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IflI Semester Diploma Examination' ApriUMay-20l5

ENGLISH COMMUNICATION

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Time: 3 Hours I I Max. Marks : lfl)

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Note: (i) Answer all questions as directed.
(ii) Spelling and grammatical errors shall be penalized.

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(iii) Answers to question nos. 1 & 2 we based on prescribed text.

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1. Fillintheblanks: 5xL=5
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(r) Right to means, right of access to any information from any public
authority.
(ii) A man should conceive t
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accomplish it.
(iii) Mv friend owes me a dollar.
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(v) Name of the principal in the story "The Death of a Hero", is

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2, Answer the followiltg questions, in two or three sentences each :

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(1) How did Della save money ?
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(2) What wotrld books grve to the boy ? \Vhat more is needed ?
(3) How can soil erosion can be checked ?
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(4) How is lvtrr. Tagde described in the story ?

(5) Name the six pillars of self-esteem:
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(6) What did Todd owe the speaker ? And for how long ?
0 What happens to someone who.doesn't have a cenfual putpose in his or her life ? ,

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Define'borryetent authority" according to Right to Information Act.

(9) What{s th.e ultimate teaching the author recommends and to what result ?
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(10) Describe Deila's home in couple of qentences.

(11) WhaI has human kind searched for aspiring for immortality ?
(12) The author fiies to start a movement, to collect the odd dollars. What is the
movernent called as ?

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3. Write short note on any two of the following : 2 x 5 = 10

(1) What are the grounds for refusal to supply information ?
(2) Mention the different means by which author tries to get back his dollar from
Todd ?

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4. Grammar
(1) Identifythepartsof speechoftheunderlineiwords: 2xl=2

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Still waters run deeP
(2) Pick out the uncountable nouns from the fotlowing : 2x]-=2
Humans toil for bread and butter.

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(3) Fitlintheblanks with some tany tmuch/many lalotof /afew/alittle:6 x 1=5
(1) I want Potatoes.

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@ I don't find Aliens here.
(3) Please don't put salt to my food.
(4) There are J
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dignitaries on the stage.
ketchup left in the boule.
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(4) Fill in the blanks using suitable auxiliaries : 3x1=3
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(1) I meet ttre Prime Minister tomorrow.
(2) Hello! Hello ! hear me ?
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(3) Its dark and cloudy, it , rain tomorrow

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(5) FiU in the blanks using correc-t form of the verbs given at the end of reh
sentence: tx 1 =t
(1) I mY food now. (want)
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(2) I at Taj Hotel three times. (stay)

(3) We a party next Saturday. (have)
(4) I -
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a letter to my brother yesterday. (write)

(5) Shh ! Be quiet ! The Baby ltl*pl
(6) Hare - fasl,but-tobecomethewinner-(nrn,fail)
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You are supposed to write -.your notes now. '
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(6) FiU in the blanks using the passive form of the verbs in brackets : 4x1=4
Charles just (send) to prison. Yesterday he
(gve) a six month sentence for stealing a car. The conditions in the prison are
terrible. Charles ... Ghock) by them.

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(7) Fill in the blanks with negatives of verbs : 2xl=2

(2) It is dark outside. I anything.
2xl=2

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(8) Fill in the blanks with suitable interrogatives :
(1) are you doing here ?
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(2) Show me your identity card. _ is it ?

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(e) Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions : 4x L=4
(1) Ramu is the bus stand. He finds a snake there. He is afraid
snakes.

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(2) When you are going a tunnel, your eyes become blank for a
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moment. This a problem, if you go night.
(10) Supply suitable question tags :

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2x I =2
(1) You aren't a hero ?
(2)
I can win the race
(11) Fill in the blanks with very/too
(l) The mangoes are
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yellow to be good.
-? much for your help.
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(2) Thank you
(12) Use the following Idioms and phrases in sentences of your own : 4x I =4
(1) Inspite of
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(2) To look after
(3) To make up ones mind
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(4) To get used to

5. (1) Construct a readable story from the following outlines :
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Mongoose was the pet animal in the house loved by everyone - guarded
' the baby in the cradle, whenever the mother had gone out - Mother went to
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bring water baby was left in the cradle and looked after by Mongoose -
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Mongoose finds a snake near the cradle - fights with it and finally kills it -
Mother finds bloodstains mongoose - blood oozing from the mouth - mother
was shocked and without thinking she kills it in anger.
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(2) Write a paragraph of not more than 100 words using the following points : 5
Physical finress is a critical part of education.
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* "A sound mind in a sound body"

* Students need an occasional break ftom lectures, text book and exams.
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A few hours ofPE courses never huns anybody

* What good is improving your mind if your body is going to pieces
* PE courses teach some valuable social skills
* Most students enjoy taking PE courses
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(3) Read the following passage and write a summary in not more than l/3 of its
length: s
What is it that determines an artist's success in his career ? That is a
question to which it is almost impossible to give a satisfactory answer off-hand.
Many people would be ready to contend that the merit of his work is the
deciding factor, that he succeeds simply because the evidence he affords to his

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ability is too convincing to be disputed; and to support their arguments they are
undeniably able to quote as exarnples a number of universally acknowledged
masters who throughout their lives were honoured and held in high regard. Yet

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against this contention it is possible to find in art history even more numerous
instances of men not less great, who struggled year after year for a recognition
which did not comg till long after they had died, neglected and disappointed.
Again, if it is by merit alone that success is won, how does it happen that the

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chosen favourite of the public is not frequently someone. whose obviously
indifferent capacity does not entitle him to position assigned by his

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, contemporaries.
(4) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :

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One day, when Newton was fifty years old and had been hard at work for
more than twenty years studying the theory of light, he went out of his chamber,
leaving his little dog asleep before the fire. On the table lay a heap of
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manuscript papers containing all the discoveries which Newton had made
during those twenty years. When his master went out, uprose little dog, jumped
upon the table and overthrew the candle. The papers immediately caught fire
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and the labour of twenty years were reduced to a heap of ashes. Newton came
in and saw what had happened. He simply patted the dog on the head with his
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usual kindness, although the grief in his heart was $eat. "Oh, Diamond !
Diamond !" He exclaimed, "You littte know the mischief you have done !"
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Questlons:
(1) HowlongdidNewtonworkorrthetheoryoflight? 1
(2) Where was the dog lying asleep ?
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(3) What was lying on the table ? I
(4) How were the labours of Newton reduced to a heap of ashes ?
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(5) Pick out the word from the passage which means "handwritten copy". I
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