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Posted By: Mala Member Level: Diamond Posted Date: 18 Dec 2007
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2007 Bangalore University English I Semester B.A./B.Sc./B.Com. Examination, Nov./Dec. 2007 Question paper
I Semester B.A./B.Sc./B.Com. Examination, Nov./Dec. 2007
(Semester Scheme) (New)
GENERAL ENGLISH
Language English (Paper-I)
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 90
Instructions: 1) Answer all questions.
2) Mention the sections and question numbers correctly.
SECTION-A
I. Answer any five of the following in two or three sentences. (5x2=10)
1. Why is the dead Gull considered ‘a cruel recompense’?
2. What were the conditions of sale agreed upon by Jenks and Soloman?
3. Why does the Whiteman not seem to notice the air he breathes?
4. Who are the five men that drive the wagon in the vachana of Allama Prabhu?
5. What did the boy dream of having in Ruskin Bond’s story?
6. Why was Gangadhar not mugged and robbed of his shoes in New York?
7. Identify the two contrasting voices heard by the poet in the poem ‘Snake’?
II. Answer any four of the following in about half-a-page each (4x5=20)
1. Why was Jenks considered a ‘dandified individual’?
2. How are the rich and the poor treated by the bankers?
3. Why does Lawrence say that he has something to expiate in his poem ‘Snake’?
4. How, according to the beggar, are one’s dreams realized and lost?
5. What is the central idea of the poem ‘Asleep’?
6. How does Gangadhar substantiate his observation that disparity in spending among different classes of people lead to tragedy?
III. Answer any two of the following in a page each : (2x10=20)
1. How did the body’s family react to his ‘almighty kick’ and why?
2. Narrate the circumstance that led Jenks to buy back his own whiskers.
3. How is Chief Seattle different from the Whiteman in his attitude towards nature?
4. Discuss the significance of the Mahar Struggle.
SECTION-B
IV. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”.
These are the words inscribed on the statue of Liberty in New York. But ironically, those who go there are not the poor and the wretched but the skilled and the highly qualified doctors, engineers, scientists, nurses and technicians, from other countries including India.
The urge to go to the west has become compelling in India in Post-Independence years. Both the wards and political upheavals like civil wars and revolutions spawned large migrations during the first half of this century. The migrations in the latter half stem from economic motivation. People in power like scientists and skilled persons have, from the very beginning, played a key role in international migration. The conscious policy to encourage immigration of high quality man power from other regions and countries is related to the positive contribution made by the immigrants to their country of adoption, resulting in a net advantage to it. This phenomenon of gaining qualified and skilled personnel at the cost of the donor country is generally termed brain drain.
Perhaps the most important reason for the brain drain phenomenon is an educational pattern which does not serve the needs of the country. The others are unrecognized or unrewarded talents and lack of job opportunities for trained professionals. For example, the emoluments drawn by a research worker are far less than those of a factory hand. This is the start of the brain drain of the young. Lure of higher salaries in hard currency, good living and favourable conditions of settling down with the family also prompt highly qualified Indians to look to the west for jobs. The migration of Indian man power to the U.S. In the 1950’s and the first half of the 1960’s was limited by the U.S. Immigration Act of 1952 which set the annual quota at 100 for Indian nationals. The total number of Indian engineers, Scientists and Physicians admitted during 1964-65 numbered more than 1000. However, the scene changed drastically in 1965 when the U.S. immigration laws eliminated preferential treatment accorded to West Europeans and gave priority to immigrants with skills in short supply. As a result, between 1966-1970, thousands of Indian professionals made their way to the U.S.
What is disconcerting is that after India has proved to be the fount of more than one fourth of the skilled immigrants to the U.S., the major part of this drain drain is being borne by the medical faculties. According to the World Health Organiazation, India is the largest donor of medical manpower in the world.
Our country thereby loses not only these professionals but also the resources invested in their training. For instance the government spends Rs. 2 Lakhs on very IIT graduate and it is seen that one out of every three of these settles in the U.S. after going there for, higher studies.
The specific objectives of the anti-brain drain policies, with the frame work of independent development are to bring back to a limited extent, the lost talents and skills from abroad and reduce the outflow in the short run and finally end it except that necessitated by genuine, multi-lateral international dependence.
Glossary: Spawned-produced in large numbers
Fount – Source.
A. Answer the following questions in a word, a phrase or a sentence each. (1x4=4)
1. Why did people migrate in large numbers during the first half of the century?
2. Define brain-drain.
3. Mention two reasons for the brain drain.
4. How does the country suffer on account of brain drain?
B. Answer the following in 4 to 5 sentences. (3x2=6)
1. How does the present situation make a mockery of the words inscribed on the statue of Liberty?
2. What are the major objectives of the anti-brain drain policies?
C. Answer the following (1x5=5)
1. ?What is ‘hard currency’?
2. All others-the poor and the wretched migrate to the U.S. (accept/except)
3. People in power have played a key role in international migration. (Change the voice)
4. Out of the thousands that migrate to the U.S only ________ return to India. (a few, few)
5. Either higher salaries of good living (lure/lures) Indians to go abroad.
SECTION-C
(Basic Communication Skills)
V. Rewrite as directed (Answer any five): (1x5=5)
1. Old people need food more for their ________ than growth. (Use the appropriate form of ‘Survive’)
2. People cannot recycle paper permanently. (Change the sentence into positive)
3. The blind boy found it difficult to cope up with the stress. (Correct the error)
4. Neither Aman nor Amit __________ (was/were) invited to the party.
5. He was interested in _________ (do) a course in French.
6. Add ‘un’ or ‘in’ to the following words to form their opposites.
a) Convenient x _____________ b) believable x __________
VI. Answer the following questions: (1x5=5)
A. Write the sentence using the appropriate phrases/expressions for each of the following situations given below.
1. Offering help to an old man to cross the road.
2. Requesting your friend for a pen.
3. Permitting your brother to use your mobile phone.
4. Refusing to go with your friend for a late night movie.
5. Asking the clerk for an extra copy of the marks card.
B. Give clear instructions for any one of the following in 5 or 6 sentences : (1x5=5)
1. How to draw a rangoli.
2. How to use a public phone.
3. How to prepare coffee.
C. Give direction to your mother to help her to reach the BMTC Bus stand from Point A as marked on the given map. (1x5=5)
(THE SKETCH OF THE MAP IS HANDWRITTEN)
D. Write a dialogue of a telephone conversation based on the following. (1x5=5)
Mohan have an urgent meeting to attend and hence not able to attend his mother’s birthday party. He leaves a message with his secretary Lara to convey his wishes to his mother and also inform his wife to attend the party without fail.
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