School of Social Sciences and LanguagesModel Question Paper

Professional & Communication Skills(Course Code: ENG601)

I Year M. Tech/M.C.A/M. ScTime: 3 hours Max Marks: 100

I. Rewrite the passage by correcting the errors with regard to subject – verb agreement 10 M

I used to think there was few tasks more difficult than picking out birthday presents for my friends. Since my husband and I don’t have much extra money, big luxuries are out, and the household goods on sale at K-Mart is not the kinds of presents they’d enjoy getting. But birthday shopping has become simpler since I decided that what everybody really like is toys. Forget the big, expensive department stores; children’s catalogs and novelty shops is where I do my buying. My favorites of the whole toy collection has been the rubber stamp sets. One of them contain funny pictures of parts of faces: eyes, ears, noses, and so on. With it, anyone become a cartoonist, creating silly faces to decorate all kinds of things. To another friend was sent flying saucers that soar into the air when you pull their strings. There is now saucers all over the roof of her apartment building, and she tells me her neighbors and the building superintendent have no idea where the saucers came from. I’m actually looking forward to shopping for another friend’s birthday—I think a couple of trick hand buzzers and a glow-in-the-dark yo-yo is what we’ll buy next.

II. Rewrite the passages by correcting the shift in the tense forms 2 x 5 = 10 Ma. Inequality between men and women has started when the first human species

came to being. In agricultural and hunting-gathering societies, men were responsible for those jobs that required physical strength, whereas women have to stay at home and look after the baby. It’s obvious that the males have been physically much stronger than women. Unequal power relations between two genders lead to violence, to which especially women have been exposed . Thus, this issue became so important that it needs to be talked about, discussing the reasons for violence and possible solutions.

b. I used to think I want to do major in biology. After taking a biology class in my first semester, however, I realize that perhaps biology was not for me. I decided not to worry about it and to just take classes that fulfilled my core requirements. I took a journalism class and I love it. I have decided to do major in journalism, and I felt confident that this is the right decision.

III. Imagining yourself as an investigation officer, write a report to the Mayor of your city briefing about the environmental hazards due to the use of polythene bags. Give your suggestions for preventing the problem. ( 20 M)

IV. Write a cover letter and a resume applying for the post of technical trainee in Heera Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore. (20 M)

V. Write a Statement of Purpose (SoP) for pursuing post graduation in your specific area of study in a foreign university. (20 M)

VI. Read the following article and write an abstract (60 words). Also identify four keywords appearing in the article. (6+4 = 10 M)

Charged particles from the sun or solar winds, bombarding the lunar surface, could explain the presence of water in its soil, new research says.

Over the past five years, spacecraft observations and new lab measurements of Apollo lunar samples have overturned the long-held belief that the moon is bone-dry. In 2009, NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing satellite, known as LCROSS, slammed into a permanently shadowed lunar crater and ejected a plume of material that was surprisingly rich in water ice, the journal Nature Geoscience reports. Water and related compounds have also been detected in the lunar regolith, or the layer of fine powder and rock fragments that coats the lunar surface. But the origin of lunar surface water has remained unclear, according to a Michigan University statement.

The findings from University of Michigan researcher Youxue Zhang and colleagues from the University of Tennessee (UT) and the California Institute of Technology support solar-wind production of water ice on the moon.

“We found that the ‘water’ component, the hydroxyl, in the lunar regolith is mostly from solar wind implantation of protons, which locally combined with oxygen to form hydroxyls that moved into the interior of glasses by impact melting,” said Zhang, professor of geological sciences. “Lunar regolith is everywhere on the lunar surface, and glasses make up about half of lunar regolith. So our work shows that the ‘water’ component, the hydroxyl, is widespread in lunar materials, although not in the form of ice or liquid water that can easily be used in a future manned lunar base.”

The findings imply that ice inside permanently shadowed polar craters on the moon, sometimes called cold traps, could contain hydrogen atoms ultimately derived from the solar wind, the researchers report.

The researchers analysed individual grains from Apollo 11, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions .

VII. The Government of Rajasthan has earmarked $ 100 million for drought relief work, for the worst affected area district of Jhunjhunu in May 2002. This money has to be spent on the following:

Provision of work to labourers on afforestation. Road construction, digging wells, etc.

Distribution of seed, fertilizers, and fodders at subsidized rates

Supply of drinking water

Supply of essential commodities through fair price shops

Free distribution of medicines

Supply of free lunch to school children

As Collector, Jhunjhunu, write an executive summary of about 150 words as part of a technical proposal.

(10 M)

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