JNU 2014 SOLVED QUESTION PAPER OF BA FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1st year

ENTRANCE EXAM

*TOTAL 54 MARKS QUESTIONS WERE ASKED FROM GS/GK/IQ/COUNTRIES & 46

MARKS QUESTIONS FROM ENGLISH GRAMMAR/COMPREHENSION/ESSAY

TOTAL--- [54+46= 100 Marks

1. Which one of the following is a Francophony country? --SEYCHELLES

2. Ornithology is ? --STUDY OF BIRDS

3. Muga is ? --ASSAMESE SILK

4. Mariana Trench is located in which ocean? --PACIFIC OCEAN

5. Who said-“of the people,by the people,for the people”? --ABRAHAM LINCOLN

6. Which one of the following combinations is wrong? ANSWER-d

a)Syed Kirmani-Cricketer b)Mira Nai-Director c)Sharan Rani-Sarod d)Asha Rani-Classical

Musician

7. „Chinese Dream‟ is associated with which Chinese leader? --XI JINPING (President of

China)

8. Apsara Menaka was the wife of which saint/sage? --VISHWAMITRA

9. How many total named bones are there in human body skeleton? –14

10. Which of the following is a Semitic language? --HEBREW

a.German b.French c.Hebrew d.Spanish

11. Shakira is from which country? --Nationality is Columbian

12. Who translated Mahabharat in Persian from Hindi? -- --Mullah badayuni

13. What is Mohiniattam? --CLASSICAL DANCE OF KERELA

14. Who got 2012 Dada Saheb Phalke Award? –PRAN SIKHAND

15. Who is the new Microsoft CEO? --SATYA NADELLA

16. International Women‟s Day is celebrated on? –8th MARCH

17. „One More Over‟ is a book written by which India cricketer? --EAS PRASANNA

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18. Who is the ex-officio Chairman of Planning Commission? –THE PRIME MINISTER

19. Which Indian hockey captain won gold medal in 1964 Tokyo Olympics? --GURBUX

SINGH

20. Kimchi is a dish of which country? -- KOREA

21. Current currency of Spain? –EURO

22.which of the following doesn’t belong to spain? la tomatino

23. What is K-POP? --IT IS A MUSICAL GENRE ORIGINATING IN SOUTH KOREA

24. Arabic is spoken mostly in which country? --EGYPT (not Saudi Arabia)

25. Panchsheel Agreement between India & China?60th

26. What changes when light enters from air(rarer medium) to glass (denser medium) ? –ALL

(bcz c=f*l)

a.Frequency b.Wavelength c.Speed d.All

27. Name of the Mascot of 2014 Winter Olympics? –POLAR BEAR,SNOW LEOPARD &

ZAIKA (the dore hare) [It will be held in SOCHI. It is the first Olympic whose mascot is

decided by popular vote]

28. Rabat is the capital of ? --MOROCCO

29. Leo Tolstoy mostly wrote books on which theme? –SOCIALISM

30. Project Tiger was established in which year? –1973

31. Jean-Luc Godard of France was ? –FILM MAKER/DIRECTOR

32. Where did the emperor/royal family of Japan go when he visited Delhi? –CHENNAI

33. Which is not the old name of Urdu? --FARSI

34. Spanish dance form? -FLAMENCO

35. Which country is organizing 2020 Summer Olympics? TOKYO,JAPAN

4 ABBREVIATIONS-

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36. SEBI=Securities and Exchange Board of India

37. PETA=People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

38. ICSSR=Indian Council of Social Science Research

39. BCCI=Board of Control for Cricket in India

5 BOOKS & AUTHORS

40. The Inheritance of Loss- KIRAN DESAI

41. Brief History of Time- STEPHEN HAWKING

42. Natya Shastra- BHARATA MUNI

43. The Secret of Nagas- AMISHA TRIPATHI

44. Ladies Coupe- ANITA NAIR

7 QUESTIONS BASED ON I.Q.

45-There is peacock and deer.Total heads are 80 & total legs are 100.How many peacocks are

there? Ans-60

46- Complete the Series 1,4,9,16,__ Ans- 25 (Hint:Squares of Natural numbers are given)

47. If PENSION is coded as NEISNOP,then how will FOLIAGE be coded? Ans- EOAILGF

48. 30 sweets weigh 20gm. How many sweets will weigh 1kg? Ans- 1500

49.Question on Direction

50. Complete the blank- sin,cosine,_____ Ans- tangent/tan

51-Priyanka is the 50th best student in the class & 50th worst student so how many total students

are there in the class? Options- a)98 b)99 c)100 d)101 Ans- 99

Question no 52,53 & 54 --3 Questions on LANGUAGE APTITUTE TEST [3

MARKS]

Answers- You will come= awanhi // Awanhi= you came // He went= Mimiban

2nd Part includes questions based on ENGLISH

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TOTAL=46 MARKS QUESTION

1-Synonyms [6 marks]

A-Nincompoop, B-Shrewd, C-Aboreal, D-Rudimentary, E-Placid, F-Kleptomania

2-Prepositions [6 marks]

3-Questions based on the Usage of „Agreement of the verb with the subject‟ [10 marks]

3-Comprehension [10 marks. 8 marks summary & 2 marks Title]

4- Complete the jumbled sentence by correcting its order [4 sentences of 4 marks]

5- Short Essays on 2 Topics of 5 marks each [5x2=10 marks]

A. Prospects, Motivations & Relevance of Foreign Language with Globalisation.

B. Write about the tradition of your region which you don‟t want to be extinguished over in

your region. Should this tradition be carried forward and Why?

Prepared by – RAHUL KUMAR, rk.jnu123@gmail.com mob-9650368570

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