National University
Department of English
BA (Hon's) 1st Year; Examination-2015 (Held-2016)
Subject: English Reading Skills
Subject Code : 211101
Time: 4 hours; Full mark: 80
[N.B. : The figure in the margin indicate full marks,]
Part-A
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follows:
Have you wondered what it would be like to stand in the dock on a charge of murder and be found guilty and see the black silk cap being placed over the wig of the judge and then hear him sentencing you "to be taken back to the prison from which today he came, there to be hanged be the neek until he is dead?" And can you imagine your feelings when you know that you are not guilty? And can you picture yourself in the condemned cell for the next thirty days and night, waiting for the morning of your hanging.
I can tell you something about this. It was in the middle of summer that I was condemned to death. I was taken back to Wordsworth Prison and put into the condemned cell. Six prison officers had been selected to be with me, two at a time, night and day until I was hanged. There was nothing special about the cell; it was just two ordinary ones knocked into one and furnished only with a narrow bed, a table and three chairs.
The officers were very good follows. They brought small luxuries for me from time to time and the wife of one of them sent a bunch of flowers from her garden everyday. I lived on the ordinary prison food but I was allowed tan cigarettes and a bottle of bear everyday as an extra. Ten cigarettes don't go very far in the condemned cell I could have smoked two hundred. The officers used to give me one or two of their own now and then. We talked and played cards until the early hours of each morning Sometime my mind would drift away for a while, but then a voice murmured in the back of my head: " Haven't you forgotten something?"
The officers had to keep an Occurrence Book in which to record anything special that I said or did. You would think that o new book could be afforded for each execution, but this one had already been used for several. One day I seized a chance to glance inside it. One of the names was Roger. Miles who had been hanged eight months before for the murder of a prostitute. Against his name was the commant : " sullen, refused to play cards." Another name was Charles Egbert Thomposon with the commant : "screamed and made a lot of trouble when his time came."
1. Answer any ten question :
a. What did the judge do immediately after the blackcap was placed on his head?
b. What do you mean by 'the dock'?
c. What did the writer receive that he would not have received if he had not been condemned to death?
d. What two things did the prison officers do to make his life more tolerable?
e. What do' Occurrence Book' mean?
f. Which of these is the meaning of 'sullen'?
i.neurotic ii. miserable ii. angrily silent iv. furious
Give the single word that is used in the in the passage to express each of these meanings (g-i)
g. Things pleasing to have but not essential.
h. Look very quickly.
i. Declare that one is quilty.
Change the following sentences as directed (j-i)
j. It was in the middle of summer that I was condemned to death.( Re-write the sentence without using'it' )
k. One day I sized o chance to glance inside it. ( make it passive)
l. It was in the middle of summer that I was condemned to death. (make it simple)
Part-B
Read the passage and answer the questions below: Autism is a disorder of neutral development characterised by impaired social interaction and communication and by restricted and repetitive behaviour. These sings all being before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain. how this occour is not well. understood. Parents usually notice sings in the first two years of their child's life. The sings usually develop gradually, but some
autistic children frist develop more normally and then regress. Early behavioural or cognitive intervention can help autistic children gain self-cure, social and communication skills,. Although there is on known cure, there have been reported cases of children who recovered . Not many children with autistic live independently after reaching abulthood with some invidiuals seeking successful. An autistic culture has developed with some nividiuals seeking a cure and others believing autistic should be accepted as a difference and not treated as a disorder.
Autistic is a highly variable neuro development disorder that first appears during is a childhood and generally follows a steady course without remission. Social deficit distinguish autistic from other developmental disorder. People with autistic have social impairments and often lack the interest about others. Unusual social development becomes apparent early in childhood. Autistic infants show less attention to social stimuli, smile and looks at others less often and respond less to their own names. Autistic toddlers differ more strikingly from social norms. For example, they have less eye contact and do not have the ability to use simple movements to express themselves, such as the deficiency to point at things. Three to five year old autistic children are less likely to exhibit social understanding, such as approaching others spontaneously,imitating and responding to emotions and communicating nonverbally. children with high functioning autism suffer from more intense and frequent loneliness compared to non-autistic peers. Making and maintaining friendships often proves to be difficult for those with autistic. For them, the quality of friendships, not the number of friends, predicts how lonely they feel.
Answer any five questions:
- What is autistic, according to the passage?
- How does autism affect children?
- What may be the result of early detection of autism?
- How should autism be treated?
- How do autistic people behave?
- How does an autistic child react?
- What is the attitude of autistic children towards friendships?
- What does 'autistic culture' mean?
Part-C
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve there with my Maker and present
My true account, lest he returning chide;
'Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd?
I fondly ask, but Patience to Prevent
That murmur, soon reples, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean, without rest:
They also serve who only stand wait.
10. What is the central theme of the poem and how is it presented by the poet?
11. How does the poet console himself at the end of the poem?
12. Evaluate the poem as a sonnet.
13. Comment on the tone of the poem.
14. Show the poet's position and attitude in the poem.
15. What is the rhyme-scheme of the poem? Explain.
16. Indentify the figures of speech used in the poem.
17. Write a summary of the poem.
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