Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2004 B.Com English - Question Paper

TAMILNADU OPEN UNIVERSITY
MODEL ques. PAPER
B. COM DEGREE examination FOUNDATION COURSE IN
ENGLISH-1 (BFEG)

1. Annotate any 2 of the subsequent passages and ans the ques. provided beneath.
a) “It is impossible for me to be happy when I am stripped and being asked a lot of questions”.
i) Who is the speaker?
ii)What is he referring to here?
b) “I tell you, we should have left this country twenty years ago. Now it’s too late. There is no future for us”.
i) Identify the speaker?
ii) Which country is referred to here?
c) The budgets he had to prepare and current every year were “a gamble in rain”.
i) What is referred to here?
ii) Who is the ‘he’ referred to in the above line?
2. Write a letter from a learner to his/her former teacher telling him/her experience at college.
3. ans any 1 of the subsequent in about 200 words
i) How does Lynd current the different aspects of forgetting by apt illustrations?
ii) discuss Mrs. Gandhi’s view about India’s genius for synthesis of culture and ideas.
iii)Write a short note on Yeat’s reflection on Death.
4. provide the antonyms of the following:
Tarnish, Harsh, Deny, Urgent, Confuse
5. Match the words in Group A with their meaning in Group B.
Group A Group B
Harmony Admit
Close Soak up
Confess Obstruct
Absorb Block
Bar Agreement
6. a) Rewrite the subsequent in indirect speech:
i) “You cannot use the gymnasium without becoming a member”, The trainer told the college students.
ii) “I prefer cocoa to coffee”, my dad stated to me.
iii) “I haven’t heard from you for a long time. What happened to you?” the girl asked
her brother on the phone on the phone.
iv) “Why are so late from your college ?” the mother asked her daughter.
v) “How can any 1 survive in the cold without proper clothing the learner enquired of
her Geography teacher.
b) Rewrite the subsequent in Direct Speech:
1)The teacher advised his students to prepare well in advance for the examination.
2)The dad cautioned his son to drive his motorbike carefully.
3)The shopkeeper told his customer that the price of all goods had gone up recently.
4) The doctor told his patient to take his medication regularly.
5) The coach told his football team that practice would help them achieve their target.
7. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.
i) The apprentice has been with the blacksmith __________ two years.
ii) _______ summer it is refreshing to drink sugarcane juice.
iii) _______ the machine fine tuned the engine, he could not predict
iv) The how the engine would perform _______ he had tested the vehicle.
v) The leaves did not fall thickly ___________Autumn.
8. learn the passage and write a précis of it:
The 1 absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the 1 that never deserts him, the 1 that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. A man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master. He would guard the sleep of his pauper master as it he were a prince .
When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation fails to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If misfortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks for no higher privileges than that of accompanying him to guard against danger and to fight against his enemies.
And when, The last scene of all comes, and death take his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter it all other friends pursue their way, there, by this grave side will the noble dog be found, his head ranging from his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and actual even in death.

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