Past Paper English First Year
Year 2012 Group 2
Objective
Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words:
1. Clay wants to buy for mother a present.
(a) gift (b) oyster
(c) chain (d) watch
2. A luminous object arcs into view.
(a) heavy (b) bright
(c) long (d) red
3. The girl moves away suspiciously.
(a) sharply (b) swiftly
(c) angrily (d) doubtfully
4. The author had a vexing dream.
(a) coaxing (b) longing
(c) quarelling (d) annoying
5. The boy's parents agreed to shed his blood for the trash of this world.
(a) honour (b) comfort
(c) pleasure (d) rubbish
6.The villagers exhorted the quack to dig the grave.
(a) requested (b) urged
(c) asked (d) appreciated
7. Harry asked his children if they had been prowling up in the ruins.
(a) sleeping (b) digging
(c) looking (d) roaming
8. Norma made a contemptuous noise.
(a)( scornful (b) beautiful
(c) faint (d) careful
9. On every side decamping talk.
(a) charming (b) laughing
(c) departing (d) confusing
10. I with my stoop, reflect.
(a) indicate (b) walk
(c) think (d) work
Each questions has four options. Choose the correct one:
11. What is the scene of the play, "The Oyster And the Pearl"?
(a) clinic (b) a bus station
(c) a spaceship (d) a barber's shop
12. Where is Rokies situated?
(a) California (b) Alaska
(c) Colorado (d) Texas
13. Where does the spaceship land?
(a) on the top of a tree
(b) on the roof of a house
(c) on the top of a hill
(d) in rose garden
14. Who joined the discussion at the club in favour of determination?
(a) Terbut (b) Hubert
(c) James (d) Jorkens
15. What did Norma prepare for Arthur?
(a) his office file (b) his suitcase
(c) lunch (d) breakfast
Each statement is followed by four possible options. Only one option is correct. Choose the correct one:
16. I----------the next week in Lahore.
(a) shall spend (b) spend
(c) have spent (d) spent
17. I----------your letter yesterday.
(a) will receive (b) have received
(c) received (d) has received
18. The students----------on strike since morning.
(a) are (b) have been
(c) will (d) has been
19. If he---------hard, he will succeed.
(a) work (b) working
(c) works (d) had worked
20. A rolling stone---------no moss.
(a) gather (b) gathers
(c) gathered (d) had gather
Subjective
SECTION-II
2. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any SIX of the following questions from Book-i.
(i) Why did Arthur disagree with his wife?
(ii) Why did Jess's father not follow the advice of the doctors?
(iii) What was the advice Harry gave to the people?
(iv) Why did George give pocket book to his employer?
(v) What did Jorkens say about life?
(vi) Describe briefly the condition of the parents on the arrival of the doctor?
(vii) What did the quack pretend to cure?
(viii) What was the cause of the Negroes discontentment?
(ix) Why did Della sell her hair?
3. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) any FIVE of the following questions from Book-III(One Act Plays)
(i) Why could the girl not describe the killer?
(ii) Why did the Second Man accuse the First Man of lying?
(iii) How much impressive were the morals of Kreton?
(iv) What type of ' A Visit to a Small Planet' is?
(v) Who is Roger Spelding? How does he behave with guest?
(vi) Where does the play ' The Oyster and the Pearl' take place?
(vii) How does Miss McCutcheon feel about her job?
(viii) Who buys the oyster? How much does he pay?
4. Answer in (3-5 lines / sentences) od any FOUR of the following questions from Book-III (poems)
(i) What happens when the Night Mail passes by a farm?
(ii) What kind of man the Rider is?
(iii) Describe the central idea of the poem, " Times".
(iv) What is the dillema of modern man with reference to "Leisure"?
(v) Why does a person feeel helpless on the death of a friend?
(vi) Is life worth living without love?
SECTION-II
5. Write a letter to your younger brother suggesting to him some method for improving English.
OR
Write an application tpo your Principle of your college for issuing you College Leaving Certificate.
6. Write a story on moral lesson:
" Do not Build Castles in the Air"
OR
" Greed is a Curse".
7. (a) Explain the following lines with reference to the context:
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty Springs are little room,
About the woodland I will go
To see the Cherry hung with snow.
(b) Punctuate the following extract from Book-I.
life is like a race jorkens went on in which theytire after a whilw and sit down or get intrested in something else
(c) Use any FIVE of the following pairs of words in your sentences:
(i) Bale; bail (ii) Human; humane
(iii) Metal; mettle (iv) Pore; pour
(iv) Corpse; crops (vi) Sin; crime
(vii)Allusion; illusion
8. Translate the following passage in to Urdu. (short stories from Book-I)
