a) You gave me a book. The book was costly.
(b) The boy was playing. The scorpion bit him.
(c) He came late. He was fined.
8. Translate the following sentences into English :
(a) वह कई वर्षों से घर नहीं आया है।
(b) उसके बारे में मुझे कुछ पता नहीं है।
(c) उसके माता-पिता घर पर रहते हैं।
(d) उसका शहर में अपना घर नहीं है।
(e) वह एक गाँव में रहता है।
9. Write an essay in about 100-150 words on any one of the following :
(a) Recent political changes in Bihar.
(b) Importance of good education.
(c) Science in the service of mankind.
(d) The game you like most.
(e) The rising prices.
10. Turn the following sentences into indirect speech :
(a) The boy said to the teacher, “Please help me do it”.
(b) The girl said to her father, “When will mother return?”
(c) You said to me, “I cannot do it unless you ask me to do.”
11. Transform the following sentences as directed without changing the meaning :
(a) This book is costlier than any other book available here. (into superlative degree)
(b) Nehru loved children. (into negative)
(c) He is too lazy to complete the work in time. (Remove ‘too’)
GROUP-B
12. Name the poets who wrote the following lines :
(a) Sweetest Love I Do Not goe for Weariness of Thee.
(b) I celebrate myself and sing myself.
(c) Here lies a most beautiful lady.
(d) If I should die, think only this of me
(e) The voice of my education said to me, “He must be killed.”
13. Match the titles given in List-A with appropriate names from List-B :
List-A List-B
(a) Snake (i) Walt Whitman
(b) Song of Myself (ii) Walter de la Mare
(c) The Soldier (iii) D.H. Lawrence
(d) To Autumn (iv) Rupert Brooke
(e) An Epitaph (v) John Keats
14. Write in short, the summary of any one of the following poems :
(a) The Soldier
(b) Song of Myself
(c) Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
(d) My Grandmother’s House.
GROUP-C
15. Name the authors of the following prose pieces:
(a) How Free Is The Press
(b) The Earth
(c) Ideas that Have helped Mankind.
16. Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false :
(a) Press is free everywhere.
(b) Proprietors have their personal interests as well.
17. Write in short the summary of any one of the following pieces :
(a) The Artist
(b) A Pinch of Snuff
(c) I Have a Dream
(d) A Marriage Proposal
(e) Indian Civilization and Culture.
GROUP-D
18. Name the authors of the following books :
(a) Arms and the Man (b) For Whom The Bell Tolls
(c) Coolie (d) Tom Jones
(e) Kanthapura.
Or, Write five sentences on any one of the following Indo-Anglian writers:
(a) M.R. Anand (b) Raja Rao (c) R.K. Narayan
19. Write the names of any five modern English novelists or poets :
Or, Write five sentences on English as international language.
20. Write a short note on any one of the following :
(a) Slang (b) Dialect
(c) Morpheme (d) American English
Or, Point out the differences between Novel and Short-story in not more than five sentences.
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