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English literary skills May-2018
PU-PATIALA • BCA • 6th • May-2018
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Section A
I (a) what is the theme of Anton Tchekov's play the Proposal?
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Compare the character of Mr. Pearson and Mr. Fitzgerald in the play Mother's Day.
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attend any five of the following about 50 words each.
(i) Why is the sergeant eager to catch the escaped prisoner? (The Rising of the Moon)Short Answer May-2018 • PU-PATIALA BCA -
Who is Norah Brewster? (Waterloo)
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Why is Natalya eager to marry Lomov? (The Proposal)
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Why does Mr. Spriggs want Augustus to pretend to be a rich man from Australia? (A Distant Relative)
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What does the Chaplain say about his job? (The New Hangman)
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How did Bartley die? (Riders to the Sea)
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How does the mother react when she comes to know the reality of the stranger? (Lithuania)
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Why is Doris shocked when she comes home? (Mother's Day)
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Read the following passage and answer the questions below:-
Lomov It's cold....... I'm trembling all over, just as if I'd got an exefmination before me. The great thing is, I must have my made up. If I give myselft to think, to ideal, or for real love, hesitate, to talk a lot, to look for an an excellent housekeeper, not bad-looking, well-educated. What more do I want? But I'm getting a noise in my ears from excitement. [Drinks] And it's impossible for me not to marry. In the first place, I'm already 35 - a critical age, so to speak. In the second place, I ought to lead a quiet and regular life. I suffer from palpitations, I'm excitable and always getting awfully upset. At this very moment my lips are trembling, and there's a twitch in my right eyebrow. But the very worst of all is the way I sleep. I no sooner get into bed and beings to go off, when suddenly something in my left side gives a pull, and I can feel it in my shoulder and about a bit and lie down again, but as soon as I begin to get off to sleep there's another pull! And this may happen twenty times....
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Why did Lomov visit Chubukov's house?
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Why is Lomov eager to marry?
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What does Lomov think of Natalya?
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What disease is Lomov suffering from?
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Give the meanings othe following and use them in meaningful sentences:
(i) tremblingVery Short Answer May-2018 • PU-PATIALA BCA -
hesitate.
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excitement.
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awfully
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lunatic
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SECTION-B
Write a paragraph on any one of the following topics:
(a) Advertising Its Uses and Abuses.Long Answer May-2018 • PU-PATIALA BCA -
value if books.
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a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
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IV make a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title:-
Habits of idleness once firmly fixed oamot be suddenly thrown off. The man who has wasted the precious hours of life's seed-time finds that he cannot really harvest in life's autumn. Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine but lost time is gone for øver. In the long list of exouses for the neglect of duty there from men's lips and which is founded more on self-delusion than the want of leisure. Feople are always cheating themselves with idea that they would do this or that desirable thing if only they had time. It is thus that the lazy and the selfish excuse themselves from the thousands of things which conscience dictates to be done. Remember none which drops ofiener that the men who have done the most for their own and for the general good are not the wealthy, leisurely people who have abundance of time to themselves and nothing to do. They are the men who are in ceaseless activity from January men, however, pressed with business are to December always found capable of doing a little more. You may rely on them in their fullest season with ten times more assurance than an idle man.Long Answer May-2018 • PU-PATIALA BCA -
Section C
Do as directed and attend any 10 in each of the part a a, b, c, d and e
(a) supply and, the or some where necessary (i) please give me ...........milk
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man eats............ meat.
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Add the missing possessive
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This does not look like ........ book its must be...............
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Re make the sentence using too
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It's very small this a big room
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Add a question tag
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They were not angry
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Put the verb into suitable tense
(xi) I (not see) you for more than a weekVery Short Answer May-2018 • PU-PATIALA BCA -
How long ago (you arrive) here.
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Change the following into going to form of the future
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We will speak to us about it
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supply if or unless
(i) I shan't write to him ...........he write to me.
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you invited him he would come.
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He will not learn much................. he work harder.
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Supply a suitable tenses of the verb in bracket
(iv) It's high time you (have) a haircut.
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If only I (know) whether I have sent you a telegram.
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I wish I (know) his name.
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Add the necessary question
(vii) He has finished
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He speaks English well.
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You will come.
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Add surprised, angry truculent or sarcastic tag
(x) I want you to give me some more money.
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I am very found of expensive present
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You you must not talk to me like that
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Rewrite the statement using get from
(i) She burned the pudding.
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A strom damaged the ship.
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complete the sentence with do or make
(iii) He.............. a lot of business with us
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They.............. piece at last.
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this is all I have will it..........................
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Rewrite the sentence using else
(vi) There is no other thing to say.
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What other place can I go to?
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Rewrite the following using the infinity:
(viii) He hopes that he will know by tomorrow.
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She asked if she might leave the room.
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Rewrite the following using too or enough
(x) His car is so big that Riya can't drive it.
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This coffee is so hot that I can't drink.
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I am so excited that I can't think.
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Put the given word in bracket in gerund form
(i) It has stopped (rain). I hate to (go) out in the rain.
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I begin (read) a book yesterday.
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Complete the sentence by using the ING form of the verb:
(iii) They caught (he, open) your letter.
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I have always like (see) them (play) togather.
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Put into imaginary past
(v) They are To arrived at 7 o'clock
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I should like to lend you some books.
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You ought to know better than to do that.
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Add the question word
(viii) ..............Came in just now
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Girl won the beauty competition
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...............Is wrong with the clock
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Replace the underline possessives by pronounce
(xi) Our teacher won't like us coming late to school
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They instead on me going again next week.
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Add the missing relative
(i) You can't write on the paper .................she make
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The boy ..................true that stone will be punished.
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I am looking for somebody .................... i can trust
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Add relative pronouns to the
(iv) Fear .................is an evilmay lend to sin
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Chess ......................is very old game is it difficult to play
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Files................. come mostly in summer carry disease
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Add relative and use of contact clause where ever possible.
(vii)We ate some fish they must have been very ancient
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The building is Finance ministry I live opposite
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The spoon was stolen from a hotel he was eating with it
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Combine the following sentences by mean of non defining relative pronouns
(x)They are still working on the motorway. It's competition date it was last may.
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Helicopter can land near the centre of the large City. They do not need a long runway.
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The world was to be a great adventure for him for him he new very little about the word for world
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VI (a) Give one word substitutes for any ten of the following:
(I) An examination of a dead body.
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Rising from the dead.
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At homo egqually on land or in water.
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A plant or animal growing on another.
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Incapable of being burnt.
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That which cannot be conquered.
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Goods brought into a country,
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Unfit for human consumption.
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An instrument for measuring gases.
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A soldier recently enlisted for service.
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An instrument for seeing distant
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To enter a country as an
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Living on flesh. er.cem
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Speaking to oneself.
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A short speech by a player at the end of a play.
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Filling the blanks with the appropriate part of speech of word given in bracket attend any 10 of the following
(i) I'll try to do my job to the best of my full form.............. . (Able)
(b) Filling the blanks with the appropriate part of speech of word given in bracket attend any 10 of the following
(i) I'll try to do my job to the best of my full form.............. . (Able)
(ii) She failed ........ S an actor. (miserable)
(iii) The convict requested the judge to consider his case ...... (sympathy)
(iv) It's getting very ...... ...............(cloud)
(v) thag dog sat.............. on the staircase waiting for his master. (gloom)
(vi) My grandmother is an .................lady. (age)
(vii) I.....................got up and dressed. (hurried)
(viii) Only a small of students are interested in politics these days. (minor)
(ix) My father found result very................... (disappoint)
(x) .................for us, the train was late, (lucky)(xi) We should always speak the............................ (ann)
(xii) The King was known for his ................(wise)
(xiii) Don't play such..................pranks on me. (child)
(xiv) Our neighbours are very................ (quarrel)
(xv) I couldn't hide my home. ............to go back(eager)
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She failed ........ S an actor. (miserable)
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The convict requested the judge to consider his case ...... (sympathy)
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It's getting very ...... ...............(cloud)
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thag dog sat.............. on the staircase waiting for his master. (gloom)
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My grandmother is an .................lady. (age)
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I.....................got up and dressed. (hurried)
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Only a small .......................of students are interested in politics these days. (minor)
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My father found result very................... (disappoint)
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.................for us, the train was late, (lucky)
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We should always speak the............................ (ann)
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The King was known for his ................(wise)
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Don't play such..................pranks on me. (child)
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Our neighbours are very................ (quarrel)
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I couldn't hide my home. ............to go back(eager)
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