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Posted By: vinothxavier Member Level: Silver Posted Date: 19 Jan 2008
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2007 Anna University B.E Technical English Question paper
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Anna University, Coimbatore
I Semester B.E. / B. Tech. Programmes, 2007.
Model Question paper
Marks: 100
Answer all the questions.
Section –I (20×2=40 marks)
1. Make antonyms of the following words by adding suitable prefixes.
(i) Relenting (ii) Purity (iii) Sensitive (iv) Advantage
2. Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B.
A B
(i) radiation bringing together
(ii) trekking giving out rays
extended walking
3 Frame sentences using the given phrases.
(i) look after
(ii) adhere to
4. Fill in the blanks with suitable Prepositions.
Very fast trains are safe compared __________ most other forms ________ motorized transport. For example, the TGV, which commenced operation _______ 1981, travels _________ 10 million kilometers each year.
5. Define the following terms.
(i) Aerial (ii) Modem
6. Correct the following sentences using subject –verb agreement.
a. The cost of the computers are dropping day-by-day
b. Neither Raghu nor his friends knows the truth.
7. Complete the following sentences by using correct form of the word that agrees with the subject.
a. Each of the suspected men ________ arrested.
b. One must do ________ duty.
8. Fill in the blanks with appropriate form of the verbs.
a) Rice husk _____ (obtain) from rice mills. It ________ (produce) in such a large quantity that its disposal sometimes becomes a problem. When it ______ (burn) under controlled temperature in a furnace it _________ (leave) a residue in the form of a highly reactive ash.
9. (i) Transfer the simple sentence into compound sentence.
a. Besides being a teacher, she is a journalist.
(ii) Change the following sentence into simple sentence
a. Time which is lost is lost forever.
10. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles:
a. Everyone respects---------honest person.
b. Copper is--------- useful metal.
11. Give the American English Equivalents(word change/spelling) of the following British English words.
a. Lift b. favour
12. Change into impersonal passive statements.
a. He lubricated the ball-bearing
b. We use the community–type hybrid solar cooker for cooking a large quantity of food.
13. Complete the following.
a. If the engine is serviced regularly, _________
b. _________, if the uranium is fissioned.
14. Correct the form of the verb in the following conditional clauses.
a. If I went to Delhi today, I would have met my cousin.
b. He would write the test, if he attends the classes regularly.
15. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the comparative forms of the adjectives given in brackets.
a. The tiger is _________ (ferocious) than other animals.
b. Diesel costs ________ (little) than petrol.
16. Rewrite the following sentences in comparative degree.
a. No other metal is as useful as Iron.
b. Chennai is one of the biggest cities in India.
17. Expand the following nominal compounds.
a. Car battery b. Power transmission problems
c. Calculation speed e. Laser printer
18. Analyse the Sentence Pattern in the following:
a. He is a doctor.
b. He brought a book.
19. Edit the following passage:
One of the world’s source of energy are oil. We depend on it for using as fuel for transportation and generate of power. Crude mineral oil come out of the earth as a thick brown or black liqued with a strong smell. It is a complex mixtures of many different substance.
20. Describe the process of planting a sapling in your college.
Section - II (5×12=60 marks)
Answer any five out of the following eight questions
21. Read the passage carefully, and then answer the following questions:
Getting a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it has arrived; the cellophane wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed; the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not wrapped in cellophane, polythene, or paper.
The package itself is of no interest to the people, who usually throw it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the heap of garbage in the streets. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up resources and messing up the environment.
Little research is being carried out on the costs of alternative types of packaging. Just how possible is it, for instance, for local authorities to salvage paper, pulp it, and recycle it as egg boxes? Would it be cheaper to plant another forest? Paper is the material most used for packaging – but very little is recycled.
A machine has been developed that pulps paper then processes it into packaging, e.g. egg-boxes and cartons. This could be easily adapted for local use. It would mean that people would have to separate their refuse into paper and non-paper, with a different dustbin for each. Paper is, in fact, probably the material, that can be most easily recycled; and now, with massive increases in paper prices, the time has come at which collection by local authorities could be profitable.
Recycling of this kind is already happening with milk bottles, which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More and more dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles. If all the milk bottles necessary were made of plastic, then British dairies would be producing the equivalent of enough plastic tubing that would encircle the earth every five or six days!
The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever growing mounds of plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs.
More research is needed for the recovery and re-use of various materials and for the cost of collecting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, that is used just once, can be avoided. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more sophisticated approach to packaging. Let it be simplified to a considerable extent to minimize land pollution.
I. Choose the response which best reflects the meaning of the text.
(a) The ‘local authorities’ are
(i) the town council.
(ii) the police.
(iii) the paper manufacturers.
(iv) the most influential citizens.
(b) If paper is to be recycled
(i) more forests will have to be planted.
(ii) the use of paper bags will have to be restricted.
(iii) people will have to use different dustbins for their rubbish.
(iv) the local authorities will have to reduce the price of paper.
(c) British dairies are
(i) producing enough plastic tubing to go round the world in less than a week.
(ii) giving up the use of glass bottles.
(iii) increasing the production of plastic bottles
(iv) re-using their old glass bottles.
(d) The environmentalists think that
(i) more plastic packaging should be used.
(ii) plastic is the most convenient form of packaging.
(iii) too much plastic is wasted.
(iv) shops should stop using plastic containers.
II. State whether the following statements are true or false.
a. Too many products nowadays are wrapped in unnecessary packaging.
b. The countryside is being spoilt by the overproduction of packaging.
c. It is possible to use paper again.
d. The rising price of paper will make it worthwhile for local authorities to collect waste-paper.
III. Choose the meaning or explanation which best fits the context in which it is used.
(a) Confined
(i) used for
(ii) restricted to
(iii) needed for
(iv) suited to
(b) Accounts for
(i) makes up
(ii) compensates for
(iii) is recovered from
(iv) is kept out of
(c) Messing up
(i) spoiling
(ii) altering
(iii) improving
(iv) poisoning
(d) Recycled
(i) reduced
(ii) reproduced
(iii) re-used
(iv) retailed
22. Write a letter to the Editor of a Newspaper about the loudspeaker nuisance in your locality.
23. Rearrange the following jumbled sentences in the correct order
(i) Then it is placed in large vats containing water suspensions of frothing agents and thoroughly agitated by jets of air.
(ii) The froth process of extracting silver accounts for about 75 percent of all silver recovered.
(iii) The final refining is done using electrolysis.
(iv) Silver occurs in ores of several metals.
(v) Firstly the ore is ground to a powder.
(vi)Thirdly depending on the agent used, either the silver bearing ore or the gangue adhering to the bubbles of the froth is skimmed off and washed.
24. Write a paragraph of 200 words explaining the role of English as an
international language.
25. Read the following passage and draw a flow chart:
The earth contains a large number of metals which are useful to man. One of the most important of these is Iron. The iron ore which we find in the earth is not pure. It contains some impurities which we must remove by smelting. The process of smelting consists of heating the ore in a blast furnace with coke and limestone and reducing it to metal. Blasts of hot air enter the furnace from the bottom and provide the oxygen which is necessary for the reduction of the ore. The ore becomes molten, and its oxides combine with the carbon from the coke. The non – metallic constituents of the ore combine with the limestone to form a liquid slag. This floats on top of the molten iron, and passes out of the furnace through a tap. The metal which remains is pig iron. We can melt this down again in another furnace – a cupola – with more coke and limestone, and tap it out into a ladle or directly into moulds. This is cast iron.
26. Read the following passage and make notes on it.
It is, everyone agrees, a difficult task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.
Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will ‘obey’ spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire. This self – imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.
It is a problem we need not get our teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation; and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use, at say seven months, of ‘mama’ as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes.
27) Write a letter to the Manager, Tata Steels, Mumbai., to undergo in-plant training for a week. Assume suitable names and address. Give your reasons for choosing their company.
28) Discuss the wisdom of investing in gold as an economic proposition in a paragraph of about 200 words.
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