Download OU BA 2018 2nd Year 10295 Reading Skills Question Paper

FACULTY OF ARTS Code No. 10295

B.A. (Vocational) II Year IV Semester (CBCS) Examination, May/June 2018

Subject: Communicative English

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Paper-IV: Reading Skills

Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80

PART – A (5X4=20 Marks)

Note: Answer any Five of the following in about 100 words

1. Explain the term 'Reading'.

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2. What are linking devices?
3. Explain the steps involved in Summarizing.
4. What do you understand by 'Form' in poetry?
5. What is Reading Comprehension?
6. What is 'Predicting' in reading?

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7. Fill in the blanks with appropriate linking devices
   1. (i) I wasn't hungry__________I had dinner with the family and ate a lot.
   2. (ii) He works hard__________he doesn't earn much.
   3. (iii) He was hit by a car__________he wasn't killed.
   4. (iv) Falcons fly 200 miles per hour__________ostriches can't fly at all.

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8. Use the following idioms in sentences of your own.
   1. (i) add fuel to the fire
   2. (ii) pass the buck
   3. (iii) dark horse
   4. (iv) go the extra mile

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PART-B (5X12 = 60 Marks)

Note: Answer all the questions in about 300 words

9. a) Explain the attributes of a good reader.

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   b) Explain the sub-skills of reading.
10. a) Explain the functions of Linking Devices.

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    b) What is 'Inferencing' in reading? Give examples.
11. a) Define 'Collocations' and explain them with relevant examples.

    OR

    b) Summarize the following passage:

    To have a second language at your disposal, even if you only know it enough to Contd...2..

12. a) Discuss in detail the elements of poetry.

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    b) Discuss the various methods of 'analysis and interpretation' of poetry.
13. a) Explain the strategies employed in comprehending literary texts?

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    b) Read the given poem and answer the question that follow:

    When I consider how my light is spent

    Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide.

    And that one talent, which is death to hide,

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    Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent

    To serve there with my Maker, and present

    My true account, lest, He, returning. Chide;

    Doth God exact day-labour, light denied.

    I fondly ask; but Patience, to prevent

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    That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need

    Either man's work, or His own gifts; who best

    Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state

    Is kingly: thousands at His bidding speed,

    And poet o'er land and ocean without rest; Contd...3..

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    1. Why does the poet refer to the world as 'dark'?
    2. What is lodged with him 'useless'?
    3. What opinion does the poet hold of his'Maker'?
    4. How does the poet find consolation at the end?
    5. Explain the Form of the poem.

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    6. Comment on the rhyme scheme of the poem.

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