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Posted By: Ravindranath Member Level: Gold Posted Date: 27 May 2008
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2007 Alagappa University B.A B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007.(ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS) Question paper
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007.
English
ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
PART A — (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. (a) Answer the following accordingly : (4 x 1 = 4)
(i) He became a doctor.
The pattern of the sentence is
(SV/SVO/SVC/SVA)
(ii) All that glitters is not gold. This is a ————.
(Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory, Imperative sentence)
(iii) He helped the poor.
(Add a question tag)
(iv) He never borrowed from his relatives.
(Frame a question to this answer)
(b) Insert suitable articles. If no article is needed put X.
(8 x = 4)
True education begins in —— cradle. It is in —— mother’s womb it begins. For it is here that —— motor and sensory responses of —— child’s organism get their first exposure to external stimuli. Even —— eight month old infant has —— inchoate sense of cleanliness recognition of ——— smile and for that matter of —— frown on the parent’s face is indicative of the presence of rudimentary awareness.
2. (a) Make notes on the following passage : (4)
Real Praise — the sincere compliment — is probably the most useful social tool of all. It is the valued gold coin of our conversation. Yet, today it is in danger of losing its brightness. For it is greatly misused and not properly exchanged.
There is art in this giving of compliments. Thus the good compliment is always to the point. Timing too is important. Don’t wait too long to tell a person what a good talk he gave, or how well he cut your grass, cooked your dinner or typed your letter. But don’t do it immediately either when he is expecting it. Then when he thinks you may have forgotten. Pass the praise.
(b) Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the correct tense forms of the verbs given in brackets :
(8 x = 4)
(i) The failure of the monsoon has ———— us a heavy blow. (deal)
(ii) After I ———— (do) my homework, I went out to play.
(iii) I ———— (live) here since 1960.
(iv) Copernicus proved that the earth ———— (move) round the sun.
(v) Roses ———— (bloom) in summer.
(vi) It ———— (rain) take your umbrella.
(vii) My friend ———— (come) to see me yesterday.
(viii) She ————— (write) a novel now.
3. Write a paragraph of 250 words on any ONE of the following topics. (8)
(a) The importance of newspapers.
(b) Road safety and the prevention of road accidents.
4. Answer any ONE of the following. (8)
(a) Write a letter to the Postmaster of your town complaining of the late delivery of letters.
(b) You have just returned from a place of tourist interest. Write a letter to your father telling him all about the place and the experiences you had there.
5. Answer any ONE of the following. (8)
(a) Write a report on the Tsunami–hit areas of Nagapattinam for newspaper headlines.
(b) Write a report on the resources, facilities and services available in your college library.
6. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the two given in brackets. (8)
(a) They were ————— (accorded, accredited) a warm welcome.
(b) The old man passed ————— (off, away) at 6 p.m.
(c) To err is human but to ————— (forego, forgive) is divine.
(d) All the ministers visited the flood ———— (hit, hid) areas.
(e) All through the night we heard the ————— (chanting, chaunting) of the mantras.
(f) He was penny ————— (wise, vice) and pound foolish.
(g) He came ————— (foreword, forward) to help her.
(h) The chief guest gave ———— (away, off) the prizes.
7. Answer the following. (8)
(a) (i) One who gets happiness out of the sufferings of others. (1)
Saint, sadist, pacifist, sire.
(ii) Unmoved by reasons. (1)
Impervious, ceaseless, reckless, illogical.
(b) Choose the letter of the correctly spelt word. (1)
(i) lethargic
(ii) lethergic
(iii) lethorgic
(iv) lathargic.
(c) Form opposites of the following words by adding suitable prefixes. (4 x = 2)
(i) logical
(ii) noble
(iii) legible
(iv) literate.
(d) Form negatives of the following words by adding suitable suffixes. (2 x = 1)
(i) use
(ii) effort.
(e) Rewrite the following in proper word order to form a meaningful sentence. (1)
college student that thinks every his tyrant is a father.
(f) Form a negative of the following sentence. (1)
Please connect the telephone lines.
8. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions. (8 x 1 = 8)
(a) Divide this ————— the two of you.
(b) He was born ———— Araiyur, a village ———— Madurai.
(c) The congress session will be held ————— Monday to Friday.
(d) The land was ploughed ———— the farmer ——— the help of a tractor.
(e) As he fell ————— debt he decided to sell his house and live ————— a small hut.
PART B — (4 x 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
All questions carry equal marks.
9. (a) Rewrite the following sentences in the passive voice.
(4)
(i) They were questioning the terrorist.
(ii) Listen to me.
(iii) Some one has picked my pocket.
(iv) Who gave you this pen?
(b) Rewrite the following in the active voice. (4)
(i) You are requested to keep off the grass.
(ii) Our secret code has been deciphered.
(iii) The play was being staged.
(iv) He was chosen as the leader of the party.
(c) Change the following accordingly. (4)
(i) No other people in the world are so courteous as the Japanese. (Into comparative and superlative degrees)
(ii) The Indus Valley Civilization is one of the oldest in the world. (Into comparative and positive degrees)
(d) Do the following transformation. (3)
(i) Being tired. She fell asleep. (Change into compound)
(ii) What a fall was there. My country men!
(Change into assertive)
(iii) None but the fools take the hasty decisions. (Replace ‘none’ by ‘only’)
10. Make a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title. (15)
Self reliance is the pilgrim’s best staff, the worker’s best tool. It is the master key that unlocks all the difficulties of life. ‘Help yourself and heaven will help you’ is a maxim that receives daily confirmation. He who begins with crutches will generally end with crutches. Help from within always strengthens, but help from without invariably enfeebles the recipient. It is not in the sheltered garden, but in the rugged Alpine Cliff, where the storms beat most violently, that the toughest plants are reared. It is not by the use of corks, bladders and life–buoys that you can best learn to swim, but by plunging courageously into the waves and buffeting them. To wait until some charitable man passes by, to stand with arms folded, sighing for a helping hand, is not the part of any manly mind. The habit of depending upon others should be vigorously resisted, since it tends to weaken the intellectual faculties and paralyse the judgement.
11. Write an essay of 400 words on any ONE of the
following. (15)
(a) The position of women in Indian Society.
(b) My favourite hero in history.
12. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. (15)
I have often heard people say how disappointed they will be if they never see a certain place which they have for years dreamed of visiting. I sometimes wonder whether, if we got all we dreamed of, we might not be even more disappointed than if we failed to get it. I, for example, longed for years to go to Rome. Yet when at last I arrived at the Eternal city and drove through its streets. I wondered whether it was worthwhile going so far to see a city which appeared to me to be so unworthy of its history. This disappointment, I may say, did not last, but famous cities, famous objects, famous views, do not always kindle at first sight the emotions we expect them to kindle. People used to think that a famous author was being funny when he said that he was disappointed with the Atlantic Ocean. To me this seems to be a straightforward confession of a disappointment that must have been experienced by thousands of people. The Atlantic Ocean, to my mind, looks its best from the shore; but even when it is seen from the shore for the first time by some one who has lived till manhood in an island district it does not always come upto expectations. Its very bigness is against it. It is easier to see at first sight the charm of a little lake nestling among the mountains, than to drink in the vast beauty of the Atlantic. In the same way I have never been disappointed in a hill, I have often been disappointed in a mountain. Although mountains are undoubtedly impressive, they have a kind of dreadful monotony that makes people like myself feel hostile to their beauty.
(a) Why do people get disappointed?
(b) What is the dream of the author?
(c) Mention the name of the city that the author longed to visit.
(d) Express his emotions at Rome.
(e) Why does the author ignore the mountains?
(f) Explain the meaning of the phrase ‘dreadful monotony’.
(g) How does the author justify his liking for a lake?
(h) Name the place which has never disappointed him.
(i) How does the Atlantic Ocean disappoint him?
(j) What is the straightforward confession of the author?
13. (a) Give a one word substitute for the following. (10)
(i) Yearly return of a particular date.
(ii) One who champions the cause of women.
(iii) Place for keeping birds.
(iv) Electronic calculating machine.
(v) Extreme dry weather without rainfall.
(vi) One who spends money extravagantly.
(vii) Being all of one opinion.
(viii) That can be easily carried about.
(ix) That cannot be seen.
(x) That cannot be heard.
(b) Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B and rewrite. (10 x = 5)
Column A Column B
(i) Absurd (1) Esteem
(ii) Confess (2) Poison
(iii) Famous (3) Indistinct
(iv) Prudent (4) Admit
(v) Respect (5) Ridiculous
(vi) Vague (6) Celebrated
(vii) Venom (7) Discreet
(viii) Error (8) Offspring
(ix) King (9) Mistake
(x) Progeny (10) Monarch.
14. Read each sentence to find out whether there is error in any underlined part. If any, write the alphabet of your choice next to the question number. If there is no error, then put E.
(10 x 1 = 15)
(a) They returned back on the appointed day. No error.
A B C D E
(b) I am sorry I did not know you have left
A B C
your coat here. No error.
D E
(c) I walked on as fastly as I could until I reached the
A B C D
road. No error.
E
(d) One of the biggest industrial houses in Maharashtra
A B C
are declaring a lock out. No error.
D E
(e) They discussed about the matter yesterday.
A B C D
No error.
E
(f) The child learnt the alphabets in no time. No error.
A B C D E
(g) The Principal congratulated the boys in their
A B C D
success. No error.
E
(h) He preferred coffee over tea. No error.
A B C D E
(i) According to me, it is an effortless rumour. No error.
A B C D E
(j) I got much less marks in my history paper which I
A B
had offered as an alternative to economics. No error.
C D E
15. Use any TEN of the following in sentences of your own.
(10 x 1 = 15)
(a) come around
(b) back up
(c) break out
(d) carry on
(e) come off
(f) fall out
(g) go into
(h) give away
(i) keep on
(j) live upto
(k) make up
(l) put on
(m) set out
(n) turn on
(o) put off.
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