CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper 2007 (1)

CBSE Class 12 English Elective Question Paper 2007 (1). Students can download the last year 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.

1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :

(a) Ants also use the direction of the sun’s rays in finding their way. A mirror was once used to change the direction of the light rays falling onto the path. The sunshine first had fallen from the west. Now, it showed from the east onto the moving army of ants. They turned about and travelled in the other direction.

    (i) In what way is the direction of the sun’s rays helpful to the ants ? 

    (ii) With what intention was the mirror used ? 

    (iii) What was revealed by this experiment ?

OR

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation as far as possible from the tyranny of the here and the now. We cannot help the egoism of our senses. Sight and sound and touch are bound up with our own bodies and cannot be made impersonal. Our emotions start similarly from ourselves.

    (i) Wherein lies the essence of wisdom ? 

    (ii) Why can’t our senses be made impersonal ? 

    (iii) Which elements other than our senses are not impersonal ?

(b) Incidentally one may also become bankrupt, because in the progress of the hunt, which naturally takes one sooner or later to Beauchamps Place and other similar zones, one sees far too many fascinating things. For those whose will is weak, whose purse is slender, and whose acquisitiveness or generosity is highly developed, London is, at the moment, no safe city.

    (i) Which ‘hunt’ is referred to here ? 

    (ii) What danger is inherent in such a hunt ? 

    (iii) For whom is the city of London not a safe city ? 

OR

To an ever-increasing degree, chemicals used for the control of insects, rodents, or unwanted vegetation contribute to these organic pollutants. Some are deliberately applied to bodies of water to destroy plants, insects larvae, or undesired fishes. Some come from forest spraying that may blanket two or three million acres of a single state with spray directed against a single insect, pest-spray that falls directly into streams or that drips down through the leafy canopy to the forest floor, there to become part of the slow movement of seeping moisture beginning its long journey to the sea.

    (i) What contributes to the organic pollutants ? 

    (ii) For what purpose are some chemicals deliberately used ? 

    (iii) Where does the long journey of the chemical spray end ?

2. Answer the following questions in about 150 words each :

    (a) How do newspapers cater to the interests of different groups of readers ? 

    (b) What advantages, in the opinion of the author, would result from the unification of the world ?

3. Answer the following questions in about 60 words each :

    (a) Why should a reader read a book with an open mind ?

    (b) What did Amrita Sher-Gil think of the Indian painters ? 

4. Answer the following question in about 150 words :

Raja is the leading character in ‘A Tiger for Malgudi’.Comment.

5. Answer the following questions in about 60 words each :

    (a) What was Raja’s opinion of human beings when he was in the circus ? 

    (b) Describe Captain’s relationship with his wife as revealed in ‘A Tiger for Malgudi’. 

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