B.A. (Part 1) EXAMINATION, 2015
(New Course)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Paper Second
(Applied Grammar)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 50
Note : The question paper consists of three Sections A, B and C.
Section - A
(Short Answer Type Questions)
Note : All parts are compulsory. Each question carries 3 marks.
1. (A) Do as per instruction given :
(i) "Where do you live ", asked the Stranger. (Change into indirect speech)
(ii) He called upon Heaven to witness his resolve never to steal again. (Change into Direct speech)
(iii) He ..........for five hours. (Use the correct form of tense 'sleep')
(B) Do as directed :
(i) He has five children. He must provide for them. (Combine using infinitive)
(ii) The stable door was open. The horse was stolen. (Combine using participle)
(iii) We were prevented from .......... the prisoner. (Use Gerund-See)
(C) Fill in the blanks as directed :
(i) French is .......... easy language. (Use Article)
(ii) I went to .......... Hospital to see my Uncle. (Use Article)
(iii) We always like boys .......... speak the truth. (Use Relative Pronoun)
(D) Use preposition/sentence connector as required :
(i) It is ten O'clock .......... my watch.
(ii) He behave .......... a brave man should do.
(iii) The building has been razed .......... I visited the city.
(E) Use the instructions in brackets to complete the sentences :
(i) Someone has picked my pocket. (Change into Passive Voice)
(ii) Why should I be suspected by you ? (Change into Active Voice)
(iii) I shouldn't have gone there, .......... ? (Use the correct question tag)
(F) Do as directed :
(i) Not only did his father give him monkey, but his mother did too. (Change into simple sentence)
(ii) A man's modesty is in inverse proportion to his ignorance. (Change into complex sentence)
(iii) We must eat to live. (Change into compound sentence)
Section - B
(Long Answer Type Questions)
Note : Each question carries 8 marks.
2. Make a precis of the following passage and it a suitable title :
Whatever your task may be, concentrate your whole mind upon it, throw into it all the energy which you are capable of. The faultless completion of smell tasks leads inevitably to larger tasks. See that you rise by steady climbing and you will never fail. And herein lies the secret of true power. Learn, by constant practice, how to husband your resources, and to concentrate them, at any moment, upon a given point. The foolish waste all their mental and spiritual energy in frivolity, foolish chatter, or selfish argument, not to mention wasteful physical excesses.
If you would acquire overcoming power you must cultivate poise and passivity. You must be able to stand alone. All power is associated with immovability. The mountain, a massive rock, the storm-tried oak, all speak to us of power, because of their combined solitary grandeur and define fixity; while the shifting sand, the yielding twig, and the waving reed speak to us of weakness, because they are movable and non-resistant, and are utterly useless when detached from their fellows. He is the man of power who, when all his fellows are swayed by some emotion, or passion, remains calm and unmoved.
3. Expand any one of the following ideas :
(i) He who follows two hares catches neither.
(ii) The real dignity of a man lies, not in what he has, but in what he is.
(iii) The pen is mightier than the sword.
Section - C
(Long Answer Type Questions)
Note : Each question carries 8 marks.
4. (a) Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
The other day we heard someone smilingly refer to poets as dreamers. Now, it is accurate to refer to poets as dreamers, but it is not discerning to infer, as this person did, that the dreams of poets have no practical value beyond the realm of literary diversion, The truth is the pots are just as practical as people who build bridges or look into microscopes; and just as close to reality and truth. Where they differ from the logician and the scientist is in the temporal sense alone; they are ahead of their time, whereas logicians and scientists are abreast of their time. We must not be so superficial that we fail to discern the practicableness of dreams. Dreams are the sunrize streamers heralding a new day of scientific progress, another forward surge. Every forward step man takes in any field of life, is first taken along the dreamy paths of imagination. Robert Fulton did not discover his steam boat with full steam up, straining at a hawser at some Hudson river dock; first he dreamed the steam boat, he and other dreamers, and then scientific wisdom converted a picture in the mind into a reality of steel and wood. The automobile was not dug out of the ground like a nugget of gold; first men dreamed the automobile and afterward, long afterward, the practicalminded engineers caught up with what had been created by winging fantacy. He who looks deeply and with a seeing eye into the poetry of yesterday finds there all the cold scientific magic today and much which we shall not enjoy until some tomorrow. If the poet does not dream so clearly that blueprints of this vision can immediately be drawn and the practical conversions immediately effected, he must not for that reason be smiled upon as merely the mental host for a sort of harmless madness. For the poet, like the engineer, is a specialist. His being, tuned to the life of tomorrow, cannot be turned simultaneously to the life of today. To the scientist he says, ''Here I give you a flash of the future.'' The wise scientist thanks him, and takes that flash of the future and makes it over into a fibre of today.
Questions :
(i) In what sense do you think the poets are dreamers ?
(ii) In what way is the poet a specialist ?
(iii) Why are dreams, according to the author, useful to the world ?
(iv) What was Fulton's achievement ?
(v) In what way is the poet a practical man ?
Or
(b) Translate the following into English :
नये साल के उत्साह में लोग पुराने संकल्पों को भूल नये संकल्प करने लगते हैं। बहुत-से लोग तो मुँह दिखाई जैसी रस्म अदा करते हैं कि नये साल में हम ऐसा नहीं करेंगे, वैसा नहीं करेंगे। बीते वर्ष के संकल्पों को भूलने की प्रवत्ति ही हमारे लिए सबसे घातक है। भूलने का कारण हमारी दिनचर्या है। सामाजिक मूल्यों और संस्कारों की सिर्फ बात ही की जाती है, अधिकतर लोग अमल में नहीं लाते। नये वर्ष में हमें भूलने की आदत में सुधार लाने के लिए दिनचर्या में सुधार का संकल्प लेना चाहिए। आलस को त्यागकर दिन की शुरुआत धरती माँ एवं सूर्यदेव के प्रणाम से करनी चाहिए। तभी हमें नये वर्ष के उत्साह के पलों में भी बितेवर्ष के संकल्पों का स्मरण होता रहेगा।
5. Attempt any eight questions. Rewrite the following sentences as directed :
(i) As soon as the bell rings, the students leave their classes. (Begin : No Sooner.....)
(ii) In spite of the physician's seven warning he continued drinking. (Use : Although)
(iii) If the President suddenly dies the Vice-President succeeds. (Begis : In the event of .....)
(iv) No one can sing better than Lata Mangeshkar. (Begin : Lata Mangesar .....)
(v) I cancelled all my engagements the moment I heard about her accident. (Begin : No Sooner ....)
(vi) Some boys are intelligent as well as well behaved. (Use : Not only but also)
(vii) Mr. Jai never told anybody why he had abruptly left the meeting. (Begin : Never.......)
(viii) No work is mean. (Begin : Every)
(ix) He may altogether turn down the proposal. (Use : Quite likely)
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