Past Paper ENG-211 (Communication Skills) 2017 | Semester Three BS English (PU) | Eureka Study Aids

Objective Type

1(a). Choose the word most similar in meaning to the capitalized ones. (05) 

(i) IMPARTIAL (biased, partisan, unbiased, detached) 

(ii) MAGNAIMOUS (generous, selfish, egocentric, self-centred)

(iii) INUNDATE (ease, overwhelm, calmness, stagnant) 

(iv) INGRATE (amenable, ungrateful, crushed, construct) 

(v) FALLIBLE (parsimonious, factual, faulty, inactive) 

(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions given at the end of every sentence. (05) 

(i) They are good __________ teamwork. (in, towards, at, through) 

(ii) I cannot make __________ what you want to say. (on, for, out, up) 

(iii) One who loves the rose must put ____________ with its thorns. (up, off, down, on) 

(iv) I don not care __________ her anger. (for, of, upon, about) 

(v) Large companies sometimes take ___________ smaller ones. (in, over, out, off) 

Subjective Type

2. Read the following passage carefully and asnwer the questions given at the end. (20) 

    Teaching, more than most other professions, has been transformed during the last hundred years from a small, highly skilled profession concerned with a minority of the population, to a large and important branch of the public service. The profession has a great and honourable tradition, extending from the dawn of history until recent times, but any teacher in the modern world who allows himself to be inspired by the ideals of his predecessors is likely to be made sharply aware that it is not his function to teach what he thinks, but to instil such beliefs and prejudices as are thought useful by his employers. In former days a teacher was expected to be a man of exceptional knowledge or wisdom, to whose words men would do well to attend. In antiquity, teachers were not an organized profession, and no control was exercised ovr what they taught. It is true that they were often punished afterwards for their subversive doctrines. Socrates was put to death and Plato is said to have been thrown into prison, but such incidents did not interfere with the spread of their doctrines. 

Questions: 

(i) Suggest a suitable title for the passage. (02) 

(ii) What were the teachers supposed to be in old day? (03) 

(iii) Why were Socrates and Plato punished? (04) 

(iv) What is the function of a teacher now-a-day? (03) 

(v) Give in your own words the definition of education. (03)

(vi) Make a precis of the above passage. (05) 

3. Write brief answers. (30) 

(i) Write three connected paragraphs on global warming. 

(ii) Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper about the acute traffic problems on city roads. 

(iii) Write a brief note on strategies of oral delivery.