Download OU BA 1st Year Common to All 4121 General English 2019 Dec Question Paper

Code No: 4121

SOCIAL SCIENCE & MANAGEMENT

B.A. /B.Com/B.Sc./B.S.W./B.B.A. I-Semester (CBCS) Examination, Nov./Dec. 2019

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Subject: General English

Paper - I

Time: 3 hours

Max Marks: 80

PART- A (4 x 5 = 20 Marks)

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Answer any four of the following.

1. Answer as directed

   1. Sridhar was sleeping in the garden. (Identify and underline the common noun).
   2. A ______ of sailors. (Fill in the blank with a collective noun).
   3. Chronology. (Identify and underline the root in the given word).

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   4. Momento. (Correct the spelling)
   5. Food (write the phonetic transcription of the given word).

2. Answer as directed.

   1. Children should obey ______ parents. (Use appropriate pronoun).

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   2. She is one of those who help old people. (Correct the sentence).
   3. Our team won the hockey champion. (Add appropriate suffix to the Underlined word).
   4. Don't be ______ ('child') (Use an appropriate prefix).
   5. admission (Correct the spelling)

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3. Answer as directed.

   1. Where ______ your friends going yesterday? (Fill in the blank with the correct form of 'be').
   2. Where ______ you see my phone. (Fill in the blank with the correct auxiliary 'do').
   3. She wanted to ______ her best suit (Choose between 'wear' 'ware').
   4. Keep ______ (guess) the answers till you get the right one. (Fill in the blank with the correct form of the 'guess').

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   5. alas we lost the match (punctuate the sentence)

4. Answer as directed.

   1. Give the past and past participle forms of the verb 'know'.
   2. How have you been ______ ? (Fill in the blank with the correct form of 'do').

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   3. Many do a mistake out of carelessness. (Correct the underlined collocation).
   4. necessity is the mother of ______ (Fill in the blank with the correct form of 'invent').
   5. Write the homophone for the word - 'cot'.

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5. Expand the following topic sentence into a paragraph. Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
6. What is the importance of goal-setting in one's personal and professional life?

PART- B (4 x 15 = 60 Marks)

Answer the following questions.

7. 1. What was Charlie's outlandish dream?

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   2. What is the significance of the title 'The Curb in the Sky"?
8. 1. According to Inge, what makes some people happy and why?

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   2. What lesson can one learn from story of the ambassador and his servant in Inge's essay?
9. 1. What lessons can we learn from 'Psalm of Life'?

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   2. What is the tone of the poem 'Psalm of Life'. Explain with examples.

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10. 1. Bring out the hypocrisy of human beings as seen in The Dear Departed.

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    2. Examine the character of Mrs. Slater as mother, daughter and sister?

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