Past Paper First Year
Year 2014 Group 1
Objective
Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words.
1. The door rattles viciously.
(a) violently (b) forcibly
(c) mildly (d) carefully
2. Let bygones by bygones.
(a) forget the past (b) recall the past
(c) do everything smoothly (d) go with the stream
3. All the trees are queer and still.
(a) fresh (b) strong
(c) strange (d) clear
4. And since to look at things in bloom.
(a) beauty (b) in full swing
(c) in fascination (d) in sadness
5. Her faced was flushed.
(a) red (b) gloomy
(c) bright (d) flustered
6. Spelding nods wearily.
(a) happily (b) heartily
(c) tiredly (d) sadly
7. To have a young athlete at court exhibiting physical fitness.
(a) claiming (b) discarding
(c) ailing (d) demonstrating
8. We are Hallow man.
(a) fragile (b) void
(c) weak (d) brave
9. He stopped at the edge of the meadow.
(a) hill top (b) waste land
(c) valley (d) desert
10. He found a crowd assembled to watch the proceedings.
Choose the correct option.
11. The man who keep on wins----------.
(a) the reward (b) the race
(c) the fight (d) the shield
12. What was the woman carrying?
(a) a rod (b) a bag
(c) a hammer (d) a large purse
13. General power was thinking about----------.
(a) his promotion (b) security of the country
(c) arrest of Kreton (d) murder of visitor
14. She saw in the flash of lighting----------.
(a) a lion (b) a cart
(c) a bus (d) a man's face
15. what is the dream?
(a) in equality of high or low standard
(b) rule of the blacks
(c) negation of the white people
(d) the practice of brotherhood
Choose the correct form of the verb.
16. We can not go out because it is----------.
(a) is raining (b) rained
(c) was raining (d) has raining
17. She----------the child for two years.
(a) is nursing (b) was nursing
(c) nursed (d) has been nursing
18. Work hard lest you----------.
(a) should fail (b) will fail
(c) fail (d) can fail
19. This book last week----------.
(a) has been published (b) is published
(c) was published (d) had been published
20. When the bell rang, she ---------- a bath.
(a) was having (b) has
(c) had (d) is having
Subjective
SECTION-I
2. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any SIX of the following questions from Book-I (short stories) (12)
(i) Why did author disagree with his wife?
(ii) Why did harry want to go back to the earth?
(iii) What made Hubert shameful?
(iv) What was the view point of the parents of Gorgios?
(v) Why did the people come out on the mall?
(vi) Why did the woman ask the boy to wash his face?
(vii) What did the author like about christmas?
(viii) What was the behaviour of the child with the doctor?
(ix) What was the cause of Negroes discontentment?
3. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FIVE of the following questions from Book-I(One Act Plays) (10)
(i) what were the circumstances that forced the Girl to leave her car?
(ii) Why did the Second Man accuse the First Man of lying?
(iii) Why couldn't Girl describe the killer?
(iv) How does Kreton prove his extraordinary powers?
(v) What is the theme of Kreton's study on the earth?
(vi) What does General powers accuse Kreton of?
(vii) Describe the setting of the play " The Oyster and The Pearl"
(viii) What was the conflict between Clay's father and mother?
4. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FOUR of the following questions from Book-III(poems) (8)
(i) Why does the poet wish for the longer life?
(ii) What is the message of the poem , "The Feed"?
(iii) How does the poet compare the men with animals in the poem "leisure"?
(vi) What kind of picture of Karachi slums do we get from poem, "A Sindhi woman"?
(v) What is worse than slavery?
(vi) How were the people of two cities made power less and helpless?
SECTION-II
5. Write a letter to your father requesting him to increase your monthly allowance.
OR
Write am application to the Principle of your college for the refund of library security fee.
6. Write a story on moral lesson:
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
OR
As you so, so shall you reap.
7. (a) Explain the following lines with reference to the context. (5)
They take it break it open, let,
A gold or silver, fountain wet.
(b) Punctuate the following extract from Book-I: (5)
why me me me picked up the pocket book yes you yourself by my word of honour i never heard of it
(c) Use any FIVE of the following pairs of words in your sentences. (5)
(i) Audible; Edible (ii) Differ; Defer
(iii) Ice; Snow (iv) Right; Rite
(v) Temper; Tamper (vi) Personal; Personnel
(vii) Wander; Wonder
8. Translate the following lines in to Urdu. (Book-I short stories) (15)
Shev was a large woman with a large purse that had every thing in it, but the hammer and nails. I have a long strap, and she earned it slung across her shoulder. It was eleven o'clock at night dark and she was walking alone, when the boy ran up and tried to snatch her purse. The strap broke with a sudden single tug the boy gave it from behind it. But the boy's weight and the weight of purse combined caused him to lose his balance.
Candidate whose medium of the Examination of English will write an essay on
" An Accident ". (15)
