Madras University (UnOM) 2006 B.Com Corporate Secretaryship English - I - Question Paper

Time: 3 hours
Maximum: 100 marks

1. ATTEMPT any five of the subsequent passages, choosing at lowest two from part A and B:
[5 x two = Marks 10]
part A

(a) They make a duty of it, a type of penance. Sometimes they go so far as to set themselves so many pages at a time.

(b) A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one.

(c) 'You have provided me the pleasure of your company and conversation and I want to show my gratitude for it'.

(d) .... and said, in a quiet and collected voice, "I am content now, sahib, for you have avenged my son".

(e) He closed his eyes and pointed his chin at the ceiling like a few dire prophet, groaning, 'God is calling me'- now let me go!

part B

(f) Soul of the Age!

(g) And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That 1 small head could carry all he knew.

(h) Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades
In gentleness of heart, with gentle hand
Touch - for there is a spirit in the woods.

(i) And sure in language strange she stated
"I love thee true".
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegaean....


2. Write 4 essays in about 250 words each: [4 x 10 = Marks 40]

(a) How does Swami Vivekananda discuss the secret of work?
Or
(ii) Whom do you sympathize Rakesh, the son or his father? Why?

(b) W How does Ben Jonson glorify Shakespeare?
Or
(ii) explain 'Night of the Scorpion' as a poem expressing Indian sensibility.

(c) How does R.K. Narayan define the savagery of communal hatred in his short story'Another Community'?
Or
(ii) Consider 'The Happy Prince' as a parable.

(d) What picture of Leo Tol9toy does 1 get from Ronald Seth's account?
Or
(ii) Consider the qualities of Nansen as an explorer and as a humanitarian.


3.
(a) Molokai is island in the pacific ocean. (suitable article). [Marks 1]

(b) This is the painting I was talking (suitable preposition). [Marks 1]

(c) Match the words in Group A with Group B

select the opposites : [MARKS 2]
A B
(i) reveal (1) stupid
(ii) simple (2) slow
(iii) intelligent (3) conceal
(iv) quick (4) complex

Earning:   Approval pending.