Periyar University 2005 B.C.A Computer Application Part II — Foundation ENGLISH — I - Question Paper

First Semester
Part II — Foundation Course
ENGLISH — Paper I
Time : 3 hours Maximum : 100 marks
part A — (20 marks)
1. (a) provide the synonyms of the subsequent words : (2)
(i) advent
(ii) servitude
(iii) zeal
(iv) superficial.
(b) provide the antonyms of the subsequent words : (2)
(i) connected
(ii) despair
(iii) tiny
(iv) justice.

(c) Punctuate the subsequent : (2)
by george ill do it now stated maxwell half aloud ill ask her now i wonder i didnt do it long ago
(d) Correct the spelling: (2)
(i) fountin
(ii) comon (iii) gargeous (iv) agrements.
(e) Match the subsequent : (2)
(i) Dr. Amartya Sen : A blind poet
(ii) Lord Nelson : Nobel laureate
(iii) Homer : Naval hero
(iv) Addicts : Victims to bad
habits.
2. (a) (i) Convert the subsequent into verbs : (1)
comparison, imagination
(ii) Convert the subsequent into nouns : (1)
entertain, disillusioned
(b) Fill up the blanks with suitable articles : (2)
I pass my hands lovingly about
' smooth skin of silver birch, or
rough, shaggy bark of pine.
h (c) Fill up the blanks with suitable prepositions :
(2)
They wrote their columns that
9f Jimmy Mac Croy the Glasgow Celtics had
- acquired immortal fame Great Britain
I having scored 500 goals.
F (d) Put the provided adverbs at the proper place in
U the phrases : (2)
(i) They worked (hard).
(ii) My dad drinks coffee (usually).
a? (iii) She deserved it (certainly).
I (iv) They walk to college (always).
(e) Add tag ques. to the subsequent : (2)
n
(i) I made my famous goal that day. (ii) There were no jinx numbers.
part B — (20 marks)
3. (a) Write a letter in about 100 words on 1 of
the following: (5)
(i) Write a letter to your friend congratulating him on his passing the IAS exam.
(ii) Write a letter to the editor of a newsprint about the disorderly traffic in your city.
(b) You are staying in a college hostel in Madurai.
Your room-mate, Ragini who is from Chennai, has an
accident. Draft a telegram to be sent to Ragini's parents.
(5)
(c) Write a precis of the following: (10)
It was a bitterly cold night. The bus stopped and 2 women and a man got in. The younger woman carried a little Pekinese dog in her lap. The conductor came in and took the fares. Then his eyes rested with cold malice on the pet dog.
"You must take that dog out", he stated with sour venom.
"I shall certainly do nothing of the type. You can take my name and address," stated the woman who had evidently expected the challenge and knew the reply.
"You must take that dog out. That's my orders."
"I won't go on top in such weather. It would kill me," stated the woman.
"Certainly not," stated her companion, "You've got a cough as it is".
"It's nonsense," stated her male companion.
The conductor pulled the bell and the bus stopped. "This bus doesn't go until that dog is taken out." And he stepped on to the pavement and waited.
part C — (60 marks)
4. Annotate any 6 of the subsequent choosing not
more than 3 from every Group : (6 x two = 12)
GROUP A
(a) Today this 3rd day, I shall spend in the | workaday world, amid the haunts of men going about the business of life.
(b) Naturally in those 3 short days I should not have seen all I wanted to see.
(c) The most important and urgent task before our leadership is to get all the forces for constructive change together and deploy them in a mission mode.
(d) Against his expectations, he's finally put in a classroom full of other children.
(e) "Oh, elaborate you talking about?" exclaimed the young lady.
GROUP B
(f) Perhaps the self identical song that obtained a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for
home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn.
(g) He who holds the storm by the hair, will
hide in his breast our lives.
(h) For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of paradise
(i) If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

(j) Thank God, the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.
5. ans in about 200 words every :
(a) (i) Attempt an essay on Kosinski's "TV as
| Babysitters". (12)
Or

(ii) Bring out the humour in "The Romance
of a Busy Broker".
(b) (i) Consider "Night of the Scorpion" as a
typically Indian poem. (12)
Or
(ii) Why are the fishermen not afraid of being tossed about by the waves?
(ii) define Kiran Bedi's remarkable work at Tihar jail.
(d) (i) Sketch the character of Govind Singh.(12)
Or
(ii) Contrast the characters of George and Tom.

Earning:   Approval pending.