Dibrugarh University| B.A - (CBCS)| ENGLISH (English Communication) - (AECC - 1)| Question Paper - (March) - 2021| 1st Semester
1 SEM
TDC ENGG (CBCS) AECC1
2021
(March)
ENGLISH
Paper:
AECC - 1
(English
Communication)
Full
Marks: 40
Pass
Marks: 16
Time:
2 hours
The
figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
UNIT - 1
(Communication: Theory and Types)
1. (a) What do you understand by the term 'communication'? Explain Shannon and Weaver model of communication. 2+3=5
Or
(b) What is non-verbal communication?
Discuss its sub-categories. 2+3=5
2. (a) What is business communication?
Discuss. 5
Or
(b) Elaborate the features of group
communication. 5
UNIT - II
(Speaking Skills)
3. (a) What are the main functions of a
monologue? Discuss. 5
Or
(b) Puja and Rashmi are waiting for a
bus at a bus stop. Write a dialogue between them. 5
4. (a) What is miscommunication? Briefly
discuss any four causes miscommunication. 1+4=5
Or
(b) What is an interview? Briefly
explain any four types of interviews. 1+4=5
UNIT - III
(Reading and Understanding)
5. (a) What is close reading? Discuss
its significance. 2+3=5
Or
(b) Read the passage carefully and
answer the question that follow:
Man's concepts of what constitutes the
Universe have altered radically over the ages. At first the earth was put at
the centre of the Universe. Then Earth was found to be just a planet, the Sun
was thought to be at the centre. Soon the Sun was found to be an ordinary star,
which was part of a galaxy, and man began to think that the galaxy was the
Universe. Now science has found that there are many galaxies and that clusters
of many galaxies and that clusters of many galaxies make out Universe.
Claudius Ptolemy, a Graeco-Egyptian
astronomer, in 140 AD, conducted a regular enquiry into Universe. He theorized
that the Earth was the centre of the University and that the Sun and other
heavenly bodies revolved around it. There have been several theories since
then. In 1543, Polish astronomer Copernicus argued that the Sun, and not the
Earth was the centre of the Universe. Though the Copernican theory changed the
centre of the Universe it did not change the extent which was still equated
with the solar system. It took another three and half centuries before out
ideas changed further.
By 1805 telescopic studies made by the
British astronomer William Herschel (1738 - 1822), made it clear that the
Universe was not confined to the solar system. The solar system itself was only
a part of a much vaster star system called the galaxy. The Universe thus became
quite extensive comprising millions of stars scattered about the Milky Way. But
our vision of the Universe did not end there.
As the 20th century began, it seemed
that the Milky Way galaxy with its cluster of over a hundred billion stars,
planets, their attendant satellites, the Magellanic clouds, was the Universe.
In 1925 American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953) pointed out that there
are other galaxies in the Universe and that the Universe actually consists of
millions of galaxies like the Milky Way. In 1929 Hubble proved that these
galaxies are flying away from each other and that the farther they are, the faster
they fly.
The movement of a star or a galaxy
affects its light as seen by an observer. If the star is moving towards the
observer, its light will be shifted towards the blue end of the spectrum. If
the star or galaxy is moving away from the observer, its light will be shifted
to the red end of the spectrum. This is known as the Doppler Shifts of galaxies
show that they are receding and that the Universe is in a state of rapid
expansion. Modern theories about the Universe are based on this flight of galaxies,
that is, on the assumption that the Universe is in a state of rapid expansion.
Questions:
(i) What did Ptolemy theories? 1
(ii) What did William Herschel's study
reveal about the Universe? 1
(iii) What did Hubble point out in
1925? 2
(iv) Find a word in the passage which
means 'a group of similar things that are close together'. 1
6.
Answer any one of the following questions: 5
(a) What is translation? Briefly
discuss the different types of translation. 1+4=5
(b) Write a summary of the following
passage: 5
Food is the chief essential material
which the body needs for its well-being. It contains essential things for our
body called 'nutrients'. Good food is indispensable for health at all stages of
life and for satisfactory growth during infancy, childhood, adolescence and
adulthood. Wholesome food in adequate quantities is very important for pregnant
and nursing women since they undergo severe nutritional stress.
In order to obtain adequate amounts of
each of the different nutrients, the daily diet should include appropriate
quantities of a variety of different foodstuffs. A diet in which various
foodstuffs are mixed in suitable proportions is called a balanced diet. A list
of food items (though not ideal) as a general guide would be practical and easy
to follow. It would also provide information as to which of the different
foodstuffs can be substituted for one that may be temporarily unavailable.
Eating habits have changed with the
times. The changes are faster now. The latest trend is 'fast food' for a fast
life. Human diet is not restricted to any special category of food. Whereas
most animals stick to a routine menu, man can and does eat a variety of food,
of both plant and animal origin. Variety is, for mankind, the spice of life;
and it is more so in food than in anything else. This natural desire for
variety is justified by the fact that no single food provides us with all the
nutrients that we need. Cereals, like rice or wheat which form the staple food
of mankind, supply us only with a fraction of our nutritional requirements. We
have to supplement cereals with other food that provide plenty of fats and
proteins and minor quantities of a number of vitamins and minerals. This means
that the larger out diet sheet, the better our health will be.
The nutrients found in foodstuffs may
be broadly classified as - carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins,
and water. Carbohydrates include every kind of starch and sugar. Fat is a
concentrated source of energy for us. Proteins are the chief substance of the
cells of the body. They form important constituents of muscles and other
tissues and vital fluids like blood. Proteins, fats, and carbohydrates are
called macro-nutrients.
(c) What is paraphrasing? How does it
improve one's reading skill? 2+3=5
UNIT - IV
(Writing Shills)
7. (a) What purpose does documenting
serve? Briefly discuss the features of a good document. 1+4=5
Or
(b) What is a report? Explain the
steps involved in report writing. 1+4=5
8. (a) Make notes from the following
passage using headings, sub-headings, and recognizable abbreviations. 5
In 1851, the British government
invited the world to a 'Great Exhibition' of industrial products and machinery,
held in London's Hyde Park in a purpose-built palace of steel and glass. The
Crystal Palace exhibition was a celebration of the new industrial age and of
Britain's undisputed primacy among the emerging industrial nations. It was the
first great party to celebrate the emergence of a new social and economic
system which was destined to revolutionize life on this planet - the system we
know today as capitalism.
The 'Oxford English Dictionary' traces
the first reference to the word capitalism in the writings of William Makepeace
Thackeray in 1854, three years after the Great Exhibition and at least fifteen
years before capitalism's best-known critic, Karl Marx, began to use the term.
But capitalism did not begin in the mid-nineteenth century. It pre-dates the
industrial revolution, for there were commercial capitalists long before there
were factory owners, and there was widespread wage labour long before there was
an industrial workforce.
Modern capitalism has its roots in
trade, roots which lie deep in the soil of European history. As far back as the
eleventh century, when the waves of Norman, Saracen and Magyar invasions in
Europe gave way to a period of relative peacefulness, merchants began to
develop commercial trade routes, open up new frontiers, and create a
rudimentary system of international money and credit through the use of bills
of exchange This expansion of trade led eventually to the growth of new centres
of commerce and manufacturing in the Low Countries and in Italian cities such
as Florence.
In the sixteenth century, when
European nations began to extend their trade and their territorial claims
westward into the American, and eastward into the Orient, commercial capitalism
was well-developed in northern Europe. In the Middle Ages, industry, and
agriculture in much of Europe was organized around feudal principles which obliged
serfs to work for the lords of the great estates on which they lived, while apprentice
and journeymen in various trades were tied to guild masters in the towns. This
system began to break down in England and the Netherlands from as early as the
thirteenth century, and by the sixteenth century it hiding several parts of
Europe effectively been replaced by a system of production based upon monetary
payments. The expansion of trade was largely responsible for the erosion of
feudalism, for it diffused a system of monetary exchange throughout Europe,
gradually substituting cash payments for feudal duties and creating a market in
land and in loans. Urban craftsmen and rural cottagers increasingly worked for
wages from merchants who supplied them with their raw materials and who sold
their finished products in markets which extended far beyond their immediate
localities. While the feudal lords and princes managed in some parts of Europe
to retain their power and social position well into the eighteenth and even the
nineteenth centuries, the system which they represented had been eroded
economically long before that. The nineteenth century was the period when
industrial capitalism consolidated its base in England and began to take over
the world. The twentieth century witnessed the final triumph of this capitalist
world system. Now political might is insufficient to resist the forces for
change unleashed by the most dynamic economic system the world has ever
witnessed. It took several centuries for capitalism to develop, but once
established it has carried all before it.
Or
(b) The public water supply system
under National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) in your locality is out
of order for the last few days. Write a letter to the Executive Engineer of the
Public Health and Engineering Department, Government of Assam of your district
asking him/her to restore the damaged system immediately. (Write a fictitious
name of the district and do not mention the name of your college or your name
anywhere in the letter.)
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