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Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan Ajmer - XII

Pre Board Exam

Time – 120 Mints Subject – Hindi Lit. M.M. – 80

SECTION-A (Reading)

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :-

Thomas Alva Edison invented electric light. He loved to do experiments and to ask funny questions. Once he asked his teacher how the kites could fly without wings. The puzzled teacher thought him to be stupid and naughty and turned him out of the school. He was just eight years old when it happened. Edison's best teacher was his mother. She answered his questions, halped and guided him. One day he saw a bird. It ate some worms and flew. Edison prepared a mixture of the pulped worms and made a maid servant drink it to see if she could also fly. He was warned by his mother not to repeat it. Once, he imitated a hen and sat down on her eggs to hatch them. But he only broke the eggs and spoiled his shorts.

(i) What was Edison?

(a) A teacher. (b) A statesman.

(ii) Who was Edison's best teacher?

(a) His father. (b) His sister. (c) His brother. (d) His mother

(iii) What did Thomas Alva Edison invent?

(a) Electric Light. (b) Electric cooler.

(iv) What did he love to do?

(a) He loved to do experiments and ask funny questions.

(b) He loved to bunk off school. (d) He loved

(v) Choose the opposite word of 'serious' from the below given options- 'serious

(a) invented (b) funny (c) naughty. (d) spoiled

(vi) Choose the similar word of 'innovate' from the below given options :-

(a) experiment (b) prepare. (c) puzzled. (d) invented.

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. (9)

Shivaji, the great, was a very wise and brave king. When Aurangzeb imprisoned him at Agra, he thought of a elever plan, and escaped from there in Maharastra was 1666. At this, the whole of filled with great joy. Aurangzeb, on the other hand, got furious, and broke all the treaties made by him with Shivaji and began to trouble the small Maratha Kingdom in many ways. Shivaji did not watch all this quietly. He at once decided to take suitable steps to face the new danger. He consulted his brave and trusted generals, like Pratap Rao Gurjar and Niraji Raoji, organized his own forces and began to wrest fort after fort from the hands of Aurangzeb. The Maratha soldiers were determined even to die for Shivaji. This bravery and determination helped them to recover the forts under the Moghul possession one after another. Such was the state of state affairs in 100 January, 1670.

Though Shivaji's forces captured many forts in the Deccan, he did not feel very happy till he took back the great and important fort of Kondana. His mother Jijabai was also equally anxious that her son should get bact the strategic fort soon. She said to him. "Shivaji, I love the fort of Kondana because of its importance, and unless that is taken back from the Moghuls my heart will never be at rest. I am pleased to see the brave deeds of you Mavalas and faithful generals who have so far driven out the Moghuls from many a fort. I shall be happier if they can recapture Kondana too as soon as possible."

Shivaji felt immensely happy at this, for he too had the same keen urge. He said, "Dear Mother, your wish will be carried out and that too without delay. I will not enjoy a hearty meal or sound sleep till we recapture Kondana.

(i) What type of king was Shivaji, the great?

(ii) Which fort was the strategic fort?

(iii) Who was Shivaji?

(iv) How did Shivaji come out of the prison of Aurangzeb?

(v) What did Shivaji do to get back his fort?

(vi) What helped Maratha to recover the forts?

(vii) What pledge did Shivaji make to recapture kondana?

(viii) Find out the word from the passage, which means "Win back from the enemy'.

3. Imagine that you are Prakash living in Jaisalmer. Your younger brother Mohan living at

Shahpura, is very good at studies but he is physically weak. Write a letter advising him to improve his health by taking part in games and sports. (5)

Imagine that you are Ram Narayan Sinha and the monitor of your class 10th reading in Government Senior Secondary School, Sikar. There are no proper library facilities in the school. Write an application of complaint to your principal.

4. Write a story with the help of given outlines in about 80 words. Give the title and moral

to it. (4)

A donkey ........ carries salt ...... stream ...... by chance .... falls down ....... salt washed way ........ half bag remains ..... light .... feels happy ..... master angry ....... next time ....... carries cotton ..... stream ......... falls down heavy ........ sad.

A farmer ....... wonderful hen ....... a golden egg daily ........ thinks to get all eggs ........ cuts no egg ...... very sad.

5. Write a paragraph of about 80 words:-(4)

Pollution or A Visit to aZoo

6. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs given in brackets:- 4×1=4

(a) Sita always ............. (take) tea without sugar.

(b) I .......... (go) to see him yesterday.

(d) Presently Ram ............ (play) football in the ground.

7. Rewrite the following sentences by changing them into indirect speech:- 2×1=2

(a) She said to me, "Do you play football in the evening ?"

(b) Shyam said, "I plan to leave for Australia next week,"

8. Fill in the blanks with a verb in agreement with subject:- 2×1=2

(a) One-third of the students ........... (is/ are) absent.

(b) Either of the roads .......... (lead/ leads) to the park.

9. Change the following sentence into passive voice:- 2×1=2

(a) Ramesh helped Suresh in his studies

(b) Some people do not it meat.

10. Frame question of the following sentences: 2×1/2=2

(a) Q. When..................?

Ans. I get up at four.

(b) Q. Why .................. ?

Ans. He sold the house to educate the children.

Add Question Tag to the statements given below:

(d) The servant broke the cup, ...........?

11. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :-

He wandered for seven years and finally sat down under a peepal tree, where he

vowed to stay until enlightenment came. Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree the Bodhi Tree (Tree of Wisdom) and began to teach and to share his new understandings. At that point he became known as the Buddha (the Awakened or the Enlightened). The Buddha preached his first sermon at the city of Benares, most holy of the dipping places on the River Ganges; that sermon has been preserved and is given here. It reflects the Buddha's wisdom about one inscrutable kind of bout one suffering.

(i) He wandered for-

(a) seven years (b) ten years (c) six years (d) seven days

(ii) Where did he get enlightened? eget enlig

(a) under a peepal tree (b) under a mango tree

(iii) The Buddha preached his first sermon at the city of-

(a) Delhi (b) Agra (c) Benares (d) Kashmir

(iv) Why was the tree renamed as 'Bodhi Tree'?

(v) What does the Buddha's sermon reflect?

(iv) Pick out the word from the passage that means the same as "religious talk".

Early in the New Year of 1956 I travelled to Southern Iraq. By then it had crossed my mind that I should like to keep an otter instead of a dog, and that Camusfearna, ringed by water a stone's throw from its door, would be an eminently suitable spot for this experiment. When I casually mentioned this to a friend, he as casually replied that I had better get one in the Tigris marshes, for there they were as common and were often tamed by the Arabs. We were going to Basra to the Consulate General to collect and answer our mail from Europe. At the Consulate-General we found that my friend's mail had arrived but that mine had not. I cabled to England, and when, three days later, nothing had happened.

(i) Narrator should like to keep the animal

(a) Dog (b) Otter (c) Lion (d) Cow

(ii) "They were as common as mosquitoes". The writer means

(a) In great number (b) Very few (c) Can't be found (d) Nothing

(iii) When did the author travel to Southern Iraq?

(iv) What did the writer wish to tame?

(v) Why were they going to Basra?

(vi) Find out the word from the passage which is similar in meaning to 'place'.

12. Answer anyone of the following question in 80 words :- [5]

1. How did Kisa Gotami realise that life and death is a normal process?

2. Draw a character sketch of Valli.

13. Answer any three of the following questions in 20-30 words : [3×2=6]

1. What game had Mij invented?

2. What was Valli's favourite parttime?

3. How can one get peace of mind?

4. What was the peculiar dress of the baker in the Portuguese days?

14. Answer any one of the following questions in 40 words:- 3

1. What was the first cause of the quarrel between Natalya and Lomov?

2. How can we say that Natalya was in love with Lomov?

15. Read any one of the following extracts and answer the questions that follow.(2x2=4)

The trees inside are moving out into the forest, the forest that was empty all these days where no bird could sit no insect hide no sun bury its feet in shadow the forest that was empty all these nights will be full of trees by morning.

(i) How do you think will the forest be full of trees again?

(ii) From where do the trees move out into the forest?

The Fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches and then. moves on.

(i) How does the fog come? (ii) Who is the fog compared to?

16. Answer any two of the following questions in about 20-30 words :- [2×3=6]

1. How is custard, the dragon describe in the poem?

2. What does an old religious man say about God's Love?

3. How does Amanda behave in the poem throughout?

17. Answer anyone of the following questions in about 80 words :- [5]

1. Give a character sketch of Matilda.

2. How did Bholi's teacher play an important role in changing the course of her life?

18. Answer any two out of three following questions in 20-30 words:2×2=4