List of top English Questions asked in UP Board XII

Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:
(b) Who is Mr. Lamb? What type of garden does he have?

Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:
(a) How is the study of Antarctica useful to us?

Write the central idea of the poem "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers."

Write the central idea of the poem "My Mother at Sixty-Six."

On what ground did the English owners of indigo plantation demand compensation from the sharecroppers?

Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangle industry.

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Perhaps the Earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve
And you keep quiet and I will go.
What remains alive when everything seems to be dead?

What was the meaning of garbage for children? What did they find in it?

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Perhaps the Earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve
And you keep quiet and I will go.
What lesson does the Earth teach us?

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Perhaps the Earth can teach us
As when everything seems dead
And later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve
And you keep quiet and I will go.
What does the poet ask us to do?

What did the instructor do to train Douglas?

Write the central idea of the poem "A Thing of Beauty."

Correct any one of the following sentences:
(i) Death is preferable than dishonour.

Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear:
(i) Empire – Umpire

Correct any one of the following sentences:
(ii) If he will come, I shall go with him.

Who was the rattrap seller? How did he make rattraps?

Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear:
(ii): Check – Cheque

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What is the reason that made M. Hamel declare that the lesson which he was going to teach on that fateful day, was to be the last lesson?

Change any one of the following into indirect narration:
(i) He said to me, "I shall help you today."

Combine any one of the following as directed:
(i) He was so tired. He could not run. (Into a Simple sentence)