Past Paper English First Year
Year 2011 Group1
Objective
Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words:
1. I could hear the water splashing under his feet.
(a) sound of water (b) hissing of leaves
(c) sound of birds (d) wind
2. The long boughs of pines were fondling the substance of a white cloud.
(a) caresssing (b) hiding
(c) peeping (d) covering
3. Norma made a scoffing sound.
(a) hash (b) musical
(c) mocking (d) soft
4. Clay says, "Father your fishing tackle is in the closer safe."
(a) rod (b) apparatus
(c) meadow (d) bait
5. Margaret said if this devasted and mangled country was not ruin, what then was ruin?
(a) wiped (b) damaged
(c) washed (d) wasted
6. Love and large hearted giving leave sad marks.
(a) generous (b) trivial
(c) significant (d) tiny
7. Slowly a luminous object arcs in view.
(a) huge (b) bright
(c) burning (d) twinkling
8. Edwin Arnold has aptly described Gulistan in culinary terms.
(a) official (b) strange
(c) funny (d) of kitchen
9. Through love, wrath seems to be a mercy.
(a) smile (b) laugh
(c) mock (d) anger
10. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough.
(a) mass of petals (b) mass of flowers
(c) his father (d) buds
Each questions has four option: Choose the correct one:
11. Who opposed Gorgios on creating the post of court acrobat?
(a) many people (b) his teacher
(c) his father (d) his wife
12. What sort of piles have been gathered there?
(a) bones (b) nooks
(c) wood and grass (d) rubbish
13. Who is after the girl in "Heat lightning"?
(a) her brother (b) her friend
(c) a dog (d) the killer
14. What would Kreton hear?
(a) heart beat (b) traffic noise
(c) human brain (d) fairies
15. Who was sent to bring salt?
(a) a girl (b) a woman
(c) a man (d) a boy
Each statement is followed by four possible options. Only one option is correct. Choose the correct one:
16. When I come, I----------the boys.
(a) will have taught (b) have been teaching
(c) had been teaching (d) was teaching
17. Someone----------at the door.
(a) is knocking (b) knock
(c) has knock (d) had knock
18. The stove----------water.
(a) heat (b) heats
(c) does not heats (d) do not heat
19. He----------there last year.
(a) go (b) went
(c) gone (d) goes
20. He----------this novel by tomorrow morning.
(a) finishes (b) finished
(c) will have finished (d) has finished
Subjective
SECTION-I
2. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any SIX of the following questions from Book-I (short stories) (12)
(i) Why did Arthur disagree with his wife?
(ii) Why had Jess's old father planted his secret garden?
(iii) Why did woman ask Roger to was his face?
(iv) What was the condition of the tonsils of the sick girl?
(v) What should be the role of a Qazi?
(vi) Why are the Locusts compared with bad weather?
(vii) Why did Della fell proud of her hair?
(viii) Who was Chaudry Fatehdad?
(ix) Write down the good deeds the auther, Jerome K. Jerome has admitted are a great joy on Christmas.
3. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FIVE of the following questions from Book-III(One Act Plays) (10)
(i) Why could the girl not describe the killer?
(ii) What was the condition of the weather in the play, "Heat Lightning"?
(iii) What did Kreton mean by "Wicked children"?
(iv) Why has Kreton called human beings "poor fragile butterflies"?
(v) What is the role of General powers in the play?
(vi) What is Harry philosophy of life? Can it be applied in our daily life?
(vii) Where has Clark Larabee been? How did he get to O.K-by-the-Sea?
(viii) Why does the writer not open the Oyster?
4. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FOUR of the following questions from Book-III(poems) (8)
(i) Write a brief note on the Night Mail?
(ii) How does the poet describe the fruits piled in the fruit stalls at night?
(iii) What moral lesson do we learn from the poem "Ozymandias"?
(iv) Who have been called hollow men by T.S Eliot?
(v) Without whose love Bullah Shah faces a loss?
(vi) What is the essence of all religions?
SECTION-II
5. Write a letter to your mother telling her why you dislike the hostel life.(10)
OR
Write an application to the Principle of your college for remission of fine.
6. Write a story on moral lesson: (10)
'No Pains, No Gains'.
OR
It is Impossible to Please Everybody.
7. (a) Explain the following lines with reference to the context:(5)
A time to rend,
And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence,
And a time to speak....
(b) Punctuate the following extract from Book-I (5)
well you didnt have to snatch my pocketbook to get some suede shoes said Mrs. luella bates washington jones you could have ask me.
(c) Use any five of the following pairs of words in your sentences: (5)
(i) Access; excess (ii) Cost; caste
(iii) Gate; gait (iv) Hew; hue
(v) Lose; loose (vi) Route; rout
(vii) Vocation; vacation
8. Translate the following passage in to Urdu. (short stories from Book-I) (15)
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulation. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail calls. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the binds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Candidate whose medium of the Examination is English will write an essay on " Examination". (15)
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