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ALAGAPPA
UNIVERSITY
KARAIKUDI – 630 003
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.