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AP Inter 2nd Year English Question Paper March 2023
Time : 3 Hours
Max. Marks : 100
SECTION – A
I. Annotate ANY TWO of the following in about 10-15 lines each. (2 × 4 = 8)
a) Every work must necessarily be a mixture of good and evil yet we are commanded to work incessantly.
b) A mortal dose of chloroform was dropped into the water. 1 The graph became the record of a death agony.
c) People that value its privileges above its principles soon lose both.
d) Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability.
n. Annotate ANY TWO of the following in about 10-15 lines each. (2 × 4 = 8)
a) All are architects of fate
Working in these walls of time.
b) All is, If I have grace to use it so
As ever in my great Task-Master’s eye.
c) Yet will I slake my individual sorrow
At the deep source of universal joy.
d) Books ! T is a dull and endless strife
Come, hear the woodland linnet.
III. Answer ANY TWO of the following questions in about 10-15 lines each. (2 × 4 = 8)
a) How does studies cure the diseases of the mind ?
b) What was the accident that Dr. Barnard Hord ? How did he react to the accident ?
c) What does Vivekananda say about a man of character ?
d) Give a list of the lessons that Narayana Murthy feels we should learn from the west.
IV. Answer ANY TWO of the following in about 10-15 lines each. (2 × 4 = 8)
a) Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem “On His Having Arrived At The Age of Twenty Three”.
b) What is the central idea of the poem, The Builders’ ?
c) Why are people generally afraid of fate ? How did Sarojini Naidu challenge such a fearful fate ?
d) Why does Wordsworth consider Nature to be a good teacher?
V. Answer ANY ONE of the following questions in about 25 lines. (1 × 8 = 8)
a) Give a character analysis of Huckleberry Finn.
b) What are the turning points in the novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” ? Discuss the main events in the plot.
c) Write a character sketch of Tom Sawyer.
SECTION – B
VI. Read the following passage carefully and answer the ques-tions that follow. (5 × 1 = 8)
Fifty feet away, three male lions lay by the road. They didn’t appear to have a hair on their heads. Noting the colour of their noses (leonine noses darken as they age, from pink to black). Craig estimated that they were six years old-young adults. “This is what we came to see. They are really mane-less”. Craig, a professor at the University of Minnesota, is arguably the leading expert on the majestic Serengeti lion, whose head is mantled, in long, thick hair. He and Peyton West, a doctoral student who has been working with him in Tanzania, had never seen the Tsavo lions that live some 200 miles east of Serengeti. The scientists had partly suspected that the maneless male lions were adolescents mistaken for adults by amateur observers. Now they know better.
The Tsavo research expedition was mostly Peyton’s show. She had spent several years in Tanzania, compiling the data she needed to answer a question that ought to have been answered long ago. Why do lions have manes ? It’s the only cat wild or domestic, that displays such ornamentation.
Question 1.
Name the two scientists in the passage.
Question 2.
State true or false :
Serengeti lions are maneless.
Question 3.
Where do Tsavo lions live ?
Question 4.
Pick the adjective in the passage which means ‘pertaining to or characteristic of a lion’.
Question 5.
Write the noun form of the verb ‘estimated’.
VII. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. (5 × 1 = 5)
In the evening the other children returned to the boat. They laughed and talked, they were very tired. They did not see that Tom and Becky were not there. The boat took them back to St. Petersburg.
Huck saw the boat but he did not know about the picnic. The mothers of St. Petrsburg did not like him. They never invited him to birthday picnics. But tonight Huck was not interested in the birthday picnics. He was interested in Injun Joe’s treasure. He hid behind a tree and watched an old house ‘Injun Joe’s in that house’, he thought. To stay here and wait. When he comes out I’lll find the treasure’. It was late and very dark. Soon two men came out. It was Injun Joe and his friend. Huck followed them quietly. ‘They’re going to Widow Dougals’s House, thought Huck, ’But why ?’ Suddenly the ’ two men stopped. Injun Joe said, ‘Many years ago Widow Dougals’s husband was very cruel to me. Now I want to hurt the widow. I want to cut her face, her nose and her ears. And you must help me’.
Question 1.
Why were Tom and Becky not with the other children ?
Question 2.
Why did Huck not know about the picnic ?
Question 3.
What was Huck interested in that night ?
Question 4.
Why were the two men going to Widow Dougals’s house ?
Question 5.
State true or false :
Huck was waiting for Injun Joe behind the tree because he knew that Injun Joe was going to hurt Widow Dougals.
VIII. Study the advertisement and answer the questions that follow. (5 × 1 = 5)
Question 1.
What is the advertisement about ?
Question 2.
Write down two major benefits of the new frame work of India.
Question 3.
What is the TRAI website ?
Question 4.
Where can we find ‘consumer information’ ?
Question 5.
Write a synonym of ‘disruption’.
IX. Study the Pie-Chart given below and answer the questions that follow. (5×1 = 5)
THE MAJOR SOURCES OF ENERGY IN INDIA
Question 1.
What does the Pie-chart show ?
Question 2.
State True or False.
Natural gas and coal put together is almost equal to our major source of energy.
Question 3.
What is the second major source of energy in our country ?
Question 4.
How many sources of energy are taken into consideration ?
Question 5.
What is hydroelectric power ?
SECTION – C
X. Write a letter to your friend describing the college annual day celebrations conducted recently in your college. (1 × 5 = 5)
Hints : Describe college annual day-sports and games-com- petitions-literary and cultural:Chief guest-principal-annual report-prize distribution-cultural programmes.
(Or)
Write a leter to the principal of your college requesting him/ her to issue your transfer, conduct and bona fide certificates.
Hints : Completed intermediate – group – admn. No. – passed in distinction – year of study – dues paid – going to further studies – certificates required – requested.
XI. Write a paragraph of about 8 lines describing the process of how you get ready for college regularly. (1 × 5 = 5)
(Or)
Describe the process of planting a sapling.
XII. Prepare a Curriculum Vitae based on the information given below. (1 × 5 = 5)
N. Sunitha-aged 24 years-B.Ed., 78% Govt., College of Edn., Rajahmundry-B.Sc. (Biology) 85% marks-Govt College for Women, Rajahmundry-Intermediate (Bi.RC.) 78% Govt. Junior College, Palakollu, S.S.C.-88%-Govt., High School, Palakollu-applying for the post of Biology Teacher.
XIII. You are Mr. Mohan. Your father Mr. Narasimha has asked you to deposit Rs. 10,600/- (in Rs. 2,000 and Rs. 100 denomination) in his Post Office Savings Account in Antarvedi Post Office. His account No. is 20231803. Fill in the form with the information given. (It is not necessary to draw the form. Write the numbers 1 to 10 and the corresponding answers). (1 × 5 = 5)
XIV. Write a dialogue between you and your friend inviting him to your birthday party. (1 × 5 = 5)
(Or)
Imagine you are selected for an interview to get a job in a reputed company. Write a dialogue between yourself and the interviewer.
XV. Read the following passage and make notes. (1 × 5 = 5)
Earthworms are the answer for every garden problem, according to Harold John Weigel. They can increase crop production, turn and freshen soil, and produce faster growth. Simply take care of the earthworms, and the earthworms will take care of the garden. Weigel is extremely enthusiastic about earthworms. They are tremendous creatures, “the intestines of the Earth”, Weigel says quoting Charles Darwin. Weigel is so excited about the benefits of Worms that he is writing a book about them. He gardens using thousands of earthworms. He has persuaded his wife to put worms in her house plant pots. He even suggests eating worms, which he claims, are 70 per cent protein. He has dreams of armies of earthworms helping to replace topsoil in the 74 countries. It is a fact, he says, that topsoil is disappearing every year through erosion. Wind and water carry away the soil and nature need’s centuries to replace it.
XVI. Match the words in Column-A with their meanings/definitions in Column-B. (5 × 1 = 5)
XVII. Mark the stress for any five of the following words. (5 × 1 = 5)
1) country
2) failure
3) polite
4) student
5) among
6) discuss
7) engineer
8) beautiful
9) delight
10) intermediate