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guess papers XII English

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XII English

1.Explain with reference to the context any One of the following : ( 10 )
(i) Used to quick decisions,trained to immediate obedience,the officer bounded off the porch and running at full tilt,soon passed the child bawling ‘Go east!’
(ii) The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully,have been Truth,Goodness and Beauty.

2.Write a character-sketch of any One of the following: ( 10 )
(i) Mrs.Judy Oakentubb
(ii) James Jones

OR

Why does Sir James Jeans find the universe ‘terrifying’ and ‘actively hostile to life like our own’?

3.Explain with reference to the context any One of the following : ( 8 )
(i) Then,the whining school boy,with his satchel And shining morning face,creeping like snail Unwillingly to school:
(ii) A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.

4.Summarize ‘Lines from Endymion’ or ‘Lines from Ulysses’. ( 7 )

OR

What is Campion’s idea of an upright life ? Explain briefly.

5.Rudolf Rassendyll is an ideal romantic hero.Discuss. ( 15 )

OR

Black Michael is a traditional villain.Comment.

OR

Narrate any scene of event from ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ which you find mostintresting and absorbing.

6.Change the following into Reported Speech: ( 5 )
Blair: Have you seen the President?
Stanton: I have just been with him.
Wells: What does he say?
Stanton: He only said’at last’.He is coming in a moment.
Hook: He will bring his proclamation with him again.
I donot think this is the right moment to make it.

7.Make sentences of your own from any Five of the following idiomatic expressions: ( 10 )
to bring round
to make up for
to take to
an apple of discord
all and sundry
to get over
a fair weather friend
to run after
for good
to call off

8.Write an essay on any One of the following topics: ( 20 )
(i) An I.T Exhibition
(ii) A Recent Earthquake and its Disastrous Effects
(iii) Some Latest Inventions of Sciences
(iv) Problems faced by Karachi Students
(v) A Thrilling Cricket Match

9.Read the given passage and answer the questions given at the end:
Abdullah-Al-Mamun rank with Al-Mansoor and Al-Rashid as one of the great Caliphs of the Abbaside line. Though capable at times of the fury and cruelty that had disgraced Haroon, he was usually a man of milf and lenient temper. In his state council he included representatives of all the major faiths in his realm Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish, Sabian, Zoroastrian-and guaranteed full freedom of worship and belief.

Under Al-Mamun the royal support of arts,sciences,letters and philosphy became more varied and discriminating than under Haroon and left a far mor significant result. He sent to Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and elsewhere for the writings of the Greek masters and paid a corps of translators to render the books in Arabic. He established an acadey of science at Baghdad and observatories ther and at Tadmor. Physicians, jurists, musicians, poets, mathematicians, astronomers enjoyed his bounty and he himself,like every muslim gentleman,wrote poetry.
(i) What kind of person was Al-Mamun?
(ii) What did he do to promote knowledge and science ?
(iii) Whom did he patronize?
(iv) Choose a suitable title for the above passage?