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BHARATHIDASN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER

S.No. 14819 D

20PELAS1

(For candidates admitted from 2020-2021 onwards)

U.G. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2020.

Part III– Professional English

PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH FOR ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES - I

Time : Three hours

Maximum : 75 marks

SECTION A — (10 X 2 = 20)

Answer ALL questions.

1. Write question tags for the following sentences:

a) There are no students in the classroom, _____________?

b) You were in hospital, _____________?

c) She has a new car, _____________?

d) I am ill, _____________?

2. Write FOUR antonyms using the prefix „dis‟.

3. Choose the right word for the given meanings from the list of words given below:

(prestige, survive, inaccessible, nausea)

a) stay live

b) vomiting

c) reputation or stature

d) difficult to reach

4. Use proper connectives and linking words in the blanks to complete the following sentences:

a) ____________ he is poor, he is honest.

b) I would not do it _________ you paid me.

c) He wept _______ he had been a child.

d) Fools rush in _________ angels fear to tread.

5. What is a Mind Map?

6. Fill in the blanks with suitable phrasal verbs: (put off, speak out, make out, passed through)

a) The crew of the boat ________ terrible sufferings.

b) He _________ his departure for a week.

c) I was determined to _______

d) I cannot ___________ the meaning of this verse.

7. Fill in the blanks with suitable Modal auxiliaries:

a) You ______ get up early. (necessity)

b) I ___________ swim across the river. (ability)

c) Living in such crowded conditions __________ be difficult. (certainty)

d) Prices ___________ come down soon. (probability)

8. Write one-word substitution for the following:

a) one who predicts the heavenly bodies and the earth

b) a thing that is fit to be eaten

c) one who watches over students during examination

d) one who always looks at the bright side of things

9. Look at the bar chart below and write any four sentences that you can infer from the bar chart.

10. Explain the meaning for the following Idioms italicized in the sentences:

a) He turned a deaf ear to my advice.

b) The Sultan rules his subjects with a high hand.

c) As a social reformer, he set his face against nautch parties.

d) You have hit the nail on the head.

SECTION – B (5X5=25Marks)

Answer ALL questions, choosing either ‘a’ or ‘b’

11. a) Make imperative sentences for the following jumbled words:

(i) a/glass/fetch/water/of/me

(ii) not/my/car/let/do/him/use

(iii) mistake/us/not/make/let/a

(iv) an/you/umbrella/take/with

(v) me/homework/with/help/the

OR

b) Write an email to claim the refund for your returned product.

12. a) Write a dialogue between the Bank Accountant and the Customer who needs to open an SB account in the bank.

OR

b) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

Chess is called the game of kings. It has been around for a long time. People have been playing it for over 500 years. Chess is based on an even older game from India. The chess we play today is from Europe. Chess is a two-player game. One player uses the white pieces. The other uses the White Chess Pieces black pieces. Each piece moves in a special way. One piece is called the king. Each player has one. The players take turns moving their pieces. If a player lands on a piece, he or she takes it. The game ends when a player loses his or her king. There are a few more rules, but those are the basics stronger. Good chess players use their brains. They take their time. They think about what will happen next. These skills are useful in life and in chess. Chess is kind of like a work out for the mind. You don't always have lots of time to think when playing chess. There is a type of chess with short time limits. It's called blitz chess. In blitz chess, each player gets ten minutes to use for the whole game. Your clock runs during your turn. You hit the time clock after your move. This stops your clock. It also starts the other player's clock. If you run out of time, you lose. Games of blitz chess are fast-paced. Chess is not just for people. Computers have been playing chess since the 1970s. At first they did not play well. They made mistakes. As time went on they grew stronger. In 1997, a computer beat the best player in the world for the first time. It was a computer called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was big. It took up a whole room. By 2006 a cell phone could beat the best players in the world. Chess sure has come a long way. Don't you think so?

(i) What is the author's purpose in writing the second paragraph?

a) To explain the rules of chess

b) To compare different types of games

c) To talk about game pieces

d) To persuade people to play chess

(ii) Which is not a reason that chess is a good workout for the mind according to the text?

a) Good chess players think about what will happen next.

b) Good chess players take a lot of risks.

c) Good chess players take their time.

d) Good chess players use their brains.

(iii) How long have people been playing chess?

a) Over 100 years

b) Over 500 years

c) Over 1000 years

d) Over 5000 years

(iv) Where did the game that chess is based on come from?

a) Europe

b) America

c) India

d) All of these

(v) How is blitz chess different from regular class?

a) Each player has two kings

b) Players are blindfolded

c) Players only have ten minutes to play

d) Players start from a random position

13.a) Write an essay on the “Impact of COVID‟19 in our Economy”.

OR

b) Transform the following sentences:

(i) The umbrella is being repaired by Mahe. (into Active Voice)

(ii) The thief has stolen Mala‟s bag. (into Passive Voice)

(iii) This mistake will not be rectified by anyone. (into Active Voice)

(iv) By whom was this building constructed? (into Active Voice)

(v) Do not cross the road carelessly. (into Passive Voice)

14. a) Fill in the blanks with suitable phrasal verbs given below: (cut off, went over, turned out, cast off, pulled through, worked upon, gave off, set up, gave out, set upon)

(i) The robbers __________ the defenseless travellers.

(ii) He has __________ as a banker.

(iii) Aari__________ to be an honest man.

(iv) My cousin __________the examination.

(v) The fire __________ a dense smoke.

(vi) He was __________ in the prime of life.

(vii) The ship was __________on the coast of Africa.

(viii) He __________ the ignorant villagers.        

(ix) The horses __________at the next milestone.

(x) The auditor __________the balance sheet.

b) Write one-word substitution for the following:

(i) A person‟s own handwriting, especially his signature

(ii) A small fashionable specialty shop or business

(iii) People living in the same age

(iv) A disease peculiar to a country or a region

(v) a speech delivered without any preparation

(vi) Alleged perception of an object which is not actually there

(vii) A person who works for the welfare of all human beings

(viii) Interesting and memorable experiences of one”s life

(ix) Hater of women

(x) One who specializes in eyes and eye related diseases.

15.a) List the problems in the current education system and try to give creative solutions as students of the contemporary generation.

OR

b) Answer in one or two sentences the following terms:

(i) Education

(ii) Pandemic

(iii) Relationship

(iv) Corruption

(v) Culture

SECTION – C (3 X 10 = 30 Marks)

Answer any THREE questions

16. Write a formal letter to your Principal seeking bonafide certificate and permission to participate in the intercollegiate competition.

17. Write a letter of advice to a friend who complains that he/she does not know how to concentrate on attending the Online Classes.

18.Read the following extract from ‘Hard Times’ written by Charles Dickens and answer the questions that follow:

He was a rich man: banker, merchant, manufacturer, and what not. A big, loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility.

A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr Bounderby  looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.

In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the hearthrug, warming himself before the fi re, Mr Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday. He stood before the fire, partly because it was a cool spring afternoon, though the sun shone; partly because the shade of Stone Lodge was always haunted by the ghost of damp mortar; partly because he thus took up a commanding position, from which to subdue Mrs Gradgrind.

“I hadn‟t a shoe to my foot. As to a stocking, I didn‟t know such a thing by name. I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty. That‟s the way I spent my tenth birthday. Not that a ditch was new to me, for I was born in a ditch.”

(i) What is Mr. Bounderby age?

(ii) In the above passage, choose four words of phrases which suggest that Mr. Bounderby is a very unpleasant man. Explain how the expressions give that suggestion.

(iii) Which line shows that Mr. Bounderby as a bully?

(iv) What kind of childhood did Mr. Bounderby had?

(v) Choose two phrases or expressions from the passage that suggest that the author is making fun of Mr. Bounderby.

19. Global Warming is one of the biggest threats humans face in the 21st Century and sea levels are continuing to rise at alarming rates. What problems are associated with this and what are some possible solutions.

20.Narrate a story with the theme “Make hay while the sun shines”.