B.A. ENGLISH (PU) - PAST PAPER (B) 2005

PAPER NO. 4

(Year 2005 - Group II)  

1. Write an essay, with an outline, of 300-350 words on ONE of the following topics:

(i) Mobile Phone

(ii) Drug Addiction

(iii) An Ideal College

(iv) Social Evils in Pakistan

(v) Character is Destiny 

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. 

     Ought women to have the same rights as men? A hundred year ago, the answer in every country in the world would have been, "No". If you had asked, "Why not?" you would have been told, scornfully and pityingly, that women were weaker and less clever than men, and had worse characters. Even now, in the Twentieth Century, there are many countries where women are still treated almost like servants, or even slaves. 

     It is certainly true that the average woman has weaker muscles that the average man. Thousands of years ago, when men lived in caves and hunted animals for food, strength of body was the most important thing; but now, in the Twentieth Century, brains are more important. Strength of body is still needed for a few kinds of work, but the fact that such kinds of work are not well paid shows that the Twentieth Century does not think that muscles are of very great importance.
     What about women's brains? Of course, in countries where girls are not given so good an education as boys they know less. But in countries where there is the same education for both, it has been clearly shown that there is no difference at all between the brain of the average woman and that of the average man. There have been women judges in Turkey, women ambassadors in America, women ministers in the British government and women University professors in many countries. And among the greatest and strongest rulers of England were Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.
     But women can do one thing that men cannot: they can produce children. Because they, and not men, do this, they usually love their children more, and are better able to look after them, since they are more patient and understanding with small children. For this reason, many women are happier if they stay at home and look after their house and family than if they go out and do the same work as men do. It is their own choice, and not the result of being less clever than men.
Questions:
(i) Why would you have been told a hundred years ago that women ought not to have the same rights as men?
(ii) Why was strength of body important thousands of years ago?
(iii) How can we see that it is no longer so important?
(iv) What work does the writer mention that women have done as well as men?
(v) What is particular about women that men can't do?
(vi) Make a precis of the passage in not more than 120 words.
3. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about traffic mess on city roads. 

OR

Write an application to the director of education for the post of an English teacher. 
4. Use any FIVE of the following idiomatic phrases in sentences of your own. 
(i) Stick to
(ii) Stand out
(iii) Run out
(iv) Carry weight
(v) Cut a sorry figure
(vi) Bury the hatchet
(vii) Do up
(viii) Turn coat
(ix) A dark horse
(x) By and large
5. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences.
(i) For goodness's sake leave my alone.
(ii) She is more intelligent of the two.
(iii) Who do you want to see?
(iv) Let Sabiha and I go there.
(v) We saw much less films than last years.
(vi) Between you and I, he is a cheat.
(vii) The climate of Multan is better than Lahore.
(viii) I only did two sums.
(ix) Latest part of the book is very difficult.
(x) There is a little truth in your statement.
6. Translate the following into English. 

OR

Write a dialogue between two friends on some TV programme.