RBSE Class 12 English Model Paper 3

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Board	RBSE
Textbook	SIERT, Rajasthan
Class	Class 12
Subject	English
Paper Set	Model Paper 3
Category	RBSE Model Papers

RBSE Class 12 English Sample Paper 3

Time: 3 ¼ Hours
Maximum Marks: 80

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE EXAMINEES:

Candidates must first write their Roll Nos. on the question paper.
All the questions are compulsory.
Write the answer to each question in the given answer-book only.
For questions having more than one part, the answers to those parts are to be written together in continuity.
This paper is divided into three Sections A, B and C. All sections are compulsory.
Separate instructions are given for each section and question, wherever necessary. Read these instructions very carefully and follow them.
Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions.

SECTION – A
(READING)

(Q.1-9)
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateers and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert, men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; not to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tested, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man writes little, he has need to have a great memory; if he confers little, he has need to ha e a present wit; and if he reads little, he has need to have much cunning, to seem to know that he does not. Histories make man wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep, moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores: Studies pass into the character, Nay there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercise. Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man’s wit by wandering let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the school men; for they are cymini sectors. If he is not apt to bear over matters and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers’ cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.

Question 1.
What do studies serve for? [1]

Question 2.
What does the author say about crafty, simple and wise men? [1]

Question 3.
How, according to the author, should we read? [1]

Question 4.
What are the author’s thoughts about books? [1]

Question 5.
What is the role of reading, conference and writing for a man? [1]

Question 6.
How do different branches of knowledge contribute in men’s making? Find out a word the passage which means: [1]

Question 7.
most important. [1]

Question 8.
respect somebody for what they are or what they have done. [1]

Question 9.
something that delays or stops the progress of something. [1]

(Q. 10–11)
Read the passage given below and answer the questions:
Information technology and library services are two faces of the same coin. In a village set up mostly the young and the old use libraries and the middle-aged make little use of these libraries. They need job related information to update their skills and knowledge. The library and information services play a dominant role in catering to education, information and recreational requirements of society. Library is an instrument of social change. All along the concept of library has been associated with literacy and books, and the librarian was considered the keeper of books. Concurrent with changes in society, the concept of library has changed. It is a multimedia center and a place for learning resources for the literate as well as the illiterate. Education is the key to individual achievement and national strength.

Integrated approach in starting at least a reading room in every hamlet is the need of the hour. Coordination between the Department of education and Panchayati Raj in spreading the library movement is of paramount importance. Amalgamation of adult education programmers with the library programmers also needs to be given a greater thought. The school can function in a hamlet or a village serving the common needs of students and public. The massive permanent building programmers for weaker sections in rural areas should earmark at least one house for every 1,000 houses or in every cluster for library purpose. The services of a retired teacher or a retired employee in that hamlet can be achieved. A person residing in the same hamlet is more useful with inherent advantages than an outsider for library work as the library has to function in the evening hours and to be extended for TV and Internet operations also. Information technology, Internet and e-commerce have great potential in catering to public needs. However, we have to be pragmatic in our approach in terms of electronic access to information in rural areas. Availability, affordability, accessibility, acceptability, and sustainability of the service should also be kept in view. Once a common service place is identified, the IT-based services can conveniently be cushioned on. It is hoped that the State and Central governments will give top priority to this minimum facility.

Question 10.
On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it using headings and subheadings. [4]

Question 11.
Write a summary of the passage and suggest a suitable title. [2]

SECTION – B
(WRITING)

Question 12.
You have received an invitation from the Students Union of Govt. Senior Secondary School Pipla, Jaipur to attend the Teachers’ Day Celebration on 5th September 2018 at 11.00 a.m. You are Mr. Ram Padh father of Ram Krishan class XII of this school. Write a formal reply for being unable accept the invitation. [4]

You are Mukesh. You live at 35, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Jaipur. You have been invited by your friend Saurabh to attend the dinner party. You have some urgent previous engagements. Write an informal reply showing your inability to attend it. [4]

Question 13.
Your school arranged a plantation prograamme on the occasion of world Environment Day on 4th June. Write a report to be published in the school magazine in the school magazine in about 100 words. [7]

Write a factual description of “Your School Morning Assembly” in about 100 words. [7]

Question 14.
Complaint by writing a letter to the Station House Officer, Police Station Tonk about the increasing incidents of chain snatching and eve testing and request him to take strict measures to restrict it. [7]

Wanted a lady Receptionist cum Telephone Operator. Smart female graduate with an attractive personality of not more than 25 years with good command over English and Hindi may only apply. Experienced will be preferred. Write to the Amrit Nursing Home, Dausha with detailed resume and a passport size photograph latest by next Tuesday.
You are Prachi /Diksha. Write for this post seeing its advertisement in ‘The Express Times’. [7]

Question 15.
You are Meera/Mohan of Class XII. You live in a village. Write a speech in 100 words on “The Village Life’. [7]

Write an article for your school magazine promoting the view on the topic: ‘Water Crisis will lead to the Third World War’. [7]

SECTION -C
(TEXTUAL QUESTIONS)

(Q. 16–17)
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make Man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere

Question 16.
Which tree is referred in the stanza? What is its life span? [2]

Question 17.
What does not make a man better? Who falls like a log? [2]

At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.

Question 16.
What is the first stage in a man’s life? What does he do at that stage? [1 + 1 = 2]

Question 17.
What is the second stage in the life of a man? Which instance tells us that he is reluctant to go to school? [1 + 1 = 2]

Question 18.
Answer any three of the following questions in 30–40 words each.

When does a man act as a lover? (The seven ages of man) [2]
What happens to him in the end? (The seven ages of man) [2]
“Uncaged they come and go ………. my delight.” (A Boy’s Song) [2]
Do you think word they’ here refers only to the two birds mentioned earlier or to all birds? How do we know?
When does Lily bloom? (The Noble Nature) [2]

(Q. 19–22)
Answer the following questions in 30–40 words each : [4 x 2 = 8]
Question 19.
What role do water tanks play in South Indian agriculture? (Water)

Question 20.
Which diseases are caused by stress? (How Yoga Heals)

Question 21.
Did the narrator go to the market with the intention of buying the painting? How did he happen to buy it? (Third Thoughts)

Question 22.
How were the Himalay as formed according to the author? (Journey to the End of the Earth)

Question 23.
Answer the questions in about 125 words :
Give the literal comprehension of the story ‘Third Thoughts’ by E.V.Lucas. (Third Thought) [7]

What is meant by stress and what are its effects? (How Yoga Heals) [7]

Question 24.
Answer the following questions in about 125 words: Describe the meeting of Najab and Fatimah. (Love Across the Salt Desert) [7]

What was the right answer according to the girl? (The Guitar Player) [7]

Answer the following questions in 30-40 words each : [4 x 2 = 8]
Question 25.
Why did Edla still entertain the peddler even after she knew the truth about him? (The Rattrap)

Question 26.
What were the two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which Jim and Della took mighty pride? (The Gift of Magi)

Question 27.
Why was tiger hunting banned in Pratibandapuram? (The Tiger King)

Question 28.
What did Sherlock Holmes disguise to solve the case? (Trouble in Bohemia)

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