Download Goa University BA LLB-5 Years Course (Bachelor Of Arts and LLB Five Years) 2014 April 2nd Semester General English 1 Question Paper
GENERAL ENGLISH ? 1
Duration: 3 hours Total Marks: 75
Instructions : Answer all questions.
I A)Choose the correct alternative to the underlined idiomatic expressions: (2)
i. He reached his destination at the drop of a hat.
a) in no time b) after some time c)a?er a long time.
ii. The truth was brought out.
a) forgottenb) to expose c)to assume
B) Make sentences with the following words: (2)
i. Stationery
ii. Stationary
C) Identify the origin and make sentences with the following: (4)
i. Status quo
ii. Bon voyage
D) Correct the following spellings: (2)
i. Heirarchy
ii. Accomodate
E) Choose the correct one-word substitute for the following: (2)
i. The main character/hero in the play or a novel
a)antagonistb)witness c)protagonist
ii. One who studies the elements of weather
a)meteorologist b)geologist c)zoologist
ILA) Answer any four of following questions: (20)
1. ?No one can be a truly competent lawyer unless he is a cultivated man?. What does
Frankfurter mean by the term ?cultivated man??
Why did Sir Charles Russel ask Pigott to write a number of words?
How does Shaw describe the murderer?
In the essay ?Victimization of Witness,? why was the tenant evicted from home?
Comment on the tactics used by Sir Charles Russel while cross-examining Pigott.
Do you think that George Bernard Shaw was a rationalist? Comment with reference to the
text.
B) Answer any two of the following: (10)
1. ?An unfilled vacancy may not cause that much harm as a wrongly ?lled vacancy?.
Explain the above lines from the essay ?Why Criminals are Acquitted?.
2. ?Court time is sacrosanct and nojudge has any right to waste it?. Who/what is the
author, Justice A. S. Anand referring to in the above mentioned lines?
3. ?The importance of taking into account the victim and his problems is a sine qua non of
a social welfare society?. Explain the above lines from the essay ?Curbing Crime?.
III. A) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below: (7)
Good readers can understand the individual sentences and the organizational structure of a piece of
writing. They can comprehend ideas, follow arguments, and detect implications. They know most
of the words in the text already, but they can also determine the meaning of many of the unfamiliar
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words from the context - failing this, they can use their dictionary effectively to do so. In
summary, good readers can extract from the writing what is important for the particular task they
are employed in. And they can do it quickly!
Educational researchers have also found a strong correlation between reading and vocabulary
knowledge. In other words, students who have a large vocabulary are usually good readers. This is
not very surprising, since the best way to acquire a large vocabulary is to read extensively, and if
you read extensively you are likely to be or become a good reader!
So if you want your child to be successful at school encourage him or her to read. Reading non-
?ction in English is probably the most important, but English ?ction and any reading in the mother
tongue - if done extensively - will help your child develop the reading competence that is essential
for academic achievement.
1. Mention the characteristics of a good reader. (2)
2. Synonyms for a) comprehend b) implication. (2)
3. Which section of the society is the passage addressedto?(1)
4. Mention the ?ndings of the educational researchers.(2)
B.) Make a pr?cis of the following passage and give it a suitable title. (8)
In every country people imagine that they are the best and the cleverest and the others are not as
good as they are. The Englishman thinks that he and his country are the best; the Frenchman is
very proud of France and everything French. The Germans and the Italians think no less of their
countries and many Indians imagine that India in many ways is the greatest country in the world.
This is wrong. Everybody wants to think well of himself and his country. But really there is no
person who has not got some good qualities and some bad qualities. In the same way, there is no
country which is not partly good and partly bad. We must take the good wherever we ?nd it and
try to remove the bad wherever it may be. We are, of course, most concerned with our own
country, India. Unfortunately, it is in a bad way today. Many of our people are poor and unhappy.
They have no joy in their lives. We have to ?nd out how we can make them happier. We have to
see what is good in our lives. We have to ?nd out how we can make them happier. We have to see
what is good in our ways and customs and try to keep it, and whatever is bad we have to throw
away. If we ?nd anything good in other countries, we should certainly take it. (241 words)
C) Write a report on any one of the following: (8)
1. As the reporter of a local newspaper, write a report on the accident which occurred on the
highway yesterday afternoon.
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2. Imagine you are the Sports Secretary of your college. Write a report on the sports activities
organised for the year 20] 3-14.
D) Write an essay of about 400 words on any one of the following: (10)
1) Generation gap.
2) A memory that you will always treasure.
3) Inequality: a maj or problem
4) Status of women in India'
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