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

You are rushing to attend to an important work and you witness an accident on your way. Will you go to the rescue of the injured person? Share your views with the class.

Every person should take up the responsibility to serve the society in his or her own way. Discuss the various ways in which you can serve the society

Pair work: Practise the dialogue with another student. Then write a similar dialogue between a student and the class teacher regarding an educational trip.

Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.

A passenger and a railway staff regarding the cancellation of the reserved tickets.

Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.

Two friends about the NSS camp which they are going to attend.

Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.

A salesman and a customer at an electronic shop.

Build a conversation for the following situation with a minimum of five exchange.

A father and his daughter about the advantages of the habit of newspaper reading.

Extend the conversation with two more relevant exchange

Extend the conversation with two more relevant exchange

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow

Humans have long been fascinated by fiction. We experience excitement in assigning supernatural power to imaginary characters in fictional stories – and so we have Spider man, Batman, He–man, Titans and many more. The ‘Cyborg’ was an offshoot of such wild imagination of humans to invest our species with superhuman powers. Today, the Cyborg is no more an imaginary organism. We are living in a world where a sizeable population of humans have merged their bodies with technological implants. The term ‘Cyborg’, short for ‘cybernetic organism’, was coined to describe a man, whose body is implanted with technological devices to supplement and substitute body functions.

Cyborgs include people with cardiac pacemakers, contact lenses, bionic ears and eyes, prosthetics and so on. In other words, a cyborg is partly human and partly machine. The technological innovations in the field of medicine and healthcare augment humans with machines, producing a beta version of the human body. The advent of brain machine interfaces is certain to blur the boundary between humans and machines. Scientists are working hard to find a technique for age reversal too. People do not want to die, so mankind is striving to get to the final frontier, which is development of machines and devices that would accord man immortality.

The needs of humans are not limited. As time passes, food habits change, thinking patterns change, and even appearances change. We are about to travel by driverless, fully automated vehicles. Computers and smart phones have become our masters. The more we depend and merge with technological advancements, the more the humanness in us slowly erodes. Intelligence is sought to be infused into machines and robotics are designed in such a way to give man a virtual human companion. The field of artificial intelligence is overtaking the human brain and many fear that it could even harm the human race. Despite certain limitations and potential threats, many believe that cyborgs will be the next step in the evolution of mankind. The amalgamation of man and machine is sure to add a new dimension to the life of mankind and this will prove to be the ‘biggest evolution in Biology’ since the emergence of life, four billion years ago.

Questions:

a) Account for the popularity of characters with supernatural powers.

b) Who is referred to as a ‘Cyborg’?

c) What is expected to happen with the advent of the brain machine interface?

d) The needs of humans are not limited. How is this statement elaborated in the passage?

e) How can a machine turn into a virtual companion for humans?

f) Explain the flipside of the rapid technological advancement.

g) Identify the word in para 1 which means ‘everlasting life’.

h) Which of the following words is synonymous with ‘amalgamation’?

1. recreation
2. integration
3. exploration
4. proposition

i) Which of the following options is the antonym of the word ‘advent’?

1. drawback
2. dispute
3. departure
4. danger

j) Find out the word which is the antonym of ‘natural’ in para 3.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

The Governor inaugurated the exhibition at ten o’clock.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

The crowd expected their leader to arrive early in the morning.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

Who taught her Computer Science?

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

They unanimously named Ravi the captain of team.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

The President gave the commander an award.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

Do not tell a lie.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

Please open the door.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

It is time to stop the work.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

They say he is a spy.

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

One should keep one’s promise.