B.A. / B.Sc. VI - Semester Examination
BS-VIS/5
26487
26487
GENERAL ENGLISH
Course No. : 601
Time Allowed-3 Hours Maximum Marks-80
1. Explain with reference to the context. Attempt any three out of six passages. (5×3=15)
a) Soldering, my dear madam, is the cowards' art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm’s way when you are weak.
b) When you strike that noble attitude and speak in that thrilling voice, I admire you; but I find it impossible to believe a single word you say.
c) When you get into that noble attitude and speak in that thrilling voice, I admire you; but I find it impossible to believe a single word you say.
d) If I loved you, though you would be as far beneath you, I would dare to be the equal of my inferior. Would you dare as much if you loved me?
e) I’m a professional soldier! I fight when I have to and am very glad to get out of it when I haven’t too. You’re only an amateur; you think fighting’s an amusement.
f) Of course, they just cut us to bits. And there was Don Quixote flourishing like a drum major, thinking he’d done the cleverest thing ever known, whereas he ought to be court-martialled for it.
2. a) Discuss in detail father-son conflict in the novel The Vendor of Sweets. (7)
(OR)
Assess the character of Jagan’s wife Ambika in The Vendor of Sweets.
b) Discuss The Vendor of Sweets as a treatise on the Hindu way of living. (7)
(OR)
Discuss The Vendor of Sweets as a satirical novel.
3. How is Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw a satire on attitudes that glorify war and love?
(10)
(OR)
Discuss in detail how Bluntschli can be called as an Anti-hero in Arms and the Man.
4. Write an essay on any one of the four given topics:
(10)
a) Global Warming.
b) Terrorism.
c) Population Explosion.
d) Environmental Pollution.
5. a) In each of the following sentences replace the words in italics by clauses. (5×1=5)
i) I know the place of her birth.
ii) We met a girl with blue eyes.
iii) The girl sitting near her is her daughter.
iv) He told us the time of her departure.
v) At sunset we returned home.
b) Form meaningful sentences by re-arranging the words in the following sentences. (5×1=5)
i) Is/good/both/for/and/ early/rising/old/adults.
ii) Finish/work/early/one/can/go/and/a/for/walk/one’s.
iii) Baby/gave/apple/her/the/mother/a/red.
iv) Spoil/broth/the/too/many/cooks.
v) Want/do/me/see/you/you/at/to/the/airport?/off.
c) Transform any five of the following sentences according to the instructions given in the brackets.
(5×1=5)
i) Few women can keep a secret. (Negative)
ii) It always pours when it rains. (Negative)
iii) On seeing the smoke I ran away. (Complex)
iv) He pleaded that he was not guilty. (Simple)
v) There is nothing better than a busy life. (Interrogative)
vi) He admitted that he had done wrong. (Simple)
vii) Besides being a philosopher he was a good painter. (Compound)
d) In the following sentences, substitute one word for the words underlined. Choose the correct word from the words give at the end.
(6×1=6)
i) Rahul is a person very difficult to please. (Fastidious, Venial, Misogynist)
ii) The content of the letter is not clear. (Invisible, Ambiguous, Impervious)
iii) I was asked to deliver speech without any preparation. (Extempore, Obsolete, Fatal)
iv) Ram was unable to pay his debts. (Reticent, Solvent, Insolvent)
v) Agha Shahid Ali’s last collection of poems was published after his death. (Posthumously, Anonymously, Honorary)
vi) Kamala is a person who speaks less. (Reticent, Talkative, Credulous)
e) Use any five words in your own sentences as different parts of speech according to the instructions given in the bracket.
(5×1=5)
i) Brush (as a verb)
ii) Beauty (as an adjective)
iii) Advice (as a noun)
iv) Please (as a noun)
v) Curiosity (as an adjective)
vi) Right (as an adverb)
vii) Pluck (as a verb)
viii) Wrong (as an adverb)
f) Correct the following sentences by using appropriate preposition. (5×1=5)
i) He is the boy I was looking.
ii) She parted with her children.
iii) He picked up a quarrel with me.
iv) She came and sat besides me.
v) They are proud about their wealth.
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