AP Open School Society Model Question Paper : APOSS Intermediate

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A.P. Open School Society, Hyderabad.
Sub: English (Senior Secondary)
Time: 3 Hrs
Max. Marks: 100
Model Question Paper

General Instructions:
1. This Paper has been divided into Four Sections, I to IV.
2. Section-I carries 25 marks and contains questions from prose and poetry.
3. Section-II carries 20 marks and contains questions on study skills.
4. Section-III carries 35 marks and contains questions on grammar.
5. Section-IV carries 20 marks and contains questions on communicative skills.

Section – I :
1. A. Read the following Passage and answer the questions that follow. l x 4 = 4
Good memory depends upon a good brain. The brain needs a good supply of Oxygen, Glucose, Calcium, Phosphorus and Iron. So make sure you sit in a well ventilated place when studying. Your diet should include milk, cheese, walnuts, wheat, green leafy vegetables, ragi and dates. Do not forget that “breakfast is the brain food”. Fatty meals, sugar and acids take away calcium from the system. Diets rich in fibre like fruits and vegetables help to reduce stress.
a. What does our brain need?
b. What should be included in our diet to have good memory?
c. Good Connections is important to improve the memory., (Say True of False) [ ]
d. Diet rich in fiber like fruits and vegetables help to reduce stress., (Say True of False) [ ]

1. B. Read the following Passage and answer the questions that follow 1 x 4 = 4
Mars is considered to be a sort of twin of our own planet earth. It is the next planet beyond the earth in distance from the sun. The diameter of Mars is about half the diameter of the earth and it rotates around the sun in just under two years. But the Mars has a day that is almost equal in length to our day in here on earth.

In observing Mars, astronomers have noticed certain things that indicate that a form of life may be possible there. First of all, Mars has seasons like the earth. In fact, as the season changes in the Mars, there seems to be changes on its surface. The dark areas get stronger in the spring and summer, and the colour changes from bluish-green to yellow. Could this be vegetation?
a. The size of Mars is (Identify the right answer) [ ]
i. About half of earth.
ii. Half the diameter of the earth.
iii. Half the diameter of the Sun
b. How much time does Mars take to rotate around the Sun?
c. Mars has seasons like earth., (Say True of False) [ ]
d. Mars has a day that equals in length to our day here on earth., (Say True of False)[ ]

2. Answer any four of the following the questions. 4 x 2 = 8
i. How did Gavaskar break his mother is nose?
ii. Are Pythagoras theorem and Newton’s Law of Gravity important to all of us in our daily life? Why do you think we all learn about them?
iii. How does research help in popularasing the use of wind energy?
iv. Why did the doctor invite the man in?
v. What did the pundits advise Ved’s mother for regaining Ved’s ……….. ?
vi. Why was the intruder a hunted rat?
vii. What weapon did Baldeo carry? Who had made it?
viii. How did Ardhana learn the truth?

3. Answer anyone of the following the questions. 1 x 4 = 4
i. What kind of life did Rahul’s Grandparents lead when he was a small boy? What was considered important in those days?
ii. What are the advantages of using wind energy

4. Read the following lines from the Poem “Night of the Scorpion” and answer the questions given below it. 1 x 5 = 5
I remember the night my mother
Was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours
of steady rain had driven him
To crawl beneath a sack of rice
Parting with him poison- flash
Of diabolic tail in the dark room
He risked the rain again
The peasants came like swarms of files
And buzzed the Name of god a hundred times
To paralyse the evil one
With candles and with lanterns
Throwing giant scorpion shadows
On the mud-baked walls
They searched for him; he was not found.
i. Who does ‘him’ in the line 3 refer to?
ii. Why did the scorpion come into the house?
iii. What did the scorpion do?
iv. Why did the peasants come in large numbers?
v. Why did they not find the scorpion?

Section – II :
5. Read the following Passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Human Civilization has been around for a short period of 12,000 years. Barely in that short amount of time, we have dominated nature, with our villages, towns, cities mega cities. The rapid increase of human population has left us battling with other species for limited resources. Burning of fossil fuel has now created a blanket of carbon dioxide around the world which is slowly but surely increasing the average global temperature.

Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental debates of our time. Will the west Antarctic ice sheet be melted entirely? Will it be the end of the world as we know it? May be, may be not. Either way Antarctica is a crucial element in this debate not just because it’s the only place in the world which has never sustained a human population and therefore, remains relatively “Pristine” in this aspect; but more importantly, because it holds in its ice covers half million old carbon records trapped in its layers of ice.

i. How has human life affected nature? 4 x 2 = 8
ii. What is the cause of global warming?
ii. What makes Antarctica different from the other regions of the world?
iv. What is the greatest significance of Antarctica’s ice core?