Complete Guess Paper English Inter Part-II

   Top Ten Important Essays Inter Part-2

1. Allama Iqbal 

2. A Visit to a Historical Place

3. My Aim in Life

4. Patriotism

5. My First Day at College

6. Technical Education

7. City Life

8. Computer/ Information Technology

9. Pollution

10. My Hobby

  GOOD-BYE MR.CHIPS

1.      What type of novel is "Good-bye Mr. Chips?" (CH#1)

2.      How did Chips measure time? (CH#1)

3.      What did doctor Merivale say about Chips' health?  OR Who was Merivale? (CH#1)

4.      When did Mr. Chips join Brookfield? (CH#1)

5.      What advice did Mr. Wetherby give to Mr. Chips?  (CH#1)

6.      Why was Chips afraid of taking his first class at Brookfield? (CH#1)

7.      What happened when Mr. Chips took his first class? OR Describe Chips’ first day experience at Brookfield? (CH#1)

8.      When did Mr. Wetherby join Brookfield? (CH#1)

9.      Write a note on Mr. Wetherby. (CH#1)

10.  Trace out the similarities between Chips and Brookfield? (CH#1)

11.  What type of people did Brookfield produce? (CH#2)

12.  What type of school was Brookfield? OR What was the status of Brookfield?                                                                                                                                  (CH#2)                                                                                         

13.  What was Mr. Chips’ dream in his youth?     (CH#2)

14.  How much time did Chips spend at Brookfield?   (CH#2)  

15.  What was Mr. Chips presented at the time of retirement? OR When was Chips given a farewell party? (CH#2)

16.  What job did Mrs. Wickett do at Brookfield? (CH#3)

17.  What was the condition of Mrs. Wickett’s house? (CH#3)

18.  What was the condition of Chips’ rented room? (CH#3)

19.  How did Chips spend his afternoons? OR What would Chips do in the afternoon in mild weather when he lived at Mrs. Wickett? (CH#3)

20.  What did Chips tell Mrs. Wickett about Major Collingwood? OR Why was Collingwood thrashed by Chips? (CH#3)

21.  What was the financial condition of Chips after retirement? (CH#3)

22.  What was Chips’ taste in reading? (CH#3)

23.  What was Chips’ favourite newspaper? OR Why did Chips like “The Times?”  (CH#3)

24.  What were Chips’ quiet enjoyments? (CH#3)

25.  When did Mr. Chips and Katharine meet each other and what were their ages?                                                                                                                             (CH#4)

26.  How did they meet each other? OR What caused Mr. Chips to rush to a dangerous edge at Great Gable? OR How did Chips wrench his ankle?  (CH#4)

27.  Why did Katherine like Chips? (CH#4)

28.  Why did Chips like Katherine? (CH#4)

29.  When did Mr. Chips marry Katherine? (CH#4)

30.  What was Katherine? OR What was Katherine’s profession? (CH#4)

31.  What was Katherine’s taste in reading? OR What were Katherine’s political views?                                                                                                                                   (CH#4)

32.  Why was summer of 1896 very dear to Chips? (CH#4)

33.  What were Katherine's views about school mastering? OR What were Katherine’s views about school mastering? (CH#5)

34.  What was Katherine's family background? OR How was Katherine married?(CH#5)

35.  Write a note on Mr. Chips' married life.     (CH#5)

36.  Write a note on Mr. Chips as a teacher? (CH#5)

37.  How much popular was Katherine at Brookfield? OR How was Katherine at Brookfield? OR How did Katherine impress Brookfield? (CH#6)

38.  Write a note on Chips’ personality before marriage. OR What kind of fellow was Mr. Chips before marriage. (CH#6)

39.  What role did Katherine play to mould Mr. Chips' life? OR Write a note on Katherine as a wife. (CH#6)

40.  Who was old Gribble? (CH#6)

41.  What memories of Katherine haunted Chips? (CH#7)

42.  What services did Katherine perform at the school? (CH#7)

43.  Was Chips able to write a book on the memories of his life?  OR What title did Chips suggest for his book? OR Why could he not write book? (CH#7)

44.  Who was Ogilvie? (CH#7)

45.  When did Katherine die? OR What were Chips' feelings on the death of his wife? OR What was the effect of Katherine’s death on Chips? (CH#8)

46.  What were Chips’ ideas about Boers? OR Who were Boers? (CH#9)

47.  Write a note on Mr. Meldrum. OR Who was Meldrum and how long did he serve the school? (CH#10)

48.  Write a note on Ralston. (CH#10)

49.  What role did the boys at Brookfield play when the railway men went on strike? (CH#10)

50.  What was the final news about Grayson’s father? OR Who was Grayson?(CH#10)

51.  What did Ralston ask Chips to do and what was Chips’ response? (CH#11)

52.  When did the row between Ralston and Chips take place? (CH#11)

53.  Who was John Rivers? What role did he play to settle the dispute between Ralston and Chips? (CH#11)

54.  What happened when the fatal disease “German Measles” spread? OR Why was the big hall of Brookfield turned into a hospital ward?   (CH#12)

55.  Write a note on Mrs. Brool. (CH#12)

56.  Who was the successor of Ralston? OR Write a note on Mr. Chatteris. (CH#12)

57.  When did Mr. Chips retire and what was his age at that time? OR Why did Chips decide to retire? (CH#12)

58.  Where did Chips live after his retirement?  OR Why did Chips decide to live across the road near Brookfield after his retirement?   (CH#12)                     

59.  What changes did Chips remember that took place in school in the last 42 years?  (CH#12)

60.  When and where did Chips go for a cure? OR Where did Chips stay at Wiesbaden? OR When did Chips return from Wiesbaden? (CH#12)

61.  How did Chips spend his life after retirement?   (CH#12)

62.  When and why did Chips join school again? (CH#13)

63.  What was the contribution of Brookfield during World-War-1? OR What services did Brookfield render during the First World War?   (CH#13)

64.  What did Chips feel when he rejoined school? (CH#14)

65.  Why was Chips called “Pre-war?” (CH#14)

66.  How did Chips encourage his students during the air raids? OR How did Chips take his class during the shelling? (CH#15)

67.  When and why did Chips resign for the 2nd time? OR Why did Chips resign after the war?  (CH#15)         

68.  What season did Chips like the most and why? OR Why did Chips not like winter?                                                                                                                         (CH#16)

69.  When did Chips make his will?  OR What was Chips’ will? (CH#16)

70.  What were the things Chips had never done in life? (CH#17)

71.  Write a note on Cartwright. (CH#18)

72.  How the death of Chips was announced? OR What was announced in Brookfield at the death of Chips?  OR What did Cartwright say in his speech about Chips’ death? (CH#18)



  Important Short Questions Inter Part-2,Book-2 (Part-II)

Questions Based on Exercise

1.      Why couldn’t Churchill do well in the examination? (First Year at Harrow)

2.      How did Churchill do his Latin paper? (First Year at Harrow)

3.      In after years how did the knowledge of English stand him in good stead? 

                                                                                            (First Year at Harrow)

4.      Give an idea of the size of Sahara? (Hitch-hiking Across the Sahara)

5.      What had Christopher’s foster mother to do with his desire to see distant places?                                                                                                            (Hitch-hiking Across the Sahara)

6.      What was the most noticeable feature of the desert city, named Ghardaia?

                                                                                        (Hitch-hiking Across the Sahara)

7.      Give an account of the little town named El-Golea and compare it with In-Salah, bringing the difference between the two.  (Hitch-hiking Across the Sahara)

8.      What are antiseptics and what is the antiseptic method? (Alexander Fleming)

9.      What was the chief defect of antiseptic method?(Alexander Fleming)

10.  What part is played by the white cells in the blood of human body?(Alexander Fleming)

11.  In what respect is penicillin better than the chemical antiseptics?(Alexander Fleming)

12.  Write a note on penicillin as a wonder drug.

13.  Why couldn’t penicillin have been discovered in the research laboratories of America?

14. What did you mean by spontaneous generation? OR How did Pasteur prove that spontaneous generation was not a fact? (Louis Pasteur)

15. How did Pasteur discover the treatment of the cattle disease Anthrax? (Louis Pasteur)

16. Give an account of Pasteur’s treatment of Hydrophobia and how did he cure the first patient suffering in it? (Louis Pasteur)

17.  Why was Mustafa Kamal sent to Anatolia? (Mustafa Kamal)

18.  How did Mehmet try to regain Anatolia for himself? (Mustafa Kamal)

19.  Discuss Mustafa Kamal’s reforms with reference to removal of illiteracy. (Mustafa Kamal)

20.  Discuss Mustafa Kamal’s reforms with reference to position of women.(Mustafa Kamal)

21.  Discuss Mustafa Kamal’s reforms with reference to adoption of the Roman script.

                                                                                                                            (Mustafa Kamal)

19.  Write a note on Mustafa Kamal as a great nation-builder. (Mustafa Kamal)

Additional Short Questions 

1. In which subjects were the examiners interested? OR What were the favourite subjects of the writer?         (First Year at Harrow)

2. Why was Churchill selected for admission in spite of his bad performance? OR Why was Churchill admitted to Harrow despite his bad performance?(First Year at Harrow)

3. Where was the writer placed in the list of the newly admitted students and why?

                                                                                                                          (First Year at Harrow)

4. Who was Churchill?(First Year at Harrow)

5. Why did Christopher like El-Golea?  (Hitch-hiking Across the Sahara)

6. Where is Timbuktu situated?  (Hitch-hiking Across the Sahara)

7. What is Hitch-Hiking?  (Hitch-hiking Across the Sahara)

8. Why did Fleming choose St. Mary Medical School for admission? (Alexander Fleming)

9. What is Lysozyme?  OR How was Lysozyme different from other chemicals? OR How did Fleming discover Lysozyme?    (Alexander Fleming)

10. Who discovered germs? OR Who discovered germs and who killed them? OR Who were Pasteur and Lister? What did they do? (Louis Pasteur)

11. What happened to Pasteur on his wedding day? OR What happened to Pasteur on his marriage day? Why did Pasteur forget his wedding ceremony?         (Louis Pasteur)   

12. When was the Pasteur Institute built and why? (Louis Pasteur)

13. What was the famous battle call of Mustafa Kamal? (Mustafa Kamal)

14. What was the first step taken by Mustafa Kamal to educate his people?(Mustafa Kamal)

15. Why did Turkish people reject the treaty?             (Mustafa Kamal)




 Important Short Questions Inter Part-2, Book-2 (Part-1)

Questions Based on Exercise

1.      How is it that a star seldom finds another star near it? (The Dying Sun)

2.     What happened when, according to Sir James Jeans, a wandering star, wandering through the space, came near the sun? (The Dying Sun)

3.      Why is there no life on stars?(The Dying Sun)

4.      Why is the universe frightening? (The Dying Sun)

5.      How has the scientific method helped us in our fight against diseases? (Using the Scientific Method)

6.      What are the sanitary conditions in our villages today? (Using the Scientific Method)

7.      How has the scientific method helped us in the production and preservation of foods?   (Using the Scientific Method)

8.      We are generally less fearful than our ancestors. What were our ancestors afraid of? (Using the Scientific Method)

9.      How does a mistaken ambition on the part of the boys and their parents lead to the failure of the boys? (Using the Scientific Method)

10.  How does financial pressure lead to failure of students described in the lesson? (Why Boys Fail in Colleges?)

11.  What place would you accord to the sportsmen in college? (Why Boys Fail in Colleges?)           

12.  Who are lazy bluffers? What should be done with lazy bluffers? (Why Boys Fail in Colleges?)

13.  The writer liked holidays for their freedom – freedom of what? (End of Term)

14.  Wishes don’t come true in this life. What are the things he longed for but could not have?  (End of Term)

15.  What did he do with his pocket money? (End of Term)

16.  Why should bad books be destroyed? (On Destroying Books)

17.  Why is it difficult to destroy books? (On Destroying Books)

18.  Why could not the writer burn the unwanted books? (On Destroying Books)

19.  What was the disease he discovered he discovered he didn’t have? OR Was he pleased to find he didn’t have it?     (The Man Who Was a Hospital)

20.  Why should he be an acquisition to the medical class? (The Man Who Was a Hospital)

21.  He thought he was doing the good turn by going to him. Why? (The Man Who Was a Hospital)

22.  Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal? (My Financial Career)

23.  What was attitude of the manager towards the writer on learning that he only wished to deposit 56 dollars? (My Financial Career)                                        

24.  After misadventure in the bank where did Leacock keep his money? (My Financial Career)

25.  Why has the world changed its attitude towards china? (China's Way to Progress)

26.  How does China rely on its own resources? (China's Way to Progress)

27.  Describe a day in the life of a Chinese student? OR How does Je Sui, a Chinese girl student, spend her way?      (China's Way to Progress)

28.  What are the social security benefits provided to the Chinese workers? (China's Way to Progress)

29.  What does the writer mean hunger mean on large scale as viewed by the writer? (The Hunger and Population Explosion)

30.  How do famines occur? (The Hunger and Population Explosion)

31.  What is the main reason for increase in population today?  (The Hunger and Population Explosion)        

32.  What have public health measures to do with increase in population? (The Hunger and Population Explosion)

33.  What did Abbasid caliph say on receiving the head of hid governor? (The Jewel of the World)

34. What did Al-Hakam do to promote Learning and scholarship in his kingdom? OR Who was Al-Hakam? (The Jewel of the World)

Additional Questions (Past Papers)

1. The Dying Sun

Q.No.1: What, according to Sir James Jeans, are the main characteristics of human beings? OR For what qualities does the writer distinguish humankind from other creatures?                                                                                  

Q.No.2: What are temperature belts and what has the existence of life to do with them?        

2. Using the Scientific Method

Q.No.1: Why do we eat a variety of food?


Q.No.2: Where are the babies born these days?                                       

Q.No.3: How is water supplied to cities and towns today?                      

Q.No.4: How is water supplied to Los Angeles?  

                                                  
3. Why Boys Fail in College? 

Q.No.1: What are the two main groups of the boys who fail to get through? 

Q.No.2: How do the poor students meet their expenses?                                 

4. End of Term

Q. No. 1: When did the writer get his first bicycle?

Q.NO. 2: How did David Daiches wish whenever he saw sweet shops or some ice-cream barrow?                                                                                        
On Destroying Books

Q.No.1: What did the writer think when he saw a policeman?                  

Q.No.2: What sort of books did the writer get accumulated in J.C. Squire’s flat? OR What sort of books had piled up in J.C. Squire’s room?
                       
6. The Man Who Was a Hospital? 

Q.No.1: Why did the writer call himself a hospital?                                         

Q.No.2: How had the writer walked into the reading room of the British Museum and how had he returned?                                                                        

Q.No.3: What is the moral lesson of “The Man Who Was a Hospital? 
    

7. My Financial Career

Q.No.1: What kind of man manager was? OR How did the manager try to look? 

Q.No.2: Why did the writer go to bank? OR How much was the writer’s salary raised? OR What was the writer’s reaction at the increase of salary?             

Q. No.3: What mistake did the writer commit when he wanted to withdraw his money? OR Why did Leacock want to draw out money?    

8. China's Way to Progress                                   

Q.No.1: Who Was Chou En-Lai?                                                                                Q.No.2: Who was Mao Tse-tung?

9. The Hunger and Population Explosion

Q.No.1: How was the wide-spread disease averted during the seven years of famine in Egypt?   

         

10. The Jewel of the World

Q.No.1: Write a brief note on the mosque of Cordova.                            

Q.No.2: How did Cordova deserve to be titled as the Jewel of the World? 

Q.No.3: How old was Abd-al-Rehman when he died?


 Important Idioms & Phrasal Verbs English Inter Part-II

Above board

By leaps and bounds 

Every inch 

Leave no stone unturned

Through and through

Add fuel to fire

Call a spade a spade    

Eye wash

Lick the dust 

Turn a deaf ear to      

All and sundry

Capital punishment 

Eat humble pie  

Lion’s share

To turn the table       

All in all

Call names

To fall a prey to

Live from hand to mouth 

Under a cloud 

                     

Apple of discord

Call in question

Fair and square

Look forward to

Up to the mark

                     

An axe to grind

To call to account

Find fault with

Look down upon

Uphill task 

                      

Bad blood 

Carry the day 

Finger in the pie                                

Maiden speech

A white elephant  

                      

Bag and baggage

Carry weight

Flesh and blood

Make both ends meet 

A white lie

                        

Beat about the bush

Child’s play 

For good

Once in  a blue moon

A wild goose chase 

A bird’s eye view

A close-fisted man         

Face the music 

Part and parcel

Abide by

                    

Black sheep

A cock and bull story

To fall flat  

Red letter day 

Break down

                       

Blue blood 

In cold blood

Few and far between

Red tape  

Break into

A bolt from the blue

A cold comfort

In full swing

Royal road  

Break out

A bone of contention

Come to blows 

Get rid of

Run short of

Bring up

Bread and butter 

Come to grief

Go in smoke

Safe and sound

Bear out  

Break the news

Cut a sorry figure      

Hair-breadth escape

At sixes and sevens

Come of

 

Break the ice  

Come to terms

Hard pill to swallow

Spick and span

Carry out     

 

Bring to book 

Be at daggers drawn

Heart and soul

A square deal 

Carry on    

 

Bring to light

A dark horse  

After one’s own heart

A  square meal

Deal in

Burn midnight oil

Die in harness

In black and white 

At a stone’s throw                   

Do away with

A burning question

A dog in the manger

Keep at arm’s length

Split hairs

Give up   

                     

To bury the hatchet  

A drawn match

Kith and kin

Sum and substance

Go through 

                       

By and large

Down and out

Kick the bucket 

Take to task

Give in

By fits and starts         

At the eleventh hour

Be at large

Take into account

Look after

By hook or by crook

Eat one’s words  

Leave in the lurch         

Through thick and thin               

Put off

Abide by

Belong to

Break off

Break down

Bring up

Bear out

Come of

Cut out

Cut down

Carry out

Deal in

Do away with

Go through

Give in

Look after

Make out

Put off

Put by

Run at

Run down

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