Periyar University 2008 B.B.A -english-ii - Question Paper
(For the candidates admitted from 2007-2008 onwards)
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B.A./B.Sc./B.Com./B.B.A./B.B.M. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL/MAY 2008.
Second Semester Foundation Course Revised Syllabus PART II ENGLISH Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A (20 marks)
1. Answer the following :
(a) Fill in the blanks in the following sentences using the present continuous tense of the verbs given in brackets: (2)
Here I - (sit) thousands of
kilometers from the sun on a rounded rock which
-(spin) at the rate of 150 kilometers an
hour and-(roar) through space nobody
knows where. And all around me whole continents
-(drift) rootless over the surface of the
planet.
(b) In each of the following sentences underline the verb and say whether the verb shows a state or an action: (2)
(i) The little girl is rowing her toy boat.
(ii) He loves eating more than anything
else in life.
(c) Complete the following sentences using the simple present or the present continuous of the verbs
given in brackets : (2)
The first bell-at 9.40 every
morning. But, listen, today they-it at
9.30 (ring).
(d) Correct the following sentences : (2)
(i) She always is complaining about the
food.
(ii) My cousin does not plays the violin.
(e) Using the clues write a sentence or two : (2)
Malayalam film star Prem Nazir - first act in films at 22 - death 'in 1989 - act lead roles in 600 films.
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(f) Choose between the simple past and the present perfect tenses of the verbs given and fill in the blanks in the following sentences. Use just or recently wherever appropriate : (2)
(i) Master to Dog : Shall we go for a walk . r*1 Caesar?
A n<r
,(1 Dog to Master : Sorry, old man I
- (come)
back after a long walk.
(ii) Wife : My husband comes back home very late these days. They
- (make) him
office manager.
(g) State whether each sentence given below is right (/) or wrong (x): (2)
(i) I have talked to Manju a week ago.
(ii) His friend hasnt written to him for a month.
(iii) Ben has finished her home work a long
time ago.
(iv) They bought a new T.V. yesterday.
(h) Fill up the blanks in the following sentences using the present continuous or the future continuous forms of the verbs given in brackets : (2)
(i) Sorry, I cannot lend you my camera. I-3-(use) it the whole.
(ii) We-(leave) by Island
Express tomorrow morning. All of us have confirmed reservation.
(i) Complete the following sentences using will / shall + verb or going to + verb : (2)
(i) Meera says she cant afford to keep a car. She intends to sell her car. Shes found a buyer.
Meera : I--sell............
(ii) Subhash says he intends to get up at five tomorrow morning. He has set the alarm.
Subhashs sister : He-
(j) Fill in the blanks in the following sentence using the correct forms of the verbs given in brackets :
A bleak future!
Twenty years from now we-
(live) in skys crapers.
We - (move) around in
vehicles all the time, because it-;- (be)
impossible to walk along roads. Everybody-
(go) round wearing oxygen masks.
SECTION B (20 marks)
2. (a) Draft a telegram based on the following situations. Invent necessary addresses. (5)
We placed the order for Computer spare parts on 10th of last month. More than a month has passed but so far we have not received the goods. If the goods are not received till May 25, we will have no hesitation to cancel the order.
[P.T.O.]
(b) Draft an advertisement for the following programme: (5)
A two bed room apartment for rent in posh locality in Anna Nagar.
(c) Make notes on the following passage : (5)
A science is the study of real things, for example, soil, plants, animals, machines, automobiles, radios, wind, rain and even people, science studies everything which you can see, hear touch smell. Scientists are people who try to understand the real things.
Everywhere in the world there are people who look carefully at the things around them and try to understand what see. Any person who does this is a scientist, even if he or she never studied science from a book.
The first thing a scientist does is to observe. Many people walk past things without really seeing them, but a good scientist looks things with care.
(d) Write a persuasive note to be circulated among students to donate liberally towards the earthquake victims. (5)
3. Annotate any FOUR of the following : (4x3 = 12)
(a) Theres not a woman turns her face upon a broken tree.
(b) The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.
(c) I havent the faintest idea of where I was
born.
(d) Was it a dream, or wasnt it?
He will never be quite certain.
(e) His Murder, Shaw said shows how dangerous it is to be good.
(f) No sooner present than it turns to past.
Right to the last.
4. Read the following and answer the questions given below : (12)
The light had gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere; he said our beloved leader, Bapu, as we called him, the father of the nation, is no more.
The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was nc ordinary light; in a thousand years, he predicted that
light will still be seen ...... the world will see it and it
will give solace to innumerable hearts. For that light represented something more than the immediate
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present; it represented the living, the eternal truths, reminding us of the right path, drawing us from error, taking this ancient country to freedom.
The light whose disappearance Nehru mourned belonged to the rest of the world as well as to India. From every corner of a shocked globe, messages of condolence poured into New Delhi.
(a) The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. Explain.
(b) Why was Nehru wrong?
(c) Why was the light not an ordinary one?
(d) What was the messages that poured into New Delhi?
(e) Who was the beloved leader referred in the passage?
(f) What does the light represented?
5. Answer the following in about 200 words :
(3 x 12 = 36)
(a) (i) Illustrate Sosekis observations about human nature by narrating the story from the perspective of a cat.
Or
(ii) How did the world respond to the shocking event of Gandhiji assassination?
(b) (i) iShow how the choice of the caskets is a real test of character in the play The Merchant of Venice.
Or
(ii) Discuss Twelfth Night as a Romantic
comedy.
(c) (i) Comment on the role of the witches in Macbeth.
Or
(ii) Comment on the wit and humour in Much ado About Nothing.
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