English Test Paper
INSTRUCTIONS Candidates should attempt all questions. The number of marks carried by each question is indicated at the end of the question. Answers must be written in English. Q. 1. Write an essay in about 300 words on- any one of the following : 100 (a) The Limits of Science (b) Our Intellectuals (c) Have We Lost the Direction ? (d) Computers in Everyday Life (e) Below the Poverty Line Q. 2. Read this passage carefully and answer the questions set at the end 75 We think of the moon as only a stone, a stone gone cold. An airless, waterless stone and the prophetic image of our own earth when, some few million years from now, the senescent sun shall have lost its present fostering power . …. And so on. This passage could easily be prolonged – a Study in Purple. But I forbear. Let every reader lay on as much of the royal rhetorical colour as he finds to his taste. Anyhow, purple or no purple, there the stone is – stony. You cannot think about it for long without fi