1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009) . 2010 ENGLISH ( Commerce } FIRST PAPER Full Marks : 100 Time : 3 hours ( PART : B—DESCRIPTIVE ) ( Marks : 60 ) The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions Answer all questions 1. Answer-any one of the following questions : 10 (a) Briefly narrate the contents of the letter written by the young lawyer to the banker just before his escape. (b) Describe the various troubles faced by the author after he had lodged the statue in his house. (c) Give a gist of the American lady’s conversation with her companions. 10D—3000/987a ( Turn Over )2. Answer any one of the following questions : 10D—3000/987a ( Contini (2) (a) What is the central idea of the poem, On His Blindness? (b) What are the arguments given by the poet to console his wife at the time of his departure in Sweetest Love, I do not Goe ? (c) Why, after their journey, does one of the Magi say, “I should be glad of another death”? . Write an essay on any one of the following : (a) Role of Computers in the Contemporary World (b) Your Idea of Happiness (c) Unemployment in India (d) Relevance of Media in the Modern Age . Write a précis of the following passage : It is perhaps, no accident that many of the outstanding- figures of the past were exceptionally versatile men. Right up until comparatively recent times, it was possible for an intelligent person to acquaint himself with almost every branch of knowledge. 10D—3000/987a (3) Thus, men of genius like Leonardo da Vinci or Sir Philip Sidney, engaged in many careers at once as a matter of cause. Da Vinci was so busy with his numerous inventing, that he barely found the time to complete his paintings; Sir Philip Sidney who died in battle when he was thirty-two years old, was not only a great soldier, but a brilliant scholar-poet as well. Both these men came very near to fulfilling the Renaissance ideal of the ‘universal man’, the man who was proficient at everything. Today, we rarely, if ever, hear that a musician has just invented a new type of submarine. Knowledge has become divided and subdivided into countless, narrowly-defined compartments. The specialist is venerated; the versatile person far from being admired is more often regarded with suspicion. The modern world is a world of highly skilled ‘experts’ who have had to devote the greater part of their lives to a very limited field of study in order to compete with their fellows. . Write out the following sentences using the © verbs in brackets in the correct tenses: 1*5=5 (a) 1 (meets) him once a day. (b) He did not (written) a good hand. ( Turn Over )}(4) (c) He is (wenting) homewards. (ad) He is not (spoken) the truth. (e) They (leave) their home before I had arrived. : 6. Rewrite the following sentences after changing the voice : 1x5: (a) My book has been lost. (b) We have used teakwood in these furniture. (c) You are expected to be faithful. (d) Was the book bought by you? (e) His father looked at him red-eyed. kkk 10D—3000/987a 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-201/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009) 2010 ENGLISH ( Commerce ) FIRST PAPER ( PART : A—OBJECTIVE ) ( Marks : 40 ) The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions Answer all questions SECTION—I ( Marks : 20 ) 1. Tick (YW) the correct answer from among the word(s) given in the brackets to fill in the blanks : %x10=5 (a) Doth God day labour, light denied? (demand / exact ) (b) When thou sigh’st, thou sigh’st not wind Bar = (split my soul in two / sigh’st my soul away)(2) (c) And the camels galled, sore footed ——. ( stubborn / refractory ) (ad) The sea is to night. (stormy / calm ) (e) “The music in my —— I bore, Long after it was heard no more.” (head / heart ) (f) At the time of the party given by the banker the lawyer was —— years old. ( forty / twenty-five ) (g) When the Municipal Council became active, the people of Malgudi had a —— life. ( better / worse ) (h) The girl for whom the canary was taken was madly in love with a man in ——. ( Vevey / New York ) 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987 (3) () I told him it was not our —— to accept interest from our friends. (custom / tradition ) 6) Ere half my days, in this —— world and wide. (dark / bright ) 2. Indicate with a Tick (Y) mark whether the following statements are True or False : 2 1x10=10 (a) Milton refuses to serve God because he is blind. ( True / False) (b) The lover in Sweetest Love I do not Goe offers excuses to part from his beloved. ( True / False) (c) The Magi’s newfound faith in Journey of the Magi only increases their sense of alienation in their own place. ( True / False) 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987 a2) : {89 (a) The poet wants his beloved to come to the (i) The daughter of the American lady loved a man window of the room where he is staying near who was a doctor. Dover Beach. ( True / False ) ( True / False ) (jj) According to the lawyer life-imprisonment was normally good. (e) The solitary reaper is singing some happy strain 4 while she is cutting and binding the grain. ( True / False ) ( True / False ) () “This is the interest, calculated at fifty per cent 3. Choose the correct meaning of the following words by that I owe you on the money you lent me.” poli fee ae: ba ( True / False ) (a) Exact (i) evoke (g) The lawyer read light books to get rid of loneliness and boredom in the first year of (i) demand confinement. (iii) beyond fl. ( True / False ) (b) Magi ; i k ‘ (j) three wise men Oo (h) The chairman had won the election by dint of his money-power. (ii) magic O ( True / False ) (ii) crop 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987(6) (c) Mont Blanc () woolen sweater O (ii) a peak in the Himalayas (iii) the highest peak in the Alps (d) Evian water (i) mineral water Evian from (ii) water related to bird-flu (ii) Ganga water (e) A priori () presumptive (ii) prescriptive (iii) primitive Oo 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987 oO the O Oo spring (ome) SECTION—II ( Marks: 20 ) 4. Answer the following questions in not more than 4 or 5 sentences each (any five) : 4x5=20 (a) How did the lawyer behave in the first year of his confinement and why did he behave so? at 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987(78.) (ee) (b) What was the reporter’s advice to the chairman regarding the reinstatement of the statue? (c) Why was the American lady glad to know that her companions were also Americans? 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987( 10 ) (11) (dq) What does Milton mean by ‘day-labour’ in On His () “There were times we regretted.” Blindness? When did the Magi have feelings of regret and what did they regret? (e) Why does Donne ask his wife not to sigh or weep? 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987 4 cilia et i y(12) | ( i jee? (g) Why does the poet ask himself and his beloved to (i;.Who is, Lalaject ‘be true to one another’? (Dover Beach) wa 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009)/987 10D—3000/987 1/GC—1 (i) (Syllabus-2009) ~ —_—