DECEMBER 2003 CS-610 QUESTION PAPER

IGNOU BCA CS-610: FOUNDATION COURSE IN ENGLISH FOR COMPUTING - DEC 2003 QUESTION PAPER

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CS - 610 FOUNDATION COURSE IN ENGLISH FOR COMPUTING
DECEMBER 2003
Time : 2 Hours Max. Marks : 50

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Note : Answer all questions:

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1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions, which are based on it:

Scientists in many parts of the world are now trying to reclaim the desert lands. In Iraq, with its two great rivers, everyone thinks immediately of irrigation. Actually irrigation is not a very important means of reclaiming desert lands. In the first place, only a small part of the world’s desert land is near enough to large rivers for men to be able to use them, and in the second place, irrigation itself can be dangerous for the land, where a hot sum evaporates great quantities of water every day. In fact, irrigation may change fertile land to barren land, and indeed is doing so all the time. The reason for this is simple. All river water is slightly salty. If we spread river water over the land and allow it to evaporate, we spread salt over the land too. If we go on doing this, the land becomes so saline that it produces nothing but palm trees - and eventually not even palm trees grow there; the land has become a desert.

(i) Why does everyone think of using irrigation to reclaim desert land in Iraq? [2]

(ii) When does a piece of land become a desert? [2]

(iii) How can irrigation change fertile land into barren land? [2]

(iv) Choose from the passage the words which mean the same as the following: [6]
(a) Salty
(b) Land, which produces vegetation
(c) to change liquid into vapour
(d) In the end
(e) To supply water to land
(f) To bring back into use

2. Do as directed: [8]

(i) Pick out the odd word.
(a) Lock
(b) Knock
(c) Shut
(d) Bolt

(ii) Give the opposite of lift.

(iii) Insert an article in the blank space:
He is late by ________ hour.

(iv) Complete the sentence by adding a suitable relative clause:
Did you collect the parcel _________?

(v) Fill the blank with an appropriate modal:
People with fair skin ________ be particularly careful when they go out in the sun.

(vi) Change into reported speech:
My father said, “Don’t forget to go to the supermarket after work”.

(vii) Correct the sentence:
She is understanding the lesson now.

(viii) Use an appropriate preposition:
She is very good __________ language.

3. Fill in the blanks with the correct form the verb: [5]
(a) She ________ (go) for a walk every day.
(b) I _________ (prepare) for competitive exams.
(c) I __________ (work) in this office for five years.
(d) His mother _______ (arrive) from Mumbai yesterday.
(e) The thief _________ (escape) before the police came.

4. Change to passive voice: [5]
(a) I hope they will have completed all the work by tomorrow.
(b) People were using the tennis court so we couldn’t play.
(c) They saw him climbing over the hill.
(d) People said he was jealous of her.
(e) We called the fire station when the fire broke out.

5. Write a composition in about 400 words on any one of the following topics: [10]
(a) Women cannot take up all kinds of jobs
(b) My favorite form of relaxation
(c) The value of Democracy

6. Write a dialogue in about 150 words on any one of the following topics: [10]
(a) Two passengers on a railway train
(b) A tells B that he had a strange dream
(c) Ashok asks Geeta for directions to be telephone exchange.

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