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Name of the Organization : Haryana Public Service Commission
Name of the Exam : HCS (Ex.Br.) Main Exam
Subject : English and English Essay
Document Type : Previous Question Paper
Year : 2014
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HCS Main Exam English Question Paper :
English and English Essay :
Code no : 24
Time : 3 Hours
M.M.: 100
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Note :
** All questions are compulsory .
** The number of marks carriedby each question is indicated at the end of the question .
** Clearly mention the question number and part number before attempting.
** The parts of the same question mustbe answeredtogetherandmustnotbe interposedbetween answers to other questions.
Q. I Make a precis of the following passage. Also assign a suitable title to it. Marks : 20
Humans are social creatures. They crave for communication with their fellow beings. Communication started with oral interaction. Writing as a skill developed at alater stage as man took time to get mature enough to express himself / herself using the written channel of communication. Hence, writing is a skill that required growth, which comes with training, experience and practice.
1. What is brain drain?
2. Is brain drain still affecting India?
3. tn what way has the definition ofbrain drain not changed for India?
4. Give meanings of the following words and use them in the sentences
a)hub b)haunt c)greenerpastures d)recruited e)outsourcing
Q. 3 Write an Essay in about 300 words on any oNE of the following topics : Marks : 30
a) Film Censorship in India
b) Pollution Menace
c) Morning shows the day
d) “The Child is father of the Man”
Q.4 Substitute a SINGLE word for the group of words given below: Marks : 5
a) One who believes in the existence of God
b) One who plays a game for pleasure and not professionally
c) One who knows many languages
d) One who believes in fate
e) One who looks at the bright side of things
Q. 5 Rewrite the sentences as directed : Marks :5
a) “Do you want to see the museum?”
said the guide ( change into indirect speech)
b) You (telephone) for ages. You not (finish) ? ‘
(Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense)
c) If pedestrians (wear) light coloured clothes drivers (see) them much more easily.
(Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms)
d) My brother was the only one Evangelized the danger.
(Replace the underlined clause by an infinitive)
e) He can drive a car
(Add a suitable question tag)
Q. 6 Make sentences with the idioms and phrases given below so as to bring out their meanings : Marks : 5
a)On the contrary
b)In the long run
c) To the contrary
d) Crocodile tears
e)A maiden speech
Q. 7 Connect the following sentences. : Marks : 10
a) Both of the books requires careful reading.
b) Sixty minutes are enough to finish this task.
c) Each ofthese shops are doing good business.
d) An umber of books is missing.
e) A lot of time have been wasted.
0 She is enough smart to tackle this problem.
g) He is so cunning as his sister.
h) He left the college latest of all.
I) You and I have received your lesson.
j) Whom do you think will be our next captain?
Q. 8 Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions : Marks : 5
I)l am waiting ———- my friend. He will be here a minute.
ii) They succeeded escaping —– the burning house.
iii) She made a point —– coming late so that everyone would look —— her.
iv) It never occured ——- me to ask him ——- his identity card.
v) A bird flew ——— the cuckoo’s nest —— a hurry.
Ques.1-Write critical notes on any four of the following : (4*7.5=30).
a. “The good morrow “may be seen os a door to the poets theme of constancy in love”:explain
b. Describe the “Blessed mood”of Wordsworth as explained in “Tintern Abbey”
c, Discuss the significance of subplot in KING LEAR
d. Significance of title”Pride and-Preiudice”
e. Discuss Laforgian technique in LOVE SONG of t.Affred Prufrock
f. Who were “Metaphysical poets”?What were the main characteristics?
Part – I :
2.Critically examine the theme of forgiveness in the play”THE TEMPEST,.
3.”Pope is pre-eminently a satirist”;discuss and illustratewith special reference to the”Rape of lock”.
4.”Dickens was a great social reformer and his novel HARD TIMES belong to the HUMANITARIAN MOVEMENT”:Discuss.
Part – 2 :
5. Give a critical appreciation Auden’s “lN Memory of W.B.YEATS.
6. lllustrate stream of consciousness technique in Virginia Wolf’s “Mrs.Dolloway”
7. Discuss the art of characterisation in the novel “Kanthapnra”.