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Reg. No.
Question Paper Code: 64013
B.E./B.Tech.Degree Examinations, November/December 2010
Regulations 2008
Second Semester
Common to all branches
HS2161 Technical English II
Time: Three Hours Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL Questions
Part A - (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
1. Match the words i n Column A with their meanings i n Column B.
(4
1
2
= 2)
A B
(a) alternative (i) praise
(b) constructive (ii) intensify
(c) glorify (iii) substitute
(d) aggravate (iv) expect
(v) useful
2. Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition. (4
1
2
= 2)
One of the important benets machine civilization i s that our standard
of life has improved. There i s much more variety our lives. We have a
wide choice of everything wrist watches to ash lights. Food from any
part of the world can be obtained any season of the year.
3. Write purpose statements for any TWO of the following : (2 1 = 2)
(a) Aerial
(b) Robots
(c) A litmus paper.
4. Use any TWO of the following words in sentences of your own using the same word
as a noun and as a verb. (2 1 = 2)
(a) Contact
(b) Project
(c) Progress.
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5. Fill i n the blanks with suitable forms of words given : (8
1
4
= 2)
Noun Adjective Person concerned
(a) Environment
(b) ecological
(c) conservationist
(d) nature
6. Give the numerical expressions for the following : (4
1
2
= 2)
e.g. : a bottle with a capacity of 10 litres - a ten-litre capacity bottle.
(a) a tank with a capacity of 1000 gallons
(b) a pipe with a length of 10 metres
(c) a walk of ve miles
(d) a conference lasting for three days.
7. Rewrite the following in reported speech :
The teacher said to the students, You have to write the test on Monday.
8. Give extended denitions of the following terms.
(a) Computer printer.
(b) Traditional Technology.
9. Add the appropriate prex to the following words to match their meanings.
(4
1
2
= 2)
(a) national : having to do with many countries
(b) bearable : that cannot be tolerated
(c) care : not taking care
(d) simple : make something simple.
10. Insert the articles a, an and the in the appropriate blanks :
(4
1
2
= 2)
Forests also pay vital role i n regulating ow of water through
ecosystem, which i n turn helps determine local and regional
climate.
Part B - (5 x 16 = 80 Marks)
11. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end :
When the rst white men arrived i n Samoa, they found blind men, who could
see well enough to describe things in detail just by holding their hands over objects.
In France, just after the First World War, Jules Roman tested hundreds of blind
people, and found a few who could tell the dierence between light and dark. He
narrowed their photosensitivity down to areas on the nose or in the ngertips. In
Italy, the neurologist Cesare Lombroso discovered a blind girl who could see with
the tip of her nose and the lobe of her left ear. When a bright light was shown
unexpectedly on her, she winced. In 1956, a blind school boy i n Scotland was taught
to dierentiate between colored lights and learned to pick out bright objects several
feet away. In 1960 a medical board examined a girl from Virginia and found that,
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even with thick bandage over her eyes, she was able to distinguish dierent colors
and read short sections of large print. The phenomenon is obviously not new, but
it has reached peaks of sensitivity i n a young woman from a mountain village i n
the rurals.
Rose Kuleshova can see with her ngers. She i s not blind, but because she grew up
in a family of blind people, she learned to read Braille to help them and then went on
to teach herself to do other things with her hands. In 1962 her Physician took her to
Moscow, where she was examined by the Soviet Academy of Sciences and emerged
acelebrity, certied as genuine. The neurologist, Shafer made an intensive study
with her and found that, securely blindfolded with only her arms stuck through a
screen, she could dierentiate among three primary colors. To test the possibility
that the cards reected heat dierently, he heated some and cooled others without
aecting her response to them. He also found that she could read news prints
and sheet music under glass, so texture was giving her no clues. Tested by the
psychologist Novomeisky, she was able to identify the color and shape of patches
of light projected on to her palm or on a screen. She underwent rigidly controlled
tests with a blindfold and a screen and a piece of card around her neck so wide
that she could not see around it. Rosa read the small print in a newspaper with her
elbow. And i n the most convincing demonstration of all, she repeated these things
with someone standing behind her pressing hard on her eyeballs. Nobody can cheat
under this pressure; it i s even dicult to see clearly for minutes after it is released.
(a) Choose the response which best reects the meaning of the text. (5 1 = 5)
(i) The rst Whiteman to visit Somoa found men who
(1) were not entirely blind
(2) described things by touching them
(3) could see with their hands
(4) could see when they held hands
(ii) What is the main idea of the rst paragraph?
(1) very few people have sensitivity of the blind
(2) blind people can manage to see things but only vaguely
(3) the eyes are not the only way of seeing
(4) it i s possible to localize the photosensitive areas of the body
(iii) Why did Shaefer put the paper under glass?
(1) to make things as dicult as possible
(2) to stop the reection of heat
(3) to prevent Rosa from feeling the print
(4) to stop her from cheating
(iv) What was the most dicult test of Rosas ability?
(1) To read through glass blindfolded.
(2) To identify the color and shape of light on a screen while securely blind-
folded.
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(3) To carry out tasks with someone pressing n her eyeballs.
(4) To work from behind a screen, blindfolded and with a card round her neck.
(v) A blind school boy was taught to
(1) distinguish dierent colors and read short sections of large print
(2) dierence between light and dark
(3) dierentiate between colored lights and to pick out bright objects
(4) dierentiate among three primary colors.
(b) Decide whether the following statements are True or False : (6 1 = 6)
(1) Rosa Kuleshova lives on a mountain peak.
(2) Her family taught her everything about seeing with her ngers.
(3) Shaefer found that temperature did not aect her ability to dierentiate colors.
(4) Her ability to read with her ngers did not depend on the feel of print.
(5) As Rose grew up i n a family of deaf and dumb people, she learned to read
Braille i n order to help them.
(6) Psychologist Novomeisky found that she was able to identify the color and
shape of patches of light projected on the screen.
(c) (5 1 = 5)
(1) The word patches refers to
(a) rays (b) waves (c) spots (d) lines
(2) Find a single word in paragraph 2 which means the same as thick bandages
over her eyes.
(3) Find a synonym for pick out in the rst paragraph.
(4) The texture of silk is smooth. The texture of granite is .
(5) What is Braille?
12. (a) Write two paragraphs of 100 words each on the topic : (16)
Why should India go for renewable energy sources?
OR
12. (b) Write two coherent paragraphs of 100 words each on :
The best ways of protecting the environment (16)
13. (a) Write a letter of job application to the Manging Director of Computex Ltd applying
for the Post of General Manager. Add a suitable resume to your letter. (16)
OR
13. (b) Write a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, complaining about the noise
problems caused by the constant use of loud speakers in your residential area. In
your letter, oer four suggestions as well, to solve the problems you have described.
(16)
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14. (a) Write a set of eight instructions to be followed by pedestrians when they walk on
busy roads. (16)
OR
14. (b) Write a set of eight instructions to be observed to avoid accidents while driving.
(16)
15. (a) Rearrange the following jumbled sentences into a coherent paragraph : (16)
(i) When there is a language barrier, communication is accomplished through sign
language.
(ii) Body language transmits ideas and thoughts by certain actions.
(iii) Many of these symbols of whole words are very picturesque and exact and can
be used internationally.
(iv) Ever since humans inhabited the earth, they have made use of various forms
of communication.
(v) Other forms of nonlinguistic language can be found i n Braille, signal ags,
Morse code and smoke signals
(vi) A nod signies approval while shaking the head indicates a negative reaction.
(vii) Generally their expression of thoughts and feelings has been in the form of oral
speech.
(viii) Nonetheless verbalization i s the most common form of communication.
OR
15. (b) Rearrange the following jumbled sentences into a coherent paragraph : (16)
(i) In the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angles in U.S.A. many women athletes took
part.
(ii) The festival of Olympic games was held i n 1896.
(iii) It was a great disappointment both to her parents and to the country as a
whole.
(iv) In 1984, Olympic games, our Indian heroine P.T. Usha, in 100 & 200 meters
races narrowly missed the bronze medal.
(v) The rst time, the woman athletes took part i n the Olympics was in 1922 and
their number has steadily increased over the years.
(vi) In that 1984 Olympic games, Indian team of men and women participated i n
several events such as long jump, shot put, weight lifting, 100, 200, 400 and
600 mts. dashes.
(vii) Since then Olympic games are held, once in four years in dierent parts of the
World.
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