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

PAPER NO. 16

(Year 2011 - Group II) 

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

(i) Drug Addiction Among Students

(ii) Importance of Advertising

(iii) Noise Pollution

(iv) Problems of Working Women

(v) Old Parents

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

    Great progress has been made by America in the field of mechanization. It is spending lavishly on labour-saving machines. Efficient organization of highly mechanized system has resulted in maximum productivity in America. With mass production, the amenities of life are available to almost every citizen. On the contrary Europe subordinates the use of machines to human happiness and welfare. It encourages man's reliance on his own faculties and realizes the dangers inherent in the American scheme. However great the advantages of mechanization, it crushes the creative faculty of man and makes a machine out of him. His individual liberty and personality suffer on irretrievable loss. In his moments of leisure the worker finds it difficult to turn his hands to creative work, because the machine-made goods do not inspire him in the direction of refinement. These goods also lose their fascination because mass production has given a setback to the individuality of the articles produced. The Europeans, therefore, contend that it is better to sacrifice a few material comforts than crush the aesthetic and spiritual urge in the individual which large-scale mechanization is doing in America.

Questions:

(i) What is the result of progress in the field of mechanization in America?

(ii) How has it affected the citizens?

(iii) What is the case in Europe? 

(iv) Why do Europeans sacrifice a few material comforts? 

(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 protesting against the corruption of WAPDA lower staff. 

OR

Write an application to the Finance Manager of a Multinational Firm for the appointment of an Audit Officer. 

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

(i) His friend and benefactor have left the room. 

(ii) Every one of them want to go to sea. 

(iii) He is reading at the medical college. 

(iv) Few people attended the meeting. 

(v) Either of these two houses are to let. 

(vi) The teacher took a test of the students. 

(vii) He insisted to do it. 

(viii) He has no money for giving you. 

(ix) I bade him to do it. 

(x) It is much hot today. 

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

(i) Stick to

(ii) Stand out

(iii) Bear with

(iv) Back out

(v) Run out

(vi) Compare notes

(vii) Carry weight

(viii) Follow suit

(ix) In cold blood

(x) A block head

6. Translate the following into English. 

OR

Write a dialogue between father and son on the choice of profession.