DCA I (First) Semester Examination 2012-13
Course Code: DCA106 Paper ID: 0811206
Business Communication
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 70 Max Marks: 75
Note: Attempt six questions in all. Q. No. 1 is compulsory.
1. Answer any five of the following (limit your answer in 50 words): (4x5=20)
a) What are the characteristics of a good sentence? Give two examples.
b) What are the kinds of letters?
c) Write a note on job application.
d) Write a note on resume.
e) Discuss the essentials of paragraph writing.
f) What is an essay? Explain its characteristics.
g) What is group discursion? Explain its objectives.
h) What is a précis? Describe qualities of a good précis.
2. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with ‘a or ‘an’ or ‘the’ wherever necessary. (2x5=10)
a) ………….Ganga is a holy river.
b) I saw…… aeroplane in the sky.
c) Do not make ………..noise.
d) He goes to Delhi twice…….month.
e) ……….Ramcharitmanas is a holy book.
3. Choose the right word to fill in the blanks. (2x5=10)
a) I am fond …… reading. (on, of)
b) She is waiting ………her result. (for, on)
c) The train has arrived ………..the station. (at, on)
d) We should try to get rid………..bad habits. (for, of)
e) Mohan deals …………cosmetics. (with, in)
4. Give one word substitute of any five of the following: (2x5= 10)
a) A child born after the death of its father.
b) The handwriting of this letter is not very clear to read.
c) This pearl is beyond all price.
d) A child who is without both parents.
e) Shiva is a total abstainer from all alcoholic drinks.
f) That which can not be eaten.
g) That which can not be drunk.
5. Write an application to your principal for fee concession. (10)
6. Write an application to the Manager of Maruti Udyog, Delhi for the post of Manager along with your bio-data. (10)
7. Write a paragraph on any of the following in 100 to 150 words. (10)
a) Economic reforms in India
b) The fear of recession in India
c) Hostel Life
d) Use and misuse of mobile phone
8. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions in your own words. (2x5=10)
R.K. Narayan is most unhappy with the people who borrow his books and fail to return them. Such people start avoiding the lender. They are always too busy or in too much hurry to stay and discuss so petty a thing. They add insult to injury by pretending that they just happened to borrow a book in a weak moment while they have no time for any kind of reading. They feel take obliging the lender by showing their inclination to read the book sometime in future if possible.
There comes a time when the borrower forgets the book itself. He expresses his inability to trace it. He never finds it. Then, with incredible shamelessness, he stoops to tell the truth that the book might be with his brother in law. His brother in law proves to be as untraceable as the book itself, so that the lender himself can not chase the book any further. This is the end of the search as well as the relationship with the man who caused this futile search.
The author hates the loss of his books, and calls for effective legislation to check book-borrowing. But no political party proposes a law to this effect. Keeping our books is incompatiable with sharing the delight of reading them, with others. These two kinds of satisfaction can not be united. You can not eat your cake and have it. Similarly you can not lend your books and yet have them.
Narayan tells about a man who know how to lend books without making his library the poorer for it. The borrower had to sign a ledger, even if he were a close relative. The borrower had to pay a fine if he could not return the book on the date fixed for that purpose. The lender regarded books not less valuable than one’s furniture etc. He demanded a replacement in case of a loss. He was relentless in imposing this discipline. People called him petty minded and rude, but he could always find his books. It is more difficult for an author to turn down a request for a book. It is not vanity if any author wants to keep a t least one copy of his book with him. He may have to work on it further. But borrowers often leave him without a single copy, and he has to borrow his own book from the library. Those borrowers could as well have gone to the library instead of coming to the author. They prefer to come to the author. And, if the author fails to oblige them, they wonder why an author should want his own book.
a) How do the book-borrowers insult the book-lender?
b) What is the author’s strongest reaction to the problem of book-loss?
c) The borrowers express their desire to read the book in future.
i) to oblige the lender.
ii) to enjoy it better.
iii) to keep the book still with them.
iv) to make amends for delay.
d) The book and the brother in law resemble by
i) belonging to the same person.
ii) being equally untraceable
iii) beginning with the same letter ‘b’.
e) A ‘weak’ moment means
i) a very short second
ii) a moment of thoughtfulness
iii) a sad time
iv) a moment of insanity