Compulsory English Question Paper | 2075 [2019] | RE-101-GP | SEE
COMPULSORY ENGLISH
(New Course)
Reading and Writing
(Written Test)
Subject Code: RE-101-GP
Time: 2hrs. 15 minutes
Full Marks: 75
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1. Read the part of the poem and do the tasks. [5]
The Chimney Sweeper
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!
So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.
There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,
That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved: so I said,
“Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head’s bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.”
And so he was quiet, and that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight!
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black;
And by came an angel who had a bright key,
And he opened the coffins and set them all free;
Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run,
And wash in a river and shine in the sun.
- William Blake
A. Answer these questions. [5x1=5]
a. When did the speaker’s mother die?
b. Who was the speaker sold into the chimney-sweeping business by?
c. Why did Tom Dacre cry?
d. What does the phrase ‘That curled like a lamb’s back’ mean?
e. Who opened the coffins? How?
2. Read the text and do the tasks.
Jitiya is an important festival of Nepali married women of Mithilanchal and Tharu women of all castes. This festival is named after Masabashi’s son Jimutavahana, a blessing son of the Sun. Masabashi was an unmarried princess who spent her life as hermit living in a hermitage.
Jitiya falls in the month of Ashwin (September-October). It is celebrated for three days on Saptami (the seventh day), Astami (the eighth day) and Navami (the ninth day). The fasting day, Astami, is called Jittiya. The married women take brata (fast) for the good fortune of their children, husband and family. In this festival, brothers invite their married sisters to their homes, and the married women go to their maiti (maternal home).
On the first day of Jitiya, women take a bath in a river or a pond early in the morning and formally start their brata. Before taking a bath, they put khari (oil-seed-cake), special soil, on a leaf of sponge gourd and worship Jimutavahana, and let it flow on the river. They take the remaining oil back home and massage their children with it. This khari is effused for legendary figures Chilo (eagle) and Shero (fox) wishing them to take brata (fasting) of Jitiya. The married women remember their female ancestors too. On this day, women scrub their house with cow’s dung to make their house sacred. At mid night, they prepare ongthan or datkhat (special food), and eat it before the cockcrow. They also eat fish and millet bread. They have curd, beaten rice and fruits as dar. Before eating datkhat, they offer some food the legendary figures Chilo and Shero.
A. Complete the following sentences using the correct words/phrases from the text. [5x1=5]
a. Jitiya festival is named after ................ ., the son of Masabashi.
b. Masabashi spent her entire life as ............. .
c. The fasting day is known as .................. .
d. Before taking a bath, women need a leaf of ............. to put special soil.
e. Datkhat is first offered to ............. Chilo and Shero.
B. Answer the following questions. [5x1=5]
a. When is Jitiya celebrated?
b. Why do women celebrate Jitiya?
c. When does the brata formally start?
d. How do women make the house sacred ?
e. What foods do they eat as dar?
3. Read the text and do the tasks. [10]
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
NMB Bank Limited licensed as “A” class financial institution by Nepal Rastra Bank in May 2008 has been operating in the Nepalese financial market for over twenty years and is one of the leading commercial banks in the banking industry.
No. of Vacancies : 25
Experience : Fresher’s can apply
Documents Required : CV (Resume), Cover Letter/Application
Job Category : Banking Financial Services
Job Type : Full Time
Educational Qualification : Master’s Degree
Posted date : 2018-12-12
Expiry Date : 2018-12-26
Job Description : Management Trainee
Requirements
• Master’s degree in management or equivalent from a recognized university having minimum 45% in SLC & above & age not exceeding 30 years as of December 26, 2018.
Candidates awaiting final results at the post graduate level may also apply. Before applying for this job, candidates must agree with the terms and conditions of ramrojob.com
a. NMB Bank Limited is an ‘A’ class financial institution in Nepal.
b. The bank was established in May 2008.
c. One who has no experience at all can also apply.
d. Candidates with Master’s degree in any discipline can apply.
e. There is no age bar for the candidates.
B. Answer the following questions. [5x1=5]
b. When was the vacancy notice published ?
c. What is the academic qualification required for the post?
d. What documents should the candidates submit along with the application ?
e. What minimum score is required in the SLC to be eligible to apply?
4. Read the text and do the tasks. [15]
Narayan Wagle is one of few Nepali journalists I admire. I have been an avid reader of his gossip column Coffee Guff which is marked by gift of phrases. I’m also a fan of his graphic reporting specially from remote corners of Nepal. Simplicity, I must say, is the hallmark of Wagle’s writing. But, as I waded through the pages of Wagle’s debut novel Palpasa Cafe, I concluded that it’s just an extended version of Coffee Guff.
Let’s begin from the beginning. The novel starts with a metafictional note. The narrator, a journalist, is waiting for his protagonist to show the manuscript before sending it for printing. But then, Drishya (sight, literally) gets arrested. Chapter One opens in Goa, a perfect place for love, it seems! Here a painter falls in love with his admirer (a US returned. amateur documentary maker), solitary loitering.
Let me take a break from storytelling. In fact, if you have read the novel, you know the story and if you haven’t, you don’t want to know, for it spoils your curiosity. Anyway, the story goes, as life goes on. But two things are crucial: how it is told and what the content is. Wagle obviously is a formalist. He prefers form over content. Nevertheless, the story weaves both the complexities of ongoing conflict and its consequences.
But, like the protagonist’s shattered dream of opening Palpasa Cafe in the idyllic hills, the novel seems promising in the outset while needs up in the maze of it’s own making. Conflict is only the backdrop where an artist searches meaning of his love-life. But despite having an encyclopaedic knowledge of nature and painting, Wagle fails to portray Drishya as an artist. Like Wagle himself, he sounds more like a journalist; so he is an alter ego of its creator. The novel is oddly replete with female characters (Palpasa, Christina, Phulan, Jemina, gradma etc.) whereas males are not only mysteriously absent but are also nameless and faceless in the narrative.
a. Narayan Wagle used to write a gossip column called, .............. .
b. .............. is a distinctive feature of his writing.
c. The speaker in the novel, Palpasa Cafe is a ............... .
d. Chapter one of the novel has the love story between a/an ................ and an admirer.
e. Narayan Wagle likes form more than ........... .
f. The novel contains the story of ................... and its effects.
g. The novel is full of ...................... characters.
a. What is the distinctive feature of Wagle’s Coffee Guff?
b. What sort of graphic reporting does the writer particularly like about Wagle?
c. How did the writer relate Palpasa Cafe with the Coffee Guff?
d. What does the novel begin with?
e. What two things are important in stories?
f. What does an artist look for in the context of conflict?
g. What has Wagle failed to portray?
h. What is the strange thing about the novel regarding the characters?
5. One of your friends stood first in the SEE, 2075. Write a formal message of congratulation to be published in a newspaper using the clues given in the box below: [5]
Samiksha Basnet - always stood first in class too - hard-working and studious - all proud of her - wish her further success.
A woodcutter - lives on the edge of a forest - very mean - finds some firewood to sell in the market - cuts branches of a tree after tree - comes upon a magical tree - tree requests not to cut - offers golden apples - agrees but soon disappointed with the number of apples the tree gives -threatens to cut the tree - showers of needles fall upon him from the tree - lies on the ground in pain - moral.
talking about the importance of learning English. [6]
8. Write an essay on ‘The Importance of Reading’. [8]
9. Reproduce the following sentences as indicated in brackets. [6x1=6]
a. All is well, ............... ? (Supply the correct question tag)
b. She hasn’t arrived home yet. (Change into affirmative)
c. We .... (study) English for 10 years. (Put the verb in bracket in correct tense)
d. She cut her finger. (Change into yes/no question)
e. Nobody invited me to the party. (Change into passive voice)
f. He said to me, “Don’t waste your time.” (Change into indirect speech)
10. Choose and copy the best answers. (Rewriting is not compulsory)[10x0.5=5]
Two friends (a)..... (are/is/were) walking through the desert. During their journey, they had (b)..... (a/an/the) argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, (c)....... (but/ and/therefore) without saying anything he wrote in the sand, “Today, my best friend (d)..... (slap/had slapped/slapped) me in the face”. They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to have a wash, (e)..... they (have/didn’t/haven’t) ? The one who (f)..... (has been/is/had been) slapped got stuck in a mine and started drowning, but his friend saved him. After he had recovered from his shock, he wrote (g)..... (in/at/on) a stone. “Today, my best friend saved my life”. The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and this time you write on the stone, why ?” The other friend replied, “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where wind of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone (h)..... (do/does/did) something good for us, we must engrave it on the stone where no wind can ever erase it.” Positive thoughts get us (i)..... (to succeed/succeeded/succeed) in life. If the friend was negative, he (j)..... (would/will/had been) write good things in sand.
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