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F.Sc - XI English Book-I 10 – 12 Punctuation

09-02-2016 10 10 MINUTES

Q#1 (a) Choose the correct option in meaning to the underlined words: 10
i. The farm was ringing with the clamour of the gong.
(a) bells (b) cries (c) noise (d) calls
ii. The sunlight comes down distorted.
(a) excellently (b) completely (c) exactly (d) deformed
iii. The main swarm showed in dense black cloud, reaching almost to the sun itself.
(a) clear (b) vague (c) thick (d) obscure
iv. A branch had snapped off.
(a) moved away (b) bent down (c) stolen (d) broken away
v. And staggered by the winds of police brutality.
(a) kindness (b) beating (c) cruelty (d) behaviour
vi. One day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
(a) notion (b) belied (c) idea (d) criticism
(b) Encircle the best option of the following blanks.
vii. Why did the cook boy run______
(a) to summon the laboureres (b) to inform Margaret
(c) to eat (d) to kill the insects
viii. Della came back with a gold chain and ______
(a) 87 cents (b) 85cents (c) 78 cents (d) 86 cents
ix. Which one is a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression?
(a) Georgia (b) Mississippi (c) Alabama (d) Virginia
x. Jim bought a gift of ______
(a) a watch (b) shoes (c) clips (d) combs

SUBJECTIVE TYPE Total Marks 30 Time Allowed 50 MINUTES

Q#2 Write short answer of the following questions. (3-5 lines/sentences) 10

i. Why did they want to exchange the gifts?
ii. How beautiful was the gold watch chain?
iii. What should be the criterion of judgment for a person?
iv. Why did the farmers raise clouds of smoke?
v. What did every farmer hope when the locusts attacked?
Q#3 Punctuate the following extract from Book I. 05
i want you to understand me dell he said nothing like a haircut could make me careless for you but if
you ll open that you may know
Q#4 Translate the following Paragraph into Urdu. 15
The cookboy ran to beat the old ploughshare hanging from a tree branch, which was used to summon
labourers at moments of crisis. The houseboy ran off to the store to collect tin cans, any old bit of metal.
The farm was ringing with the clamour of the gong; and they could see the labourers come pouring out
of the compound, pointing at the hills and shouting excitedly.