B.A. ENGLISH (PU) - PAST PAPER (B) 2010

PAPER NO. 14

(Year 2010 - Group II) 

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

(i) Good Manners

(ii) Energy Crisis

(iii) Mobile Phone - A Curse

(iv) Culture of Tolerance

(v) A Rescue Operation

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. (The answers must be in your own words.)

    Moral self-control, and external prohibition of harmful acts, are not adequate methods of dealing with our anarchic instincts. The reason they are inadequate is that these instincts are capable of many disguises as the Devil in medieval legend, and some of these disguises deceive even the elect. The only adequate method is to discover what are the needs of our instinctive nature, and then to search for the least harmful way of satisfying them. Since spontaneity is what is most thwarted by machine, the only thing that can be provided is opportunity, the use made of opportunity must be left to the initiative of the individual. No doubt, considerable expense would be involved but it would not be comparable to the expense of war. Understanding of human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is much less understood, as yet than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring happiness into our lives which machines and the physical science have failed to create.

Questions:

(i) Why are moral self-control, and external prohibition inadequate to deal with our anarchic instincts?

(ii) What is the adequate method of anarchic instincts?

(iii) What should be the basis of any real improvement in human life?

(iv) How can science help humanity to achieve happiness?

(v) Suggest a suitable title for the passage.

(vi) Make a precis of the passage.

3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper expressing the need for opening a girls' college in your city.

OR

Write an application to the General Manager of a Multinational Firm for the appointment of a Medical Representative.

4. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences. (No extra attempts will be marked.)

(i) He made a goal against our college.

(ii) I shot the bear but missed.

(iii) They pay no attention to their old father.

(iv) He is the student whom I think deserves praise.

(v) Is not he your brother?

(vi) A darkest cloud has a silver lining.

(vii) Aslam has been ill from five days.

(viii) Please tell me where is your brother?

(ix) No less than twenty people died in the accident.

(x) Himalayas lie in the North of India.

5. Use any FIVE of the following phrases in sentences. (No extra attempts will be marked.)

(i) Blind in

(ii) Back away

(iii) Be up to

(iv) Give up

(v) Go back on

(vi) Fall short of

(vii) Every inch

(viii) For good

(ix) Through thick and thin

(x) The under dog

6. Translate the following into English. 

OR

Write a dialogue between a student and a teacher on the importance of discipline.