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FOUR YEAR B.TECH. DEGREE EXAMINATION

- JUNE 2A]5,

FIRST/SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION AND ENGLISH(PCE)

(scHEME

2013)

(Common to all Branches)

Time : 3 Hours

Max. Marks : 70

Note : Answer ALL questions.

All questions camy equal marks.

1.

(1 x 10 = 10)
Write an essay on any ONE of the foll<iwing :
(a) What is the plan of Kushwant Singh on the importance of English in

India?

(b)

Write an essay on the ideas of R.K. Narayan's examination system in

India.

2.

Answer any FIVE of the following questions

(a)

(5 x 2 = 10)

Why did Prem look at Indu in fascination as they were leaving for the
party?

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

How is the story Tea PartY ends?

Why do people think that Kushwanth Singh must be joking when he says
that his mother tongue is English?
what are the things that Nehru obsessed with in his childhood?

What according to Rachel Carson are the two central problems of the
world?
'What

(0
did Nehru do to understand the part of India?
(g) what did Indu d.o at the party that caused Prem worry

and

embarrassment?

(h)
3.

what would R.K. Narayan do if he became a vice-chancellor?

(trxi=10)

Vocabulary

(a)

Write synonyms of the following words

(r)
(ii)

fascinated
admiration

Turn Over

(b)

Write antonyms of the following words

(il PlentY
- (i0 accurate
(c) write oNE word substitutes to the following expressions
(, One who can do anYthing for moneY
(i0 To write under a different name.
(d) Use the following IdiomslPhrases in your sentences
(i) Hard and fast

(i1)

(e)

Change the following words as directed by using prefixes/sufExes

(0
(ir)
4.

Blood is thicker than water.

:

creative (into a noun)

symPathY (into an adjective)

Read the following passage and answer the questions

(10)

The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me, were : its complete
the
retirement, being about two miles ftd*]h" villages, half a mile from
its
nearest neighbour, and. seperated from the highway by a broad freld;
its fogs from frosts
bounding on th" river, which the owner said. protected it by

state
in the ,p-rirrg, though ih"t *r. nothing to me-; the gray colour and ruinom
interval
put such an
of the house and b"arn, and the dilapiiated fences, which
apple trees,
lichen-covered
and
ho}]o*
between me and the last occupant; th"
but above
have;
I
should
frr"*"a by rabbits, showing what kind of neighbours up the river, when the
all, the recollection I had of it fro* my earliest^voyages
which I
frorr*" *r. concealed behind d",tse grove of red maples' through
"
the proprietor
heard the house-dog bark. I was in haste to buy it, before
trees and
apple
hollow
finished getting orri .o*u rocks, cutting down the
or in
pasture,
grubbing ,p ,o*"-young briches which lad spring up in the
these advantages I
short, had. made any more of his improvements. To enjoy
my shoulders - I never
was ready to carry ii oU like Atlas, to take the world on
all those things whieh
heard what compensation he received for that - and do
and be unmolested in
;il;" ffi", *"ir* "i "*".rr" but that I might pay foritit would
yield the most
*V por*"rsion of il; for I knew all the while that
it alone' But it
let
to
afford
uU,rrriurt crop of the kind. I wanted, if I could only
turned out as I have said.
(a) The author of the passage valued the Hollowell farm mostly because of "'

(b) After buying the farm, the author intend'ed' to

(c) Write the meaning of the word 'Conceal' in the passage'
(d) vlhy did the author like the gray colour and ruinom state of the house
and barn, and dilaPidated fences?

(e)
5.

What is the antonYm of abundant?

write a report on the feasibility of establishing a stabilizer

outskirts of your town'

company

in the
(10)

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6.

Write a letter of application for the post of Site Engineer in L&T Construction
(10)
Ltd. Address it to lhe Sr. H.R. Manager.

7.

Correct the following sentences where ever necessary

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(1)
(,)

:-

(10 x 1 = 10)

He smokes dailY.
He is my cousin b.rother.

need your advise.

English as well as,French are taught here.

He is a greedY man for money.

Rajani is hating him like poison.

No boy is as bright as his son'

If you win you would receive name and fame'

It is incumbent with all the students to abide by college rules.
Please divide this among the two of you.

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