POKHARA UNIVERSITY

Level: Bachelor Semester – Fall Year : 2009

Programme: BE Civil (Diploma Holders) Full Marks : 100
Course: Communication Technique I Time : 3hrs.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Attempt all the questions.

1. Read the following passage and answer questions given below it: 15
Of great importance is the need for an understanding of the results for
man's invasion of the oceans. Can this invasion affect the composition of
the marine communities by altering the death rates of one or more
species? Can certain areas become hostile to sea creatures? What is the
probability of the pollutants being returned to man in his food products
recovered from the marine environment?
Studies are going on towards understanding our surroundings. In part,
these studies have been motivated by curiosity; in pat by the need to
protect man's institutions against the attacks of nature such winds, rains
and flood water. Now the ability of mankind to alter the earth's surface
gives a new point ot environmental study. The results of man-made
changes in nature can be harmful and perhaps may result in the loss or
the restricted use of valuable resources. The ability to foresee undesirable
results along these lines may lead to necessary and protective policy
about them.
About 5,000 tons of mercury per year is estimated to enter the oceans as
a result of the release of industrial wastes into rivers and the atmosphere.
Agriculture and industry between them alone consume 9,200 tons of
mercury per year, about one half of the world's production. The mercury
in the sea is taken in by fish directly or through small organism feeding
on mercury which has settled on the sea-bed. The mercury concentration
increases at each stage and poisoning can occur when people and
domestic animals eat such fish. Fish from the lakes in Ontario, c\Canada,
where recently declared unsafe to eat Canada has banned the sale of fish
caught, within her boundaries in Lake St. Clair where the level of
mercury concentration has become dangerously high.
Substances until recently unknown in the marine environment are now
being found in the sea. Perhaps the most abundant of the artificial
pollutants is an organics chemical, DDE a product of the pesticide DDT.
Many marine species have been found to contain residues for the
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 chemicals such as diledron, endrin, heptachlors, epoxides and benzees
hexachlorides. These substances are chemically stable and have a high
chlorine content. Their effect on marine creatures, some cases has been
disastrous. Population decreases have been found marine birds and fish
as a result of the presence of these substances on their body.
Radio actie materials released from the recent nuclear device testing by
the USA, UK, UDDR, China and France may be found in all oceans
these nuclear tests have introduced into the seas such materials as radio
active strontium 90 and caesium -137 there has also been a big increase
in the surface layers of the oceans and the atmosphere. The radio active
materials have often been found in very high concentrations in marine
organism.
Questions:
a. What is the main message given in the passage?
b. What are the different affects of mercury entering into the water?
c. What are these most harmful substances most commonly found in the
sea?
d. Are radio active materials harmful? Where do people find the radio
active materials according to the passage?
e. Does man made changes harm marine life?
2. Answer any three of the following questions: 5×3
a. What is the theme of the story "Marriage is a Private affair"?
b. What did the man do to win over his physical flesh?
c. What is the significant point mentioned in the telegram and makes
Krishna to plunder into his thoughts?
d. Do you take Menuka, the nymph, as a seductive character in the
story?
3. a. Put the verbs in correct form in the blanks: 10
i. Students frequently (make) mistakes of tense usage
when they do this exercise.
ii. I (have) my hair cut whenever gets too long.
iii. I (take) my dog for a walk every evening before it
died.
iv. He (come) to my office whenever he needed money.
v. Last year she (wear) the same dress at every party.
vi. Whenever I climb a hill, my car (boil).
vii. She sing very beautifully before she was married, but
nowadays she (not) sing any more.
viii. I seldom (see) him at concerts these days.
ix. She cooks very well, but her sister (cook) much better
when I knew her.
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b. Put punctuations marks to the following paragraph.
Just when she was thinking she was thinking all these she noticed the
woman who looked like a postgraduate student at the campus reminding
her of her own first time She never took herself as beautiful although
everyone complemented even her professors You ought to be a model
than a philosophy student they joked.
4. a. Insert articles 'a' 'an' and 'the' where necessary. 7
i. The actress is revealing almost all in a new gallery exhibit
featuring ………rarely seen video shot.
ii. They had been called in ………….urgent meeting call.
iii. ………….boy whom u saw in the theatre has bee severely beaten.
iv. Neither ………..government nor the political parties are aware of
their concerns.
v. As …………..leader of the group he has to pay a visit to the
island.
b. Pick the correct words given in the brackets: 8
i. The bus ..(fair/fare) is expensive.
ii. Be careful not to ……..(loose/lose) your temperament.
iii. The leader is sitting ……..(beside/besides) that very helpful
woman.
iv. (Waist/waste) no time in day dreaming.
v. Sitting …..(idle/idol) always invites the devil in the house.
vi. The ………(effect/affect) of heavy rain is the devastated flood.
vii. Prices of goods seem to ..(rise/raise) every year.
viii.Sauravee is the Indian …………….(idol/idle) of now.
5. a. Give one antonym and one synonym for any four of the following 8
words.
Desert, cruel, condem, bear, detest, serious, reject, lively.
b. Make a new word by adding suffix to the following words. 7
Clear, console, agree, employment, tough, human
6. a. Write a job application for the post of an electrical/electronics engineer 8
to the Trishuli Hydropower Project, Dhading/Nepal Telecom, Sundhara
as advertised in the Kathmandu Post.
b. Imagine that you are the proprietor of a Sales department in Kathmandu
valley. You find that your sales persons are irresponsible, as they 7
normally come late and the dealing with customers is also found to be
unimpressive. Now, write a memo addressing all the staffs alerting
them about their careful attention in this regard.
7. Write a paragraph on the topic "Disaster and its Management" in context 10
of Nepal.
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