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