BAHAWALPUR BOARD
English (Compulsory)
(Session: 2017)
(Group-I I A-2017)
(New Course)
Class — XII
Paper-II
The; 30 Minutes
(OBJECTIVE)
Marks: 20
Note: - Write answers to the questions on objective answer sheet provided. Four possible answers A, B, C & D to each question are given. Which answer you consider correct, fill the corresponding circle A, B, C or D given in front of each question with Marker or pen ink on the answer sheet provided:

Choose the correct option of the underlined words from the columns A, B, C & D and fill up the bubbles:

• As a general thing the boy wins out in such controversies.

(A) Colleges
(B) Conflicts
(C) Problems
(D) Matters

• I used to lie waiting for that ominous tread.

(A) Gloomy
(B) Awaited
(C) Happy
(D) Glad

• The manager was a grave, calm man.

(A) Rough
(B) Great
(C) Jolly
(D) Serious

Choose the right option of the underlined words and fill up the bubble: (Book -II, I Modern Prose & Heroes, and Part II)

• I continued in this unpretentious situation for near a year

(A) Humble
(B) Excellent
(C) Horrible
(D) Bad

• Providentially Pasteur's mind was not injured.

(A) Unfortunately
(B) Luckily
(C) Ultimately
(D) Immediately

• Government at Istanbul was branded as Government of dotards.

(A) Wise
(B) Strong
(C) In firms
(D) CrueI

Choose the right option of the underlined words and fill up the bubbles: (Novel "Good-Bye Mr. Chips)

• At fifty he was the doyen of the staff.

(A) Principal
(B) Chief
(C) Head
(D) Senior Member

• The Head with them standing was aghast,

(A) Pleased
(B) Horrified
(C) Grieved
(D) Pinched

• Chips took up isolated words out of that extraordinary indictment,

(A) Charges
(B) Freedom
(C) Trust
(D) Praise

• Maynard was a dauntless boy.

(A) Coward
(B) Idle
(C) Brave
(D) Weak

Choose the right option of the appropriate preposition and fill up the bubble:

• Morning walk is conducive ----our health.

(A) For
(B) To
(C) Of
(D) At

• She is envious………………………..her friend.

(A) At
(B) With
(C) Of
(D) To

• Our people are kept ignorant…………. Facts.

(A) Off
(B) With
(C) To
(D) Of

• Her poetry is replete…………………………….images of life and death.

(A) With              
(B) At    
(C) In    
(D) From

• I am Sick ------------interviews.

(A) From             
(B) At    
(C) Of   
(D) In

Choose the correct sentence from each of the groups and fill up the bubbles:

• He speaks as if he is mad.

(A) He speaks as if he is a mad.
(B) He Speaks as if he has mad.
(C) He speaks as if he were mad.
(D) He speaks as if he were a mad.

• His father is a poet and a novelist.

(A) His father is poet and novelist.           
(B) His father is the poet and a novelist.
(C) His father is a poet and the novelist.
(D) His father is a poet and novelist.

• No sooner he saw a lion, he began to weep.

(A) No sooner he saw a lion when he began to weep
(B) No sooner did he see a lion than he began to weep.
(C) No sooner does he see a lion when he began to weep.
(D) No sooner did he saw a lion then he began to weep.

• He has a decent house to live.

(A) He has a decent house to live in         
(B) He has a decent house to live at
(C) He has a decent house to live into
(D) He has a decent house to live from.

• He is ill science three months.

(A) He is id for three months.     
(B) He is filling for three months.
(C) He has been ill for three months
(D) He has been thing since three months.

BAHAWALPUR BOARD
English (Compulsory)
(Session: 2017)
(New Course)
Class — XII
(SUBJECTIVE)
Time: 2:30 hours
SECTION-I

2. Write short answers to any six din 3-5 lines questions in words of your own from Book-I (Short Stories) 6x2:12

• Write a note on the beginning of life on Earth,
  
• How has the scientific method helped us in the production and preservation of food?
  
• Write any two cause of failure of boys at college.
  
• How do the summer holidays look to Daiches at the start?
  
• What kinds of books were presented to the troops?
  
• Why did the writer go to the British Museum?
  
• What confused the writer whenever he entered a bank?
  
• Why was China forgotten for twenty two years after its revolution?
  
• What is the history of Famines in China?

3. Write short answers (in 3-5) to any five questions from Book II (Modern Prose and Heroes-Part-II)

• What sorts of questions are asked by your examiners?
  
• What did Robert Christopher decide to do after his adventure around the world?
  
• What was the most noticeable feature of the desert city, name Ghardaia?
  
• What did Wright and Fleming discover about antiseptic method?
  
• What are Antiseptics and what is Antiseptic method?
  
• What did Pasteur discover about bacteria in milk during his research on spontaneous generation?
  
• How did Pasteur show the way to other scientists?
  
• What were the terms offered to Turkey by the Allies?

4. Write short answers (in 3-5 lines) to any eight questions from the novel, "Goodbye Mr. Chips.

• Describe* Mr. Chips' first meeting with Wetherby.
  
• Was Chips an Ambitious Teacher?
  
• Why did Mr. Chips hasten to-the girl waving hands from a dangerous rock?
  
• What things haunted Mr. Chips' memories?
  
• How did Katherine influence Chips?
  
• Describe the physical grace of Katherine.
  
• Describe the role of Ralston in the progress of Brookfield,
  
• What was given to Mr. Chips on his retirement?
  
• What was the contribution of Brookfield towards the advancement of England?
  
• What were the two things Chips had never done in life?
  
• Who was Linford?
  
• Describe briefly about the generosity of Mr. Chips.

Section-II

5. Write an essay (300-400 words) on any one of the following topics:

• Pleasures of College Life               
  
• Science in the service of Humanity
  
• Women's Place in Society            
  
• Kashmir Issue

6. Use any five of the following idioms/phrases in sentences of your own:

• Up to the Mark
  
• Nip in the Bud
  
• Make Good
  
• Catch Red Handed
  
• Let Down
  
• Pocket Insult

7. Translate the following passage into English.
پہاڑ قدرت کا ایک عظیم تحفہ ہے۔بعض پہاڑ چھوٹے اور بعض فلک بوس ہوتے ہیں۔ یہ زمین کا زیور ہیں۔ برف پوش پہاڑ چٹیل پہاڑوں سے زیادہ خوبصورت لگتے ہیں۔دنیا کا سب سے چھوٹا پہاڑ کوہِ طور ہےاور بلند ترین کوہِ ہمالیہ ہے۔ لیکن قدرومنزلت میں خدا کے ہاں کوہِ طور بہت بلند ہے۔ ہمیں پہاڑوں کی جغرافیائی اور موسمیاتی اہمیت کو سمجھنا چاہیئے۔ پہاڑ زمین کی میخیں ہیں۔ کچھ پہاڑ آتش فشاں بھی ہیں۔ اللہ تعالیٰ ہمیں ہر طرح کی آفت سے محفوظ رکھے۔
Note: English Medium I Foreign candidates will write a paragraph on "Social Evils".