List of top English Questions asked in UP Board XII

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
What is that draws Derry towards Lamb in spite of himself?

Write the central idea of any one of the following poems:
(a) Keeping Quiet

Write the central idea of any one of the following poems:
(b) My Mother at Sixty-Six

Write the central idea of any one of the following poems:
(c) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
(a) Who was Hana? How did she meet Sadao?

Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:
(b) What did Douglas decide to do to overcome his fear of water?

Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:
(a) What did Gandhiji do to change the plight of the peasants of Champaran?

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness: but will keep
A bower quiet for us and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams and health and
Quiet breathing.
(a) What are the feelings of the poet about a thing of beauty?

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness: but will keep
A bower quiet for us and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams and health and
Quiet breathing.
(b) Why does the poet say, "It will never pass into nothingness"?

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness: but will keep
A bower quiet for us and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams and health and
Quiet breathing.
(c) What do you understand by 'bower'?

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
(a) Who are the inhabitants of Seemapuri? What do they do for their livelihood?

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
(b) What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
(a) What did Rajkumar Shukla do to bring Gandhiji to Champaran?

Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
(b) What did Hamel say about the language and its importance?

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

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

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Correct any one of the following sentences:
(i) Mohan's father purse has been stolen.

Correct any one of the following sentences:
(ii) Ram Pal is junior than me.

Transform any one of the following as directed:
(i) He has done his work. (Passive Voice)

Transform any one of the following as directed:
(ii) Renu is the most beautiful girl of this locality. (Comparative Degree)

Combine any one of the following as directed (synthesis):
(ii) Some teachers command respect. They are good. (Complex Sentence)

Combine any one of the following as directed (synthesis):
(i) This mango is sweet. That mango is sweet. Only one mango of them is sweet. (Compound Sentence)

Change any one of the following into indirect speech:
(i) Ram said to me, "God is everywhere."

Change any one of the following into indirect speech:
(ii) Rita said, "She can do this work."