Gujarat University 2005 B.Com English & Business Communication First Year - exam paper
FYBCOM English A Stream Old(Compulsory)
Seat No:..............
Time : 3 Hours] [Total Marks : 70
Section I (Only English medium, Old Course Students)
1. (A) Give brief answers to ANY FIVE of the following questions: 10
(1) How did Sissy try to rescue Tom?
(2) How had Coketown developed?
(3) What is Sleary House in the novel?
(4) Who was Mr. Bounderby? How was he by nature?
(5) How was James Harthouse a morally degraded person?
(6) What was Toms relationship with Louisa?
(7) Who rescued Tom? How?
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(B) Hard Times reflect thee Victorian society in an emotional manner. Discuss.
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(C) Draw the character sketch of Thomas Gradgrind.
1. (D) Write short notes on ANY TWO of the following: 10
(1) Hard Times-the title
(2) Stephen and Rachael
(3) The bank robbery
(4) Louisa
1. (A) Give brief answers to ANY FIVE of the following questions: 10
(1) How did Jim become famous among his fellows?
(2) How did Hucks fun about the snake prove to be fatal for Jim?
(3) How did the king make money at Pokeville?
(4) How could Huck and Jim escape from the broken boat?
(5) Who is Miss Watson? What role she plays in Jims life?
(6) How bad is Pap? How does he meet with a tragic end?
(7) What was Jims prophesy regarding Huck? How did it turn true in the end?
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(B) Describe the adventures and misadventures of Huck and Jim.
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(C ) Draw the character sketch of Jim.
1. (D) Write short notes on ANY TWO of the following: 10
(1) Hucks captivity and escape from Pap
(2) Humour in The adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(3) Miracles and Prophesies in Huckleberry Finn
(4) The Boggs-Sherburn episode
2. Answer the following questions briefly. (ANY THREE): 06
(1) What is the effect of Autumn on fruits and flowers?
(2) What divine purpose does Whitman find in mans age-long search for a passage to India?
(3) What is Anthem? What is the theme of Anthem of Love?
(4) What is Natures Holy plan according to Wordsworth?
(5) How did the villagers look upon the schoolmaster?
A great many women and men, let us frankly admit, do not want to be cultured, are not interested in the higher life. For these people, existence on the lower animal level is perfectly satisfactory. Given food, drink, the company of fellow beings, sexual enjoyment, and plenty of noisy distractions from without, they are happy. They enjoy bodily but hate mental exercise. They cannot bear to be alone, or to think. Contemporary urban life, with its noisy music, its African dancing, its movies, its theatres, football matches and the like, is for them ideal. They can live out their lives without once making a serious mental effort ( for the work which most of these people do is mainly mechanical and requires little or no thought) without once being out of sight and sound of some readymade distraction. The notion that one can derive pleasure from intellectual occupations is to such people merely absurd. For them, more leisure and more prosperity mean dancing, more parties, more movies; distraction in general. Most of the inhabitants of ancient Rome belonged to this type; so probably do most of the inhabitants of modern New York and Paris. And unless some system of race improvement is devised in the interval, there is no reason to suppose that the great cities in the year 2076 A.D. will be
radically different.
Questions:
(1) Why dont some people wish to be cultured? 02
(2) What is happiness for them? 01
(3) How do such people derive pleasure? 01
(4) (a) Find from the passage the opposite words for : (1) natural (2) foolish 02 (b) Find from the passage the words with similar meanings: 02
(1) residents (2) good fortune
(5) Make sentences of your own using the words : (1) existence (2) satisfactory 02
4. Write a paragraph on ANY ONE of the following topics:
10
(1) Television- a powerful mass medium for business
(2) My visit to a relief camp
(3) Importance of jogging.
(4) Oh, this pollution!
5. (a) Insert appropriate articles in the following sentences: 03
(1) --------NGOs aim should be to help -------needy.
(2) After ------uneasy start, ---------unanimous decision was taken.
(3) I am------M.Com. from Gujarat University.
(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions: 03
(1) .............this, he also owns a bungalow in Bopal. (Beside; Besides)
(2) He was tired..........reading the questions again and again. ( from, of, )
(3) Disha did not agree...........her parents. ( with, to )
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(c) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb given against each of the | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(d) Match the correct meanings given under B with words given under A: 08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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B | ||
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Grumble |
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Calculate |
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2. |
Important |
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Complain |
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Apathy |
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Unaware |
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4. |
Ignorant |
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Indifference |
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5. |
Reckon |
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Vital |
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6. |
Tumble |
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Fall |
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7. |
Smash |
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Eagerness |
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8. |
Curiosity |
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Hit |
FC-02 5 P.T.O.
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