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M.Sc. (HMT) (Semester - 1st )
ENGLISH (Old Scheme) (M.Sc.(HMT) - 105)

Time : 03 Hours Maximum Marks : 75

Instruction to Candidates:
1) Section - A is compulsory.
2) Attempt any Nine questions from Section - B.

Section-A

Q1) (15 × 2 = 30)

a) Why is it useful to mention the subject at the top of a memo form?
b) What guidelines should be kept in mind while drafting a letter asking
for a reference?
c) What is a precis? Why do we need a precis?
d) Mention the limitations of verbal communication.
e) Define memo.
f) How is a memorandum different from a letter?
g) What are the advantages of the memo form?
h) What are the essentials of an effective business letter?
i) “A business letter should be so worded that it can replace the writer as
completely as possible.” Discuss.
j) How can we give a ‘pleasant look’ to a business letter?
k) What do we mean by ‘appropriateness’ in a business letter?
l) What details are usually included in the heading of a business letter?
m) How do you distinguish between an ‘offer’ and a ‘quotation’?
n) Mention any four important points that should be included in a
quotation.
o) Explain the purpose of sales letter.

P.T.O.
 Section-B
(9 × 5 = 45)
Q2) Write precis of the given passage and select a suitable title for it.
Over - eating is one of the most wonderful practices among those who
think that they can afford it. In fact, authorities say that nearly all who can
get as much as they desire, over - eat to their disadvantage. This class of
people could save a great more food than they can save by missing one
meal per week and at the same time they could improve their health.
A heavy meal at night, the so - called “dinner”, is the fashion with many
and often it is taken shortly before retiring. It is unnecessary and could be
forgone, not only once a week but daily without loss of strength. From
three to five hours are needed to digest food. While sleeping, this food not
being required to give energy for work, is in many cases converted into
excess fat, giving rise to over - weight. The evening meal should be light,
taken three or four hours before retiring. This prevents over - eating,
conserves energy and reduces the cost of food.

Q3) Read the passage below and then answer the questions which follow it.
The third great defect of our civilisation is that it does not know what to do
with its knowledge.
Science has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them like small
children. For example, we do not know how to manage our machines.
Machines were made to be man’s servants; yet he has grown so dependent
on them that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Already most
men spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines.
And the machines are very stern masters. They must be fed with coal, and
given petrol to drink, and oil to wash with, and they must be kept at the
right temperature. And if they do not get their meals when they expect
them, they grow sulky and refuse to work, or burst with rage, and blow
up, and a spread ruin and destruction all round them. So we have to wait
upon them very attentively and do all that we can to keep them in a good
temperature. Already we find it difficult either to work or play without the
machines, and a time may come when they will rule as altogether, just as
we rule the animals.
And this brings me to the point at which I asked, “what do we do with all
the time which the machines have saved for us, and the new energy they
have given us?” On the whole, it must be admitted, we do very little. For
the most part we use our time and energy to make more and better machines;

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 but more and better machines will only give us still more time and still
more energy, and what are we to do with them? The answer, I think, is that
we should try to become mere civilized. For the machines themselves, and
the power which the machines have given us, are not civilization but aids
to civilization. But you will remember that we agreed at the beginning that
being civilized meant making and linking beautiful things, thinking freely,
and living rightly and maintaining justice equally between man and man.
Man has a better chance today to do these things than he ever had before;
he has more time, more energy, less to fear and less to fight against. If he
will give his time and energy which his machines have won for him to
making more beautiful things, to finding out more and more about the
universe, to removing the causes of quarrels between nations, to discovering
how to prevent poverty, then I think our civilization would undoubtedly
be the greater, as it would be the most lasting than there has ever been.
Questions
(a) Instead of manking machines our servants the author says they have
become our masters. In what sense has this come about?
(b) The use of machines has brought us more leisure and more energy.
But the author says that this has been a curse rather than a blessing.
Why?
(c) What exactly is the meaning of “civilization?” Do you agree with the
author’s views?
(d) “Making more beautiful things” – what does this expression mean?
Make a list of the beautiful things that you would like to make and
how you would make them.
(e) The author uses phrases like “fed with coal”, “given petrol to drink”,
“oil to wash”, “kept at the right temperature”. What machines would
require these things?

Q4) Write a essay on “ The influence of Cable Television Network in India”.

Q5) What is a Report? State the main points to the considered in drafting a
report.
Q6) Write a report about the need to computerise the activities of your
department.

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Q7) Draft an application for the job of a junior accountant trainee.

Q8) Draft a circular letter announcing a gift scheme on the occassion of the
Dewali to increase the sales of the latest designs of suitings.

Q9) What is an office order? Differentiate if from office circular.

Q10) Draft a memo asking your superior’s approval to a few suggestions made
by you for the improvement of atmosphere in the office.

Q11) What all measures should be taken to make your speech impressive?

Q12) Draft a resume to apply for the post of sales executive in a pharmaceutical
company.

Q13) What impact does etiquettes and manners have on communication?

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