Code No.

1617/5040-41/1-E

POTTI SREERAMULU TELUGU UNIVERSITY

B.A. KARNATIC MUSIC & SPECIAL TELUGU (DISTANCE EDUCATION)
FIRST YEAR ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS – OCTOBER, 2017
PAPER-1 : ENGLISH
(OLD SYLLABUS)
Time : 3 hrs. Marks: 100
I. Answer all questions in about 300 words each: 5 x 15 = 75

1) Write an essay on spoken English and Broken English?

(OR)
What are the views of will and Ariel Durant on the Arts?

2) Do you approve of the conjurer’s action of taking language? Justify your stand.
(OR)
Write appropriate of the title “The Best Investment ever made”.

3) What, according to Dr. Ambedkar, is the caste system and state of Democracy in
India?
(OR)
What kind of America does king envisage in his speech I have a Dream?

4) What according to Keats, are the features of the season autumn?

(OR)
Describe the scene at Dover and comment on its people meaning.

5) What various things does “the unknown citizen” do to be considered “a saint”?

(OR)
Why does the poet pray for strength? How does Tagore wish to use it?
PART-II
II. Answer the following questions in about 100 words. 5
1) Write an essay on Soft-skills (OR) Group-Discussion

III. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. 5
“Is progress Real?” is taken from a book written by two American writers, and you
may have noticed a few expressions and spellings which are “American” and differ from
“British” English. But American English is essentially the same language, despite the
variations in selling, pronunciation, and occasionally, usage. These variations in spelling
Fiber (American) for Fibre (British) and vocabulary “Martician” (American) for
“Undertaker” (British) are known as “Americanisms”. British English is standard English.

P.T.O.
 1) How many writers are referred in the above paragraph?
2) Which are different from British and American English?
3) Write the differences of British and American English?
4) Write the spelling of the one word of British?
5) Write the spelling of the one word of American?

IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: 5
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
conspiring with him how to lead and bless. With fruit the vines that round the thatch caves
run; to bend with apples the massed cottage trees.

1) Write the name of the poem of the above lines?

2) Write the measuring of the word season?
3) Why Autumn is close bosom-friend?
4) Which are loaded and blessed by Autumn?
5) Write the name of the poet of the above lines?

V. a) Fill in the blanks with synonyms of the words given in brackets. 2

A) Was he …………………………… (Slavish)?

B) Had anything been ……………………………….. (right)?

b) Fill in the blanks with antonyms of the words given in the brackets. 2
He is a ……………. (intelligenet) boy.
Some students are ……………..….. (Arrogant) in the class.
c) Fill in the blanks choosing the appropriate Homonyms. 2
He does not like to ask any one’s ………………………… (caste/cast)
They want to buy the …………………………. (quote/coat)

d) Write one word, substitutes for the following definitions. 2

A) One who does not believe in God ……………………………..
B) One who studies birth friends and family………………………………………
e) Fill in the blanks with suitable articles or prepositions. 2
Important events such as …………………………….. hurricane season.
…………………………….. tornado season or …………………………….. wild fire season.
This exposure alternates as ……………………………..earth revalues in its orbit.

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 Code No.1617/5040-41/1EBL

POTTI SREERAMULU TELUGU UNIVERSITY

B.A. KARNATIC MUSIC & SPECIAL TELUGU (DISTANCE EDUCATION)
FIRST YEAR ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS – OCTOBER, 2017
PAPER-1: SKILLS IN ENGLISH
(NEW SYLLABUS)
Time : 3 hrs. Marks: 100
I. Answer all questions in about 200 words each: 5 x 15 = 75

1) Write an essay on Fisherman to make his daughter sell her body?

(OR)
Describe elaborately what the poet presents in the “she” poem by Lakshmi Kannan.

2) How does the Ganga Show itself as entering into all domains and experiences?
(OR)
What effect does Kalahandi have upon these of us who are not an integral part of it?

3) What does W.H.O. focus on? How can science came into the picture for read safely?
(OR)
How does character influence different values and institutions.

4) Students of art and literature are important contributors or transforming India.

Elaborate?
(OR)
Write an essay on “The cut-off”.

5) What was the outcome to Saha’s attending the Copenhagen conference?

(OR)
Present the character and attitude of wasser kept.

PART-II
II. Answer any ONE of the following questions in about 100 words each: 10
1) Write an essay on Group discussion
(OR)
2) Positive Thinking.

P.T.O.
III. (a) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. 5
Meghnad Saha, the fifth child in a family of eight, was born in 1893, in a village near
Dhaka. His father owned a small grocery shop and preferred having Meghnad in the shop
instead of sending him to school. However, Meghnad succeeded in going to school, mainly
through the efforts of his elder brother and his primary school teachers, all of when were
impressed by his unusual knack for learning.
1) Saha was born in the year.
2) Who is the fifth child of the family?
3) Write the name of the shop?
4) Who wants Meghnad in the shop.
5) Who were impressed by Meghnad’s knack for learning?

b) Use the following Idioms in sentences of your own. 2

1. Live in a fool’s paradise
2. Drop a hint

c) Write one word substitutes for the following definitions. 2

1. One who considers himself/herself better than others ______________
2. One who has unlimited knowledge _________________________

IV) Fill in the blanks in the sentences with forms of verb. 2

1. She __________ (Study) when the bell ring.
2. My ancestors ______________ be Ayurvedic physicians.

V) Fill in the blanks with homophones of the words in brackets. 2

1) It is eude to __________ at people (stair)
2) Can I hve a ______________ of a cake, please.) at the airport when you reach
Mangalore tomorrow.

VI) Spot and correct the spelling mistake in each sentence below 2
1. There are several active volcanoes in Japan?
2. He is on crutches after the accident.

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