Download Goa University BA LLB-5 Years Course (Bachelor Of Arts and LLB Five Years) 2015 April 1st Semester General English I Question Paper
BA. LL.? Semester I lz\aniination. April 2015
GENERAL ENGLISH ? I
Duration: 3 hours Total Marks: 75
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SECTION I
Ql) Transform the following sentences according to the given instruction: (10)
a) If he doesn?t study hard. he will fail. (Begin with Unless?)
b) Despite being old. he ran two miles eVery day. (Begin with ?In spite oi)
c) He is rich but he lived l?rugall). (Begin with 'Although?)
d) It rained heavily. The rivers are overflowing. (Begin with 'As')
e) As the stranger entered the town, he was met by a policeman who asked him if he was a
traveller. (C hange to Direct Speech)
t) He said to her, "You speak very good French. Where have you learnt the language?"
(Change to Indirect Speech)
g) The teacher said to the boy. ?Please improve your handwriting. It is dif?cult to understand
your answer?. (Change to Indirect Speech)
h) The audience loudly cheered the Mayor?s speech. (Change the Voice)
i) One should keep one?s promises. (Change the Voice)
j) Good news is expected. (C hange the Voice)
QZ) Write the correct question tag for the given statement: (2)
a) You didn 1 go to colleve today._ ??
b) They are playing beautiful music. ___?__? ??
C) He can?t speak English ?uently. m ?
d) Children like playing. ?
Q3) C orrect the following sentences: (3)
a) Honour and glory are his reward.
b) The ship. with its crew. are lost.
C) The cost of all these articles have risen.
d) Each of the suspected men are arrested.
e) Neither his father nor his mother are alive.
f) Treasure Island is one of the best pirate stories that were ever written.
Q4) Write a dialogue in ?fteen lines on any one ofthe following situations: (5)
a) Henry?s ambition is to become a lawyer and serve his country. His parents, who are
doctors, want him to become a doctor too. How does Henry try to convince them that his
heart is set on Law?
b) A salesman approaches you with a new product that has been launched recently. He offers
you a huge discount and a free gift along with the product. What would your reaction be?.?
c) You are invited by your friend in Delhi on a 15-day expedition to Ladakh. Your parents are
not very convinced about the safety and the arrangements made. Talk to the friend about
the same.
Q5) A) Answer any one ofthe following in about 300 words: (10)
a) The life on the island IS the microcosm ot the ?Olld \xhich exists in the adult ?orld. prlain
with illustrations from the novel. The Lord ofthe Flies.
b) Compare the personalities of Ralph and Jack. \?x'ho do )ou think had better leadership
qualities? Illustrate with examples from the text.
c) "l?he conch shell becomes a powerful symbol at civilization and order in the novel?. lixpluin
with examples from the novel Lord ot?tltc Flies.
B) Answer anv four ofthe following in about 100 words each: (10)
a) How is the ?l.ord ofthe Flies? created?
b) "...Ralph wept for the end of innocence. the darkness of man?s heart. and the fall through the
air ofthe true. wise friend called Piggy".
Explain the lines.
c) What is the theme 0fthe novel Lord of the Flies?
d) Comment on the ?littluns? in the novel Lord 0fthe Flies.
e) ?Roger is a much more brutal and sadistic Character than Jack?. Do you agree?
f) Who discovers the ?beast? ?nally?
SECTION-II
(Vocabulary/Communication Skills)
Q6) A) Make one sentence each for the legal terms given below: (5)
a) Alimony
b) Alibi
c) Autopsy
d) Defamatory
e) Attest
B) Explain the following legal temts: (10)
a) Bigamy
b) Borstal Institution
C) Ex Gratia
d) Infringement
(Comprehension Skills)
Q7) Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: (5)
It is not the fashion designer who dictates fashion. he is a person of immense receptive powers who
?feels? the need of the world in which he lives and creates accordingly. Throughout history, there have
been strong parallels between fashion and the events of the day. By looking at clothes. the keen
observer may accurately predict the times ahead. Long skirts appear when times are difficult. short
skirts correspond to periods of af?uence. Tight belts announce puritanical tendencies and attitudes:
high hair styles are in fashion when regimes are about to collapse. In other words. clothes symbolise
an era because they concretize everything.
Paco Rabanne predicts that the clothes of the future will be premoulded, bound, or welded. no longer
will they be sewn. ?Sewing is bondage.? he says. He believes that we are in age of free expression and
that the clothes of tomorrow with be ?Free". far more individual in both shape and colour. He regards
today's conventional clothes as form of punishment and his preference for different materials comes
from his passionate desire to expand people?s vision.
Great changes will not take place in fashion itself, according to Larry La Gaspe. Rather, new ?bres
and technical developments will be making the big fashion headlines as fashion develops as part of the
utilisation of solar energy in our clothing.
La Gaspe designs are ofthe ?space age'. In fifty years, according to him. there will be no such thing as
a natural fibre ? not unless it can be grown at the space stations. In twenty years. a silk blouse will
probably sell for a few thousand dollars and land that is currently used for breeding silkworms and
growing cotton will be used for growing food. He believes that we will use only synthetics. but the
method of their production will change.
Fabrics for everyday wear will incorporate ?bres that NASA has worked \\ith 1111? the last ten )ears
Solar power packs. which will be designed into the shoulders of the garment. will draw energy li?om
the sun and store it. Tubes to distribute this energy will extend from the shoulders through the entire
suit. The retentive ?bres will heat 111 the \xinter and cool in the summer b) means ot?a control s) stem.
30 Clothes will be more unisex in general ~ especially 111 the everyday uniform type ot?clothing. But.
we will always have a divergence from that for the evening. concludes Gaspe.
a) Suggest a suitable title for the above passage. State a reason to justify your choice.
b) Explain brie?y Paco Rabanne?s words "Sewing is bondage".
c) What kind ofchange will take place in the ?eld of fashion. according to Larry La (jaspe??
d) Give examples from the passage to prove that Clothes symbolise an era.
e) How will the clothes ofthe future be different from the clothes of today?.?
08) (5)
A) The college hasjust inaugurated its state-of-the-art Gymkhana. As the Sports Secretary of
the college, write a report on the inauguration ofthe Gymkhana.
OR
B) Assuming you are the reporter 0f?The Herald" write a news report of with the headline
?Bomb Blast in the Capital".
(Note: Imagine the details of the report)
Q9) Read the following passage and make notes: (5)
Nobody knows for sure who invented the ?rst spectacles or who wore the ?rst
pair. Various old European coins of the Middle Ages were stamped with eyeglasses. symbolizing the
ability to see the truth.
The oldest lens known was found in the ruins ofNinevah. It was a lens of rock crystal with a diameter
of 1 '/2 inches and a 4 '/2 inches focus. Thus we know that the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians had
discovered the magnifying power of certain transparent gems; but it is quite certain that spectacles
were unknown to them and were equally unknown to the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians. There is no
record of spectacles among the ancient Greeks either.
The Roman Emperor, Nero. looked at various games and shows through an emerald or ruby glass
which he held up to his eye. But this was not used as an aid to sight. He merely liked to look at things
through the coloured gem.
Spectacles seemed to have cropped up simultaneously in China and in Furope about the end of the
thirteenth century Marco Polo wrote (about 1260) that old people in ( hina wore them for reading
?ne print . A fourteenth- -century record mentions that a certain C hinese gentleman gave a ?ne horse 1n
exchange for a pair of spectacles.
These ancient Chinese spectacles were large oval lenses of rock crystal, rose quartz, topaz. or
amethyst. set in tonoise-shell rims. fastened on the wearer with various devices. Some were tied
around the ears with string. or fastened into hats. Often they had cords which passed over the ears and
were kept in place by little ornamental weights which either hung down behind the ears or were drawn
forward over the shoulders.
They were regarded as objects of reverence because the rims of tortoise-shell came from a sacred and
symbolic animal, and the lenses were made from sacred stones. People wore them at ?rst not so much
to aid eyesight as for good luck, or curing eye ailments or for the dignity which they bestowed on the
wearer. Sometimes even empty frames were worn as a mark of distinction.
Q10) Write a paragraph of about 150 words. on any one ofthe following topics (5)
a) Good manners get you anywhere
b) Noises at night
c) What makes you proud of your country?
d) A historical ?gure who is the object of your admiration.
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