BA English Third Year Sample Paper

Sample Paper Time: 3 Hrs Marks: 100

English Language-1

Section-1

1. Explain any three of the following with reference to the context. 7+7+6= 20

i. Remember twice daily, who I am?

ii. A voice so thrilling never was heard

In spring time from the cuckoo-bird

Breaking the silences of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides.

iii. The fog comes on little cat feet.

iv. Do you think I can fly away from my creditors in a balloon or what? Or do you expect me to go and run my head into a brick wall.

v. Was it a dream or was not it?

2. Attempt any two of the following questions. 10+10

i. What were Mangu s’ dreams and how did they shatter?

ii. Breakfast is a criticism on the modern city life-how?

iii. Discuss the one act play, “The Boy Comes Home” as a comic play?

3. Attempt any two parts of the following questions. 10+10

i. What are Keats’ fear?

ii. Discuss the poem after apple picking as a symbolic one?

iii. In poem, “All The World’s A Stage” which is your favorite age?

Section-ii

4. Read the given passage and answer the questions given at the end. 25

The life of the man is a long march through the night surrounded by invisible foes tortured by weariness and pain towards a goal that few can hope to reach and where none may stay long. One by one, as they march our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which there happiness and misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the palm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of never – tiring affection to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in hours of despair. Let us remember that they are fellow sufferer in the same darkness, actors in the same tragedy with ourselves.

Questions

i) How does the writer define the life of a man?

ii) What happens to our comrades during their long march of life?

iii) How can we help our fellow beings?

iv) Should we judge our fellow sufferers n a grading scale?

v) Suggest a suitable title for the passage?

vi) Make a précis of the above passage?

5. Translate the given passage into English. 15

مصنف بڑے مزاحیہ انداز سے انسانوں کی فطری جبلت مہمان یا میزبان ہونے کی کو پیش کرتا ہے ۔ وہ انسانوں کو دو گرہوں میں تقسیم کرتا ہے ۔ ایک گروہ وہ ہے جو پیدائشی میزبان ہوتے ہیں اور دوسرا گروہ وہ ہے جو پیداِشی مہمان ہوتے ہیں۔ مہمان نوازی کی عادت انسان کی مثبت خصوصیت ہے جو آہستہ آہستہ تہذیب کی ترقی کے ساتھ ساتھ پیدا ہوئی۔ لیکن مہمان نوازی کی تاریخ کافی کرب ناک ہے۔ وقت کی ترقی کے ساتھ ساتھ مہمان نوازی کےطریقے بھی بدل گئے ہیں۔ آج کے دور میں امیروں کو مہمان نواز سمجھا جاتا ہے اور غریبوں کو اچھا مہمان سمجھا جاتا ہے حالنکہ ہر امیر مہمان دار نہیں ہوتا اور ہر غریب مہمان نہیں ہوتا ، حالات اس کے برعکس بھی ہو سکتے ہیں

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