Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Roll No……..
Total No. of
Questions:07
Paper ID:
[C0205]
BBA (Sem.-1st)
BUSINESS
COMMUNICATION-1 (English Language) (BB-105)
Time:03 Hrs. Max.
Marks:60
Instruction to
Candidates:
1.
Section-A is Compulsory.
2. Attempt
any four questions from Section-B.
SECTION-A
Q1.
(a)
Use shall/will as required.
i)
I……… fly to London tomorrow.
ii)
We…….not fail.
(b) Join
the sentences using not only; but also/ either or
i)
Mathematics is a difficult
subject.
ii)
Physics is a difficult subject.
iii)
Roopam may have started this
college.
His brothers
may have started his college.
(c) Fill
in the correct verb according to the subject.
i)
Many a man…..died for this
country. (have/has)
ii)
The cow as well as the
bullock….very useful. (is/are)
(d) Put
‘articles’ where necessary put across where no article is required.
i)
…honest man always speaks……truth.
ii)
…boy acted like….man.
(e) Fill
in the blanks with suitable preposition.
i)
I did not knock…..the door.
ii)
He is a slave..his desires.
(f) Punctuate
the following to show that each can have two different meanings.
i)
Kuljeet said Manu is a fool.
ii)
You have misunderstood my friend.
(g) Rewrite
the sentences to make the idiomatic expressions clear.
i)
The market is at a stone’s throw
from my house.
ii)
He turned a deaf ear to my
advice.
(h) Give
the indirect speech of
i)
I said to him, “Do not hear any more
of that.”
ii)
“Do as I tell you at once”, said
the teacher angrily.
(i) Fill
in the adverbs of degree
i)
Suman ran…..fast.
ii)
That shirt is……big for you.
(j) Give
the past tense of
i)
Grind
ii)
Beat
SECTION-B
Q2. Write an application for the post advertised below in The Hindustan
Times and give your complete bio -data.
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Q3. Write a letter to Messers. Raman Hoisery Ludhiana, placing nan order for
shawls and sweaters of various sizes and designs for your showroom. You must mention details of terms agreed upon
by both the parties regarding date of delivery and payment. The detail of advance cheque may also be
included.
Q4. Write a memo to your employee a Cashier for
being rude and rough with a customer while on duty, a written complaint has
been lodged by three people against him.
You are the Manager of ABC Bank at Railway Station Branch.
Q5. Write an essay on, “Cottage Industry and
Indian Heritage.”
Q6. Write an application for the Manager asking
for LTA (leave travel allowance) for the month of June as your family plans to
visit Bangalore.
Q7. Read the passage given carefully and answer
the questions that follow:
OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS
(a) The story of our ancestors on their long road to
human civilization begins in East Africa, at a gorge called Olduavi, where
scientists stumbled across the fossilized remains of animals that provide an
invaluable link wih the past. What is
more, quantities of strangely-shaped stones were found nearby, which could have
been crude tools for cutting and slicing meat. Then came other significant
discoveries-the fossilized remains of skulls, not altogether human, but with
features markedly similar to those of humans.
Such finds, together with the strangely-shaped stones, were likely
evidence of creatures which were developing a primitive intelligence, and not
relying just on jaws and teeth to get their food.
(b) Even so, discoveries such as these are painfully
few. This is not surprising when we
consider how rare it is to find a few bones of anything that perished countless
years ago. When a creature died on the
open plains of Africa, the scent of its decay sooner or later attracted other
animals of all kinds. They devoured that
soft tissue and crushed the bones in their jaws. Hardly any trace of its existence would be
left. A very few carcasses, however,
sank into the muddy shores of lakes or rivers, where they lay hidden from other
animals. Then the gradual process of
fossilization began. Ever so slowly,
bone and tissue turned into stone.
(c) Fossil finds alone will not tell the whole story,
however. Scientists have to take into
account what the world was like when our earliest ancestors began to
appear. Two million years ago, the gorge
at Olduvai would have held a great lake and around its shores animals would
have swarmed in abundance. But their
world was slowly changing as the planet underwent major alterations of
climate. A drastic cooling as the planet
underwent major alterations of climate.
A drastic cooling of the earth’s surface meant that the rich forests of
Africa began to die off, and the almost endless canopy of trees broke up into
scattered areas, each isolated from the other.
So, too, lush plants and vegetation began to dwindle; the forests no
longer provided an ever ready supply of food for the creatures that roamed
them, as bare, open grassland took over the landscape. Now, in their struggle to survive, they had
to keep moving to where food could be found.
It was about that time, so scientists believe, that our ancestors emerged. They faced the same problems as their fellow
creatures; they too, had to learn how to search out food in the wide plains of
Africa and acquire essential skills of survival.
(d) But these ancestors of ours did not acquire these
skills overnight, nor did they enter these open plains like people rushing to
stake a claim in empty territory; they were
competing for a place in an environment already significantly populated with
other animals, experts by now in exploiting the food resources of the open
plains. Our ancestors shared the same
habitat with creatures that would snap at their feet, trying to steal their
meal as they were eating it, or would pace menacingly around nearby. It was
physically impossible to master them; our ancestors simply had to stay out of
their reach.
(e) Besides, life on the African plain was very much at
the mercy of the different weather seasons.
The dry season meant lean times, and many animals had to be content with
tough, low-quality vegetation, which was the only food around in any
quantity. But our ancestors did not go
on depending on this poor quality food.
They began looking for new opportunities to get a tastier foods.
(f) What they discovered was that the African plains
contained plants that hid their juicer parts underground. In the dry season, when other edible plaints
above ground grew scarce, the roots and bulbs of these special plants provided
rich and healthy eating-but all of it below the surface, available only to
animals that could claw it out. Lacking
the specialized claws and teeth needed to get at these prized foods, our
ancestors learnt how to fashion a stock or stone to dig out the succulent roots
of plants.
(g) By now our ancestors were clearly acquiring an even
more valuable skill, that of knowledge-not just in knowing how to make simple
instruments, but in knowing their own habitat in close detail. They came to recognize the habits of other
creatures, and to turn them to their advantages. Circling vultures promised the remains of
some animal killed not far away, a meal for the taking if they got there soon
enough. They knew that adult antelopes,
while impossible to catch, sometimes left their young in grass and went off to
browse. Our hungry ancestors could pluck
die infant like ready fruit, if they knew where to look.
(h) In time they probably came to relay a great deal on
communicating knowledge such as this to one another. This communication undoubtedly gave them the
edge over many of their four-footed rivals in prizing out the secret scarps of
energy-giving food that dotted the landscape.
They could make something of a living that way, if they relied on each
other and carefully avoided known dangers. Our early ancestors managed to
survive, 00t only barely. A hard road
lay ahead on their progress towards dominion over the Earth.
(i) On the basis of your reading of passage answer the
following questions as briefly as possible.
(1) Why did it take a long time to discover evidence of
our ancestors?
(2) What is the discovery that led the scientists to
believe that the primitive man was not an unintelligent creature?
(3) What are fossils? Why do scientists study fossils?
(4) How did dwindling forests affect the life our
ancestors?
(5) What threat did the wild animals pose for our
ancestors?
(6) Why was it not possible for our ancestors to master
the animals around them?
(7) How did knowledge of their habitat help our
ancestors?
(8) How did our ancestors manage to survive in the
hostile conditions?
(ii) Pick out the words/phrases from the passage
which mean the same as:
(1) Discovered something by chance (para 1).
(2) Got control of (para 3).
(3) In a situation where someone or something has
complete power over you (para 5).
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