CBSE Class 12 English Core Sample Paper 2020 (1)

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SECTION A

READING

1. Read the passage given below carefully :

1. For four days, I walked through the narrow lanes of the old city, enjoying the romance of being in a city where history still lives - in its cobble stone streets and in its people riding asses, carrying vine leaves and palm as they once did during the time of Christ.

2. This is Jerusalem, home to sacred sites of Christianity. Islam and Judaism. This is the place that houses the church of the Holy Sepulchre, the place where Jesus was finally laid to rest. This is also the site of Christ's crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

3. Built by the Roman Emperor Constantine at the site of an earlier temple to Aphrodite. It is the most venerated Christian shrine in the world. And justifiably so. Here, within the church are the last five stations of the cross, the 10th station where Jesus was stripped of his clothes, the 11th where he was nailed to the cross, the 12th where he died on the cross, the 13th where the body was removed from the cross, and the 14th, his tomb.

4. For all this weighty tradition, the approach and entrance to the church is non-descript. You have to ask for directions. Even to the devout Christian piligrims walking along the Via Dolorosa - the Way of Sorrows - first nine stations look cluless. Then a courtyard appears, bemmed in by other buildings and a doorway to one side. This leads to a vast area of huge stone architecture.

5. Immediately inside the entrance is your first stop. It's the stone anointing this is the place, according to Greek tradition, where Christ was removed from the cross. The Roman Catholics, however, believe it to be the spot where Jesus' body was prepared for burial by Joseph.

6. What happpend next? Jesus was buried. He was taken to a place outside the city of Jerusalem where other graves existed and there, he was buried in a cave. However, all that is long gone, destroyed by continued attacks and rebuilding; what remains is the massive - and impressive - Rotunda (a round building with a dome) that Emperor Constantine built. Under this, and right in the centre of the Rotunda is the structure that contains the Holy Sepulchre. 

7. " How do you know that this is Jesus' tomb?" I asked one of the piligrims standing next to me. He was cluless more interested like the rest of them in the novelty of it all and in photographing it, than in its history or tradition.

8. At the start of the first century, the place was disused quarry outside the city walls, According to the gospels, Jesus' crucifixion occurred at a place outside the city walls with graves nearby...' Archaelogists have discovered tombs from that ear, so the site is compatible with the biblical period.

9. The structure at the site is marble tomb built over the original burial chamber, It has two rooms, and you enter four at a time into the first of these. the Chapel of the Angel. Here the angel is suppsed to have sat on stone to recount Christ's resurrection. A low door made of white marble, partly worn away by piligrims' hand leads to a smaller chamber inside. This is the room of the tomb. the place where Jeasus was buried.

10. We entered in single file. On my right was a large marble stab that covered the original rock bench on which the body of Jesus was laid. A woman knelt and prayed. Her eyes were wet with tears. She prassed her face against the slab to hide them, but She pressed her face against the slab to hide them, but it only made it worse.

On the basis of your understanding of this passage answer the following questions with help of given options

(a) How does Jerusalem still retain the charm of ancient era?

(i) There are narrow lanes.

(ii) Roads are paved with cobblestones.

(iii) People can be seen riding asses

(iv) All of the above.

(b) Holy Sepulchre is sacred to?

(i) Christianity

(ii) Islam

(iii) Judaism

(iv) Both (i) and (iii)

(c) Why does one have to constantly ask for directions to the church?

(i) Its lanes are narrow

(ii) Entrance to the church is non-descript

(iii) People are not tourist - friendly

(iv) Everyone is lost in enjoying the romance of the place.

(d) Where was Jesus buried?

(i) In a cave

(ii) At a place ourside the city

(iii) In the Holy Sepulchre

(iv) Both (i) and (ii) 

Answering the following questions brifly : 

(e) What is the Greek belief about the 'stone of anointing'?

(f) Why did Emperor Constantine attitude build the Rotunda?

(g) What is the general attitude of the piligrims?

(h) How is the site compatible with the biblical period?

(i) Why did the piligrims enter the room of the tomb in a single file?

(j) Why did 'a woman' try to hide her tears?

(k) Find words from the passage which mean the same as : 

(i) A large grave (para 3)

(ii) Having no interesting features/dull (para 4)

1. Read the passage given below carefully :

1. We often make all things around us the way we want them. Even during our piligrimages we have begun to look for whatever makes our heart happy, gives comfort to our body and peace to the mind. It is as if external solutions will fulfil our needs, and we do not want to make any special efforts even in our spiritual search. Our mind is resourceful- it works to find shortcuts in simple and easy ways.

2. Even piligrimages have been converted into tourism opportunities. Instead, we must awaken our conseience and souls and understand the truth. Let us not tamper with either our own nature or that of the Supreme.

3. All our cleaverness is rendered ineffective when nature does a dance of destruction. Its fury can and will wash away all imperfections. Indian culture, based on Vedic treatises, assists in human evolution, but we were now using our entire energy in distoting these traditions according to our convenience instead of making efforts to maker ourselves worthy of them.

4. The irony is that human are not even aware of the complacement attitude they have allowed themselves to sink to. Nature is everyone's Amma and her fierce blows will sooner or later corner us and force us to understand this truth Earlier. piligrimges to places or spiritual significance were rituals that were undertaken when people became free from their wordly duties. Even now some seckers take up this pious religious Journey as a path of peace and knowledge. Anyone travelling with this attitude feels and travels with only a few essential items that his body can carry. Pilgrims traditionally travelled light. on foot, eating light. dried chickpeas and fruits, or whatever was available. Piligrims of olden days did not feel the need to stay in speical AC bedrooms, or travel by luxury cars or indulge themselves with delicious food and savouries.

5. Piligrims traditionally moved ahead, creating a feeling of belonging towards all, conveying a message of brotherhood among all they came across whether in small caves, ashrams or local settlements. They received the blessings and congregations of yogis and mahatmas in return while conducting the dharama of their pilgrimage is like penance of sadhana to stay near nature and to experience a feeling of oneness with it. to keep the body healthy and fulfilled with the amount of food. while seeking freedom

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