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C14–EE–101
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BOARD DIPLOMA EXAMINATION, (C–14)
OCT/NOV—2016
DEEE—FIRST YEAR EXAMINATION
ENGLISH
Time : 3 hours ] [ Total Marks : 80
PART—A 4×10=40
Instructions : (1) Answer all questions.
(2) Each question carries four marks.
(3) Answers should be brief and straight to the point.
1. (a) (i) Request a railway clerk to cancel your ticket.
(ii) Request your friend to get a notebook from a shop.
1×2=2
(b) Rewrite the following sentences using ‘must’ or ‘should’ :
1×2=2
(i) Speak only in English everyday.
(ii) Enjoy your work.
2. (a) (i) Invite an MLA to your College Annual Day Celebration.
(ii) Reject your friend’s birthday invitation politely. 1×2=2
(b) (i) Fix an appointment with the Education Minister.
(ii) Request a receptionist to reschedule the appointment
with the doctor as you are out of the town. 1×2=2
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3. (a) (i) How do you feel when you pass the exams
unexpectedly with good marks?
(ii) Express your feelings when you get a lottery ticket
worth R 10 lakh. 1×2=2
(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate expressions given in the
brackets : 1×2=2
(i) She has to take medicine. She is _____.
(sick, happy, bold)
(ii) The child is crying for milk. The child is _____.
(angry, hungry, unhappy)
4. (a) Give instructions to your friend on how to apply for the
Poly CET. 2
(b) Give directions to your brother to reach the post office in
your village. 2
5. (a) Fill in the blanks with appropriate verb forms : 1×2=2
(i) The bus _____ (go) just now.
(ii) We are _____ (play) Kabaddi.
(b) Correct the underlined words : 1×2=2
(i) Cook is her hobby.
(ii) Rajesh play chess once in a week.
6. (a) Select suitable adjectives and fill in the blanks : 1×2=2
(i) Today’s lunch is very _____.
(taste, tasty, taster)
(ii) Her dance performance is _____.
(excellent, excellency, excellented)
(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions : 1×2=2
(i) Who is the baby _____ this picture?
(ii) What do you like to eat _____ the night?
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7. (a) Write one sentence each in the given patterns : 1×2=2
(i) S + V
(ii) S + V + SC
(b) Write the pattern for the following sentences : 1×2=2
(i) She broke the glass.
(ii) Naresh is a mechanic.
8. (a) Change the following as directed : 1×2=2
(i) Radhika brings milk products.
(Change into passive voice)
(ii) A new story was told by the director.
(Change into active voice)
(b) Change the following as directed : 1×2=2
(i) Reshma said, “I have two cars.”
(Change into indirect speech)
(ii) Sohail said that he had some work at office.
(Change into direct speech)
9. (a) List four qualities which your friends like in you. 2
(b) Write two things you dislike about modern system of
education. 2
10. (a) List four important reasons for learning English. 2
(b) Give two expressions used in the classroom by the
students. 2
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PART—B 10×4=40
Instructions : (1) Answer any four questions.
(2) Each question carries ten marks.
11. (a) Change the following sentences into Wh-questions : 1×5=5
(i) She brought vegetables from the market. (What)
(ii) Hari’s uncle has two houses. (Who)
(iii) Smitha lives in Bombay. (Where)
(iv) The players were sitting silently. (How)
(v) Raju met her after 1997. (When)
(b) Rewrite the following sentences after correcting them :
1×5=5
(i) I bringed apples yesterday.
(ii) She is worked very hard.
(iii) Rajesh is going home everyday at 5:00 p.m.
(iv) Rahul sat besides Ramu.
(v) Dr. Kalam is known to an honest person.
12. (a) Write a letter to your father asking him to send money to
attend a seminar in Hyderabad. 5
(b) Write a letter to the Commissioner of Technical Education
thanking him for conducting the sports event in your
college. 5
13. (a) Read the following passage and make notes : 5
Reading can make better individuals, moulding them into
well-rounded personalities with broad prospective and high
values. A good book, with a good story, exposes children to
worlds beyond their own. The lives of the major characters
are laid bare before the reader, and one travels along
with them through thick and thin as the plot unfolds,
participating in the story. This causes one to grow along
with the characters. This gives insight into oneself as well
as others. One learns about people’s behaviours in different
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situations and forms opinions about how to behave in
a given situation. Good books also develop the ability to
distinguish between basic perceptions such as good and
bad, right and wrong. They have the formative power that
can make a real difference in one’s life.
(b) Read the following passage and summarize it. 5
Working is the one thing that is necessary to keep the world
going and without it we should all very quickly die. Let us
think for a moment about all the different kinds of workers
to being with many men work on the land. They are
cultivators or gardeners or shepherds. They plough or dig
and sow seeds or else they look after cows, buffaloes, goats
or sheep. They all are busy growing things and without
them there would be no wheat to make into flour, no hay
to feed the horses on, no rice and dal, bajri or jawari,
no vegetables, no tea to drink, no milk and ghee and
no cotton for our clothes. I have just said they all grow
things. It is true that we do not generally speak of farmers
‘growing’ animals though we do speak of them growing
wool. But the animals grow just as plants do, and they
need the ground to live on. So we can say that all people
who work on the land are growing things if we remember
that they are growing animals as well as vegetables.
14. (a) Interpret the following flowchart and write a paragraph. 6
WITHDRAWING MONEY FROM THE ATM
Stand in line at any ATM of the bank
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On entering the booth insert the ATM card in the slot
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Select a language from the ‘Language Options’
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Enter PIN
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Select ‘Cash Withdrawal Option’ from the list of options
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Enter the amount you wish to withdraw
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Select ‘correct’ if the amount shown is right
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Select type of account—Savings or Current
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Select ‘statement required’ or ‘not required’
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Receive cash
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Receive statement
(b) Describe the process of making coffee. 4
15. (a) Frame five Yes/No questions on the basis of the passage
given below : 1×5=5
Acharya was born in Karnataka. He was a very intelligent
child. He had his initial education in his village. He soon
became interested in Indian philosophy. He started visiting
eminent scholars and discussed many complex issues with
them. People started realizing the potential of Acharya.
He was able to offer solutions to many vexing problems.
He wrote 37 books containing his interpretation of Indian
philosophy. Today his philosophy is considered to be based
on the truth.
(b) Rewrite the following sentences after correcting the
underlined words : 1×5=5
(i) I wish you play cricket now.
(ii) He is liking me.
(iii) She loves them lot.
(iv) The early you go, the faster you reach.
(v) There is a scissors on the table.
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16. (a) Write a report on the Annual Day celebrated in your
college. 5
(b) Read the news article given below and answer the
questions that follow :
HYDERABAD : Students who took admissions in foreign
universities after getting selected under the Overseas Study
Scheme for Minorities in September, are left in lurch as
the Minorities Department has failed to credit the
first instalment into the bank accounts. The Scheme
was officially launched in August this year. A total of
513 students had applied and around 210 candidates,
including 30 girls, from across Telangana were selected.
The students have joined various universities in United
States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and Singapore.
Under the Scheme, every candidate is to be given R 10 lakh
in two instalments. The first instalment is paid at the
beginning of the course and the second after completion of
the first semester. Parents are making a beeline to the
District Minority Offices demanding that they transfer the
money immediately. “I visited the office twice in the last
10 days. Every time the staff assured of transferring
the money next day, but it has not happened,” a parent
complained.
Questions : 1×5=5
(i) What is the news about?
(ii) Give the statistics of the students enrolled.
(iii) When are they supposed to pay first and second
instalments?
(iv) What is the complaint of a parent?
(v) Where are the various universities located?
17. (a) Write a covering letter to the HR, TATA Motors, Hyderabad
for the post of Supervisor they advertised in the newspaper. 5
(b) Write your resume. 5
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18. (a) Write a paragraph about your favourite place. 4
(b) Read the passage given below and answer the questions
that follow :
The secret of happiness may lie in having more grey matter
mass in a region of the brain, called precuneus. The study
by Wataru Sato and his team at Kyoto University in Japan
says overall happiness is a combination of happy emotions
and satisfaction of life coming together in the precuneus,
a region in the medial parietal lobe in the brain that
becomes active when experiencing consciousness. People
feel emotions in different ways; for instance, some feel
happiness more intensely than others when they receive
compliments. Psychologists have found that emotional
factors like these and satisfaction of life together constitute
the subjective experience of being happy.
Questions : 2×3=6
(i) Suggest a title to the paragraph.
(ii) What did the psychologists find?
(iii) Who studied happiness and which university did
he belong to?
H H H
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