VOCATIONAL FINAL EXAMINATION
CLASS XII
FEBRUARY-2014
COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
Time Allowed: 2 Hours Full marks: 50
1. Answer any two (Each in single sentence): 1X2=2
(a) What is technique?
(b) What is a machine?
(c) What is the meaning of automation?
(d) How man has won his dominant position on this planet?
(e)What did Johnny demolish?
(f)What is the problem with Johnny’s pen?
(g)What is meant by ‘The Schools of tomorrow’?
(h)What is the meaning of the word ‘purgatory’ in the prose ‘The School that I would like’?
2. Answer any two (Each in about 30 words): 3X2=6
(a) What is the difference between technique and technology?
(b) According to J. Bronowski how does man alone change the shape of this world?
(c) Why technology is the characteristic of all human societies?
(d) “…but the basic pattern is always same.”-Discuss the line briefly.
(e) ‘Johnny is by no means unique’-why is Johnny by no means unique?
(f) How do the pupils in Johnny’s class become suddenly quiet at the approach of the teacher?
(g) How should the students be treated in the schools of tomorrow?
3. Answer any two (within 50-60 words): 6X2=12
(a) How does Bronowski show that pure science and technology are not independent fields of study?
(b) How does Bronowski prove that basic pattern is always same?
(c) “Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to human problems”-Discuss.
(d) “Technology is the characteristic of all human societies”-Prove that.
(e)How the school of tomorrow might keep the minds of the students active?
(f)What is the second method of teaching that William write about?
(g)What kind of atmosphere should there be in the idea school?
(h)What is your opinion about Johnny’s behavior in the class and his punishment? Give reasons for your answer.
4. Answer any two (Each in single sentence): 1X2=2
(a) What are the “plaintive numbers”?
(b) Who is ‘solitary high land lass’?
(c) Who breaks ‘the silence of the seas of the farthest Hebrides’?
(d) Who sings ‘a melancholy strain’?
(e) What according to Rabindranath Tagore should words come out from?
(f) Where the poem’ where is the mind is without fear’ is taken from?
(g) What is meant by ‘the head is held high’?
5. Answer any two (Each in about 30 words): 3X2=6
(a) Where did Wordsworth came across the Solitary girl and when?
(b) ‘Will no one tell me what she sings’-Why does the poet say so?
(c) What is meant by ‘the silence of the seas’ in the poem “The Solitary Reaper?”
(d) What are the comparisons that Wordsworth uses in “The Solitary Reaper”?
(e)Justify the title of the poem ‘’where the mind is without fear’’.
(f)Where words come out from the depth of truth’’-What does the poet mean to say in this line?
(g)Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection’’-How will man be able to reach perfection?
(h)What does Rabindranath Tagore protest against in the poem ‘’Where the mind is without fear’’?
6. Answer any two (within 50-60 words): 6X2=12
(a) Can the poem The Solitary Reaper be considered as a true romantic poem?-Justify.
(b) What are the guesses of the poet about the theme of the Reaper’s song?
(c) Explain the significance of the title of the poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’.
(d) ‘Stop here, or gently pass’-why does the poet say so and to whom?
(e)‘Into that heaven of freedom………….’ How is the Heaven of Freedom desired by Rabindranath Tagore?
(f)What is the theme of the poem “Where the mind is without fear”?
(g)What idea of Rabindranath Tagore’s concept of freedom do you get from the poem “Where the mind is without fear”?
(h)Where knowledge is free-Explain.
(i)Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought action’’-Explain.
(j)Give the substance of the poem “Where the mind is without fear”.
7. Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows: 4x21/2 =10
The state environment department has issued a set of guidelines for construction activities to combat air pollution. The rules, to be effective from January 1, 2010, will apply to all builders, contractor and infrastructure developers, in private and public sectors. T hose violating the norms will be penalized.
A senior environment department official a survey conducted by the State Pollution Control Board with the help of the Asian Development Bank revealed that construction activities were a major source of air pollution in Kolkata and its surroundings.
The study also mentioned that burning of tyres in hot mix plant as fuel during construction ad melting coal tar for road repairs released noxious fumes.
(a) Why a set of guidelines is issued?
(b) When the rule will be effective?
(c) Who conducted the survey?
(d) What do you mean by air pollution?