|
105/205 |
INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION – 2020 (ANNUAL)
ENGLISH (Model Set)
I.Sc. & I.Com. –LL- ENGLISH (Opt)
Time : 3 Hours 15 Minutes Full Marks :- 100
Instructions for the candidates :-
1. Candidates are required to give answers in their own words as far as practicable.
2. Figures in the right hand margin indicate full marks.
3. 15 minutes of extra time has been allotted for the candidates to read the questions and follow the instructions carefully.
4. All questions are compulsory.
5. Use of any electronic device is strictly prohibited.
6. This question paper is divided into two sections – Section - A and Section - B
7. In Section - A, there are 60 objective type questions out of which any 50 questions have to be answered. Each question carries 1 mark. Darken the circle with blue/black ball pen against the correct option on OMR Answer Sheet provided to you. Do not use Whitener / Liquid / Blade / Nail on OMR Answer Sheet; otherwise the result will be treated invalid.
8. In case more than 50 questions are answered, only the first 50 answers will be evaluated.
9. In Section – B, there are descriptive type questions.
SECTION - A
Objective Type Questions
Question No. 1 to 60 have four options, out of which only one is correct. You have to mark your selected option on the OMR Sheet. Out of 60 questions,
you have to attempt only 50. 50x1=50
1. They were being interviewed for the job by her. (Choose the correct active voice)
(A) She had been interviewing them for the job.
(B) She will have interview them for the job.
(C) She was interviewing them for the job.
(D) She had to interview them for the job.
2. The king gave him a reward.
(Choose the correct passive voice)
(A) A reward was being given to him by the king.
(B) He was given a reward by the king.
(C) He was given the reward by a king.
(D) He had been given by the king a reward.
3. Please be quiet. The baby ………….
(Choose the correct tense form )
(A) has slept (C) sleep
(B) sleeps (D) is sleeping
4. What …………. she do in her free time ?
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Done (C) Does
(B) Have (D) Had
5. He told me that he …………. ill for six days.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) was (C) had been
(B) is (D) have been
6. He was tired of walking. He sat down to rest.
(Choose the correct combination)
(A) Tired of walking, he sat down to rest.
(B) Tired of been on walk, he sat down to rest.
(C) Tired because of walk, he sat down to rest.
(D) Tired of walking, he has sit down to rest.
7. …………... you speak English?
(Choose the correct auxiliary verb)
(A) Ought (C) Can
(B) Shall (D) Are
8. The Principal ordered me not to conduct any test the next day.
(Choose the correct direct speech)
(A) The Principal said to me “Don’t conduct any test tomorrow.”
(B) The Principal told me, “Don’t conduct any test yesterday”
(C) The Principal says, “Don’t conduct any test tomorrow.”
(D) The Principal tells, “Don’t conduct any test tomorrow.”
9. I wanted …………... some presents, but we didn’t have much time.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) to buy (C) buying
(B) to bye (D) to buying
10. As far as I am concerned, I prefer reading …………
(Choose the correct option)
(A) than rest (C) to sleeping
(B) for joy (D) over watching T. V.
11. I said to him, “Why are you working so hard?”
(Choose the correct indirect speech)
(A) I asked him why he was working so hard.
(B) I asked him why was he working so hard.
(C) I asked him why had he been working so hard.
(D) I asked him why he had been working so hard.
12. They ran ………….. the hill
(Choose the correct preposition)
(A) above (C) on
(B) down (D) through
13. There is a shop in front ……….. my house.
(Choose the correct preposition)
(A) opposite (C) of
(B) on (D) to
14. Stop ……………. this terrible noise at once.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) make (C) making
(B) to make (D) to making
15. It fell ………. the table and broke.
(Choose the correct preposition)
(A) of (C) behind
(B) off (D) at
16. Choose the correct sentence:-
(A) They invited my friend and I to tea.
(B) They invite me and my friend to tea.
(C) The invited my friend and me to tea.
(D) I and my friend was invited by them to tea.
17. Would you like …………. to market?
(Choose the correct option)
(A) go (C) to going
(B) going (D) will go
18. My father taught me ………….
(Choose the correct option)
(A) dance (C) will dance.
(B) how to dance (D) to dancing
19. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) Let us stop playing now.
(B) Let us to stop playing now.
(C) Let us stop played now.
(D) Let us stopping to play now.
20. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) The poors are miserable .
(B) The poor are miserables.
(C) The miserable are poor. (D) The poor are miserable.
21. How many people ………. ….. in your family ?
(Choose the correct option)
(A) is there (C) there are
(B) are there (D) there
22. You must ………. ….. this book
(Choose the correct option)
(A) read (C) to read
(B) reading (D) had to read
23. One must do ………… work
(Choose the correct option)
(A) his (C) self
(B) one’s (D) oneself
24. This car isn’t ………… for us
(Choose the correct option)
(A) enough big (C) big enough
(B) too big (D) much big
25. A person who does not believe in the existence of God is called …….
(A) Theist (C) Atheist
(B) Heretic (D) Fanatic
26. She can’t come to college as she …….. fever.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) having (C) has having
(B) have (D) has
27. Choose the correctly spelt word :
(A) Affedevit (C) Affidavit
(B) Afedevit (D) Affidevit
28. ………. ….. heavily in winter in Shimla
(Choose the correct option)
(A) It snows (C) It is snowing
(B) It snowing (D) It is snow
29. Choose the correctly spelt word :
(A) comitee (C) committee
(B) comittee (D) commiti
30. The students ………. about the weather.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) spake (C) said (B) told (D) talked
31. I saw ………….. one-eyed man.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) a (C) the (B) an (D) any
32. He ……….. completely.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) recovers (C) has recovered (B) recovering (D) have recovered
33. Choose the correct sentence :
(A) He should guard from danger.
(B) He should guard with danger.
(C) He should guard against danger.
(D) He should guard in danger.
34. Rita said, “Man is mortal”. (Choose the correct indirect narration) (A) Rita said that man is mortal.
(B) Rita said that man was mortal.
(C) Rita said that the man is mortal.
(D) Rita says that man was mortal.
35. We ………… him the money.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) has paid (C) has pay (B) will paid (D) have paid
36. They …………. finished the work.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) has been (C) will be
(B) have (D) having
Instruction: Questions from 37 to 60 are based on prescribed texts.
37. ‘Bharat is My Home’ is written by ……………
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Germaine Greer (C) Shiga Naoya
(B) Pearl S. Buck (D) Zakir Hussain
38. ‘Civilization, in real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants’
is from ……….
(Choose the correct option)
(A) A Child is Born (C) The Earth
(B) I Have a Dream (D) Indian Civilization and Culture
39. Shiga Naoya is a ……… short story writer.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Chinese (C) Japanese
(B) Malaysian (D) Korean
40. Dorothy L. Sayers is the author of …………..
(A) How Free is the Press (C) A Pinch of Snuff
(B) A Child is Born (D) The Artist
41. Pearl S. Buck is known for her …………..
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Romance (C) Novels (B) Dramas (D) Poems
42. The name of Benjy’s wife was …………..
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Natalia (C) Jessica
(B) Florence (D) Mary
43. ‘O how feeble is man’s power’ is from ………….. .
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Fire-Hymn (C) To Autumn
(B) Snake (D) Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe
44. Lomov and Natalia are characters in ____ .
(Choose the correct option)
(A) A Pinch of Snuff (C) The Artist
(B) A Marriage Proposal (D) The Earth
45. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a collection of poems by ………..
(Choose the correct option)
(A) John Donne (C) W.H Auden (B) T. S Eliot (D) Walt Whitman
46. Who is ‘I’ in the poem ‘My Grand Mother’s House’?
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Poetess (C) Aunt
(B) Grandmother (D) Mother
47. ‘Lamia’ and ‘Hyperion’ are written by-
(Choose the correct option)
(A) William Wordsworth (C) P.B Shelley
(B) John Keats (D) S.T Coleridge
48. T.S Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in ………..
(Choose the correct option)
(A) 1942 (C) 1946
(B) 1944 (D) 1948
49. ‘Travellers in their last distress’ is from …………..
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Now the Leaves are Falling Fast (C) An Epitaph
(B) Snake (D) The Soldier
50. ‘But beauty vanishes; beauty passes’ is from …………
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Snake (C) An Epitaph
(B) Fire-Hymn (D) The Soldier
51. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ is written by ………
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Alexander Pope (C) John Donne
(B) John Dryden (D) John Milton
52. Who among the following was a romantic poet ?
(Choose the correct option)
(A) John Donne (C) W. H. Auden
(B) John Keats (D) Rupert Brooke
53. English is studied as a …………. language in Saudi Arabia.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) First (C) Second
(B) Foreign (D) Native
54. ‘The Canterbuty Tales’ is written by ………….
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Langland (C) Wycliff
(B) Gower (D) Chaucer
55. The word ‘drama’ comes from a …………. word.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Latin (C) Scadinavian
(B) Indian (D) Greek
56. The ‘Romantic Revival’ is often associated with…………
(Choose the correct option)
(A) John Dryden (C) William Wordsworth
(B) Alexander Pope (D) John Milton
57. The poet in ‘Song of Myself’ ………… for himself.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) laughs (C) sings
(B) shouts (D) cries
58. ………….. is a metaphysical poet.
(Choose the correct option)
(A) T. S. Eliot (C) John Keats (B) John Donne (D) Walt Whitman
59. Benjy’s father was a local ……….
(Choose the correct option)
(A) teacher (C) farmer
(B) preacher (D) doctor
60. Who is known as ‘The Nightingale of India’?
(Choose the correct option)
(A) Sarojini Naidu (C) Kamala Das
(B)
Toru Dutt (D)AnitaDesai
SECTION - B
1. Write an essay on any one of the following in about 150-200 words :-
[8]
(A). Discipline
(B). Students and Politics
(C). Importance of Education
(D). Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
(E). Terrorism
2. Explain any one of the following: [1x4=4]
(A) Even more important than the domestication of animals was the invention of agriculture, which, however, introduced blood-thirsty practices into religion that lasted for many centuries.
(B) I have full faith in my people that they will bring forth the energy requisite for the satisfactory performance of this dual task.
(C) When we speak of ‘the freedom of the press’, we usually mean freedom in a very technical and restricted sense.
(D) Benjy needed a woman to help with the hens, and soon he was saying that he and Florence would be married.
3. Explain any one of the following: [1x4=4]
(A) Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too -
(B) Whose white waterfall could bless
Travellers in their last distress.
(C) I who have lost
My way and beg now at strangers’ doors to
Receive love, at least in small change?
(D) He drank enough
And lifted his head dreamily, as one who has drunken.
4. Write a letter to your brother, telling him to study hard for his coming
examination. [5]
OR
Write an application to the Principal of your college, requesting him for some financial help.
5. Answer any five of the following in about 40-50 words : [5x2=10]
(A) What does our civilization depend upon?
(B) How did Nanukaka impress Sohanlal Ratiram ?
(C) What are the trials and tribulations that Martin Luther King, Jr. talks about?
(D) Why did the house in ‘My Grand Mother’s House’ go into silence?
(E) In what sense does the fire forget its dead ?
(F) Is the speaker in ‘The Soldier’ afraid of death?
(G) Name two countries in which English is used extensively.
(H) Which speech came to be known as ‘Received Pronunciation’?
(I) Name the Middle English dialects.
(J) Why does the poet call Macavity, a mystery cat?
6. Answer any three in about 100-120 words: [3x5=15]
(A) Write the summary of any one of the following poems:-
(i) Fire-Hymn
(ii) Song of Myself
(iii) Snake
(B) Write the summary of any one of the followings prose-pieces:-
(i) How Free is the Press
(ii) The Earth
(iii) India Through a Traveller’s Eyes.
(C) Write a note on Indian English.
OR
Write a note on Indian Novel in English.
OR
Write a note on English as a world language.
(D) Match the poets in List A with their works in List B.
|
List A |
|
|
List B |
|
a) K. .N. Daruwala |
|
|
i) Snake |
|
b) Kamala Das |
|
|
ii) To Autumn |
|
c) Rupert Brooke |
|
|
iii) Fire-Hymn |
|
d) D. H. Lawrence |
|
|
iv) The Soldier |
|
e) John Keats |
|
|
v) My Grandmother’s House |
(E) Translate any five of the followings sentences into English:
(i) तुम बच्चों को रुला दोगे |
(ii) गंगा एक पवित्र नदी है है |
(iii) मैं बाजार जा रही हूँ |
(iv) तुम घर कब लौटोगे |
(v) वह आज दिल्ली जायेगा |
(vi) वह तीन दिनों से बीमार है |
(vii) पटना बिहार की राजधानी है |
(viii) यहाँ मत बैठो |
7.
Read the passage and answer the
questions that follow :- [4]
Floods are second only to fire as the most common of all
natural disasters. They occur almost everywhere in the world, resulting in
widespread damage and even death. Consequently, scientists have long tried to
perfect their ability to predict floods. So far, the best that scientists can
do is to recognize the potential for flooding in certain conditions. There are
a number of conditions, from deep snow on the ground to human error, that cause
flooding.
Questions:-
i) What are the most common of all natural disasters?
ii) What can the scientists at best do?
iii) What are the consequence of flood?
iv) Make sentences with : Condition; Disaster.
OR
Write a précis of the following passage and give a suitable title.
Man has many limitations. He is a mixture of good and evil. Naturally he commits mistakes, otherwise he would be a god. We have the example of Jesus Christ. He forgave his tormentors. He believed that they were ignorant and therefore, they tortured him. His greatness lay in his spirit of forgiveness. His life teaches us that we must forgive the wrong-door. By ignoring his mistakes, we give him a chance to reform.
We rise to godliness by forgiving others and showing mercy to them.
Download Pdf- Click here
