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ASSIGNMENT – III ENGLISH INTERMEDIATE PART 1
Total Marks: 100 Objective: 10 Subjective: 90
OBJECTIVE PART
Tick the correct answer. 10
i. The Japanese were woeful.
(a) great (b) joyful (c) joyous (d) sad
ii. Kreton calls humans poor fragile butterflies.
(a) strong (b) destitute (c) colourful (d) weak
iii. Powers says that he has a hunch that they are in trouble.
(a) feeling (b) material (c) radio (d) weapon
iv. Let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
(a) green (b) rocky (c) curved (d) big
v. When Della arrived home, her mind quietened a little.
(a) slept (b) worked (c) calmed (d) agitated
vi. What made the boughs of trees weigh to the ground?
(a) fruit (b) birds (c) locusts (d) wind storm
vii. What will be exalted?
(a) hills (b) valleys (c) mountains (d) rivers
viii. Who goes to look at the ship first?
(a) Ellen (b) John (c) Spelding (d) General Powers
ix. He (visit) us next Monday.
(a) visit (b) visited (c) will visit (d) will visited
x. I suppose he (be) fine.
(a) shall be (b) will be (c) had been (d) will been
SUBJECTIVE PART
1. Translate the following paragraphs in Urdu. 10+10
i. I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some
of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your
quest of freedom left you battered by the storm of persecution and staggered by wind of
police brutality.
ii. When Della arrived home, her mind quietened a little. She began to think more reasonably.
She started to try to cover the sad marks of what she had done. Love and large hearted giving,
when added together can leave deep marks. It is never easy to cover these marks, dear
friends- never easy.
2. Explain the following stanzas with reference to context. 5+5
1) All was done by a nation
Who in her wild passion
Cared not for human rights
Nor saved them from deadly fights
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2) These are not mere accidental names of God
As a negro may be called a camphor;
So are these names derived from God’s attributes,
And not mere vain titles of First Cause.
3(a).Answer the following questions. 5x2=10
(i) What did the quack do in the next village?
(ii) Why did the farmers throw wet leaves on fire?
(iii) What are the qualities of the “veterans of creative suffering”?
(iv) How did the camel men cure their camel?
(v) What was the wisdom in selling the most valuable things?
3(b). Answer the following questions. 5x2=10
(vi) When does a person remember God?
(vii) What is the effect of the death scene?
(viii) What makes one entangled in love?
(ix) Describe the scene of devastation in “A tale of two cities.”
(x) What is the message of the poem “A tale of two cities”?
3(c). Answer the following questions. 5x2=10
(xi) How much impressive were the morals of Kreton?
(xii) How does Kreton prove his extraordinary powers?
(xiii) How much advanced is the civilization of Kreton as compared to that of the Earth?
(xiv) What is the role of General Powers in the play?
(xv) How does AIDE, describe Kreton’s spaceship?
4. Punctuate the following lines. 5
all the crops finished nothing left he said but the gongs were still beating the men still shouting and
margaret asked why do you go on with it then
5. Use the following pairs of words in your sentences. 5
Audible; Edible Differ; Defer Ice; Snow Cell; Sell Dye; Die
6. Write an application to the principal of your college for refund of library security fee.
10
7. Write a story with moral lesson A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED.
10
NOTE:
A. The syllabus of your assignment is as follows:
o Book I- Short Stories 9-12
o Book III- Play no.2
o Book III- Poems 13-16
o Pair of Words – 2nd Set –1st Half
o Moral Stories – 6-9
o Applications – 6-9
o Correct form of Verb – Future Tense
B. Consult Sunshine English Grammar Comprehensive Edition for the solution.
C. Submit your assignment before time.
D. Queries will be entertained.
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BEST OF LUCK
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