English

ENGLISH  - COMPOSITION  1995  (II)
Time allowed  :  Three hours
Maximum Marks:  150

Q.No.  1.  Write an essay in not more than 2500 words on any one of the following topics:-
(a)    Television and Social change.
(b)    My vision of Punjab in 21st Century.
(c)    Peace hath its victories no less glorious than war's.
(d)    Importance of improving women's status.
(e)    Election Commission of India.  Discuss controvercial issues.
(f)    To err is human, to forgive divine.

Q.N.  2.  Use five of the following idioms in your own sentences:
(a)    At sixes and sevens (b)  To drop the pilot (c)  A swan-song.   (d)  To worship the rising sun (e)  To hit below the belt.  (f) A man of straw (g) To grease the palm (h) At arm's length (i) To play second fiddle.

Q.No.3.  Correct the following.  Select any five.
(a)    One should always respect his elders.
(b)    Why did you absent from the meeting?
(c)    Neither of the three brothers are ready for work.
(d)    Please give me a five rupees note.
(e)    He always helps the poors and helpless.
(f)    Your plans were rejected on ground of insufficient evidence.
(g)    Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader and a saint.
(h)    The coward soldier took to his heels.
(i)    The gun went all of sudden.
(j)    The teacher gave me advice whom I followed.

Q.No. 4.  Punctuate the following passage:
your son is certainly a boy of ability said the headmaster but it all depends upon you whether he does well at school or not what an extraordinary statement said the father how can his progress depend upon me you can replied the headmaster see his home work carefully and that will be all right oh yes said the father I can at least do that with out any in convenience