University of Pune 2007 B.Com ADDITIONAL ENGLISH - Question Paper

INDIRA COLLEGE OF COMMERCE &SCIENCE, PUNE.
F.Y.B.COM UNIVERSITY TERM AND EXAMINATION-2007
ADDITIONAL ENGLISH
Time : two Hours Marks :60
Instructions:
1. All ques. are compulsory.
2. Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q.1(A) accurate the subsequent phrases (Any 7) : (7×1=7)

(i) I have seen him long ago.
(ii) As he is ill for 2 months, he is advised not to provide the exam.
(iii) I shall avail this opportunity.
(iv) My friend has gone out before I arrived.
(v) I emphasized on the point.
(vi) He can’t swim, isn’t it?
(vii) No fewer than fifty kilograms of sugar was wasted.
(viii) I doubt that he will come.
(ix) Here is the list of textbooks for the three- years degree course.
(x) He behaved gentlemanly.

(B) Do as directed (Any seven) : (7×1=7)
(i) I took the opportunity to discuss my difficulties.(Change the sentence into passive voice)
(ii) My assistant has been trained to handle any type of road-engine. (Change
the sentence into active voice)
(iii) ‘He is too selfish’, she stated.(Change the sentence into indirect speech.)
(iv) Who hath dared to wound thee cried the giant tell me that I may take my big sword and slay him(Punctuate the sentence)
(v) He offered me the services of his temple elephant,_____(Add a suitable
question tag).
(vi) It is told of him that he was______ greatest judge in history.(Fill in the blank with improper article).
(vii) There’s not many residing now_______ can say_______ they fought against Napoleon Bonaparte. (Fill in the blanks with improper conjunctions).
(viii) We are very happy here. (Change the sentence into the exclamatory form)
(ix) I called him, but he did not ans. (Change the sentence into a simple sentence)
(x) He is too weak to work. (Rewrite the sentence using so---that)

Q.2 Answer any 2 of the subsequent ques. in about 50 words each:
(2×4=8)
A) Describe the ragged man’s efforts to make the Sergeant afraid of the runway prisoner. How does he warn the Sergeant against looking or the reward?
B) What impression do you get of the Sergeant’s character from ‘The Rising
of the Moon”? How far is he justified in letting the runway prisoner escape?
C) Describe the character of Corporal Gregory Brewster.
D) Analyze the role of Lomov in ‘The Proposal’. What type of a man is he?

Q.3) Answer any 3 of the subsequent ques. in about 150 words each:
(3× 6=18)
A) Why does Shakespeare compare the world to a stage and men and women to players? elaborate its implications?
B) Do you think that ‘All the world’ a stage’ offers a gloomy view of life and everything related to it? provide adequate justification for your ans.
C) Discuss Jonson’s rich tribute to Shakespeare in his poem ‘On Shakespeare’.
D) Explain the use of imagery in ‘Gather Ye Rosebuds’. How does Robert Herrick employ imagery in order to depict the impermanence of life?
E) To see a world in a grain of sand _________And eternity in an hour
What do these lines suggest about Blake as a mystic and how is this
Philosophy substantiated in the rest of the poem?

Q.4) Answer the subsequent ques. in about 150 words each:

A) i) What cause does the king provide for installing the judgment seat in his hall of audience? Why didn’t the stone angels allow him to seat on it?
OR
ii) How would Uncle Podger create commotion in the whole house before hanging the picture? Was he successful in hanging it?

B) i) ‘you may be sure this drained off all my resources.’ What drained the storyteller’s resources and how?
OR
ii) Where did the Giant spend 7 years and what did he see ad do after his return? How did the Giant realize his mistake?

Earning:   Approval pending.