University of Delhi 2006-3rd Year B.A Political Science English Stream C : - Question Paper

English Stream C 2006 : IIIrd Year

Q. 1. learn the subsequent passages and ans the ques. which follow:
(A) Nearly all the sports practised now-a-days are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do every thing possible to win. At the village level, where you take sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for fun and exercise; but as soon as the ques. of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you are your team or country will be disgraced if you lose, the most violent fighting instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level, sport is frankly, like Fighting a war. The important thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators, and, behind the spectators, of the nations who get senselessly excited over these stupid contests. They beieive that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national greatness.

As soon as strong feelings or rivalry are aroused people provide up the idea of playing the game according to the rules. They want to see 1 side on top and the other humiliated, and they forget that victory gained through cheating or through the action of the crowd is meaningless. Even when the spectators do not interfere physically they try to influence the game by cheering their own wide and discouraging opposing players with hooting and insults. Serious sports has nothing to do with fair play. It is connected with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and aq unnatural pleasure in watching violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.

Questions:
(i) Write actual (T) or Fasle (F) against every of the subsequent statements :
(a) You always play to win.
(b) The most violent fighting instincts are aroused in sports when the ques. of national prestige arises.
(c) Everying is fair in sport.
(d) Serious sport is like a war.
(e) The crowd alwasy cheers the home team. 5

(ii) ans the subsequent questions:
(a) Why are all the sports practised these days competitive?
(b) What is the difference ranging from playing at the village level and the national level ?
(c) How do the spectators discourage the rival team?
(d) What does the writer mean by the statement ‘Sport is frankly like fighting a war V
(e) What is fair play in your opinion ? 5

(iii) (a) obtain the opposites of the subsequent words in the passage.
war, win, disgrace, top. 2
(b) obtain 2 words in para II which mean ‘re¬spect’ and ‘competition’ respectively.
(c) provide the verb of the noun shooting. 1

Earning:   Approval pending.