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B. A. LL.B. (Semester – IV) Examination, April 2016
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Special English
Time: 3 Hrs. Marks: 75
Instructions: 1). All questions are compulsory. However, internal choice is available.
2) Number the answers correctly.
3) Figures to the right indicate marks
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SECTION -1
1) Fill in the blanks with appropriate sentence linkers: (3)
a) I am too busy to help you; ________, I think you can do it by yourself.
b) He calls himself a professor; ________ he's only a teaching assistant.
c) He went out partying every week night; ________ he failed his class.
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2) Select the appropriate modal verb: (3)
a) You (may / could / must) not smoke in the hospital.
b) I (could / can / should) see a doctor. I have a terrible headache.
c) Smoking (should / can / must) cause cancer.
3) Choose the appropriate homonym: (3)
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a) Her (knight / night) in shining armour rides a horse that is black.
b) The teacher walked down the (aisle / isle) between the rows of desks.
c) Please try to not (waste / waist) paper.
4) Replace the underlined word with its synonym: (3)
a) Dinesh did not sleep well last night as is not feeling very alert today.
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i) bright ii) bold iii) attentive
b) There's a stiff punishment for breaking that law.
i) penalty ii) penury iii) privy
c) Kerry gave a triumphant shout when his team won the match.
i) vicious ii) victorious iii) thunderous
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5) Write antonyms for the following words: (3)
a) Create b) Abundant c) Optimistic
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6) Shruti Kumar gave a loan of Rs.1,00,000/- to Reshmi Naik who was to repay the loan within one year but has failed to do so.
Draft a legal notice on behalf of Shruti to Reshmi demanding the repayment of the loan. (10)
7) Write a report on either one of the following topics: (10)
a) Imagine you are the Cultural Secretary of the college. Write a report on the Annual Day 2015-16, organised by the college.
b) As a reporter for the local newspaper, write a report on the double murder that has shocked the state.
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8) Write a paragraph of about 150 words on any one of the following topics: (05)
a) Where there is a will, there is a way
b) Fate and Coincidence
c) Nationalism
d) Transparency in Public Administration
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9) Write an essay in not more than 400 words on any one of the following topics: (10)
a) Is it effective to censor parts of the media?
b) A most interesting animal encounter
c) The time you stood up for the rights of someone else
d) If I could live in another Century
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SECTION-3
10) Answer any five of the following questions in not more than 150 words: (25)
a) 'No one can be a truly competent lawyer unless he is a cultivated man.' Elaborate on this statement, which forms the crux of Felix Frankfurter's letter to Paul Claussen, Jr.
b) Why does Arthur T. Vanderbilt assert, 'The "law's delays" is a polite phrase for the delays of judges and lawyers' and how does he elucidate it?
c) "Let us prepare a grave both wide and deep and respectfully inter this hoary proverb, that the law is a jealous mistress, to which we have so long paid lip service." Explain these lines from the essay The Law as a Jealous Mistress.
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d) Describe briefly the trial of Harlamov in Chekov's short story In the Court.
e) Why did Gandhi conclude that the British connection had made India more helpless than she ever was before, politically and economically?
f) 'There is no ground for suspecting him of any animosity to the man: he shot the law.' What does G. B. Shaw mean by this comment?
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