Part-A : Grammar

1. Fill in the blanks with suitable words: 0.5 x 10 = 5

All things that make (a) — the environment are inter-related. The way in which people, animals and plants are related (b) — each other and to their surroundings, is (c) — as ecology. (d) — ecosystem is a complex web (e)  — links animals, plants and every other life form. By altering any one part of the web, we can (f) — all the other parts. For example, the destruction of forests may have serious ecological consequences (g) — humans and animals. To make life healthy and comfortable, we should (h) — the environment clean and danger free. But often people spoil the environment (i) — doing unwise things and (j) — their own lives.

2. Make five sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table below.

3. Change the narrative style of the following text:

Prianka, have you done your English lesson today?” asked the teacher. “Yes sir,” she replied. “But I haven’t understood one grammatical point.” The teacher assured her saying, “Come to my room. I’ll help you understand the point.” “Thank you, sir”, she smilingly said.

4. Change the sentences according to directions: 1 x 10 = 10

(a) There was a man named Ibn Rushad. (Make if Complex)

(b) He lived in Spain which is a very green and beautiful country. (Make it Simple)

(c) He was a seventy years old man.(Make it Complex)

(d) Despite a man of seventy, he read sixteen hours a day. (Make it Complex)

(e) He read so many books that he could hardly count it. (Make it Compound)

(f) His belief about birth is only to work. (Make it Negative)

(g) He believed that there is no scope to idle away time. (Make it Simple)

(h) He began his studies with a recitation from the Holy Quran. (Make it Passive)

(I) Nobody was so wise as Ibn Rushad. (Make it Superlative) –

(j) Have you ever heard of such a man? (Make it Assertive)

5. Complete the following sentences: 1 x 5 = 5

(a) You can stay her as long as —

(b) Let me know when

(c) I’ll have finished by the time —-

(d) Wait here until—.

(e) He went to bed after—.

6. Complete the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both with the root words give in the parenthesis.
Now-a-days terrorism has become a major concern for the present (a) — (civilize). Almost all the countries of  the world are (b) — (direct) or (c) — (indirect) threatened by it. September II has (d) — (draw) out the attention and (e) — (alert) on the facts that how (f) — (with) a short span of time the renowned World Trade Centre became debris causing death to thousands of innocent people without having any (g) — (aware) of their (h) — (involve) in tragic (i) — (die). One of the causes of terrorism is the (j)— (deprive) of genuine rights of an individual or a community or a cultural or a linguistic group by another nations by either physically or economically.

7. Make tag questions of these statements: I x 5 = 5

(a) Let us build our nation.—?

(b) She is now only fifteen years old;—?

(c) Nobody can do this,—?

(d) It is a matter to sorrow that he won’t come,—?

(e) He dares not meet you, —?

8. Use capitals and punctuation marks where necessary in the following text.

the bond says you will have a pound of flesh it does not say that you can have blood too said portia but how can i have flesh without blood asked shylock that we do not know but if you let even a single drop of blood fall from antonio you will be punished portia said