Class 12th English half yearly exam paper full solution 2025
कक्षा 12वी अंग्रेजी अर्द्धवार्षिक परीक्षा पेपर 2025 का सम्पूर्ण हल
Half Yearly Examination Paper 2025
Class-12th
Subject- English
Time: 3.15 Hrs Μ.Μ. 100
Section-A [Reading]
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
No concise statement of the political philosophy of Confucius has come down to us, but it is possible to reconstruct its main outlines. Clearly he believed that government should be aimed at bringing the about the welfare and happiness of the whole people. This, he thought, could be done only when the government was administered by the most capable men in the country) Such capability has nothing to do with birth, or death, or position, but solely a matter of character and knowledge. These are produced by proper education Education should therefore be widely diffused so that the most talented men in the whole population might be prepared for the business of the government And the administration of the government should be handed over to such men, without regard to their origin.
Questions:
(a) What should the government aimat?
(b) Who should administer the country?
(c) Why should the education be widely diffused?
(d) Who should be handed over the administration of government?3
(e) i) Find the word from the the passage that means 'competence',
(ii) Which phrase in the passage means 'be given to'?
(iii) Which word in the passage is the opposite of 'collectively? 1
Section-B [Writing]
2.Write an article on any one of the following topics in about 100-150 words.
(a) Rising prices in our country
(b) Renovation of Heritage sites
(c) Importance of Health
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a National daliy expressing your concem against unfair practices in competitive examinations.10
Or
Write a letter to your friend inviting him to attend your sister's marriage..
Section-C [ Grammar & Translatiori]
4. Choose the correct option to answer the following questions:10
(a) The antonym of 'justice' is:
(i) unjustice
(ii) malpractice
(iii) injustice
(iv) malice
(b) The synonym of 'destiny' is:
(i) defeat
(ii) fortune
(iii) vicotry
(iv) confidence
(c) The phrase 'set off' means:
(i) to leave a place
(ii) to hate a place
(iii) to start to go
(iv) to be forced to go
(d) Someone who damages public property:
(i) soporific
(ii) vandal
(iii) venial
(iv) stoic
(e) The idiom 'the ball is in your court' means:
(i) it is up to you to work hard.
(ii) It is up to you to make a conclusion.
(iii) it is up to you to make the next decision.
(iv) it is up to you to make the contribution.
5.(a) Change the following into Indirect speech: You said to Radha, "I am studying."
(b) Change the following sentence into simple sentence: He Is Intelligent. He is hard working.
(c) Change the following as directed:
Mr. Verma is the wisest man in the company. (Positive degree]
(d) Correct the following sentence based on nouns and pronouns.
I saw three deers in the forest.
(e) Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meaning clear.
(i) Adapt-Adopt
(ii) Career-carrier
6. Translate the following in to English:
पुराने जमाने में यातायात के साधन नहीं थे। लोग पैदल चला करते थे। उसके बाद वे बैलगाड़ी में यात्रा करने लगे। वे ऊँट गाड़ी में मी यात्रा किया करते थे। कुछ समय बाद वे घोड़े पर सवारी करने लगे। आजकल जीवन बहुत तेज हो गया है। हम कारों, बसों और. रेलगाड़ियों में यात्रा करते हैं। अब हवाई जहाज का युग है। हवाई जहाज के द्वारा हम एक देश को दूसरे देश बहुत कम समय में पहुँच जाते हैं।
Ans -
In ancient times, there were no means of transportation. People used to walk. Then they started traveling in bullock carts. They also traveled in camel carts. After some time, they started riding horses. Nowadays, life has become very fast. We travel in cars, buses, and trains. Now is the age of airplanes. By airplane, we can reach from one country to another in a very short time.
Section-D [Literature]
7. Answer the following questions in about 40 words:
(a) What did the instructor do to train Douglas?
(b) Why did Saheb join the job at the milk hooth?
8. Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:
(a) What made the peddler, ultimately change his way?
(b) Why did Gandhiji not want Charles freer Andrews to stay in Champaran?
9. Read the following extract and answer the question that followe
I saw my mother, beside me, doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse and realised with pain that she was as old as she looked hut soon put that thought away..
(i) What worried the poet when she looked at her mother?
(ii) Why was there pain in her realisation?
(iii) Why did she put that thought away?
10. Write the central idea of any one of the following poems:
(a) Keeping Quiet
(b) A Road Side Stand
(c) My Mother at Sixty-Six
(a) Keeping Quiet central idea
In this poem, Pablo Neruda has emphasised the importance of introspection. Man has become very selfish and his own actions cause him many miseries. The world today stands divided by the man-made boundaries of caste, creed, race, religion, language, culture, nationality and geographicail divisions. We need to rise above these small issues and look at the larger picture. The poet talks about the necessity of creating a feeling of mutual understanding among human beings and discusses the need of maintaining peace.
11. Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
(a) Why could Charley never again find 'The Third Level"?
(b) What was the role of the astrologer in the story "The Tiger King"?
12. Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:
(a) Why is Antarctica the place to go to understand the Earth's present, past and future?
(b) How did Dr. Sadao save the life of the American war prisoner ?
How did his wife, Hana, help him in that act?
