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 Past Paper English Second Year

Group II 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.Sewage from all sections is carried through sealed pipes to disposal plants.

(a) water supply

(b) used water

(c) fresh water

(d) rain water

2.The pedestrian came by me without looking at me.

(a) lazy bluffer

(b) thief

(c) beggar

(d) a person walking in the street

3.We have the power to abolish the war if we have the will.

(a) edge

(b) majority

(c) sector

(d) determination

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

1.I got only a vague idea of what they looked like.

(a) clear

(b) unclear

(c) powerful

(d) fancy

2.France and Germany was plunged into war.

(a) invited

(b) thought

(c) withdraw

(d) pushed

3.He felt he could trust no one but an old conducter of the royal orchestra.

(a) servants

(b) musicians

(c) courtiers

(d) ministers

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

1.Chips was not boastful or conceited.

(a) foolish

(b) silly

(c) proud

(d) ugly

2.And so it stood , a warm and vivid patch in his life.

(a) clear

(b) warm

(c) vast

(d) colorful

3.Chips did not afterwards conceal the fact.

(a) expose

(b) hide

(c) reveal

(d) know

4. And the answer comes, in a shrill treble.

(a) silence

(b) void

(c) hall way 

(d) resonance

4.Choose the correct option of appropriate preposition:

1.Eggs are sold ---------- the dozen.

(a) from

(b) of

(c) by

(d) for

2.He aimed ----------- the bird and fired.

(a) at

9b) on

(c) over

(d) upon

3.His brothers deal ---------- earthenware.

(a) with

(b) about

(c) in

(d) out

4.He was born ----------- rich parents.

(a) up

9b) to

(c) on

(d) of

5.He invited all his friends ----------- dinner.

(a) to

(b) in

(c) at

(d) on

5.Choose the correct option:

1.Ten miles are a long distance.

(a) Ten miles are a long distances.

(b) ten miles is a long distance.

(c) ten mile is a long distance.

(d) Ten miles are a long distance.

2.He has been successfully operated.

(a) he has been successfully operated by.

(b) He has been operated successfully.

(c) He has been successfully operated upon.

(d) he has been successfully operated around.

3.He availed of a chance.

(a) He had availed of a chance.

(b) he has availed of a chance.

(c) He himself availed of a chance.

(d) He availed himself of the chance,

4.It is half past five in my watch.

(a) It is half past five by my watch.

(b) It is half past five from my watch.

(c) It is half past five into my watch.

(d) It is half past five on my watch.

5.He odes not know how to sing.

(a) He do not know to sing.

(b) He knows not to sing.

(c) He does not know how to sing.

(d) he does not knew to sing.

Past Paper English Second Year

Group II 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 was the result when a star came nearer the Sun?

(ii) How has Scientific method enabled us to get over the old fears?

(iii) How are sometimes parents responsible for the failure of their children?

(iv) Why did David Daiches like holidays?

(v) Why did the writer decide to destroy the useless books?

(vi) Why should the writer be an acquisition to the medical class?

(vii) Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal?

(viii) How does China relay on its own resources?

(ix) How do famines occur?

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

(I) What good did Churchill's three years at Harrow do him?

(ii) Why was Churchill's name written at the bottom of the list?

(iii) What was the most noticeable feature of the desert city, named Ghardaia?

(iv) What are antiseptic and what is the method of antiseptic?

(v) How do vaccine help in preventing and curing a disease?

(vi) how did Pasteur show the way to other scientists?

(vii) what were the terms offered to Turkey by the allies?
(viii) Give an account of departure of Mehmet from Istanbul?

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

(I) What was the similarity between Chips and some old sea-captains?

(ii) How did Chips punish his first student?

(iii) How did Chips meet Katherine for the first time?

(iv) What was Chips presented on his retirement?

(v) How was Katherine received at Brookfield school?

(vi) What did Chips say to Lloyd George?

(vii) What were the changes that Ralston leveled against Chips?

(viii) What were Chips' activities after his retirement?

(ix) What was Chips' will?

(x) Who was Linford?

(xi) describe the scene of Chips death?

(xii) What were the things that had never done in life?

Section-II

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

1.Life in a big city.

2.Internet

3.national unity

4.Our Islamic festivals

5.Use any five of the following idioms in sentences of your own:  10

1.In a fix

2.Call in question

3.Call on

4.Set in

5.Call a spade a spade

6.Bear out

7.Carry-Weight

8.To hit below the belt