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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)

Past Paper English First Year| Year 2016 Group 2 BISE Gujranwala Board || Eureka Study Aids.

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)