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Code : 9CP-01E
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Number

I/II

Semester Diploma Examination, Nov./Dec. 20ls

ENGLISH COMMUNICATION
Time:3 Hours
Note

l.

(i)
(ii)

IMax. Marks : 100

Answer all questions as directed.

Spelling and grammaticar errors shall be pe,arized.

Fill in the blanks :

(i)

(iil

(iii)

I::l
(v)

One dollar and eighty seven cents. That was all.

And sixty cents of it was in

Try to give rny son the strength not to follow the

The divine .amrita' was thought to confer
.
pillars.on *t
treatthy
se-ir-esteem depends.
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Any
document, manuscript or file is callei

Answer any twelve of the following questions

in two or three sentences each

12x2=24

(i)
(ii)

How does Lincoln suggest the teacher treat the

boy ?
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 ?
damage had rnore caused to oneif his
classmates.l
l"iil what
-Yl" are
(viii)
the author's apprehensions or worries auout
(ix) List out the various *"ur. by which the narrato; i;;; the return of money ?
to remind Todd about the
dollar.
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.

(x)

3.

Write short notes on any two of the following

Conservation of water
Right to infonnation
Six pillars of self-esteem

(a)
(b)
(c)

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4,. Grammar:
(l) ldentifytheparts
(2)
(3)

has

'

Fill,in

swim faster than him.

see the doctor tomorrow.
the blanks with suitable form of the verbs given at the end

(9)

xI

:6

:3

of

each

you

(v) He

(S)

8x1=8

We
a party next Saturday. (have)
on my foot. (stand)
Excuse me !
They
their house in 1980. (build)
this cup. (break)
very tired in the afternoon because he
two hours in the morning. (feel, play)

(iii)
_
(iv) Someone
(vii)

l:2

very

wants

sentence

(7)

2xl =2

(ii) I _
(iii) She
(i)
(ii)

(6)

Pick out the countable nouns in the tbllowing

Bottles can break"
I eat an apple everyday.
Fill in the blank with
some, a little, few, many, little, any
milk.
I don't want
time for the movie to start.
There was
good books with him.
(iii) He
men reach the age of hundred.
water in the tank.
There is
(vi) She
money.
Fill in the blanks using suitable auxiliaries

(i)
(ii)

(iv)
(v)

(5)

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of speech of the underlined words

The beautifrrl rainbow soon faded away.

(i)
(ii)

(4)

_
man

football for

Last Sunday, I
dinner with Sita and Ram. (have)
4X1 4
Fill in the blanks with the passive forms of the verbs in brackets
(anest) by the police for stealing car. He
Yesterday, a
(make) to appear before the court
(grve) a six-months sentence

and

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

book.
Fill in the blanks with suitable interrogatives
girl won the trekking competition ?
long is the program ?
Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions
Raju
a small village.
I will
the station.
(iii) He gave us a
Wednesday
(iv) He goes to school
bos.
Supply suitable question tags
?
He has gone to
?
They swim everyday,

(i)
(ii)

(i)
(ii)

xI

4x

:2
:

lives
drive
test
_
2 x I :2
(10)
:
(i)
Kolkata,
(ii)
_
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2xl:2

(l t) Fill in the blanks with very/too

(i)
(ii)

yellow to be good.
_
Thank you _
much for your help.
(12) 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
5.

These mangoes are

4xl:

Composition:

(l)

Construct a readable story from the outlines given

o
.
o
.
o
.
o
(2)

lx5:5

A hungry fox wandering for food

saw a crow with piece of meat
flattered the crow
crow pleased
fox invited crow to sing
crow opened mouth
fox got meat
Write a paragraph of not more than 100 words using the following points : I x

5:5

Solar Energy

.
o
.
.

(3)

freely available source

limitless supply
economical
non-polluting
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
and the others are not so good as they are. The Englishman thinks that he and
his country are the best; the Frenchman is very proud of France and everything
French. The Germans and ltalians think no less of their countries and many
Indians 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. Bgt
really 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 partly
bad. We must take the good wherever we find it and try to remove the bad
wherever 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 and
unhappy. They have no joy in their lives. We have to find out how can make
them happier. We have to see what is good in our ways and customs and try to
keep it, and whatever is bad we have to throw away. If we tlnd anything good
in other countries, we should certainly take it.
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Read the fbllowing passage and answer questions that

follow :
on a high plane of thought. It is only
there they-.can breathe freely. It is only in contact with spirits life themselves
they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from
ideal
championship. The studies of all great thinkers must range along the
highest
altitudes of human thought. I can't remember the name of anliilluminitive
genius who did not drink his inspiration from fountains of ancient
Greek and
Hebrew writers; or such among the-modems as were pupils in ancient
thought,
-always
and in turn, became masters in their own. I have
thought that ?e
strongest argument in favour of the Baconian theory was. that,ro
*ir, however

All Great thinkers live and move

indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have
come
down to us under Shakespeare's name who iaO not the liberal education
of
Bacon. How this habit of intercourse with the gods makes one irnpatielt
of
mere men. The magnificient ideals that have ever haunted the human
inind, and
given ys our highest proofs of a future immortality by reason otj
the
impossibility of their fulfillment here, are splintered into atoms by contaci
with
life's realities. Hence comes our sublime discontent. You will notice that your
first sensaticln aftel- reading a great book is one of melancrlorv '*a
dissatisfaction. The ideas sentiments, expressions, are so far beyond
thtse of
ordinary working lifb that you cannot turn aside from one to
the other without
an acute sensation and consciousness of the contrast. And the principles
are so
lofty, so super-human that it is a positive pain, if once you become
imbued with
them. 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
of
intellectual life. But whatever it is, it becomes inevitable. A habitual
meditation
on the vast problems that underline human life and are k,it i"t;;;;,
destinies - thoughts of immortality, of the littleness of
mere man, or tne
greatness of man's soul, of the splendours of the
universe that are invisible to
the ordinary traffickers in the streLt, as the vastness of St. peter,s
is to the spider
that weaves her web in a corner of the dome-these things
do not fit men to
understand the average human being, or tolerate with patience
the sordid
wretchedness of the unregenerate maises. It is easy to
understand, therefore,
why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their oivn thoughts. or the
silent
companionship 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 ,"tting
from "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
Q- '--""-''
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