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B.A. (Part 1) EXAMINATION, 2012

(New Course)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Paper First
(Text)
Time : Three Hours                                                            Maximum Marks : 50
Note : All questions are compulsory.

Section - A

(Short Answer Type Questions)


1. Answer in a few words any ten of the following :
2 each
   (a) Did Margie hate school only because the teacher gave her a lot of geography tests ?
   (b) C.E.M. Joad said that the past of man has been 'a pretty beastly business why ?
   (c) When will there be no life on this earth according to C.E.M. Joad ?
   (d) I what way are great soldiers similar to animals?
   (e) Briefly describe the meeting of Matilda and Forestier after the replacement of the necklace.
   (f) How many years did Matilda and Loisel take to pay back their dept? 
   (g) How did the astrologer analyse mankind's problems ?
   (h) Is a robot slave technically possible ?
   (i) Will housewives prefer to give only certain kinds of jobs to robots or all their work ?
   (j) Babies are held.on the left, why ?
   (k) Eighty percent of the Madonna and child paintings had the body on the left. What does this show ? 
   (l) “I brought a wrong man in this Paradise''. Elucidate.
   (m) How is life in the Worker's Paradise ?
   (n) Is there a moral to the story ‘Three Questions’ by Leo Tolstoy ?
   (o) Why could the narrator not recognize the lady in 'The Luncheon' ?


Section - B

(Long Answer Type Questions)


Note : Each question carries 6 marks

2. Write a short note on the element of pathos in ‘The Home
Coming'.
Or
What makes 'The Diamond Necklace’ an interesting story ?
Or
Summaries Tagore’s views given in ‘A wrong Man in Worker’s Paradise’.
3. Discuss the main idea of the essay 'Civilization and History' by C.E.M. Joad.
Or
What are the views of Desmond marris on the way mothers hold their babis on the left?
Or
Describe L. Dudley Stamp’s views on the increasing population of the world.

Section - C


Note : Each question carries 6 marks.

4.(a) Give a brief introduction of Ramanand.
Or
      What short of people wear the Charlie Chaplin moustache ? And the mouse moustache.
  (b) What were the most precious possessions of Jim and Della ?
Or
      In ‘A Wrong man in worker's Paradise why does the author mention boys who pass their tests without studying their books ?
  (i)   I order to make us understand how the man passed into heaven without doing any useful work.
  (ii)  I order to suggest that the man had been lucky even in his student days.
  (iii)  I  order to indicate that passing tests is as difficult as going to heaven.
  (iv)  I order to bring out the importance of reading books and doing useful work.

Section - D

(Grammar Based on Text)


Note : Each question carries 3 marks.

5.(a) Fill in the blanks of any three of the following :
  (i)   It is really due ..... the spread of knowledge.  (for/to/by)
  (ii)  People would have died ....... some serious killing diseases.  (of/off/from)
  (iii) People laughed ....... him.  (on/at/upon)
  (iv) The said it ....... his face.  (on/to)

  (b) Give one-word substitutions of any three of the following :
  (a) An idea or desire that soon passes.
  (b) A place of perfect happiness.
  (c) That which has been inherited.
  (d) Science dealing with heredity.
  (e) Suffering or death caused by lack of food.



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