Model Question Paper:
Code: 15CP
01E
I /
II Semester Diploma Examination
COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGLISH
(Common
to all Diploma programmes)
Time: 3 Hours] [Max.
Marks: 100
Note:
(i)
Answer all the questions as directed.
(ii)
Spelling and grammatical errors shall be penalized.
(iii)
Answers to Question No. I and II are based on the prescribed text.
I.
Answer any TWELVE of the following in one or two sentences each: 2
x 12 = 24
1. What do you mean by career?
2. Define ‘Career Planning’?
3. What should be the major
focus of career planning?
4. What are the questions often
asked by the young?
5. What are the three traits as
identified by the author?
6. How have the content of our
films changed?
7. What is Global Warming?
8. How does
Global Warming occur?
9. What are the
major causes for Global Warming?
10. What was
the usual talk when the parents of the children met?
11. What
ambition did Nooyi’s mother have for her daughter?
12. Who is the sinner according
to the poem?
13. Why did the farmer commit suicide?
14. Explain in your own words
the reason for the farmer’s visit to the clinic.
15. Describe how the doctor
fixed the bull’s tooth.
II.
Write short notes on any THREE of the following: 5
x 3 = 15
1. How does career planning
play a major role in making career choices?
2. How does our environment
contribute to our numbness to injustice?
3.
Explain in your own words the
traditional and modern views of one or two facts
expressed in the interview?
4. Explain in your own words
the reason for the farmer’s visit to the clinic.
5. Why does the farmer’s wife
resolve to live?
III. GRAMMAR:
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1.
Identify the parts of
speech of the underlined words: a. All spoke in his favour. b. Let us even the ground. c. I can shift for myself. d.
She lives in luxury. |
4 x 1= 4 |
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2. Fill in the blanks with suitable auxiliaries: a. You not use calculators in the
exam hall. b. I come in sir? c. you lend me your scooter? |
3 x 1 =3 |
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3.
Fill in the blanks with
suitable articles: a. Charlie is European. b. She is untidy
girl. c. What is matter? |
3 x 1 = 3 |
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4. Identify the tense of the verbs in the following sentences: a. I am writing a letter. b. Sun rises in the east. c. I have done my homework. d. She has been learning
western music. |
4 x 1 = 4 |
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5. Change the voice of the verb in the following sentences: a. Who did this? b. The money was lost. c. The cat is chasing the mouse. d. He was made the king. |
4 x 1 = 4 |
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6.
Fill in the blanks with
appropriate prepositions: a. Caesar was killed
Brutus a
dagger. b. We arrived Belagavi
6 o’ clock. |
4 x 1= 4 |
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7. Add suitable question tag: a. You were late this
morning, ? b. I did not hurt you, ? c. Your father is a doctor,
? |
3 x 1=3 |
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8.
Give short form answers
for the following: a. Does your father smoke? (Negative) b. Have you read today’s
newspaper? (Affirmative) |
2 x 1=2 |
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9.
Add Suffix and Prefix to
the following: a. nation |
2 x 1= 2 |
10.
Frame sentences using each
word to bring out the difference in meaning clearly:
4 x 1 = 4
a. (i) Sight (ii)
Site
b. (i) Present (ii)
Present
11. Give
Synonyms to the following words: 2
x 1=2
a. Teach
b. Agree
12. Give
Antonyms to the following words: 2
x 1 = 2
a. War
b. Happy
13. Fill
in the blanks with verbs to agree with their subjects: 4
x 1 = 4
a. Twenty kilometers not a long distance.
b. Either you or I mistake.
c. Gold and Silver precious
metals
d. The captain with his team
arrived.
IV.
COMPOSITION: (Answer any two in 80 -100 words
each) 5 x 2 = 10
1. Describe your favorite
tourist place.
2. Describe the process of
preparing tea.
3. Expand – Work is worship.
V.
COMPREHENSION:
Read the
following passage and answer the questions that follow:
She was all of one-and-a-half years old. Two nurses
were holding her down while a third
was trying to insert a syringe into a vein to get a blood sample. She was crying loudly, but I was crying even louder. We had no option. It was the fifth
day and the fever had not broken; it was imperative that we run the test to
rule out typhoid. They finally asked me to leave the room, not just because
they were embarrassed at a grown-up
crying, but because they thought it would be easier and quicker for the child
if the mother was not in the room. They got her out within a few minutes. She
jumped into my arms and gave a few more loud wails. Fresh tears streamed down
my eyes as we made our way out of the wretched pathology lab. Her paediatrician
was getting into the building just then. Between sobs I told him how my daughter had flung the syringe and the
lab had to have three attendants on her to collect the sample. As I was
talking, my voice broke. To my surprise, Dr. Patel handed me his
briefcase and stethoscope, took my girl in his arms and went to the store just
a few paces away. He bought her a Cadbury bar and my daughter’s face lit up
like a million bucks. Gone were the tears, the memory of the syringe, smell of
antiseptic, cotton …everything receded to the background as she un wrapped the
big bar with her tiny fingers and
dug into it with all her heart. I smiled as the angelic doctor handed me my
princess.
Meanings of difficult words:
1. Imperative: absolutely essential
2. Wretched: miserable; unpleasant
3. Pathology lab: where the causes and effects of diseases are studied
4. Receded: moved back gradually
5. Paediatrician: children’s doctor
6. Flung:(past
tense of fling) an act of throwing violently
7. Attendants: one who attends
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Questions: |
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1. |
How old was the child? |
1 |
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2. |
What did the nurses have to do to get a blood
sample? |
2 |
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3. |
Why was the mother asked to leave the room? |
2 |
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4. |
Why does the mother called the pathology lab
‘wretched’? |
2 |
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5. |
How did Dr. Patel calm down the little girl? |
2 |
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6. |
Suggest a
suitable title for this passage. |
1 |
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