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, [email protected] mob-9650368570
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