Functional English BS IT 1st Term Past Paper 2014 UOS

University of Sargodha
BS 1st Semester, Final Term Exam 2014
Subject: I.T Course: Functional English (IT-2411)
Time Allowed: 2:30 Hours
Session: 2012-16
Maximum Marks: 80

Objective Part (Compulsory)

Q.1. Write short answers of the following in 2-3 lines each on your answer sheet. (2*16)
i. What does the abbreviation “Aslib” stand for?
ii. Use the following idioms in sentences of your own.
a. Prevail on
b. Call for
iii. Change the voice of the following sentences.
a. The town was destroyed by an earthquake.
b. He was disappointed by the system.
iv. Punctuate the following:
King Francis cried out, “Well and bravely done; but it was not love that made you set you such a dangerous thing to do, but her vanity.”
v. Correct the following sentences.
a. I am sorry, I have a few friends.
b. He spent a little money he had.
vi. Identify the pronoun and tell whether it is emphatic, personal, relative or reflexive.
Acquit yourselves like men.
vii. Pick out the adjective and tell to which class it belongs.
Some dreams are like reality.
viii. Combine together the following sentence by using infinitive.
I speak the truth. I am not afraid of it.
ix. Pick out the participle and tell whether it is a present or past participle.
Being dissatisfied, he resigned his position.
x. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.
a. Do not write __________ red ink.
b. It is a container __________ butter.
xi. Point out the noun clause in the following sentence.
He begged that his life might be spared.
xii. Choose the correct alternative from those given in brackets to fill in the blanks.
a. It started raining while we __________ cricket.
(are playing, were playing, had played)
b. Ahmad __________ to be an engineer. (wants, wanting, is wanting)
xiii. Change the narration of the following sentences.
a. “Call the first witness,” said the judge.
b. The mother said to us, “Speak the truth.”
xiv. Give antonyms of the following words.
a. Love
b. Brave
xv. How did the Christians deal with the Jews, according to Mark Twain?
xvi. Explain the ‘cold tomb’ in the poem Death the Leveller.

Subjective Part
Note: Attempt three out of five questions. All questions carry equal marks. (3*16)

Q.2. In what ways does Duchess try to deceive the jeweler?
Q.3. Explain with reference to the context.
a. “Lose something everyday, except the fluster
Of the lost door keys, the hour badly spent
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.”
b. “Whose passions not his masters are;
Whose soul is still prepared for death,
Untied unto the world with care
Of public fame or private breath.”
Q.4. “I cannot capture the magnitude of the misery and horror I saw”. Elaborate in the light of Ichimaru’s essay about Nagasaki bombing.
Q.5. Give a character sketch of the tailor in the light of Leacock’s essay My Tailor.
Q.6. How are human beings inferior to animals, according to Mark Twain’s essay The Damned Human Race?