UNIT BASED ONLINE EXTERNAL EXAMINATION - NOVEMBER – 2020 - PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH - I - SLOT I

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UNIT BASED ONLINE EXTERNAL EXAMINATION - NOVEMBER – 2020

FIRST SEMESTER SLOT – I

PRFESSIONAL ENGLISH - I

Total Marks: 25                                                                                            Time: 1.0 Hr

SECTION A –MCQ – 10 x 1 = 10 Marks

ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS

1. Give the reason why a class of water has no color, while the sea is blue.

2. How Sir C.V. Raman experimented to invalidate the sky-reflection theory of sea color?

3. Why February 28 is being celebrated as National Science Day in our country?

4. Why Tipu Sultan is called the original rocket man of India?

5. Who is a ‘Biographer’? And what would you call ‘Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey’ by Captain G.R.Gopinath, a ‘Biography’ or ‘Autobiography’?

 

SECTION B - DESCRIPTIVE - 3 x 5 = 15 Marks

ANSWER ANY THREE

6. Briefly describe the research work of Sir C.V.Raman.

7. Discuss how the whispering gallery in St. Paul’s Cathedral in England works.

8. List out 10 words from the professional vocabulary you learned in ‘The Indian Scientist Who Found Why the Sea is Blue?’ and ‘Tipu Sultan – The Original Rocket Man of India’.

9. Distinguish between any three of the facts and opinions in the passage ‘Tipu Sultan – The Original Rocket Man of India’.

10. Write note on ‘Congreve Rocket’ and it’s connection to Mysore wars.