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B.A/B.Com./B.Sc./BBM/BBA/BHM DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2018
First Year
ENGLISH (Paper
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks 70
Section-A
Analysis Skills
Q1) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. × 1
It is the mad usage for speed that is responsible for many motor accidents. Only last
year I witnessed what might have been a fatal accident on the Kashmir road. I was
motoring down from Srinagar and came upon the wreckage of two cars on the road.
The smash had been caused by a car coming down, which swept round a sharp corner at
forty miles an hour and crashed into a car coming up. Thankfully no one was killed but
several were badly injured.
Why do many accidents occur?
ii) Where did the writer witness the accident?
iii) What caused the accident?
iv) What was the effect of the accident?
Give the antonym for,
Read the following passage and answer by choosing the right answer. × 1
Of course, I am honest and a hard worker. In the very second week, I had made more
sales than the previous salesman had made during any week. Maybe because it was the
week before diwali when more saris are bought. Or it could have been due to my
salesmanship. Anyway I had good reason to be satisfied with the way things were
going. That was how it was until this morning. I was beginning to have rosy dreams of
getting married and settling down in mumbai, which is a good place for a refugee from
punjab.
Who is
Customer ii) Salesman
iii) Boss iv) Previous salesman
The speaker made more sales than
The boss ii) The boss's wife
iii) The previous salesman iv) Customer
The salesman made more sales because
Of diwali ii) The salesmanship of the salesman
iii) The variety available iv) Diwali season and salesmanship
The salesman was with his job.
happy ii) Unhappy
iii) Satisfied iv) Proud
The speaker belongs to
Mumbai ii) Delhi
iii) Punjab iv) None of the above
Q2) Correct the following sentences: × 1
Why you are not writing?
Either you or your sister are to attend the meeting.
The gold is very expensive
Where is the scissors?
One should put his belongings in the room.
Rewrite as directed. × 1
Suraj rang the bell.(change the voice)
He went for the party (Add a question tag)
She said, where do you stay? (change into indirect speech)
He is honest though poor. (change into a compound sentence)
Veeru is the strongest man in the village.(change to positive degree)
Change into direct speech: × 1
Seema said that she was going for a movie
Raj told me to pass the book.
Fill in the blanks with correct forms of verbs given in the × 1
He (drink) soup every day.
They a basket of mangoes.
When he he fall down.
I (listen) carefully to what he said.
The baby since morning.
Fill in the blanks with suitable words given in the end. × 1
He everyone with his performance
Rocky the murder of his sister
God our every need
Reena me a cup of tea.
He everyday
(avenged, exercises, brought, mesmerized,
Rewrite the following set of jumbled sentences to make a wherent passage.
She lived in Mumbai.
Her children helped her in the business.
She shared the profits with them.
Mrs. Raj was an elderly lady.
There she ran a cloth business.
Write three exchanges of dialogue between a customer who comes to a lodge to stay for
three days and the receptionist there.
Write a paragraph using the following hints.
Poor villager educated son son gets a good job neglects father gets involved
in corruption loses job comes home -father consoles son repents.
Write in about 100 words on any one of the following.
Social media-curse or born?
Fast food and lifestyle diseases
Climate change and its impact
Section-B
Descriptive Skills
Q3) Write an essay on One of the following. × 1
Bring out the humour in R.K. Narayan's snake in the grass'.
How does 'Letter to India' reveal a father's love for his daughter.
Justify the title, 'Blood, Tail, Tears and sweat.
Bring out the humour in, marriage proposal'.
Q4) Write short notes on any three of the following. × 3
What are the reasons the poet gives to laugh and be merry?
What inspects of science does the poet bring out in 'sonnet-to science'?
What is the central theme of piano and drums?
Summarize the poem, 'The express'.
Justify the title, 'The tables turned'.
Q5) Write an essay on One of the following × 4
What doe Tolstoy's story reveal about the character of God?
Bring out the appropriateness of the title, 'The gold watch'.
Narrate the hardships faced by the old refugee.
Q6) Explain any two of the following × 4
"Do you charge five shillings for everything"?
"I hope your law is better than your rowing."
"Deepak was about any fifth name".
Explain any one of the following × 4
Small is the worth of beauty from the light retired.
God made heaven and earth for joy.