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Past Paper English First Year

Year 2011 Group 1

Objective

Following statement are followed by four options. Only once choice is closet in meaning to the underlined word in the statement:

(1) I have ever felt so sordid.

(a) Mean   (b) Happy

(c) Healthy (d) Weak

(2) There is an eligible bachelor in Town.

(a) A smart          (b) An able

(c) An honorable  (d) A mature

(3) I with my stoop reflect.

(a) Indicate   (b) Walk

(c) Think       (d) Work

(4) On every side decamping talk.

(a) Charming     (b) Laughing

(c) Departing     (d) Confusing

(5) You have not prowling up in those ruins.

(a) Moving about  (b) Digging up

(c) Looking up      (d) Playing

(6) You sit down while I fix up something to eat.

(a) Set        (b) Control

(c) Prepare  (d) Buy

(7) They tried to pacify the slave with kindness.

(a) Calm down  (b) Bring about

(c) Free              (d) save

(8) Which felled him to the earth like a log.

(a) A piece of stone  (b) A piece of steel

(c) A piece of wood  (d) A piece of rock

(9) The young man ambling along the road.

(a) Walking  (b) Lying

(c) Standing  (d) Running

(10) The door rattles viciously.

(a) Consciously  (b) Slowly

(c) Violently       (d) Thundering

Each question statement has four options. Only one is correct:

(11) Who calls Kreton "a joker"?

(a) Ellen                 (b) John

(c) General powers (d) Spelding

(12) What is the year of the scene of "The Oyster and the Pearl"?

(a) 1852   (b) 1952

(c) 1953   (d) 1854

(13) When according to jess's father the rabbits become ripe? In.....

(a) June      (b) August

(c) October (d) December

(14) Who offered himself to the quack for treatment in the second village?

(a) A old man  (b) An old woman

(c) boy             (d) A maiden

(15) For whom did Abdul buy a suit?

(a) Shamsun   (b) Zaibunisa

(c) Umda        (d) Mehrun

Following statement are followed by four possible options. Only one choice is correct:

(16) If you had helped me, I-----------thankful to you.

(a) Will have  (b) Would have been

(c) May have  (d) Could have

(17) You as well as you father-----------present there.

(a) Was  (b) Were

(c) Is      (d) Has been

(18) Two and two---------four.

(a) Makes   (b) Made

(c) Make     (d) Making

(19) He was climbing down when I----------him.

(a) See   (b) Seen

(c) Saw  (d) Will see

(20) Let's close the door before the train.

(a) Started   (b) Starts

(c) Start       (d) Will start

Subjective 

SECTION-II

2. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any six of the following questions from Book-I(short stories)(12)

(i) What did Steward continue persuading Norma?

(ii) What did the doctors tell Jess's old father?

(iii) How dangerous can a Martian virus be?

(iv) How did the sick child look by appearance?

(v) How did the camel men prove the prevent the main swarm of locusts from landing on their Farms?

(vi) Why did Jim not welcome when he stepped in ?

(viii) Who was Shamim Ahmed ?

(ix) What was the condition of the Young men when he was taken to the hospital?(Over Coat) 

2. Write short answers (3-5 lines/sentences) oh any Five question in words of your own (Book III  One Plays)(10)

(i) What did the Girl see when she got near the car?

(ii) How did the second Man in the Heat Lightning look?

(iii) What is the purpose of the visit of play?

(iv) How dose kreton impress General Power?

(v) Write a note on Ellen.

(vi) What was happened to Clay's father?

(vii) What kind of play is "The Oyster and the Pearl"?

(viii) What did Applegarth say about Miss McCutcheon?

3. Write short answers (3-5 lines / sentences) pf any four of the following questions from Book-I(poems)(8)

(i) Give symbolic importance of the rain in three to four lines.

(ii) Decode the problems of Karachi slums as described in the poem "A Sindhi Woman"?

(iii) What is the confusion of the mother sparrow?

(iv) What is worse than slavery with special reference to "Rubaiyat"?

(v) What is the central idea of the poem "A Tale of Two Cities"?

(vi) What according to Scott Momaday are the things that keep a person alive?

SECTION-II

4. Write a letter to your friend requesting him to join you during summer vacation.(10)

OR

Write an application to your college for sick leave.

5. Write a story bearing the moral: (10)

"Honesty is the best policy"

OR
"All that glitters is not Gold"

6. (a) Explain the following lines with reference to the context: (5) 

And since to look at things in bloom 

Fifty springs are little in room,

About woodland I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

(b) Punctuate the following extract from Book-I(short stories)(5)

anything jorkens replied so long as he sticks to it and sticks to it hard enough and long enough anything whatsoever

(c) Use any Five of the following pair of word in sentences your own. (5)

(i) Accept; Except   (ii) Roll; Role

(iii) Floor; Flour     (iv) Sweet; Sweat

(v) Pore' Pour          (vi) Drop; Droop

(vii) Whether; Weather

7. Translate the following passage in to Urdu. (short stories from Book-I) (15)

Out talk at the club was of opportunity and determination. Some said opportunity was required for success, and millions never had it; others that only determination was needed. And then Jorkens in, all for determination. If a man was determined to get anything, and stuck to it long enough, he got it, said Jorkins.

NOTE:- (Alternate question for foreign / English Medium candidate only)

Write an essay on "Games and Sports"