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INSTRUCTIONS:

1. This question paper has 35 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 3 hours for writing the answers.

4. Answer all the questions of Section – B (Grammar &

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 passage carefully.

Every child is born, with some inherited characteristics,

into a specific socio-economic and emotional environment,

and trained in certain ways by figures of authority. I inherited

honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I

inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness and so did my

three brothers and sister. I had three close friends in my child-

hood - Ramanadha Sastry, Aravindan and Sivaprakasan. All

these boys were from orthodox Hindu Brahmin families. As

children, none of us ever felt any difference amongst our-

selves because of our religious differences and upbringing. In

fact, Ramanadha Sastry was the son of Pakshi Lakshmana

Sastry, the high priest of the Rameswaram temple. Later he

took over the priesthood of the Rameswaram temple from his

father; Aravindan went into the business of arranging trans-

port for visiting pilgrims; and Sivaprakasan became a cater-

ing contractor for the Southern Railways. (My Childhood)

Now, answer the following questions. 5 ´ 2 = 10

1. Who are the figures of authority?

2. How is every child born according to the speaker?

3. The speaker inherited ............ from his father.

A) faith in goodness B) deep kindness

C) honesty and self-discipline

4. The speaker’s close friends came from ............

A) Muslim families B) old families C) orthodox families

5. The speaker enjoyed religious ................... in his child-

hood.

A) differences B) harmony C) orthodox

Questions (6 – 8): Read the following stanza carefully.

Here in the centre, four directions gather

The path ahead leads up or down

Is this our last bright new world birthing?

Is this our waving as we drown?

This could be our last true moment

Knowing the truth, our choices make.

Our grandchild asks "That was the moment!

And did the dreamer wake?"

(Or will the Dreamer Wake?)

Now, answer the following questions. 3 ´ 2 = 6

6. The poet appeals us ............

A) to save the endangered species

B) to wake up early in the morning

C) to wake up the grandchildren

7. This stanza says that ...........

A) we should encourage grandchildren

B) we should feel responsibility to save the diversity of life

C) We should not have dreams.

8. If we do not wake up to the responsibility, our grandchild

...

A) will not know many species in this world because they

are endangered.

B) will not see the centre

C) can question us our responsibility

Questions (9-10): Read the following passage carefully.

To Mrs. John Shorrocks who keeps the 'Ring-o-Bells'.

We've had it fixed up a good while now, but I was keeping it

for a pleasant surprise. (He rises.) I felt I was a bit of a bur-

den to you, so I found someone who'd think it a pleasure to

look after me. We shall be very glad to see you at the cere-

mony. (He gets to the door.) Till Monday, then. Twelve o'

clock at St. Philip's Church. (opening the door) It's a good

thing you brought that bureau downstairs, Amelia. It'll be

handier to carry it across to the 'Ring-o-Bells' on Monday. (He

goes out.) (The Dear Departed – II)

Now, answer the following questions. 2 ´ 2 = 4

9. What was the speaker keeping for a pleasant surprise?

A) The payment receipt of insurance

B) His thoughts to change the will

C) His marriage proposal with Mrs. John Shorrocks

10. What was the ceremony referred to here?

A) The death ceremony of Abel

B) The ceremony of Ben’s brother

C) The wedding occasion of Abel

Questions (11-15): Study the data given in the following

table carefully.

Sector-wise expenditure for Andhra Pradesh in 3

Budgets (Rs. in crore)

Now, answer the following questions. 5 ´ 2 = 10

11. What is the information in the table about?

12. What was the amount of expenditure spent on water

resources in 2017-18 budget?

13. The highest expenditure spent in 2018-19 budget was on

A) education B) water resources

C) backward classes welfare

14. Expenditure on agriculture and cooperation is …………

A) gradually decreasing B) gradually increasing

C) steady and not increasing

15. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) Expenditure on education was lesser than any other

expenditure in any budget.

B) Expenditure in 2017-18 is lesser than the other two bud-

gets.

C) Education was given the least importance in 2018-19 bud-

get.

Section - B: Grammar & Vocabulary

Note: Answer all the questions of Section – B (Grammar &

Vocabulary) in the same order at one place in your answer

book.

16. Combine the following sentences using ‘which’. 2 M

The Taj Mahal is in India. It is a famous monument.

17. Change the following sentence into passive voice. 2 M

Mokshitha looked after her parents.

18. Combine the following sentences using ‘as a result’. 2 M

She kept working hard. She was tired.

19. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions given in the

bracket. 2 ´ 1 = 2

a) Sowmya was unable to attend the party .............. her

marriage engagement. (in front of / due to / by way of)

b) The accident that happened at Benz Circle sadly result-

ed .......... the death of an old man. (in / with / by)

20. Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of verbs given in

brackets. 2 ´ 1 = 2

a) Raju ............ (meet) his friend yesterday.

b) Rohit cut his finger when he ............ (sharpen) his pen-

cil.

21. Your friend frequently asks you many doubts regarding

English grammar. You feel he is wasting your time.

Advise him to meet his English teacher for clarifying his

doubts. 2 M

22. Change the following into a polite request. 2 M

A farmer to an officer : Issue me a ration card

23. What do the following sentences mean?

Choose the correct answer and write it in your answer

book. 2 ´ 1 = 2

i) You must maintain social distance and wear a mask to

be safe from corona virus.

[A] Ordering [ ] [B] A strict advice [ ]

[C] Giving information [ ] [D] Moral support [ ]

ii) Will you please stop making so much noise?

[A] Getting attention [ ] [B] Complaining [ ]

[C] Expressing capacity [ ] [D] Expressing hope [ ]

24. Read the paragraph and write the synonyms of the under-

lined words choosing from the words given in the box.

4 ´ 1 = 4

He found the world of Apu so fascinating (a) that he saw

all three films in one sitting; and there began his longstanding

(b) love affair with the people of India

and Bengali cinema and culture (c),

which led to path-breaking work in those

fields. In his latest book, Satyajit Ray,

Essays:1970-2005, a compilation (d) of his essays as the

name suggests, being published by Manohar Publishers, New

Delhi, Roberge provides a scholarly, original analysis of Ray's

works, giving an insight into the greatness of Ray both as a

person and as an artist.

25. Read the paragraph and match the words under ‘A’ with

their antonyms under ‘B’. Write their numbers and their

corresponding numbers in the answer book. 4 ´ 1 = 4

I gave him the can of wine. He poured himself a mug and

handed me the can. He drank all of it at one go. He then

arranged the belt that was attached to the trunk carefully

(a) on his forehead. So, this was the picture: my father car-

rying my luggage on his back and me following him with a

tiny (b) bag in my hand. We were walking up a narrow (c)

hilly road, and neither of us uttered a word as if we were

strangers who spoke different (d) languages.

A B

a) carefully ( ) 1) variant

b) tiny ( ) 2) similar

c) narrow ( ) 3) huge

d) different ( ) 4) broad

5) hopefully

6) recklessly

26. Fill in the blanks with the right form of the words given in

brackets. 4 ´ 1 = 4

That is why the three themes are related, like the African

stool, with three legs and the basin on which you sit. The

three legs: one leg is peace, the other leg is good ....... (a)

(govern / governmental / governance), the third leg is .......

(b) (sustainability / sustainably / sustainable) management

of resources. When you have those three legs, now you

can put the basin, which is ....... (c) (developed / develop-

ment / developing). And if you try to balance that stool

without those three, it won't ....... (d) (happening / hap-

pened / happen).

27. Complete the following spellings with ‘ou, au, ue, or eu’

2 ´ 1 = 2

His distr ... ... ght mother could not bring herself to hold

him until he was f ... ... r months old.

28. Complete the words with correct suffixes given in brack-

ets. 2 ´ 1 = 2

Father had been merry this morning. He went out soon after

break ...... (past / fast) (a) to pay his insur ...... (ance / ence)

(b).

29. Find the wrongly spelt word and write the correct spelling.

2 ´ 1 = 2

a) vegetasion damage destroy commercial

b) contain expence restore illiterate

30. Read the following dictionary entry of the word ‘poor’

given below.

Now, answer the following questions using the information

above. 2 ´ 1 = 2

a) What is the superlative form of ‘poor’?

b) Give the meaning of ‘the poor’.

31. Arrange the following words under the correct heading.

8 ´ ¼ = 2

lazy, smart, cowardly, nervous, sociable, courageous,

rude, creative

Positive qualities Negative qualities

32. Match the following one word substitutes in Part-A with

their meanings in Part-B. (Write only the numbers and

their corresponding letters in your answer book)

4 ´ ½ = 2

Part – A Part – B

1) spendthrift ( ) A) one who treats heart dis-

eases

2) pessimist ( ) B) one who expects bad things

to happen

3) fatalist ( ) C) one who spends too much

4) polyglot ( ) D) a person who believes in

fate

E) one who knows many lan-

guages

F) one who is present every-

where

Section – C: Creative Expression

33. a) You have read the lesson ‘Attitude Is Altitude’. In the

lesson you have read that Nick was interested in learn-

ing surfing and met Bethany Hamilton to take her help.

Write a possible conversation between Nick and

Bethany Hamilton in that context. 10 M

(OR)

b) The Second World War broke out in 1939, when I was

eight years old. For reasons I have never been able to

understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds

erupted in the market. I used to collect the seeds and

sell them to a provision shop on Mosque Street. A

day's collection would fetch me the princely sum of one

anna. My brother -in-law Jallaluddin would tell me sto-

ries about the War which I would later attempt to trace

in the headlines in Dinamani.

Write a diary entry that records the writer’s feelings

34. a) Suppose you are planning to conduct a Kite-Flying

Competition on the occasion of your village festival on

behalf of Youth Club of your town.

Write a letter to your friend inviting him / her to the

competition. Invent the necessary details. 10 M

(OR)

b) Write a biographical sketch of P.V. Sindhu who is a

right-handed badminton player using the following

information.

Name : Pusarla Venkata Sindhu

Birth : 5 July 1995

Place of Birth : Hyderabad

Parents : Ramana, a volleyball player and Vijaya

Coach : Pullela Gopichand, All England Open

Badminton Champion International debut: At the age of 17

National team member : Since 2013

Career wins : 330

World Ranking : 3

Achievements : First woman silver medalist at the Rio

Olympics in 2016 First Indian to clinch

the badminton world championship in

Basel, Switzerland, 25 August 2019

Awards : Arjuna Award, Padma Shri

35. Read the following passage carefully.

a) Next morning the villagers who passed the potter's

house looked in amazement (A) at the tiger tied to the tree.

Soon the news spread throughout the village that the potter

had caught a tiger and tied it to a tree in his yard (B). All the

villagers praised his courage (C). They also thanked him

because the tiger had eaten many of their goats and buf-

faloes (D). They had tried to catch him for many years but had

failed. Of course, the potter said that he had done nothing of

the sort. He said that he had only brought his donkey home.

He did not understand how a donkey could change into a

tiger! When he saw the tiger, he fainted.

Nobody (E), however, believed the potter's story. The vil-

lagers even praised him for being modest. Soon the potter

became famous. Everybody who met him called him the

brave potter. The simple potter himself never understood

why.

Now, frame ‘WH’ questions to get the underlined parts in

the passage as answers. (Each question carries 2 marks)

10 M

(OR)

b) Study the following Tree diagram carefully.

Types of Muscles

Now write a paragraph describing the information dipcted in

the tree diagram above.

-Navuluri Peraiah

PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS - 2020

Time: 3 Hrs. 15 Min. ENGLISH PAPER - I & II Max. Marks: 100

TENTH CLASS MODEL PAPER

Department 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

Budget Rs. Budget Rs. Budget Rs.

Education 17,461 20,225 24,961

Rural Development 18,574 21,687 23,439

and Panchayati Raj

Water Resources 10,638 15,511 16,978

Agriculture and 6,691 8,057 10,097

Cooperation

Health, Medical and 6,332 6,542 8,464

Family Welfare

Municipal

Administration and 5,073 5,049 7,741

Urban Development

Home 4,727 5,451 6,227

Backward Classes 4,118 4,783 6,213

Welfare

Total Expenditure 1,66,699 1,59,822 1,91,064

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11. If α, β are the roots of 4x + = 3 and

x

1f(x) = 64x3 + then

x3

1) f(α) = 12 2) f(β) = 3

3) f(α) = f(β) 4) f(α) ≠ f(β)

2. If f(x) is a polynomial in x (> 0) and satistying

1 1the equation f(x) + f () = f(x).f () and

x x

f(2) = − 7 Then f(3) =

1) − 26 2) 26 3) 27 4) − 27

3. The function f : R→R is defined by f(x) =

3−x. Observe the following statements

I) f is one − one II) f is onto

III) f is decreasing function

Out of these true statements are

1) Only I, III 2) Only II, III

3) Only I, II 4) I, II, III

4. Suppose f : [−2 2] → R is defined by

f(x) = { − 1 for −2 ≤ x ≤ 0

x − 1 for 0 ≤ x ≤ 2

Then {x ∈ [−2 2] / x ≤ 0 and f(|x|) = x } =

1) {−1} 2) {0} 3) {−1/2} 4) φ

5. When 2 < x < 3, f(x) = |x − 1| + |x − 2| +

|x − 3| is

1) One-one function only

2) An onto function only

3) Identity functions

4) Constant function only

6. If f : R→R is a function satisfying f(x + y) =

3 3f(xy) for all x, y ∈ R and f() = then

4 4

f(2019) =

31) 2019 2) 2020 3) 0 4)

4

7. If f : R→R is defined by f(x) = 2x and

n∑ f(a + i) = 16(2n − 1), (n ∈ N) then a =i=1

1) 1 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4

8. Let f : R→R be defined such that f(x + y) = f(x)

f(y) for all x, y ∈ R and f(1) = 3. If in a

triangle ABC, a = f(2) − 4, b = 2 √ f(2) + f(3)

c = b + 1 then ∠c =

π π π π1) 2) 3) 4)

6 4 3 2

1 19. If f(x) = x + then f(x3) + 3 f () is

x x

1) f(x3) 2) 3f(x) 3) (f(x))3 4) 3(f(x))3

−1 x < 0

10. If g(x) = 1 + x − [x] and f(x) = { 0 x = 0

1 x > 0

Then for all x, f(g(x)) =

1) −1 2) 0 3)1 4) x

11. If f : (4 8) → (5 9) is a function defined by

xf(x) = x + [] where [x] is greatest integer

4

function then f−1(x) =

1) x + 1 2) x − 1 3) 1 − x 4) 4 − x

12. If f: R → (0 ∞) is a function such that

f (x + y) = f(x).f(y) then f(0) =

1) 0 2) 1 3) −1 4) ± 1

13. Let f(x) be a periodic function and k ∈ R+ so

that f(x + k) + f(x) = 0 for all x ∈ R, then peri-

od of f(x) is

1) k 2) 2k 3) 3k 4) 4k

14. Let A = {9,10,11,12,13} and f: A→N (N is

set of natural numbers) defined by f(n) =

highest prime factor of ‘n’, then its range is

1) {11, 13} 2) {3, 5, 11, 13}

3) {2, 3, 5, 11, 13} 4) {9, 10, 12}

15. The domain of the function

sin−1(x − 3)f(x) = is

√9 − x2

1) [2 3] 2) (2 3) 3) [2 3) 4) (2 3]

16. The number of non-bijective mapping that

can be defined from A = {1, 2, 7} to itself is

1) 9 2) 3 3) 6 4) 21

17. If 10n + 3.4n + x is divisible by 9 for all n∈N

then the least positive value of ‘x’ is

1) 3 2) 1 3) 5 4) 71 1

18. The value of 1 + (1 + 2) + (1 + 2 + 3)2 3

+ ..... up to 20 terms =

1) 110 2) 115 3) 120 4) 125

19. The sets S1, S2, S3, S4... are given by S1

2 3 5 4 7 10= { }, S2 = { , }, S3 = { , , },

1 2 2 3 3 3

5 9 13 17S4 = { , , , } ... Then the sum

4 4 4 4

of numbers in the set S25 is

1) 226 2) 256 3) 286 4) 326

1 1 120. Let S = + + +... n terms.

1.4 4.7 7.10

Match the following

A) ltn→α

S = i) 0

3B) lt

n→0S = ii)

10

1C) lt

n→1S = iii)

3

1D) lt

n→3S = iv)

4

3v)

10A B C D A B C D

1) ii i v iii 2) iv v i ii

3) iii i iv v 4) i ii iii iv

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