B.A-B.A English GENERAL ENGLISH (Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2011)

B.A./B.Com./B.Sc./B.B.M./B.H.M. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2011.
(Examination at the end of First Year)
Part I — English
Paper I — GENERAL ENGLISH
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
PART A
(ANALYTICAL SKILLS)
1. Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow : (10  1 = 10)
(a) He became the hero of the day. They watched him in great administration and decided to
reward him adequately
(i) Who is the ‘he’ of the passage?
(ii) Who are ‘they’?
(iii) How did they watch him?
(iv) What did they decide?
(v) From which lesson is this passage taken.
(b) They were both dripping wet, of course, but in addition Eve had lost her hand bag, in
which, to prevent it from getting splashed, she had put a gold wrist watch which had
been given to her on her twenty-first birthday only two months before.
(i) What had Eve lost?
(1) her books (2) her money
(3) her hand bag (4) her keys
(ii) What was there in her hand bag?
(1) money (2) gold wrist-watch
(3) bus ticket (4) books
(iii) Why did she put her gold wrist watch in the hand bag?
(1) to hide it (2) to prevent from stealing
(3) to save it from sun (4) to prevent from getting splashed 2 (DENG 1)
(iv) When was she given to gold watch?
(1) One year before (2) Five days before
(3) On the New Year Day (4) On her twenty-first birthday
(v) From which lesson is this passage taken?
(1) Lovers' Reunion (2) Dolly at the Dentist
(3) Letter to Indu (4) The thief's story
2. (a) Correct the following sentences : (5  1 = 5)
(i) I have written a letter to him yesterday.
(ii) One of my friends live in Bombay.
(iii) Rani was married with Alok.
(iv) He is a best player.
(v) Does he knows you?
(b) Rewrite the sentences as directed : (5  1 = 5)
(i) Lock the door. (Change the voice)
(ii) Bombay is the largest city in India. (change into comparative degree)
(iii) Hema asked me if I had finished my homework. (Convey the meaning changing to
direct speech)
(iv) We left Rosy at the station and went back home. (Change into complex sentence)
(v) She is good ——————— mathematics. (Insert the correct prepositions)
(c) Change the following into indirect speech : (2)
(i) Gopal said, ‘‘Did you finish your lunch?’’
(ii) She said : ‘‘I am watering the plants’’.
(d) Fill in the blanks with correct forms of verbs given in the brackets : (5  1 = 5)
(i) He ——————— to church every Sunday. (go)
(ii) She ——————— the TV now. (watch)
(iii) I ——————— for you since 5 P.M. (wait)
(iv) She ———————French. (know)
(v) They ——————— a new car last month. (buy) 3 (DENG 1)
(e) Fill in the blanks with suitable words given at the end of the list : (5)
(i) The salesman is ——————— a new product.
(ii) Marriages are ——————— in Heaven.
(iii) ——————— of the boys got first class.
(iv) ——————— him be congratulated.
(v) Rome was not built in a ———————.
(day, neither, made, demonstrating, let)
(f) Rewrite the following set of jumbled sentences to make them into a coherent passage : (4)
(i) Water and milk heat we should vessels separate in.
(ii) When boils water the we tea powder should put it in.
(iii) Milk when the is boiled mix we should the milk hot tea decoction with.
(iv) It filter cups into then tea and is ready.
(g) Attempt a dialogue between a mother and daughter about their plans to buy new clothes
for Sankranti festival. (4)
(h) Write a paragraph using the following hints : (5)
Planning for a picnic - fixing a private bus – cooks – food materials – singing songs –
returning to college hostel by evening.
(i) Write an essay in about 100 words on any ONE of the following : (5)
(i) Revolution in the development of communications - The Telephone.
(ii) Impact of TV on students.
(iii) Influence of science and technology on modern man's life.
PART B
(DESCRIPTIVE SKILLS)
3. Write an essay on ONE of the following : (1  10 = 10)
(a) How did Dasa escape from the punishment held out to him by the inmates of the
bungalow?
(b) Narrate in your own words the mystery that surrounds the cufflinks.
(c) Describe Nehru's life in prison. 4 (DENG 1)
4. Write short notes on any THREE of the following : (3  5 = 15)
(a) Give a brief summary of the thoughts expressed by Edmund Waller in his poem,
‘‘Go, Lovely Rose’’.
(b) Write an appreciation of Wordsworth's poem ‘‘The Tables Turned’’.
(c) Why does Edgar Allan Poe consider science as the destroyer of poetry?
(d) What is the message of poem, ‘‘Laugh and Be Merry’’?
(e) What are the joys of the Primitive Africans as expressed in the poem, ‘‘Piano and
Drums’’?
5. Write an essay on ONE of the following : (1  10 = 10)
(a) Sketch the character of Sudershom Sharma as you find in ‘‘The Gold watch’’.
(b) Narrate how the salesman suffered by his excessive care and honesty in the story,
‘‘Lemon, Yellow and Fig’’.
(c) Summarise Tolstoy's story, ‘‘God Sees the Truth but Waits’’.
6. (a) Explain any TWO of the following : (2  5 = 10)
(i) I have learnt from experience that I am not wise enough to advise others.
(ii) Your first! do mean to say that you began practising on me?
(iii) I could live like an oil-rich Arab for a week or two.
(b) Explain any ONE of the following : (5)
(i) Up! Up! My Friend, and quit your books;
or surely you'll grow double:
(ii) No,
The root is to be pulled out --
Out of the anchoring earth;
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