CBSE Class XII English Sample Paper 1 Answers

5. Anjali Dewan
Model Town
Delhi

HelpAge India
C-14, Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi-110016
14th July, 2004

Dear Sir,

Subject: Requesting information about ‘Help the Old’
I am a resident of Model Town and came across your organization’s advertisement in the newspaper. I am part of the NSS group and my group is keen to help the old in whatever way it is possible.
I would like to know the ways in which we can contribute. I would appreciate if you could let us know the various programme that your organization conducts. Also inform us about the kind of services the aged need.
The students who are part of the NSS group after can offer their services by making fortnightly or monthly visits. We can spend some quality time by reading, cooking or shopping for them.
If you have any special requirement you can write to us. Our group is genuinely interested in bringing some smile to the faces of these people. If there is any printed brochure, you may send that across.

Yours sincerely,
Anjali Dewan

6. Stop Crowding Hamirpur
Good Morning

Respected Principal, teachers and my dear friends, I am standing before you to present my views on the overcrowding of our beautiful picturesque town of Hamirpur.
A decade back our town had already 15 lakhs people, today the population stands at 22 lakhs. The number of houses has doubled from 2 lakhs to 4 lakhs, The number of people who own a car in the town has gone up from 55 thousands to 90 thousands. All this has increased the pressure on water as well as electricity.
It is pathetic to note the deterioration in civic amenities and constant increase in pollution levels.
The town which had greenery, fresh air and peace has now got reduced to an overcrowded town with people jostling for even walking space on roads.
As citizens of this town we can’t let this happen. We need to come together and raise our voice against these destructive forces in the form of man’s greed and desire to acquire more. A small beginning can be made by keeping our surroundings, our school, our home, clean. I’m sure you will all agree with me,

Thank you.

7. (a) inform you that the cake you ordered
(b) weighing 10 kg. With a thick layer of chocolate
(c) and the groom have been written
(d) We request you to collect it by 5 p.m.
(e) If it is damaged.

8.  (a) Whom do you want to speak to?
(b) where are you calling from?
(c) Why didn’t you let me know you were coming?
(d) Why are you with/Has anyone else come with you?

9. Incorrect        Correction
(a) Happier        happy
(b) may            can/could
(c) feels            feel
(d) the            a
(e) laugh        laughing
(f) some        all/can
(g) forgot        forget
(h) these        their

10. (a) One day when he had finished the ivory status of a beautiful woman he smiles.
(b) It was the innocent smile of a child at having found something new and unique.
(c)He was so impressed by the beauty of the status that he felt like failing on his knees to worship it.
(d) He realised that he had created a masterpiece and called this beauty, Galatea.
(e) Since he was devoted follower of Aphrodite, he prayed to the goddess to breathe life into it.
(f) After the goddess granted him his wish, Galatea came to life and Pygmalion married her.

11. (a) blasted outside a police station in Athens.
(b) have decided to redesign the security system
(c) fake documents was busted by the
(e) 5 lakh jobs (have to be / will be) created.

12. (a) The narrator’s mother is twisting and groaning as she was bitten by a scorpion and was in pain.
(b) Father is sceptic, he does not believe in folklore and superstitions. Yet he shows faith in blessings and prayer.
(c) It took about 20 hours for the mother of recover.

13. (a) The above lines are spoken by the mother to recover
(b) The deep refers to the ocean. It rotted as there was no breeze and no movement. Everything was stagnant.
(c)The speaker was not in harmony with nature.

14. In the poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ the poet feels that there was a likeness between himself as a boy and the West Wind. Both of them are swift, proud, free and uncontrollable. With the passage of time he no longer possesses that energy, he has lost his former vigour and fire. The poet is crushed by misfortunes and is in a pitiable condition. In a state of sorrow and self-pity he appeals to the West Wind for help. He wants the West Wind to lift him out of his trouble.
15. (a) Antony is in Capitol, near Caesar’s body.
(b) He does so because Caesar’s body is bearing stab wounds and blood ran out of it. It lies as lifeless as the ground beneath it.
(c) Antony had greeted the conspirators and shaken handle with those who had murdered Caesar. He was forced to conceal his anger.

16. (a) He calls the city life moribund because there is a fixed routine which one has to follow. There is no freedom for him to move on as in the village.’
(b) Babuli due to the burden of job and marriage had become a city baboo and no longer feels the attraction of home or village.

17. Dear Diary
As a little baby when I was a few weeks old I met CH-teal. This cute creature came and lay down beside me. It was a very pleasant relationship that we shared in the coming 10 weeks.
Our minds could communicate with each other, I talked bout the human race, early man and his progress the growth of civilization as well as the steps taken by human beings towards industrialization. I told him about the various battles that were fought, a few were won and a few lost. I also told him about the snakes which according to us are wicked creatures.
My cute friend Ch-tsal told me about life on other planets and galaxies, the cities in outer space and the five ways of knowing God.
As we interacted with each other we became good friends. But I know no one would believe this delightful experience, everybody will only call me mad.