YOGI VEMANA UNIVERSITY

B.A./B.Com/B.Sc./BBA/BCA DEGREE EXAMINATION

PART-I(A) ENGLISH

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

SEMESTER –I

Time: 3 hrs Maximum Marks: 75

I Answer any TWOof the following questions 2x5=10

1. What does societal transformation result in?

2. What are the assumptions about European languages?

3. What are the various resources of Knowledge that Abdul kalam points out?

4. What Happened to the education system ofter 1952?

II Answer any TWO of the following questions 2x5=10

1. Which road do people normally choose and why?

2. What did the peasants say about the sufferings of the poet’s mother?

3. What difference does it make for the poet?

4. Why does the poet call the tail ‘diabetic’?

III Answer any Two of the following 2x5=10

1. Why did the retriever carry back the cartridge?

2. How did the child lose his way?

3. Describe the scene after explosion?

4. Describe the different feelings of the child in the story?

IV Answer any Two of the following 2x5=10

1. Sketch the character of Shylock?

2. What information is contained in Ballario’s letter?

3. What offers are made to Shylock to get him to spare Antonio? How are they received?

4. How does Portia (as Balthazar) use the law to turn the tables on Shylock?

V. A. Mention the sounds that the underline letter represents in transcription4x1=4

  1. assure2. badge3. Jelly4. Sight

B. Pick out the correctly spelt word.4x1=4

1) a. availableb. awailablec. aveilabled. aweilable

2) a. incompleatb. incompletec. incomplated. incomplite

3) a. uncertainb. uncarteinc. uncerteind. ancertain

4) a. believeb. beliavec. bilieved. beleive.

C. Use the following pairs in sentences of your own 4x1=4

1. Affect/Effect

2. Course/coarse

3. device/Devise

4. Sole/Soul.

D. Correct the following sentence 5x1=5

  1. Neither John nor his kids like to watch the movie.
  2. One of the policemen were shot dead in the firing.
  3. By the time James arrived, we finished lunch.
  4. She was born on a Tuesday.
  5. She cut her finger by a knife.

VI A. Fill in the blanks writ ‘a’, an (Or) the 3x1=3

  1. ______Air to day is very humid.
  2. Mr Joe is ______medical student.
  3. I bought ______TV Yesterday.

B. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions 3x1=3

  1. He is very fond ______Sweets.
  2. They went home ______tram.
  3. He had decided ______Join the army

C. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in the brackets5x1=5

  1. The management ______(renovate) the hotel since January.
  2. He ______(study) in this college in 1998.
  3. Smitha ______(Work) on a project now.
  4. The sky ______(be) cloudy to day.
  5. Padmini ______(watch) television serials regularly.

D. Change the following sentence into questions 3x1=3

1. She is writing aletter

2. I know him.

3. I stayed at hotel Taj.

E. Add question tags to the following statements 4x1=4

  1. You have received the parcel. ______?
  2. George like coffee. ______?
  3. He doesn’t drink liquor. ______?
  4. Pass me that sugar. ______?