B.Sc.

(N) [1st Year]

BF/2013/01
English
[New Scheme w.e.f. 2006]
M.M. : 75 Time : 3 Hours.
Note : Attempt all questions.
1. Write an essay in about 300 words on any ONE of the following: [15]
(a) How to keep fit.
(b) A railway journey.
(c) Electricity in service of a man.
(d) Advantages and disadvantages of Teleconference.
2. Write a letter to your friend asking her to return a book which you lent her a long time ago ?
[10]
3. What is oral reporting and what is its importance in nursing ? [10]

4. Make a précis of the following passage and suggest a suitable heading : [10]
At home and at school we spend a quarter of our lives and there we first learn
the lesson of self-control, truthfulness, kindness, duty and all other qualities that make
a good man or woman. The longer we live the more we realise how much we owe to
our parents and teachers. When Napolean Bonaparte had left his schoolday’s long
behind and had became the First Counsel of France, he one day visited his old school
and this is what he said to the boys: ‘Remember that every hour wasted at school
means a chance of misfortune in after life’. What he meant was that there are certain
opportunities for building up character which only come to us in the first fourteen or
fifteen years of our lives and never afterwards.
5. Correct the following sentences : [5]
(a) I have not yet completed my work.
(b) To meet a friend of mine I went to the town.
(c) I have many work to complete before I go to bed.
(d) When I reached the office, the phone is ringing.
(e) Maria always spent whatever she earned.
6. Fill in the blanks with correct Prepositions : [5]
(a) He climbed ____________________ the wall.
(b) Tom went away _________________ the door.
(c) I left the keys _____________ my wallet.
(d) We discuss the plan ______________ detail.
(e) I went ______________ the town ___________ meet the doctor.
7. Substitute One word for each of the following : [5]
(a) A person who believes in being married to one person at time.
(b) A disease in which a man suffers from sleeplessness.
(c) Muscles having two heads.
(d) Capable of passing through the pores of a filter.
(e) One who plays the role of bringing two hostile parties together.
8. Give the Antonyms of the following: [5]
(a) Safe (b) in (c) narrow (d) destroy (e) fertility
9. Use the following Idioms/phrases into sentences: [5]
(a) ups and downs (b) To have too many irons in fire
(c) To play ducks and drakes (d) To throw dust in one’s eye. (e) drive home
10. Transcribe the following into Phonetic symbols: [5]
(a) curse (b) pick (c) dew (d) shut (e) moon
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