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AP Inter 1st Year English Question Paper April 2022
Section – A
I. Annotate ANY TWO of the following in about 10-15 lines each. (2 × 4 = 8)
a) Unless we are very strenuous in our conduct and honest in our minds, we can not make a glorious India.
b) “Someday I will Prove, without a doubt, the truth of what happened to me”.
c) Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even it everyone tells him they are wrong.
d) Rapid improvements in advanced sensors would make it possible to have such sensing systems at affordable prices in many of our sectors.
II. Annotate ANY TWO of he following in about 10-15 lines each. (2 × 4 = 8)
a) Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service.
b) I know why your eyes leap away
When they meet mine,
Why they quickly stray
From their quiet contact
c) Others like soldiers, armed in their strings
Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds :
d) To break this shadow
Ino a thousand lighs of Sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams of Sun !
III. Answer ANY TWO of tthe following in about 10-‘5 lines each. (2 × 4 = 8)
a) How can the teacher instill faith, love and courage in Lincoln’s Son ?
b) Satellite navigational systems are going to transform marketing logistics in a complete way! How do the writers explain this ?
c) What were the difficulties faced by Arunima while climbing the Everes ? What do you learn from her story?
d) “Citizens of character are future of the naion” – Support your answer wih the views of Rajaji.
IV. Answer ANY TWO of the following in about 10-15 lines each. (2 × 4 = 8)
a) According to Shakespeare, what are the lessons that human beings must learn from honey bees ?
b) “Hold fast to dreams for when dreaming go, Life is a barren field frozen with snow”. How did Langston Hughes hold fast to his saying as he grew older ?
c) What are Tagore’s views oh equanimity ?
d) Briefly explain the theme of the poem ‘To a Student”.
V Answer ANY ONE of the following questions in about 25-30 lines each. (1 × 8 = 8)
a) How is “The Last Leaf’ by OHeiiry a story of hope, friendship and sacrifice ?
b) How did people in the olden days show concern for social values ? Explain this in the light of the story “Will he come Home”?
c) The anrrator said “Nature came to my rescue in an unexpected manner”. How did nature help, the narrator get rid of his troubles?
Section – B
VI. Read the following passage carefully and answer he questions that follow. (5 × 1 = 5)
When he was bom everyone ‘advised’ his parents to get rid of the kid as he was blind. But his parents, who were not affluen by any count, choose to take care of him, that too, to the best of their abilities and gave him educaion. Forbes has named him in the list of super achievers from Asia under the age of 30 but visually challenged Srikanth Bolla is in no mood to celebrate. His goal is , to get into the Forbes list of richest persons and he won’t settle for anything less. ‘
Such is he determination of the 25 year-old, who was bom blind and. overcame all adversities to become the first intemaitonal Wind student at the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT) and now heads a Rs.30-crore ($ 4.6 million) company.
Visiting manufacturing plants in different locations in Telanganai and Karnataka, attending business meetings and in between, troble-shooting over the phone, the CEO of Bollan Industries is a busy man.
Born in a family of farmers inMachilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh, life has been one long struggle for him. After passing his class 10 exam, he chose die -science stream for the plus-two stage but was not permitted to write the Joint Entrace Exam for IIT aspirants as he was blind.
“I said when IIT doesn’t want me, I don’t want DT either. Let me find the best opportunity in the world-better than IIT. MIT being the top school in he world, I always waned to go there and I went there”, said Srikanth, who has a B.Sc., in Mannagement from MIT.
1) What did people advise the parents of Srikanth when he was born ?
2) What was the goal of Srikanth ?
3) Why did Srikanth decide to study in MIT ?
4) Write the antonym of‘Permit”.
5) Answer ‘True’ or ‘False’.
Srikanth missed a great chance because he could not take Joint Entrance Exam for IIT.
VII. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. (5 × 1 = 5)
Tagore insisted that education should be imparted in an atmosphere of nature with all its beauty, colours, sounds, forms and such other manifestations. In his opinion, education in natural sur-roundings develops intimacy with the world and the power of communication with nature. Nature according to him, was the manuscript of God. So he emphasized that education must enable a person to realize his immediate relationship with nature, it should take the child nearer nature and therefore, in close proximity of God. It should help him to leam freely and spontaneously from the book of nature. Since nature never betrays the heart that loves her, she will provide the child with spontaneous development and natural growth.
1) What according to Tagore develops intimacy with the world ?
2) What was considered as the manuscript of God ?
3) “It shoud take child nearer nature”. It’s refers to what ?
4) Name the two things that are provided by Nature.
5) Write the present tense form of ‘emphasized’.
Section – C
Note: The answers to questions in this Section should be written at ONE PLACE in the answer book separately. The entire Section should be answered in one stretch and not to be mixed with other Section.
VIII. Fill in the blanks with suitable Articles. (6 × 1/2 = 3)
a) Babar is ____ first Mughal King in India.
b) He thinks he is ____ Shakespeare.
c) I saw ____ Untidy child.
d) Hindus read ____ Bhagavadgeetha.
e) Can you find me ____ small house for rent ?
f) My sister is ___ NCC officer.
XIV. Identify the silent consonants in the following words. (6 × 1/2 = 3)
a) Buffet
b) align
c) knight
d) neighbour
e) gargle
f) Psalm
XV. Identify the part of speech of the underlined words. (6 × 1/2 = 3)
a) She was born in 2005.
b) He solved the problem quickly.
c) Congrats! finally you won the match.
d) Do you smoke ?
e) The new car broke down.
f) Madhav is rich but he does not speand a pie.
XVI. Match the words in column A with their meanings/definitions in Column B. (6 × 1/2 = 3)
XVII. Here is a list of crops that grow in Kurnool district, Prepare a Pie diagram. (5 × 1 = 5)
Sonamasuri 50%
Red gram 25%
Maize 5%
Jowar 10%
Millet 10%
(OR)
Musical instruments are divided into three main classes according to the way they are played. Some instruments are played by blowing air into them. These are called wind instruments. Some of these are said to be of the wood wind family. Examples of wood wind instruments are the flute, the clarinet and the hom. There are also various other wind instruments such as the mouth-organ and the bagpipes. Some instruments are played by banging or striking them. Instruments like this are called percussion instruments are played by banging or striking them. Instruments like this are called percussion instruments. The last big group of musical instruments have strings. There are four kinds of stringed instruments. Examples are the harp and the guitar, the violin and cello.
Convert the above passage into a “tree-diagram”.
XVIII. Read the following transcriptions and write ANY FIVE words in ordinary spellings. (5 × 1 = 5)
1) /ti:tjs(r)/
2) /aemPjutelt/
3) /KASt3mǝ(r)/
4) /Sltizn/
5) /difikoiti/
6) /did3iti
7) \(/ \mathrm{m \Lambda} \text { Әә(r) }\)
8) /neijn/
9) /hju:mon/
10) \(\text { /fei } \theta /\)
Find the word that is different from the other words in the group with regard to the sound of the underlined letters.
1) Xerox, X-mas, X-Ray
2) gate, gem, gentle
3) one, orange, often
4) cheap, chin, character
5) culture, vulture, voltage
XIX. Write the number of syllables for ANY SIX of the following words. (6 × 1/2 = 3)
a) engine
b) politics
c) dictionary
d) new
e) security
f) mutter
g) revulsion
h) community
i) administration
j) sort
XX. Complete the following dialogue. . (4×1 = 4)
Rishitha : Do you think that children now a days are more 
Kavitha : Well, depends children in big cities perhaps tend to be happy and naughty.
Rishitha : I agree with you. I wonder why !
Kavitha : Do you know that its mostly caused by 
Rishitha : But sometimes children who don’t like watching TV are also naughty.
Kavitha : They are influenced by their environment. Children are still unstable, they are changeable.
Rishitha : What is the best done by parents to stop 
on TV?
I think its rather hard to stop violence on TV, because children today have much more freedom and 
to watch TV anywhere and anytime as well. Moreover, the media is concerned more about profit rather than quality.