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FIRST ROUND INTERNAL TEST MARCH 2018 BCA II SEMESTER

GENERAL ENGLISH
TIME: I HOUR MAX MARKS:30

SECTION A
(LITERATY COMPONENT)
I Answer any two of the following in 1 or 2 sentences. 2x2=4
1. How has the terrorist ensured safety for himself in the poem ‘The Terrorist, He Watches’?
2. Who are ‘Partition’s people in the poem ‘Sea Breeze, Bombay’?
3. Narrate Pakkiri’s pranks on his way home.
4. What according to Gandhiji are positive form of ahimsa?
II Answer any one of the following in about a page. 1x5=5
1. Describe the people going inside or coming out of the building where the bomb has been
planted in the poem ‘The Terrorist, He Watches’.
2. What does ‘gentlemen scissored Sind’ suggest? Discuss with reference to the poem ‘Sea Breeze,
Bombay’.
3. How did Pakkiri enjoy nature as he went to Kaveripattinam?
4. Why does Gandhiji say that it is not possible for a man to be a coward and practice ahimsa at
the same time?
III Answer any one of the following in about 2 pages. 1x10=10
1. It is sheer chance which moves the people towards their death or away from it in the poem ‘The
Terrorist, He Watches’. Do you agree? Give reasons.
2. How does the poem ‘Sea Breeze, Bombay’ project a unique picture of Bombay?
3. In any traumatic situation women and children bear the rudest shocks. Explain this with
reference to the story ‘Our Town’.
4. The practice of ahimsa calls forth the greatest courage. How does Gandhiji illustrate this?
Discuss.
SECTION B
(COMMUNICATION SKILLS COMPONENT)
IV Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
TORNADOES
Tornadoes happen in the tropics over land, especially over the southern states of the U.S.A., and also
over south-eastern Australia and north-west India. A tornado is a very violent windstorm, in which the
air whirls rapidly upwards in a grayish funnel-shaped colour, with its tip near the ground. It twists and
sways in the sky like a diving thing and moves in a straight line over the countryside at about 6 to 30
m.p.h. No one knows exactly what starts a tornado, but it certainly happens when extremely hot, moist
air meets cold, dry air. When two kinds of air try to pass each other they get locked together, and the
hot air spirals upwards more and more quickly until it may be whirling round at between 400 and 500
m.p.h.
Tornadoes do a vast amount of damage, even though they seldom last for more than an hour or two.
The speed of the whirling air makes quite small things such as grains of sand into dangerous weapons.
Once in America a corn cob picked up by a tornado was shot through a horse’s skull and killed the horse.
The hot air spiraling upwards sucks up everything in its path, rather as a vacuum cleaner does.
Tornadoes have been known to tear steel bridges from their foundations, to uproot large trees, and to
lift trains off their lines. People and animals have been lifted and carried some distance; a horse for
example, was picked up, carried 2 miles, and put down again unhurt. Queer things happen, such as
corks flying out of bottles and closed boxes and houses exploding as the air within them rushed out with
great violence.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each.
1. In which areas do tornadoes occur? 1
2. What is a tornado? 1
3. What causes a tornado? 1
4. What damages can a tornado cause? 2

V Put the following into reported speech. 3

A The tourist said, “Can you tell me the way to the nearest hotel?”
“Yes, certainly,” said the passer by.
“Are you looking for a place where you can have a decent meal?”
“No”, replied the tourist. “I want a place where I can stay for a few days in reasonable comfort and at
an affordable price”.
“Go straight and turn left at the next intersection you will see on your right Hotel Annapoorna. That’s
just the place for you”.

B Change the following sentences into passive voice. 1x2=2


1. Be quite! You will be heard by the enemy.
2. The window had been broken (somebody).
C Complete the following paragraph using the appropriate linkers form the list given below. 1/2x2=1
1. All of us should read good books, browse the internet ______ be up to date in our knowledge of
the world. This is important ________ general knowledge gives you advantage over others in this
competitive world.
(further, and, hence, because, moreover, but)

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