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St.Joseph’s College of commerce (AUTONOMOUS)

END SEMESTER EXAMINATION – MARCH /APRIL 2016

B.B.a . – II SEMESTER

M1 12 2GE: GENERAL ENGLISH

Duration: 3Hrs                                                                                                   Max. Marks: 100

 

SECTION-A

1. Answer any five of the following questions in a word phrase or a sentence. (5X2=10)

                                                                                                                          

1. Name the poet who wrote the poem ‘On buying and selling’.
2. Why was the author upset with Mrs. Henessy’s bird?
3. Name any two animals mentioned in the lesson ‘The end of living and the beginning of survival’.
4. In Arundhati Roy’s essay what does the word ‘deterrence’ mean.
5. Who was a hypochondriac in Chekhov’s ‘The proposal’?
6. Why the fir was tree discontented and unsatisfied at the beginning of the story?

 

1. Write short notes on any four of the following:                              (4×5=20) 
2. The prophet’s advice to the merchants.
3. The conversation between parents in the story ‘War’.
4. Biblical allusions in ‘ My Wood’.
5. ‘Arguing’ as courtship in Chekhov’s ‘The proposal’.
6. The fat man in the story, “War”.

 

 

• Answer any three of the following in about two pages.  (3×10=30)

 

12. Bring out the ethical perspectives on the acts of buying and selling as expressed in the poem of Khalil Gibran .
13. Write a review of the story ‘Fir Tree’ with special focus on the lessons that can be learnt from it.
14. Summarize Arundathi Roy’s arguments against nuclear weapons. how are her views relevant or irrelavant in the context of today’s world.
15. Examine Chief Seattle’s speech as a testimony of environmental and ecological wisdom. What appeals to you most in this essay? Why?  Use specific details in your answer.

SECTION-B

1. Read the following passage carefully and then answer questions set on it.

 

Earthquakes and tsunamis remind us of something we are quick to forget when the news switches to other subjects: that the earth is a theatre of immensely powerful forces always at work around us. Some of those forces are the opposite of catastrophic. For example, as spring approaches in our tranquil islands, millions of birds are building nests, billions of buds are opening on twigs, tons of sap are rising in trees, together constituting a vast wave of change over the country. This is benign, and welcome; far different are the forces of nature which are just as normal and commonplace, but inimical to mankind.

From the devastating tsunami-prompting earthquake that happened off Japan’s coast, thousands of times more powerful than the one that not long before caused so many tragic deaths in New Zealand, have come many video images of what an earthquake and tsunami are actually like as they happen. The images are horrendous: the irresistible power of the tsunami sweeping everything before it, the violence of the quake beforehand , the reactions of the people as they realised that this was not just another medium-sized event of the kind that Japan is used to, all brought the horror home.

From the planet’s point of view, however, the events were just part of the natural round. Consider: the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountains are getting higher all the time at above the rate of our fingernails grow. This is because of our surface of our planet is mosaic of gigantic geological plates always in motion. Look at a map of the Atlantic Ocean with Africa to the east and South America to the west, and you see how two continents once fitted together. The Himalayas are formed by the Indian plate pushing underneath the Asian plate, lifting up the great mountains with it.

The same is true is of the Andes in South America; here likewise the movement of the plates is lifting the mountains. And incidentally, as this happens so more islands form in the Galapagos archipelago, as volcanic activity released by plate movement boils up through the sea and solidifies into new island.

The Pacific rim is the most active of the earth’s earthquake regions. From New Zealand to Japan and round to California earthquake are frequent and sometimes huge. And yet millions of people choose to live along these fault lines, demonstrating that great and fatal human ability to know but at the same ignore the fact that they live in mortal danger of nature’s stupendous power.

 

16. Answer the following in a sentence or two.                (5×2=10)  

 

1. Point out to any two non catastrophic forces of nature.
2. The word tsunami is derived from which language?
3. At what rate are the Himalayan mountains growing?
4.   Which word in the passage refers to a cluster of islands?
5. What would be a suitable title for the passage?

 

17. Think of a man made tragedy such as terrorism and a natural calamity such as a massive earthquake. What do you think is the difference between the nature of suffering involved in the two events? Express your own perspective on this issue.                  (1×10=10)

 

SECTION – C

18. Re-write as directed.                                                                                          (5×2=10)

 

1. Public opinion hardly ________ him. (affects, effects) choose the right word.
2. This cloth is very ________ as it is made out of Khadhi. (course, coarse) Choose the right word to fill in the blank.
3. Give any one example of an interrogative sentence.
4. This building was constructed by them two years ago. (Change into active voice)
5. It has been raining intermittently for the last three days. (Identify the specific tense of the verb in this sentence)

 

19. Correct the errors if any, in the following sentences.                                   (3×2=6)

 

1. I came from Delhi in Rajadhani express.
2. The entire family died in that terrific accident.
3. He is very fond of his cousin sister.

 

20. Use  any two of the following idioms correctly in sentences of your own.                                                                                                                                                          (2×2=4)
21. To put in black and white.
22. To call a spade a spade .
23. To hit a purple patch.

 

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