CBSE Class 12 English Elective Delhi Question Paper 2013 (1)

CBSE Class 12 English Elective Delhi Question Paper 2013 (1). Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions.Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations. 

English (Elective)

1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :

(a) There can be little question that the attainment of a federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history. The enormous waste caused by military preparation and the mutual annoyance of competing great powers, and the still more enormous waste due to the underproductiveness of great masses of people, either because they are too wealthy for stimulus or too poor for efficiency, would cease.

(i) What, according to the writer, would open a new phase in human history ? 

(ii) What do military preparation and the rivalries between great powers lead to ? 

(iii) What are the causes of the underproductiveness of great masses of people ? 

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The Battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear ? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for himself. To admit authorities, however, heavily furred and gowned into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else may be bound by laws and conventions — there we have none.

(i) Who has to decide which book of literature is better than the other ? 

(ii) What does ‘sanctuaries’ refer to ? What is the breath of those sanctuaries ? 

(iii) What destroys the spirit of freedom associated with the reading of books ? 

(b) The French scientist took twenty bees from a hive on the edge of a lake. First he marked each bee with a spot of paint. Next, he took the bees six miles inland in a box. There he set them free. Seventeen of them returned to the hive. The three that did not fly home may have been young bees that had not made enough flights around home.

(i) What experiment did the scientist conduct on twenty bees ? 

(ii) How many bees flew back to the hive ? 

(iii) What could be the possible reasons for the remaining bees not returning to their hive ?

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