UAEN-201

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

(Deemed to be University)
Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam

B.A./B.A.(Hons)/B.Sc./B.Sc.(Hons)/B.Com.(Hons)/B.B.A./B.C.A./B.P.A.(Music)
Second Semester Examinations, April 2020
PART-I(B) : ANOTHER LANGUAGE : : ADDITIONAL ENGLISH

Additional English: Literature and Life-II

Duration : 3 Hours 03/04/2020 Max. Marks : 100
Note: 1. Answer Sections A, B & C in the answer book provided.
2. Time allotted for Section-A is 20 minutes; hand over Section-A of the Question Paper back to the
Invigilator, after answering it in the first twenty minutes.
3. Comply with the instructions given in the Main Answer Book carefully.

SECTION – A
(20 Marks)

I.A) Read the passage and answer, in a sentence or two, the questions that follow:
(5x2=10 Marks)
In today’s corporate world, where global competition, technical advancement, team-based management
and multi-cultural workforce are the order of the day, what is more important than technical skills is a
cluster of soft skills. In India, the most common reasons top companies reject applicants are inadequate
basic employability skill such as language proficiency, courtesy, teamwork, self-confidence etc. In his
article, ‘The Growing Need for Soft Skills’, Brad Eldredge asserts that “Employees’ soft skills, or lack
thereof, can affect a firm’s bottom line.” He points out to the findings of Benjamin Schneider’s research
that reveals the indispensability of soft skills in industries. Schneider observes that “in operations as
diverse as bank branches, insurance companies, credit card call centres and hospitals… the service climate
predicted business results.” Thus, there is an urgent need to offer courses in soft skills in academia in
addition to the traditional curriculum. Even in industries considered highly technical and staffed by
technically-oriented people, customer-focused soft skills can make a big contribution to profitability. Peter
Drucker in his book The Practice of Management makes a strong case for soft skills by stating that, “As
soon as you move one step from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others
through the spoken or written word. This ability to express oneself is perhaps the most important skill a
person can possess.”
Soft skills are essentially people skills – the non-technical, intangible, personality-specific skills that
determine our strengths as a leader, listener, negotiator, and conflict mediator. Hard skills are more along
the lines of what might appear on our resume: education, experience and expertise. Very interestingly,
employers value soft skills, because research suggests that they are a reliable indicator of job performance
in terms of cognitive ability and work efficiency.
– From Soft Skills and Personality Development

1. What are soft and hard skills?

2. What has research on soft skills revealed?

3. How do an individual’s soft skills impact his career trajectory?

4. Why do many Indian graduates fail to get jobs?

5. Define and use the term people skills in a sentence of your own.

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I.B) Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the prescribed text. (5x1=5 Marks)

6. The tree of life is sustained ___________, the tree of death ___________.

7. Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate;
still achieving, still pursuing, learn to ___________ and to ___________.

8. This lonely leg on which I rest has all the simplicity of some ___________.

9. Should ___________, parent of Despair,

Strive for her son to seize my ___________ heart.

10. Sarojini Naidu is also known by the sobriquet ___________.

I.C) Match the words in Column A with those in Column B. (5x1=5 Marks)

‘A’ ‘B’

11. G.K. Chesterton A) Fireside and Sunshine

12. E.V. Lucas B) The Monkey’s Paw

13. Stanley Houghton C) Thoughts and Adventure

14. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson D) Slant Rhyme

15. Sir Winston Churchill E) “The Dear Departed”

F) Prince of Paradox

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Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

(Deemed to be University)
Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam

B.A./B.A.(Hons)/B.Sc./B.Sc.(Hons)/B.Com.(Hons)/B.B.A./B.C.A./B.P.A.(Music)
Second Semester Examinations, April 2020
PART-I(B) : ANOTHER LANGUAGE : ADDITIONAL ENGLISH

Additional English: Literature and Life-II

Duration : 3 Hours 03/04/2020 Max. Marks : 100
Note: 4. Answer Sections A, B & C in the answer book provided.
5. Time allotted for Section-A is 20 minutes; hand over Section-A of the Question Paper back to the
Invigilator, after answering it in the first twenty minutes.
6. Comply with the instructions given in the Main Answer Book carefully.

SECTION - B
(40 Marks)
II. Annotate ANY THREE of the following in about 150 words each. (3x5=15 Marks)

1. “And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

2. “What care I for the world’s desire and pride,

Who know the silver wings that gleam and glide
The homing pigeons of Thine eventide?”

3. “It is only stupid people who take remarks too literally, as we say; that is, who do not look for the real
meaning in the statements people make.”

4. “It is a Sufi poet who said that there are as many ways to God as there are human hearts.”

III. Answer ANY ONE of the following questions in about 150 words. (1x5=5 Marks)

5. Elaborate on Chesterton’s idea of ‘small worries’.

6. Provide the characteristics of any two days of the week as enunciated by E.V. Lucas.

IV. Answer ANY ONE of the following questions in about 150 words. (1x5=5 Marks)

7. Discuss Wilcox’s perspective of God in “As You Go Through Life”.

8. Comment on Keats’ conviction that hope is the only panacea for all despair.

V. Answer ANY ONE of the following questions in about 350 words. (1x15=15 Marks)

9. Deliberate upon the central idea of the poem, “The Psalm of Life”.

10. Discuss Churchill’s views on painting as a pastime.

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SECTION – C
(40 Marks)
VI. Answer ANY TWO of the following questions in about 250 words. (2x10=20 Marks)

11. Attempt a character sketch of the Convict from “The Bishop’s Candlesticks”.

12. Describe in detail, the defence that Billy Scott presents to the jury, for the charge levelled against him.

13. Elaborate on how the playwright humorously depicts greed in “The Dear Departed”.

14. Analyse the three main characters of the play, “The Never Never Nest”.

VII. Do as directed: (5x2=10 Marks)

15. Provoke (Supply the Noun form and Synonym)

16. Felicity (Supply the Synonym and make a meaningful sentence)

17. Annoyance (Supply the Verb form and Antonym)

18. Cessation (Supply the Antonym and Synonym)

19. Instantaneous (Make a meaningful sentence)

VIII. Provide the meaning of ANY ONE of the proverbs and expand it into a paragraph.
(1x10=10 Marks)
20. Cut your coat according to your cloth.

21. Believe all that you see nor half what you hear.

S S S 

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