AMIETE – ET/CS/IT
(NEW SCHEME) – Code: AE99/AC99/AT99
Subject: COMMUNICATION SKILLS & TECHNICAL WRITING
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 70
NOTE: There are 9
Questions in all.
· Question 1 is compulsory and carries 20 marks. Answer to Q.1 must be
written in the space provided for it in the answer book supplied and nowhere
else.
· Out of the remaining EIGHT questions answer any FIVE questions. Each
question carries 10 marks.
· Any required data not explicitly given, may be suitably assumed and
stated.
Q.1 Choose the appropriate alternative in the
following: (2
10)
a. In grammatical concord, if the subject is in the first
person, the verb must be
_________
(A) in the first person (B) in the second person
(C) in the third person. (D) at the discretion of the writer.
b. Effective communication can lead to ________
(A) agreement (B) disagreement
(C) partial agreement (D) all of the above
c. The synonym of a verb must be ________
(A) a verb (B) an adverb
(C)
a noun (D) an
adjective
d. During
transformation of a sentence from one grammatical form to another, its meaning _________
(A) is completely changed (B) is slightly changed
(C) is unchanged (D) none of the above
e. The antonym of ‘include’ is __________
(A) un-include (B) non-include
(C) including (D) exclude
f. The synonym of
‘odour’ is _________
(A) odourless (B) non-odour
(C) smell (D) smelling
g. When
superficial listening takes place, it is known as ___________
(A) Passive listening (B) Marginal listening
(C) Active listening (D) Projective
listening
h. In reading, the term Comfort Zone Speed (CZS) refers to __________
(A) the posture in which the reader is most comfortable.
(B) the speed at which the reader has the maximum level of comprehension.
(C) the posture and speed at which the
reader is most comfortable.
(D) the posture
and speed at which the reader has the maximum level of
comprehension.
i. A group of words without a finite verb, especially one that forms a sentence is called a ___________
(A) phrase (B)
paragraph
(C) article (D) noun
j. The sequence of subject-verb-object pattern ________when we combine
several sentences into
a single sentence.
(A) always changes (B) sometimes changes
(C) does not change (D) changes to the opposite
Answer any FIVE questions out of EIGHT questions.
Each question carries 10 marks.
Q.2 a. What are the parameters of
effective communication? Write short notes
on each of them. (6)
b. What are
the barriers to communication? List the same. (4)
Q.3 a.
Do as directed:
(i) He has told us that he is coming. (Change into Direct
Narration)
(ii) Your good result has not surprised us. (Change into Passive Voice)
(iii) He is certain of giving you profit. (Change into
Complex sentence)
(iv) His services to the nation cannot be
forgotten. (Change into Affirmative sentence)
(v) This news is so good that it cannot be true. (Transform
this sentence using the adverb “too”).
(vi) He has passed the examination. (Change into Interrogative sentence)
(16)
b. Written below are
four sentences which are incorrect. Write the correct
sentences. (4)
(i) The committee have issued the report.
(ii) One cannot be too careful about what he/she says.
(iii) Madhya
Pradesh is larger than any state in
Q.4 a. Read the passage given
below carefully and answers the questions that follow:
“I
am always amazed when I hear people say that sports create goodwill among
nations and that if the common people of the world could meet at football or
cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Almost all
sports played nowadays are competitive. You play to win and the game has little
meaning unless you do your utmost to win. At the international level, sport is
frankly ‘mimic’ warfare. The significant thing is not the behaviour of the
players but the attitude of the spectators. The spectators work themselves into
extreme passions over these contests and seriously believe – for short periods
at least – that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national
virtue.
As
soon as strong feelings of rivalry are aroused, the notion of playing the game
according to the rules always vanishes. People want to see one side on top and
the other humiliated. They forget that victory gained through cheating or
through the intervention of the crowd is meaningless. Even when the spectators
don’t intervene physically, they try to influence the game by cheering their
own side and ‘rattling’ the opposing players with boos and insults.
Serious
sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy,
boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing
violence. In other words, sport is nothing but war minus the shooting.
Instead
of talking about the clean healthy rivalry of the football field and the great
part played by the Olympic Games in bringing nations together, it is more
useful to inquire how and why the modern cult of sport arose.
Most
of the games we now play are of ancient origin, but sport does not seem to have
been taken very seriously between Roman times and the nineteenth century. The
games were built up into a heavily financed activity capable of attracting vast
crowds and arousing savage passions. The infection spread from country to
country and it is the most violently combative sports like football and boxing
that have spread the widest. There cannot be much doubt that the rise of sports
is bound up with the rise of nationalism – that is, with the lunatic modern
habits of identifying oneself with large power units and seeing everything in
terms of competitive prestige.
Organised
games are more likely to flourish in urban communities where the average human
being lives a sedentary or at least a confined life and does not get much
opportunity for creative labour. In a rustic community, a boy or young man
works off a good deal of his surplus energy by walking,
swimming, climbing trees, riding horses and by
various sports involving cruelty to animals such as fishing, cock fighting and
ferreting for rats. In a big town, one must indulge in group activities if one
wants an outlet for one’s physical strength or for one’s sadistic impulses.”
Questions:
(i)
In what
sense is international sport ‘mimic’ warfare?
(ii)
Why has
serious sport nothing to do with fair play?
(iii) Why do organised games flourish in urban
communities?
(23)
b. List the strategy
one should follow for building vocabulary? (4)
Q.5 a. What are the points that need to be kept in
mind while making a job
application? List the same with a short
description of each. (6)
b. Read the following
paragraph carefully and:
(i) Write down
the topic sentence of the paragraph.
(ii) Write
down any sentence/sentences which do not support the topic sentence.
“Hobbies
are important for many reasons. The first is that a hobby can be educational in
nature, as for example, if it were stamp collecting, then the person can learn
about the countries of the world and even some of their history. Secondly,
engaging in a hobby can lead to meeting other people with the same interests. A
person can also meet other people by going to parties. Thirdly, a person’s free
time is used in a positive way as the person has no time to be bored or get
into mischief while engaged in the hobby. Finally, some hobbies can lead to a
future job and a person who enjoys a hobby related job is likely to be more
satisfied with life.” (4)
Q.6 a. What are the
barriers to listening? Write short notes on each of them. (6)
b. What is the
information that should be contained in the agenda of a meeting? (4)
Q.7 a. List the rules one should observe when using visual aids in a public talk. (6)
b. List the various
methods and sources used for collecting data for reports (4)
Q.8 a. What general considerations should be kept in mind while
writing a good
report? (6)
b. What is the
difference between the Abstract and the Summary of a report? (4)
Q.9 a. What
are the objectives of a ‘Group Discussion?’ List the same. (6)
b. List the telephone
etiquette skills desired for answering telephone calls.
(4)