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Past Paper English First Year

Year 2016 Group 2 

Objective

Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words:

1. You whom this age's way was so captivate!

(a) detrack   (b) fascinate

(c) perplex    (d) shock

2. You will bring merriment to the tired human heart.

(a) excitement    (b) happiness

(c) lethargy         (d) surprise

3. Her hair is disshevelled.

(a) arranged  (b) disordered

(c) managed  (d) stopped

4. It was too steep for my feet to hold unless I braced my self.

(a) captured   (b) fondled

(c) supported  (d) wounded

5. The foundation of oppression was small in the world.

(a) beggary     (b) cruelty

(c) depression (d) justice

6. He examined it with the air of connoisseur.

(a) buyer     (b) critic

(c) gardener (d) musician

7. They slumber on with paws across.

(a) laugh   (b) sleep

(c) smile    (d) weep

8. Kreton says that he loves to gad about.

(a) dance  (b) hunt

(c) roam    (d) sing

9. The grave of Hubert with stood the havocs of the flood.

(a) aggressiveness   (b) calmness

(c) destruction          (d) frustration

10. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

(a) disgusting   (b) encouraging

(c) enjoying      (d) liberating

Each statement has four option. Choose the correct one:

11. How does Kreton feel when he reads human brain?

(a) happy    (b) interested

(c) giddy      (d) sad

12. Della's hair reached below her----------.

(a) ankles (b) feet

(c) knees  (d) waist

13. Which one of the cities was attacked?

(a) new Jersey   (b) New York

(c) Virginia        (d) Texas

14. What did Applegarth judge?

(a) animals   (b) birds

(c) books       (d) people

15. The man who keeps on wins----------.

(a) the race    (b) the reward

(c) the shield  (d) the trophy

Each statement has four possible options. Only one is correct. Choose the correct one:

16. I would have helped him, if he-----------to me.

(a) could have come  (b) comes

(c) had come               (d) will come

17. We----------Murree next month.

(a) have visited  (b) had visited

(c) shall visit       (d) visit

18. He always----------the truth.

(a) speak   (b) speaking

(c) speaks   (d) spoke

19. Would that I----------a minister!

(a) am    (b) have been

(c) was    (d) were

20. He----------out five minutes ago.

(a) is going   (b) goes

(c) has gone   (d) went

Subjective

SECTION-II

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

(i) What were the feelings of the old man at the age of seventy?

(ii) What was the condition of Bittering family on hearing the news of war on the earth?

(iii) What made Hubert shameful?

(iv) What was the view point of parents of Gorgios?

(v) Why did Qazi issue a decree to shed the blood of the boy?

(vi) Why did the quack come back to the camelman?

(vii) Why are the locusts compared with bad weather?

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

(ix) What kind of music was played in one of the restaurants?

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

(i) What are the factors that played a role in saving the girl?

(ii) What did the girl do when the second man left the bus station?

(iii) What type of woman is Mr. Spelding?

(iv) What do you know about Miss McCutcheon?

(vii) What does the writer do with Ouster?

(viii) What things were placed in Harry's shop?

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

(i) What are the main characteristics of the Night Mail?

(ii) What does the tittle of poem "O Where Are You Going" signify?

(iii) What does the sparrow hold in her beak?

(iv) Why does the poet call modern men as hollow men?

(v) Why do the people look powerless and helpless?

(vi) What are the effects of the attributes of God?

SECTION-II

5. Write a letter to your friend congratulating him on his brilliant success in the examination.(10)

OR

Write an application to the Principle of your college for re-admission.

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

"Hate makes Waste"

OR
"Greed is a Curse"

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

Watching her cross erect

Stones garbage excrement and crumbs

Of glass in the Karachi slums,

I, with my stoop, reflect:

They stand most straight

Who learn to walk beneath a weight.

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

i was seen with the pocket book who saw me mr manana the harness man saw you pick up the pocket book

(c) Use any FIVE of the following pairs of words in your sentences:(5)

(i) Adapt; adopt   (b) Custum; habit

(iii) Industrial; industrious   (iv) Practice; practise

(v) Shade; shadow                 (vi) Tenor; tenure

(vii) Veil; wail

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

I looked at the vast mountain slope below where my mother father had farmed. And I could remember, years later, when they farmed this. It was on its steep slope that my father once made me a little wooden plough. That was when I was six year old and they brought me to the field  to thin corn. I lost my little plough in a furrow and i cries and cried until he made me another plough. But I never loved the second plough as I did the first man.

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