Sample Questions for English Language | Exams English

Subject: English Grade: XII

Attempt all the questions.

A. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. (3x5=15)

When the next Olympic Games begin, satellites will carry TV pictures of the

opening ceremony two millions of people thousands of miles away. From their

armchairs these people will be able to see their country’s athletics competing in

events and may be winning a bronze, silver or even gold medal.

When we consider the size, the spectacle and the commercialism of the modern

Olympic games, it is difficult to remember that they stated in Olympia in Greece in

776 with only one race for which the prize for the winner was in olive garland.

The idea of an international Olympic Games was conceived by a French man and

appropriately the first Olympic Games opened in Athens in 1896. Nowadays, major

cities compete not only to host the Olympic Games, but for the vast amount of profit

a host country can make.

Questions;

a. How will the pictures of the opening ceremony reach millions of people?

b. What can people watch on the TV about their country’s athletics?

c. Where, when and how did the Olympic Games start?

d. Give two reasons for major cities competing to host the Olympic Games?

e. Summarize the passage in 30 words.

B. Answer any five questions. (3x5=15)

1. How does the speaker remember his grandmother? (Grandmother)

2. How did Alyohin define love? (About Love)

3. Why does the poet show his anger against time? (The Lamentation of the old

pensioner)

4. What is the central idea of the porm ‘Travelling through the Dark’?

5. How does the boy describe his uncle and aunt? (A Story)

6. How the glory of the God is praised in the poem ‘God’s Grandeur’?

7. How is Karnali economically linked with the low land Terai. (Hurried Trip…)

C. Answer any one of the following. (10)

1. What is the dream Martin Luther king Jr. has? How is he going to achieve it? (I

Have a Dream)

2. Explain the link between overpopulation and deforestation. (Two long …)

D. Read the example and write similar conversation between ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Example: trap/in a bathroom? (storeroom) (5)

A: Have you ever been trapped in a bathroom?

B: No, I haven’t, but I have been trapped in a storeroom.

1. Steal/ shirt? (sweater)

2. X-ray/ chest? (leg)

3. Play/ badminton? (tennis)

4. Help/poor? (handicapped)

5. Thrown/ classroom? (library)

E. Continue the following remarks with selecting appropriate verbs from the box.

One is done for you. (5)

Look, sound, smell, feel, taste, like

Example: Surely he’s not a manual worker.

•He looks like a businessman.

1. Are you sure this is tea?

2. I wonder who wrote that music.

3. He’s got a foreign accent.

4. This material is very soft.

5. They have got very similar face

F. Rewrite these sentences using appropriate relative clause in the spaces

given. (5)

1. The children couldn’t wait to come back to Namche,…..

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Subject: English Grade: XII Attempt all the questions.

A. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. (3x5=15)

When the next Olympic Games begin, satellites will carry TV pictures of the opening ceremony two millions of people thousands of miles away. From their armchairs these people will be able to see their country’s athletics competing in events and may be winning a bronze, silver or even gold medal.

When we consider the size, the spectacle and the commercialism of the modern Olympic games, it is difficult to remember that they stated in Olympia in Greece in 776 with only one race for which the prize for the winner was in olive garland.

The idea of an international Olympic Games was conceived by a French man and appropriately the first Olympic Games opened in Athens in 1896. Nowadays, major cities compete not only to host the Olympic Games, but for the vast amount of profit a host country can make.

Questions;

a. How will the pictures of the opening ceremony reach millions of people?

b. What can people watch on the TV about their country’s athletics?

c. Where, when and how did the Olympic Games start?

d. Give two reasons for major cities competing to host the Olympic Games?

e. Summarize the passage in 30 words.

B. Answer any five questions. (3x5=15)

1. How does the speaker remember his grandmother? (Grandmother)

2. How did Alyohin define love? (About Love)

3. Why does the poet show his anger against time? (The Lamentation of the old

pensioner)

4. What is the central idea of the porm ‘Travelling through the Dark’?

5. How does the boy describe his uncle and aunt? (A Story)

6. How the glory of the God is praised in the poem ‘God’s Grandeur’?

7. How is Karnali economically linked with the low land Terai. (Hurried Trip…)

C. Answer any one of the following. (10)

1. What is the dream Martin Luther king Jr. has? How is he going to achieve it? (I

Have a Dream)

2. Explain the link between overpopulation and deforestation. (Two long …)

D. Read the example and write similar conversation between ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Example: trap/in a bathroom? (storeroom) (5)

A: Have you ever been trapped in a bathroom?

B: No, I haven’t, but I have been trapped in a storeroom.

1. Steal/ shirt? (sweater)

2. X-ray/ chest? (leg)

3. Play/ badminton? (tennis)

4. Help/poor? (handicapped)

5. Thrown/ classroom? (library)

E. Continue the following remarks with selecting appropriate verbs from the box.

One is done for you. (5)

Look, sound, smell, feel, taste, like

Example: Surely he’s not a manual worker.

• He looks like a businessman.

1. Are you sure this is tea?

2. I wonder who wrote that music.

3. He’s got a foreign accent.

4. This material is very soft.

5. They have got very similar face

F. Rewrite these sentences using appropriate relative clause in the spaces

given. (5)

1. The children couldn’t wait to come back to Namche,…..

2. At last the contractors managed to repair the bridge,….

3. The shopkeeper, …………turned round suddenly.

4. I eventually found the purse,…….. in my school bag.

5. We were all grateful to our principal,…

G. For each of the situation below ask questions with ‘how long….? And answer

them using the words in brackets. (5)

Example: They talked on the telephone. (20 minutes)

A: How long did they talk on the telephone?

B: They talk on the telephone for 20 minutes.

1. We played gulf on Sunday. (dusk)

2. We had to change the wheel of our cat. (10 minutes)

3. He read the whole of War and Peace. (two weeks)

4. She watched television. (late night)

5. Samira did some piano practice. (bedtime)

H. Report the following remarks beginning, He told me……that… (5)

1. I will return soon.

2. I have finished my work.

3. She has not paid the work.

4. I was sick for long time.

5. My mother always helps the poor.

I. Stating suitable qualification and experiences, write a job application for the post of

Accountant addressing the Manager, Asian Development, Kathmandu. (10)

J. Write a police description of any of your favorite person. (10)

K. Rewrite these sentences using must, can’t, or may/might. (5)

1. Perhaps the principal watches you.

2. Perhaps he is telling truth.

3. I am sure you are imagining things.

4. I am sure she is not busy.

5. Obviously, Nepal won the final match.

L. What advantages and disadvantages do you think there are in using computers either

(a) in business? Or (b) in education or (c) in the home? (10)

M. Read the following passage and answer the following questions that follow;

(2x5=10)

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. His Schooling ended when he was ten. At twelve, he became an apprentice to his brother James, a painter, who taught Ben the painting trade. Franklin was prodigious inventor. Among many of his creations were the lightening rod, glass harmonica, stove, bifocal glasses and the flexible urinary catheter. He became involved in politics and was selected as a councilman. In June1749 he became a justice of the peace for Philadelphia.

Franklin died on April 17, 1790, the age of 84. He is now considered as one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. He is very popular in the U.S.A. Since 1928 his photograph has adorned American $ 100 bills which are sometimes referred to in slang as ‘Franklins’.

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A. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. (3x5=15)

a. How will the pictures of the opening ceremony reach millions of people?

b. What can people watch on the TV about their country’s athletics?

c. Where, when and how did the Olympic Games start?

d. Give two reasons for major cities competing to host the Olympic Games?

e. Summarize the passage in 30 words.

B. Answer any five questions. (3x5=15)

1. How does the speaker remember his grandmother? (Grandmother)

2. How did Alyohin define love? (About Love)

3. Why does the poet show his anger against time? (The Lamentation of the old

4. What is the central idea of the porm ‘Travelling through the Dark’?

5. How does the boy describe his uncle and aunt? (A Story)

6. How the glory of the God is praised in the poem ‘God’s Grandeur’?

7. How is Karnali economically linked with the low land Terai. (Hurried Trip…)

C. Answer any one of the following. (10)

1. What is the dream Martin Luther king Jr. has? How is he going to achieve it? (I

2. Explain the link between overpopulation and deforestation. (Two long …)

D. Read the example and write similar conversation between ‘A’ and ‘B’.

1. Steal/ shirt? (sweater)

2. X-ray/ chest? (leg)

3. Play/ badminton? (tennis)

4. Help/poor? (handicapped)

5. Thrown/ classroom? (library)

E. Continue the following remarks with selecting appropriate verbs from the box.

• He looks like a businessman.

1. Are you sure this is tea?

2. I wonder who wrote that music.

3. He’s got a foreign accent.

4. This material is very soft.

5. They have got very similar face

F. Rewrite these sentences using appropriate relative clause in the spaces

1. The children couldn’t wait to come back to Namche,…..

2. At last the contractors managed to repair the bridge,….

3. The shopkeeper, …………turned round suddenly.

4. I eventually found the purse,…….. in my school bag.

5. We were all grateful to our principal,…

G. For each of the situation below ask questions with ‘how long….? And answer

1. We played gulf on Sunday. (dusk)

2. We had to change the wheel of our cat. (10 minutes)

3. He read the whole of War and Peace. (two weeks)

4. She watched television. (late night)

5. Samira did some piano practice. (bedtime)

H. Report the following remarks beginning, He told me……that… (5)

1. I will return soon.

2. I have finished my work.

3. She has not paid the work.

4. I was sick for long time.

5. My mother always helps the poor.

I. Stating suitable qualification and experiences, write a job application for the post of

J. Write a police description of any of your favorite person. (10)

K. Rewrite these sentences using must, can’t, or may/might. (5)

1. Perhaps the principal watches you.

2. Perhaps he is telling truth.

3. I am sure you are imagining things.

4. I am sure she is not busy.

5. Obviously, Nepal won the final match.

L. What advantages and disadvantages do you think there are in using computers either

M. Read the following passage and answer the following questions that follow;

a. What was Ben taught by his brother?

b. What were Benjamin’s inventions?

c. When did he become a justice of the peace?

d. What has US$ adorned?