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University: Acharya Nagarjuna University
Name of the Course: B.A. I YEAR (Distance Education)
Subjects: English
Year of question Paper: December 2014
(DENG1)
B.A./B.Com./B.Sc.DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOV. /DEC. – 2014
First Year
Part - I : ENGLISH
Paper – I : General English
Time: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 80
SECTION – A
(Analytical Skills)
1) a) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: (5×1=5)
Antarctica is situated at the southern end of the world. Most of the inhabitants of the earth do not know that it is a continent in itself. It is surrounded by a broad zone of drifting pack ice and icebergs. So it was inaccessible to explorers until the advent of modern ice breakers and long range planes with a combination of ordinary ice fields and whose skies allow them to land on compact snow.
i) Where is Antarctica situated?
ii) When did it’s exploration become possible?
iii) Who do not know Antarctica itself is a continent?
iv) What is Antarctica surrounded by?
v) Write the antonym of ‘modern’.
b) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the right answer: (5×1=5)
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders (who of course would not be warders if they could write readable books), and beaten or otherwise formented if you cannot remember their utterly unmemorable contents. In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to the turn keys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don’t understand and don’t care about, and are therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your
body; but they do not torture your brains; and they protect you against violence and outrage from your fellow- prisoners. In a school you have none of these advantages.
i) The horrible institute referred to is ____
a) A gym b) University
c) College d) School
ii) School is being compared to ____
a) Circus b) Temple
c) Prison d) Zoo
iii) In school one is forced to read ____
a) Funny movie scripts b) Boring books
c) Fairy tales d) Epics
iv) If school children make mistakes they are ____
a) Given chocolates b) Punished
c) Sent out of the school d) Encouraged to do mistakes.
v) The writer ____
a) Praises the school b) Criticizes the teachers
c) Hates school d) Loves school
2) a) Correct the following sentences: (5×1=5)
i) One must love his parents.
ii) She is taking milk daily.
iii) Ravi sat besides me.
iv) Anil is good in English.
v) Where are my luggages?
b) Rewrite the sentences as directed: (5×1=5)
i) He repairs the radio (change into passive voice)
ii) He cannot swim (Add a question tag)
iii) The boy said, “I can do it”. (change into indirect speech)
iv) Are you fond in sweets? (use appropriate preposition)
v) Very few cities in India are as big as Hyderabad
(Change into superlative degree)
c) Change the following into direct speech: (2×1=2)
i) The boy said that he was doing his homework.
ii) He said that he had a problem.
d) Fill in the blanks with correct forms of verbs given in the brackets: (5×1=5)
i) What ________ (be) the price of the pen?
ii) It ________ (rain) when I met him.
iii) Water ________ (boil) at 100ºc.
iv) The train ________ (leave) the platform an hour ago.
v) They ________ (work) in this college since 1990.
e) Fill in the blanks with suitable words given at the end of the list. (5×1=5)
i) My friend ________ music.
ii) She was ________ when her husband came in.
iii) His aim in life is to become an ________.
iv) Are you all employees in this ________?
v) My brother will ________ tomorrow.
(arrive, company, likes, engineer, cooking)
f) Rewrite the following set of jumbled sentences to make them into a (3)
coherent passage:
i) It has completely changed the life of man on earth.
ii) The twentieth century may be described as the age of science.
iii) With the help of science man has conquered time and space.
iv) Science has progressed very rapidly during this century.
v) It helped man in harnessing the forces of nature.
g) Attempt a dialogue between two friends discussing about career options. (3)
h) Write a paragraph using the following hints: (4)
An old man crossing the road - speeding vehicles - no one bothers - you
offer help – the man expresses gratitude.
i) Write in about 100 words on any ONE of the following: (4)
i) Discipline
ii) Globalization
iii) Your ambition in life.
SECTION– B
(Descriptive skills)
3) Write an essay on any ONE of the following: (1×6=6)
a) Reconstruct “The thief’s story” in your own words.
b) Describe briefly how Nehru spent his days in prison.
c) Write a note on Magda and her family.
4) Write short notes on any THREE of the following: (3×4=12)
a) Describe “The Express” in your own words.
b) How does the poet persuade the reader to laugh and be merry?
c) Why is it difficult to kill a tree?
d) Summarize the poem “Piano and Drums”.
e) Why does Wordsworth consider Nature to be a good teacher?
5) Write an essay on any ONE of the following: (1×6=6)
a) Sketch the character of Aksenov.
b) How does Pearl Buck draw the readers sympathy for the refugees?
c) Sketch the character of Sudershan Sharma as revealed in the story “The Gold watch”.
6) a) Explain any TWO of the following: (2×3=6)
i) “You are fortunate. It is God Subramanya who has come to visit you”.
ii) As individuals, we can grasp the commonsense ideas of Science.
iii) The only person I knew really well was the man I had robbed.
b) Explain any ONE of the following: (1×4=4)
i) How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year!
ii) God made heaven and earth for joy he look in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of his mirth.
University: Acharya Nagarjuna University
Name of the Course: B.A. I YEAR (Distance Education)
Subjects: English
Year of question Paper: December 2014
(DENG1)
B.A./B.Com./B.Sc.DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOV. /DEC. – 2014
First Year
Part - I : ENGLISH
Paper – I : General English
Time: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 80
SECTION – A
(Analytical Skills)
1) a) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: (5×1=5)
Antarctica is situated at the southern end of the world. Most of the inhabitants of the earth do not know that it is a continent in itself. It is surrounded by a broad zone of drifting pack ice and icebergs. So it was inaccessible to explorers until the advent of modern ice breakers and long range planes with a combination of ordinary ice fields and whose skies allow them to land on compact snow.
i) Where is Antarctica situated?
ii) When did it’s exploration become possible?
iii) Who do not know Antarctica itself is a continent?
iv) What is Antarctica surrounded by?
v) Write the antonym of ‘modern’.
b) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by choosing
the right answer: (5×1=5)
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders (who of course would not be warders if they could write readable books), and beaten or otherwise formented if you cannot remember their utterly unmemorable contents. In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to the turn keys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don’t understand and don’t care about, and are therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your
body; but they do not torture your brains; and they protect you against violence and outrage from your fellow- prisoners. In a school you have none of these advantages.
i) The horrible institute referred to is ____
a) A gym b) University
c) College d) School
ii) School is being compared to ____
a) Circus b) Temple
c) Prison d) Zoo
iii) In school one is forced to read ____
a) Funny movie scripts b) Boring books
c) Fairy tales d) Epics
iv) If school children make mistakes they are ____
a) Given chocolates b) Punished
c) Sent out of the school d) Encouraged to do mistakes.
v) The writer ____
a) Praises the school b) Criticizes the teachers
c) Hates school d) Loves school
2) a) Correct the following sentences: (5×1=5)
i) One must love his parents.
ii) She is taking milk daily.
iii) Ravi sat besides me.
iv) Anil is good in English.
v) Where are my luggages?
b) Rewrite the sentences as directed: (5×1=5)
i) He repairs the radio (change into passive voice)
ii) He cannot swim (Add a question tag)
iii) The boy said, “I can do it”. (change into indirect speech)
iv) Are you fond in sweets? (use appropriate preposition)
v) Very few cities in India are as big as Hyderabad
(Change into superlative degree)
c) Change the following into direct speech: (2×1=2)
i) The boy said that he was doing his homework.
ii) He said that he had a problem.
d) Fill in the blanks with correct forms of verbs given in the brackets: (5×1=5)
i) What ________ (be) the price of the pen?
ii) It ________ (rain) when I met him.
iii) Water ________ (boil) at 100ºc.
iv) The train ________ (leave) the platform an hour ago.
v) They ________ (work) in this college since 1990.
e) Fill in the blanks with suitable words given at the end of the list. (5×1=5)
i) My friend ________ music.
ii) She was ________ when her husband came in.
iii) His aim in life is to become an ________.
iv) Are you all employees in this ________?
v) My brother will ________ tomorrow.
(arrive, company, likes, engineer, cooking)
f) Rewrite the following set of jumbled sentences to make them into a (3)
coherent passage:
i) It has completely changed the life of man on earth.
ii) The twentieth century may be described as the age of science.
iii) With the help of science man has conquered time and space.
iv) Science has progressed very rapidly during this century.
v) It helped man in harnessing the forces of nature.
g) Attempt a dialogue between two friends discussing about career options. (3)
h) Write a paragraph using the following hints: (4)
An old man crossing the road - speeding vehicles - no one bothers - you
offer help – the man expresses gratitude.
i) Write in about 100 words on any ONE of the following: (4)
i) Discipline
ii) Globalization
iii) Your ambition in life.
SECTION– B
(Descriptive skills)
3) Write an essay on any ONE of the following: (1×6=6)
a) Reconstruct “The thief’s story” in your own words.
b) Describe briefly how Nehru spent his days in prison.
c) Write a note on Magda and her family.
4) Write short notes on any THREE of the following: (3×4=12)
a) Describe “The Express” in your own words.
b) How does the poet persuade the reader to laugh and be merry?
c) Why is it difficult to kill a tree?
d) Summarize the poem “Piano and Drums”.
e) Why does Wordsworth consider Nature to be a good teacher?
5) Write an essay on any ONE of the following: (1×6=6)
a) Sketch the character of Aksenov.
b) How does Pearl Buck draw the readers sympathy for the refugees?
c) Sketch the character of Sudershan Sharma as revealed in the story “The Gold watch”.
6) a) Explain any TWO of the following: (2×3=6)
i) “You are fortunate. It is God Subramanya who has come to visit you”.
ii) As individuals, we can grasp the commonsense ideas of Science.
iii) The only person I knew really well was the man I had robbed.
b) Explain any ONE of the following: (1×4=4)
i) How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year!
ii) God made heaven and earth for joy he look in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of his mirth.
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