AP SSC 10th class English-2 Model paper 2015-16 English Medium Set 6
Part – A
(1-10) Answer ANY FIVE of the following questions. Each answer should be in one or two sentences
1.‘His heart sank in sorrow.’ Whose heart sank in sorrow ? Why ? (I Will Do It)
2.What made the potter angry? What made him angrier ? (The Brave Potter)
3.Why was Savitri taken away from her main role in the film, ‘Samsaaram’? (A Tribute)
4.Did your parents buy anything through instalment scheme ? Do you support or oppose this scheme ? Why ? (The Never-Never Nest)
5.What are the names of the three villages described in ‘A Tale of Three Villages’?(A Tale of Three Villages)
6.What is the importance of Khajuraho temple and the caves of Ajanta and Ellora?(Unity in Diversity in India)
7.What made Mrs. Murthy so restless to know her name? (What Is My Name?)
8.Why do you think the writer decided to focus on the question of married women’s identity ? (What Is My Name ?)
9.What was the difficult situation faced by Murthy’s father? (I Will Do It)
10.How did the king reward the potter? (The Brave Potter)
11.Read the following passage.
It was a ghost town. No one lived there any more. They had either died or been forcibly evacuated. The fields were barren. Nothing grew. Nothing ever would again. There was no bird- song. No rabbit peered at me. No cow endlessly chewed. No horse neighed.
Natasha caught me up as we boarded the bus marked MOSCOW. “Thank you for coming with me”, she said. “I wanted to see the graves and the house again, before I die.” (A Tale of Three Villages)
Now answer the following questions.
1) What was a ghost town?
2) Why did any one not live there?
3) Who was Natasha?
4) Where was Natasha going?
5) Who wanted to see the graves and the house?
12. a) Write a narrative of 120 words by using the following outline of a story.
Remember to use the features of a narrative.
It was hot day. A traveller going to village, stopped a cart for lift. Cart’s man demanded ten rupee.
They stopped for midday meal, traveller sat under the cart, cart’s man under tree. They started journey after the midday meal. Traveller reached village. He gave the cart’s man a ten rupee note.
Cart’s man demanded ten rupee towards fare and ten rupees for shade. The village head settled the issue by saying “Look. Take the two ten rupee notes. One is in the traveller’s hand. The other is the shade of the note.”
(Or)
(b)You are Srinivas. You have recently attended a birthday party. Describe the party in your own words. Use the following ideas to complete your answer.
1. Name of the person who celebrated party,
2. Your relationship with him / her.
3. Who attended?
4.Soft drinks and delicious tidbits
5.Presentations
6.Happy mood
7.Games conducted
8.Your help and participation
13. a) Write a letter to your friend about social service programme, you participated in your school and your opinion about them.
Programme participated in: Collecting donations to help the recent cyclone victims of Vishakapatnam
(Or)
b ) With the help of the given clues, write a bio-sketch / profile of Subhash Chandra Bose using the information given below.
Name : Subhash Chandra Bose
Contribution : immense Freedom Fighter
Birth : January 23, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa
Career : left Civil Services after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Achievements : Joined Freedom Struggle; established Indian National Army
Motto : Give me blood and I will give you freedom
Death : killed in an air crash over Taipei, Taiwan (Formosa) on August 18, 1945.
Part – B
14.The following pie-chart shows the percentage distribution of the expenditure incurred in publishing a book. Study the pie-chart and the answer the questions based on it,
Various Expenditures (in percentage) Incurred in Publishing a Book
Answer the following questions :
1.What is the pie chart about? .
2.Write any two types of expenditures mentioned in the above pie chart.
3.If the expenditure of publishing a book is 100/-, what will be the cost of paper?
4.What are two areas which take least expenditure in publishing a book?
5.Which of the following statements is not true? –
(a)The printing cost is lesser thqn the paper cost.
(b)The cost of transportation is equal to the cost of promotion.
(c)The printing cost is greater than the binding cost.
15.Read the following passage carefully :
Ants display strange social life. “Might is right” theory exists among them. Some ants are made captivated and they are forced to work as slaves. Beetles and crickets live along with the ants and clean up their nests. Ants play games, look after the sick and have funeral rites. No one is allowed to be lazy. A naturalist did an experiment by keeping an ant covered with mud till its head. A fellow ant saw this, but found it difficult to take it out. Then it brought a few more companions and helped their fellow to come out. Ants also have reasoning powers. They cross a stream by going over the bodies of their living companions.
Now answer the following questions
(B) Given below are SIX statements. Three of them are TRUE according to the passage. Find them and write “T” against them in brackets.
1.Ants lead a wild life.( )
2.Beetles and crickets live with ants. ( )
3.Ants live a lazy life. ( )
4.A naturalist did an experiment. ( )
5.The fellow ant killed the ant. ( )
6.The fellow ant along with others saved the ant. ( )
16.Read the following passage carefully.
Nowadays machines can easily recognise and read printed words. Autopilots, which are computerised machines, can fly aircrafts. These intelligent machines can also recognise and respond to sound and voice and also learn to rectify mistakes committed. Computers can even play chess so brilliantly that they sometimes outwit human beings. The whole world was stunned when an IBM Computer defeated the World Champion Gary Kasparov in a game of chess. But does this mean that artificial intelligence is superior to the natural intelligence of man ?
A computer carries out a series of operations as per the programmes developed by computer programmers. This means that the human intelligence works behind the artificial intelligence of machines. Artificial intelligence has its limitations as it depends on the amount of stored information in it to make a decision, whereas natural intelligence is not handicapped by any such limitations.
Now answer the following questions.
a).Two types of intelligence are mentioned in the passage. They are
(i)………………………………………………………………………….
(ii)………………………………………………………………………….
b).There are five words in List A. The meanings of four of them are given in List B.Choose the right word from List A to match the meaning in List B and write it in the space provided against each meaning.
List A : respond, superior; handicapped, outwit, depend.
List B : i) of a better quality ……………………………………..
ii)to cause to fail………………………………
iii)to do something in answer…………………………
iv)to be supported by……………………………..
c).Complete the following sentences using a word or a phrase each :
i)The World Champion in the game of chess ……………………………………
ii)……………………………………. can fly aircrafts.
d).Mention two activities that the computerised machines can do.
i) ……………………………………………………………..
ii)……………………………………………………………
e).Answer in a word or a phrase each :
i)Gary Kasparov was defeated by ……………………………………………………………….
ii) Artificial intelligence depends on …………………………………………………………
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