LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
U.G. DEGREE EXAMINATION – GENERAL ENGLISH
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FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009
EL 1064 / EL 1060 – ENGLISH FOR EMPOWERMENT
Date & Time: 29/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
- Read the following passage and give your answers in about 30 words each:(5 x 2 = 10)
Socialism aims, then, at substituting the motive of social service for the motive of private profit. It holds that men will do better work to make the good life, with the leisure and financial competence it requires, possible for a society. In fact in the long run it is better for themselves, then they will at present consent to do for a society which compels them to enrich the exploiters of their labour in order to avoid starvation for themselves. If socialism is wrong in making this assumption, if the psychology of human being is such that they will not work willingly and well for society but only for themselves, then the whole of the socialist edifice falls to the ground, for this doctrine is the foundation upon which it rests. Either men are socially minded in the sense described, or they are not, and cannot be made so
- What is the chief aim of socialism?
- Why are men expected to work better in a socialistic setup?
- How does the present work that we do for ourselves benefit the exploiters?
- What is the basic assumption of socialism that can make it work?
- How can socialistic attitude be developed in the citizens?
II. Read the following passage and give your answers in about 30 words each:-
The National council of educational research and training (NCERT) has done substantial work in the areas of primary school education and secondary education. They have also created awareness amongst the central and state Governments about the wrongs in the present day implementation of education services in the areas of child education. Even educationists and private school authorities have been informed and cautioned.NCERT has been repaired Minimum Levels of Learning (MLL) data for primary and post-primary levels of school education. And these have been or are being circulated to the authorities concerned. If these are adhered to, the children would be able to acquire required competence in various subjects of study besides improving educational standards.
But as NCERT is only an advisory body it cannot force schools and educationists to implement its fact based findings and so the state governments act upon only that portion of the guidance from NCERT which seems appropriate to them, as do the private schools. In certain areas they may also totally disregard the advice from NCERT.
It is, therefore, quite sensible that the NCERT should be empowered, through appropriate channels, to enforce their guidance. And this becomes more urgent in the area of primary school education where children attending classes I to III with school bags loaded with 10 to 12 books has become the order of the day.
- Why can NCERT not enforce its guidelines on schools and educationists? (2 marks)
- What is the nature of substantial work done by NCERT? (2 marks)
- What are the advantages of such guidelines? (2 marks)
- What is the remedy suggested by the author to bring out efficiency in educational standard of
children? (4 marks)
III. Read the following passage and give your answers in about 30 words each: (5 x2=10)
One day a father, mother, and their 18 year old son went boating. On the bank of the lake was a large notice: BEWARE OF CROCODILE. The family got in to the boat and another couple joined them. And of course there was the boatman himself. Now as the boat was moving, the son kept dipping his hands in the water. Suddenly the whole boat was rocked to-and –fro. Something had caught the boy’s hand, but no one knew what it was. The boat man realized that it was a crocodile and told everyone this. The tug-of-war went on but they could not free the boy’s hand .There were no weapons in the boat. The boat was in the middle of the lake. Even the oars were useless against the thick skin of the crocodile. The boat was almost turning over. Then the boatman told the father “Either you continue to save your son, in which case the boat will surely turn over or all of us will die. I know a crocodile will never let go its hold. Or you throw your son into the water and save us all.” After some painful moments of silence, the father suddenly threw his son into the lake.
- Who went boating?
- What was the message written on the notice?
- What happened to the boat when the boy kept his hand in water?
- Did the persons in the boat save the boy?
- What were the two suggestions given by the boatman?
- Write sentences of your own for the following words given below: (5 x 2 =10)
- Check
- Realize
- Create
- Succeed
- Remedy
- Answer the following questions in a paragraph in about 100 words each: (2 ´ 5 = 10)
- Narrate your feelings and emotions on reading the story, “Mysore Lake?”
- Describe the life of the boy after he is taken home by Kanniyammal in the lesson “Poverty
Auction”.
- Answer the following questions in about 200 words each: (2 x 10 = 20)
22.Which factors did help Yashodha to win her battle against the landlord?
23.Rewrite the story of Pudur’s problem from the point of view of Revathi.As an educated
youth what solution would you offer to this problem?
VII. Read the following passage and answer the following questions in about 30 words each:
(5 x 2 =10)
A woman came with her little boy to the wise Ali and said,”my son is suffering from a serious problem. He eats dates from morning till night. If I don’t give him any dates, he screams his head off. What shall I do? Please help me”. The wise Ali asked them to come to the same time on the next day. The next day, the women and her son again stood before the Ali.The great master sat the boy on his lap, spoke to him in a friendly way and finally took his dates out of his hand and said ,”My son, think always of moderation. There are other things that taste good.” With these words, he let them go. The women, who were somewhat puzzled, asked “Great master why didn’t you say this yesterday? Ali answered “My good lady, yesterday I couldn’t have convincingly told to your son what I have told him today, because yesterday I myself had savoured the sweetness of the dates.
- Why did the women go with her little son to meet the wise Ali?
- What did the wise Ali do when the women and her little son came to him for the first time?
- What did the wise Ali tell the boy when he came with his mother for the second time?
- Why did Ali ask the mother and her son to come on the next day?
- What is the moral of the story?
VIII. Write an essay / story on the following topics: (2 ´ 10 = 20 )
- The best day in your life
- Parliament election in Tamilnadu.
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