QB for mid 2

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EXERCISES

A. Rewrite each sentence , moving  the  misplaced modifier  to its corret position.

1. The train was nearly late by five hours.

2. Sindhu bought a pen from a shop that didn’t  cost much.

3. I only need to do this once.

4. The piece was missing from the puzzle that we needed to complete the set.

5. We listened to the speech by the Prime  Minister huddled around the radio.

6. The wrestler was a large man with a flowing beard weighing 130kgs.

7. She gave the beggar her  food  who was sitting on the road .

8. The book was only published in Telugu.

9. Mani presented a paper at a seminar  titled `Management challenges in a Digital Age’.

10. We saw lots of miniature paintings on a school trip to an art gallery.

B. Rewrite the following sentences correctly.

1. It is raining for four hours.

2. I used to wrote stories as a child.

3. She is driving for two hours now.

4. I did not met  Akram yesterday. I have met Amir instead.

5. My sister has returned home last week.

6. He did not came to class yesterday.

C. Complete the sentences by choosing  the correct option.

1. I _______ that it is true.                                             (a) know, (b) am knowing

2. I _______ myself.                                                         (a) have hurt, (b) hurt 

3. She ______ three sisters.                                            (a) is having, (b) has

4. Do you know where ______ from?                           (a) she comes, (b) does she come

5. I ______ mangoes.                                                         (a) am liking, (b) like

6.That  museum ______ shut a long time ago.          (a) was, (b) has been

D.Answer the following  questions.

1.  You are a graduate in chemical engineering  from  the National Institute of Technology, Trichy.

      You have  three years of experience as an assistant project engineer  with a fertiliser company.

      Write a job application letter in response to an opening for the post of project engineer in a well -

      Known petrochemical company. Also prepare a resume/CV for the same.

2. You have worked as a software developer for two firms for a couple of years each. You would like

     To take up the position of an assistant IT manager at a larger firm which has advertised such an

      Opening on their company website. The company prefers  someone with a master’s degree, but

      You have only a bachelor’s degree in computer science with no other  diplomas  or certification.

       Prepare a resume/CV and a cover letter for the same.  

E. Answer the following questions in about 250 to 300 words each.

1. What is importance of art and literature in one’s life, according to A.P.J.Abdul Kalam?

2. How do the different arts influence human civilization?

3. Kalam believed that `students of art and literature are important contributors to transforming 

India into a developed nation’. Do you agree with this statement? Elaborate on your answer.

F. Answer  the following questions in about  250 to 300 words each.

1. Describe  the morning ritual in Bagchi’s house and bring out its importance.

2. Describe the last days of Bagchi’s father in the hospital.

3. What created in Bagchi a sense of interconnectedness with a larger world?

G. Read the following texts. Answer the questions that follow in just one sentence each. Keep your answer brief, but at the same time clear and complete.

Passage 1

A generator is essentially just an electric motor working in reverse. An electric motor consists of a tight coil of copper wire wrapped around an iron core that’s free to rotate at high speed inside a powerful permanent magnet. When you feed electricity into the copper coil, it becomes a temporary, electrically powered magnet--- in other words, an electromagnet--- and generates a magnetic field all around it. The temporary magnetic field pushes against the magnetic field that the permanent magnet creates and forces the coil to rotate. By a bit of clever design, the coil can be  made to rotate continuously in the same direction, spinning round and round and powering anything from an electric toothbrush to an electric train.

        So how is a generator different? Suppose you have an electric toothbrush with a rechargeable battery inside. Instead of letting the battery power the motor that pushes the brush, what if you did the opposite? What if you turned the brush back and forth repeatedly? What you’d be doing would be manually turning the electric motor’s axle. That would make the copper coil inside the motor turn around repeatedly inside its  permanent magnet. If you move an electric wire inside a magnetic field, you make electricity flow through the wire—in effect, you generate electricity. Keep turning the toothbrush long enough and, in theory, you would generate enough electricity to recharge its battery. That, in effect, is how a generator works.

1. What is this text about?

2. Where are electric motors used?

3. How can you create a simple electromagnet?

4. What is the purpose of a generator?

5. Mention two differences  between a generator and an electric motor.

6. Is the author’s personal opinion on the subject mentioned in the text? (If yes, what is it?)

MODEL PAPER QUESTIONS

The reading method SQ3R stands for_________________________ 

2 The speech “go kiss the world” is by______________ 

3 One of the favorite book of Abdul Kalam ji is_________

4 The extract is from Kalam’s book____________

5. There has been a huge______ in petrol prices. (rise/ raise)

6. The suspect’s nervousness_______ that she knows about the missing money. (implies/ infers) 

7. I ______ that it is true. (Know/am knowing) 

8. I ______Myself. ( hurted /hurt) 

9. She _______three sisters. (is having/ has) 

10. Do you know where _______from? (she comes/does she come)