HSC Commerce Class 12 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

Then a soldier,

full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth.

1. What is the soldier ready to do?
2. Explain ‘bubble reputation’.
3. What are the distinguishing features of this stage?

Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

1. Whom does justice refer to?
2. Describe his appearance.
3. How does he behave with the people around him?
4. What does he do to show his wisdom?

Complete the table based on your understanding of the poem.

Describe the various stages of a man’s life picturised in the poem “All the World’s a stage."

Shakespeare has skilfully brought out the parallels between the life of man and actors on stage. Elaborate this statement with reference to the poem.

Shakespeare describes the characteristics of the various stages of man. You are in the second stage of life. What do you think of your roles and responsibilities at this stage? Discuss with your partner and share your ideas with the class

Listen to the poem and fill in the blanks with appropriate words and phrases. If required listen to the poem again.

The World Is Too Much with Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in ______that is ours; We have given ______away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom ______, ______that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like ______, For this, for everything, we are ______; It ______us not. Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising ______Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

Go through the lesson and spot the word which mean the same as the following.

1. profession (para 1)
2. sorrowful (para 2)
3. decency (para 5)
4. destiny (para 6)
5. hijacked (para 8)
6. motivation (para 9)
7. serious (para 10)
8. significant (para 13)

Go through the lesson and spot the words opposite to the meaning of the following

1. rare (para 1)
2. primitive (para 6) 
3. fiction (para 7)
4. fearful (para 8)
5. benign (para 11) 
6. diffidence (para 11) 
7. boredom (para 12)
8. criticize (para 13)

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

career – carrier – courier

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

patients – patience – patents

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

accident – incident – incidence

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

scraping – scrapping – scrubbing

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

accept – except – expect

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

lesson – lessen – lesion

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

severe – sever – sewer

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

raise – rise– rice

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

quiet – quite – quit

Fill in the blank with the word given in option.

Theatrical plays were a main source of ______before the advent of television.

Fill in the blank with the word given in option.

The ______warriors of the Spartan Army marched into battle against a powerful enemy.