CBSE Class 12 English Question Paper SA 1 2013 (1)

CBSE Class 12 English Question Paper SA 1 2013 (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. 

SECTION – (A) – READING

A1. Read the passage carefully.

1) When television became widespread after World War II, some people thought that television will replace reading. They believed that only a few people might still have any reason to read and that television would become the number one educational tool.

2) We know now that this prediction was incorrect. There has no decline in most people's need to read. In fact surveys shows that more books than ever are being sold and the amount of time that the students spend readings is greater than in the days before television. Unfortunately, however, many students are doing little or no voluntary reading. Most of the reading that they dlo is assigned by their teachers.

3) Just think about how much you read every day in order to complete your school work. How often can you finish an assignment or your home-work without doing any reading? Is there any class in your school that does not require you to do some reading ? You have to read in home-economics - directions and recipes. if nothing else - in shop and auto mechanic classes, in the Science lab and certainly in such courses as Social Studies and English. There is no denying the fact that mostacademic and vocational courses rely heavily on text books.

4) Not too long ago, a group of teachers made a study of the students and learning problems. A curious fact came out of this study. The teachers discovered that the students who did poorly in subjects such as Maths or Art could still do very well in other subjects. But the students who did poorly in reading, almost always did poorly in all their other courses.

5) For a while the teachers who made the study were puzzled by this, but they soon had an answer to this puzzle. The teachers looked at the subjects that the students here failing in and discovered that even subjects like Maths and Science were based on reading.

6) Of course there were also other skills involved such as learning to add and subtract in Maths class most of the explanation of how to do things had to be read by, the students. Much of the home-work assignments required students to real long sets of directions and tests and, problems in class often involved story problems, problems that were explained in words and had to be read and understood before they could be solved. Your success or failure in these classes will depend on your ability to read the required material. Finally, if you go to college, almost all your study time will be spent reading. You need more and more information and most of this information comes from the printed material you have to read. Even if you could get tapes or movies containing all the information you need to know that they would not be of much help until and unless you know how to read.

7) Magazines and books may all be on microfilm in the next few years, but they will still have to be read. The same is true of most of what you have to learn in school. Your school is probably not going to throw all printed material out of the window very soon.

(a) Answer the following questions briefly: 

(i) What prediction concerning television is referred to by the author and why does he say that it is incorrect ?

(ii) What were the findings of the teachers regarding the poor performance of the students ?

(iii) What do you understand from the term ‘technical reading’?

(iv) Do you think audio-visual and microfilms can replace in modern society? Why ? Why not?

(v) Why can't professionals and semi-skilled people do away with reading?

(b) Find words in the above passage which mean the same as each of the following : 

(i) decrease (para 2)

(ii) depend with confidence (para 3)

(iii) strange (para 4)

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