HSC Arts (Marathi Medium) 12th Board Exam [इयत्ता १२ वि] - Maharashtra State Board Important Questions for English

Prepare a summary of the extract given in Q. 2 (A). Give it a suitable title. You may use the following points :

Luxurious houses in nature – fear of wild animals – leopards enjoy human habitation – provide food

Prepare a summary of the extract given in Q. 2 (A). Give it a suitable title. You may use the following points :

Luxurious houses in nature – fear of wild animals – leopards enjoy human habitation – provide food

Read the extract and complete the activities given below :

    Luxurious houses on the edge of a big city which one promoter sold with the tagline ‘‘Where Nature peeps through every window.’’ All the advantages of a modern lifestyle but with the added bonus of fresh air. But nature isn’t greenery alone; it also includes wild animals.
   While the view from the picture windows was easy on the eye, occasionally, it made them gulp with nervousness. At dusk, wild cats leaped out of the adjoining forest on to the top of the peripheral walls and strolled nonchalantly. Sometimes, they lounged on ledges with their long tails swinging freely, oblivious of the many worried human eyes pinned on them. Their cold yellow aggressive eyes turned black as their pupils dilated with failing light.
   Some Mumbaikars paid a lot of money to see leopards on safari in Africa. But to watch them from one’s own home was disconcerting. These predators were out of line, stepping off nature into the city. Why did the leopards not stay within the 100-square kilometre Sanjay Gandhi National Park? Perhaps, the leopards thought that if people could venture into nature to jog, walk and picnic, why couldn’t they hang around apartment blocks? If people could enjoy nature, couldn’t nature savour humanity’s offerings?
   Capturing leopards is extraordinarily simple. These curious cats seem incapable of resisting a free meal, walking into baited traps without hesitation. The reason the felines are attracted to their residential community is prey : stray dogs that live on rubbish heaps. Taking care of the food source is the best course of action, the volunteers said.

A1. Rewrite the following sentences as per their occurrence in the extract :

1. Instead of capturing leopards we can take care of their food.
2. Leopards leave their habitat and enter the human habitat.
3. Modern lifestyle and nature both attract the dwellers.
4. Leopards can enjoy human surroundings by leaving nature.

A2. Complete the following sentences :

1. Nature is a combination of ______ and ______
2. The best of both the worlds include ______ and ______
3. The wild animals are out of line as ______
4. The wild cats are attracted towards residential areas because ______

A3. Find out the words for leopards used in the extract :

1. ____________
2. ____________
3. ____________
4. ____________

A4. ‘‘If people could venture into nature to jog, walk, and picnic, why couldn’t the wild animals hang around apartment blocks?’’ Express your opinion.

A5. Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed :

1. Taking care of the food source is the best course of action.
   (Use infinitive form of the underlined word and rewrite.)

2. Nature isn’t greenery alone; it also includes wild animals.
   (Rewrite it by using ‘not only ... but also’.)

A6. Find a word for each of the following expressions from the extract :

1. Enjoy the taste of something
2. Embarrassing and confusing to watch
3. Not conscious or aware of something or someone
4. Relaxed and in an unworried manner

Read the extract and complete the activities given below:

A1. True/False:   (2)

Read the following sentences and state whether they are true or false. Correct the false statements and rewrite them.

1. Soapy broke the glass of the shop window.
2. Nobody heard the breaking of the glass window.
3. The policeman chased Soapy.
4. Soapy did not run away from the place.

A2. Rearrange.   (2)

Rearrange the following statements in order of their occurrence in the extract.

1. The policeman refused to accept Soapy even as a clue.
2. Soapy took a stone and dashed it through the glass.
3. "Now, get busy and call a cop," said Soapy.
4. Soapy, with disgust in his heart, drifted along twice unsuccessful.

A3. Guess:   (2)

Read the following sentences and write down what it means.

1. "Don't you think that I might have had something to do with it?"
2. He told the waiter the fact that the minutest coin and himself were total strangers.

A4. Personal response:    (2)

Suppose you are a manager of a hotel, a poor boy has taken dinner in the hotel and then he found, he has not enough money to pay the bill. Describe how you will react in the situation.

A5. Language study:     (2)

1. On the opposite side of the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions.
2. Men who smash windows do no remain to chat with the police. (Make the above sentence simple)

A6. Vocabulary:     (2)

Match the following words 1n column 'A'. with their meanings in column 'B'.

Develop a ‘Mind Mapping’ frame/design using your ideas/thoughts/concepts to illustrate/develop on the topic, ‘Effects of Music’.

India is a vast country with different weather patterns. Prepare a mind map on ‘The Seasons’ we have in our region by giving examples of different activities that we do in different seasons.

Develop a ‘Mind Mapping’ frame/design using your ideas/thoughts/concepts to illustrate/develop on the topic, ‘Beauty of Colours’.

Imagine that you have recently discussed with your friends on ‘the benefits of travelling’, write the same discussion in the form of dialogues that you have experienced. Write suitable dialogues for each participant giving his/her opinion on the given topic.

Imagine that you have recently discussed with your friends on ‘Good Handwriting’, write the same discussion in the form of dialogues that you have experienced. Write suitable dialogues for each participant giving his/her opinion on the given topic.

Imagine that you have participated in the inter-college group discussion contest on the occasion of National Youth Day. There were three other contenders with you in the final round of the contest and the topic of the discussion was ‘Paper Books are better than the E-Books’. Write the same discussion in the form of dialogues that you have experienced. Write suitable dialogues for each participant giving his/her opinion on the given topic.

Group Discussion:

You along with your friends Sujit, Rohit and Kishore discussing their likes and dislikes. But all are fascinated with the reading habit. Write a short group discussion in the form of dialogue telling the importance of reading for enhancing knowledge.

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence:

Eighteenth century gifted mankind with _____________

Choose the correct alternative and rewrite the sentence:

Novel soon became dominant literary genre as it _____________

The Tale of Genji by Muraski Shikabu was published in the year __________

The first Indian English novel ‘Rajmohan’s wife’ was written by ___________

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with ___________

The famous trio of Indian writers is ___________

Write in chronological order

1. Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji
2. Greek Romances
3. The appearance of magazines and newspapers
4. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

Write in chronological order

1. Industrial Revolution
2. Drama and Poetry started fading away
3. Novel gained popularity
4. The rise of middle class

Given below are some novels, events and writers of Indian English. Arrange them in chronological order.

1. Rise of famous Indian Trio
2. Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Manohar Malgaonkar
3. Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Kiran Nagarkar
4. Rajmohan’s Wife by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya