Business English-I New Syllabus Model Question 2078

Group A

1.Complete the sentences below with the given expressions dealing with cause/effect language . Fill the space with correct  preposition ?

Brings    contributes    has a influence  affects      can result

a. Poverty………………..to crime

b. Poverty………………..in crime

c. poverty ……………… on crime rates

d. Poverty……………….crime

e. Poverty ……………about crime

2. Rewrite the following sentences choosing right answer from given option ?

a. You ……………..to lend me your book .

i. are requesting       ii. are requested     iii. have requested    iv. requested

b. I ………………….. Amitav Gosh for several weeks now .

i. am reading     ii. was reading      iii. have been reading       iv. read

c. When we were kids , we …………………..our own toys .

i. had made         ii. were making      iii . are making    iv. made

d. I…………… my homework . What shall I do now .

i . will do         ii. do          iii. have done        iv. did

e. I think my knee……………………. .

i . has been broke      ii. is broken            iii. either is broken       iv. is broken

3. Answer the following questions as instructed in bracket ?

a. A little girl swings cheerfully in the park. (identify each of the words in the sentence pattern)

b. Write an example of a compound sentence joined by the conjuction ‘yet’.

c . He slowly walked into the kitchen and asked for the dinner .(start the sentence with an adverb )

d. Write a compound -complex sentence with only one independent clause .

e. Write the example of a complex sentence using the casual element of the independent clause .

4. Choose the correct words for the following expressions ?

a. The color of your outfit compliments/complements your eyes .

b. The grocery in our community is known for it’s every day / everyday low price .

c. You can just lie /lay the notebook on the table .

d. It is important for the businessperson to ensure /insure /assure her property adequately .

e. The interviewer ‘s job is to appraise /apprise and evaluate .

5. As a sales representative of an electronics company write a product information os a washing machine ?

6. Write a memo with your advice to someone planning to Nepal for business . Outline cultural differences of the country that might impact international business dealings . Look for differences regarding customs ,use of space , hand gesture , time orientation , social behavior , how business is conducted and other business -related issues .

7. Write instruction to recharge the mobile phone by any online method .

8. Prepare a brochure design for a travel agency serving in Nepal for four decades .[10]

Group B   

9. Reading prepares you to respond critically to the ideas of other and to develop ideas of your own . In this process you highlight the text paying attention to the verbal signals . How do you recognize the verbal signals ? Enumerate  each of them with the examples .[7]

10. The issue ‘Finding a job’ is one main idea for topic sentence and it contains a list of what will be discussed in the paragraph introduced by the topic sentence . write a paragraph a topic sentence using the following clues [6]

Finding a job

……go to an employment agency

……read the classified newspaper advertisements

……ask friends and relatives for leads

……send resumes to possible employers

11. Read the following paragraph and answer the question ?

Perhaps city residents and wild animals were never meant to go together ,even in zoo . Recently a visitor to a large city zoo , ignoring all fences and warning signs put his arm into the cage of a six-year-old polar bear . Perhaps the man wanted to feed the bear ,or touch him ,or even tease him . But the bear ,basically the citizen of the wilds ,almost instantly sprang forward and sank his teeth into the man’s hand . As the man screamed for help , and the bear’s keeper tried to get the bear under control ,the bear sucked in more of the man’s arm . Finally , a policeman had to shoot and kill the bear so  that  the man’s arm could released ,which it was . Thus , there was the killing of a polar bear and wounding of a city denizen , two animals who were meant to be residents of their ow worlds, not each other’s .

a. Extract the topic sentences in the paragraph above .

b. Is there more than one main idea in this paragraph.

c. In your own words explain why the incident supports the topic sentence.

12. Rewrite the following paragraph , remove any material that is not part of the main idea stated in the topic sentence . Add facts ,examples , incidents , definitions , comparisons and contrasts to develop the paragraph more fully .[6]

Group c

 13. Answer any three of the following questions .     [3*10=30]

1. What is Sandra Cisneros’s thesis in “Only daughters” ? What incidents and details support this thesis ?
2. What dominant impression does Heather Rogers try to create in her description of ” The Hidden Life Of Garbage ” ? Is he successful ?
3. “The Case against Air Conditioning ” is about why America should stop using air conditioners in everyday life . Is Stan Cox really trying to persuade readers to live in the world without air conditioning  ,or do you think he has some other  ,less extreme purpose in mind ?
4. Is the essay “Why Chinese Mothers are superior”  a point by point comparison  ,a subject by subject comparison , or combinations of two organizational strategies ? Why does Amy Chua arrange her comparison the way she does ?
5. According to Daniel Engber ,what is the public’s attitude toward taxing junk food and soda ? How does he support this generation  ? What does Engber find “ironic” about “so many advocates for healthy eating :”