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IDEUNOM English Paper-I Model
MAY 2012 U/ID 31501/UEZA/UGEZA
Time : Three hours
Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A
(40 marks)
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1. (a) Language skills : (15 ´ 2 = 30)
(i) Fill in the blanks with suitable article/preposition.
(1) ——————– despised savage would no more ask —————— Government to spend ——————– thousand pounds in building ———— house for him.
(2) Once my mother and grand mother horrified ——————– a particularly lurid picture ——————– the cover ——————– one ————— my Claude Duval books, told me to tear it up.
(ii) (1) Write the synonym of ‘menace’.
(2) Write the antonym of ‘Practical’.
(iii) Choose the correct forms of verbs and fill in the blanks.
(1) That night I ——————– a huge welsh Rabbit for supper (have, had)
(2) You ——————– not have your name printed in the telephone directory (need, must)
(iv) Add prefixes and suffixes to form new words:
(1) Known
(2) Delight
(v) Add question tags to the following sentences.
(1) I’m not on the telephone.
(2) He laughed again.
(vi) Rewrite as directed :
(1) It is suggested by me (into active voice)
(2) Don’t talk about money (into passive voice)
(vii) Change as directed :
(1) Ravi asked, ‘‘What do these letters mean’’? (into indirect speech)
(2) He said that in many ways it was an admirable age (into direct speech)
(viii) Substitute a single word for the following group of words :
(1) I moved with a velvet thread
(2) Infact, he had rather a hard time of it.
(ix) Combine into one sentence.
(1) It is easy to win freedom. But it is difficult to preserve it.
(2) He had trials and tribulations. He acted boldly.
(x) Correct the error in the following sentences :
(1) Two hundred rupees are a meagre salary.
(2) She was travelling in a bus.
(xi) Punctuate the following passages using capitals wherever necessary :
as Caesar loved me i wept for him as he was fortunate i rejoice at it as he was valiant i honour him but as he was ambitious i slew him.
(xii) Use any TWO of the following idioms/phrases in sentences.
Broke into, carry out, cut down, passed by.
(xiii) Complete the sentences with dependent/independent clauses:
(1) If you work hard ——————–
(2) ——————– unless you were in a hurry.
(xiv) Rewrite the sentence in logical order :
Some beautiful pictures are in this book there
(xv) Correct the spelling of the underlined words to give correct meanings :
(1) My mother is very fond of collecting antic furniture.
(2) His brother built a house Apposite the local club.
(b) Write a paragraph of about 100 words on any ONE of the following (1 ´ 10 = 10)
(i) Global warming
Or
(ii) Problems of mobile phone.
SECTION B
(5 × 2 = 10 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions in a sentence or Two.
2. How does a modern man reduce to a toothless animal?
3. Why should you not read a book as if it were a medicine?
4. How does Basanquet define a right?
5. What does Gandhi expect of a woman?
6. Why does Wordsworth criticise rationality of man?
7. What is the nature of Brahma?
8. How does hope present Prometheus?
9. What does Kamala Das speak about her wedded life and her ancestral home?
SECTION C
(2 × 5 = 10 marks)
Answer TWO of the following passages in about 50 words choosing atleast ONE from each group.
Group A :
10. When the typewriter has been into schools we may have a generation who cannot write at all.
Or
11. The only reason I ever read a book-in my spare time, that is to say-is because I expect pleasure from it.
Or
12. The doctrine of laissez-faire will not work in the material world.
Group B :
13. Let Nature be your teacher.
Or
14. And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Or
15. Far or forgot to me is near; shadow and sunlight are the same;
SECTION D
(2 × 5 = 10 marks)
Write short notes in about 50 words on Two choosing atleast ONE from each group.
Group A :
16. Why is Della sad on Christmas Eve?
Or
17. Give the reasons for Rahim Khan’s becoming hardhearted.
Or
18. What is Rosemary’s real purpose in taking the girl home?
Group B :
19. List the changes in the personality of Norman Vincent Peale.
Or
20. Describe the difference between the speeches of Cicero and Demosthenes.
Or
21. What is virtue in life?
SECTION E
(3 × 10 = 30 marks)
Write THREE essays in about 200 words choosing atleast ONE from each group.
Group A :
22. How does Dean Inge compare the life of the present day people with the life led by the people of the olden days?
Or
23. Describe Gokak’s new theory of human values in education.
Or
24. Bring out the humour in plomer’s essay ‘‘on not answering the telephone’’.
Group B :
25. Give a critical summary of the poem ‘The Tables Turned’.
Or
26. Summarise the thoughts contained in the poem ‘The soldier’.
Or
27. How does Emerson describe Brahma?
Group C :
28. Narrate the story of ‘A Cup of Tea’ in your own words.
Or
29. Justify the title of the story ‘Sparrows’.
Or
30. Bring out the humour in ‘An Astrologer’s Day’.