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I/II Semester Diploma Examination, Nov./Dec. 20ls

ENGLISH COMMUNICATION

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Answer any twelve of the following questions in two or three sentences each :

(i) How does Lincoln suggest the teacher treat the boy ?(ii) What characterized Diila,s life ?(iii) How did Della save the money ?(iv) What are the causes of soil erosion ?(v) What measuies can be taken to check soil erosion ?(vi) Why did Mr. Thakar approach Mr. Tagde ?

l"iil -Yl" damage had rnore caused to oneif his classmates.l(viii) what are the author's apprehensions or worries auout the return of money ?(ix) List out the various *"ur. by which the narrato; i;;; to remind Todd about thedollar.(x) In what ways are doubts and fears the greatest enemies of knowleclge ?(xi) Who should not indulge in drifting ?(xii) Why should doubts and fears be excluded ?(xiii) What does .Right to Information, mean ,J

(xiv) Define 'Public authority' accorcring to the Right to Information Act.

Write short notes on any two of the following : 2 x 5 = l0(a) Conservation of water(b) Right to infonnation(c) Six pillars of self-esteem

Time:3 Hours I

Note : (i) Answer all questions as directed.(ii) Spelling and grammaticar errors shall be pe,arized.

l. Fill in the blanks :

(i) One dollar and eighty seven cents. That was

IMax. Marks : 100

all. And sixty cents of it was in

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4,. Grammar:(l) ldentifytheparts of speech of the underlined words : 2xl =2

The beautifrrl rainbow soon faded away.

(2) Pick out the countable nouns in the tbllowing : 2 x l:2(i) Bottles can break"(ii) I eat an apple everyday.

(3) Fill in the blank with : ' 6 x I :6some, a little, few, many, little, any(i) I don't want

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milk.(ii) There was very time for the movie to start.(iii) He has good books with him.(iv) men reach the age of hundred.(v) There is

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water in the tank.(vi) She wants money.

(4) Fill in the blanks using suitable auxiliaries : 3 x 1 :3

(ii) I _ swim faster than him.(iii) She see the doctor tomorrow.

(5) Fill,in the blanks with suitable form of the verbs given at the end of each

8x1=8sentence :

(i) We _ a party next Saturday. (have)(ii) Excuse me ! you on my foot. (stand)(iii) They _ their house in 1980. (build)(iv) Someone this cup. (break)(v) He very tired in the afternoon because he _ football for

two hours in the morning. (feel, play)

(vii) Last Sunday, I _ dinner with Sita and Ram. (have)

(6) Fill in the blanks with the passive forms of the verbs in brackets : 4 X 1 : 4Yesterday, a man (anest) by the police for stealing car. He(make) to appear before the court and (grve) a six-months sentence

(7) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate negative verbs : 2 x I :2Raj , know what to do; he tell Kaushik that he had lost thebook.

(S) Fill in the blanks with suitable interrogatives : 2 x I :2(i) girl won the trekking competition ?(ii) long is the program ?

(9) Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions : 4 x I : 4(i) Raju lives a small village.(ii) I will drive the station.(iii) He gave us a test Wednesday(iv) He goes to school _ bos.

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Fill in the blanks with very/too(i) These mangoes are _ yellow to be good.(ii) Thank you _ much for your help.

Use the following idioms and phrases in sentences of your own :

(i) in the prescribed manner(ii) again and again(iii) on the other hand(iv) to cope with

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(l) Construct a readable story from the outlines giveno A hungry fox wandering for food. saw a crow with piece of meat

o flattered the crow. crow pleased

o fox invited crow to sing. crow opened moutho fox got meat

(2) Write a paragraph of not more than 100 words using the following points : I x 5:5Solar Energy. freely available sourceo limitless supply. economical. non-polluting

(3) Read the following passage and write a summary in not more than 113 of its

'**n; every country people imagine that they are the best and ,n" .,"";jJ t

and the others are not so good as they are. The Englishman thinks that he andhis country are the best; the Frenchman is very proud of France and everythingFrench. The Germans and ltalians think no less of their countries and manyIndians imagine that India is in many ways the greatest country in the world.This is wrong. Everybody wants to think well of himself and his country. Bgtreally there is no person who has not got some good and some bad qualities.

In the same way, there is no country which is not partly good and partlybad. We must take the good wherever we find it and try to remove the badwherever it may be. We are. of course, most concemed with our own country,India. Untbrtunately, it is in a bad way today. Many of our people are poor andunhappy. They have no joy in their lives. We have to find out how can makethem happier. We have to see what is good in our ways and customs and try tokeep it, and whatever is bad we have to throw away. If we tlnd anything goodin other countries, we should certainly take it.

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Read the fbllowing passage and answer questions that follow :

All Great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is onlythere they-.can breathe freely. It is only in contact with spirits life themselvesthey can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from idealchampionship. The studies of all great thinkers must range along the highestaltitudes of human thought. I can't remember the name of anliilluminitivegenius who did not drink his inspiration from fountains of ancient Greek andHebrew writers; or such among the-modems as were pupils in ancient thought,and in turn, became masters in their own. I have

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strongest argument in favour of the Baconian theory was. that,ro *ir, howeverindubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have comedown to us under Shakespeare's name who iaO not the liberal education ofBacon. How this habit of intercourse with the gods makes one irnpatielt ofmere men. The magnificient ideals that have ever haunted the human inind, andgiven ys our highest proofs of a future immortality by reason otj theimpossibility of their fulfillment here, are splintered into atoms by contaci withlife's realities. Hence comes our sublime discontent. You will notice that yourfirst sensaticln aftel- reading a great book is one of melancrlorv '*adissatisfaction. The ideas sentiments, expressions, are so far beyond thtse ofordinary working lifb that you cannot turn aside from one to the other withoutan acute sensation and consciousness of the contrast. And the principles are solofty, so super-human that it is a positive pain, if once you become imbued withthem. to come do'uvn and mix in trre squarid surroundirigs of oJinu.y;;;;";;.It may be spiritual or intellectual pride that is endangeied on the high plane ofintellectual life. But whatever it is, it becomes inevitable. A habitual meditationon the vast problems that underline human life and are k,it i"t;;;;,destinies - thoughts of immortality, of the littleness of mere man, or tnegreatness of man's soul, of the splendours of the universe that are invisible tothe ordinary traffickers in the streLt, as the vastness of St. peter,s is to the spiderthat weaves her web in a corner of the dome-these things do not fit men tounderstand the average human being, or tolerate with patience the sordidwretchedness of the unregenerate maises. It is easy to understand, therefore,why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their oivn thoughts. or the silentcompanionship of the immortals; and if they care to present ti.,.i, "i*. i; il;;or verse to the world, that these views take a .o*br" and melanct oty ,"ttingfrom "the.pale cast of thought" in which they were engendered.(i) On what plane must great thinkers live and move ? 1(ii) ls a liberal education necessary to produce great literature ,l t(iii) wlry does the reacling of a great book make one disappoi,ted ? z(iv) What are the things that make it hard to understand the average human

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