Punjab University 2009 B.C.A Computer Application Session Ending s - Question Paper

BCA l'stYear (2009)

SECTION-A

ENGLISH (Compulsory)

1. Bring out the elements of horror in Edgar Allan Poe's story,” The Tell-Tale Heart".
OR
Draw a character sketch of the Bacteriologist on the basis of the story,’ The Stolen Bacillus.' (15)

2. Narrate in your own words, the summary of 'Tight Comers'.
OR
Write a character sketch of John F.Kennedy in your own words. (15)

3.a Write in your own words the summary of:
To 1 who has been long in city Pent
.'OR
On the receipt of My Mother's Picture(5)

b. provide the central idea of:
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
OR
Animals.(5)

c. discuss with reference to the context:
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward
All in the Valley of death
Rode the 6 hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!' he stated
Into the Valley of death
Rode the 6 hundred.
OR

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory.
And the mystle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty
Are worth all our laurels, though ever so plenty.
(5)

SECTION-B

4. change the form of any five of the following:
Words as per instructions and use the changed words in phrases of your own : .
Go(Noun)Distance(adjective)Little (Verb)Know(Noun) book (adjective)scarce(adverb)Table (Verb) exceed (adverb)

5. Use any five of the subsequent in your own sentences: (5 ).
Ditty, vehement, sentinel, nice pickle to be in, little by little, bull and tears, ingenuity, beguile.

6. Translate the subsequent passage into Hindi or Punjabi: 10

Love is a different principle of success. Love and be loved, that is the goal. The hand in order to live must love all the members of the body. If it isolates itself and thinks,” Why should the whole body profit by my earning," there is no help for the hand, it must die"
For in order to be consistent in its selfishness, the hand would not put into the mouth the food and drink that were secured, by dint of hand's labour alone rather inject into its own skin all sorts of nourishing food, excluding the other organs from sharing the fruits of its labour. actual the injection may make the hand fat but all that fatness does more harm than good.
OR
For foreign students only.
Paraphrase the subsequent passage:

Teach us to look in all our ends,
On thee for judge, and not our ends
That we with Thee, may walk uncowed
By fear or favour of the crowd.

7. Letter of complaint to a firm which has supplied you inferior goods and also ask for replacement of the goods.
OR
Write a letter to the executive officer of your corporation inviting his attention to the unsanitary conditions in your neighbourhood.
(10)

8. Do as directed: (10)
1. She is wiser than her brother.(Change the degree)
2. It is so dark that I cannot work. (Change into an affirmative sentence)
3. You may go anywhere. (Change into a complex sentence) I
4. What a tragic end! (Change into an assertive sentence)
5. Do not cry over spilt milk. (Change into interrogative)
6. All the accounts were cleared yesterday.(Change the voice)
7. I am not sure. (Complete the sentence)
8. The teacher asked me whether I had solved the issue.(Write indirect speech)
9. She gave a curt reply. (Re write using verb form of underlined word)
10. Death is really dreadful. (Change into exclamatory

Earning:   Approval pending.