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SA-1, SUB. : ENGLISH, CLASS: XII M.M: 100 i. ii. iii. 1. i. General Instructions: All questions are compulsory. This paper has been divided into Three Sections. Marks are given against each question SECTION A (READING) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow it[12] Pollution has degraded environment and has damaged all our resources. At times renewable sources like air, water and land have turned worthless because of pollution. For example, it can convert the most pure form of fresh water into acid rain which harms plants, animals and corrodes metals. Pollution has the capacity of even damaging the ozone layer of the upper atmosphere which shields the life on the earth from harmful effects. Pollution can alter climate conditions by affecting the heat of balance of the earth. At times pollutants have entered the food chain and have harmed several living organisms. Thus pollutions can disturb every biological system that the renews natural resources. It affects both living and non-living resources. Our rivers, ponds and lakes are victims of pollution. The rivers have become the dumping grounds for poisonous chemical from factories, agricultural wastes, insecticides and even acids. The oceans too have not been spared. More than half the oil produced in the world is transported across oceans by ships and oil tankers. One part in a thousand of this is lost by spillage and leakage and this oil does not evaporate easily, it accumulates year after year. Water pollution is not the only serious problem facing mankind more dangerous is the poisoning the atmospheres. Heavily industrialized cities force us to breathe air containing many poisonous chemicals which is the greatest threat to our health in future. Another major offender in this area is the automobile. They spew smoke into the air which is a health hazard. The most recent form of pollution is noise pollution. The high level of continuous noise to which we are exposed in the cities is harmful to our nervous system. It is true that we have entered the glorious age of machines. But unless we show more respect for the environment around us, this may also turn into the dark age of pollution. On the basis of your reading of the passage answer the following questions as briefly as possible. What harmed our renewable sources? Name the three renewable sources? How have our rivers, ponds and lakes become victims of pollution? How is more than half the oil produced in the world transported? Give two pollutants that have made the air a harmful health hazard. Select the appropriate expression from the given options to indicate how our oceans are being polluted by oil. Pollution can turn the most pure from of fresh water into acid rain. The rivers have become the dumping grounds for poisonous chemicals from factories and agriculture wastes. More than half the oil produced in the world is transported across oceans by ships and oil tankers. One part in a thousand of this is lost by a spillage and leakage. It accumulates year after year. Find words in the passage which convey similar meaning as the following: [3] venomous ii. Perilous iii. Vomit Read the following passage and answers the questions that follow itExcessive noise has become one of the active pollutants of our dangerously and persistently into our brains. Noise Pollution can mental performance, normal sleep pattern and studies of students. havoc with human nervous system leading to widespread damage [8] physical environment, which drips influence our behaviour, cognition, Apart from these noises can create to body health. Even when we are DATE:

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asleep, different environmental noises enter our brain like a bullet get registered in the mind and cause unnecessary mental activity. In recently conducted experiments in the Noise Laboratory of Psychology Department, M.D. University Rohtak, it was observed that noise in the environment increases the systolic/ diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, blood glucose level, perspiration rate and oxygen consumption. These altered physiological changes major may not give rise to tell tale common symptoms of noise pollution immediately such as headaches, annoyance, tiredness and increased palpitation of the heart but like slow poisoning. They have irreversible serious complications in the long run. When one stays longer in the noise environment, these altered physiological changes continuously take place and thus could prove fatal to the body. The physiological changes in fact are produced in the small blood vessels of the heart, brain, kidneys, ears, eyes and arteries of the limbs which in turn could lead to paralysis, stroke, coronary heat disease, cardio vascular diseases, heart failure, kidney failure and permanent deafness. These changes are not immediately overtly visible, so they are left unattended to. In spite of its psychological and physiological adverse effect, the emerging problems if noise pollution in India is literally falling on deaf ears. It is high time we stopped neglecting the problem of noise pollution and took strong remedial steps to control it so that it does not kill persons silently any more. On the basis of your reading of the above passages, make notes on it using recognizable abbreviations wherever necessary. Use a format you consider suitable. Supply a suitable title. Write a summary of the above passage in about 80 words. SECTION B (WRITING) The students council of your school has organized an excursion to Goa for students of class XII during the Autumn Break. As President of the council write a notice in not more than 50 words informing the students about name of destination, charges and facilities with discount. [5] OR You are Varun/ Versha living at D-175, Sector-25 Noida. As you have completely settled in U.S.A. You want to dispose your Car Scorpio. Write an advertisement in about 50 words. Your school organized an Inter School Debate Competition on the topic working mother boon or bane. Write a report in about 200 words. As you are Ankit/ Ankita, the report of School magazine. [10] OR You are Mukul / Manjari, the Editor of The Indian Exp. at Mumbai. Yesterday you were invited to attend a press conference convened by The Director, N.C.E.R.T. on the National Curriculum Frame Work for School Education. Write a report in about 200 words. You are Sunil/ Sunita a residents of 32, New Friends colony, New Delhi. You are alarmed at the rising crimes against women and young girls in Delhi. Write a letter to the Editor, The Times of India, New Delhi suggesting some concrete measure to that the Delhi Police should take in arresting the crimes against women. [10] OR You are Amul/ Amulya living at E-92, sector 12 Noida. You have purchased a Refrigerator from L.G. Electronic. This refrigerator did the work for 3 months. Now it has gone out of order. Write a letter to the Manager of L.G. Electronics to replace it as soon as possible. You see

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