INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION -2025

( ANNUAL )

ENGLISH
( COMPULSORY )
I.A, I.Sc., I.Com.
Subject Code:105/124/205/223
Total Questions : 100+7 = 7
[Time : 3 Hours 15 Minutes] [Full Marks:100]
Instructions for the candidates: -

1. Candidate must enter his/her Question Booklet Serial No. (10 Digits) in
the OMR Answer Sheet.
2. Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
as practicable.
3. Figures in the right-hand margin indicate full marks.
4. An extra time of 15 minutes has been allotted for the candidates to read
the questions carefully.
5. This question booklet is divided into two sections Section-A and Section-
B.
6. In Section - A, there are 100 objective type questions, out of which 50
questions are to be answered. First 50 answers will be evaluated in case
more than 50 questions are answered. Each question carries 1 mark. For
answering these darken the circle with blue/ black ball pen against the
correct option on OMR Answer Sheet provided to you. Do not use
whitener/liquid/blade/nail, etc on OMR Answer Sheet, otherwise the
result will be treated as invalid.
7. Section-B, there are 11 Descriptive Answer Type Questions, which are to
be answered.
8. Use of any electronic appliances is strictly prohibited.

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 SECTION-A
Objective Type Questions

Questions nos. 1 to 100 have four options, out of which only one is
correct. Answer any 50 questions. You have to mark your selected option
on the OMR-sheet. 𝟓𝟎 × 𝟏 = 𝟓𝟎

1. She will be ____ me tomorrow .

(Choose the correct option)

(A) meeting (B) met

(C) meet (D) has meet

2. He ___ not offer sympathy.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) does (B) need

(C) needs (D) is

3. Run fast. You will miss the train.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) Run fast, else you will be late.

(B) Running fast or you will be late.
(C) Run fast and you will be late.
(D) Run fastly or you will be late.
4. Choose the correctly spelt word ;

(A) Nagative (B) Nigetive

(C) Negative (D) Negetive

5. My cousin is climbing the tree.

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 (Choose the correct passive voice)

(A) The tree is being climbed by my cousin.

(B) The tree was being climbed by my cousin.
(C) The tree has been climbed by my cousin.
(D) the tree had been climbed by my cousin.
6. Every rose has a thorn.

(Choose the correct negative sentence)

(A) There is no rose without a thorn.

(B) Every does rose not have a thorn.
(C) Every rose has not a thorn.
(D) Thorn does not have every rose.
7. Tarun will come ___ Tuesday.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) in (B) on

(C) at (D) to

8. Rajan is ___ hour late.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) a (B) the

(C) an (D) any

9. What ___ I to do now?

(Choose the correct option)

(A) is (B) are

(C) an (D) was

10.I don’t like coffee, ___ tea.

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 (Choose the correct option)

(A) or (B) but

(C) and (D) so

11.The car is ___ to drive.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) too fast (B) very fast

(C) so fast (D) fastly

12.I’m interested ___ learning Japanese.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) on (B) in

(C) at (D) with

13.The concert was cancelled ___ the storm.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) due to (B) because for

(C) owes to (D) inspite of

14.We’re going to the beach ___ a swim.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) to (B) at

(C) for (D) on

15.My father said to me, “May you be happy.”

(Choose the correct indirect speech)

(A) My father wished that I live long.

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 (B) My father wished that I might live long.
(C) My father said to me to live long.
(D) My father wished to me that I live long.
16.You ___ not waste your time.
(A) (Choose the correct option)
(B) (A) might (B) can
(C) (C) ought (D) should
17.Forests must be preserved by us.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) We might preserve forest. (B) We must preserve forests.

(C) We can preserve forests. (D) We had to preserve forests.

18.The teacher entered the class. She started teaching.

(Choose the correct combination)

(A) The teacher entering the class and started teaching.

(B) The teacher will enter the class and start to teach.
(C) The teacher entered the class and started teaching.
(D) The teacher enter the class and start to teach.
19.Please, stop ___ so many mistakes.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) to make (B) making

(A) make (D) makes

20.It is raining today, ___ ?

(Choose the correct option)

(A) wouldn’t it (B) shouldn’t it

(C) couldn’t it (D) isn’t it

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21.It happened ___ .

(Choose the correct option)

(A) in the March month (B) in month March

(C) in the month of March (D) at month March

22.Choose the correct spelling :

(A) Proposal (B) preuposal

(C) Pruposal (D) prupusal

23.Walk slowly, ____.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) lest you should fall (B) lest fall you

(C) fall you lest (D) fall lest you

24.The synonym for ‘Gigantic’ is :

(Choose the correct option)

(A) Enormous (B) Average

(C) Small (D) Tall

25.The antonym of ‘Buy’ is :

(Choose the correct option)

(A) Sell (B) Bring

(C) Gain (D) Profit

26.Synonym for ‘Embarrassed’ is :

(Choose the correct option)

(A) Pleased (B) Ashamed

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 (C) Comforted (D) Angry

27.The antonym of ‘Quiet’ is :

(A) Strong (B) Excited

(C) Calm (D) Bored

28.Synonym for ‘Necessary’ is :

(Choose the correct option)

(A) Required (B) Common

(C) Boring (D) Useless

29.The antonym of ‘Neglect’ is :

(Choose the correct option)

(A) Regard (B) Refuse

(C) Ignore (D) Omit

30.She has ___ five children.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) broke away (B) brushed aside

(C) brought up (D) broke open

31.The bottle is ___ juice.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) full with (B) full at

(C) full of (D) full on

32.Do you have ___ homework?

(Choose the correct option)

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 (A) many (B) little

(C) too (D) much

33.Edison ___ the gramophone.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) invent (B) invented

(C) will invent (D) inventing

34.____ has a cap.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) Each (B) Everything

(C) Everything (D) Everyone

35.The noise ___ .

(Choose the correct option)

(A) died away (B) done away

(C) dropped out (D) do with

36.We need ___ clothes.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) less (B) any

(C) fewer (D) little

37.It ‘is something that distinguish us from the ___’.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) man (B) fruits

(C) homo sapiens (D) human

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38.The ants crawled ____ up the tree.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) further (B) often

(C) either (D) farther

39.The ‘negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ____’ to a large one.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) home (B) dwelling

(C) ghetto (D) house

40.There was ____ water in the pot.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) a little (B) few

(C) some little (D) a few

41.He likes to be flattered by his assistants.

(Choose the correct option)

(A) He likes to flatter his assistants.

(B) He likes his assistants to flatter him.
(C) He likes flattering himself.
(D) He likes his assistants too flatter.
42.He said, “I will come again.”

(choose the correct indirect narration)

(A) He said that he will come again.

(B) He says he is coming again.
(C) He says he’ll come again.
(D) He said that he would come again.

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43.Everyone has come, ____?

(A) aren’t (B) can’t they

(C) haven’t they (D) shouldn’t they

44.Our team ____ the best.

(A) is (B) are

(C) were (D) have

45.Ajit was all by ___ at the part.

(A) himself (B) her

(C) herself (D) him

46.The synonym of ‘Restrict’ is ____

(A) widen (B) broaden

(C) limit (D) expand

47.The antonym of ‘Vague’ is ___

(A) clear (B) dull
(C) unknown (D) shady
48. ‘To draw a line’ means :
(A) to fix a limit (B) to be stern
(C) to caution someone (D) to insult someone
49. A new minister has taken ___ after the election.
(A) to (B) off
(C) over (D) down
50.Prisoners were kept in an ____ condition.
(A) simply (B) hardly
(C) appalling (D) fortunate
51.Choose the correct sentence :

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 (A) Have you read the Geeta? (B) Are you read the Geeta?
(C) Is you read the Geeta? (D) May you read the Geeta?
52.The great painter and poet ____ died.
(A) have (B) has
(C) is (D) are
53.A sword was hanging ____ his head.
(A) over (B) through
(C) at (D) of
54.Choose the correct spelling :
(A) Intelligant (B) Intelligent
(C) Entilligent (D) Intiligent
55.The doctors go to ____ hospital regularly.
(A) a (B) the
(C) an (D) none
56.Leaves are falling ____ the tree.
(A) of (B) at
(C) on (D) from
57.Choose the correct spelling :
(A) Favurable (B) Feverible
(C) Favourable (D) Fivourable
58.We ____ duly fill our application.
(A) can (B) could
(C) should (D) may
59.The doctor must come soon ____ the patient will die.
(A) nor (B) unless
(C) otherwise (D) until
60.The _____of Germans in The US was accelerated.
(A) assassination (B) assumption
(C) assimilation (D) trepidation

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Instructions : Questions from 61-100 are from the prescribed texts.

61.Western civilization will mean ____ for India.

(A) real (B) want
(C) living (D) ruin
62.Nanukaka is more comfortable in speaking in ____
(A) Marathi (B) Bihari
(C) Gujrati (D) Bengali
63.Bertrand Russell was a distinguished _____
(A) Chemist (B) Zoologist
(C) Mathematician (D) Botanist
64. _____ is the main concern of the newspaper.
(A) Personal interest (B) Interest of the people
(C) Social interest (D) National interest
65. _____ has been called the young nation of ancient people?
(A) Iran (B) Pakistan
(C) India (D) China
66.According to Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘The “bank of ___” bankrupt.
(A) Alaska (B) Texas
(C) evil (D) justice
67.Germaine Greer is a well-known __________writer.
(A) raciest (B) anti-feminist
(C) sexist (D) feminist
68.The________ suggested that Benjy should be allowed to keep hens.
(A) banker (B) doctor
(C) teacher (D) farmer
69.Pearl S Buch thinks ‘_______ is ever- present in Indian life’.
(A) Religion (B) God

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 (C) Goddess (D) Mahatma Gandhi
70.Who was the hypochondriac landowner in ‘A Marriage Proposal’.
(A) Bistasia (B) Lomov
(C) Nastasia (D) Choobookov
71.According to Donne, man’s power is ______.
(A) smooth (B) feeble
(C) story (D) active
72.John Donne wants to go away not because he is tired of ____
(A) his sister (B) his parents
(C) his brother (D) his wife
73. Human life is no letter than_________
(A) life (B) journey
(C) sleep (D) death
74. John Donne died of tuberculosis at the age of ______.
(A) 26 (B) 59
(C) 30 (D) 90
75.‘ I think she was the most beautiful lady’ is from
(A) Snake (B) Epitaph
(C) To Autumn (D) The Soldier
76.________ is known as a war-poet.
(A) Rupert Brooke (B) D.H. Lawrence
(C) T.S. Eliot (D) W.B. Yeats
77.‘His brow is deeply lined with thoughts’ is from.
(A) The Soldier
(B) Macavity: The Mystery Cat
(C) An Epitaph
(D) Snake
78.Keki N. Daruwala was a ________by religion.
(A) Parsi (B) Hindi

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 (C) Christan (D) Muslim
79.‘ He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do’____ is taken from the
poem.
(A) Fire-Hymn (B) To Autumn
(C) Snake (D) The Soldier

80. Snakes were seen among ________ in ‘My Grandmother’s House’

(A) books (B) bed
(C) tables (D) chairs
81. Middle English convers _________period.
(A) AD 449–AD 1066 (B) AD 110–AD 1149
(C) AD 1067–AD 1099 (D) AD 1150–AD 1500
82. Who wrote ‘ A Passage to India’.
(A) Edmund Spenser (B) E.M. Forster
(C) Lord Tennyson (D) John Milton
83. What has enriched the vocabulary of English?
(A) Giving (B) Borrowing
(C) Withdrawing (D) Depositing
84. The Norman Conquest in England took place in________ .
(A) AD 1056 (B) AD 1076
(C) AD 1066 (D) AD 1086
85. Which language is a link language between North & South India?
(A) Hindi (B) Tamil
(C) Marathi (D) English
86. The ‘Romantic Revival’ is often associated with:
(A) John Dryden (B) William Wordsworth
(C) Alexander Pope (D) John Milton
87. Who wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’?
(A) Chaucer (B) Yeats

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 (C) Langland (D) Eliot
88. The Old English period is characterized by______.
(A) Infection (B) Injection
(C) Inflections (D) Intuition
89. The word ‘Drama’ comes from a ________word.
(A) Latin
(B) India
(C) Scandivian
(D) Greek
90. We can distinguish ______ dialects in Old English.
(A) Three (B) Five
(C) Four (D) Two
91. Dorothy L. Sayers is a/an:
(A) Novelist (B) Singer
(C) Essayist (D) Poetess
92. Benjy’s parents had rented their land to:
(A) Sanders (B) Smith
(C) Alexander (D) Michael
93. Who wrote the novels ‘ Untouchable’ and ‘Coolie’. ?
(A) R.K. Narayan (B) B.C. Chattopadhyay
(C) M.R. Anand (D) S.C. Chatterjee
94. Shige Naoya is a ________ short story writer.
(A) Japanese (B) Chinese
(C) Korean (D) Malaysian
95. ‘Whispering neighbours, left and right’ is from.
(A) Fire-Hymn (B) The Soldier
(C) Now the leaves are Falling Fast
(D) Ode to Autumn
96. ‘ I think I did not hit him’ is from:

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 (A) Snake (B) The Soldier
(C) Ode to Autumn (D) An Epitaph
97. Democracy means that the state is not the ____ but the ____ of the
people.
(A) god, goddess (B) man, woman
(C) master, servant (D) lord, lady
98. The life of the Negroes is crippled by:
(A) education (B) happiness
(C) discrimination (D) peace
99. According to Dr. Zakir Hussain, the past is not_______.
(A) worth remembering (B) dead and states
(C) rich and peaceful (D) happy and peaceful
100. ‘ There is a house now far away where once I received love’ is
from:
(A) Snake (B) Fire-Hymn
(C) My Grandmother House (D) The Soldier

SECTION-B

(Descriptive Type Questions)

1. Write an essay on any one of the following in about 150–200 words.

1×8=8
(A) Uses and Abuses of Cinema
(B) Child Labour
(C) The Value of Trees
(D) Man and Machine
(E) Save Earth

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2. Explain any one the following:
(A) The whole of Bharat is my home and its people are my family.
(B) It is obvious that we know move than animals do, and it is common
to consider this, one of our advantages.
(C) All their lives his father and mother had slept in the front bedroom.
Now they vacated it and moved into the back.
(D) Any public person-writer speaker, actor, politician is subtly made
feel that if he offends the Press he will suffer for it.
3. Explain any one of the following:
(A) Ther is a house now far away where once
I received love.
(B) And immediately I regretted it.
I thought how paltry how, how vulgar, what a mean act!
(C) And laughter, learnt of friends, and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
(D) And the nightingale is dumb.
And the angel will not come.
4. Write a letter to your father about visit to the village in the summer
holidays.
OR
Write an application to the Principal for issuing a character certificate.
5. Answer any five of the following is about 40–50 words each:
(A) What does the unofficial censorship seek to do?
(B) Why is Dr. Zakir Hussain overwhelmed?
(C) Why did Benjy want to marry Florence?
(D) What was the role of fire in our development?
(E) How does the poet feel about dying for his country?
(F) What happed to the House after her grandmother died?

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 (G) How do we compare own last journey to the grave?
(H) Why did the poet D.H. Lawrence, decide to wait?
(I) What is the difference between a short story and a novel?
(J) Write briefly about the dialects of Middle English
6. Answer any three of the following in about 100–120 words: 3 × 5 = 15
(A) Write a summary on any one of the following poems
i. Epitaph
ii. Ode to Autumn
iii. Fire-Hymn
(B) Write a summary of any of the following prose-pieces
i. India Though a Traveller’s Eyes
ii. A Pinch of Snuff
iii. The Artist
(C) Write a note on the future of English in India.
OR
How can we improve our English?
OR
Write a note on Indian English Novel.
(D) Match the name of the poems given in List–A with their poets in
List–B

List-A List-B
i. The Soldier (a) Keki N Daruwala
ii. Fire-Hymn (b) Walt Whitman
iii. Snake (c) Rupert Brooke
iv. Song of Myself (d) John Keats
V. To Autumn (e) D.H. Lawrence

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 (E) Translate any five into English:

i. D;k rqEgsa vaxzsth cksyuk vkrk gS\

ii. fo|kFkhZ gekjs ns”k dh “kfDr gSA
iii. lPpk fe= lalkj esa nqyZHk gSA
iv. olar dk _rqvksa dk jktk dgk tkrk gSA
v. fdlkuksa dh gkyr n;uh; gSA
vi. fcgkj dh Hkweh mitkÅ gSA
vii. eSa vki ls feydj cgqr [kq”k gqvkA
viii. jktho ,d cgqr [kjkc vkneh gSA

(E) Match the names of the prose-pieces in List–A with their authors in
List–B.
List-A List-B
i. India Through a Traveller’s Eye (a) Shiga Naoya
ii. The Artist (b) Bertrand Russell
iii. I have a Dream (c) Pearl S. Buck
iv. Ideas That Have Helped Mankind (d) Martin Luther King, Jr.
v. A Marriage Proposal (e) Anton Chekov

7. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
According to the old people childhood is the best part of life. They look
back at their childhood and remember all the happy days, the jolly games,
the fun they had at school, jokes they used to crack and different games
they used to play. These days are filled with amazing memories. During
childhood, people learn to have faith in themselves and believe they can
accomplish anything they set their minds to. One thing that makes
childhood days so great is spending time with family members. Thus, it is
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 during childhood that the children learn to co-operate, socialize and
understand each other which nurture them to grow into noble human
beings.

Questions:
(A) Why is childhood the best part of life?
(B) How do children enjoy themselves?
(C) What do children learn during their childhood days?
(D) What nurtures them to grow into noble human beings?
OR

Write a precis’ of the following passage and give a suitable title:

Social Media plays a big role in our lives today. We can access ‘any’ kind of
information we want with the help of Internet. Anything that is used so widely by
people has both a positive and negative side to it. Many doctors believe that
excess use of internet causes depression and anxiety in people. One must carefully
weigh the pros and cones of this medium before engaging excessively with it.

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