LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

U.G. DEGREE EXAMINATION – GENERAL ENGLISH

NM 34

FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009

EL 1057 – GENERAL ENGLISH – I

 

 

 

Date & Time: 29/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00  Dept. No.                                                  Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

I  Explain any TEN of the following passages.                                             (10 x 4 = 40)

1. By this process you can actually remake your life.
2. But no one descended to the traveler.
3. The manager stared at him as though he were a pre-historic monster.
4. Forman. Will you come into the vestry for a minute?

I have something to say to you

1. Your comrades chase even now the fliers
2. Tell him to answer this damn telephone.
3. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
4. I cannot rest from travel; I will drunk

Life to the lees;

1. And I pointed out to her a big mirror in block bronze frame hanging in the corner near the portrait of my great-grandmother.
2.  ‘Well. I don’t know what kind of school they had all that time ago.
3. …that book is so far ahead of us that it never gets out of date.
4. Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had.

II Answer any FOUR of the following questions in about 200 words each. (4 x 10 = 40)

1. Bring out the elements of fantasy in “The crooked mirror”.
2. Ulysses is an epitome of human desire. Elucidate.
3. How does Norman Vincent Peale motivate us for a new life?
4. Explain the steps initiated by Foreman to become a successful business man.
5. Describe the research carried out by James Howard in “Return to Dust”.
6. Explain the mystery portrayed in the poem “Listeners”?
7. Did Margie express her attraction for the old school? Give Reason to your answer.

 

III Do as directed

1. Use any FIVE of the following Phrases in your own sentence. (10 Marks)
2. give up 2. take into 3. get into trouble 4. give away
3. do or die 6. instead of     7. have the mastery of

 

1. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions.                   (5 Marks)

I paid a huge sum—-money—-the mirror and never parted—-it until quite recent                                                                                                         times. I used to look—-it even when I was eating and drinking. When retiring—-the night, I always took it—-bed—-me, and wherever I went, I asked—-it to be carried—-me.

 

1. Fill in the blanks with appropriate tense forms of the verbs given in the brackets. (5 Marks)

 

It—-(be) a source of subdued pride to him that he—-(can) nearly always quiet a whimpering infant by the manner in which he—-(hold) it, and he—-(be) not unconscious of the amused admiration with which mothers and nurses—-(watch) him settle the baby in the crook of his surpliced arm.

 

 

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