Roll No.

Course Title Communicative English Course Code 20HE1101

Date 26 September 2021
MID –I Academic Year 2020-21
Time 90 Minutes Civil Engg. I & II Max. Marks 30

Signature of Invigilator:
1 2 3 4 5 6
Total Marks
COs 2 2 3 3 4 4
Marks

Signature of the student: Signature of the faculty:

Answer All the Questions (3x10=30M)
1. The chart below gives information about “Istanbul Promo plus” sales in 2007. Summarise the
information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words. 10 M

(OR)
2. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting description of the correlation of the table that
follow. Write at least 150 words. 10 M

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3. Fill in the blanks using the appropriate verb forms from the box. 10 M
is living/has been living/will live/had been living/will spend/
had become/will have been living/became/have spent/spend/spent/will become
Ever since I got a credit card, I (a) _____ a lot of money on many unnecessary things. Many people
usually (b) _______ most of their time online on various social media platforms. During our
vacation, last summer we (c) _______ most of our time in the swimming pool. As usual next year I
(d) _____ my vacation in my country house. By the eighteenth century, English shipping (e)
_______ as efficient as the Dutch. When, I heard the news about you I (f) ______ anxious. I (g)
_______ a doctor next year at the age of 25. We (h) ______ in Norway for nearly 25 years until we
moved to Scotland two years ago. Jason (i) ______ in Moscow since he was born. I love here so
much that I believe I (j) ______ here till the end of my life.
(OR)
4. Fill in the blanks using the appropriate verb forms from the brackets. 10 M
a) We ___________ (has paid/have paid) him the money.
b) I _________ (have bought/has bought) my sister a watch.
c) _________ (Show/Shows) me your hands.
d) You _________ (has made/have made) your shirt dirty.
e) We _________ (are waiting/is waiting) for Ram.
f) These books _________ (belong/belongs) to me.
g) We _________ (will like/would like) to visit the museum.
h) My brother _________ (enjoy/enjoys) playing cricket.
i) We _________ (find/found) the house deserted.
j) She _________ (has assured/have assured) me that she is ready to help.

5. Read through the given text and make notes in Cornell Method. 10 M
People tend to amass possessions, sometimes without being aware of doing so. Indeed they can have
a delightful surprise when they find something useful which they did not know they owned. Those
who never have to change house become indiscriminate collectors of what can only be described as
clutter. They leave unwanted objects in drawers, cupboards and attics for years, in the belief that they
may one day need just those very things. As they grow old, people also accumulate belongings for
two other reasons, lack of physical and mental energy, both of which are essential in turning out and
throwing away, and sentiment. Things owned for a long time are full of associations with the past,
perhaps with relatives who are dead, and so they gradually acquire a value beyond their true worth.
(OR)
6. Write a précis of the following passage and suggest a suitable title. 10 M
It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief
object of his thoughts just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy
people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy minded
people like making money ought to like it and enjoy the sensation of winning it; it is something
better than money. A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of
his pay— very properly so and justly grumbles when you keep him ten years without it—till, his
main mission of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them. So of clergymen. The
clergyman's object is essentially baptize and preaches not to be paid for preaching. So of doctors.
They like fees no doubt—ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well- educated the entire
object to their lives are not fees. They on the whole, desire to cure the sick; and if they are good
doctors and the choice were fairly to them, would rather cure their patient and lose their fee than kill
him and get it. And so with all the other brave and rightly trained men: their work is first, their fee
second—very important always; but still second.

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