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I Semester Diploma Examination, May 2012

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(1) 'The Death of a Hero' is written by

and smiles.
Della's life was made up of sobs,
The divine 'amrita'was thought to confer
months.
Todd owed the author one dollar for
stunt the psychological growth.
Lack of positive

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(3)
(4)
(5)
III.

Answer all questions as directed.

Spelling and grammatical effors shall be penalized.
Answers to the Question Nos. I & II are to be based on the prescribed
text only.

Answer any twelve of the following questions in two or three sentences each : 12 x

(1)

What does Lincoln suggest his son be taught to sell to the highest bidder ? What
should he not sell ?'
What is the ultimate teaching the author (Lineoln) recommends and to what
result ?
How did Della save the money ?
Describe the two possessions of James and Della.
What are the causes of soil'drosion ?
What measures can be taken to check soil erosion ?
What damage had more caused to one of his classmates ?

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(4)
(5)
(6)
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(8)
(9)

Why did Mr. Thakor approach Mr. Tagde ?

Name the six pillars of self esteem.
(10) How does the author recall the incident of lending a dollar to Todd ?
(11) What is the outcome of allying thought with purpose ?
(12) . What are the means by which the weakest soul can grow divinely strong
(13) What does information mean ?
(14) Define 'public authority' according to the Right to Information Act.

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GRAMMAR:
underlined words
(1) Identify the parts of speech of the

a)Pickoutthecountablenounsonlyinthefollowingandnamethem.
milk and sugar for dinner'
bought apples' oranges'
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some' a little' few' many'
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see the doctor tomorrow'
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water in the tank'

sPice in his food'

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in your own words'
(1) Summary of 'Thought and Purpose'

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in brackets :
with suitable form of the verbs
(do)whentheaccidentoccurred?

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to travel.

(go) abroad

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almost every summer'

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want to go to beach'
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your studies and't'otind

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(6) Fill in the blanks using the passive form of the verbs,in brackets
I was 11 years old, I

(send) to a residential school. I

didn't like the place. We

(wake) up

(make) to run 2 kms. We

Fill in the blanks with appropriate negative verbs

Raj
lost the book.

(9)

know what to do; he

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girl won the trekking competition

(b)

long is the program

Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions

Newton was sitting
Ratna was speaking

(c)

She is diving

(d)

There is a calendar

You can swim,

me.

the pool.

the wall.

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young to decide things on her own.

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own
in respect of

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(b)
(c)
(d)

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an apple tree.

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(a) I like sweets

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(b)

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(1 1)

tell Kaushik that he had

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(a)
(b)

and

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by 6 o'clock

(not,.allow) to go out.

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on the other hand

COMPOSruION:

(1) construct a readable story from the outline given berow :

' An old lady becomes blind -

calls doctor - promises to pay heavy fees if cured

else
not
doctor
visits
daily - steals lady's furniture o". Uy one delays the
cure - finally cures her demands fees lady cleverly refuses
to pay - doctor
files a court case - judge asks lady why she did not pay she says
cure not
complete
sl;e can't see all her furniture judge understands what has
happened - gives verdict in her favour.

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(2) Write a paragraph of not rnore than 100 words using the following points :

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Music therapy' improves physical and emotional well being

- brings positive
changes in behaviour activities like singing, playing
instniments, moving to
music - listening - any kind of music develops skills
- overall development
like attention, self esteem and self expression.

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Speech and writing are the two skills of a language. The

sounds of speech arid
the letters of writing are in themselves meaningless, but they are
combined
according to the underlying system of language to convey
specific meaning and
perform specific functions' As skills speech and rvriting
are concrete, whereas
the underlying system of language is abstract. ln terms of physical
features,
speech consists of sounds that are perceived by the ear
and is therefore
ephemeral, whereas writing consists of marks on a surface
that are per.ceived by
the eye and is therefore permanent. Though speech and rvriting
function
independeltly as media of language, it is porribl. to transfer
speech into
writing and vice versa, because writing is a symbolic representation
of speech.
Read the following passage and answer the questions
rhat follow :
Here is an interesting story to show how follou'ing someone
blinclly can be a
foolish thing to do. Once Coolidge, the President of Urit"d
States of America
invited some diplomats to a dinner party atthe \\hite House.
Guests were new
to the country and were attending such a part1, tbr the first time.
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afraid that their table manners might displease the president.

So thel,decided to
follow what he said. The party went on smoothll'till the coffee .,'r-as
served. The
President poured a cup of coffee into the saucer. The guests
did the same. The
President added sugar and cream. So did the guests.
Then the president just
bent down and place the saucer on the floor for his
cat. All the guests were
taken aback.

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)

why did the guests follow president coolidge blindly

The diplomats were afraid that

'The guests were taken aback,. whv
The Presidentjust bent

Pick out antonyms of the following words from the passage

and write.
(i) Host x

(ii)

Clever x

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