DIPLOMA ENGLISH OLD QUESTION PAPER 9CP41 NOVEMBER 2013

 Iv Semester Diploma Examination, November 2013

Commercial practice board

English ii

Time 3 hours max marks 100

Notes:1. Answer all questions as directed.

               2. Spelling and Grammar  errors shall be penalized.

1.Fill in the blanks with appropriate word/words                                   5

1.Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit…………….

2.Lieutenant Blandford’s plane had been caught in the midst of a pack of ………

3.Let me live in my house by the side of the road and be a friend to………..

4.Charity destroys work….........

5.I am not that woman selling you ……….and…………..

 

2. (a) Answer any six of  the following questions in one or two sentences                                                                                 6*2=12

1. How was Blandford going to identify Hollis?

2. How is the birth of a child usually celebrated, according to the speaker?

3. “Love is not time’s fool”. Explain.

4. What does Mary come to know, when she meets Hob?

5. What were the pacifiers made of and when were they used?

6. What is supposed to be more infectious than leprosy in anandwan?

7. Why Ho prefers the American School to his School?

8. Who is roaming free as the breeze? Why can’t  the speaker in the poem ‘I am not that woman’ can do so?

 

2.(b) Answer any two in about 80 words each                2*5=10

1. How does Joe’s invention work wonders for the people?

2. How has Baba described the inmates of Anandwan? What does it take to create Anandwan?

3. What according to the writer, is lacking in the American system of education?

 

 2 (c) Answer any two in about 80 words each                2*5=10

1.   The mothers got busier as harvest time drew near, what effect did this have on the children?

2.   Who does the speaker in the poem “I am not that woman” complain against? Why?

3.Pick out the words and expressions which are related to the sea and voyage. How does the poet use them in clarifying true love?

 

3. Grammar:

3.1 Change the speech                            4*2=08

1. Ramu said, “I am unwell”.

2. Raju said, “my master is writing letters.”

3.Gopi said he knows her address.

4.The teacher said the earth goes round the sun.

 

3.2 Give the pattern of the following sentences:  5*1=05

1.  The boy has lost his pen

2. The old man told us the whole story

3. Gopal looks sad.

4. She is singing a famous song

5. The baby is crying.

 

3.3 Frame a sentence for each of the following pattern: 5*1=5

1. SVOC

2. SV

3. SVIODO

4. svo

5. SVSC

 

3.4 Identify the phrases and name them: 3*2=6

1. The chief lived in a stone house

2. The boy wants something

3.Rama ran quickly

 

3.5 identify the clauses and name them: 3*2=6

1. You may sit wherever you like.

2. I expect that I shall get a prize

3. I knew where I could find him

 

3.6Change the degree:                            3*1=3

1. I am as strong as him

2. Joshi writes more interestingly than most historians.

3. No other material is as useful as iron.

 

3.7 Change the voice:                                        2*1=2

1. Brutus stabbed Caesar.

2. My pocket has been picked

 

3.8 Change to negative sentence:        1*1=1

1. He is greater than me.

 

3.9 Rewrite removing ‘too’                              1*1=1

1. The mangoes are too yellow to be good.

 

3.10 Synthesize into complex sentences      2*2=4

1. You are drunk. That aggravates your offense.

2. A cottager had his wife had a hen. The hen laid an egg every day. The egg was golden.

 

3.11 Split the following into two simple sentences each: 2*2=4

1. Show me the knife that you have bought.

2. As he was sick he remained at home.

 

3.12Correct the following sentences:           4*1=4

1. I have no any friends here.

2. This cloth is superior than that.

3. I purchased one of the best bike.

4. This place is more better than that.

 

3.13 Transform into simple sentences:  2*1=2

1. We must eat or we can’t live.

2. The men endured all the horrors of the campaign and not one of them complained at all.

3.14 Transform into compound sentence:    2*1=2

1. I am certain you have made a mistake.

2. If you do not hurry you will miss the train.

 

3.15 Transform into complex sentences :     2*1=2

1. Search his pockets and you will find the watch.

2.  He wishes to become learned; therefore he is studying hard.

 

3.16 Transform into assertive sentences:  3*1=3

1. Was he not a villain to do such a deed?

2. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!

3. When can their glory fade?

 

4. COMPOSITION

Expand any one of the following into a paragraph of about 100 words: 1*5=5

1. Rome was not built in a day.

2.  After a storm comes a calm.