881, HINDUSTHAN POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE,
COIMBATORE-32.
Communication English-II MONTHLY TEST-I
SEM / Year: II / I
Max. Marks: 40
Date: .01.2012
Time: 2 hours
Part- A (Grammar)
(5x 3=15)
1. Change the following sentences into plural form.
a) He is an alumnus of this college.
b) The curriculum must be changed.
c) Her father-in-law is good.
2. Rearranged the jumbled words into a sentence.
a) Our, are, old, in, age, companions, books
b) Year, of, month, the, shortest, the, February, is c) Game, a, is, chance, of, life
3. Convert the following interrogative into assertive.
a) Is not blood thicker than water? b) Can we solve this problem?
c) What a pleasant surprise it is! (Exclamatory into assertive)
4. Answer the verbal questions first in affirmative and then in negative.
i) Does she brush her teeth twice a day?
ii) Can you lend me a hundred rupees?
5. Identify the clause in the following sentences.
a) Although he works hard, he never gets rewards.
b) When she reached the station, she found no train there.
Part- B (Composition)
(3x5=15)
1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Do you ever hear the story of Newton and his little dog, Diamond? One day when he was fifty
years old, and had been hard at work more than twenty years studying a very difficult subject, he went out of
his room, leaving his little dog asleep before the fire. On the table lay a heap of written papers, containing all
the facts which Newton had found out during these twenty years. When his master was gone, his little dog
Diamond jumped upon the table, and overthrew the lighted handle. The papers at once caught fire.
When Newton opened the door, he saw the labours of twenty years written papers were burnt of
ashes. There stood little Diamond who had done all the mischief. Almost any other man would have punished
the dog. But Newton patted him on the head as kindly as usual, although grief was at his heart.
“O, Diamond, and Diamond” cried he you little know the mischief you have done!”
i.
a)
b)
c)
d)
ii.
a)
iii.
Complete the following.
Newton had been hard working about a difficult subject for ……………………….. .
The little dog was sleeping before the ……………………………. .
The papers on the table were reduced to ……………………… .
Newton was kind to the dog but filled with ………………….. .
Find the words from the passage which are the opposites of.
Never
b) easy c) grief d) closed
Find the words from the passage which mean the same as.
a) Playful misbehavior (Para 3)
b) Tap gently with hand (Para 2)
2. Read the following newspaper report carefully and answer the questions that follow.
An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault, or fracture, in the earth's surface. The tectonic
plates on the surface are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their edges because of friction. When the
stress on the edge overcomes the friction, there is an earthquake that releases energy in waves that travel
through the earth's crust and create the shaking we feel.An earthquake's magnitude is a measured value of its
size and is the same no matter where you are, or how strong or weak the shaking was in different locations. An
earthquake's intensity is a measure of the shaking it creates, and varies with location.A magnitude of 8 or higher
defines a "great" earthquake; 7 to 7.9 is considered "major"; 6 to 6.9 is "strong"; 5 to 5.9 is "moderate"; 4 to 4.9
is "light"; 3 to 3.9 is "minor"; and less than 3 is "micro."
Experts have said that a million people died in earthquakes in the 20th century and that this century might see
10 times as many deaths, with as many as a million killed in a single quake. That is, unless major efforts are
made to fortify the world’s growing cities, which are expected to be homes to billions of added residents.
Even though the rate of earthquakes over time seems to be more or less unchanging, the world's population
explosion means that more people are moving into quake zones, which are often near coasts. The result, the
experts say, is the prospect of continuing trauma.
"It is inevitable," Klaus H. Jacob, an earthquake expert at Lamont-Doherty, the earth sciences research center of
Columbia University, said at the end of the last century. "More and more people, and more and more buildings,
are at stake. As the world gets more populous and richer, allowing a more built-up environment, higher
buildings and all the infrastructure that supports our civilization, communications and the like, the risk goes
up.”
3. Read the following advertisement and answer the questions that follow.
Part –C (Literature)
(5x2=10)
1. Answer the following question
a) The figures uttered greetings to Macbeth in their shrieking voices, addressing him as Governor of
Glamis.
i) Who greeted Macbeth and why was he surprised?
b) “He was thinking about the third prophesy?
i) What was the third prophesy?
c) “Green house gases heat up our planet”
i) Name the green house gases?
d) “I told it not, my wrath did grow”
i) What did the poet fail to do?
e) “In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree”
i)
What happened to the enemy?
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