CBSE Class 12 English Question Paper SA1 2013 (1)

CBSE Class 12 English Question Paper SA1 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

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

1 In spite of all the honours that we heaped upon him, Pasteur, as has been said, remained simple at heart. Perhaps the imagery of his boyhood days, when he drew the familiar scenes of his birthplace, and the longing to be a great artist, never wholly left him. In truth he did become a great artist, though after his sixteenth year he abandoned the brush forever. Like every artist of worth, he put his whole soul and energy into his work, and it was  this  very energy  that  in  the end  wore  him out.  For  to  him,  each  sufferer  was something more than just a case that was to be cured. He looked upon the fight against hydrophobia as a battle, and he was absorbed in his determination to win. The sight of injured children, particularly, moved him to an indescribable extent. He suffered with his patients, and yet he would not deny himself a share in that suffering. His greatest grief was when sheer physical exhaustion made him give up his active work. He retired to the estate at Villeneuve Etang, where he had his kennels for the study of rabies, and there he passed his last summer, as his great biographer, Vallery Radot, has said, "practicing the Gospel virtues."

2 "He revered the faith of his fathers, "says the same writer, "and wished without ostentation or mystery to receive its aid during his last period."

3 The attitude of this man to the science he had done so much to perfect can be best summed  up  in  a  sentence  that  he  is  reputed  once  to  have  uttered,  concerning  the materialism of many of his contemporaries in similar branches of learning to his own: "The more I contemplate the mysteries ofNature, the more my faith becomes like that of a peasant."

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