Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad B.Tech I PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH Previous Question Paper (December - 2018 - R16)

Fill in the blanks with the right article wherever necessary:

i) ____ tea of Assam is of good quality.

ii) The preferential voting system ensures _____ truly representative winner.

Fill in the blanks with the right preposition given in brackets:

i) The ball sailed ____ (with/through/over) his head.

ii) Tourists sail ____ (through/on/over) the canals, eat lunch on board; walk through the muddy paddy fields and meet with the villagers.

iii) We need to change the way crackers are used. We need to agree ____ (on/with/to) an overall cap.

Fill in the blanks with suitable form of the word given in brackets:

i) The result was shocking. It was simply ______(believe).

ii) The plane went into a stall and the pilot could not control it. It was a problem of _____(function).

Fill in the blanks with the right homophone given in brackets:

i) He is a trusted ____(confidant/confident) of the President.

ii) We _____(rowed/rode) down the river all day.

iii) She ____(sowed/sewed) the seams and hemmed the border.

Fill in the blanks with the right phrasal verb given in brackets:

i) If you _____ (play on/play down) your part in the project, you won't get the credit you deserve.

ii) You cannot ____ (get along/get around) the fact that smoking kills.

Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the verbs given in brackets:

i) By the time you finish this programme, you _____ (overshoot) into others’ slot.

ii) Wait! I _____(write) a letter now.

iii) Let’s _____(not, pollute) the rivers in the name of rituals. We have to follow them in their right spirit of promoting eco-friendliness too.

Fill in the blanks with the right question tag given in brackets:

i) I love listening to classical songs, _____(aren’t I/don’t I)?

ii) Let’s enjoy ourselves, ____(shall we/shan’t we)?

Fill in the blanks with the right word given in brackets:

i) A short introduction to the book, typically written by a person other than the author is called ____(foreword/forward).

ii) Rahul has _____(Already/all ready) submitted his project.

iii) Drainage schemes have helped to _____(mitigate/militate) this problem.

Fill in the blanks with suitable idiom given in brackets:

i) I was about to get a hike in my salary But it didn’t happen due to the merger. Well, there was a slip between _____(the body and the legs/the cup and the lips.)

ii) There is ____(a neck to neck/a chip on his shoulder). He keeps being angry today because something has occurred in the past.

Fill in the blanks with the right one word substitute given in brackets:

i) A person who believes that people are self-centred and insecure is _____(cynic/stoic)

ii) Pathological fear of high places is ____(xenophobia/acrophobia).

iii) A person coming to a foreign land to settle there is _____(emigrant/immigrant).

What is the significance of empowering a child, a teacher, an individual in the vision of developed India? Justify your answer with reference to Dr. A.P.J. Kalam’s Presidential Address.

Write a paragraph on any one of the following in about 150 words:

• Advantages of learning a foreign language
• B.Sc., vs. B.Tech course and their career opportunities.

How did Dr. Kalam have an unparalleled career as a defence scientist and what is the message that you can infer from his Presidential Address?

What are the essential characteristics of a good paragraph? Exemplify.

According to Nadella, what are the unique selling points of Microsoft?

What are the key points to be considered while drafting a cover letter to accompany a Resume?

How did Satya paraphrase a quote from Oscar Wilde that we need to believe in the impossible and remove the improbable? Explain.

Send in an e-mail of complaint to the Sales Manager of the company asking for repair or replacement or compensation.

As a student coordinator, write a letter to your friends inviting them to the technical fest in your college by providing necessary details.

What are the parts of a formal letter? Explain.

How did J.C. Hill prove the point that ‘whenever you are arguing with someone about a point, remember that there is quite a good chance that you are wrong, however confident you feel about it’? Narrate the experiment on the picture of a bull-fight.

Make a precis of the following passage and give a suitable title:

When we survey our lives and efforts we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings. We notice that whole nature resembles that of the social animals. We eat food that others have produced, wear clothes that others have made, live in houses that others have built. The greater part of our knowledge and beliefs has been passed on to us by other people though the medium of a language which others have created. Without language and mental capacities, we would have been poor indeed comparable to higher animals. We have, therefore, to admit that we owe our principal knowledge over the least to the fact of living in human society. The individual if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly imagine. The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has, not much in virtue of the individuality, but rather as a member of a great human community, which directs his material and spiritual existence from the cradle to grave.

Where do good manners ultimately come from? Present your argument with relevant examples from ‘Good Manners’ by J.C. Hill.

What are the stages involved in making a precis of any passage?

What are the characteristics of an efficient reader? Explain the do’s and don’ts of reading skills.

What are the parts of a report written in manuscript format? Explain the do’s and don’ts of a formal report writing.