SHREE DIGAMBER DEGREE COLLEGE OF NURSING 1ST INTERNAL POST BAISIC NURSING , 1 YEAR ENGLISH QUESTION PAPER MARKS = 25

1. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow : Fashion is a term commonly used to describe a style of clothing worn by a large number of people in a country. However, popular styles of furniture, homes and many other products are also fashions. The kinds of art, music, literature and sports that many people prefer can also be fashions. Thus a fashion is or reflects a form of behaviour, accepted by most people in a society. A fashion remains popular for a few months or years and then another fashion takes its place. A product or activity is in fashion or is fashionable during the period of time that many people in society accept it. After a time, however,the same product or activity becomes oldfashioned when the majority of people no longer accept it. Clothing style may start as a fashion, but its use becomes a custom if it is handed down from generation to generation. Today wearing long trousers is a custom for men in most countries. But changes in the colour and shape of trousers have taken place through the years. A fashion that quickly comes and goes is called a fad. The majority of people do not accept fads. Some people may become involved in faddish behavior because fads get a lot of publicity. Today people follow fashions for many reasons. They want others to think that they belong to a special class of society. New fashions may be adopted immediately by well-known people, including athletes, film stars and political figures. Then, other people follow these fashions so that they can also look important. Some people think that fashionable clothes and surroundings raise their status in life. Answer all the questions: (4x2=8) (a) How can one define fashion? How is fashion different from a custom? (b) What is the difference between fashion and a fad? (c) Why do people follow changed fashion? Give two reasons. (d) Which words mean similar to (i) important people in the field of politics; (ii) transferred from one to another (people who live after)? OR The voice had to be listened to not only on account of its form but for the matter which it delivered. It gave a message to the country that it needed greatly. It brought to the common people a realization of their duty to concern themselves with their affairs. The common people were made to take an interest in the manner in which they were governed, in the taxes they paid in the return they got from those taxes. The interest in public affairs politics as you may call it was to be the concern no longer of the highly educated few but of the many the poor, the property less, the working men in town and country. Politics was not to be the concern of a small aristocracy of intellect or property of the masses. And with the change in the subjects of politics that voice brought about also a change in the objects of politics. Till then politics had buried itself mainly with the machinery of government towards making its personnel more and more

native, with proposals for a better distribution of political power, with protests against the sins of omission and commission of the administration. This voice switched politics on to concern for the need of the common people. The improvement of the lot of the poor was to be the main concern of politics and politician. The improvement especially of the lives of the people of the neglected villages was to be placed before governments and political organizations as the goal of all political endeavour. The raising of the standard of living of the people of the villages, the finding of the subsidiary occupations which would give the agricultural poor work for their enforced leisure during the off season and an addition to their exiguous income, the improvement of the housing of the poor, the sanitation of the villages these were to be the objectives to be kept in view. In the towns, the slums and cherries were to receive special attention. There was especially a class of the poor for which that compassionate voice pleaded and protested. This was for the so called depressed class, the outcastes of Hindu society. The denial of elementary human rights to this class of people is considered the greatest blot on Hindu society and history. It raised itself in passionate protest against the age old wrongs of this class and forced those that listened to it to endeavour to remove the most outrangeous of them like untouchability. It caused a revolution of Hindu religions practice by having Hindu temples thrown open to these people. It made the care of them a religious duty of the Hindus by renaming them Harijans. Answer all the questions: (4x2=8) 1. Why had people to listen to The Voice of Mahatma Gandhi? 2. Why had people to take an interest in politics? 3. What was the change brought about in the objects of politics? 4. Explain: a) Sins of omission and commission of the administration. b) No longer the monopoly of the classes, but the property of the masses. 2. You are a staff nurse. A state level training programme is to be held on February 20th of this year in Chennai. You want to attend the programme, which is useful for your carrier. Write a letter as directed below: 5 Write a letter requesting the Nursing superintendent for three days leave. OR Your colony has bad roads. Write a letter to the Chief Engineer, City Corporation to draw his attention towards this situation with your suggestions to improve the condition. You are Ms. Veena/Mr. R. Seetha Raman, R/o Adarsh Society, Tilak Nagar.

3. Transform the following sentences as directed in the brackets : a) The pool is too deep to swim. ( Remove 'too' ) b) Man is mortal. ( Negative sentence ) c) He said, "Sugar is made from sugarcane." ( Indirect speech ) 4. Fill in the blanks with suitable modals given in brackets : ( could, may, must, can ) a) It ........................ rain today. b) The students ..................... obey their teachers. c) He said that he ........................ not do it.

d) ........................ you solve the problem ? 5. Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verbs given in brackets. 5 a) They ..................... ( live ) in Ranchi since three years. b) ........................ (foresee ) the danger they left the place. c) A .................. chair is of no use. ( break ) d) After ..................... he always sleeps. ( eat ) e) I ........................ the letters. (finish)