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 Past Paper English Second Year

Group I Year 2012 Gujranwala Board

Objective

1.Choose the correct option of the following under-lined words from Book-II (Modern Prose and Heroes) part-I:

1.From these humble beginnings came a stream of life.

(a) sign

(b) evidence

(c) chain

(d) chance

2.Nine and a half million people perished in a single famine.

(a) suffered

(b) survived

(c) died

(d) drowned

3.I could look forward to a period of permanent felicity.

(a) freedom

(b) choice

(c) happiness

(d) comfort

2.choose the correct option of the following under-lined words from Book-II (Modern Prose and Heroes) Part-I:

1.He proposed to the is very much to his credit.

(a) repute

(b) disgrace

(c) loss

(d) disrepute

2.He proposed that the Sultanate should be abolished.

(a) eradicated

(b) enriched

(c) prevailed

(d) decreased

3.He discovered the boy's natural armour against disease.

(a) cure

(b) medicine

(c) treatment

(d) shield

3.Choose the correct option of the following under-lined words from the novel Goodbye Mr. Chips:

1.There were lamp boys who would clean and trim the light lamps.

(a) prune

(b) light

(c) fill

(d) shut

2.Boys asked Chips question for the fun of getting Chips, "latest" to retell.

(a) journal

(b) news

(c) tit-bit

(d) answer

3.Wetherby was very fatherly.

(a) loathsome

(b) strict

(c) ugly

(d) affectionate

4.Mr. Chips was conscientious.

(a) hard-working

(b) furious

(c) raged

(d) ill- tempered

4.Choose the correct option of appropriate preposition.

1.he glanced ---------- me casually.

(a) over

(b) on

(c) in

(d) at

2.Don't laugh ---------- your elders.

(a) on

(b) at

(c) over

(d) against

3.I cannot part ----------- my books.

(a) with

(b) over

(c) to

(d) from

4.Don't meddle ---------- my books.

(a) in

(b) on

(c) with

(d) into

5. He is blind ---------- his weakness.

(a) to

(b) of

(c) from

(d) with

5.Choose the correct option.

1.There is no place in this room.

(a) There is no places in this room.

(b) There is no rooms in this room.

(c) There is no room in this room.

(d) There are no places in this room.

2.These females have come to sit in the library.

(a) These women have come to sit in the library.

(b) These female have come to sit in the library.

(c) Those women have to come to sit on the library.

(d) Those female has come to sit in the library.

3.He is a failed student.

(a) He is a plucked student.

(b) He is failed student.

(c) He is a failure student.

(d) He is plucked student.

4.He cannot pull on well with his wife.

(a) He cannot pull well together with his wife.

(b) He cannot pull on quite well with his wife.

(c) He cannot pull at well together with his wife.

(d) He cannot pull upon well with his wife.

5.The documents are attached here with.

(a) The documents are attached with.

(b) The documents are attached along with.

(c) The documents are attached in.

(d) The documents are attached.

Past Paper English Second Year

Group I Year 2012 Gujranwala Board

Subjective

Section-I

1.write short answers to any six (in 3-5 lines) questions from Book-II (Modern Prose and Heroes) Part-I:    12

(I) Why is there no life on the stars?
(ii) Why are we generally less fearful than our ancestors?

(iii) How do the poor college students meet their college expenses?

(iv) What did Daiches do with his pocket money?

(v) Why could J.C Squire not burn the unwanted books?

(vi) What was the piece of advice the doctor gave to Jerome?

(vii) What other blunders did Leacock commit after leaving the manager's life?

(viii) What are the social security benefits provided to the Chinese worker?

(ix) What do the stories of Robin Hood tell us?

2.Write short answers to any six (in 3-5 lines) questions from Book-II (Modern Prose and Heroes) Part-II:    12

(I) Why did Churchill not like examination?

(ii) Describe the size of the Sahara comparing it with that of England?

(iii) How did Christopher manage to get water at In Abbangarit?

(iv) Fleming's family was becoming a medical family, How?

(v) What are the necessary conditions for life to exist?

(vi) What happened to Pasteur on his wedding day?

(vii) What is hydrophobia and its symptoms?

(viii) Write the fight between the armies of the Greeks and that of Mustafa Kamal?

3.Write short answers to any Eight (in 3-5 lines) questions from the novel Goodbye Mr. Chips:      16

(I) What kind of person Mr. Wetherby was ?

(ii) What did Mr. Merivale say about Mr. Chips' health?

(iii) What was the outer view of Brookfield school?

(iv) What were Chips' concepts of a nice women?

(v) What was the effect of Chip's marriage on his sense of humour?

(vi) Why could Chips not write down his memories?

(vii) Why could Ralston not become popular at Brookfield school?

(viii) What were the charges that Ralston levied against Chips?

(ix) What type of farewell party was given to Chips?

(x) What were the health problems of Chatteris?

(xi) How did Chips keep the boys normal during the air-raid?

Section-II

1.Write an essay (300 400 words) on any one of the following topics:      15

1.A Roadside Accident.

2.My Hero In History.

3.A Visit To a Fair.

4.Life in a Big City.

5.use any Five of the following idioms in sentences of your own:  10

1.By fits and starts

2.Kith and Kin

3.Snake in the grass

4.Better half

5.Wolf on sheep's clothing

6.Rank and file.

7.Look for

8.Put up with