Model QP
B. Com. II Semester Basic English question paper
I Answer the following questions in a word, a phrase or a sentence each: 10x1=10
1Who repeated ‘This room could be 10x8’?
2 Who thought the private tenants are a great headache?
3 Who wrote the lesson ‘Broken English and Broken English’?
4 The BBC committee members were from which country”?
5 Who said “students should never be made to wait’?
6 How many hospitals were scattered in the bomb blast? t
7 Who is the commodity traded in the poem ‘I AM not that Woman’?
8 Which nation cannot be free?
9 Who cherish their freedom in the poem ”Freedom”?
10 Why do children scream for freedom?
II A) The essay ‘Spoken English and Broken English” is all about flexibility of English communication-
elaborate 1x10=10
Or
B) A) Write a brief note Kalam’s views on ‘students and the pollution factor’.
III A) Comment on the attitude of the modern woman in the poem“ I Am Not That Woman” 1x10=10
OR
B) How does the poem “The Diameter of the Bomb” highlight the destructive nature of the war?
IV A) Write the synonyms of the following words -02
i) Death ii) Wise
B) Define homophones/homonym and give an example.02
C) Use the following confused words in sentences: 02
i) mail ii) male
D) Form new words by adding affixes to the following words: o2
i) act ii) punish.
E) Choose the collocating word given below and fill in the blanks. 02
( answer, question)
1 The first question was difficult to ………….
2 Setting ………. papers is not an easy task.
Or
A) Write a brief note on the Listening skill 05
B) Read the following passage and enlist the words related to nature (at least five) 05
Thus nature’s amazing cycles of renewal of water and nutrients were defined into non production. The
peasant of the world, who produce 72% of the food do not produce: women who farm or do most to the
housework do not fit this paradigm of growth either. A living forest does not contribute to growth but
when trees are cut down and sold as timber we have growth. Healthy societies, pure air and commodities do
not contribute to growth but disease creates growth through, for example the sale of patented medicine.
(Model answer: nature, water, air, food, farm, forest, trees, timber)
V Answer any two of the following questions:
A) Transform the following sentences into indirect speech: 5x1=05
1 Mary said ,” we are advised to work hard.”
2 Dinesh said to Divya, “If you are lazy, life is not easy for you.”
3 My father said to sister, “ Attend your college classes regularly.”
4 The nurse said to Balaram “ If you do not wash yourself properly ,I will not touch you ”
5 The PSI said to the constable, “I am your senior .”
B) You visit to a bank for opening an account. Draft a dialogue copy of your conversation with the bank clerk.
05
C) The effectiveness of the verbal and non-verbal communication? 05
D) Summarize the following passage and give a suitable title: 05
Water available as commons shared freely and protected by all provides for all. However, it does not create
growth. But when Coca-cola sets up a plant, mines the water and fills plastic bottles with it, the economy
grows. But this growth is based on creating poverty both for nature and local communities. Water extracted
beyond nature’s capacity to renew and recharge creates a water famine. women are forced to walk longer
distances looking for drinking water. In the village of Plachimada in Kerala when the walk for water became
10Kms local tribal woman Mayilamma said “ enough is enough. We cannot walk further; the Coca-cola plant
must shut down “the movement that the woman started eventually led to the closure of the plant.
VI Answer any two of the following questions:
A) There is Gymkhana activities valedictory function in your college. You are the General Secretary of your
college gymkhana. Draft a speech for proposing the vote of thanks to the gathering in the auditorium. 05
B) Write an essay on “ the electronic media” 05
C) Translate the following passage into Kannada, Marathi, Hindi or Urdu language: 05
One of the maxims I always followed was early to bed and early to rise, because rest and sleep help to raise
the energy level. I lived an austere, almost monkish life abiding by the rules I had set for myself. I shunned
late nights and ever indulged in bad habits like smoking, drinking or too much caffeine –I have seen the
impact such addictions have had on athletes, how they affect speed and reduce muscle power.
D) Write a short paragraph on Swami Vivekananda’s appeal to the youths to awake, arise and stop not ……..
05
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NB:(notabene) The question paper “model is same” for the B.A. and B.Com. Second Semester(NEP) classes
except the questions (Qs-1,2&3) on the lessons and poems.
Soon you will get QP models of ( NEP) DSC I & II,OEC and IVth sem. basic and opt. English CBCS
