HSC Commerce: Marketing and Salesmanship १२ वीं कक्षा - Maharashtra State Board Important Questions

Do as directed:

My friend is _____ able translator and _____ impartial
editor as well. 

(Rewrite it using appropriate articles.)

(ii) I was _ _ my regular walk through the forest _ _ 9 a.m.
( I)
(fill in the b lanks with proper prepositions.) 

(iii) whispered to him hesitantly, "Could you stay here for a day?"
Gandhiji said, "It is very difficult."
(Change it into indirect speech.)    (2) 

         In more recent times Gandhiji, perhaps, is one who assiduously brushed aside adulation to remain a free ‘nobody’. At the Congress session when he, the star of the session, stunned everybody by cleaning up the latrines, his act was calculated to purge Congress workers of their false sense of status, and so to return the movement to its down-to-earth roots. The point of guarding against becoming a self-defeating somebody applies to the upbringing of children as well. Doting parents often stunt the natural growth of their children through excessive adulation. Common place acts and utterances of the child are praised and quoted beyond reason. Talent that otherwise might have flowered uner proper training, is lauded to the extent of killing it.
     John Stuart Mill’s education and training began very early. At an age when many kids can barely lisp a few words, he had learnt enough Green and Latin to read to classies in the original. Before he was five he had read more than what many scholars normally reac in thei career. Did this make the child John feed heady ? No! Because, he tells us, his father (who was also his tutor) always made him believe that there was nothing extraordinary about his achievement that he was doing only what anybody is capable of doing Mill was made to believe that other boys of his age had, in fact, grossly underestimated their capabilities and were wasting their early years striving for too little.
     The sequence of somebody-nobody holds true, in a way, in respect of institutions and nations as well. C Northcote Parkinson, enunciating one of his famous laws, has tried to read this pattern in the case of great empires worldwide. He connects the raising of imposing palaces to the begining of the empire’s decline.

Read the first activity, read and extract and then do all the activities:
A1. True / False  (2)

Correct the following statements if they are false :
(i) Gandhiji stunned everybody by cleaning up the roads at the congress session.
(ii) Talent is lauded to the extent of killing it.
(iii) Other boys of John Stuart Mill’s age had, in fact, grossly underestimated their capabilities.
(iv) Parkinson without enunciating one of his famous laws, has tried to read the pattern of the sequence of somebody nobody, in the case of great empires worldwide.

A2. Complete the statements — (2)
John Stuart Mill’s father helped his son (how) :
(i) _________________
(ii) ________________

 A3. Elaborate : (2)
“The raising of imposing palaces is the begining of the empire’s decline” Elaborate meaning of this statement.

A4. Vocabulary : (2)
Find out four similar meaning words for ‘admiration’ from the extract.

A5. Personal response : (2)
Express your views on development of children to lead them towards success.

A6. Grammer — (2)
Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed :
(i) He had learnt enough Green and Latin to read the classics in the original.
(Rewrite using ‘as well as’.)
(ii) Doting parents often stunt the natural growth of their children through excessive adulation.
(Rewrite the sentence changing it into passive voice.)

Do as directed :
It is paradoxical that ___________ average consumer cannot decide which technology will offer him ____________ highest standards of water purification.
[Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles.]

Do as directed :
The lady took the girls ____________ a hall where they met a few more girls who were waiting ___________ her instructions.
[Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.]

"Why did you throw it away?" said the father to his son.
"I didn't like it," said the son.
[Change it into Indirect Speech.]

Do as directed :

As he was ________ rich person, he helped _______ poor.
(Rewrite the sentence using appropriate articles.)

Do as directed :

He dived _______ the river and swam ________ an hour.
(Rewrite the sentence using appropriate prepositions.)

Do as directed :

Ramesh said, "I can write an essay on national pride."
(Change it into indirect speech.)

Do as directed : 

Madhu is ______ model and _______ artist.
(Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.) 

Choose the correct alternative to transform the sentence into a simple sentence.

I know that he has stolen the necklace.

Choose the correct alternative to transform the sentence into a simple sentence.

He must not be absent or he will be declared fail.

Choose the correct alternative to transform the sentence into a compound sentence.

The witness said that Mohan was guilty./He declared his innocence.

Choose the correct alternative to transform the sentence into a complex sentence.

The luggage was not misplaced but it was kept deliberately.

Choose the correct alternative to Frame a wh question to get the underlined answer.

Arunima was retrained as a mountaineer.

Choose the correct alternative to Frame a wh question to get the underlined answer.

With the help of the technology, I started responding to the treatment.

Choose the correct alternative to make the given sentence exclamatory.

You performed very energetically in front of the visitors.

Choose the correct alternative to make the given sentence negative.

Sunita is the most loyal employee of our firm.

Choose the correct alternative to make the given sentence negative.

As soon as he entered the room, he noticed the unusual presence.