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Subject: English Total Marks: 75
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Objective Part
Q.1: Multiple choice questions. (
10)
1. The
correct preposition in the sentence is:
“She waited
___________ me since long.”
(a) Over (b) of (c) for (d) far
2. The correct active voice of “Milk is
being drunk by them.” Is:
(a) They were drinking milk.
(b) They are drinking milk.
(c) They have been drinking milk.
(d) They had been drinking milk.
3. Hockey Champion Trophy was introduced.
(a) India (b) Sri
Lanka (c) Pakistan (d) Iran
4. She __________ as a reporter with this
newspaper for five years.
(a) Worked (b) is
working (c) has been working (d) work
5. Lamboo was tied to the:
(a) Ship (b) ground (c) tree (d) pole
6. The first computer was invented by:
(a) Bedford (b) Adam Smith (c) Pascal (d) Graim
7. The sentence with correct use of article
is:
(a) The sun is a star and the earth is the
planet
(b) A
sun is a star and the earth is the planet.
(c) The sun is a star and the earth is a
planet.
(d) The sun is the star and the earth is the
planet.
8. The plural of the ‘wife’ is:
(a) wive (b) wifes (c) wives (d) wafers
9. She has been writing since Monday. The tense of this sentence is:
(a) Past perfect (b) present
continuous
(c) present
perfect continuous (d) past perfect continuous
10. He is ____ M.A in English.
(a) a (b) an (c) the (d) none of them
11. You can write a good composition
_________.
(a) herself (b) myself (c) yourself (d) none of them1. 12. She said, “What are you doing?”
(a) Direct narration (b) indirect narration
(c) passive voice (d) none
of them
13. The affirmative sentence in the
following lines is:
(a) Are you learning good lessons?
(b) You are not learning good lessons.
(c) You are learning good lessons.
(d) “None
of them”.
14. The possessive case of she is:
(a) hers (b) her (c) herself (d) herselves
15. Which book do you like? The
underlined word is:
(a) Pronoun (b) conjunction (c) interrogative
adjective (d) article
16. What did Mirchu fill his pocket with?
(a) beads (b) white stones (c) black beads (d) black
stones
17. A present was given to me by her.
The correct active voice of the given sentence is:
(a) She gives me a present. (b) She was giving me a present. (c) She
gave me a present (d) She was give me a present.
18. The studied hard and _______ their
excellent goal.
(a) achieve (b) will achieve. (c) achieved (d) achieves
19. The moon is _________ miles away:
(a) 240,000 (b) 230,000 (c) 220,000 (d) 221,000
20. Hazrat Umar (R.A) was the _______ caliph
of Islam.
(a) first (b) second
(c) third (d)
fourth
21. The word ‘astray’ means:
(a) right path (b) away
from right path (c) valley
(d)paradise
22. Every man of the island was less than
_____ inches high.
(a) five
(b) six (c) seven
(d) eight
23. What do you mean by ‘barter’? Exchanging
goods with _______.
(a) money (b) coins (c) rupees (d) goods.
24. Lion
roars; dog barks.
(a) Independent clause (b) dependent
clause
(c) co-ordinate clause (d) none of them
25. The helper of the magician gets into the:
(a) room (b) cave (c) box (d) house
26. The army of Pakistan is the
bravest army in the world. The underlined word is:
(a) Uncountable
noun (b) collective noun
(c) Material noun (d) proper
noun.
27. All that glitters is not:
(a) copper (b) silver (c) gold (d) shine
28. The sentence with correct punctuation is:
(a) Mr. Qazi said, “Why not?
(b) “Mr. Qazi said, why not?”
(c) Mr. Qazi said why not
(d) Mr. Qazi
said, “why not”
29. Tolerance means to bear ____________.
(a)
happiness or sorrow (b) sorrows
or tears (c) pain
or hardship (d) health or wealth
30. The superlative degree of the ‘fast is
(a)
faster (d) most
faster ( c) fastest ( d) most fastest
31. God helps those who help ___________.
(a) himself (b) yourself (c) ourselves (d) themselves
32. Qasim finds tough Chemistry and:
(a) English (b) Math (c) Urdu
(d) physics
33. “The cat drinks milk.” The correct
negative of this sentence is:
(a) The cat do not drink milk.
(b) The cat did not drink milk.
(c) The
cat does not drink milk.
(d) Does the cat drink milk.
34. ‘Thought’ is the past form of:
(a) thin
(b) think (c) thank
(d) thorough
35. “Hurrah! We won the race. It is:
(a) Optative
sentence (b) Interrogative
sentence
(c) imperative sentence. (d) Exclamatory sentence
36. “English has become an international
language.” The Urdu translation of the given sentence is:
انگریزی ایک
بین الاقوامی زبان بن گئی ہے.(a)
انگریزی ایک قومی زبان بن چکی ہے۔(b)
انگریزی ایک بیرونی زبان بن چکی ہے۔(c)
انگریزی ایک دوسرے ملک کی زبان بن چکی ہے(a)
انگریزی ایک قومی زبان بن چکی ہے۔(b)
انگریزی ایک بیرونی زبان بن چکی ہے۔(c)
انگریزی ایک دوسرے ملک کی زبان بن چکی ہے(a)
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3. 37. The mother looked proudly at her
son.
(a) adjective (b) verb (c) Adverb (d) noun.
38. Correct
translation of the sentence ہم نے گھونسلے میں دس انڈے
دیکھے۔ is:
(a) We see six eggs in the nest.
(b) We will see six eggs in the nest.
(c) We
have seen six eggs in the nest.
(d) We saw six eggs in the nest.
39. Correct
translation of the sentence اس نے اپنے آپ کو شیشے میں دیکھا۔is:
(a) She has
seen herself in the mirror.
(b) She will see herself in the mirror.
(c) She
saw herself in the mirror.
(d) She had seen herself in the mirror.
40. We play cricket in the ground. The
underlined part of the sentence is:
(a) sentence (b) syntax
(c) predicate. (d) half
sentence.
SUBJECTIVE PART
Total Marks: 35
Time: 1:20 MINUTES.
Note: All questions are to be attempted on the answer sheet.
Use the following words in your own sentences. (2x5=10)
1. Custom 2. Discover:
3. Separate: 4. Attend:
4. Recite:
Question.3: Read the following stanza carefully and
answer the questions.(1+2+1+1=5)
“With a dive and a dip
It snaps its tail.
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail.”
1. What is the name of the poem?
2. What does a poet says in these lines?
3. The word “soar” means:
(i) Pull (ii) push (iii) float (iv) fall
4. The rhyme scheme used in the given
stanza is:
(i) Couplet rhyme scheme (ii) alternative
rhyme scheme
(ii) Regular rhyme scheme (iv)
irregular rhyme scheme
Question.4: Write 10 lines on the topic “An Accident”. (10)
Question. 5: Write a letter to your friend inviting
her/him to your brother’s marriage.
(10)
Or
Write an application to the Headmaster/ Headmistress for a discharge
certificate.
