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B.A. - B.Sc. (General) 1st Semester Examination
English 
(Compulsory) 

Time: 3 Hours] [Max. Marks: 45 

Note: - (i) All the questions are compulsory.

(ii) Read the instructions carefully before answering the questions. 

(iii) Attempt all the parts of each question together at one place. 

(iv) Mention question no. and part/parts while answering them.

Section-A 

1. Explain with reference to the context (Any two choosing one from each part):

(a) Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles

And give me the strength to surrender

My strength to thy will with love

Or

(b) The caged bird sings

With fearful trill

Of the things unknown

But longed for stille

And his tune is heard on the distant hill 

for the caged bird

Sings of freedom

(C) To write well, you have to be able to write clearly and logically, and you cannot do this unless you can think clearly and logically too. If you cannot do this yet, you should train yourself to do it by taking particular problems and following them through, point by point, to a solution, without leaving anything out and without avoiding any difficulties that you meet.

Or

(d) It went on like that all through. It transpired from the whispers of the quick man that the conjuror must have concealed up his sleeve, in addition to the rings, hens, and fish, several packs of cards, a loaf of bread, a doll's cradle, a live guinea pig, a fifty-cent piece, and a rocking-chair.

2. Answer any five questions (50-60 words each): 

(i) What kind of poverty is referred to in the poem? (Song 36 from Gitanjali) 

(ii) What are the two things that the poet wants to avoid? (Song 36 from Gitanjali)

(iii) Why does the poet recommend newspapers? (From Homecoming)

(iv) What is the setting of the poem-city, town or village? (From Homecoming) 

(v) What metaphors does the poet use for childhood? (Myriad-winged Bird)

(vi) What does the free bird like to claim? (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) 

(vii) What does the caged bird sing about? (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) 

3. Answer any two questions in 100-120 words each: 

(i) What reasons does Shaw give that natives in an English-speaking country will be more helpful if a foreigner speaks broken English? 

(ii) Bring out the humour in the story 'Conjuror's Revenge'. 

(iii) In what way is presentation important in good writing?

Section-B 

4. Write a paragraph on any one of the following:

(a) A visit to a historical place 

(b) Importance of English in India

(c) If I were a bird 

5. Read the passage and answer the questions given below: 

Try to develop a warm, human understanding of people, their problems, their joys, and their sorrows, so that you are genuinely interested in everyone you meet and every incident you see. You will then find material for your work as a writer where before you could perhaps see nothing of interest.

To be a successful writer, you must write interestingly; but different kinds of people have different interests, and it is most unlikely that you will be able to appeal to all of them. You, therefore, have to know exactly what type of reader you are writing for, and exactly what kinds of things interest such a reader.

By carefully reading magazines which are written for particular kinds of readers (e. g. women's magazines, magazines for teenagers, magazines for well-educated men), you can find out the things that interest particular types of readers.

Questions:

(i) Write the name of the chapter and of the author.

(ii) What should one try to develop?

(iii) What should a person do to be a successful writer?

(iv) What has he to know exactly?

(v) How can we know what interests others?

6. Do as directed : 

(a) Change the voice :

(i) He gave me twenty rupees. 

(ii) You have to do it. 

(iii) I must sign the will.

(iv) Do you know his brother?

(v) I did not steal the money. 

(b) Fill in the blanks with suitable determiners :

(i) Please give me ............. money.

(ii) Twelve inches make .................. foot. 

(iii) Her father was ............ eminent artist. 

(iv) He took off .............. coat and set to work. 

(v) You can take .................. book you like.

(c) Fill in the blanks with suitable modals :

(i) It ........... rain, it is so sultry. 

(ii) You .............. do your homework regularly. 

(iii) I think I .......... go now. 

(iv) I ............. type ninety words in a minute. 

(v) The conjuror ................. have concealed it up his sleeve. 

(d) Give the synonyms of the following:

(i) Optimism 

(ii) Mild 

(iii) Fresh 

(iv) Empty 

(v) Agree

7. Translate any four of the given sentences: 

(i) उसने बुरी आदत छोड़ दी है। 

ਉਸ ਨੇ ਬੁਰੀ ਆਦਤ ਛੱਡ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਹੈ। 

(ii) क्या उसे कोई नौकरी मिल जाएगी? 

ਕਿ ਉਸਨੂ ਕੋਈ ਨੋਕਰੀ ਮਿਲ ਜਾਏਗੀ। 

(iii) हमने अपने खेत में कुआं खोदा।

ਅਸੀਂ ਆਪਣੇ ਖੇਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਖੂਹ ਪੁੱਟਿਆ। 

(iv) वह अपने स्कूल समय पर नहीं पहुँचता। 

ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਸਕੂਲ ਸਮੇ ਤੇ ਨਹੀਂ ਪਹੁੰਚਿਆ। 

(v) मैं इस वर्ष परीक्षा में पहले स्थान पर रहूँगा। 

ਮੈਂ ਇਸ ਸਾਲ ਪ੍ਰੀਖਿਆ ਚ ਪਹਲੇ ਸਥਾਨ ਤੇ ਰਹਾਂਗਾ। 

(vi) नेता जी भाषण दे रहे होंगे। 

ਨੇਤਾ ਜੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਣ ਦਿੰਦੇ ਹੋਣਗੇ। 

(vii) माली ने पोधों को पानी दिया। 

ਮਾਲੀ ਨੇ ਪੋਡਹਿਆਂ ਨੂ ਪਾਣੀ ਦਿੱਤਾ। 

(For foreign students only) 

Write a paragraph in 100-120 words on : 

Dreamers are Achievers.