B.A. ENGLISH (PU) - PAST PAPER (B) 2011

PAPER NO. 15

(Year 2011 - Group I) 

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

(i) Pleasures of Childhood

(ii) Village Uplift

(iii) Literacy Campaign

(iv) Money is Not Everything

(v) Features of a Pakistani Weeding

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

    Poverty is almost as widely shared as Islam in Afghanistan. Except for a small number of wealthy traders, nomadic tribal leaders, and the Royal family and its retainers, few Afghans have lived far from the basic level of subsistence. Throughout the century their diet consists of coarse bread, tea, and dairy products, supplemented by fruits and vegetables in season and an occasional serving of mutton or chicken. Though the food is never plentiful, the Afghan diet during good crop years appears to be sufficient to support a vigorous population, but the precariousness of the food supply is obvious from the drastic and continuing erosion of the soil and the creeping desertization of its landscape. The poverty of most Afghan farmers and herders has imposed an elemental quality on their culture. Values are oriented toward social survival. Loyalty to the primary group ultimately takes precedence over self-assertion, despite the great importance given to personal independence. The conflict between these competing values is a major feature of Afghan life, but in-group loyalty has necessarily played the paramount role in the shaping of the attitudes toward fellow Afghans and outsiders.

Questions: 

(i) What is the economic condition of the people of Afghanistan?

(ii) What does the diet of Afghan people consist of?

(iii) Why is the food supply becoming so precarious?

(iv) What is the major feature of Afghan life?

(v) Make a suitable title of the passage.

(vi) Make a precis of the above passage.

3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper, criticizing the dress and habits of students at college.

OR

Write an application to the Director of Education for the post of an English Teacher. Also provide your C.V. 

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

(i) The wages of sin are death.

(ii) Eight miles are a long distance.

(iii) I believe your are better now.

(iv) I am studying the newspaper.

(v) He aims to please everybody.

(vi) She came here for singing.

(vii) I felt the cold air to strike my face.

(viii) Alarmed at the news, the police was informed.

(ix) Rose is the sweetest of all flowers.

(x) I am much glad that you are here.

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

(i) Buy off

(ii) Break away

(iii) Turn away

(iv) Hold on

(v) Bear out

(vi) Get into a scrape

(vii) Confide to

(viii) At a stretch

(ix) Dutch courage

(x) Lame duck

6. Translate the following into English. 

OR 

Write a dialogue between two friends about the waywardness among the youth.