Time: 1hour English (Test-2) Max.

Marks: 50
Section-I
1. Write short answers of the following questions from Book-I. (6)
i. Why didn’t the old man follow the advice of the doctor?
ii. Where did the old man take his son?
iii. What were the feelings of the old man at the age of seventy?

2. Write short answers of the following questions from Book-II. (8)

i. Why does W.H. Davis hope to have a lovely sight after rain?
ii. Who is the ‘poor beneath’?
iii. What are the main characteristics of the Night Mail?
iv. What is the reaction of the sheepdogs on the arrival of the train?

3. Write short answers of the following questions from Book-III. (6)

i. How much advanced is the civilization of Kreton than that of earth?
ii. What is the role of General Powers in the play?
iii. How does Kreton impress General Powers?

4. Use the following Pair of Words in your own sentences. (5)

i. Altar; Alter ii. Angle; Angel iii. Allusion; Illusion
iv. Aural; Oral v. Bail; Bale

5. Write a story on moral lesson of ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’. (10)

6. Translate the following paragraph into Urdu. (15)
Only twice did my father stop to wipe the sweat from his eyes as he climbed the second steep bluff
toward the fingers of the pines. We reached the limbless trunks of these tall straight pines whose
branches reached the blue depth of the sky, or the white cloud was now gone. I saw a clearing, a
small clearing of not more than three-fourth of an acre in the heart of this wilderness right on the
mountain top.
 Test English

Answer the following short questions.

1. What happened when the wandering star came nearer and nearer?
2. What are planets and how did they come into existence?
3. Why is there no life on the stars?
4. What is meant by superstitions?
5. How did thrifty housewives preserve food in the past?
6. How scientific method has improved our ways of life?
7. What are common diseases among college students?
8. What is the heartrending spectacle?
9. Can we help the student suffering from nervous habits?
10. What was the most frightening day of the week for Daiches?
11. What were the feelings of the writer on Saturday and Sunday?
12. Did he come to have a feeling for those books once he had got rid of them?
13. What did the writer think about the splash?
14. Give the names of the books that the writer threw into the river?