DISTRICT COMMON EXAMINATION BOARD – KADAPA – YSR Dist.

Action Plan Model Question Paper 2019-2020 Third Language – English – Paper-I I

Class: X (Max.Marks:50) [Time:2.45 Hrs.]

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. This question paper has 28 questions in three sections (A,B, and C).

2. Answer all the questions on a separate answer book supplied to you.

3. 15 minutes of time is allotted exclusively for reading the question paper and 2-30 hours

for writing the answers.

4. Answer all the questions of Section – B (Vocabulary) in the same order at one place in

your answer book.

5. Start answering the questions as you read them.

Section – A: Reading Comprehension

Questions (1 – 5):

Read the following data given in the table carefully.

Miss Sarah, a teacher of Edwards Elementary School recorded the favourite subjects of her

students on a bar graph. Use the information to answer the questions.

Now, answer the following questions. 1X5= 5 M

1. What is the purpose of studying the above Bar Graph?

2. Which subjects have the same number of Votes?

3. ......... subject is the second most popular.

A) Maths

B) ELA

C) Others

4. Which subject is favourite for 50 students?

A) Maths

B) Science

C) Social Studies

5. Choose the correct statement from the following

A) ELA is a favourite subject for more than 40 Students.

B) More than four Subjects are shown in the above data.

C) The number of Voters for Social Studies is more than that of Science.

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Questions (6-10):

Read the following passage carefully.

Hard work is the most important key to success. The achievements without hard work are impossible. An idle

person can never gain anything if they sit and wait for the better opportunity to come. The person who is working hard

is able to gain the success and happiness in life. Nothing is easy to be achieved in life without doing any hard work.

The Edison was working for 21 hours a day, and he sleeps only for 2 or 3 hours on the Laboratory tables with his

books as his pillow. The prime minister of India late Pt. Nehru, he was working for 17 hours a day and seven days a

week. There were no holidays in his calendar. The Mahatma Gandhi Ji worked ceaselessly day and night and he won

freedom for his country. The hard work is a price that we pay for success in the life.

The constant vigilance and preparedness to work is the price we have to pay for the success in life. Work is a

privilege and a pleasure, the idleness is a luxury that no one can afford. Man is born to work and prosper in life. He

like steel shines in use and rusts in rest. The work is worship. The man of actions acts in the living present. There is

no tomorrow for him. He makes the best of time. Life is full of strife. It is the action, activity of law of nature. A life

of idleness is a life of shame and disgrace. Idle men are intruders on society. We are endowed with brain and limbs,

which are meant to be properly exercised. The failure in life is very often due to idleness. The Industry is the key to

success, Industry makes and idleness mars a nation.

Not poverty but the idealness is a great curse. If we waste time, time shall waste us. A life crammed with work is a

life bubbling with the joy of success. Great men of the world were born in cottages but they died in palaces.

America’s famous president Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in the forest. He could not afford a lamp and

read borrowed books with the light of the fire in the hearth. And yet by dint of hard work, he rose to be the greatest

man of his time. Stalin, the late prime minister of Russia, was the son of a mere cobbler.So, the hard work is very

necessary and we should always work hard as hard work always pays off.

Now, answer the following questions. 1X5 = 5 M

6. Why is man born according to the writer?

7.In the second paragraph we read the sentence, " There were no holidays in his calendar, " What does the

sentence mean?

8. What is the secret of success?

A) Rest

B) Idleness

C) Preparedness

9. These people are the violators of society.

A) poor people

B) idle people

C) hard workers

10. Choose the correct statement from the following.

A) Industrious people make the nation.

B) All Great Men were born in palaces.

C) The man of actions lives for tomorrow.

Questions (11-15):

Read the following passage carefully.

A gentleman was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in

cages or held by the use of chains.

All that was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to one of their legs.

As the man gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants didn’t just use their

strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily have done so, but instead, they didn’t try to at all.

Curious and wanting to know the answer, he asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were just standing there

and never tried to escape.

The trainer replied, "When they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that

age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe

the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” The only reason that the elephants weren’t breaking free

and escaping from the camp was that over time they adopted the belief that it just wasn’t possible. The moral of this

story is that " No matter how much the world tries to hold you back, always continue with the belief that what you

want to achieve is possible. Believing you can become successful is the most important step in actually achieving it."

Now, find the correct and meaningful order of the following jumbled sentences. 5M

11. Though the world try to hold you back, you should believe in yourself to achieve successes.

12. It's because they were adopted to believe that they cannot break the rope.

13. A few elephants in an Elephant Camp were tied with a rope to hold them when they were young.

14. But the elephants are standing there without trying to escape from the camp.

15. A few years later the elephants are set free in the camp. They are noticed by many that there was a small piece of

rope tied to one of their legs.

Note: Copy the box in your answer booklet. Write the numbers to indicate the sentences.

Section – B: Vocabulary

Note: Answer all the questions of Section – B (Vocabulary) in the same order at one place in your

answer book.

16. Read the paragraph and write the synonyms of the underlined words choosing from the

words given in the box. 4X½=2M

His disability came without any medical explanation - a rare occurrence called Phocomelia - and Nick

and his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happen to them. 'My mother was a nurse

and she did everything right during pregnancy but she still blamed herself,’ he said.

17. Read the paragraph and match the words under ‘A’ with their antonyms under ‘B’.

(Write your answer and their corresponding numbers in the answer book) 4X½=2M

Victoria: Ah! He was drunk this morning. (Mrs. Slater appears carrying a handsome clock under her arm.)

Mrs. Slater: I thought I'd fetch this down as well. (She puts it on the mantelpiece.) Our clock's worth

nothing and this always appealed to me.

A B a) Appears ( ) 1) take away

b) Handsome ( ) 2) interested

c) Fetch ( ) 3) beautiful

d) Appealed ( ) 4)vanishes

5) ugly

6) bored

Phenomenon, praised, mystification, clarification, condemned, dysfunction,

18. Fill in the blanks with the right form of the words given in brackets. 4X½=2M

The latter is a stout, ............... (a) (, complacency, complacent, complacently) woman with an irritating air of

being always right. She is wearing an outfit of new ...............(b) (mourning, mourned, mourn). Ben is also

in.............(c) (completed, completely, complete) new mourning. He is rather a jolly little man, but at present trying

to adapt himself to the ............(d)(regrettable, regrets, regretted) occasion.

19. Complete the following spellings with ‘ie, ea, iu or eu’. 2x½=1M

a )His mum invented a special plastic device that m _ _nt he could hold a pen and pencil.

b) Henry: Mother and I are going to bring grandfather's bur_ _ u down here.

20. Complete the words with correct suffixes given in brackets. 2x½=1M

Mrs. Slater: Father had been merry this morning. He went out soon after breakfast to pay his

(a)insur___(ence/ance) Ben : My word, it's a good thing he did. Mrs. Jordan: He always was

(b)thought.........(ful/full) in that way. He was too honourable to have 'gone' without paying his premium

21. Find the wrongly spelt word and write the correct spelling. 2x1 = 2M

(a) decision, details, distrought, teased

(b) vulgar, moustache, vigourous, trousers

22. Read the following dictionary entry of the word ‘annoy’ given below.

Now, answer the following questions using the information above. 2x1 = 2M

a) Write an example sentence using the word 'inspiration'.

b) Write two words using the word 'inspiration ' along with prepositions.

23. Arrange the following words under the correct heading. 8 X ¼=2M

Mercenary, sociable, stingy, fatalist, reliable, teetotaler, haughty, polyglot

Persons Qualities

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

24. Use the following expressions in sentences of your own. 4 X 1 =4M

A) Phrasal verb: insist on

B) Idiomatic Expression: get one's own way

C) Binomial Expression: odds and ends

D) Foreign Expression: detour

25. Match the following one word substitutes in Part-A with their meanings in Part-B.

(Write only numbers and their corresponding letters in your answer book) 4X½=2M

Part A Part B

1) honorary ( ) A) one who hates women

2) misogynist ( ) B) words inscribed on a tomb

3) spendthrift ( ) C) a position for which no salary is paid

4) epitaph ( ) D) that cannot be imitated

E) one who spends too much

F) one who is present everywhere

SECTION – C: CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Question 26:

(a) The IIT results came. Narayana Murthy had passed with a high rank. What a delight for any student!

He was thrilled and wanted to write to his friend to share his happiness. He added how he dreamt about the

admission in the IIT.

Now, imagine you are Mr. Narayana Murthy and write a letter to your friend about the success.

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(OR)

(b) Recently three students (Previous Year) of your School bagged Pratibha Awards-2019. So the

Headmaster of your school conducted a meeting to felicitate the success of the students. The MLA of your area was

the Chief Guest who delivered a fantastic and inspirational speech to encourage the students.

Now, write a report in about 150 words about the programme

27. (a) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian Philosopher who served as the first Vice President and the

second President of India. Now, write his biographical sketch using the following information. 5M

Birth: 5 September 1888 in Tiruttani, Madras Presidency.

Parents : Seethamma Devi, Veerasami

Spouse : Sivakamu (Died in 1956)

Children: 5 daughters 1 son

Profession: Philosopher, Academician

Career: the first Vice President, the second President of India

Awards: Bharat Ratna (1954), Templeton Prize (1975)

Celebration: His birthday as Teachers' Day

Death : 17 April 1975 , Chennai

(OR)

(b) Write a story using the following hints.

Hare- tortoise- race starts -hare runs fast - tortoise walks slowly -hare looks back- finds tortoise- far away -

hare rests under a tree -but tortoise reaches the hare -pats on the hare- advises -not to sleep -take a challenge -run

without stopping -reach the goal- hare feels ashamed- agrees its failure -admires- the tortoise-Moral

28. Study the following

Now, write a paragraph describing the information depicted in the diagram above. 5M

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