List of top English Questions asked in UP Board XII

Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words: Describe Antarctica in your own words on the basis of the lesson 'Journey to the end of the Earth.'

"The story 'Rattrap' is a mixture of entertainment and philosophy." Explain.

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow: Extract: {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.}

My Mother at Sixty-six

Keeping Quiet

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each: Why could Charley never again find "The Third Level"?

Write the central idea of any one of the following poems: A Thing of Beauty

Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear: Stationary — Stationery

Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear: Sight — Site.

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each: What does Mukesh want to become in life?

What did the author think when he was drowning in deep water?

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each: From where did the peddler get the idea of the world being a rat-trap?

What did Gandhi do after knowing the miserable condition of the farmers at Champaran?

Answer any one of the following in about 80 words: What was the contribution of the ordinary people to the freedom movement?

Change any one of the following in indirect speech: He said to me, "Can you spare some money for me?"

Change any one of the following in indirect speech: The teacher said to the boys, "Do not make a noise in the class."

Combine any one of the following as directed: Her husband died. She heard the news. She fainted.
(Into Simple sentence)

Combine any one of the following as directed: Some people die for some noble cause. They are honoured by everyone.
(Into Complex sentence)

Change any one of the following as directed: Did you see him yesterday?
(Into Passive voice)

Change any one of the following as directed: Tulsidas was one of the greatest poets.
(Into Positive degree)

The antonym of 'inevitable' is

Correct any one of the following sentences: Milk is preferable than tea.

Correct any one of the following sentences: He has received a letter yesterday.

Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper about frequent breakdown of electricity in your locality.

Write a letter to the Principal of your college to grant you full fee concession.