Past Paper English First Year
Year 2013 Group 1
Objective
Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words:
1. Nor it is a spaceship as certain lunatic elements have suggested.
(a) large (b) low
(c) mad (d) sad
2. A time to rend and a time to sew.
(a) buy (b) sell
(c) wear (d) tear
3. The pavements were thronged with pedestrians.
(a) dirty (b) void
(c) empty (d) packed
4. The girl shreiked hysterically.
(a) ran (b) screamed
(c) looked (d) sang
5. Jess's curiosity was aroused.
(a) temperature (b) hatred
(c) interest (d) anger
6. He alighted from the high heaven.
(a) ascended (b) descended
(c) looked (d) delighted
7. Clark has scarcely noticed her.
(a) happily (b) sadly
(c) hardly (d) sharply
8. The girl lets out a muffled cry.
(a) loud (b) sharp
(c) suppressed (d) wilful
9. Mr. Hubert furiously lifted his hand.
(a) angrily (b) pleasantly
(c) tactfully (d) foolishly
10. The sunlight was perverted.
(a) diverted (b) fierce
(c) lovely (d) burning
Each questions has four options. Choose the correct one:
11. What did Hubert pick from the ground?
(a) pocket book (b) piece of string
(c) stick (d) stone
12. From where the girl was coming.
(a) school (b) party
(c) church (d) hotel
13. Which city was attacked?
(a) Washington (b) New York
(c) Texas (d) Hollywood
14. How did the angel look?
(a) happy (b) weary
(c) stranger (d) angry
15. Who is John?
(a) player (b) farm owner
(c) soldier (d) artist
Each question has four followed by four possible options. Only one option is correct. Choose the correct one:
16. I-----------this book last night.
(a) will not read (b) do not read
(c) did not read (d) am not read
17. It started to rain while we----------tennis.
(a) are playing (b) played
(c) were playing (d) had played
18. The poen----------the bell in the morning.
(a) ring (b) ringing
(c) rings (d) rung
19. She-----------ill for a week.
(a) is (b) has
(c) had (d) has been
20. A coward------------many times before his death.
(a) died (b) will die
(c) has died (d) dies
Subjective
SECTION-II
2. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any SIX of the following questions from Book-I(short stories)(12)
(i) What was the advice Harry gave to his people?
(ii) What was the condition of the boy when the woman gave him a few jerks?
(iii) What made Hubert shameful?
(iv) What was the view point of the parents of Gorgios?
(v) What was the behaviour of the child with the doctor?
(vi) What was the quack pretend to curc?
(vii) What was the cause of negroes discontentment?
(viii) What was the wisdom in selling the most valuable things?
(ix) Describe Maulvi's appearance.
3. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FIVE of the following questions from Book-III (One Act Plays)(10)
(i) What couldn't the Girl describe the killer?
(ii) What is the Girl's impression ?
(iii) Who enters the room when the curtain rises?
(vi) What is the purpose of Kreton's visit?
(v) Describe Kreton's appearance, the visitor.
(vi) Was Kreton the first from his planet to visit the earth?
(vii) Who is Miss McCutcheon and how does she feel about the job?
(viii) Why is Harry sitting in barber's chair?
4. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FOUR of the following questions from Book-III (poems) (8)
(i) When does cherry bloom and how does it look?
(ii) What picture of the Karachi slums do we get after reading the poem ' A Sindhi Woman'?
(iii) What has the poet described in the poem 'The Feed'?
(vi) What has made the efforts of Muslims fruitless?
(v) What are the effects of the attributes of God?
(vi) How does the life of man pass through different phases?
SECTION-II
5. Write a letter to your father telling him the causes of your failure in the examination. (10)
OR
Write an application to the principle requesting him/her to issue you a character certificate.
6. Write a story on moral lesson:(10)
'God helps those who help themselves'
OR
'Look before you leap'
7. (a) Explain the following lines with reference to the context:(5)
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass.
(b) Punctuate the following extract from Book-I:(5)
then it will get washed this evening said the large woman starting up the street dragging the frightened boy behind her
(c) Use any FIVE of the following pairs of words in your sentences.(5)
(i) Flea; flee (ii) Plain; plane
(iii) Rout; route (iv) Sew; sow
(v) Team; teem (vi) Urban; urbane
(vii) Waist; waste
8. Translate the following passage in to Urdu. (short stories from Book-I) (15)
Everywhere, fifty miles over the countryside, the smoke was rising from myriads of fires. Margaret answered the telephone calls between the calls she stood, watching the locusts. The air was darkening. A strange darkness, for the sun was blazing-it was like the darkness of a beldt fire, when the air gets thick with smoke. The sunlight comes down distorted, a thick , hot orange. Oppressive it was, too, with the heaviness of a storm. The locusts were coming fast. Now half the sky was darkened. Behind the reddish veils in front, which were the advance guards of the swarm, the main swarm showed in dense black cloud, reaching almost to the sun itself.
Candidate whose medium of the Examination of English will write an essay on "Ideal College". (15)
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