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Past Paper English First Year

Year 2017 Group 1 

Objective

Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words:

1. The Night Mail snorts.

(a) starts     (b) stops

(c) reaches  (d) whistles

2. Slowly a luminous object arcs into view.

(a) dull       (b) awful

(c) shining  (d) fragile

3. He had a weary look.

(a) pleasant   (b) sad

(c) fearful      (d) tried

4. She merely said "Is this the doctor"?

(a) simply    (b) clearly

(c) only        (d) sorrowfully

5. The package was lying by the front door.

(a) bundle    (b) picture

(c) pistol       (d) device

6. Became Mansur to mount the gallows.

(a) scaffold   (b) ladder

(c) mountain  (d) hurdles

7. Not even one who is well-off.

(a) wealthy   (b) poor

(c) beautiful   (d) ill

8. Her hair is disshevelled.

(a) disarranged   (b) fresh

(c) long               (d) arranged

9. A branch had snapped off.

(a) broken     (b) dried

(c) appeared  (d) grown

10. The people were attentive.

(a) sad   (b) happy

(c) alert  (d) active

Each statement has four options. Choose the correct one:

11. Where is Spelding house situated?

(a) Marry land   (b) joy land

(c) ice land         (d) Holland

12. Who seized the man with its sharp teeth?

(a) Cat    (b) dog

(c) wolf   (d) lion

13. What blinded the sick girl's eyes?

(a) straw   (b) dust  

(c) tears     (d) smoke

14. What did Maulvi carry in his hand?

(a) pencil  (b) gilded stick

(c) book     (d) purse

15. The boy was wearing.

(a) Suede shoes   (b) tennis shoes

(c) black shoes     (d) now shoes

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

16. If I worked hard, I----------succeeded.

(a) would have  (b) will have

(c) would            (d) shall have

17. Beauty----------on ornaments.

(a) need  (b) needed

(c) needs  (d) has need

18. You were not----------.

(a) invite   (b) invited

(c) invites   (d) have invited

19. He-----------been working for two hours.

(a) Will have  (b) will be

(c) shall have  (d) was

20. I-----------written an application.

(a) have          (b) has

(c) have been  (d) had been

Subjective

SECTION-I

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

(i) What was the message Norma received on pushing the button?

(ii) Why had the old man planted his secret garden?

(iii) What was the conduct of the people when they saw the incident?

(iv) Why did the Mayor not believed the innocence of Hubert?

(v) Why did the parents keeps the sick child in the kitchen?

(vi) Why did the king weep?

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

(viii) How did the Magi want to celebrate their Christmas?

(ix) How did Ch. Fatehdad help Maulvi Abdul?

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

(i) What is the girl's impression about second man?

(ii) What did the girl see when she got near the car?

(iii) What it's condition of the girl when she enters the station?

(iv) How impression were the moral of Kreton?

(v) What does Kreton say about the civilization of the earth?

(vi) Why do the people of the Kreton's planet not travel?

(vii) What kind of judge is judge Applegarth?

(viii) What kind of Haircut does Miss McCutcheon want and why?

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

(i) What does the poet mean by the "poor leaves"?

(ii) Why does poet realize that his life is very short?

(iii) Why has the poet used cannon balls to describe the fruit?

(iv) How does the poet depict the personality of the Sindhi woman?

(v) Why is the mother sparrow worried?

(vi) How does the poet compare modern man with animals in the poem, "Leisure"?

SECTION-II

5. Write a letter to your friend inviting him to spend a few days with you.(10)

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

6. Write a story on moral lesson:(5)

"Haste Make Waste"

OR
"A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed."

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

Snorting noisily, she passes

Silent miles of wind-bent grasses.

Birds turn their heads as she approaches,

Stare form bushes at her blank-faced coaches.

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

my dear lady mr steward said do you really think you knew your husband

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

(i) Brake; break   (ii) Great; grate

(iii) Meat; meet    (iv) Quiet; quite

(v) Scent; sent       (vi) Tail, tale

(vii) Weak; week

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

"A king fell seriously ill and all hopes of his recovery vanished. The more the disease was cured the more it became painful...At last the physicians agreed that this disease could not be cured except by means of bile of person endued with certain qualities. Orders were issued to search for an individual of this kind. A son of a farmer was discovered to posses the qualities mentioned by the doctors. The king summoned the father and mother of the boy , whose consent he got by giving them a hug amount of wealth. The Qazi issued a decree to shed the blood of a person for the health of the king"

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