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LL.B. (Hons.) (Semester – II) Examination, April 2014

Duration: 3 Hours

GENERAL ENGLISH - II

Total Marks: 75

Instructions: 1) Answer both Sections. All questions are compulsory.

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2) Write the question and sub question number correctly.

3) Figures to the right indicate marks.

SECTION-1

I. Answer the following questions as directed within brackets: 12

1. a) The detective left no stone unturned to trace the culprit.
   1. Did very irrelevant things.

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   2. Used all available means.
   3. Took no pains.
   (Choose the correct alternatives to the underlined phrases)
2. b) His voice gets on my nerves.
   1. Makes me ill.
   2. Makes me sad.

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   3. Irritates me.
   (Choose the correct alternatives to the underlined phrases)
3. a) Site b) Sight (Use in sentences of your own)
4. a) Canvas b) Canvass (Give the meaning)
5. a) receippt, receipt, receit, receipt. b) corrupt, currupt, coruppt, curropt. (Choose the correct spelling)

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6. a) restaurent. b) sacretary. (Correct the spelling)
7. a) postpone. b) hemisphere. (Identify the prefix and give the meaning)
8. a) I tried to give him some advice but he to listen.
   1. Avoided
   2. Refused
   3. Denied

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   b) The bright colour of this shirt has away.
   1. gone
   2. paled
   3. faded
   (Choose the appropriate word to fill in the blank)
9. a) Lend b) Forbid (Give the antonym)

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10. a) One who uses fear as a weapon of power. b) A person who travels to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion. (Substitute one word)
11. a) sub judice. b) bonafide. (Give the meaning of words)
12. a) secure. b) curious. (Give the synonym)
13. a) injunction. b) bail. (Use in sentences of your own, so as to convey their meaning)

II. Explain with reference to the context (any four) : 20

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1. "Stock your mind with the deposit of much good reading and widen and deepen your feelings by experiencing vicariously as much as possible the wonderful mysteries of the universe, and forget all about your future career".
2. "No system of law can justly compel a witness to give evidence and then, on finding him victimized for doing it, refuse to give him redress."
3. "He had lost the ordinary squeamishness about bloodshed and death that disables the man of peace in such emergencies..."
4. "Have you ever mentioned this fearful matter - whatever it is – to anybody?"
5. "The first is that no severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain as it must always be."

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III. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it: 6

It is generally acknowledged that children learn a lot from their parents. It is not so commonly admitted that parents learn a great deal from their children. As adults, it is easy to assume that we are always right, but the laugh was on me one beautiful day. My daughter Kasmira knew how much I love flowers. One day when she was nine years old, she picked some branches from our neighbour's blossoming fruit tree. Realizing she intended to please me, I didn't scold her, but chose a different approach. "these are lovely dear, but do you realize that if you had left them on the tree, each of these blossoms would have become a cherry?" "No, they wouldn't have", she said firmly" "Oh, yes, they would have. Each of these blossoms would have grown into a cherry." "Well, okay, mother, if you insist", she finally conceded, "but they were plums last year".

1. What is not commonly acknowledged is that
   1. Parents learn a great deal from their children
   2. Children learn a great deal in spite of their parents
   3. Children learn a lot from their parents

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   4. Parents teach their children a great deal
2. "The laugh was on me" means that
   1. People laughed at the mother
   2. The mother laughed at herself
   3. The mother was caught in the wrong

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   4. The daughter was wrong
3. What the daughter picked from the neighbour's garden? These were
   1. Some branches with blossoms
   2. Some branches with fruit
   3. Some branches

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   4. Some flowers
4. The mother did not scold the daughter because
   1. She did not understand why her daughter had done so
   2. She decided to indirectly make her daughter realize her mistake
   3. She loved flowers

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   4. She liked cherry blossoms
5. The mother was caught in the wrong because the daughter
   1. Reminded her that the branch with blossoms was from a plum tree
   2. Proved that those blossoms would not yield any fruit.
   3. Proved that she had not picked the branch with the blossom

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   4. Reminded her that she loved flowers
6. The word "conceded" in the above passage means
   1. Agreed
   2. Voted
   3. Disagreed

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   4. Contested

SECTION-II

IV. Make a précis of the following passage in not more than 120 words and give it a suitable title. 10

There are so many lessons one can learn about life from a dog. Imagine this scenario: it is raining heavily outside and you need to leave for someone's house. The dog is up and eager, to go with you. You tell it to stay home. As you leave, you see it squeezing out through the gap in the doorway. You scold it and order it back home. Then at every turn you make, you suddenly see it following you sheepishly at a distance. It follows at the risk of being reprimanded for the sore reason of being somewhere nearby. How else can we experience so selfless an instance of love and faithfulness ? We can learn a lifelong lesson from this sincere warm display of perpetual companionship. Observe the eating habits of your dog. It does not eat, except when hungry. It does not drink, unless it is thirsty. It does not gorge itself. It stops eating when it has had enough.

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A dog also sets a perfect example of adaptability. If it is moved to a strange place, it is able to adapt itself to that place and to its thousand peculiarities without a murmur of complaint. It is able to learn and adapt to a new family's ways and customs. It is quick and ready to please. Man, being accustomed to comfort and wealth will be lost if suddenly stripped of all he is accustomed to. A dog also teaches us a thing or two about, unselfish love. When a dog knows death is approaching, it tries, with its last vestige of strength, to crawl away elsewhere to die, in order to burden its owners no more. A dog does things with all vigor. However, when there is nothing to do, it lies down and rests. It does not waste its strength and energy needlessly. Many working people are burning the candles at both ends. Many suffer nervous breakdowns due to stress. Perhaps, they should learn to rest like a dog does. A dog above all is truly man's best friend.

V.

1. Write a report on a college field trip which was your first visit to a local court. 7
2. Write a report on the annual day celebration in your college.

VI. Answer any two of the following: 10

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1. Which is the most important agency involved in the criminal justice dispensation system according to Justice R. P. Sethi ? Elucidate with reference to the essay "Curbing Crime".
2. What is the central challenge facing the Indian Judiciary ? Discuss with reference to the essay "Why Criminals are Acquitted".
3. What comments does Justice R. P. Sethi have about the reasons for delay in the conclusion of trials and the causes resulting in acquittals of criminals?

VII. Write an essay of about 400 words on any one of the following topics : 10

1. The kind of lawyer you would like to be.

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2. Is Supreme Court Gay sex verdict progressive?
3. The world a hundred years from now.
4. Money is important but is it important how we earn money?