Test 2nd Year

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

Test # 1 Subject English Marks 35 Class 12th Date

Name Session 2013-2014

English lesson 1, idioms 1-10,Essay 1(1st half), Paragraph Gujranwala board 2013

Question # Question statement marks

Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)

1. How life did come into existence?

2. Why stars do not come closer to any other?

3. Why is there no life on the stars?

4. According to James Jeans what rare event happened in the universe?

5. Why is there no life on other planets?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentences

1. Get up, Come to terms, To break the ice, A bed of roses, Break away, Run short of,

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Question # 3 Write an essay on “My last day at college” (1st half) 8

Question # 4 Translate the following paragraph into English 7

Question # 5 Choose the correct option of the following under lined words from book (Modern

Prose and Heroes)

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WHA 1. It needs suitable physical conditions for its appearance .

(a) Management (b) Survival (c) Description (d) Existence

2. We can hardly imagine it.

(a) Feel (b) See (c) Disbelief (D) Think

3. Millions or stars are wandering about in space.

(a) Moving (b) Roaming (c) Floating (d) Swimming

4. We find the Universe frightening.

(a) Mysterious (b) Wonderful (c) Terrifying (d) Odd

5. From the simple organisms came a stream of life.

(a) Serial (b) River (c) chain (d) Wave.


Test # 2 Subject English Marks 35 Class 12th Date

Name Session 2013-2014English lesson 2 idioms 11-20, Essay 1 (2nd half) Paragraph Gujranwala board 2012


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)6. Write a note on the sanitary conditions in our cities that are available today?7. How can the sanitary conditions in our villages be improved?8. What were our ancestors afraid of?9. Describe the superstitions that are currently available in our country?10. How are we better than or ancestors?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentences give in, keep from, take down, cut off, turn down, to leave no stone unturned, bad blood

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Question # 3 Write an essay on “My last day at college” ( 2nd half) 8


Question # 5 Choose the correct option of the following under lined words from book (Modern Prose and Heroes)

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1 Human wastes drained into wells

(a) poisoned (b) rushed (c) dripped (d) hovered

2 Even the battle for life was not over.

(a) Enmity (b) Wish (c) Survival (d) Struggle

3 Very likely, before you were six year old, you would have small pox.

(a)Probable (b) Strange (c) Rare (d) Unusual

4 Sewage from all sections is carried through sealed pipes.

(a) water supply (b) used water (c) fresh water (d) rain water

5 Thrifty Housewives preserved their homegrown vegetables.

(a) frugal (b) remote (c) fragile (d) old


Test # 3 Subject English Marks Class 12th Date


English Lesson 3, Idioms 21-30, Essay 2 (1st half), Paragraph Gujranwala board 2011


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)1. According to the author there are some boys who fail because they don't try. Can

we help them?2. How does mistaken ambition on the part of the boys and their parents lead to the

failure of the boys?3. What place would you accord to sportsmen in colleges?4. How does financial pressure lead to the failure of students described in the lesson?

Do you have similar cases in your country?5. Why do the boys fail in college (Give reasons)?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentences On behalf of, To turn table, To sow wild oats, crocodile tears, To act upon, To break into

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Question # 3 Write an essay on “Terrorism” 1st half 8

Question # 4 Translate the following paragraph into English

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1 The boy must himself cultivate poise and calm that members the fidgets.

(a)irrigate (b) generate (c) migrate (d) control

2 A common cause of failure is a mistaken ambition

(a) Aim (b) Activity (c) Mission (d) Support

3 If an adequate health services is available.

(a) silent (b) improper (c) frequent (d) Proper

4 Any parent owes this much to his son.

(a) belongs (b) holds (c) is responsible for (d) gives

5 Most colleges do all they can with scholarships funds to alleviate this situation.

(A)Avoid (b) Harden (c) Lessen (d) Conceal




English lesson 4 idioms 31-40, Essay 2 (2nd half) Paragraph Gujranwala board 2010


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)1. Why did the writer long (like) for week end?2. What was the title of the book that reminded the writer of his school time?3. Wishes do not come true in this life. What are the things he longed for but could not

have?4. How did he spend his summer holidays?5. When did the writer buy his bicycle and how?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentencesTo send for, capital punishment, A narrow escape, Nip in the bud, Take to, Put out

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Question # 3 Write an essay on “Terrorism” (2nd half) 8


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1 Seeing the haours of school stretching ahead, was a dismal experience.

(a)Bad (b) Sad (c) Pleasing (d) Great

2 She would anaounce in deep, funereal tones.

(a) Pleasing (b) rythmic (c) mocking (d) gloomy

3 I used to lie waiting for that omnious tread.

(a)talk (b) walk (c) conservation (d) sweeping

4 I would savour my happines with concious relish.

(a) delight (b) curiousity (c) smile (d) manner

5 The daily grind of school pressed heavily upon me.

(a) homework (b) pleasure (c) labour (d) routine



English lesson 5 idioms 41-50, Essay 3 (1st half) Paragraph Gujranwala board 2009


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)1. What happened when the writer reached the embankment?2. Why could not author burn the unwanted books?3. Why should be bad books destroyed?4. How did he decide to get rid of them?5. What idea made the writer frightened when he thought of the splash?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentencesIn black and white, To make off with, give up, bread and butter, turn down, for the sake of,

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Question # 3 Write an essay on “My first day at college”(1st half) 8



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1 I could almost hear his gruff sneering laugh.

(a) Rough (b) Thundering (c) Hard (d) Shrieking

2 It was a tramp who had other things to think about.

(a)addict (b) beggar (c) thief (d) wanderer

3 It was then implications of my act revealed themselves.

(a) after-affects (b) complications (c) intentions (d) needs

4 I improvised a sack

(a) sew (b) bought (c) prepared (d) brought

5 It is not merely absurd to keep rubbish merely because it is printed.

(a) usefull (b) waste (c) worthy (d) prints




English lesson 6 idioms 51-60, Essay 3 (2nd half), Paragraph Gujranwala board 2008


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)1. What did Jerome discover about typhoid?2. Why did Jerome go to British museum?3. Describe his visit to the chemist?4. Why should he be an acquisition to the medical class?5. What was the prescription given to him by the doctor?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentencesTo call at, to call on, to be hard up, to pay through the nose, to gird up one’s lions, A blind alley

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Question # 3 Write an essay on “My first day at college”(2nd half) 8

Question # 4 Translate the following paragraph into English.

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1 I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology.

(a) saw (b) taught (c) thought (d) learned

2 After a while, less grasping feeling prevailed.

(a) crossed (b) spread (c) went (d) diverted

3 The acute stage would commence in about another fortnight.

(a) come (b) start (c) finish (d) be cured

4 Being only a chemist hampers me.

(a) shames (b) urges (c) helps (d) hinders

5 Don’t stuff your head with the things, you don’t understand.

(a) put (b) fill (c) spare (d) drag




English lesson 7 idioms 61-70, Essay 4 (1st half) ), Paragraph Sargodha board 2013


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)1. What was the reaction of the bank officials when Leacock rushed out of it?2. Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal?3. Where does the writer keep his money after his bitter experience in the bank?4. Why did Stephen Leacock go to bank ?5. What kind of man the manager was?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentencesBreak in, make up, fair play, check by jowl, to be in a fix, to pass on,

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Question # 3 Write an essay on My Hobby 1st half 8



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1 That I was an invalid, I made a plunge.

(a) rich (b) old (c) disabled (d) illiterate

2 Reckless with the misery, I made a plunge.

(a) fearful (b) cautious (c) sick (d) finally

3 An idiot hope struck me.

(a) silly (b) quick (c) new (d) mature

4 My voice was sculptural.

(a) sorrowful (b) brilliant (c) chirpy (d)musical

5 The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me.

(a) pleases (b)relish (c) satisfy (d) confuse




English: lesson 8 idioms 71-80, Essay 4 (2nd half), Paragraph Sargodha board 2013


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)1. What are social security benefits provided to the Chinese workers?2. How does China rely on its own resources?3. Discuss Chinese agriculture system?4. What is economic decentralization?5. Write a note on Chinese women?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentencesSnacke in the grace, Kit and kin, By fits and start, Put up with, Put down, Heart and soul

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Question # 3 Write an essay on My Hobby 2nd half 8



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1 His eyes blinded by the constant flashing of the official souvenir.

(a) remembrance (b) past (c)relics (d) photographs

2 The flexible Chinese bamboo curtain was countered by a western curtain of rigid disregard?

(a)soft (b) costly (c) flat (d) courteous

3 The flexible Chinese bamboo curtain was countered by a western curtain of rigid disregard?

(a) bought (b) matched (c) retaliated (d)exchanged

4 I get up at 6 o’clock in the morning; do a few chores in the house?

(a) tasks (b) solutions (c) programmes (d) findings

5 The Chinese regime has set up an assistance system

(a) reign (b) force (c) city (d) locality




English: lesson 9 idioms 81-90, Essay 5 (1st half) Paragraph Lahore board 2010


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)1. Describes some great famines of the past?2. How do famines occur?3. Why birth rate is is not so high in the more advanced countries?4. What is main reason for population increases today?5. What is real hunger? Mention the three characteristics of the real hunger?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentencesBring up, Put off, In cold blood, Random shot, turn off, A white elephant

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Question # 3 Write an essay on “A cricket match” (1st half). 8


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1 Muscles are destroyed and bones deformed.

(a) destroyed (b) deshaped (c) broken (d) planted

2 Many countries have carried out massive programmes.

(a) important (b) extensive (c) messy (d) mundane

3 A tremendous population explosion is taking place.

(a) huge (b) safe (c) Visible (d) Ordinary

4 The early hunter suffered grave shortages.

(a) minor (b) Serious (c) Brave (d) Scare

5 During my reign, the Nile has not been in flood for seven years.

(a) Custom (b) Rule (c) Ministry (d) Recognition




English: lesson 10 idioms 91-100, Essay 5 (2nd half), Paragraph Faisalabad board 2011


Question # 1 Answer the following questions (any five)1. What did Abbasid Caliph say on receiving the head of his Governor?2. What did Al-Hakam do to promote learning scholarships in his kingdom?3. Where did Abd-Al-Rehman escape and how did he live there?4. Who was Abd-Al-Rehman? Describe his physical appearance?5. How did the Abbasids behave with the members of the Umayyad dynasty on

coming to power?

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Question # 2 Use these idioms into your suitable sentences (any five)To show white feathers, Make a way, to get rid of, To call names, Look down upon, Spice and span.

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Question # 3 Write an essay on “A cricket match” 2nd half 8


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1 He decorated it with mosaics brought by byzantine artists.

(a) designers (b) colors (c) decorative pattern (d) Plants

2 In addition to university, the capital housed a library of first magnitude.

(a) rank (b) caliber (c) storey (d) great size

3 His agents ransacked the book shops.

(a) emptied (b) found (c)searched (d) established

4 To his villa he brought water and introduced exotic plants.

(a) fruit bearing (b) imported (c)indigenous (d) rare

5 He beautified the cities of his domain.

(a) dominance (b) Palace (c) Dominion (d) Replica

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