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Code: 10286
Faculties of Arts, Commerce, Science, Management & Social Science
BA, B.Com, BBA, BSc, BSW II Year III Semester Examination December 2017
Subject: General English
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Paper - III
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80
PART – A (5 x 4 = 20 Marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
- Answer as directed.
- This is not an exhaustive list of antonyms. (Give the synonym of the underlined word).
- When the army advances, the enemy (Give the antonym of the underlined word).
- He came the room.(Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition).
- This cloth is inferior to that. (Correct the sentence).
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- Answer as directed.
- I have to stop on the way fill my car with gas. (Replace the underlined American English word with a British word).
- In the UK, you wear trousers; in the US, you wear (Fill in the blank with appropriate word in American English).
- An application for the new job was sent by her. (Rewrite the sentence beginning with "She ...).
- The student wrote an interesting story. (Rewrite the sentence beginning with "An interesting story")
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- Answer as directed.
- My boss called back the meeting because of heavy rain. (Correct the particle in the underlined phrasal verb).
- She takes after her father. Both love to read books. (Correct the particle in the underlined phrasal verbs)
- Each one of those books (is/are) a classic. (Fill in the blank with correct form of the verb given in brackets.)
- Here is my car keys. (Correct the verb form).
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- Answer as directed.
- The idiom "to see red" means
- The idiom "no bed of roses" means
- (Although/In spite of) we started late, we still arrived in time. (Choose the appropriate connective.)
- It's very hot. Turn on the air conditioner. (Combine the two sentences into one using an appropriate connective.)
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- Answer as directed.
- To 'hammer out a deal' is to (reach/come across) a deal. (Choose the appropriate option).
- The term used to describe sensational news reporting is (yellow journalism/trial balloons.)(Choose the appropriate option).
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- Answer the following:
- "O why lament its fall?" Whose fall is Bronte referring to in the poem "Life"?
- According to Bronte's "Life", why should we not lose hope?
- What was the 'mistake' of the aerial messenger in the story "A Wrong Man in Workers' Paradise"?
- In "A Wrong Man in Workers' Paradise," what did the girl do after taking home the painted pitcher?
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- Answer the following:
- In the poem "Punishment in Kindergarten", why was the speaker called a peculiar girl?
- Who was the "blue-frocked woman" in the poem "Punishment in Kindergarten"?
- According to R.K. Narayan, which country has given up formalism in the use of English?
- Who, according to R.K. Narayan, has used English so far in India?
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- Answer the following:
- In "As I Grew Older", what does Hughes compare his dream to?
- What made Hughes forget his dream?
- What, according to Ambedkar, is social democracy?
- What according to Ambedkar are the "two things" that are completely absent in the Indian society?
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PART-B (5 x 12 = 60 Marks)
Answer the following in about 300 words each.
- a. Explain the attitude to life that Charlotte Bronte recommends in the poem "Life".
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- b. Discuss Tagore's use of irony in "A Wrong Man in Workers' Paradise".
- a. What was the punishment given to the girl in "Punishment in Kindergarten"? Why did she consider it a punishment?
OR
- b. How and when, according to Narayan, will a Bharat brand of English emerge in India?
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- a. Bring out the central idea of the poem "As I Grew Older".
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- b. What, according to Dr. Ambedkar, are the three things that India must do in order to remain a democracy?
- a. Write a discursive essay on "True Friendship".
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- b. Write an argumentative essay on the topic "Advertisements benefit the manufacturer, not the customer".
- a. Write a progress report on your collection of data about school dropouts in the colonies around your college.
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- b. Write a media report on: Students take out a rally in support of boycotting boycotts.
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