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Lahore Campus
Mid Term (Spring-2021 Semester)
Department of Computer Sciences

Paper Show Date & Time:

02/06/2021 (9:30-10:30)
Exam Date & Time: 28/05/2021 (9:00AM-10:30AM)
Instructor Name: Zukhruf Shaukat Program/Semester: BS(CS)-1(A)Morning
Course Code: ENG105 Course Title: Functional English
Time Allowed: 90 Minutes Max Marks: 30

Student Name: ____________________________ Registration no.: ____________________________

Instructions:
Read out the Instructions carefully.
I. Attempt all questions
II. Write your name and registration number in the spaces provided
III. Write complete answers to all questions
IV. Answers for objective part Q1 and Q2. Must be written in the given table/grid only (answers
written/marked/chosen/highlighted within the MCQs. will not be accepted)
V. NO EXTRA TIME SHALL BE GIVEN
VI. Plagiarized answers will not be accepted (in case of plagiarism zero marks will be awarded)
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Q.1. Choose the correct option. (10)

1. We have many more ________ to drive before we reach our vacation spot.
a) mileage
b) miles
c) mile

2. She is a terrible player. The word ‘terrible’ is used here as ___________.

a) an adverb
b) an adjective
c) a noun

3. This movie seems ________ familiar to me.

a) strangely
b) strange
c) stranger
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4. The president isn’t going to be re-elected, FOR his term has been plagued by problems. The conjunction
‘for’ here represents______________.
a) a cause or a reason
b) a contrast between ideas
c) an alternative idea

5. Take my father, for instance. Him and I have very different opinions on this matter. The aforementioned
sentence has incorrect pronoun usage. Identify the correct version from the given options:
a) Take my father, for instance. Him and me have very different opinions on this matter.
b) Take my father, for instance. He and me have very different opinions on this matter.
Take my father, for instance. He and I have very different opinions on this matter.

6. Identify the correct type of sentence.

Many things are necessary for a business to succeed.
a) Simple
b) Compound
c) Complex
7. He waited in the cold until it started to rain.
a) Simple
b) Compound
c) Complex
8. Samia found the old receipt in the car, for she knew she must have left it there.
a) Compound
b) Complex
c) Compound-complex
9. The ancient Mayans needed to keep track of the time, so they invented the Mayan Calendar.
a) Compound
b) Complex
c) Compound-complex
10. Although her parents forced her to take up medicine, Nina decided to become a writer; so, she decided
to move to New York.
a) Compound
b) Complex
c) Compound-complex

Answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Q 1. Read the given passage and answer the questions. (10 Marks)
One of the modern world’s intriguing sources of mystery has been airplanes vanishing in mid-flight. One of the
more famous of these was the disappearance in 1937 of a pioneer woman aviator, Amelia Earhart. On the second
last stage of an attempted round the world flight, she had radioed her position as she and her navigator searched
desperately for their destination, a tiny island in the Pacific. The plane never arrived at Howland Island. Did it
crash and sink after running out of fuel? It had been a long haul from New Guinea, a twenty-hour flight covering
some four thousand kilometers. Did Earhart have enough fuel to set down on some other island on her radioed
course? Or did she end up somewhere else altogether? One fanciful theory had her being captured by the Japanese
in the Marshall Islands and later executed as an American spy; another had her living out her days under an
assumed name as a housewife in New Jersey.
Seventy years after Earhart’s disappearance, ‘myth busters’ continue to search for her. She was the best-known
American woman pilot in the world. People were tracking her flight with great interest when, suddenly, she
vanished into thin air. Aircraft had developed rapidly in sophistication after World War One, with the 1920s and
1930s marked by an aeronautical record-setting frenzy. Conquest of the air had become a global obsession. While
Earhart was making headlines with her solo flights, other aviators like high-altitude pioneer Wiley Post and
industrialist Howard Hughes were grabbing some glory of their own. But only Earhart, the reserved tomboy from
Kansas who disappeared three weeks shy of her 40th birthday, still grips the public imagination. Her Reading
Comprehension Practice Test Page 11 disappearance has been the subject of at least fifty books, countless
magazine and newspaper articles, and TV documentaries. It is seen by journalists as the last great American
mystery.
There are currently two main theories about Amelia Earhart’s fate. There were reports of distress calls from the
Phoenix Islands made on Earhart’s radio frequency for days after she vanished. Some say the plane could have
broadcast only if it were on land, not in the water. The Coast Guard and later the Navy, believing the distress calls
were real, adjusted their searches, and newspapers at the time reported Earhart and her navigator were marooned
on an island. No-one was able to trace the calls at the time, so whether Earhart was on land in the Phoenix Islands
or there was a hoaxer in the Phoenix Islands using her radio remains a mystery. Others dismiss the radio calls as
bogus and insist Earhart and her navigator ditched in the water. An Earhart researcher, Elgen Long, claims that
Earhart’s airplane ran out of gas within fifty-two miles of the island and is sitting somewhere in a 6,000-square-
mile area, at a depth of 17,000 feet. At that depth, the fuselage would still be in shiny, pristine condition if ever
anyone were able to locate it. It would not even be covered in a layer of silt. Those who subscribe to this
explanation claim that fuel calculations, radio calls and other considerations all show that the plane plunged into
the sea somewhere off Howland Island.
Whatever the explanation, the prospect of finding the remains is unsettling to many. To recover skeletal remains
or personal effects would be a grisly experience and an intrusion. They want to know where Amelia Earhart is,
but that’s as far as they would like to go. As one investigator has put it, “I’m convinced that the mystery is part of
what keeps us interested. In part, we remember her because she’s our favourite missing person.”
1. What can be a suitable title for this passage? 1 mark

2. Which theory of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance appeals to you? Give two reasons to support your
answer. 3 marks

3. What is the main idea/central theme of the given passage? Support your answer with 2 examples
from the passage. 3 marks

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 4. Does the fate of Amelia Earhart fascinate you as much as it fascinates the investigators? Give two
reasons to support your answer. 3 marks

Q 2. Write a paragraph of 120-150 words on the topic “Instagram is better than Facebook” using any ten
of the given conjunctions in the list below: (create)
(10 Marks)
Capitalization and correct use of punctuation: 2marks
Correct use of articles: 2 marks
Conjunctions: 0.5x10= 5 marks
Grammar: 1 mark
Since, and, although, yet, while, but, when, until, therefore, if, due to, for, however

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COURSE CODE COURSE TITLE CLASS

ENG 105 Functional English BS(CS)-1(A)Morning

Signature Zukhruf Shaukat

Name: Zukhruf Shaukat
Department: Computer Sciences
Date: 18-05-2021
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Subject Specialist

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Cluster Head

COUNTERSIGNED

DR. KHAWAJA QASIM MAQBOOL

Senior Assistant Professor
Head of Department

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