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Examinationn May 2010

I Semester Diploma

ET{GL.ISH

OMMUNICATION

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all questions.

Spelling and grammatical errors shall be penalized.

Fill in the blanlis :

(1) The Maji brouglrt gifts to

(4)
(5)

Water has the Power to oarfY

from sehool:
Mr. Tpgde wanted the boys
of others does not oreate our self-esteern.
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Answer any twelve of the following questions in twuthree sentenoes each : 12 x2:24
(1) What does the boy have to l.earn about men ?
(2) How does Lincolrt suggest the teacher treat tlre boy ?
(3) What characteristised Della's life ?
(4) Describe the combs that J'ames bought for Della.
(5) Whaf are the Causes of,soil erbsion ?
(6) Why is the study of the nature and property of water of the highest soientific
interest ?
(7) How is Mr. Tagde described in'the story ?
(8) What makes self-evafuation the basic context of one's life ?
(9) What did Todd owe the speaker and fur how long ?
(10) What is the difference between the author and other people about the return of
, money as conceived by the author ?
(t 1) Who should not indulge in drifting ?
(12) What is the difference between a physically weak person and a person of weak
thoughts ?
(13) What does 'Information' mean ?
(14) List two kinds of information that are nolmeant for disclosure.

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Write short notes on any two of the following :

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(a) Psychological issues identified in 'My Lost Dollar'.
(b) High self-esteem.
(c) Grounds for refusal to supply information as stated in The Karnataka Right to
Information Act.

IV.

GRAMMAR

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(1)

Identify the parts of speech of the underlined words

He is such a fine fellow

(2)

Pick out the countable nouns in following

I eat an apple everyday.

Fillin the blank with some, a little, few, many, little, any
(b)

cities have peaceful atmosphere like Bangalore.

food.

didn't have

We had

money.

work in the office today.

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animals in the zoo.

We bought
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sugar would add more taste to the cake.

I saw

Fill in the blanks using suitable auxiliaries

(a)
(b)

The cat

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(c)
(d)
(e)
(4)

Bottles can break.

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climb the tree. (may, can, will)

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take long vacation trips with the whole family. (use, used,

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used to)

(c)

(s)

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be Sunday. (can, sha[,

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Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets
(a)

The Moon

(go) round the Sun.

(b)

My

friend
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(meet) the principal yesterday.

(c)

Tomorrow

(d)

She

your letter. (post)

since this afternoon. (sing)

(e)

The train

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Next months we

ten minutes ago. (leave)

celebrating our 15ft Wedding Anniversary.

(celebrate)

(e)
(6)

(h) I _

on this report since eight O'clock this moming (wor$.

(drive) to work when I crashed my car.

Fill in the blanks using the passive form of the verbs in brackets :
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Some fruits and vegetables
(preserve) by pickling. The
fruits/vegetables (wash) and dried. Then it
(cut) into pieces
and enough salt

(add).

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Fill in the blanks with the appropriate negative verbs

:

(a)
(b)
(8)

She

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clean her room.

parents

coming today.

(7)

Fill in the blanks with suitable interrogatives :

(a)
will he retum ?

(9)

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flower is the prettiest ?

Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions :

(b)
(c)
(d)

She

lives

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a small village.

I will drive

the station.

He gave us a test

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Wednesday.

He goes to school
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bus.

(10) Supply suitable question tags :

(a)
(b)

Snow is white,

They will not help,

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and phrases

sentences of your own

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to put a price tag

of
in terms of
made up

for

a moment

COMPOSITION

construct a readable story from the outlines

given
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A merchant riding home froy a fair a large sum
of money with him _
suddenly heavy rainfall merchant gets
wet - rrir gr*ulings shortly attacked
by a robber robber attempts to shoot failure
due to wet ness the
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merchant escapes.

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(2)

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speaks
fast that one can hardly understand.
Thank you __-_- much for your nice
words.
He

(12) use the following idioms

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

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(a)
(b)

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write a paragraph of not more than 100 words

using the foilowing points

Solar Energy

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a,

freely available source

lirnitless supply
economical

non-polluting

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length:

passage and write a sunmary

in not more than l/3 its

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Speech is of two kinds, fo1mal and informal. We present formal speech

methodically, whereas into-rmal speech is often spontaneous. In most cases, the
presenter of formal speech gets tirne to plan, organize, reheatse and even
memorise the speech. It is quite oommon these days to use audio-visual aids to
make presentations. Presentations are made in forms such as conferonces,
serninars, workshops, meetings and even classrooms. This tlpe of speaking
closely resembles the written form of language. Although it is often stated that
spoken language is not written language spoken out, in the case of
presentations, the language has to have the characteristics of written language.
For an effective presentation, matter and manner are both very important but
the content has a stright edge over the manner of delivery
Read the following p-assage and answer questions that

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story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some
point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one
in the face. The one who got slapBed was hurt, btrt without sa)rlng anything,
wrote in the sand. "Today My Best Friend Slapped Me In the Face."

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a
bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started
drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near
drowning, he wrote on a stone. "Today My Best Friend Saved My Life."

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The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After
you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why ?"

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The other friend replied : "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in
sand where winds of forgiveness oan erase it away. But, when someone doos
something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever
erase

it."

(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)

The friend who got slapped wrote

The one, who had been slapped, started drowning because

According to the friend when sorneone hurt us

The title of the story is

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Complete the following statements using inforrration from the passage.

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