Part A : Grammar (40 Marks)
1. Complete
the passage with suitable verbs from the list. Put them in the correct tenses.
Use negative where necessary.
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call
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write
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provide
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relate
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reading
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understand
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be
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Although language usage (a) _____ a teacher with the information
about a child’s development and (b) _____ a means for socialization, previous
experience with language is probably most important as it (c) _____ to the
specific task (d) ____ reading. Reading is a language process requiring the (e)
____ of written language.
2. Fill
in the gaps with appropriate prepositions.
Population growth belongs (a) ____ one of the major causes
responsible (b) _____ the environmental degradation. Although the growth rate
in the world has (c) _____ some extent slowed (d) _____ still it adds 77
million human beings (e) _____ the world population.
3. Use
articles where necessary and put a cross (x) where article is not needed.
Patriotism means (a) ____ love for one’s (b) ____ country. It’s
(c) ____ noble virtue. It removes (d _____ mean-mindedness of (e) ____man. It
also inspires (f) ____ man to shed (g) _____ last drop of blood from the body
to defend (h) ____ freedom of (i) _____ country. A man devoid of patriotic
feelings is inferior to (j) _____ beast.
4. Make
sentences with any five of the following idioms.
Die out, white elephant, play truant, red tape, make good,
beggar description, fall flat.
5. Change
the speech in the following passage.
“Prince of the Faithful”, replied the vizier, “they are
doubtless a company of drunkard. If we go in, I fear that some hard may befall
you.” “We must go in”, insisted the Caliph. “You shall invent some pretext for
entrance.”
6. Change
the underlined sentences as directed.
(a) Plato is the most celebrated. Honored and revered of all
philosophers of the western world (Positive). (b) He Athens twenty-four years
ago (Complex). (c) He is said to be the greatest of all philosophers (Active).
(d) The praise of plato has been expressed in figures of speech, which compete
with one another in their eloquence (Simple). (e) He is the father of western
philosophy (Negative).
7. Fill
in the blanks with question tags.
a)
I’m
pleased with his conduct, ______?
b)
Neither
of them complained, ______?
c)
We
ought to love our country, ______?
d)
Everybody
is liable to error, ______?
e)
Do study
attentively, ______?
8. Complete
the incomplete sentences below.
a)
If
we drink arsenic polluted water _____.
b)
Surface
water is safe when _____.
c)
Pond
water is not safe as _____.
d)
______
because they are not conscious.
e)
Since
there is scarcity of pure water _____.
ANSWER
Part A : Grammar
1. Right
form of verbs
(a) provides; (b) is; (c) Is related; (d) called; (e)
understanding.
2. Appropriate
prepositions
(a) to; (b) for; (c) to; (d) down; (e) to.
3. Use
of articles
(a) x; (b) x; (c) a; (d) the; (e) a; (f) a; (g) the; (h) the;
(i) the; (j) a.
4. Making
sentences with phrases & idioms
Die out : Many old customs are gradually dying
out.
A whiter elephant : Setting up a nuclear project will
become a white elephant in out county.
Play truant : He was punished for plying truant from
school.
Red tape : Many people cannot set up industries in
the country because of red tape formalities.
Make good : You will have to make good the loss if
your construction work damages my house.
Beggar description : The sufferings of the flood- affected
people beggar description.
Fall flat : My advice fell flat upon him.
5. Changing
the form of speech
Addressing the Caliph as the prince of the Faithful, the vizier
replied that they were undoubtedly a company of drunkards. He also warned the
Caliph that if they went in, he feared that some harm might befall him. But the
Caliph insisted that they must go in and told the vizier that he (v) would
invent for entrance. Jafar said that he heard and obeyed.
6. Transformation
of sentences
a)
No
other philosopher of the western world is so celebrated, honoured and revered
as Plato.
b)
It
was twenty four years ago that he lived in Athens.
c)
People
call him the greatest of all philosophy?
d)
The
praise of Plato has been expressed in figures of speech to compete with one
another in their eloquence.
e)
Isn’t
the father of western philosophy?
7. Tag
questions
a)
I’m
pleased with his conduct, ain’t/aren’t I?
b)
Neither
of them complained, did they?
c)
We
ought to love our country, oughtn’t we?
d)
Everybody
is liable to error, aren’t they?
e)
Do
study attentively, won’t you?
8
Completing sentences
a)
If
we drink arsenic- polluted water, we are sure to fall sick.
b)
Surface
water is safe when it is boiled.
c)
Pond
water is not safe as different types of filthy things are mixed with it.
d)
The
illiterate people of our country fall a prey to various diseases because they are not conscious of their
health.
e)
Since
there is scarcity of pure water, everybody living there fetches drinking
water from the tube well of the neighbouring village.
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