ENG101 Assignment No.1 Solution

English Comprehension (ENG101)    

Assignment No. 1

 Total Marks: 15

Objectives:

• To enhance and test students’ knowledge of grammatical terms, and their usage.
• Use of different methods to improve comprehension skills.

Instructions:

1. No assignment will be accepted via e-mail after the due date.
2. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Plagiarism occurs when a student uses work done by someone else without acknowledging the actual author. It also means copying and pasting the material from handouts and internet source without rephrasing it in his/her own words.

Q1: Read the following passage and answer the given questions in your own words.              

                                                                                                (10)

1-World War II was coming to an end in the Philippines. One day in January 1945,

2-Mother asked me to prepare our horse and caretela carriage so she could go see a

3-doctor. While I was in the fields looking for the horse, I came upon several men

4- chasing a Japanese soldier. Forgetting my task, I immediately joined the chase. After

5- an hour, the hapless soldier was cornered by the river’s edge. The mob showed no

6- mercy. They hit him with clubs and stabbed him with bolos. After he died, they kicked 7-his lifeless body, cursed him and spat on his face. The wounds of war – hatred,

8- revenge, prejudice, ruthlessness – were spread raw before me.

9-I left my village in June 1945 to start a new life in Manila. In 1959, I attended a three-10-month UNESCO-sponsored community development course in Mysore City, India. 11-Participants came from Africa, Asia and Scandinavia. Entering the living quarters, I 12-was dismayed to discover that my roommate was a Japanese man. Even before we 13-were introduced to each other (his name was Kei Kiriake), I felt that a thick invisible 14-barrier had sprung up between us. Unbidden, memories of war stirred in my mind.

15-I recalled the Japanese soldier who had looted our house. Finding no money he had 16-killed my father. Now, more than 15 years later, I could barely tell the difference

17-between the soldier who almost killed my father and Kei – they were both Japanese 18-and they both deserved my contempt. One evening, Kei was writing a letter while I 19-stayed on my bed reading. “Can we talk?” I said. He stopped writing and for the first 20-time we faced each other squarely. I bluntly told him about the atrocities committed 21-by his countrymen during their three-year occupation in the Philippines. Throughout 22-my whole tirade, Kei maintained a respectful silence. When I was through, he took a 23-bundle of pictures from his suitcase and laid them on the table. They were photos of 24-Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb – people who were reduced to masses of

25-peeling skin, protruding bones and horrible deformities of all types.

(word count 354)

1-      Why does the writer use the words “The wounds of war-------were spread raw before me” in line no 7 and 8.                                                              (3)

2-      Why did the writer feel that there was a thick invisible barrier between the two?  (line no.13-14)                                                                               (3)

3-      In the last lines (from line no 21----25) throughout writer’s whole tirade, Kei maintained a respectful silence and did not answer him directly. What was the reason and what was his way of answering writer’s questions?     (4)

Q 2: Match numbers of list A with alphabets of list B in such a way that the correct

alphabet of the word should be written in font of the correct diphthong.  (5 Marks)

       List A                                                                           List B     

1.  ɑɪ                                                                           a. brown
2.  ɔɪ                                                                            b. bear

3.    əʊ                                                                           c. arrive                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

4.  ɑʊ                                                                          d. own
5.  e ə                                                                           e. enjoy

Solution

Questions:

1-      Why does the writer use the words “The wounds of war-------were spread raw before me” in line no 7 and 8.                                                                   (3)

Ans-The writer by using words like wounds of war wants to show us the brutality and the savagery which became the second nature of man after war. It was very much evident by the atrocity committed by the mob while murdering the Japanese soldier and then spiting on his half mutilated body.   

2-      Why did the writer feel that there was a thick invisible barrier between the two?(line no.13-14)                                                                                       (3)

Ans-The loath and contempt which the writer felt after the brutal murder of his father by a Japanese soldier during the war created an invisible barrier between him and the Japanese man.

3-      In the last lines (from line no 21----25) throughout writer’s whole tirade, Kei maintained a respectful silence and did not answer him directly. What was the reason and what was his way of answering writer’s questions?                (4)

Ans- Kei’s silence was an expression of his sympathy and respect for the oppressed but simultaneously he responded to the writer by showing him the photos of the brutal massacre of Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb. Those pictures in itself were the answer to all his questions.

Q 2. Match numbers of list A with alphabets of list B in such a way that the correct

        alphabet of the word should be written in font of the correct diphthong.    (5)

       List A                                                                           List B     

1.  ɑɪ                                                                           a. brown
2.  ɔɪ                                                                            b. bear

3.    əʊ                                                                           c. arrive                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

4.  ɑʊ                                                                           d. own
5.  e ə                                                                           e. enjoy

Key

     ɑɪ                                                                         c.  arrive

     ɔɪ                                                                          e.  enjoy

     əʊ                                                                         d. own                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

    ɑʊ                                                                         a. brown          

     e ə                                                                         b. bear                                                                     

                                                                                        

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