BDP / BCA / BTS Term-End Examination June, 2017

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BDP / BCA / BTS Term-End Examination June, 2017 FEG-1/BEGF-101 : FOUNDATION COURSE IN ENGLISH-1 Maximum Marks : 50

Time : 2 hours

Note : Answer all the questions. 1.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :

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Sports Create Goodwill by George Orwell I am amazed when people say that sport creates goodwill between nations, and that if people of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. In reality, however, sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred. Nearly all sports today are competitive and you do the utmost to win. Rarely are there occasions when you play simply for the fun and exercise; but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played in a school football match knows this. At the international level, sport is mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the FEG-1/BEGF-101

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players, but the attitude of the spectators, and behind them the nations who seriously believe that running, jumping or kicking a ball are tests of national virtue. Even a leisurely game like cricket demanding grace rather than strength can cause ill will. Fiercer passions prevail during football matches. At the first big football match in Spain, spectators threw bottles, tins and whatever else they could lay hands on, at the opposite side's players. As soon as strong feelings of rivalry are aroused, the notion of playing according to the rules vanishes. People want to see one side win and the other humiliated. Even when the spectators don't intervene physically they try to influence the game by 'rattling' the opposing players with boos, insults and noise. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of the rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

(A) (a) When do sports become savagely combative ? (b) (c)

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What does the author mean by 'mimic warfare' in the context of the passage ?

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What example of violence in the field does Orwell use to prove his point ?

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How do spectators behave ? Why ?

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(e) What is the stand of the author in this passage ? Do you agree or disagree with him ? Support your answer with examples. 4

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What does the author mean by the phrase "it is war minus the shooting" ?

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(g) Do you agree with the title of the passage ? Why / Why not ? Give reasons to support your answer. (B) Make sentences with the following words :

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(a) Goodwill (b) Prestige (c)

Disgraced

(d) Humiliated 2. Do as directed (a)

Fill in the blank with the appropriate linking word : The Guptas live far from the city centre, they don't get many visitors.

(b)

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the verbs given in brackets : (i)

The Principal (finish) his round of the school and is returning to his office.

(ii)

I (think) of inviting all my close friends for dinner.

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(c) Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions :

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a loss for words.

(i)

She was

(ii)

I have gone

this book

carefully.

(iii)

a fix, please help me.

I am

(d) Fill in the blanks with appropriate modals : 2 (i)

Who

you like to speak to ?

(ii)

You boss first.

clarify this with your

(e) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate option given in brackets :

3.

4.

(i)

It has been raining morning. (for, from, since)

(ii)

This is (a, an, the)

early

street I live in.

A friend is leaving the country to study abroad. Write a dialogue where you discuss with another friend how best to give him/her a farewell party and a present. Write an essay in about 200 words on any one of the following : Human beings have treated animals badly (a) (b)

Games you played in childhood

(c)

The festival you enjoy

(d)

Adventure sports that you may have participated in

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