National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) 2007 National Open School English 2006 - Question Paper

ENGLISH
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1. Candidate must write his/her Roll Number on the 1st page of the ques. paper.
2. Please check the ques. paper to verify that the total pages and total number of ques. contained in the
booklet are the identical as those printed on the top of the 1st page. Also check to see that the ques. are in
sequential order.
3. Making any identification mark in the Answer-book or writing Roll Number any where other than the specified
places will lead to disqualification of the candidate.
4. write your ques. Booklet Code No. XXXII/OSS/A/1[A] on the Answer-book.
ENGLISH
(302)
Time: three Hours] [Maximum Marks: 100
Note: (i) This ques. Paper consists of 2 Sections, viz., ‘A’ and ‘B’.
(ii) All ques. from part ‘A’ are to be attempted.
(iii) part ques. from 1 choice. Candidates are needed to attempt ques. from 1 choice.
Candidates are needed to attempt ques. from 1 choice only.
SECTION-A
1. learn the subsequent extracts carefully. select 1 extract and ans the ques. that follow:
(a) Having made the excuse of a headache to the manager, Madam sat in his small room, head ranging from his knees,
and sobbed. In his situation far from home, his display of intimacy towards Jagdish Babu had been perfectly
natural. But now, for the 1st time in a foreign place, he felt as though someone had pulled him form the lap of
his mother, form the arms of his father, and from the protection of his sister.
(b) (i) Why did Madan sit in his small room, head ranging from his knees? 1
(c) Why did Mandan’s intimacy with Jagdish Babu natural? 1
(d) Why did Madan feel that he was in a ‘foreign’ place? 1
(e) Why did Madan feel that he was pulled ‘from the lap of his mother, arms of his dad …’? 1
(f) Which words in the passage mean similar to the following? 1
2. To show
3. Care or safe custody
OR
(b) The end of the short-lived age of fuels like oil and coal is already in sight; soon-on 1 or 2 centuries at
the most-we will have wasted all the world’s resources of oil and coal. This no longer means disaster, for atomic energy
can take their place to save our civilization form dying through lack of power. We are thus moving into a brighter and
cleaner age, as the smoke of millions of fires and furnaces and automobiles ceases to darken the sky. But for that very
reason, it may also be a colder age.

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