TILAK MAHARASHTRA VIDYAPEETH, PUNE

SANSKRIT VISHARAD (B. A.) EXAMINATION: JUNE – 2015 FIRST YEAR

Sub. : English (4106)

Date : 22 /06/2015 Total marks: 100 Time: 10.00 am to 1.00pm

Instructions: 1) Figures to the right indicate full marks.

2) All questions are compulsory.

1. 1 Select the correct verb given in the brackets. (10)

   1. The boy jumped ——- the lake.
   2. The Indus flows —— the Punjab.
   3. As soon as you reach manhood, you will have to work —— your living.
   4. I am tired ——- listening ——- the same lecture every term.
   5. Deceived —— his friends, he lost all hope.
   6. The money was shared —— the 11 members.
   7. He is suffering —— typhoid.
   8. I have not met him —– he returned from Delhi.
   9. I will wait for you ——– 6 p.m.
   10. If there were complaints, he attended —— them at once.

Q. 2	Turn the following words into nouns:	(10)
	Useful, great, promote, poor, surgical, clear, cancel, attend, tempt, wise, easy, just,
Q. 3	compulsory, vacant, innocent Choose the correct alternative:	(15)

1. The great poet & novelist (are/is) dead.
2. Each of the boys (was/were) given a prize.
3. Plucking flowers (is/are) forbidden.
4. Which one of these books (are/is) yours?
5. Every boy and every girl (has/have) to join school.
6. Neither of the two applicants(are/is) suitable.
7. It is one of the best pictures that (has ever been/have ever been) painted.
8. A variety of pleasing objects (charms/charm) the eye.
9. Iron as well as gold (are/is) found in India.
10. The king, with all his minister, (was/were) killed.

1. 4 Choose the correct alternative: (10)

   1. He is an (adept/adapt) in painting.
   2. Please (advice/advise) me what to do.
   3. He wears (coarse/course) clothes.
   4. Will you (canvass/canvas) votes for me?
   5. One (bail/bale) of cotton was burnt.
   6. The pious old man bowed before the (altar/alter)
   7. A severe (decease/disease) may cause (disease/decease).
   8. This laundry does cleaning and (dying/dyeing).
   9. He is an (eminent/imminent) doctor.
   10. The poor farmer was struck by (lightening/lightning).

Q. 5 Complete the following table. (10)

Base verb	Past tense	Past Participle
?	arose	?
?	?	treated
emerge	?	?
?	struck	?
swim	?	?
?	forbade	?
?	fled	?
?	?	come
shake	?	?
?	?	burnt

Q. 6 Write a letter to your friend giving him an account of the accident which recently happened to you.

(10)

OR

Write a letter to a newspaper appealing for help for the victims of earthquake.

Q. 7 Prepare speech on the topic. (10)

‘Save Tigers’

OR

You, as a reporter of a certain newspaper, prepare a report in about 20 lines on ‘The Rose Exhibition’ recently held in your city.

Q. 8 Prepare a paragraph counter-viewing the following topic. (10)

‘Wearing Helmets should not be made compulsory’

OR

As an interviewer, frame 10 questions you would ask to Virat Kohli, a cricketer.

1. 9 Expand any one of the following in not more than 1000 words. (15)

   1. Mercy killing – a need of an hour.
   2. Role of citizens in shaping the nation
   3. The most memorable event in my life