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Past Paper English First Year

Year 2018 Group 2

Objective

Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words:

1. Poor fragile butterflies, such brief little moments in the sun.

(a) beautiful  (b) brilliant

(c) weak        (d) delicate

2. The man was dragging the corpse in the mud.

(a) pulling   (b) dropping

(c) covering  (d) smearing

3. The sindhi woman was gilding through the bazaar.

(a) running          (b) rushing

(c) going slowly  (d) going smoothly

4. Do not mistake of latching onto any body's pocket-book.

(a) running with   (b) throwing

(c) steaking           (d) snatching

5. Compose a symphony, paint a picture, write a book.

(a) play      (b) musical rhythm

(c) novel    (d) short stories

6. The king summoned the parents of the boy.

(a) consulted  (b) summarized

(c) sent for      (d) suggested

7. He was enjoying his promende in the bitter cold.

(a) wandering       (b) loafing

(c) pleasure walk  (d) walk

8. The fruits were pilled like cannon balls.

(a) heaped   (b) collected

(c) gathered  (d) fired

9. Anything grown in this land has a better flavour.

(a) color   (b) taste

(c) shape   (d) juice

10. I hunted all over the town to find the chain.

(a) ran       (b) walked

(c) visited  (d) searched

Each statement has four options. Choose the correct one:

11. Who saves the girl from killer?

(a) the first man  (b) the second man

(c) the bus driver (d) the dog

12. How did Della's hair black?

(a) like gold      (b) like silver

(c) like flowers  (d) like a fall of brown water

13. What punishment did the villagers propose for the quack on the death of the old woman?

(a) to pay the damage  (b) to be persecuted

(c) to dig  her grave     (d) to be imprisoned

14. Miss McCutcheon is a-----------.

(a) nurse   (b) lady doctor

(c) helper   (d) teacher

15. Why did the teeth of the boy rattle?

(a) due to cold          (b) due to fear

(c) due to weakness  (d) the woman shook him

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

16. If he had come, I----------him.

(a) would have helped  (b) would help

(c) would helped           (d) help

17. It------------snow again.
(a) was be   (b) is be

(c) shall be  (d) will

18. The office-----------at 4 P.M.

(a) is closed   (b) close

(c) closing      (d) closes

19. Would that I----------a king?

(a) is      (b) am

(c) were  (d) would

20. He----------all the day long.
(a) was wept   (b) wept

(c) weeping     (d) was weep

Subjective 

SECTION-I

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 sort of person is Norma?

(iii) Why did people make fun of Hubert's innocence?

(iv) How did Gorgios achieve his ambition?

(v) What was the advice give by Nushirvan to his people?

(vi) Why did farmers throw wet leaves on fire?

(vii) What was the cause of Negroes discontentment?

(viii) Why did Della feel sad on losing her hair?

(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) Why did the girl ask for help from the first man?

(ii) Why did not the girl accompany the second man?

(iii) How did the girl realize the truth in the play Heat Lightning?

(iv) How does Kreton prove his extraordinary powers?

(v) What type of life do you forsee in the year 5000?

(vi) What is the theme of Kreton's study?

(vii) What has happened to Clay's father?

(viii) Where has Clark Larrabee been? How does he get to O.K-by-the-Sea?

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

(i) How does the scenery look after rain?

(ii) What are the feelings of the poet standing in the dark?

(iii) Highlight the confusion of the mother sparrow and the young's ones.

(iv) How does the poet compare men with animals in the poem "Leisure"?

SECTION-II

5. Write a letter to your father explaining to him the causes of your failure.(10)

OR
Write an application to the Principle of your college for the issuance of a character.

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

"All That Glitters is not Gold"

OR

"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush"

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

Loveliests of trees, the cherry now

Is hung with bloom along the bough

And stands about the woodland ride

Wearing white for Easter tide.

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

non sense mr bittering looked out of the words in clean decent people

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

(i) Alter; alter   (ii) Beach; beech

(iii) Coma; comma  (iv) Dew; due

(v) Foul; fowl          (vi) Later; latter

(vii) Peach; piece     (viii) Right; rite

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

The water was dripping from his face, the boy looked at her. There was a long pause. A very long pause. After he had dried his face, and not knowing what else to do, dried it again, the boy turned around, wondering what next. The door was open. He could make a dash for it down the hall .

He could run, run, run!

Candidate whose medium of the Examination of English will write an essay "Demerits of Mobile Phone" (15)