Q.No.1 Encircle the correct option.

20 Marks

1. He never quarrels with his playmates. The underlined word is a/an:

adverb of degree
adverb of manner
adverb of frequency
adverb of time

2. Which one of the following sentences has adjective clause?

We reached where two rivers meet.
They bought a house that needs renovation.
He wears a tattered coat.
The landlord has a big house

3. His knowledge of many languages elevated him among his companions. The
underlined word is a/an:
collective noun
abstract noun
proper noun
material noun

4. Majority of our students are following the same rut in terms of the choice of
their career. The synonym of the underlined word is:
denial
refusal
closure
track

5. Which one of the following sentences carries an emphatic pronoun?

He himself submitted his assignment.
No one enjoyed it.
Neither of the students could do it.
Each of the students was busy.

6. Which one of the following sentences contains an adjective phrase?

He wanted to go home.
He bought a car of a new model.
The kite flies up and up.
The dog chased him everywhere.

7. Which one of the following sentences contains a gerund phrase?

Eating ice cream in winter is not good.
Reading is easier than writing.
He is playing hockey.

1
Barking dog seldom bites.

8. Anti-climax is a situation in a play or a story that releases tension after:

exposition
denouement
climax
conflict

9. Harryʼs face turned red and he started to yell, balling his hands up into shaking
fists. Infer the correct option from the following.
Harry is angry.
Harry is hungry.
Harry is playing.
Harry is excited.

10. Unless he comes early, I will not wait all day for him. The underlined part of
the sentence is:
adverb clause
noun clause
adverb phrase

11. Identify the sentence implying the transitional device of cause:

Since it was raining, we stayed home.
In brief, things are not going well.
At least, you should stay back.
Above all, you should be responsible.

12. ‘The dog chases him where he goesʼ. The underlined part of the sentence is:
sentence
clause
phrase
predicate

13. Oʼ Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumnʼs being. Which one of the
following poetic device is used in the poetic line?
metaphor
irony
personification
simile

14. Identify the sentence that has past indefinite tense:

Tea was being prepared.
Heavy fog hung over the valley.
I would like to go now.

2
They cut the trees for fuel every day

15. The brave soldiers rushed to the battlefield and forced the enemy to flee. The
sentence is:
complex
compound
compound complex
simple

16. Which one of the following sentences contains the example of present
participle?
He was served with a written warning.
Plan for some saving.
He saw a flying horse.
Reading tired him

17. When he made insolent remarks towards his class mate, the teacher took him
to task. Antonym of the word insolent is:
regret
irreverence
disrespectful
respectful

18. Which one of the following sentences exemplifies alliteration?

He is as innocent as an angel.
The dancing waves of the sea made him terrified.
They counsel with the stars whose broken branches show the scars.
Laughter is the music of the soul.

19. In which one of the following sentences all the apostrophes are correctly
placed?
The two boyʼs bags were lying at the riverʼs edge.
The two boysʼ bags were lying at the riverʼs edge.
The two boysʼ bags were lying at the rivers edge.
The two boyʼs bags were lying at the riversʼ edge.

20. Which one of the following sentences has a transitive verb?

He turned off the light.
The soldiers fought bravely.
Did you get tired?
He returned at night.

3
Subjective

Q.2 Read the following passage and answer the questions appended to it.
One of the most important emerging issues in Pakistani academia is the debate
between the Natural sciences (what we traditionally know as science subjects)
and human sciences (social sciences and humanities combined) With the
emergence of a narrative that advocates the systematic exclusion of the human
sciences from the academia, and with the appointment of science faculty as
administrators in General category universities, it is obvious that policy makers
do not see an active future for the human sciences. It is in this light that
educationists may view the decline of what is known as a reading habit among
students at the university level, while other factors also have a great role to play. I
believe that the emphasis on Natural sciences as the saviour discipline is the
major reason for students' lack of interest in reading history, literature and
philosophy. Reading books is no longer a fashionable and cursory survey of any
university classroom attests to the veracity of this claim. Readers who due to
their fixation with the smart phone age, demand quick and easy foxes. They
would rather google and read short articles than try to access the original source

Questions:
1. Why is reading books no longer fashionable?
2. Why do we not see an active future for human sciences?
3. How do the readers not have an access to original content?
4. Write a précis of the given passage in about one third of its original length and
suggest a suitable title?

Q. 3 Stanza based Questions

The tree that never had to fight

For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing

1. Write down the theme of the given stanza?

2. Write down the rhyme scheme of stanza ?
3. How can a tree become a king of the forest?

4
Q. 3(b). Describe the plot of the play(Progress) in terms of its exposition,
complication, crisis, falling action and resolution. And explain whether the plot is
unified or not ?

Q.4 Make a resume for the Post of Bank Manager.

Q. 5(a) Use correct form of verb in parenthesis in any SIX of the following
sentences.
I hate his (come) here daily.
He (lie) in his bed for many days.
I (write) a letter to my father last week.
My friend (come) to me tomorrow.
I hope i (stand) first in my class.
The boy (fine) for not coming to college.

Q. 5(b) Use any SIX of the phrasal verbs in your sentences.

Break down
Come across
Go through
Stand by
Take down
Live on

Q. 5(c) Punctuate the following lines/paragraph:

as soon as they were brought he tied up the womans throat and struck the
swollen part with so much force that the poor old creature instantly expired ah
cried the people this fellow is a villain

Q. 6 Write a letter to the Managing Director, Pakistan Railway, complaining him

about the late arrival of trains.

Q. 7 Translate the given passage into Urdu.

The human race is much indebted to science and its inventions. During the past
two hundred years,science has brought a great revolution in almost all the fields
of life.The conquest of time and space is a great achievement. The world has
reduced to a small thing. The distances which were covered in months in past
now can be covered only in hours.We can travel to the Moon and get its dust
samples back to the Earth. The fast transportation system has made journey a
pleasant experience. The journey to Europe and America has become
common.Now it is possible to have lunch at Lahore,dinner at London and
tomorrow breakfast at New York.If Ibn-e-Battuta had a second life, he would find
the present world more pleasant as compare to the past world.