Download Goa University BA LLB-5 Years Course (Bachelor Of Arts and LLB Five Years) 2014 Oct 1st Semester General English 1 Question Paper
GENERAL ENGLISH - 1
Duration: 3 hours Total Marks: 75
Instructions: 1) All questions are compulsory
2) F igures t0 the right indicate?tll marks
SECTION - 1
Q1) Transform the following sentences according to the instruction given: (10)
a) He said that he did not wish to see any one of them and ordered them to go away.
(Change to Direct Speech)
b) The girl said to her mother, ?I did my homework. My head is aching. Can I go and
sleep?? (change to Indirect Speech)
c) Hear him out, and you will understand him better. (Begin with ?if)
d) She sang well but didn?t win the prize. OBegin with ?Although?)
e) Shalini was knocked down by a speeding car. (Change the Voice)
f) Somebody has put out the lights in the auditorium. (Change the Voice)
g) If he is late he will not be allowed to enter school. (Begin with ?Unless?)
h) All orders will be executed promptly. (Change the Voice)
i) He said to his son, ?Please wait here till I come back.?(Change to Indirect Speech)
j) Now that Navneet has gone, things are not the same. (Begin with ?Since?)
Q2) Write the correct question tag for the given statement: (2)
a) You are not going out, ?
b) He will never give up, ?
c) He painted it himself, ?
d) They have sold their house, ?
Q3) Correct the following sentences: (3)
a) The Committee has issued their report.
b) The Ganges are the most important river in India.
c) The crowd, standing outside the Assembly, are getting restless.
d) Each of the suspected men are arrested.
e) Neither his father nor his mother are alive.
0 Treasure Island is one of the best pirate stories that were ever written.
Q4) Wiite a dialogue in ??een lines on any one of the following situations: (5)
a) Manoj, a vegetarian, goes to a restaurant and orders lunch for
himself. After the food is served, he realizes he is served a chicken preparation.
Write a conversation between Manoj and the hotel Manager.
b) You go to the college library to return your books along with late
fee. The librarian notices that one of the books is badly damaged.
Apologize to him and offer to pay a ?ne for the damages.
c) One day Roger sees a tourist being cheated by a local taxi driver.
How does Roger help the tourist by talking to the taxi driver and
telling him the importance of ?atithi devobhava??
Q5) A) Answer any one of the following in about 300 words: (10)
3) Describe the events from the time of Jack?s robbing of Piggy?s glasses to the end
of the novel.
b) ?The story of Lord of the Flies concerns a clash of con?icting personalities.?
Explain with illustrations from the novel.
C)
Who is your favourite character in the novel? Mention reasons and provide
suitable illustrations to support your answer.
B) Write short notes on any four of the following in about 100 words: (10)
a)
What is the signi?cance of the title Lord of the Flies?
b) Why does Jack decide to form his own tn'be?
c) Write a short note on Simon.
d) Describe the world of the ?littluns?.
e) What is the symbolic signi?cance of the conch in the novel?
f) What is the role of Sarnneric in the novel?
Section ? II
(V ocabulary/ Communication Skills)
Q6) A) Make one sentence each for the legal terms given below: (5)
a) Perjury
b) Embezzlement
c) Polygamy
d) Defamatory
e) Court Martial
B) Explain the following legal terms: (10)
a) Blasphemy
b) Extortion
c) Infanticide
d) Af?davit
(Comprehension Skill) ( 5 )
Q7) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
We may assume that when Kon-Tiki sailed from the coast of Peru after his defeat at Lake
Titicaca, he had one of these two objects ? as the spiritual representative of the sun among an
entirely sun-worshipping people. It is very probable that he ventured right out of sea to follow
the sun itself on its journey, in the hope of ?nding a new and more peace?rl country. An
alternative possibility was to sail his rafts up the coast of South America in order to land
higher up and found a new kingdom out of reach of his persecutors.
Whatever these sun-worshipers? plans were when they ?ed from their homeland, they
certainly provided themselves with supplies for the voyage. Dried meat and ?sh and sweet
potatoes were the most important part of their primitive diet. When the ra?sman of that time
put to sea along the desert coast of Peru, they had ample supplies of water on board. Instead
of clay vessels, they generally used the skin of giant bottle gourds, which were resistant to
bumps and blows. Even more adapted to raft use were thick canes of giant bamboos: they
bored through all the knots and poured water through little hole at the end, which they
stopped with a plug or with pitch or resin. Thirty or forty of these thick bamboo canes could
be lashed fast along the ra? under the bamboo deck, where they lay shaded and cool with
fresh sea water at about 79 degree Fahrenheit with the Equatorial Current ? washing about
them. A store of this kind would contain twice as much water as we ourselves used on our
whole voyage, and still more could be taken simply by lashing on more bamboo canes in the
water underneath the ra?, where they weighed nothing and occupied no space.
Even if our predecessors had started from land with inadequate supplies, they would have
managed well enough as long as they drifted across the sea with the current, in which ?sh
abounded. There was not a day on our whole voyage on which ?sh were not swimming round
the raft and could not easily be caught. Scarcely a day passed without at any rate ?ying ?sh
coming on board of their own accord. To starve to death was impossible.
The old natives knew well the device which many shipwrecked men hit upon during the war:
chewing thirst-quenching moisture out of raw ?sh. One can also press the juices out by
twisting pieces of ?sh in a cloth, or, if the ?sh is large, it is fairly simple matter to cut holes in
its side, which soon became ?lled with ooze from the ?sh?s lymphatic glands. It does not
taste good if one has anything better to drink, but the percentage of salt was so low that one?s
thirst is quenched.
i) ' Give the meaning of the following words:
a) Persecutors b) predecessors
ii) What assumptions have been made about Kon?Tiki?s reasons for sailing from the
coast of Peru?
iii) How did the sailors of Kon?Tiki?s time manage to have ample supplies of water
on board?
iv) Why was it impossible to starve to death?
v) How did the sailors quench their thirst with the raw ?sh?
(Compositional Skills) (5)
Q8) A) A Recreational Hall has just been inaugurated in your college. As the
\______~_____ _ A ._ -7, ,_ ,? _ "?7 7,
General Secretary of the college, write a report on the inaugural
function.
OR
B) As a reporter of a local newspaper, write a report on the collapse of a
building in Mapusa due to construction defects.
Q9) Read the following passage and make a note of the main ideas. (5)
Euthanasia refers to mercy killing or the voluntary ending of someone who is terminally or
hopelessly ill. The word is derived from an ancient Greek term ?eu thanatos?, which meant
?easy death?. All around the world euthanasia has become a legal, medical and ethical issue
over which opinion is divided.
Euthanasia can be either active or passive. When a physician or other medical personnel takes
a deliberate action that will induce death, it is considered as Active Euthanasia. This includes
administering an overdose of morphine, insulin or barbiturates, followed by an injection of
curate. Passive euthanasia means letting a patient die for lack of treatment, or suspending the
existing treatment. Examples of passive euthanasia include taking patients off a respirator
(breathing apparatus) or removing other life~support systems.
The decision-making process in mercy killing is a cause of most of the controversy. Who
decides if a patient is to die? In'the early 19905, several terminally ill patients attempted to
make decisions about when their own lives should end by using a controversial suicide device
developed by Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
In countries where involuntary euthanasia is not legal, the court systems have proved very
lenient in dealing with medical personnel who practice it. If physicians follow certain
guidelines they may actively carry out mercy killings on incurably ill people. Courts have
also been somewhat lenient with friends or relatives who have assisted terminally ill patients
to die.
Medical advances in recent decades have made it possible to keep terminally ill people alive
far beyond any hope of recovery or improvement. For this reason the ?living will? has come
into common use in the United States as part of the right-to-die principle. Making of such
wills that instruct hospitals and physicians to suspend treatment or to refuse life?support
measures in hopeless cases is now legally allowed in many states if the US.
010) W?te a paragraph of about 150 words, on any one of the following topics (5)
1) A day when nothing went right
2) There is nothing like the companionship of books
3) The Feeling of Friendship
4) A diamatic moment in your life
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