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MAY 2015 U/ID 31501/UEZA/

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Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (40 marks)

1. (a) Language skills : (15  2 = 30)

(i) Fill in the blanks with suitable

articles :
(1) V.K. Gokak is –––––––––– great
scholar. He has written ––––––––
number of essays.
(2) There are five values related
––––––– the faculties ––––––––––
man and his soul.
(ii) (1) Write the synonym of – lament
(2) Write the antonym of – relevant

(iii) Choose the correct forms of verbs to fill

in the blanks :
(1) The modern student is –––––––––
(provide) with tailor made notes.
(2) The theory of human values
–––––––––––– (form) the basis of
any education.
(iv) Add prefixes and suffixes to form new
words :

(1) Manage

(2) Develop

(v) Add question tags to the following

sentences :

(1) She failed in her attempt

(2) They haven’t completed.

(vi) Rewrite as directed :

(1) The issue was discussed by the

committee. (Into Active Voice)

(2) He invited me for a dinner. (Into

Passive voice)

(vii) Change as directed :

(1) Father advised his son not to

waste his time (Into Direct
Speech)

(2) He says, ‘‘I like it’’. (Into Indirect

Speech)

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(viii) Substitute a single word for the
following group of words underlined :
(1) He is a man eating human flesh.
(2) Study of fruits.

(ix) Combine into one sentence :

(1) I waited for my friend. I waited
till his arrival.
(2) He began late. He finished first.

(x) Correct the error in the following

sentences :
(1) One of my cousins are in USA.
(2) He is a MA graduate.

(xi) Punctuate the following passages using

capitals wherever necessary
william plomen was born in northern
transvaal south africa he wrote many
novels including the case is altered

(xii) Use any TWO of the following

idioms/phrases in sentences of your
own :
Carry out, think over, get away, make
out.

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 (xiii) Complete the sentences with
dependent/independent clauses :
(1) I was unable to hear ––––––––––.
(2) If you ask me why, –––––––––––.
(xiv) Rewrite the sentence in the logical
order :
the novel of two rather chapters are the
first dull
(xv) Correct the spelling of the underlined
words to give correct meanings :
(1) He recalls a typical seen when a
telephone rings.
(2) Nature is a ready treasury of rich
wealth.
(b) Write a paragraph of about 100 words on any
ONE of the following : (1  10 = 10)
(i) Environmental pollution.
Or
(ii) Health is wealth.

SECTION B — (5  2 = 10 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions in a sentence or two.

2. When did Sophocles write his last play?

3. How does E.M. Forster feel when he is asked to

answer the challenge of our time?
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[P.T.O.]
4. What are the five main values of education?

5. Who is a complete man?

6. Who is a Gladiator?

7. What does the soldier want to give England after

his death?

8. How does Emerson refer to God in his works?

9. What was Prometheus’s belief?

SECTION C — (2  5 = 10 marks)

Answer TWO of the following passages in about

50 words choosing atleast ONE from each Group.

GROUP A

10. No one can bully me into liking what I do not like,

and I should never try to bully anyone else into
liking what he did not like.
Or

11. She can run the race, but she will not rise to the
great heights she is capable of by mimicking man.
Or
12. Disability, tension and kindred troubles may
result from lack of inner harmony.

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 GROUP B

13. Come forth, and bring with you a heart that

watches and receives.
Or

14. When I stand on the roadway or on the

pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
Or

15. Pick up an armful of darkness and bring it here to

lie behind my bedroom door like a brooding dog.

SECTION D — (2  5 = 10 marks)

Write short notes in about 50 words on TWO choosing

atleast ONE from each Group.

GROUP A

16. What do Della and Jim buy for each other? How?
Or

17. Why did the Chinese peasants take refuge in the

city?
Or

18. What were Rahim Khan’s two ambitions and how

were they suppressed by his parents?
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 GROUP B

19. According to L-A-G. Strong, what is the main

purpose of reading?

Or

20. Why was Woman’s liberation delayed?

Or

21. How do prayers serve as energizers?

SECTION E — (3  10 = 30 marks)

Write THREE essays in about 200 words choosing

atleast ONE from each Group.

GROUP A

22. Bring out the humour in Plomer’s talk on the

telephone.

Or

23. Write an essay on Radhakrishnan’s views on the

study of science, humanities and religion.

Or

24. How does Gokak bring out the importance of

various skills in his essay?

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 GROUP B

25. Evaluate the poem ‘The Tables Turned’.

Or

26. Discuss Yeats’ desire to live in close contact with

nature with reference to ‘‘The Lake Isle of
Innisfree’’.

Or

27. What is A.D. Hope trying to convey through his

poem, ‘Prometheus Unbound’?

GROUP C

28. Rosemary Fell wanted to help the young girl –

comment.

Or

29. Describe in detail Gordon Livingston’s search for

his mother.

Or

30. Justify the title ‘The Model Millionaire’.

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