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I/II Semester Diploma Examination, November 2010

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ENGLISH COMMUNICATION

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The three wise men who brought gifts to baby Jesus were called

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Mr. Tagde was

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For every scoundrel, there is a

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"Thought and Purpose" is dn essay by

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by profession.

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is the basis of all life.

of the following questions in two or three

sentences

each:
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(1) How should one react towards cpics ?
(2) Why should we have sublime faith in ourselves ?
(3) Why did Della admire her hair, with tearful eyes ?
(4) How did the couple console each other in the end ?
(5) What are the causes of soil erosion ?
(6) Mention the methods to prevent wastage of water as given in the text-book.
(7) when and why does Mrs. Tagde protest against her husband's stand ?
(8) Why does Mr. Tagde accept the compromise ?
(9) What makes self-evaluation the basic-context of one,s life ?

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(10) How is eommunication affected by low self-esteem ?

(11) List out the various means by which the narrator tries to remind Todd about the
dollar.

(12) In what ways are doubts and fears the greatest enemies of knowledge ?
(13) How is success possible even when one is not prepared ?
(14) What does information mean ?
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ru. Write short notes on any two of the following
(a) Justify the title, .The Gift of the Magi,.
(b) Grounds for refusal to supply information.
(c) Six pillars of self-esteem.

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GRAMMAR:

(1)

Identify the parts of speech of the underlined words

It is a great loss to a man when he cannot laugh.

(2)

Pick out the countable nouns from the following :

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Leaving her keys in the car, she went inside the restaurant
to have breakfast and
coffee.

(3) Fill in the blanks with "some /

little"

very

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much

many

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people on the beach.

There are -.--_.----..-- good prograrrunes on TV
tonight.
them all.
I don't have _
friends here. I,m all alone.
To make a cake, we need
e_egs and milk.
There was very
,t*e for the movie to start.
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He is _
too honest to tell a lie.

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Fill in the blanks with suitable auxiliaries

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I want to watch

(a) I ------_.- play tennis when I was in college.

(b)
my friends come to see me ?
(c) Shyam
be 20 next birrhday.

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs

in brackets

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(6)

(a) We _
aparty next Saturday. (have)
(b) Excuse me ! You
on my foot. (stand)
(c) They .their house in 1980. (build)
(d) Someone
this cup. (break)
(e) He -very tired in the afternoon because he

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football for
two hours in the morning. (feel, play)
(D The Sun
in the east. (rise)
(g) Last Sunday, I _
dinner with Sita and Ram. (have)
Fill in the blanks with the passive forms of the verbs
in brackets :
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(a) Roy
questions about his work. (often ask)
(b) The letter
last week but
only today. (write, post)
(c) Bhajans
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Fill in the blanks with"the negative form

of the modals : :

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500 mts.

Fill in the blanks with suitable interrogatives

:
I was lost in a ruilway station in a foreign country.

I didn't know

language. Eventually a man at

the station told me
catch and
Ihad to go to catch it.

Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions

:
John Abraham, a businessman, is going
out

(e)

customer.

The food wasn,t good,

(11) Fill in the blanks with ,very/too,

:
My grandfather is
old to walk
(12) Use the followirig idioms and phrases

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in sentences of your own

to look down upon

to cope with
to make up one,s mind
on account of

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Composition:

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construct a readable story from

the fo,owing outrine :
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King solomon noted fo.
wisdom - eueen sheba heard
of his fame _
came to visit him impressedlr:
by wearth uJ-grurra.ur wanted
to test his
wisdom - set a puzzre to solve
showed hir"
garrands
_ one
of
flowers
real, the other artificial asks, ,.which
is which ? _ courtiers puzzred,_
both
look the same Solomon silent
Queen r..i, t iu.nphant
Solomon
orders
windows to be opened bees
fly in from guro.r, _ buzz aboutthe queen _
settle
on the garland in her right
hand - Soromo"n ruv, no*rrs
in
right
_ the
hand
rear
other artificial _
eueen impressed by his wisOorirwrite aparagraphof not more than 100
words using the folrowing hints
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Bay of Bengal Andhra pradesh
beach city of vishakhapatnam _
temple - dedicated to visaka
- Goddess of valour - sea-sweep _ shrine _ but
name survives . port city of
beauty _ natural harbot r_

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(c)
(d)

lunch

far.

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the local
train I ought to

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(10) Supply suitable question tags :

(a) your brother speaks French,

(b)

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leaving the office, he asks his secretary

to do certain things

his absence.

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you be doing your homework now

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(b)
not a good runner; I
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Read the following passage and write a

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It is the dream of every Indian student to pursue further studies and a career in
the U.S. 1n the past 6 years itself, the number of Indian students in tlre
IIT,
University of Illinois has increased from 500 to over 1500. As.a student of
Mumbai and an IT professor at the University of Illinois, I feel that the
.American Dream' is not as attractive a proposition as it looks from the Indian

viewpoint. There are many factors which Indian students do not consider when
in the
tryrng pursue a career in itre U.S. The first major factor is the recession
US economy and a slump in the IT industry. As a result of these two factors,
jobs are extremely hard to come by. In fact, the IT job market in lndia is much
better than the job market in this sector in the US. Also during retrenchment
door'
and staff reductions, Indians and other Asians are the first to be shoWn the
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
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Isaac Newton is considered to be arncing the^ greatest scientists of E:rgland.

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theory of light and colour, the three laws of_motion and th3 law of gravitation
are among his most atnazing achievements. He was fully devoted to his work.
probably that is why he, never married. He also preferred a quiet life and
avoidedcomPany.

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Newton did his work with great concentration. When he was absorbed in his
wopk, he became absent-minded and unaware of his surroundings. Once he
invited a few friends {o dinner. While tnlking to them, he went out to look for
something he needed Just then; he came rry with an idea and forgetting
everything, he headed straight to his study- There he opened his files and got
busy in his calculations. When he failed to oome back even after a long time,
his friends got worried and started searching for him everywhere' They even
organized a search party to locate him. Then smebody located him in his
stridy, totally immersed in his work. Whe,n Newton realized he had caused
inconvenience to his friends, he felt quite e,mbarrassed. But his friends were
aware of his absent-mindedness and hiS love forwOrk, so they forgave him.
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Complete the following statements using information from the passage : 5 x I 5
(a) Newton decided against mariage because

(b)

He totally lost count of time and place when

(c)

His friends were worried about him because

(d)

His friends were quite understanding. This is shown by

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Newto.n avoided company. This shows that

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