B.A. ENGLISH (PU) - PAST PAPER (2013)

PAPER NO. 19

(Year 2013 - Group I) 

1. Write an essay, with an outline, of 300-350 words on ONE of the following topics:
(i) College Memories
(ii) Your Favourite English Drama
(iii) Corruption in Society
(iv) Role of Laptop in Education
(v) Freedom of Media

2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. (Your own constructed answers will fetch you better marks.)

     Teaching more even than most other professions, has been transformed during the last hundred years from a small, highly skilled profession concerned with a minority of the population, to a large and important branch of the public service. The profession has a great and honorable tradition extending from the dawn of history until recent times, but any teacher in the modern world who allows himself to be inspired by the ideals of his predecessors is likely to be made sharply aware that it is not his function to teach what he thinks, but instill such beliefs and prejudices as are thought useful by his employers. In former days, a teacher was expected to be a man of exceptional knowledge or wisdom to whose words men would do well to attend. In antiquity, teachers were not an organized profession and no control was exercised over what they taught. It is true they were often punished afterwards for their subversive doctrines. Socrates was put to death and Plato is said to have been thrown into prison, but such incidents did not interfere with the spread of their doctrines. 

Questions:

(i) What changes have occured in the profession of teaching during the last hundred years?

(ii) What were the teachers supposed to be in golden days?

(iii) What is the function of a teacher nowadays?

(iv) Write a note on the rewards that a teacher gets nowadays. 

(v) Suggest a suitable title for the passage. 

(vi) Make a precis of the above passage. 

3. Write a letter to the Managing Director, Pakistan Railways, complaining about the late arrival of trains. 

OR

Write a job application to the Accountant General for the Post of and Assistant. 

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

(i) Mr. Zahis with his wife and children live here. 

(ii) A number of boys is absent. 

(iii) We should avail of this chance. 

(iv) They went to the fair and enjoyed. 

(v) The murdered was hung. 

(vi) You are very kind on me. 

(vii) You need not to go there. 

(viii) He has visited Lahore yesterday. 

(ix) If you will come to me, I will help you. 

(x) He swore of God. 

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

(i) Give up the ghost

(ii) Die in harness

(iii) Cold comfort

(iv) Cock and bull story

(v) Cut to the quick

(vi) Come of age

(vii) Get over

(viii) Fall in with

(ix) Make out

(x) Put up with

6. Tranlsate the following into English. 

OR 

Write a dialogue between two friend on upcoming elections.