THIRD REVISION EXAM – APRIL 2022

STD: XII ENGLISH MARKS : 90

DATE : 18.04.2022 TIME: 2.30 HRS

Instructions : (1) Check the question paper for fairness of printing. If there is any lack of
fairness, inform the Hall Supervisor immediately.
(2) Use Blue or Black ink to write and underline.
Part - I
I. Answer all the questions. (20 × 1 = 20)
Choose the correct synonyms for the underlined words from the options given.
1. A silver tumbler of buttermilk seasoned with asafoetida.
a) mixed b) garnished c) filled d) loosened
2. The liberties of everybody must be curtailed.
a) increased b) reduced c) unlimited d) raised
3. A few people from the house of bereavement stood outside.
a) rejoice b) celebration c) grief d) war
Choose the correct antonyms for the underlined words from the options given.
4. The end of such liberty would be universal chaos.
a) confusion b) orderliness c) disorder d) commotion
5. He greeted me with his usual smile and banter.
a) flattery b) small talk c) chitchat d) repartee
6. Maamanaar was unmatched.
a) inferior b) incomparable c) excellent d) supreme
7. Choose the correct compound word for the combination “input”
a) Adjective +Verb b) Noun + Adjective
c) Preposition + Noun d) Preposition + Verb
8. Choose the correct expansion of “OPEC”.
a) Organisation of Petrol Exporting Countries b) Organisation of Petrol Expo Countries
c) Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries d) organize of Petrol Export Court
9. Choose the meaning of the foreign word in the sentence.
The number is null and void.
a) invalid b) from one side c) good morning d) with equal pace
10. Choose the right combination for the blended word “forex”
a) Foreign + exercise b) forum + excahnge
c) foreign + exchange d) forum + exercise
11. Choose the clipped word for “public house”.
a) public b) house c) pub d) pubse
12. ‘Phonetics’ is the study of ___________
a) speech sounds b) scientific study of a language c) genes d) building and aircraft
13. Form a derivative by adding the right prefix to the word “trust”.
a) il b) mis c) im d) in
 14. Fill in the blanks with a suitable relative pronoun.
This is the college _____ I studied.
a) whose b) who c) whom d) where
15. Fill in the blanks with a suitable preposition.
He was interested _______ discharging his duty perfectly.
a) in b) for c) since d) of
16. Choose the correct question tag for the following statement.
Our dog scarcely sleeps at night, ___________?
a) doesn’t it b) do it c) didn’t it d) does it
17. Choose the suitable meaning of the idiom ‘hang out to dry’.
a) abandoning one who is in difficulty b) sign of something going wrong
c) in a serious difficulty d) great fear
18. Complete the following sentence using appropriate determiner.
How _____ pages did you read?
a) much b) many c) a few d) a
19. Choose the correct sentence pattern for the following sentence.
Now he is a doctor.
a) ASVO b) A S V A c) ASVC d) ASVV
20. Replace the underlined phrasal verb into a single word.
We must take care of our aged parents.
a) look up b) look down c) look into d) look after
Part – II / Section - 1
Read the following sets of poetic lines and answer any four from it. (4 X 2 = 8)
21. “Life is a soft loam; be gentle; go easy
And this too might serve him”
a) Why does the poet suggest to take life easy?
b) Identify the figure of speech in the first line.
22. “Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted,
Tell him to be a fool every so often”
a) Why does the poet suggest that time can be wasted?
b) Identify the figure of speech in the above line.
23. “He will be lonely enough
to have time for the work
he knows as his own”
a) Why should the son be lonely?
b) Pick out the alliterated words.
24. “Life is hard, be steel; be a rock”
a) How should one face life?
b) Identify the figure of speech.
25. “Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong
And the final decisions are made in silent rooms”
a) How would his being alone help the boy?
b) Where are the final decisions taken?
26. “……free imaginations
Bringing changes into a world resenting change”
a) How does free imagination help the world?
b) Identify the figure of speech.
 Section - 2
Answer any three of the following questions. (3 X 2 = 6)
27. Report the following dialogue :
Manager : Did you check the pending files?
Clerk : Yes, I checked the pending files.
28. If I were a bird, I would fly. (Begin with ‘were’)
29. Change the voice of the following sentence.
They offered the job to Sundari.
30. Besides being a singer, she is also a dancer . (Change into a compound sentence)
Part – III / Section - 1
Explain any two of the following with reference to the context. (2 × 3 = 6)
31. “He works his work, I mine”
32. “Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed”
33. “Dear is the casuarina to my soul”
Section - 2
Answer any two of the following questions in about 30 words each. (2 × 3 = 6)
34. Why did Maamanaar hand over the chair to the villagers to retain it?
35. What is the foundation of social conduct?
36. What was put on the family agenda?

Answer any three of the following: (3 × 3 = 9)

33. You are Raja, the secretary of the laughter club. Your club is inaugurating a laughter club. Write
a notice about the inauguration of a laughter club in your school.
34. You are the sports captain of your school. Draft a mail to vasy@gmail.com to the Physical
Director, requesting him to the present during the football team selection scheduled for
tomorrow.
35. Describe the process of making coffee.
36. Complete the proverbs using the words given below.
(a) Knowledge is ___________. ( soul, power, mind)
(b) __________makes waste. ( haste, beauty, problem)
(c) Experience is the _________ teacher. ( best, better, wise)
 Part - IV
Answer the following questions: (7 × 5 = 35)
Answer in a paragraph in about 150 words.
41. Answer in a paragraph on any one of the following in about 150 words.
a) What do you infer from Gardiner’s essay ‘On the rule of the road’? (OR)
b) Narrate the humourous incidents that happened in the author’s home before and after the
arrival of the chair.
42. Answer in a paragraph on any one of the following in about 150 words.
a) How according to the poet is it possible for his son to bring changes into a world that resents
change? (OR)
b) Explain how the poet guides his son who is at the threshold of manhood, to face the challenges
of life.
43. Write a paragraph in about 150 words by developing the following hints.
Margot – vivid memory – sun – five years old – planet earth – Venus planet – sunny day –
tantrums – thousands of dollars – sun shape and warmth – students hatred convictions – conflict
with Margot and other children.

44. Write a summary or make notes of the following passage.

We must seek out problems and convert them to challenges! We need to welcome problems with
arms open. Embrace them because this can well be some of the finest parts of living. Many older
people look back on the years they spent wondering how they would meet the expenses of raising
a family, coping with the problems, the illness - in some instances, the vexations of their children.
They look back now and think, ‘those were the most developmental, the most rewarding, the most
wonderful years of my life. If I could have only recognised it then.’ What they’re saying, in effect,
is that they should have welcomed problems. Encountering a stream of problems day after day
made their lives warm and meaningful. It gave them confidence. Welcome problems, reach out for
them, charge into them and convert them in your mind immediately to challenges. The negative
way to look at a problem is to think of it as a problem. Search it out, isolate it as a problem, then in
your mind convert it to a challenge, determine the steps that you will need to surmount it just as the
pole-vaulter needs to first determine steps and then work at it.
45. a) Read the following advertisement and prepare a bio-data considering yourself fulfilling
the conditions mentioned.
[Write XXXX for your name and YYYY for your address]

WANTED
Qualified Computer Operator for esteemed company.
Attractive salary, Flexible working hours, Age below 30.
Apply to
Post Box No : 3210
C/o. The Times of India
Chennai - 600 002.

(OR)
b) Write a letter to your father asking him to permit you to join an educational tour.
 46. Spot the errors and rewrite the sentences correctly.
a. This is the most least mark I have ever scored.
b. She wants to continuing her studies abroad.
c. The news are read everyday.
d. We can speak the English fluently.
e. The girl both won an award and a scholarship.
(OR)
Fill in the blanks correctly.
a) Ravi was not ______to read the book______ (allowed, aloud)
b) You ____obey the elders. (use a quasi modal verb)
c) The machine_________ be kept in the fridge. (use a modal verb)
d) After I ________ (complete) my homework, I went to bed. (use a proper tense)
47. Identify each of the following sentences with the fields given below.
a) It was cloudy in the afternoon.
b) He played Baseball.
c) The expenditure and income were analysed.
d) He watched the menu in the screen.
e) The press persons asked many questions to the P.M.
(Computer, Media, Sports, Weather, Business)
(OR)
Read the following passage and answer the questions in your own words :
The pearl is considered one of the most beautiful jewels. It is one gem that is not dug up from a mine in the
earth. It is grown in the shell of an oyster. The oyster does not make the pearl for the purpose of adorning
the necks of women. It makes it only as a means of self protection. Sometimes a hard, tiny object like a
grain of sand gets inside the shell. It irritates the soft sensitive flesh. The oyster has no way to free itself of
it. To protect itself from the object the oyster begins to cover the object with a thick fluid from its own
body, when this layer hardens and the irritation begins again, another layer is added. This goes on for many
years – until finally the oyster has produced a beautiful pearl.
Questions:
a. Where does the pearl come from?
b. What irritates the soft sensitive flesh?
c. What does the oyster cover the object with?
d. How are the layer formed?
e. How long does the oyster take to produce a pearl?

………………BE CONFIDENT………………