Special English - Dr.BR Ambedkar University

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Srikakulam
I year B.A Degree – Special English Model Question Paper
w.e.f 2010-11 Admitted Batch
PAPER I – MODERN LANGUAGE
Time : Three Hours
Answer all Questions
Section – A
Maximum: 100 Marks
a) Answer any TWO of the Following: 2x10=20
i) Write a brief note on the Scandinavian influence on the English Language.
ii) Examine the contribution of any one of the poets to the English Language.
iii) Discuss briefly any two of the important process of word formation
iv) Write short notes on any TWO of the following process of semantic charges:
(1) Association of Ideas
(2) Narrowing meaning
(3) Euphemism
(4) Prudery
b) Read the following passage and answer the following questions 5x2=10
NARWA and Haria were not blood brothers, though they so described
themselves. They had been born and had grown up in the same village near Almora,
and when old enough to work had adopted the same profession, basket making which
means that they were untouchables, for in the United Provinces baskets are only made
by untouchables. During the summer months Narwa and Haria worked at their trade in
their village near Almora, and in the winter months they came down to Kaladhungi
where there was a great demand for the huge baskets, measuring upto fifteen feet in
diameter, which they made foe our villagers for the storage of grain. In their hill
village near Almora they made their baskets of ringals – thin bamboo an inch thick
and up to twenty feet long, which grows at an altitude of four to ten thousand feet, and
which incidentally makes the most perfect of fly – rods – and in Kaladhingi they made
them of bamboos.
i) How can you say that Narwa and Haria are untouchable
ii)
iii)
iv)
What was their profession during the summer
Why do the villagers buy the huge baskets made by Narwa and Haria
What is material they used to make baskets in their village near Almora
v) What is material they used to make baskets in