ENGLISH STUDY MATERIAL: MODEL QUESTION PAPER -1 FOR BBA & BHM -1 SEM

MODEL QUESTION PAPER -1
FOR BBA & BHM -1 SEM - I

FIRST SEMESTER   PART II –ENGLISH -1

SECTION –A – (10 MARKS)

FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH CORRECT ANSWER

Answer Section A Continuously

1.     What was the wrong message been sent by the school according to the author?

2.     What injustices does Kalam want us to fight?

3.     What is the prime rule of ecology?

4.     What, according to Lynd, is the most compulsive and interesting thing about the wild birds that compel our respect?

5.     Why did Owens kick the pit in disgust?

6.     Why did Harvey’s boss treat him with respect?

7.     Comment on the Oxymoron ‘rich and weary’.

8.     How was the bearded man wounded?

9.     What happened to the king during the fifth year of his rule?

10.            Marion does not want to take the eel pie because she is frightened of the vagabonds. (State true or false)

SECTION B – (25 marks)

Answer the following in about 100 words each.   (5*5=25)

11.            (a) what does Kalam imply by the question, “will history repeat itself?”

or

       (b) why does the author call biodiversity a precious genetic library?

12.            (a) why does the nightingale remains supreme among birds of all kinds?

Or

         (b) Describe the professional rivalry and personal friendship of Owens

               and Long.

13. (a) How does God intend to make man seek Him?

Or

      (b) Describe how the knight fell in love with the beautiful lady and

                declared his love and   passion for her.

14.(a) why would the Christmas presents of Jim and Della for each other

          remain useless for some time at least?

Or

                   (b) how did the Hermit interpret the events at the hermitage?

15. (a) write a short paragraph using the following hints:



Last week – an urgent piece of work – in a hurry – a large number of      passengers in the bus stop – an over crowded bus – hung on to the

                       foot board – fell off before the next stop – a few bruises and minor

                        injuries – resolved never to travel on the foot board.

Or

                       (b) (i) Give the meanings of the following :

a.     ethical

b.     apartheid

c.      fragile

d.     metamorphosed

e.      alien

                   (ii) Give the antonyms of the following using prefixes :

1.     frequent

2.     recognize

3.     agree

4.     honest

5.     perfect

SECTION C – (40 MARKS)

**Answer the following each in about 200 words. (5*8=40)**

16. (a) How does the author show with examples that without a potential

   winner, a game or contest loses its excitement?

Or

             (b) How does Kalam establish that a personal crisis may not only be a

               turning point in one’s life, but can also alter the course of history?

17. (a) which is considered by Owens as the greatest Olympic Prize? Why?

Or

                  (b) how will you categorize the instances given by Carnegie? What do

                   they tell us?

18. (a) how does the poet Nissim Ezekiel bring out the superstitious beliefs

        of the villagers?

Or

                    (b) examine the title of the poem, the Pulley.

19. (a) Bring out the elements of satire in the play The Shirt

Or

                 (b) Briefly describe the joke that was played upon Gaultier and Marion.

20. (a) There was a bus accident. As a reporter you go to the spot, meet the passengers who had a miraculous escape, the hospitalized passengers, crew and the public and gather a report. Draft a report for your news paper. Invent details.

Or

(i) Raghu can swim, …………(add question tag)

(ii) the man said, “I can do the Job”. (change into indirect speech)

(iii) Neela bought the sari ………. It was pretty. (fill the blank by choosing although/hence/as)

(iv) The child ………. Milk now. ( fill by appropriate form of verb , was drunk/had drunk/is drinking)

(v) the man jumped ….. the river to save the child. (fill in the blank with suitable preposition)

(vi) our plane arrived at noon……….. (rewrite by using the nominal form )

(vii) I left the key on the table………(frame the suitable wh questions)

(viii) give the adjectival form for promise.