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B.
Tech/ B.Com/ B. Arch (Sem.-1st/ 2nd)
COMMUNICATIVE
ENGLISH
Subject
Code: BTHU-101
Paper
ID: [A1103]
Time:
3 Hrs.
Max. Marks: 60
INSTRUCTION
TO CANDIDATES:
1)
All questions are compulsory.
Q. 1. Read the
passage and answer the questions that follow:
Targets
set by policy makers to slow global warming are too soft to prevent more heat
waves
and extreme temperatures in the US within a few years, with grim consequences for
human
health and farming. A study warned this week.
Although
the US and more than 100 countries agreed in Copenhagen last year to take action
to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions
so as to
hold the increase
in global temperature below
two degrees
celcius, a study conducted
by Stanford University
scientists showed
that mightnot be enough.
Stanford earth
sciences professor Noel
Deffenbaugh wrote in
the study published in
Geophysical Research
Letters. That ‘Constraining global warming
to two degrees celsius
above
pre-industrial conditions may not be sufficient to avoid dangerous climate change.
“In the
next 30 years,
we could see
an increase in
heat waves like the
one now occurring
in
the eastern
US or the
kind that swept
across Europe in
2003 that caused thousands
of
fatalities,”
said Deffenbaugh, lead author of the study. ‘Those kinds of severe heat events put
enormous stress
on major crops
like corn, soyabean,
cotton, and wine grapes,
causing a
significant
reduction in yield’ he said.
Deffenbaugh
used two dozen climate models to project what could happen in the US if
carbon
dioxide emissions cause temperatures to rise 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit between 2010 and
2039
a likely scenario, according
to the UN’s
International panel on climate change. If
that
occurs,
the mean global temperature in 30 years would be about 2 degrees celsius hotter than
in
the pre-industrial era of the 1850s.
(i)
Which of the following can be inferred from the first paragraph of the passage? (a) In the coming years, global
warming is likely to become more intense
as the changes seen
on
the sun are getting virulent by the day.
(b)
The measures promised by the US and the other 100 countries at the Copenhagen are not
being
followed.
c) In
the next couple of years, the global warming is going to go soft on earth.
(d)
The measures agreed to be adopted by the US and other 100 countries at the Copenhagen
are
too soft to check global warming.
(ii)
With which of the following possibilities of global warming is the author of the passage most
likely
to disagree? (a) Heat waves are likely to cause a large number of fatalities in the US in the years to come.
(b)
The temperature rise on the earth’s surface is likely to harm farming in a crucial way.
(c)
The steps proposed at Copenhagen are likely to reverse the pattern of global warming in
the
next 30 years.
(d)
In the next 30 years the earth’s surface is likely to get warmer by two degree celcius than
what
it was in the pre-industrial era of 1850s.
(iii)
What has been suggested in the study published in Geophysics Research Letters as cited in
the
passage? (iv) What action did the US and 100 countries agreed to take at Copenhagen?
(v)
What has been predicted for the next 30 years in the research reported in the passage.
Q. 2. (a) Use the following words in meaningful
sentences of your own
Sustainable,
rollout, exceedingly, crucial, rupture.
(b)
Do as Directed
(i)
Over thirty years ______ encroachments had turned their 1000 years old, 27 acre water tank____ a ruin and choked
water supply.
(fill in appropriate preposition) (ii) The
committee ______ divided on minor issue.
(supply a verb in agreement with the subject)
(iii)
Canvass, Canvas (Use these words in sentences of your own to bring out their meaning clearly)
(iv)
Oxygen and water sustain life on earth.
(Rewrite
the sentence as complex sentence
(v)
If all people had food to eat ______
(Complete
the sentence with suitable clause)
Q. 3. Do
you think government
should spend large
amount of money to buy
or develop modern
technology, or should that money be spent
for the upliftment of masses. Which one of these
options
do you support? Use specific examples and reasons to explain your answer
Q. 4. Now a days Indian Market is flooded
with wide variety of mobiles However the
land phones
have their
own advantages. Keeping
in mind the
competition with the mobiles, BSNL
has
launched
land phones with extra facilities so as to cater to the requirements of the potential
customers. Now
as a sales
manager of BSNL,
write a letter
to the manager of
a company
promoting
the sale of land phones. Invent necessary details.
Q. 5. The
centre for Social
Research Chennai, is
conducting an independent research in “Reasons
of
increasing use of violent means among Youths as part of this research, views of people of
different
age-groups from 10 metropolitan cities have been ascertained. The tabulated data are
presented
below:
|
Age-group
|
10-20
|
20-30
|
30-40
|
40-50
|
50-60
|
|
Corruption
|
20%
|
21%
|
18%
|
27%
|
20%
|
|
Unemployment
|
05%
|
35%
|
35%
|
11%
|
07%
|
|
Faculty
legal System
|
10%
|
20%
|
16%
|
24%
|
33%
|
|
Easy
Access of Arms
|
10%
|
10%
|
11%
|
09%
|
08%
|
|
Cinema
|
22%
|
04%
|
17%
|
12%
|
10%
|
|
Unitary
Famity
|
33%
|
10%
|
18%
|
17%
|
22%
|
Assuming yourself t o be the chief investigator,
prepare an analytical report to be submitted to
the director of the centre, using the data your
report should contain Introduction, Discussion,
conclusion and Recommendations.
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