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Past Paper English First Year

Year 2011 Group 1

Objective 

Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words.

1. "If it is old Chinese peasant ten thousand miles way"?

(a) worker   (b) labourer

(c) farmer    (d) driver

2. Hubert's grave withstood the havocs of the flood.

(a) ignored  (b) destroyed

(c) resisted   (d) avoided

3. Instantly the melon broke in the throat of the camel.

(a) by chance  (b) immediatly

(c) fortunately  (d) slowly

4. The farm was ringing with the clamour of the gong.

(a) tolling   (b) noise

(c) jingling (d) singing

5. After the preliminary exchange of greetings Shamim Ahmad hesitatingly said something.

(a) initial    (b) hearty

(c) exciting (d) usual

6. The Girl shudders at her own thoughts.

(a) smiles   (b) trembles

(c) smears   (d) delivers

7. Kreton says : "I had to learn them all, quiet exhausting."

(a) freshening  (b) tiring

(c) exciting       (d) interesting

8. Who will bring merriment to the tired old human heart.

(a) hopelessness  (b) cheerfulness

(c) pessimism      (d) despair

9. Yonder's the midden whose odours will madden.

(a) shrub  (b) plant

(c) filth     (d) flower

10. What should I do, O God! Aghast!

(a) shook   (b) terrified

(c) ghost     (d) exalted

Choose the correct answer:

11. The man who keeps on, wins-----------.

(a) the reward   (b) the race

(c) the shield     (d) the trophy

12. The Rocket-----------cooled in the meadow winds.

(a) engine   (b) plastic

(c) metal     (d) interior

13. The wind blew as if to flake away their------------.

(a) identities  (b) names

(c) dresses      (d) language

14. The sound of heavy------------can ne heard out side.

(a) dust storm  (b) hurricane

(c) rain             (d) flood

15. Roger Spelding is concluding his TV------------.

(a) broadcast  (b) play

(c) serial         (d) advertisement

Choose the correct answer.

16. By next May, I------------this book.

(a) write   (b) will write

(c) wrote  (d) will have written

17. If you boil water, it-----------.

(a) evaporate  (b) evaporated

(c) evaporates (d) had evaporated

18. The patient had died before the doctor--------------.

(a) comes   (b) will come

(c) came     (d) come

19. He ploughed the field so that he------------good crop.
(a) gets        (b) will get

(c) may get  (d) might get

20. Walk carefully lest you--------------fall.

(a) may     (b) might

(c) should  (d) can

Subjective

SECTION-I

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

(i) What was the condition of the Bittering family on hearing the news of the war on the Earth?

(ii) What happened to Roger when he tried to snatch the purse?

(iii) Why did Hubert keep claiming innocence before his death?

(iv) What was the condition of the parents of the sick girl on the arrival of the doctor?

(v) What was the punishment inflicted upon the quack by the villagers?

(vi) what were the people doing to avoid the danger of locusts?

(vii) What are the qualities of the veterans of creative suffering?

(viii) Describe the inauguration ceremony of Shamim Ahmad's shop in the village?

(ix) What did the author, Jerome K. Jerome see in his dream?

3. Answer  in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FIVE of the following questions from Book-III(One Act Plays) (10)

(i) What is the impression of the Girl about Second Man?

(ii) Why did the Girl not accompany Second Man?

(iii) How impression were the morals of Kreton?

(iv) What type of life do you forsee in 5000?

(v) Can the people of the Earth compete with those of Kreton?

(vi) What does clay believe is the Oyster? How much is its worth?

(vii) Who buys the Oyster? How much does he pay?

(viii) Why does Clark Larrabee return?

3. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FOUR of the following questions from Book-III(poem) (8)

(i)What impression does the sound of rain falling on leaves give to the poet?

(ii) What are the qualities of the Sindhi Woman?

(iii) |What moral lesson do we get from the poem "Ozymandias"?

(iv) What has made the efforts of the Muslims fruitless?

(v) Why did Mansur mount the gallows?

(vi) "Action speak louder than words "How is it with reference to " A Man of words and Not of Deeds."

SECTION-II

5. Write a letter to your younger brother advising him to give up smoking and pay heed on studies. (10)

OR

Write an application to the Principle of your college for the change of subjects.

6. Write a story on moral lesson:(10)

"Greed is a Curse"

OR

"Slow and Steady Wins the Race"

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

And when the Sun comes out,

After the rain shall stop

A wondrous light will fill

Each dark, round drop;

I hope the Sun shines bright;

It will be a lovely sight.

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

life is like a race jorherns went an in which they tire after a while and sit down or get interested in some thing else instead the man who keeps on wins the race

(c) Use any FIVE of the following pairs of word in your sentences.(5)

(i) Amiable; amicable   (ii) Bridal; bridle

(iii) Imperial; imperious (iv) Official; officious

(v) Popular; populous     (vi) Right; rite

(vii) Union; unity

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

They looked at Martian hills that time had worn with a crushing  pressure of years. They saw the old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children's decline bones among the blowing lakes of grass. "Chin up, Harry," said his wife, "It is too late. We've come over sixty million miles." The children with their yellow hair hollered at the deep of Martian sky. There was no answer but the racing hiss of wind through the stiff grass.

OR

Candidate whose medium of the Examination of English will write an essay on "Basant." (15)