UNIT TEST - I- (2022 - 2023)

Exam No : Max. Marks: 40

Grade : XII Date :
Subject : English Core (301) Time : 1.30 Mins
GENERAL INSTRUCTION:
1. 15-minutes prior reading time allotted for Q-paper reading.
2. The Question Paper contains THREE sections-READING, WRITING AND LITERATURE.
3. Attempt questions based on specific instructions for each part. Write the correct question number in your
answer sheet to indicate the option/s being attempted.
Q.NO Marks
SECTION-A READING SKILLS (10 MARKS)
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I Reading the passage given below: 10
1. In addition to using libraries and visiting art museums, historic site visitation is another
common form of public engagement with the humanities. According to the National
Endowment for the Arts’ Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). the percentage of
people making at least one such visit fell steadily from 1982 to 2012, before rising somewhat in
2017. Visits to historic sites managed by the National Park Service (NPS) were substantially
higher in 2018 than 1980, despite a decline in recent years.
In 2017, 28% of American adults reported visiting a historic site in the previous year. This
represented an increase of 4.4 percentage points from 2012 but a decrease of 8.9 percentage
points from 1982. The bulk of the decline in visitation occurred from 2002 to 2008.
The recent increases in visitation rates were statistically significant for the 35-44- and 45-54-
year-old age groups 1. The larger change was found among 35-to-44-year-olds, whose
visitation rate increased 8.7 percentage points. Despite the increase from 2012 to 2017 for
these groups, there was a net decline in historic site visitation since 1982 for Americans of
virtually all ages. Only among the oldest Americans (age 75 or older) was the rate of visitation
higher in 2017 than 35 years earlier.
From 1982 to 2017, the differences among age groups with respect to rates of historic site
visitation decreased. For example, in 1982, the rate of visitation among 25-to-34year-olds (the
group most likely to visit a historic site in that survey) was approximately 11 percentage
points higher than that of the youngest age group (18-to-24year-olds). and more than 17 points
higher than that of people ages 65-74. By 2017, however, the visitation rate of 25-to-34-year-
olds had dropped to within five percentage points of the younger cohort and was virtually
identical of that for the older group.

2. While visitation rates are converging among the age cohorts, the differences by level of
educational attainment are still pronounced. In 2017, as in earlier years, the visitation rate
among college graduates was more than twice as high as the rate among those
who finished their studies with a high school diploma (43% as compared to 17%). Among those
who did not finish high school, visitation rates were below 10% throughout the 2008-2017 time
period. Conversely, among Americans with a graduate or professional degree, visitation rates
were in the vicinity of 50% during these years. Data from the National Park Service (NPS)
indicate the types of historical sites visited most and also the demands made of these sites’
physical infrastructure and staff. Visits to NPS historic sites rose from approximately 59.5
million in 1980 to almost 112 million in 2018. Throughout this time period, visits to historic
sites constituted approximately a third of total NPS recreational visitation.
3. Since hitting a recent low in visits in 1995, total visits to historic sites of all types increased
58% to a high of 120.3 million in 2016, before falling 7%, to 111.9 million visits in 2018.
4. Much of the recent growth in visits to historic sites occurred among parks classified as national
memorials and was driven by a particularly high level of visitation at sites that did not exist in
1995, such as the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (3.3 million visitors in 2018), the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (3.6 million visitors), and the World War II Memorial (4.7
 million visitors). As a result, visits to national memorials increased more than 300% from 1995
to 2016, even as the number of sites increased just 26% (from 23 to 29). In comparison, visits to
national monuments increased only 3%, even as the number of sites in the category increased
by 9% (from 64 to 70). From 2016 to 2018, the number of visits fell in every category, with the
largest decline occurring at the memorial sites (down 10%), and the smallest drop at national
monuments (3%).

On the basis of your reading of the passage. Answer the following questions by 6
choosing the most appropriate options:
Which of the following is not a common form of public engagement with the
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humanities.
(a) visiting public memorials
(i) (b) visiting art museums
(c) using libraries
(d) historic site visitation

Which age group had a higher rate of visitation to historic sites in 2017 than 35 years
(ii) 1
earlier in America?

Based on your reading of the text, list 2 historical memorial in America?

(iii) 1
1. ____________________
The number of historical sites visits fell in every category from the year 2016 to the
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year 2018, with the largest decline occurring at :
a. the national monuments.
(iv) b. the archaeological sites.
c. the art museums.
d. the memorial sites.

The rate of visitation among 25-34 year olds was approximately _____ points higher
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than that of the youngest age group i.e. 18-24 year olds.
a. 11 percentage
(v) b. 13 percentage
c. 15 percentage
d. 17 percentage

Complete the following analogy correctly with a

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word/phrase from paragraph 2.
(vi) general : ______ :: mythical : _____
(Clue : Just like general is an antonym for particular, similarly mythical is an
antonym for...)
In earlier years the visitation rate among college graduates was more than twice as
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high as the rate among those :
a. Who were employed individuals.
(vii) b. Who had a graduate or professional degree.
c. Who finished their studies with a high school diploma.
d. Who did not finish high school?

In America most of the _____ in visitation of historic sites occurred from the year
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2002 to the year 2008.
a. decline
(viii) b. increase
c. diverging
d. converging
 State whether the following statement is TRUE or FALSE.
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(ix) Data from the National Park Service (NPS) only indicate the types of historic sites
visited most.

Substitute the word ‘classified’ with ONE WORD similar in meaning, in the
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following sentence from paragraph 4:
(x) Much of the recent growth in visits to historic sites occurred among parks classified
as national memorials and...

II SECTION-B CREATIVE WRITING SKILL 10

1. Attempt any one from A and B given below: 5
A You are Smitha/Sunil, Secretary of AVM Housing Society. You are going to organise a
Blood Donation Camp. Write a notice in not more than 50 words urging the members of
your society to come in large numbers for this noble cause. Invent the necessary details.
(OR)
B Write a notice to advise the residents to store water for a day as the water supply will be
suspended for the cleaning of the water tank in about 50 words.
2. Attempt any one from A and B given below: 5
You are Ketan Pandey of 63, Civil Lines, Delhi. You saw an advertisement in The Hindu
A for the post of accountant in a reputed firm. Write an application in 120-150 words to the
area manager of Gayatri Consultants, 2. Barakhamaba Road, New Delhi, giving your
detailed bio-data. (OR)
B Novjot Kapoor of Delhi saw an advertisement of The Hindu for post of a Human
Resource Manager in a reputed firm. Write an application to the area manager of Gayatri
Consultants (120-150 words) 2. Barakhamnba Road, New Delhi, giving your detailed
bio-data.
SECTION-C LITERATURE 20
III Read the given extracts to attempt the questions with reference to context: 1x5=5
1 “those who prepare green wars,
Wars with gas, wars with fire,
Victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers,
in the shade, doing nothing.”
(i) The types of war the poet talks about are
a) Nuclear wars b)Technological warfare
c) Verbal war d) Green wars, was with gas or fire
(ii) Explain the Phrase: “Victory with No Survivors”.
a) Celebrating victory
b) Due to mass deaths no one is left to celebrate victory
c) Huge loss of human life
d) Huge loss of property

(iii) What does the expression “put on clean clothes” imply?

a) Leave the evil ways
b) To make peace with fellow human beings
c) Attend a conference in decent clothes
d) Both (a) and (b)
(iv) Which literary device is used in the given lines?
(v) What does the poet want people to do?
IV Read the given extracts to attempt the questions with reference to context: 1x4=4
1 Saul Bellow, who has consented to be interviewed on several occasions, nevertheless
once described interviews as being like thumbprints on his windpipe. Yet despite the
drawbacks of the interview, it is a supremely serviceable medium of communication.
“These days, more than at any other time, our most vivid impressions of our
contemporaries are through interviews,” Denis Brian has written. “Almost everything of
moment reaches us through one man asking questions of another. Because of this, the
interviewer holds a position of unprecedented power and influence.”
(i) How would you describe Denis Brian’s opinion on interviews?
Choose the most appropriate option.
(i) appeasing (ii) utilitarian (iii) approving (iv) praising
a) Options (i) and (ii)
b) Options (iii) and (iv)
c) Options (ii) and (iii)
d) Options (i) and (iv)
(ii) According to Saul Bellow, interviews are like thumbprints on his windpipe. What
emotion might best describe such an image?
a) sadness
b) frustration
c) pain
d) fear
(iii) Denis Brian states that the interviewer occupies a position of power and influence as __
a) everything reaches us through one man asking questions of another.
b) the interview is a supremely serviceable medium of communication.
c) our most vivid impressions of our contemporaries are through interviews.
(iv) The use of the word “serviceable” implies that interviews are ___
V Answer any three of the following in about 40-50 words each: 3x2=6
(i) Why was the legal adviser referred to as the opposite by others?
(ii) Which was the only occasion when Sophie got to see Danny Casey in person?
(iii) How will ‘keeping quiet’ protect our environment?
(iv) Do you sympathise with Aunt Jennifer? What is the attitude of the speaker towards Aunt
Jennifer?
VI Answer any one of the following in about 120-150 words: 1x5=5
(i) How did Mr.Lamb’s meeting with Derry become a turning point in Derry’s life?
(OR)
(ii) What activities did Bama witness on her way back home from school?

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