CBSE Class 12 English Core Question Paper Solved 2021 Set B

CBSE Class 12 English Core Question Paper Solved 2021 Set B. Students can download the last year board exams question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions. Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations.  

SECTION-A 

Reading 

1 Read the passage given below and then answer the questions which follow:- 

1. Have you ever caught yourself scratching your head, twitching your ear, tapping your foot or playing with your keys or pen? If you have, you are a sure fidgeter. And it is very likely that the habit has carried over from childhood, when you are wriggling probably exasperated – and sometimes amused – and your parents and teachers ignored it. It is not a pleasant sight to see a grown – up. 

2. Recently, some doctors in Britain have discovered that not only is fidgeting quite normal, it even does you good. 

3. Almost everybody fidgets when hot, cold, hungry, and thirsty or tired. Being kept waiting also brings on the fidgets. Most of this is normal but then with some this translates into exaggerated mannerisms and that is where we have a problem. When the British doctors wired up volunteers to an electric ‘fidget meter’, followed by a gruelling interview, some stayed almost completely still. Others made up to that those who fidgeted more were the anxious types, needing to release nervous energy. 

4. This is what led to the conclusion that fidgeting has its uses too – since it helps get rid of stress that could sometimes lead to headaches, muscle pain or even ulcers. Fidgeting is also believed to fight the flab. Add up all those little movements made by fidgeters during their waking hours and they burn up as much energy as a jog, the report said. While British doctors may feel that fidgeting is an expression of anxious behaviours, doctors here do not necessarily agree. 

5. Meanwhile, a former assistant professor in Los Angeles opines that fidgeting is a sign of some underlying tension which is causing anxiety. While one cannot make generalised statements, some experts feel that pencil-suckers yearn for babyhood, teeth-grinders and fist clenchers seem to be holding back their aggression, foot tappers wish to be on the move and people who scratch may wish to injure themselves. 

6. A leading psychiatrist gives a positive side to the anxiety angle. According to him, “A bit of anxiety is not harmful since it induces one to do better. It often brings out the best in people-while meeting deadlines, submitting reports or at interviews and examinations”. He gives the example of tennis players who play with “manageable anxiety”, but warns that when the fidgets turn to illness ends up fidgeting deliberately, mainly to distract his companion from his actual problem. It could be something as harmless as the shaking of the hand or twitching of the eye. 

7. Refuting this, another psychiatrist insists that fidgeting in no way should be considered good. It may be innocuous unless it is harming the fidgeter or annoying others, but, what fidgeting really reveals is lack of confidence and even social phobia, besides, of course, anxiety. It, in fact, sends non-verbal messages to people who then treat the person accordingly – as nervous or anxious individuals, he adds.

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