J 1616 B.EB/B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY/JUNE 2006. First Semester Civil Engineering HS 041 — ENGLISH —1 (Common to all branches) (Regulation 2001) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks Answer ALL questions. PART A — (10 x 2 = 20 marks) Match the following : (a) aggravate (Variety ; having differences (b) diversity Gir aim (©) objective (iii being out of date, no longer useful (d) obsolescence (iv) intensity. The expansion ‘a souree of power’ can be represented by a compound noun ‘power source’. Similarly supply the compound nouns for the following expansions (a) _ the speed with which calculations are done (b) the centre from where control is exerted (c) the cot made of steel (d) the engineer responsible for designs3. Fill in the blank spaces with appropriate forms of words Verb noun adjective ‘a1 ———— _ production _ productive by simplify ——— simple se! conserve conservation (d) develop ———— developed Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions At Hardy's invitation, Ramanujam arrived in England 1914. At ‘Trinity College he worked —__— ho! i mathematics often neglecting food and sleep. Unfortunately he India in 1919, He died a year later, = given in brackets Radhakrishnan —____ be) a teacher. He start his career in 1975 in Sri Lanka. He ————— (migrate to Ind:a in 1998, Presently, he ———— work. in Chennai, Rewrite the sentences as directed ; a) The authorities use the Conference Hal! oziy on special occasions. (into passive voice ib! The art of jewellery making was known to the Egyptians as early as 3000 B.C. \into active voice) Identify the word that does not belong to the group. Say why it is different from the rest of the words in the group. Use the following format for your answer (e.g.) gold, silver, iron mereury, copper Ans. All the words in the group are solid meta!s except Mercury. (a) incident, happening, event, experiment. occurrence (b) doctor, nurse, patient, hospital, militant (c) moon, stars. sun, satellite, mars (a) lime, juice. cement, sand, bricks. 2 J 161610, 11 Write a single sentence definition for each of the following terms (a) alaboratory (b) acalculator. Complete the following sentences (a) Ifyou study hard, (b) _If'so many people boarded the boat, Edit the following passage by correcting the mistakes in grammar and spelling In the coming dicades, road transport has face serius problems. The dencity of automobile trafic in the sities will being so high, that the roads will hardly be able to accommodated them. PART B — (3 = 16 = 80 marks) Read the following passage and answer the questions at the end of it : ‘The Hostelry A benevolent man wishing to do as much good as he could, be thought himself of establishing a hostelry for pilgrims and of providing it with all that could be of use or give pleasure to man. He arranged comfortable rooms, good stoves, lighting, storerooms full of every kind of provisions, vegetables and refreshments, also bedding and clothes of every kind in such quantities as to suffice for a great many people ‘The benefactor then drew up some instructions and nailed it to the front door. It was stated that everyone who entered the hostelry might remain so long as was good for him, might eat and drink to his heart’s content and make use of all that he found. Clothes, boots and provisions. The only reservations mentioned were that guests should not take more than what they need at a particular time, should not quarrel and should leave the inn as orderly as they have found it. 3 J 1616