Rawalpindi Board (2017)
ENGLISH COMPULSORY
HSSC-I
Inter Part-1
Time allowed: 25 Minutes
Marks 20
NOTE: Section. A is compulsory awl comprises pages 1-2. All parts of this section are to be answered on the quest& paper itself. It should be completed in the first 25 minutes and handed over to the Centre Superintendent. Cutting overwriting is not allowed. Do not use lead pencil, Encircle the correct option i.e. A/13/C/ D, Each part carries one mark.

1. (a) Choose the right option of the underline words in meaning and fill up the bubble: (Book I, short stories, Book III, Plays and Poetry)

• With my Stoop reflect.
  
  (A) ask
  (B) think
  (C) look
  (D) criticize


• No time to turn at beauty's glance.
  
  (A) style
  (B) attraction
  (C) activity
  (D) glimpse


• Steward noded, monetarily.
  
  (A) refused
  (B) laughed
  (C) cried
  (D) agreed


• Sweat popped out on the boy's face
  
  (A) disappeared
  (B) come out
  (C) spread
  (D) absent


• They all stood and gazed.
  
  (A) stare
  (B) laugh
  (C) weep
  (D) shout


• He too was turned off.
  
  (A) rejected
  (B) beaten
  (C) called
  (D) abused


• I had a vexing dream one night.
  
  (A) worrying
  (B) pleasing
  (C) odd
  (D) sweet


• Meteors are blazing hot.
  
  (A) slightly
  (B) mildly
  (C) burning
  (D) somewhat


• She shudders at her own thought.
  
  (A) protests
  (B) trembles
  (C) weeps
  (D) predicts


• Your fishing tackle's is in the closet.
  
  (A) tools
  (B) money
  (C) feed
  (D) cap

(b) Choose the right option for the following and fill up the bubble:

• I've never felt so sordid.
  
  (A) loathsome
  (B) happy
  (C) proud
  (D) ambitious


• What is that gadget any way?
  
  (A) offer
  (B) scheme
  (C) package
  (D) device


• From where was the woman coming?
  
  (A) Hotel
  (B) beauty shop
  (C) office
  (D) college


• Edwin Arnold described Gulistan in.
  
  (A) literay terms
  (B) culinary terms
  (C) scientific terms
  (D) idioms


• Her hair is disheveled. 
  
  (A) colourful
  (B) long
  (C) disarranged
  (D) dirty

(c) Choose the correct form of the verb and fill up the bubble.

• He said that hard work-------------- the key to success.
  
  (A) was
  (B) had
  (C) is
  (D) will have been


• When the school bell, I-------------- my bath.
  
  (A) had
  (B) was having
  (C) have been
  (D) have had


• He had better------------- his doctor.
  
  (A) saw
  (B) had seen
  (C) seen
  (D) see


• I------------- her, If she had informed me.
  
  (A) had helped
  (B) helped
  (C) would have helped
  (D) help


• The principal------------ the class tomorrow.
  
  (A) will visit
  (B) visit
  (C) visited
  (D) visiting

(SUBJECTIVE)(Marks 80)
SECTION -I

2. Write short answers to any six (in 3-5 lines) questions in words of your own from
Book-I (Short-Stories)

1. Why did the boy look to the sky and smile?
   
2. Why did the quack come back to the Camel men?
   
3. What should be faith of Negroes?
   
4. Why are the locusts compared with bad weather?
   
5. Describe Maulvi's appearance?
   
6. Why did Della feel proud in the beauty of her hair?
   
7. Why didn't the old man follow the advice of the doctor?
   
8. How did the young man treat the cat in story "Over Coat"?

SECTION -II

3. Write short answers to any five (in 3-5) questions in words of your own from
Book-Ill (One Act Plays)

1. How did the girl recognize the killer?
   
2. What was General power thinking?
   
3. Who buys the oyster? How much does the pay?
   
4. What kind of haircut does Miss. McCutcheon want?
   
5. What were the circumstances that forced the girl to leave her car?
   
6. What were the factors that played their role in saving the girl?
   
7. Write a brief note on the personality of Ellen Spalding.
   
8. How does Harry describe the inhabitants of "O.K.by-the-See?

4. Write short answers to any four (in 3-5 lines) questions in words of your own from Book-III (Poems)

1. What kind of train is "Night Mail"?
   
2. What can we not see in the broad day light? (Leisure)
   
3. How does the reader discourage the rider? (O Where Are You going?)
   
4. What does the sparrow hold in her beak? How many young ones does she have?(The Feed)
   
5. How is the Sindhi woman walking through the bazaar?
   
6. What was written on the pedestal of Ozymandian's statue?

SECTION -III

Q. 5 Write a letter to your friend condoling with him on the death of his mother.
OR
Write an application to the principal of your college for the remission of fine.

Q 6. Write a story on the moral lesson: "Haste make waste "
OR
"Where there is a will, there is a way"

Q 7. (a) Explain the following lines with reference to the context:
Snorting noisily, She passes
Silent miles of wind-bent grasses
(b) Punctuate the following extract from Book-I (Short stories)
This Is the way Jess sid my father pointing with his cane across the deep valley below.
(c) Use any five of the following pair of words in sentences of your own:

• Access ; Excess
  
• Coma ; Comma
  
• Dose ; Doze
  
• Foul ; Fowl
  
• Motel ; Mettle
  
• Pain ; Pane
  
• Steal ; Steel

Q 8. Translate the following passage into Urdu. (Short Stories Book-I)
In the crowd there was a loud mouthed old had who seemed to have other-views. In a loud whisper. She pointed out that several suits in the dowry had once belonged to a woman who had died young. There were others which had been part of Zaibun's dowry. "Even the bracelets and the gold nose ring are here." She adds with conviction. "But the gold pennants"? She raised her eyes and looked towards the heaven as if they were a gift from there.
Alternate question for candidates whose medium of examination is English /Foreign candidates only. Write an essay (300 words) on "Terrorism in Pakistan".