Model Questions
Compulsory English XII
Subject: Compulsory
English (ENG.
004) Full Marks: 75
Grade: XII
Time: 3 hours
Attempt ALL the questions.
1. Read the text and do
the activities that follow. [15]
Nowadays most people realise that it’s
risky to use credit card numbers online. However, from time to time, we all use
passwords and government ID numbers on the Internet. We think we are safe, but
that may not be true! A new kind of attack is being used by dishonest people to
steal IDs and credit card numbers from innocent websurfers. This new kind of
attack is called “phishing.”
Phishing sounds the same as the word
“fishing,” and it implies that a thief is trying to lure people into giving away valuable information. Like real
fishermen, phishers use bait in
the form of great online deals or services. For example, phishers might use fake emails and false websites to con
people into revealing credit card numbers, account usernames, and passwords.
They imitate well-known banks, online sellers, and credit card companies.
Successful phishers may convince as many as five percent of the people they
contact to respond and give away their personal financial information.
Is this really a big problem? Actually,
tricking five percent of the online population is huge! Currently, more than
350 million people have access to the Internet, and seventy five percent of
those Internet users live in the wealthiest countries on Earth. It has been
estimated that phishers send more than three billion scam messages each year. Even by tricking only five percent of the
people, phishers can make a lot of money.
Since there is so much money to make
through this kind of scam, it has caught the interest of more than just small-time crooks. Recently, police
tracked down members of an organized phishing group in Eastern Europe, who had
stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from people online. The group created
official-looking email messages requesting people to update their personal
information at an international bank’s website. However, the link to the bank
in the message actually sent people to the phishers’ fake website. To make
matters worse, further investigation revealed that this group had connections
to a major crime gang in Russia.
How can innocent people protect
themselves? Above all, they have to learn to recognise email that has been sent
by a phisher. Always be wary of any email with urgent requests for personal
financial information. Phishers typically write upsetting or exciting, but fake, statements in their emails so
that people will reply right away. Also, messages from phishers will not
address recipients by name because they really don’t know who the recipients
are yet. On the other hand, valid messages from your bank or other companies
you normally deal with will typically include your name.
A. Choose the correct
answer. [5×1
= 5]
a)
‘Some dishonest people try to
steal other people’s credit card numbers.’ What does ‘dishonest’ mean here?
i) truthful ii) having honesty iii) untruthful
b)
When the box is delivered, you should
open it ………………………….
i) track down ii) right away iii) con into
c)
‘The comedian can imitate the
voice of the president well.’ Here the word ‘imitate’ is synonymous with the
word……………..
i) convince ii) copy iii)
change
d)
‘What can I do to convince you
that I’m not lying?’ Here the word ‘convince’ is opposite to……….
i) persuade ii) induce iii) dissuade
e)
‘Phishers send more than three billion scam messages each year.’
What does ‘scam’ mean?
i) an illegal trick, usually to steal
money
ii) a thing used to attract or tempt
iii) needing immediate attention
B. Fill
in the blanks with the correct words from the list. [0.5×2 = 5]
financial, private, gangs, Internet, lure, tracked, convince, wary, risky, crooks
Giving personal information over the Internet has always
been ………………, but now it’s even more so with the new ………..scam, phishing.
Phishers first ………………innocent people into a scam by making up fake emails. With
this bait, they ………………some of the people they contact to give away ………………
information. These Internet criminals are not just small-time ………………. Police
investigations have recently ……………… down organised phishing groups in Eastern Europe
with connections to crime……………… in Russia. People must be ……………… of any urgent
emails requesting ………….. information.
C. Answer the following questions. [5×1
= 5]
a)
What is the main purpose of the text?
b)
Which activity is phishing compared to?
c)
What is implied about the people who
get caught in phishing scams?
d)
Who was behind the Eastern European
phishing scam?
e)
What could be the suitable title of
this text?
2. Write short answers to
the following questions. [5×2
= 10]
a)
Who were Evan and Hooker and where were
they heading? (The Treasure in the Forest)
b)
How does Lu Xun create a feeling of
nostalgia in the story? (My Old Home)
c)
How does the speaker describe the
morning sun? (A Day)
d)
What is the theme of the poem ‘I was my
Own Route’? (I was my Own Route)
e)
How is the relationship between
Monsieur and his wife? (Facing Death)
3. Write long answers to
the following questions. [2×5
=10]
a)
How do you
think that ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ is a work of magical realism?
Discuss. (A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings)
b)
How is
marriage a social institution? Discuss. (Marriage
as a Social Institution)
4. Write a short story using the outline in
about 150 words. Give a suitable title. [7]
midnight…heard a
sound…backyard…strange creature…in bushes…frightened …the creature spoke….requested…helped the
creature…to go back to his world
5. Write a letter to the
editor about the growing misuse of social media. [8]
6. Write a travelogue
about your visit to a new place (in about 300 words).
[10]
7. Do as instructed. [10×1=10]
a)
What does the
modal verb ‘could’ express in the sentence ‘The beautiful Himalayan could be
seen from my room’?
i) ability ii) permission iii) possibility iv) deduction
b)
The
government ………..high taxes.
i) charge ii) charges iii) both a and b iv)
neither a nor b
c)
It rained a
lot. We enjoyed our picnic. (Make one
sentence by using ‘in spite of’)
d)
Can you tell
me where your father works? (Change into direct question)
e)
Rabi said to
Hem, “Where have you been all these days?” (Change
into indirect speech)
f)
We………….(arrive)
earlier if we had not missed the bus. (Rewrite
the sentence with the correct form of the verb.)
g)
I think they
should offer Dipa the job. (Change into
passive)
h)
Did you come
here …….. a taxi or on foot? (Complete
the sentence with the correct preposition.)
i)
Raju works in
a finance company. I met him yesterday. (Join
the sentences by using the relative pronoun ‘whom’.)
j)
Put the
adjective ‘leather’ in the correct order in the phrase ‘a black Chinese jacket’.
8. Do as instructed. [5×1=5]
a) Which one of the following
words has a different vowel sound?
i) bread ii) break
iii) deaf iv) said
b) What is the root of the word ‘truthfulness’?
i) truth ii) ful iii) ness iv) true
c) What is the word class of the word ‘whose’ in the
sentence ‘I met the man
whose car was stolen last night’?
i)
adjective ii) pronoun iii) noun iv)
determiner
d) Which is not true about ‘proximity’ in the sentence ‘The best thing
about
the location of the school is its ‘proximity’ from my house’?
i) nearness ii) vicinity
iii) adjacency iv) distance
e) Which one is not the content
word in the sentence ‘My Chinese chair might
have been stolen from the room’?
i) Chinese ii) chair iii) have iv) stolen
The End
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