Commerce (English Medium) Class 12 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English Core

Why should child labour be eliminated and how?

What makes the city of Firozabad famous?

How is Mukesh’s attitude to his situation different from that of his family?

The beauty of the glass bangles of Firozabad contrasts with the misery of people who produce them.

This paradox is also found in some other situations, for example, those who work in gold and diamond mines, or carpet weaving factories, and the products of their labour, the lives of construction workers, and the buildings they build.

• Look around and find examples of such paradoxes.
• Write a paragraph of about 200 to 250 words on any one of them. You can start by making notes.

Here is an example of how one such paragraph may begin:

You never see the poor in this town. By day they toil, working cranes and earthmovers, squirreling deep into the hot sand to lay the foundations of chrome. By night they are banished to bleak labour camps at the outskirts of the city...

Have you ever visited or seen an elementary school in a slum?  What does it look like?

Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meanings from the context. 

1. incongruity           5. arcade
2. prodigy                 6. amber glow
3. chuffed                 7. wharf
4. solitary elm           8. pangs of doubt

Tick the Item Which Best Answers the Following.

The Tall Girl with Her Head Weighed Down Means the Girl ______________________.

Tick the Item Which Best Answers the Following.

The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes means the boy is ______________________.

Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?

What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her to have such dreams? 

Tick the item which best answers the following.

The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones means the boy ______________________.

Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny Casey?

Did Geoff believe what Sophie says about her meeting with Danny Casey?

Tick the item which best answers the following.

His eyes live in a dream. A squirrel’s game, in the tree room other than this. This means the boy is ______________________.

Tick the item which best answers the following.

The children’s faces are compared to ‘rootless weeds’. This means they ______________________.

Which country did Danny Casey play for? 

Sophie and Jansie were class-mates and friends. What were the differences between them that show up in the story?