SDC SAMPLE PAPER

TERM-2
ENGLISH CORE
SECTION-A: READING (14marks)
1. Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Donated Organs and their Transportation

Once an organ donor's family gives its consent and the organs are matched to a recipient,
medical professionals are faced with the onerous challenge of transporting organs while
ensuring that the harvested organ reaches its destination in the shortest possible time. This
is done in order to preserve the harvested organs and involves the police and especially the
traffic police department.

5. The traditional method of transporting organs by road is referred to as a “green corridor".

This process entails police escorting an ambulance, so as to move around traffic-usually a
specific traffic lane is chosen and all signals on the route stay green to ensure it to reach its
destination in the shortest possible time.
10. A ‘green corridor’ is a route cleared and cordoned off by the traffic police to ensure the
smooth and steady transportation of harvested organs, on most occasions, to those awaiting
a life-saving transplant. Organs tend to have a very short preservation time, such as the
heart which has to be harvested and transplanted within four hours or the lungs which can
be preserved for only six hours once they are harvested.
15. The first green corridor in India was created by Chennai Traffic Police in September
2008 when they accomplished their task of enabling an ambulance to reach its destination
within 11 minutes during peak hour traffic. That organ saved a nine-year-old girl whose life
depended on the transplant.
20. Similarly, such green corridors have been created by traffic police of various cities such
as Pune, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, etc. Personnel are stationed at selected points to divert,
control and clear the traffic giving way to the ambulance. Apart from this, a motorcade of
police vehicles accompanies the ambulance ensuring that it does not face any problems.
Delhi Traffic Police provided a green corridor from IGI Airport to Institute of Liver and Biliary
Sciences in Vasant Kunj for transportation of a liver. The distance of 14 kms was covered in
11 minutes.
25. Experts point out the lack of a robust system to transport organs to super-speciality
hospitals in least possible time. National Organ &Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTT) the
country's apex organ donation agency, is now framing a proposal to airlift cadaver organs
and will send a report to the Union Health Ministry. "Cadaver organs have a short life and so
transplant should be done within a few golden hours." Director (NOTTO) expressed,
"Therefore, we are preparing a proposal for airlifting organs at any given moment."

30. Most states do not have enough well- trained experts to retrieve or perform transplant
procedures. Also, there is an acute shortage of advanced healthcare faculties to carry out a
transplant. So, it is referred to other big centres in metropolitan cities. Organs retrieved from
Aurangabad, Indore, Surat, Pune are sent to Mumbai as these cities do not have super-
speciality healthcare centres, informed officials.

35. "In India, about fifty thousand to one lakh patients are suffering from acute heart failure
and need heart transplant at any point of time. In a private set-up, a heart transplant costs
Rs.15-20 lakh which is followed up by post- operative medication of about Rs.30,000 per
month lifelong.
Based on your understanding of the passage, answer ANY EIGHT questions from the
six given below. 1x8

(A) Cite a point in evidence, from the text, to suggest that heart patients struggle for life in
India due to robust system of Organ transplants by government. 1

(B)State any one reason that is evident from lines 10-15 to prove that the harvested organs
must be delivered to the destination in the shortest time possible. 1

(C) The writer thinks that the medical professionals face 'onerous challenge of
transporting organs'. Why does he think it to be 'onerous challenge'? 1

(D) Why does the Director (NOTTO) expressed that the transplant should be done
within the golden hours? 1

(E) Rewrite the given sentence by replacing the underlined phrase with another one,
from lines 15 -20. 1
Teacher praised the students when they finished their task of performing the
experiment in time.

(F) What does the use of the phrase ‘harvested organ' suggest in the context of the
writer's description of transplant? 1

(G) Select a suitable phrase from lines 15- 25 to complete the following sentence
appropriately.

I warned Shamita to avoid travelling during the ___________but she clearly didn't pay any
attention to it. 1
Now let her be stuck in the there.
(H) Why do the organ transplants are mostly referred to the metropolitan cities? 1

(I) Analyse how can smaller cities perform the organ transplants with the help of
government. 1

2.Read the passage given below:

Dealing with nervousness can sometimes be a difficult thing to do. When you feel
nervous, you tend to lose control to some extent. You can start to shake and tremble
a bit or you can start to sweat and even get a bit dizzy. It may seem like a bad thing
but this feeling that you experience is your body's way of telling you something.
Nervousness is a signal to your mind that you need to get ready. It can sometimes
be mixed with the feeling of excitement as well.

5. There are many situations that can cause a person to feel nervous. It can be a situation
where you are about to make a speech, appear for an interview or take an exam. All of these
things can bring out that feeling of anxiety. t can cause you to stumble on your Words. It can
cause you to make a fool out of yourself in public. It can cause you to just plain freeze up. It
can even cause you to turn around and go back the way you came from.

10. However, there are ways and means by which you can learn to control
nervousness and use it to your advantage. The first thing you need to do is
understand the reason for your nervousness. Most of the times when you get
anxious, it means that you aren't as prepared as you think you should be. Often
when it's our first time doing something that is outside of
15. our comfort zone, we will feel a bit nervous but after we have done it over and
over, we feel more confident about it. In other words, in order to feel less nervous
about whatever is causing you to feel that feeling of nervousness, you need more
practice. There is a difference between feeling nervous because you aren’t prepared
and feeling excited because you're anxious to show what you can do.

20. We often get nervous because we are afraid of what others might think of us.
You don’t have to worry about that because more often than not, people are too
concerned with their own selves to focus on your faults. According to a study
conducted on Americans, most of the people are afraid of ‘public speaking’.
25. The problem is that we are our own worst critics. American psychologist William
James believes, "Human beings by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can
change the outer aspects of their lives." Visualise yourself doing a great job.
Visualise yourself getting the results you want. Visualise

30. receiving praise and appreciation. Visualisation and affirmations have the power
of bringing about a positive change in your thought patterns. Nervousness is
something that can be dealt with through practice as well as realizing that life is too
short to spend too much time worrying. If you want to do a good job, be prepared,
think
35. positive and practice as much as you can.

On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer ANY SIX questions
from the six given below. 1 x 6
(A) What does the researcher mean by ‘changing the inner attitudes of mind'? 1
(B) Why was this survey on 'what are you so afraid of' undertaken? 1
(C) With reference to fig. 1, write one conclusion about Americans belief in superstitions. 1
(D) What can be concluded by 11% of Americans being afraid of 'strangers, with reference
to the fig. 1? 1
(E) The real fear was the public itself, according to the survey. Substantiate. 1
(F) Why is it said that we are our own critics'? 1
(G) Identify a word from lines 25 - 35 indicating the happening of a situation even when it is
not present in real. 1

SECTION-B WRITING (8 marks)

3. You are Anwesha Rai. Your friend has invited you to her 18th birthday party.
However, you are unable to attend it as you have a pre-board examination the same
day. Draft a formal reply to your friend denying the invitation. 3

4. You are Raj/Rajini of H.No-33, Radha Gali, Mathura. You have seen an
advertisement in the newspaper, 'The Hindu' for the post of English Teacher in SDC Public
School. Mathura. Apply for the post with complete bio-data in 120-150 words.

PGT English Needed

SDC Public School, Mathura, urgently requires a PGT (English) to teach English in its senior
secondary classes. The eligible candidate must send the application with a complete bio-
data to the HR dept. of the school Selected candidate will be called for walk-in-interview on
12th August 20XX at 11:00 am in the school premises at 1/2, Kaveri Vihar, Mathura, with the
necessary documents and two passport-sized photographs.

OR
(B) Your school has organized an exhibition- cum-sale of the items made by students in their
work experience classes. The proceeds of the sale have been donated by your school in a
function to Helpline India, an organization supporting the cause of orphans. Make a report of
the same in 120-150 words, covering all the details, to be published in your school
magazine. You are Priya/Priyank, Head girl/boy of school. 5

SECTION-C: LITERATURE (18 marks)

5.Answer ANY FIVE of the six questions given below, with in 40 words each.
2x5

(A) How did the Champaran peasants react when they heard that a Mahatma had
come to help them? 2

(B) Crofter's act Surprised the peddler. Highlight the act of the crofter that is being
talked about in the given statement with reference to the story ‘The Rattrap’.
You may begin your answer like this:
The peddler was a poor rattrap seller.
Everybody treated him badly and looked upon him as__________ 2

(C) Explain the statement, 'Therefore are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to
earth'. 2

(D) Rationalize why Aunt Jennifer's hands are 'fluttering through her wool' and she is
finding the needle so hard to pull. 2

(E) Why did Evans not take off his hat when Jackson ordered him to do so? 2
(F) Jo wasn't happy with Mommy Skunk hitting the wizard. Explain. 2

6. Answer ANY TWO of the following in about 120 words each. 4x 2

(A) Aunt Jennifer created animals that were so different from her own character.
Expound with a rationale. Write your answer in about 120-150 words. 4

(B) Gandhiji's was not a loyalty to abstractions; it was a loyalty to living, human
beings. Examinee Gandhiji in the light of this statement in about 120-150 words. 4

(C) The story, 'Should Wizard Hit Mommy' bear testimony to the fact that the
frustrations faced by adults and their personal experiences often intrude upon their
interaction with their children. Substantiate with reference to the text in about 120-
150 words. 4