ISC (Arts) कक्षा १२ - CISCE Important Questions

It is not easy to keep ______ with the rapidly changing fashions.

Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets. Do not write the passage but write the verbs in the correct order.

A young man had a beautiful garden in his mansion. As he loved flowers, shrubs and trees, he tended to the garden himself. Next to his mansion, there was a small house in which ______ (1) (live) an old man. One day, when the young man was ______ (2) (expect) some special guests, he took extra care in ______ (3) (tend) to the garden. He pulled the weeds, ______ (4) (trim) the shrubs, combed the moss and spent a long time meticulously ______ (5) (rake) up and carefully arranging all the dry autumn leaves. As he worked, the old man ______ (6) (watch) him with interest from across the wall that ______ (7) (separate) their houses. When he had finished, the young man stood back to ______ (8) (admire) his work. “Isn't it beautiful”, he called out to the old man. "Yes", replied the old man, “but there is something missing. Help me over this wall and I'll put it right for you.” After a slight hesitation, the young man ______ (9) (lift) the old fellow over and set him down. Slowly, the old man walked to the tree near the centre of the garden, grabbed it by the trunk, and shook it. Leaves ______ (10) (shower) down all over the garden and formed a beautiful carpet.
“There”, said the old man, “now it is perfect!”

Rewrite the following sentence according to the instructions given in the bracket.

I don't know Helen very much; nevertheless, I like her.

(Begin: In spite of ………)

Rewrite the following sentence according to the instruction given in the bracket.

They opened the window because they did not want the smoke to go into the kitchen.
(Use: so…. that)

Rewrite the following sentence according to the instruction given in the bracket.

Chennai is bigger than most other Indian cities.
(End: ……Chennai.)

Rewrite the following sentence according to the instruction given in the bracket.

He was so old that he could be my grandfather.
(Use: enough......)

Rewrite the following sentence according to the instruction given in the bracket.

The judge said to the prosecutor, “Do you agree with the arguments presented yesterday?”
(Begin: The judge asked…..)

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

The teacher handed down the report cards.

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

She handed in the business to her son.

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

The Minister gave off the prizes.

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

The doctor gave away hope when she fell into a coma.

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct. 

I had to pull over a tough situation to meet the project deadline.

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

When will the Shatabdi Express pull up?

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

Some seats are set by for the handicapped.

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

We immediately set forth fixing the roof.

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

He ran around problems while trying to fix the computer.

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

He ran into President during the elections last year.

Fill in the blanks in the passage given below with the appropriate form of the verb given in brackets. Do not write the passage but write the verbs in the correct order.

Last summer, Emily had been working tirelessly on her garden. She______ (1) (plant) a variety of flowers, ______ (2) (envision) a vibrant and colourful display. Every morning, she would spend hours tending to the blossoms, ensuring they were thriving under the warm sun. One day, while she ______ (3) (admire) her handiwork, she noticed a rare butterfly that had landed on one of the flowers. She had never seen such a beautiful specimen before. Excitedly, Emily ran into the house to grab her camera, ______ (4) (hope) to capture the fleeting moment. By the time she returned, the butterfly______ (5) (fly) away. Disappointed, Emily ______ (6) (realise) that she had missed the opportunity. However, the memory of that elusive butterfly lingered in her mind, and she decided ______ (7) (create) a butterfly-friendly corner in her garden. Months later, as Emily walked through her garden, she saw a familiar flutter of wings. The rare butterfly had returned, ______ (8) (draw) by the blossoms that had bloomed since their last encounter. Grateful for the second chance, Emily ______ (9) (capture) the moment on her camera, cherishing the beauty that ______ (10) (elude) her once before.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Richard Parker was so named because of a clerical error.
A panther was terrorizing the Khulna district of Bangladesh, just outside the Sundarbans. It had recently carried off a little girl. She was the seventh person killed in two months by the animal. And it was growing bolder. The previous victim was a man who had been attacked in broad daylight in his field. The beast dragged him off into the forest, and his corpse was later found hanging from a tree. The villagers kept a watch nearby that night, hoping to surprise the panther and kill it, but it never appeared.
The Forest Department hired a professional hunter. He set up a small, hidden platform in a free near a river where two of the attacks had taken place. A goat was tied to a stake on the river’s bank. The hunter waited several nights. He assumed the panther would be an old, wasted male with worn teeth, incapable of catching anything more difficult than a human. But it was a sleek tiger that stepped into the open one night: a female with a single cub. The goat bleated. Oddly, the cub, who looked to be about three months old, paid little attention to the goat. It raced to the water’s edge, where it drank eagerly. Its mother followed it. Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater urge. Only once the tiger had quenched her thirst did she turn to the goat to satisfy her hunger.
The hunter had two rifles with him: one with real bullets, the other with immobilizing darts. This animal was not the man-eater, but so close to human habitation she might pose a threat to the villagers, especially as she was with cub. He picked up the gun with the darts. He fired as the tiger was about to attack the goat. The tiger reared up and snarled and raced away. But immobilizing darts don’t bring on sleep gently—they knock the creature out without warning. A burst of activity on the animal’s part makes it act all the faster. The hunter called his assistants on the radio. They found the tiger about two hundred yards from the river. She was still conscious. Her back legs had given way and her balance on her front legs was shaky. When the men got close, she tried to get away but could not manage it. She turned on them, lifting a paw that was meant to kill. It only made her lose her balance. She collapsed and the Pondicherry Zoo had two new tigers. The cub was found in a bush close by, meowing with fear.
The hunter, whose name was Richard Parker, picked it up with his bare hands and, remembering how it had rushed to drink in the river, named it Thirsty. But the shipping clerk at the Howrah train station was evidently a man both confused and diligent. All the papers received with the cub clearly stated that its name was Richard Parker, that the hunter’s first name was Thirsty add that his family name was None Given. Richard Parker’s name stuck. I don’t know if the hunter was ever called Thirsty None Given!

(a) Give the meaning of each of the following words as used in the passage.
One word answers ob short phrases will be accepted.

1. corpse (line 6)
2. quenched (line 16)
3. reared (line 20)

(b) Answer the following questions briefly in your own words.

1. Why does the author say that the panther ‘was getting bolder’? 
2. Why did the Forest Department hire a professional hunter? 
3. What did the hunter expect to encounter? What did he actually encounter? 
4. What did the tiger do before turning to attack the goat? Why did it do that? 
5. Why did the hunter decide to shoot the tiger though he knew it was not the man-eater?
6. What name did the hunter give to the cub? Why? 

(c)

(i) In not more than 60 words narrrate how the hunter and his assistants captured the tiger and her cub. 
(ii) Give a suitable title to your summary in 3(c). Give a reason to justify your choice. 

Read the lines given below and answer the following question:

Whom does Iris refer to as ‘her’?