Paper : CBSE Class 12th English Exam Paper, 2003 (Compartment Delhi : Set-2)

SECTION – B : (ADVANCED WRITING SKILLS)

Q. B1. Your school is holding a cultural fiesta for collecting funds for the  Kargil jawans’ Family Welfare Fund. Draft a notice for your school notice  board giving details of the programme and the donations to be made. You  are Manoj, Cultural Secretary, Tarapore Senior Secondary School,  Mumbai, (Word limit: 50 words) 5

Or

You are Rohit/Rashi of No. 5, Rajnagar, Meerut. You want to sell your flat.  Write a suitable advertisement to be published in the classified columns of  ‘The Hindustan Times’, Delhi. (Word limit: 50 words)

Q. B3. You are Mohit/Mobmi living at No.2, Clement Town, Bangalore.  Write a letter to the Editor of ‘Deccan Herald’ about the poor city bus  services and the Indifference of drivers and conductors towards the traffic  rules. Also suggest ways to improve the services. 10

Or

Write a letter to the Standard Book Co., Cannanore, complaining about the  poor quality of books supplied to your library. You are Mohan/Mohini,  Librarian of Lajpat Rai Secondary School, Mumbai.

SECTION - C : (TEXT BOOKS)

Q. C1. Read the passage given below’ and answer the questions that  follow:

The most spectacular and in many ways the most fundamental social  change that the Gandhi an movement effected in India is in respect of the 
position of women. It would be wrong historically to consider that the great part that the  women of India played in the non-cooperation movement and the position  they have achieved for themselves in modern Indian life was the result of  a sudden transformation. Undoubtedly women in ancient India enjoyed a much higher status than  their descendents in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the  earliest days there had been many notable women in India — poet,  scholars, capable administrators and leaders of religious movements. 

Questions:
(i) Which Gandhian movement is referred to here? 2
(ii) What was the most fundamental social change produced by the  Gandhian movement in India? 1
(iii) The author mentions two things regarding the women of India, which 
were not the result of a sudden change. What are they? 2
(iv) What was the position of women in ancient India? 2
(v) Find words in the passage which mean the following: 2
(a) Very impressive or dramatic
(b) change from one form, to another

Q. C2. Answer the following in 30 —40 words, each:
(i) On what charges did Edmund Burke impeach Warren Hastings? 2
(ii) What does the poet want to convey by beauty in small proportions? 2
(iii) Why did the poet become sad though he was in a sweet mood? 3
(iv) Mention the changes that have occurred among the people living in the  present era. 3
(v) Mention the focal point that routes in the poem “The Man He Killed.” 3