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Past Paper English Second Year

Group I Year 2016 Gujranwala Board

Objective

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

1.It is sometimes difficult to find out scaffold for them.

(a) store

(b) rope

(c) place

(d) gallows

2.The Chinese regime has maintained minimum subsis-tence level.

(a) progress

(b) intelligence

(c) forbearance

(d) livelihood

3.Such nervous habits are not easy to uproot.

(a) finish

(b) destroy

(d) eradicate

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

1.Then, at twenty, he received a share in a legacy.

(a) property

(b) inheritance

(c) building

(d) business

2.It was unbearably stifling in the driver's cabin.

(a) smelling

(b) suffocating

(c) chilly

(d) misty

3.By the unanimous vote of the assembly Sultanate was abolished.

(a) respectable

(b) scared

(c) united

(d) willing

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

1.Everything extended without a slightest hitch.

(a) jerk

(b) balance

(c) stability

(d) difficulty

2.He is too cock sure of himself.

(a) happy

(b) pleased

(c) unhappy

(d) over-confident

3.Chips stared about him.

(a) gazed

(b) slighted

(c) delighted

(d) ordered

4.Maynard was chubby boy.

(a) thin

9b) lean

(c) fat

(d) strong

4.Choose the correct option of appropriate preposition:

1.He was run ---------- by a car.

(a) after

(b) from

(c) over

(d) at

2.A Muslim always prays ----------- Allah.

(a) from

(b) to

(c) by

(d) upon

3.Nature is not hostile --------- man.

(a) with

(b) over

(c) to

(d) on

4.You should be ashamed ------------- your misbehaviour.

(a) of

(b) with

(c) off

(d) by

5.He is addicted ----------- gambling.

(a) at

(b) for

(c) with

(d) to

5.Choose the correct option:

1.Let Aslam and I play hockey.

(a) Let Aslam and me play hockey.

(b) Let Aslam and I play hockey.

(c) Let I and Aslam play hockey.

(d) Let I and Aslam plays hockey.

2.The old man died in Typhoid.

(a) The old man died by Typhoid.

(b) The old man died from Typhoid.

(c) The old man died of Typhoid.

(d) The old man died with Typhoid.

3.He has been operated.

(a) He have been operated.

(b) He had been operated.

(c) He has been operated upon.

(d) He has been operated with.

4.Bad news spread fast.

(a) bad news will spread fast.

(b) Bad news spread fastly.

(c) Bad news spread very fast.

(d) Bad news spreads fast.

5.He reached the college in time.

(a) He reached in college in time.

(b) He reached at the college in time.

(c) He reached college in time.

(d) He reached on the college in time.

Past Paper English Second Year

Group I Year 2016 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) What happened on the Sun when the second star came near the Sun?

(ii) What were the sanitary conditions a hundred years ago in our big cities?

(iii) How does the financial pressure lead to the failure to the students in college?

(iv) How did David Daiches feel at the week-end as the school boy?

(v) Why could not the writer burn his books?

(vi) How did the writer come to know that his liver is out of order?

(vii) What kind of man was the manager was?
(viii) What is the agricultural system in China?

(ix) How did Al-Hakam patronize learning in Muslim pain?

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

(I) Why was Churchill only taught English not Latin and Greek?

(ii) How did Mr. Somervell teach English?

(iii) What happened to Christopher when he jumped bare-footed from the front cabin of the truck?

(iv) Why was Fleming in search of natural antiseptic made by the body?

(v) Describe how the Oxford team concentrated penicillin?

(vi) How did Pasteur prove taht spontaneous generation was not a fact?

(vii) Why did Pasteur choose the work on the brewing industry?

(viii) What was the reaction of the Turkish patriot to the intension of the Allies to partition of the Ottoman Empire?

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

(I) What is significance of the title , "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"?

(ii) Write a note on Brookfield school?

(iii) What was presented to Chips at his retirement?

(iv) What was Chips' status when he was fifty and sixty?

(v) Did Katherine always plead for mercy?

(vi) Write a note on Mr. Meldrum?

(vii) Why didn't Mr. Chips and Ralston like each other?

(viii) What did Chips say to Faulkner?

(ix) What did Chatteris read out at every Sunday during the War?

(x) What did Chips thinking when he was on death bed?

(xi) Discuss some changes in Brookfield after the war?

(xii) What was Chips' ill?

Section-II

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

1.Science and Society

2.Village Life

3.Examination

4.My First Day at College

5.Use any Five of the following idioms in sentences of you own:   10

1.Bag and baggage

2.Maiden speech

3.Burn the midnight oil

4.Better half

5.Break into

6.End in smoke

7.Come of

8.Take after