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Subject:English (12TH) MACRO ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME M.M:80
SET 3 DATESHEET 3 SESSION 2024-25
READING COMPREHENSION (10 marks)
Q.1. Read the following passage. Make notes and write a summary with a suitable title:
The discovery of freezing has changed our eating habits more than any other related invention. Because many foods contain
large amounts of water, they freeze solidly at or just below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. When we lower the temperature to well
below the freezing point and prevent air from penetrating the food, we retard the natural process of decay that causes food to
spoil. Freezing preserves the flavour and nutrients of food better than any other preservation method. When properly prepared
and packed, food and vegetables can be stored in the freezer for one year.
Most vegetables and some fruits need blanching before they are frozen, and to avoid this step would be an expensive mistake.
The result would be a product largely devoid of vitamins and minerals. Proper blanching curtails the enzyme action, which
vegetables require during their growth and ripening but which continues after maturation and will lead to decay unless it is
almost entirely slopped by blanching. This process is done in two ways, either by plunging vegetables in a large amount of
rapidly boiling water for a few minutes or by steaming them. For steam blanching, it is important that timing begins when the
water at the bottom of the pot is boiling. Different vegetables require different blanching times, and specified times for each
vegetable must be observed. Underblanching is like no blanching at all, and overblanching, while stopping the enzyme action,
will produce soggy, discoloured vegetables.
Q.2. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: (1×10=10 marks)
Inside the tree's protective outer bark is the circulatory system, consisting of two cellular pipelines that transport water, mineral
nutrients, and other organic substances to all living tissues of the trees. One pipelines called Xylem or sapwood-transports
water and nutrients up from the roots to the leaves. The other, the phloem or inner bark-carries the downward flow of foodstuffs
from the leaves to the branches, trunk and roots. Between these two pipelines is the vascular cambium, a single cell layer too
thin to be seen by the naked eye. This is the tree's major growth organ, responsible for the outward widening of the trunk,
branches, twigs, and roots. During each growing season, the vascular cambium produces new phloem cells on its outer surface
and new xylem cells on its inner surface. Xylem cells in the roots draw water molecules into the tree, taking in hydrogen and
oxygen and also carrying chemical nutrients from the soil. The xylem pipeline transports this life-sustaining mixture upward as
xylem sap, all the way from the roots to the leaves.
How a tree manages to lift several litres of water so high into the air against the pull of gravity is an amazing feat of hydraulics.
Water moves through the tree because it is driven by negative pressure - tension - in the leaves due to the physical properties
of water.
Transpiration, the evaporation of water from leaves, creates the tension that drives long distance transport up through the
xylem pipeline. Late in the growing season, xylem cells diminish in size and develop thicker skins, but they retain their capacity
to carry water. Over time the innermost xylem cells become clogged with hard or gummy waste products and can no longer
transport fluids. However, since the vascular cambium manufactures healthy new xylem cells each year, the death of the old
cells does not mean the death of the tree.
Questions:
(i) What are the primary components of the tree's circulatory system?
(ii) The underlined word 'This' in paragraph I refers to (Complete it)
(iii) It can be inferred from paragraph I that xylem is responsible for .....! (Complete it) (iv) Is the process of transpiration essential
to the tree's Circulatory system,? UOT (v) The word gummy is closest in meaning to:
(vi) Function of phloem is to carry downward flow of foodstuff from the leaves to the branches, trunk and roots. (True/False)
(vii) What should be the appropriate title of the paragraph? (viii) The antonym of 'Protective' is ……………………. .
(ix) Does the death of the old xylem cells mean the death of the tree? (x)
Use the word 'feat'in your own sentence.
SECTION B - WRITING SKILLS AND GRAMMAR
Q.3. Your mother has opened a small shop of fresh flowers. Draft a classified advertisement (not exceeding 50 words) for the
post of the salesman with an experience of two years in floriculture. (4 marks)
Or
You are Manoj/Mini. You have been invited to attend a birthday party. of your close friend. Respond to this invitation.
Q.4. Write a letter to the Health Officer, requesting him to set up a dispensary in your area. (6 marks)
Or
Write a letter to the Editor of the Daily Excelsior drawing the attention of the authorities towards the problem of the residents of
your colony who have met with frequent accidents at night because of the uncovered main holes on the main road leading to
your colony.
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Q.5. You are Iqbal Mohd., a commerce graduate from Kashmir University. You are seeking a suitable job. You came across
an advertisement in The State Times, inviting young and dynamic fresh graduates as sales assistants in a reputed company.
Apply for the said job to Box No. 8365, C/o The State Times, Jammu. (6 marks)
Q.6. Write an article for your school magazine on "Students and Politics".
Or
Write a speech in about 150-200 words about the Increasing Crime rate against Women.
Q.7. Edit the following passages: (8 marks)
API heard M Hamel say to me, "I won't scolds you, little Franz, you must feel bad enough. See how it is! Everyday we have
said to ourself, Bah. I've plenty on time. I'll learn it tomorrow. Now those fellows out there will have the right to say to you, 'How
is it; you pretend to be Frenchmen, and yet you can either speak or write your own language?' Because you are not the worst,
poor little Franz. We've all a great deal to reproach ourselves with."
"Your parents were not anxious enough to have you learn. They prefer to put you to work on a farm or in the mills, so as to
have a little more money. And I? I have been to blame also. Have I not often sent you to water my flowers instead of learning
your lessons? And when I wanted to go fishing, did I not just give you a holiday?"
Ans. I heard M.Hamel say to me, "I won't scold you, little Franz; you must feel bad enough. See how it is! Everyday we have
said to ourselves, Bah! I've plenty of time. I'll learn it tomorrow.' Now those fellows out there will have the right to say to you,
'How is it; you pretend to be Frenchmen, and yet you can neither speak nor write your own language?' But you are not the
worst, poor little Franz. We've all a great deal to reproach ourselves with."
"Your parents were not anxious enought to have you learn. They preferred noto put you to work on a farm or at the mills, so as
to have a little more money. And I? I have been to blame also. Have I not often sent you to water my flowers instead of learning
your lessons? And when I wanted to go ehe fishing, did I not just give you a holiday?"
SECTION-C LITERATURE
Q. 8.(a) Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead, ss Or if ever aside a moment, then out of sorts At having the landscape marred
with the artless paint Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong Offered for sale wild berries in wooden quarts, Or
crook-necked golden squash with silver warts, Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene,
(1 mark each)
Questions:
Q.1. What does 'the polished traffic' mean?
Q.2. How the landscape was marred?
Q.3. What was sold there at roadside stands?
Q.4. What is meant by 'out of sorts'?
(b) (i) What is understood by the phrase 'victory with no survivors'?
(ii) Do we experience things of beauty only for short moments or do they make a lasting impression on us?
(iii) ………….. her terrified hands will lie still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by." Explain.
Q.9. Answer any three of the following questions in 40-50 words: (3 x 3 = 9 marks)
(a) The author says, "The instructor was finished. But I was not finished." Why?
(b) Comment on the theme of the chapter 'The Rattrap'.
(c) What is a hierarchy? How was it maintained in the make-up department.
(d) Eco's academic work has a certain playful and personal quality about anit. Comment.
(e) 'Going Places' reminds us that mere dreams will not help us to accomplish anything. What qualities, do you think, would
help Sophie to realise her dreams?
Q.10. Answer the following question in 150-200 words: (6 marks)
In what way did the Tiger King come in the danger of losing his throne and how did he save it?
Or
Do you see any similarities in the lives of Bama and Zitkala-Sa despite their cultural differences?
Q.11. Answer the following question in 120-150 words: Justify the title of the play "On the Face of It". (5 marks)
Or
Comment on the ending of the play "On the Face of It".
