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KESHAV MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE AND SCIENCES
YEAR-I SEMESTER-I PRE-FINAL EXAMINATION 2017-18
Time: 3 hrs ENGLISH–I Max Marks: 80
PART-A [5x4=20M]
Answer any five of the following.
1. Answer as directed.
a. Cities are generally more crowded than villages. [Identify the common noun]
b. A ______of stars. [Fill in the blank with collective noun]
c. Audio. [Identify the root word]
d. Privellege. [Correct the spelling]
2. Answer as directed.
a. She is one of those which old people. [Correct the sentence]
b. Look at these people. ______are the happiest. [Fill in the blank with appropriate pronoun]
c. Our team won the hockey champion. [Add appropriate suffix to the underlined word]
d. Autograph. [Divide the word into root and suffix]
3. Answer as directed.
a. Gayatri ______enjoy the movie. It wasn’t interesting.
[Fill in the blank with appropriate auxiliary verb]
b. She wouldn’t dare do that. [Identify the auxiliary verb and main verb in the sentence]
c. If you park here, the police will ______your car away.
[Fill in the blank with the correct option given between ‘tow’ and ‘two’]
d. Comprehend. [Convert the verb into noun by adding a suitable suffix]
4. Answer as directed.
a. Write the present, past, past participle and present particle forms of blow.
b. When I ____[hear] his version of the story, I ___ [be] extremely ______.[shock] [Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs]
c. Anyone can speak easy English. [Correct the underlined collocation]
d. Necessity is the mother of ______. [Fill in the blank with the correct form of ‘invent’]
5. Answer as directed.
a. my friend chitra and i study at osmania university [Punctuate the given sentence]
b. i was born at gandhi memorial hospital in hyderabad [Punctuate the given sentence]
c. English. [Write the phonemic transcription of the given word]
d. Agent. [Transcribe the sound of ‘A’ in the given word using IPA symbols]
6. Expand the following topic sentence into a paragraph.
Faith can move mountains
7. Complete the following conversations.
A: Hi! I’m Rahul.
B: ______.
A: Nice to meet you.
B: ______.
A: What do you do?
B: ______. ______?
A: I’m an artist.
8. Arrange the following sentences in a logical sequence.
1. The foundation stone was laid in 1972.
2. As a result, the city suffered from horrendous traffic congestion.
3. It was going to be the first in South Asia.
4. They plied in the centre of the road.
5. To ease traffic in the city, it was decided that an underground railway line would be built.
6. Calcutta, unlike other cities, kept its trams.
PART-B [5x12=60M] Answer the following questions in about 300 words each.
9. A. Write a character sketch of Dorothy.
Or
B. Narrate, in your own words, Charlie’s outlandish dream.
10. A. What, according to Inge, makes people ‘happy’ and who are the happiest people?
Or
B. What is the relevance of the story of the ambassador and his servant in ‘Happy People’?
11. A. What, according to Longfellow, should our attitude be to the past and to the future? Why?
Or
B. How do the lives of great men affect those around them?
12. A. Describe the characters of Amelia and Elizabeth.
Or
B. Discuss how the play explores the theme of family responsibilities.
13. A. What is the significance of ‘Million March’ amidst an uproar for separate Telangana state?
Or
B. What is Motivation and goal setting?