BSEB Class 12 English Question Paper 2016

1. Choose the sentence with a correctly used appositive phrase:

1. (A) My brother, a doctor, lives in London.
2. (B) My brother a doctor lives in London.
3. (C) My brother, who is a doctor lives in London.
4. (D) My brother, a doctor who lives in London.

2. 'The news ______ very interesting.'

1. (A) is
2. (B) are
3. (C) be
4. (D) am

3. Which tense is used to describe an action that is happening right now?

1. (A) Present Continuous Tense
2. (B) Simple Past Tense
3. (C) Present Perfect Tense
4. (D) Simple Future Tense

4. Which of the following is an incorrect usage of articles?

1. (A) The dogs bark loudly (general dogs)
2. (B) Dogs bark loudly
3. (C) The dogs in my yard bark loudly
4. (D) Some dogs bark loudly

5. The phrase 'on the table' uses 'on' as a preposition of ____.

1. (A) place
2. (B) time
3. (C) direction
4. (D) manner

6. She ______ sing beautifully when she was younger.

1. (A) can
2. (B) could
3. (C) might
4. (D) shall

7. She said, "I am going to the market." Change into indirect speech.

1. (A) She said that she was going to the market.
2. (B) She told that she was going to the market.
3. (C) She said she is going to the market.
4. (D) She said to me that she was going to the market.

8. According to Gandhi, what is the 'soul' of Indian civilization?

1. (A) Its moral and ethical foundation
2. (B) Its rich history and mythology
3. (C) Its diverse languages and cultures
4. (D) Its grand monuments and architecture

9. To combine sentences using a participle, what must be true about the subjects of the original sentences?

1. (A) They must be different.
2. (B) They must be the same.
3. (C) One subject must be a pronoun and the other a noun.
4. (D) The subject of the second sentence must be implied.

10. Which of the following is a key characteristic of Middle English that distinguished it from Old English?

1. (A) Addition of extensive Germanic vocabulary
2. (B) Simplification of grammatical inflections
3. (C) Preservation of complex case endings
4. (D) Dominance of Old English syntax

11. Choose the correct sentence:

1. (A) Although it was late, he continued working.
2. (B) Even though it was late, he continued working.
3. (C) Despite it was late, he continued working.
4. (D) Though it was late, he continued working.

12. The Germanic invaders of Britain spoke dialects that belonged to which language family?

1. (A) Romance
2. (B) Indo-European
3. (C) Dravidian
4. (D) Sino-Tibetan

13. He is ___ university professor.

1. (A) a
2. (B) an
3. (C) the
4. (D) no article

14. Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the most significant writer of the Middle English period. Which of his works is most famous?

1. (A) The Canterbury Tales
2. (B) Beowulf
3. (C) Piers Plowman
4. (D) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

15. She wished that she ——— a bird.

1. (A) were
2. (B) was
3. (C) is
4. (D) am

16. Choose the sentence with the correct tense:

1. (A) He *has lived* here for ten years.
2. (B) He *is living* here for ten years.
3. (C) He *lives* here for ten years.
4. (D) He *had lived* here for ten years.

17. The train departs ______ 8:00 AM.

1. (A) at
2. (B) on
3. (C) in
4. (D) by

18. What is the antonym of 'Artificial'?

1. (A) Genuine
2. (B) Synthetic
3. (C) Imitation
4. (D) Fake

19. Which event in AD 1066 marked the end of the Old English period?

1. (A) The Roman invasion
2. (B) The Norman Conquest
3. (C) The invention of the printing press
4. (D) The Great Vowel Shift

20. The Renaissance period, beginning in the 16th century, contributed to Modern English primarily through:

1. (A) Simplification of sentence structures
2. (B) Introduction of loanwords from Latin and Greek
3. (C) Reduction in the use of prepositions
4. (D) Standardization of spoken dialects

21. Find the sentence with the correct article:

1. (A) He is a Member of Parliament.
2. (B) He is an Member of Parliament.
3. (C) He is the Member of Parliament.
4. (D) He is Member of Parliament.

22. Fill in the blank with the correct article: 'He wants to be ___ honest man.'

1. (A) a
2. (B) an
3. (C) the
4. (D) none

23. What was the primary language spoken by the ruling class in England during the early Middle English period?

1. (A) Old Norman French
2. (B) Latin
3. (C) Old Norse
4. (D) Anglo-Saxon (Old English)

24. Choose the correct sentence:

1. (A) Neither he nor I am going.
2. (B) Neither he nor I is going.
3. (C) Neither he nor I are going.
4. (D) Neither he nor I was going.

25. Find the correctly spelled word:

1. (A) Achieve
2. (B) Acheive
3. (C) Achievee
4. (D) Achievea

26. If you heat ice, it ______ water.

1. (A) melts
2. (B) will melt
3. (C) melt
4. (D) is melting

27. Choose the correct sentence:

1. (A) One of the boy's is singing.
2. (B) One of the boys is singing.
3. (C) One of the boys are singing.
4. (D) One of the boy is singing.

28. 'The committee ______ to present their findings tomorrow.'

1. (A) meet
2. (B) meets
3. (C) meeting
4. (D) met

29. Which of the following words is spelled correctly?

1. (A) Accomodate
2. (B) Acommodate
3. (C) Accommodate
4. (D) Acomodate

30. In 'Indian Civilization and Culture', what does Mahatma Gandhi state that mind is?

1. (A) A restless bird
2. (B) A peaceful temple
3. (C) A calm river
4. (D) An open book

31. Choose the correct sentence:

1. (A) The jury were divided in their opinions.
2. (B) The jury was divided in their opinions.
3. (C) The jury is divided in their opinions.
4. (D) The jury am divided in their opinions.

32. Dr. Radhakrishnan entered the office of the President of India in a spirit of ______.

1. (A) total humility
2. (B) great pride
3. (C) strict anger
4. (D) absolute power

33. Who is the author of the story 'A Pinch of Snuff'?

1. (A) H. E. Bates
2. (B) Mahatma Gandhi
3. (C) Malongka Sevier
4. (D) Manohar Malgonkar

34. Martin Luther King Jr. appeals for the rights of which group of people in 'I Have a Dream'?

1. (A) Negroes
2. (B) Europeans
3. (C) Asians
4. (D) Australians

35. Seibei, the main character in 'The Artist', was passionately interested in ______.

1. (A) painting
2. (B) gourds
3. (C) music
4. (D) cricket

36. According to 'A Child is Born', in traditional societies, child birth is ______ event.

1. (A) a private and family
2. (B) a public and communal
3. (C) an unimportant
4. (D) a lonely

37. John Donne asks his beloved not to weep for him in which poem?

1. (A) Song of Myself
2. (B) Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe
3. (C) Ode to Autumn
4. (D) The Soldier

38. In 'Song of Myself', the poet says, 'And what I assume you shall assume'. Who does 'I' refer to?

1. (A) John Donne
2. (B) Walt Whitman
3. (C) W. H. Auden
4. (D) John Keats

39. The poem 'Now the Leaves are Falling Fast' deals with the ______ of human life.

1. (A) happiness
2. (B) frustrations
3. (C) growth
4. (D) wealth

40. John Keats' 'Ode to Autumn' is a celebration of ______.

1. (A) spring
2. (B) winter
3. (C) autumn
4. (D) summer

41. Who wrote the poem 'An Epitaph', which expresses sadness over the death of a beautiful lady?

1. (A) Rupert Brooke
2. (B) Walter de la Mare
3. (C) T. S. Eliot
4. (D) Keki N. Daruwalla

42. Rupert Brooke's poem 'The Soldier' is a fine example of a ______ poem.

1. (A) war
2. (B) nature
3. (C) satirical
4. (D) romantic

43. Choose the correct passive voice: 'Open the door.'

1. (A) Let the door be opened.
2. (B) The door is opened.
3. (C) Open is the door.
4. (D) Let open the door.

44. Choose the correct indirect speech: He said to me, "Where are you going?"

1. (A) He asked me where I was going.
2. (B) He told me where you are going.
3. (C) He asked me where am I going.
4. (D) He said to me where I went.

45. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: 'He is angry ______ me.'

1. (A) at
2. (B) with
3. (C) on
4. (D) by

46. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb: 'Neither he nor I ______ present.'

1. (A) is
2. (B) are
3. (C) am
4. (D) were

47. What is the synonym of 'Courage'?

1. (A) Fear
2. (B) Bravery
3. (C) Cowardice
4. (D) Weakness

48. What is the antonym of 'Ancient'?

1. (A) Old
2. (B) Modern
3. (C) Aged
4. (D) Stale

49. Choose the correct one-word substitution: 'A person who writes books.'

1. (A) Painter
2. (B) Author
3. (C) Baker
4. (D) Singer

50. Choose the correctly spelled word:

1. (A) Occurence
2. (B) Occurrence
3. (C) Ocurrence
4. (D) Occurense

51. Fill in the blank with the correct modal auxiliary: 'You ______ obey your parents.'

1. (A) should
2. (B) can
3. (C) might
4. (D) could

52. Choose the correct spelling:

1. (A) Beginning
2. (B) Begining
3. (C) Begening
4. (D) Beginnig

53. Choose the correct antonym of 'Victory':

1. (A) Defeat
2. (B) Success
3. (C) Win
4. (D) Triumph

54. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: 'The cat jumped ______ the chair.'

1. (A) on
2. (B) upon
3. (C) in
4. (D) at

55. Choose the sentence in the correct present continuous tense:

1. (A) He is playing football now.
2. (B) He plays football yesterday.
3. (C) He has played football.
4. (D) He will play football.

56. According to Mahatma Gandhi in 'Indian Civilization and Culture', the mind is a ____.

1. (A) satisfied bird
2. (B) restless bird
3. (C) peaceful dove
4. (D) caged animal

57. In 'Bharat is My Home', Dr. Zakir Hussain pledges himself to the service of the totality of India's ____.

1. (A) culture
2. (B) wealth
3. (C) army
4. (D) constitution

58. In 'A Pinch of Snuff', who was coming to visit the narrator's family?

1. (A) The Minister
2. (B) Nanukaka
3. (C) Ratiram
4. (D) Sohanlal

59. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous speech 'I Have a Dream' on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in ____.

1. (A) New York
2. (B) Washington, D.C.
3. (C) Chicago
4. (D) Boston

60. According to Bertrand Russell in 'Ideas that Have Helped Mankind', what primarily helped mankind in its early stages?

1. (A) Fire and language
2. (B) Nuclear energy
3. (C) Modern medicine
4. (D) Space travel

61. In 'The Artist', Seibei's hobby of collecting gourds got him into trouble with his ____.

1. (A) ethics teacher
2. (B) mathematics teacher
3. (C) headmaster
4. (D) neighbour

62. In 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe', the poet John Donne says that he must go away because ____.

1. (A) he is tired of his beloved
2. (B) death is inevitable and he must practice dying
3. (C) he wants to travel the world
4. (D) he was exiled

63. In 'Song of Myself', Walt Whitman begins by stating, 'I celebrate myself, and sing ____'.

1. (A) my song
2. (B) myself
3. (C) the world
4. (D) America

64. In the poem 'Now the Leaves are Falling Fast', the falling leaves symbolise the rapid approach of ____.

1. (A) winter
2. (B) death
3. (C) spring
4. (D) youth

65. John Keats' 'Ode to Autumn' describes autumn as a season of ____ and mellow fruitfulness.

1. (A) mists
2. (B) storms
3. (C) snow
4. (D) floods

66. Choose the correct passive voice of: 'The police arrested the thief.'

1. (A) The thief is arrested by the police.
2. (B) The thief was arrested by the police.
3. (C) The thief has been arrested by the police.
4. (D) The thief arrested the police.

67. Choose the correct indirect speech of: He said, 'I am reading a book.'

1. (A) He said that he is reading a book.
2. (B) He said that he was reading a book.
3. (C) He says that he reads a book.
4. (D) He told that he was reading a book.

68. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: 'He is proficient ______ mathematics.'

1. (A) in
2. (B) at
3. (C) on
4. (D) with

69. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb: 'Ten miles ______ a long distance.'

1. (A) are
2. (B) is
3. (C) were
4. (D) have

70. What is the synonym of the word 'Abundant'?

1. (A) Scarce
2. (B) Plentiful
3. (C) Little
4. (D) Short

71. What is the antonym of the word 'Transparent'?

1. (A) Clear
2. (B) Opaque
3. (C) Bright
4. (D) Visible

72. Choose the correct one-word substitution for: 'A person who does not believe in the existence of God.'

1. (A) Theist
2. (B) Atheist
3. (C) Optimist
4. (D) Pessimist

73. Choose the correctly spelled word among the following:

1. (A) Accomodation
2. (B) Accommodation
3. (C) Acommodation
4. (D) Accomodation

74. Fill in the blank with the correct modal auxiliary: 'We ______ respect our elders.'

1. (A) should
2. (B) can
3. (C) may
4. (D) might

75. Choose the correct antonym of 'Generous':

1. (A) Kind
2. (B) Stingy
3. (C) Broad
4. (D) Rich

76. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: 'The book was placed ______ the table.'

1. (A) in
2. (B) on
3. (C) at
4. (D) over

77. Choose the sentence in the correct present simple tense:

1. (A) She go to school everyday.
2. (B) She goes to school everyday.
3. (C) She going to school everyday.
4. (D) She gone to school everyday.

78. Choose the correct spelling:

1. (A) Grammer
2. (B) Grammar
3. (C) Gramer
4. (D) Grammar

79. In 'An Epitaph', Walter de la Mare expresses his deep sorrow for ____.

1. (A) a dead child
2. (B) a most beautiful lady
3. (C) his pet dog
4. (D) his lost friend

80. In Rupert Brooke's 'The Soldier', the soldier expresses his immense love for ____.

1. (A) France
2. (B) England
3. (C) America
4. (D) Germany

81. In 'How Free is the Press', the author discusses the freedom of the press in the context of ____.

1. (A) democracy
2. (B) totalitarianism
3. (C) monarchy
4. (D) anarchy

82. In 'The Earth', Benjamin's parents gave him a passbook for his savings accumulated from ____.

1. (A) farming
2. (B) hen-farming
3. (C) carpentry
4. (D) teaching

83. Pearl S. Buck, the author of 'India Through a Traveller's Eyes', came to India to see ____.

1. (A) the Himalayas
2. (B) the young intellectuals and common people
3. (C) only the temples
4. (D) the British officers

84. In Anton Chekhov's play 'A Marriage Proposal', Lomov visits Chubukov to ask for the hand of whose daughter?

1. (A) Natasha
2. (B) Natalya
3. (C) Nina
4. (D) Nadezhda

85. In the poem 'Fire-Hymn', Keki N. Daruwalla describes the scene of a ____.

1. (A) burning ghat
2. (B) temple
3. (C) forest fire
4. (D) church

86. In the poem 'Snake', D.H. Lawrence sees a snake come to his water-trough on a ____ day.

1. (A) cold
2. (B) rainy
3. (C) hot
4. (D) windy

87. In the poem 'My Grandmother's House', Kamala Das remembers the house where she received ____.

1. (A) money
2. (B) love
3. (C) scoldings
4. (D) gifts

88. In T.S. Eliot's poem, Macavity is described as a ____.

1. (A) gentle pet
2. (B) master criminal
3. (C) sleepy cat
4. (D) stray animal

89. Choose the correct passive voice: 'The teacher praised the student.'

1. (A) The student is praised by the teacher.
2. (B) The student was praised by the teacher.
3. (C) The student has been praised by the teacher.
4. (D) The student had been praised by the teacher.

90. Choose the correct indirect speech: She said, 'I will go tomorrow.'

1. (A) She said that she will go tomorrow.
2. (B) She said that she would go the next day.
3. (C) She says that she would go tomorrow.
4. (D) She said that she went the next day.

91. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: 'He died ______ cholera.'

1. (A) from
2. (B) of
3. (C) by
4. (D) with

92. Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb: 'Each of the boys ______ given a prize.'

1. (A) were
2. (B) was
3. (C) have been
4. (D) are

93. What is the synonym of the word 'Sincere'?

1. (A) Dishonest
2. (B) Honest
3. (C) False
4. (D) Fake

94. What is the antonym of the word 'Cruel'?

1. (A) Kind
2. (B) Hard
3. (C) Rough
4. (D) Severe

95. Choose the correct one-word substitution for: 'A government by the people.'

1. (A) Monarchy
2. (B) Autocracy
3. (C) Democracy
4. (D) Oligarchy

96. Choose the correctly spelled word among the following:

1. (A) Occasion
2. (B) Ocasion
3. (C) Occassion
4. (D) Okasion

97. Fill in the blank with the correct modal auxiliary: 'Work hard lest you ______ fail.'

1. (A) should
2. (B) will
3. (C) can
4. (D) may

98. Choose the correct antonym of 'Artificial':

1. (A) Natural
2. (B) False
3. (C) Man-made
4. (D) Fake

99. Fill in the blank with the correct preposition: 'He distributed the sweets ______ the children.'

1. (A) between
2. (B) among
3. (C) in
4. (D) at

100. Choose the sentence in the correct past continuous tense:

1. (A) He is playing football.
2. (B) He was playing football.
3. (C) He has played football.
4. (D) He plays football.