Download Goa University BA LLB-5 Years Course (Bachelor Of Arts and LLB Five Years) 2016 April 4th Semester Special English Question Paper
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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1) Fill in the blanks with appropriate sentence linkers:
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.
2) Select the appropriate modal verb:
a) You (may / could / must) not smoke in the hospital.
b) I (could / can / should) see a doctor. I have a terrible headache.
0) Smoking (should / can / must) cause cancer.
3) Choose the appropriate homonym:
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:
a) Dinesh did not sleep well last night as is not feeling very alert today.
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
5) Write antonyms for the following words:
3) 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.
Dra? a legal notice on behalf of Shruti to Reshmi demanding the repayment of the loan. (10)
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7) Write a report on either 995; 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.
8) Write a paragraph of about 150 words on any M 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
9) Write an essay in not more than 400 words on any 995 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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10) Answer any m 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?
e) ?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.
d) Describe brie?y 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?
t) ?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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