Periyar University 2005 B.Com ENGLISH — II - Question Paper

Mother Teresa.
Or
(ii) How does Tagore expose the social evils in Subha?
(b) (i) How does Robert Bridges define
Nightingales?
Or
(ii) How does John Milton reveal his deep
belief in God?
The natives set to work in the forest, and in a few hours a row of serviceable water-proof huts had been constructed. The despised savage would no more ask the Government to spend a thousand pounds in building a house for him than he would ask it to comb his hair.
5. ans 4 of the following, every in about 100 words choosing 2 from every Group : (4 x five = 20)
GROUP A
(a) How do habits become customs?
(b) What are the causes of pollution?
(c) How are drugs abused?
(d) How does Tagore bring about a closeness ranging from Subha and Nature?
GROUP B
(e) What is Hopkin's complaint to God?
(f) What is the prayer of Hopkin's to God?
(c) The almanac was consulted and the wedding took place on an auspicious day.
(d) Drug related health disorders are many and varied.
GROUP B
(e) Alone, aloud in the raptured ear of men We pour our dark nocturnal secret
(f) God doth need either man's work or His
own gifts
(g) The garlands wither on your brow;
Then boast no more your mighty deeds;
(h) He roused his horse out of its sleep
And rode with little care.
3. (a) Fill in the blanks with the accurate voice and
tense of the words provided in brackets : (5)
In olden days people (use)
all types of transport methods. Bullock Carts
(be) very widely
(use). It (take) a lot of time
(cover) even a smaller distance
(b) Match the subsequent words with accurate
meaning : (5 x -J- = two -\-)
(i) mead (1) taste
(ii) relish (2) meadow
(hi) thwart (3) fearful
(iv) immortal (4) obstruct
(v) dreadful (5) deathless.
(c) Match the prefixes and suffixes :
(5x-§- =2 + )
Prefix Word Suffix
(i) un — legal — able
(ii) un — place — able
(iii) dis — question — ment
(iv) il — agree — ly
(v) dis — accept — ment
4. Make a precis of the subsequent : (10)
At the season when the British paterfamilias is sending his children on their Christmas visit to the dentist it must occur to him to wonder why the noble savage never has any trouble with his teeth. It is stated the they are kept healthy by the hard work they have to do in tearing tough meat without the help of knife and fork. These implements, and the art of cookery, are reducing man to a toothless animal, and are, perhaps, responsible for such evils as appendicitis and cancer, from which savages hardly suffer at all.
This is only a sample of what civilisation is doing to us and civilisation, for the majority in every nation, is not yet a hundred years old. Until quite lately the housewife used to bake her own bread, make her own jam and offer her friends home-brewed wine. Now she can do none of these things. The labourer, before the industrial revolution , was a handy man, almost self-sufficing. Now he understands only 1 thing - perhaps how to punch out biscuits from a slab of pulp without making the circles intersect. Mr. Austin Freeman, whose observation of savage peoples has made him keenly alive to the evils of machinery, defines how his . caravan was overtaken by a storm in Central Africa.

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