(Please write your Exam Roll No.) Exam Roll No. .. END TERM EXAMINATION Be First SemesTeR [B.TscH] Dec.2013-Jan.2014 Paper Code: HS-101 Subject: Communication skills-I Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks :60 ‘Note: Attempt ail questions. any in the following sentences (5) Q.1 (a) Rectify the mistakes {i) Give me the scissor please (i) Hardly had I reached the station than the train departed. (ii) [congratulated him for his success. (iv) If have worked hard I would have passed. (v) Character is more preferable than wealth. (vi) Some poets only write for the sale of earning money (vii) I said that an interesting face can be pretty (viit) Both the sisters loved one another. (ix) There were less students in the class. (x) The short story should not exceed more than three hundred words. (b) Do as directed (5) (i) I will meet you the railway station. (appropriate preposition), (ii) The accountant and the cashier _ absconded.(has/have) (iia) If __. (be) you & wouldn't do it, (iv) Did he say anything? (Give short response) (v) He gave me advice. (an, some) (c] Add question tags to the following: (5) (i). We seldom see them now-a-days. {id} He is very intelligent (it) A small scratch like that is nothing. {iv)Have another cup of tea {v) She used to be a good tennis player. Q.2 (a) Give one word substitution for the following: (3) (i) A list of books. (ii) A book which tells the meaning of various words. (ii) The life story of a person. (b) C (4) (it) Eradicate (iit) Insidious {iv) Lively (©) Give antonym (4) (i) Confess (u) Despair (iit) Benevolent (iv) Awkward (4) Differentiate between the following: 4 (i) Affect, Effect (i) Course, Coar (ii) Decent, Dissent liv) Idle, Ideal P.T.O RpQ4 ES Qs Q6 (24 (€) Use the following idioms/phrases in sentences of your own: 4) {i) To keep abreast of (il) Eye wash (ii) All and sundry liv) Back out (2) (9 Punctuate the following: {(@ Send me the following things a pen a pencil a rubber a sharpener and a scale. (a) Discuss the significance of charts, graphs and tables in technical writing. (5) (b) Write technical description of any one of the following: ( Ceiling fan (ii) Refrigerator Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: Science writing is often confused with technical writing and scientific writing. It is neither. The difference lies mostly in the audience. The technical writer prepares “technical” material - reports, memos. brochures - for a captive audience that needs the data: a client, a colleague, and an organization. A scientific writer, preparing scientific papers, writes for readers who want the information-many of whom are in the discipline and must keep abreast of what’s happening. But the science writer (or science journalist) addresses the lay public This job is much more complicaied. The science writer must make complex theories and’systems clear tova large, diverse readership, and must do so with the utmost clarity, accuracy, and excitement. He or she must win and hold the attention of readers who don't need the information, are easily bored, and demand to be convinced that what the writer has to say is worthy of their continuing attention. Bored readers quickly flip to other article: So the science writer's most difficult task is to make the story interesting. This is done with pleasing styles, colourful anecdotes, sparkling quotes, clever descriptions, and other devices tha dramatize the information. A good science article is an easy read; it carries the readers along effortlessly, with fascination. And when readers are finished, they are often surprised (if they thing about it) at just how much highly technical material they have picked up along the way (a) Bring out the difference between technical writing and scientific writing, (1) (b) What is the job of a science writer? ry {c) How science writing can be made interesting? a) (d) Write a summary as well as an abstract of the above-mentioned passage. (3) Write a debate on any one topic: 7 Youth should not indulge in politics. (ii) Multinational corporations: A cultural threat to India Bring out the major thematic concerns of the novel ‘The alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho. Also discuss the relevance of the novel at this stage of your life. OR fained in the book ‘Wings of Fire’ by APJ Abdul (6) Rh