Other Bachelor Degree-Bachelor of Social Legal Science (B.S.L) 1st Sem GENERAL ENGLISH - I(University of Pune, Pune-2013)

I - B.S.L. - LL.B (Semester - I)

GENERAL ENGLISH - I

(2003 Pattern)

Time :3 Hours]                                                                                               [Max. Marks :100

Instructions to the candidates :

1)      All questions are compulsory.

2)      Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q1) a) Use the following phrases and idioms in your own sentences so as to

bring out their meaning clearly (Any 10) :                                          [10]

i)    Arm in arm

ii)   At daggers drawn

iii)   Bring to light

iv)  Give a false colouring

v)  In the air

vi)  Man of the words

vii) Out of hand

viii) Play false

ix)      Set the Thames on fire

x)       Thrust one’s nose into

xi)      To break the ice

xii) Under one’s wings

b) Explain the following legal terms (Any 5):                                           [10]

i)        Acquittal

ii)       Plaintiff

iii)       Euthanasia

iv)      Jurisdiction

v)       Misappropriation

vi)      Oath

vii) Perjury

Q2) a) Do as directed (Any 10) :                                                                               [10]

i)  People generally prefer wealth to health. (Change the voice)

ii)  As soon as the plane landed, there was a loud explosion. (Rewrite it as Negative)

iii) Let us go to the court. (Add a question tag)

iv) No other metal is as costly as gold. (Change the degree)

v) The lecturer with ten students is/are coming. (Choose the correct form of the verb)

vi) Can man ever prosper without the help of God? (Make it Assertive)

vii) Everybody knows the value of discipline. (Make Interrogative)

viii) It is a very foolish suggestion. (Make it Exclamatory)

ix)  Social networking sites have affected the youngsters badly. (Give short response)

x)  Although we are willing to help you, we are unable to do so. (Make it Simple)

xi)  People make propaganda against politicians to defame them. (Make it Complex)

xii) Due to the accident at the railway crossing, the police were unable to clear the traffic. (Make it Compound)

b) Report the following into indirect speech :                                              [5]

knowledge to make the people join the Land League?”

“No, things were done in a very regular way. A notice was posted

up asking the people to come and join the League. Those who wished to do so then came and paid their subscription.

“Did you use the words in your speech that the man who does not

join the League deserves to go down to the cold, dead damnation

of disgrace.”

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B:      “It is possible.”

A:      “Did you use the expression in order to frighten the people?”

B:      I suppose it was in order to induce them to join the League.

c) Correct the following sentences (Any 5) :                                                 [5]

i)  I prefer this scheme than that.

ii)  The leader as well as his party men have been arrested. 

iii) All which glitters is not gold. 

iv) He will always help poor.

v) One must not praise himself.

vi) I have passed the examination two years ago.

vii) This is the most unique occasion in the history of our college.

Q3) a) Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given

below :                                                                                                               [10]

Women like men are the best creation of the world. Men and women 

complete the human personality. In Hindu mythology, women are termed as Ardhangini and westerners honour them by calling them better half. In early age and more particularly in matriarchal society women enjoyed dignified and respectful status. The concept of “Mother Goddess” was the eternal symbol of life. Women like earth give life, sustenance and strength to humanity. In Vedic period women enjoyed status equal to man. But this status of equality did not last long. By and by matriarchal society gave way to patriarchal society. The superiority of men over the women was established. The status of women throughout the world has been and still is that of subordination. Their personality was treated as having been merged with the personality of their husbands. They could not own property on their name. They did not have voting right. With the march of civilization, reforms became imperative. The women were given voting right and legal personality of their own with right to sue or be

sued. In India, even Britishers passed many laws to recognize and save the status and interest of women. Widow Remarriage Act and Abolition of Sati System is prominent among them. In post independence era gender bias has been tried to be eradicated. The Constitution itself prohibits discrimination on the ground of sex. It enables State to make protective measures for women, maternity care, equal pay for equal work irrespective of sex. Many laws have been enacted to restore the equal position of women with men. Many efforts have been made to enforce the dignity of the women by making stringent punishment for dowry death. But due to lack of commitment and societal awareness no meaningful objective is achieved.

i)  What are women termed in Hindu mythology and Western culture?

ii)  How was the status of women in matriarchal society and in Vedic period?

iii) Which laws did the Britishers pass in India to improve condition of women?

iv) Do you think that at present, women are really empowered in India?

b) Read the following passage carefully and make notes on it:           [10]

There are two kinds of writers concerned with history, the scholars and the popularizers. The scholars spend their time excavating small fragments of the past. A popularizer may be anyone from an upright and learned man to a mere propagandist; but usually he is the latter. It is not for the scholars, borrowing with their noses deep in the past and their eyes dimmed to the pale light of the archives to notice who is making use of the material they industriously scratch up. Nor is it for them to give any guidance as to how it is to be used. Very different is the position of the popularizers. They have to use, digest and redeliver the material in a form palatable in the public. Some of them have no conscious idea beyond that of writing a readable book, others have a very definite idea of teaching a political or moral lesson through their book. In both these groups there are frauds. But as far as the world is concerned, only the vices and virtues of the second group have borne fruit. Historians should always draw moral. If the accurate and highly trained once fail to do so, the unscrupulous and unqualified popularizers will do for them. The historian who neglects the education of his public is responsible in a way, for the false propaganda to which they go instead. The high-minded historians will never have the monopoly of the historian’s profession or of the public ear but they should always continue their fight for a hearing.

Q4) a) Write a cohesive paragraph on Any One of the following :               [10]

i) Man is an architect of his own fate.

ii)       The secret of success.

iii)      Reading as means of education.

b) Write a letter to the Registrar of a University requesting him for a duplicate

copy of your Law Degree:                                                                        [10]

OR

Write a letter to the owner of your apartment to extend the rental agreement

for one year.

Q5) a) Write a précis of the following passage :                                                  [10]

Death penalty entangles unavoidable element of suffering and

humiliation. If delay occurs in the execution of death penalty, it causes severe mental anguish to the person awaiting death which is cruel and inhuman. At international level, with the endeavours of the UNO General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, a second optional protocol to the international covenant on civil and political rights has been adopted, by which State parties to the covenant, took an additional obligation of abolishing the death penalty. This protocol came into force on July 11, 1991. Earlier, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights had also recognized individual person’s valuable right to life. But, it is to be seen that on question of enforcement the international protocol/covenant are weak as its implementation depends upon the desirability of the signatory State. In our country, in this context, it is a well settled legal position that the death penalty may be awarded only in the case of the rarest of rare cases and the Hon’ble Judge of the Supreme Court Mr. Krishna Iyyer had propounded key verdict that in criminal trial possibility of imposing death penalty should be only if the nature and manner of offence committed fall Courts have followed this magic judicial note resulting in undeclared abolition of death penalty although death penalty has not been removed from Indian Penal Laws.

OR

Translate the following passage into Marathi/Hindi :

Indian farmers in the western state of Maharashtra now address their

suicide notes to the Prime Minister and President, hoping that their words will affect circumstances facing their fellow farmers. The Vidarbha region of India’s Maharashtra state is seen as the epicenter of a farmer suicide crisis that has gripped India’s cash crop farmers for more than a decade. Statistics compiled by the Indian government reveal that 241,679 farmers in India committed suicide between 1995 and 2009. These farmers and their families are among the victims of India’s longstanding agrarian crisis– a crisis that demands the attention of the Indian government, which, to date, has failed to meet its obligation to ensure farmers’ human rights. The magnitude of the number of Indian farmers who have committed suicide must not eclipse the fact that an intensely individual tragedy lies behind each and every one of these deaths. These tragedies haunt the families of the casualties of India’s agrarian crisis in ways that are inescapable. The financial struggles associated with these deaths do not end with the farmer’s suicide. In many cases, the surviving family must shoulder the debt, often forcing children to leave school in order to further support the family. Even more reliant on the farm than ever, these young farmers begin buying even more seeds in the hopes of a successful harvest, and become trapped in debt themselves. The surviving widow, who often inherits her husband’s debt, may also take their own lives out of similar desperation.

b) Summarise the following passage?                                                          [10]

The right to go on strike is regarded as a weapon in the hands of

workers to fight against exploitation by the employers. The workers organize themselves into Trade Unions for safeguarding their interests. If the demands put forward by workers, say, for a rise in wages or emoluments for provision of amenities, or for re-instatement of workers and for other demands of workers, Trade Unions organize a strike to force the employers to come to terms. The government enacted laws, setting up machinery for solving industrial disputes and specifying the conditions under which the workers can go on strike. Gherao is comparatively a new practice, based on the Gandhian thought. The workers physically surround the employer; do not allow him to move till he redresses their grievances. Gherao is simply sheer savagery. Unfortunately, the workers do not realize to what hardships and inconveniences the public are subjected, as a result of their strike. Strikes in essential services cause serious dislocation of economic activity and paralyse the normal functioning of society. There is loss of national output and income which country can not afford. The strikes and gheraos are not only confined to the industrial and the commercial sectors, they have invaded educational institutions. Recently, the Supreme Court decided that the employees have no right to strike and the management can remove such workers from service who go on strike illegally. This judgment is considered to be axing on the privileges of the workers and started phased agitation against the judgment of the Supreme Court. The political parties which fought for the cause of the workers are fighting to amend the Constitution to incorporate the right to work and the right for employment. The tussle is going on and the future will decide the fate of the working class.

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