CBSE Class 12 English Elective C Question Paper Solved 2019

CBSE Class 12 English Elective C Question Paper Solved 2019. 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 answer the questions that follow :

Space Tourism

1 Space tourism is the term used to describe space travel for recreational or leisure purposes. What was once only a dream — described in books such as Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 : A Space Odyssey — is now becoming a reality.

2 Futurologists are scientists who attempt to make predictions of what life will be like in the future. After the first man landed on the moon in 1969, they thought that hotels would be built on the moon by the year 2000. Futurologists also considered the possibility that, in the 21st century, families might go for a holiday on the moon. Neither of these predictions have come true yet — but the rapid development of technology may mean these predictions are a possibility in the years to come.

3 Space Adventures is currently the only company to have succeeded in sending paying passengers into space. Space Adventures worked with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia to facilitate flights for the world’s first private space explorers. Each person paid over $20 million for their 10-day trip to the International Space Station.

4 The first space tourist, in April 2001, was American businessman Dennis Tito. He was followed almost exactly a year later by South African businessman Mark Shuttle; by another American businessman Greg Olsen in October 2005; by the first female space tourist, an Iranian-American engineer Anousheh Ansari in September 2006; and by a Hungarian-American software architect, Dr. Charles Simonyi, in April 2007.

5 Following several successful explorations into space, several companies are now considering the possibility of enabling tourists to visit space. At present, spaceports are being constructed in numerous locations in the USA, as well as in Sweden and the United Arab Emirates.

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