Name of the University : Vardhman Mahaveer Open University
Degree : MA
Department : English
Subject Code/Name : MAEG-01 – English Language Usage and Communication Skills
Year : I
Document Type : Question Bank
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English Language Usage :
Section A
Read the following passage and answer the given questions :-
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All over the world the wild fauna has been whittled down steadily and remorselessly
and many lovely and interesting animals have been so reduced in numbers that,
without protection and help, they can never re-establish themselves. If they cannot
find sanctuary where they can live and breed undisturbed, their number will dwindle
until they join the dodo, the quagga, and the great auk on the long list of extinct
creatures.
Of course in the last decade or so much has been done for the protection of wild life :
sanctuaries and reserves have been started, and the reintroduction of a species into
areas where it had become extinct is taking place. In Canada, for instance, beavers are
now reintroduced into certain areas by means of airplane. The animal is put in a
special box attached to a parachute, and when the plane flies over the area it drops the
cage and its beaver passenger out. The cage floats down on the end of the parachute
and when it hits the ground it opens automatically and the beaver then makes its way
to the nearest stream or lake.
But although much is being done, there is still a very great deal to do. Unfortunately
the majority of useful work in animal preservation has been done mainly for animals
which are of some economic importance to man, and there are many obscure species
of no economic importance which, although they are protected on papers, as it were,
are in actual fact being allowed to die out because nobody except a few interested
zoologists, consider them important enough to spend money on.
1. What steps are taken for the protection of wild animals in recent years-
2. What is the reason of many important obscure species to die out-
3. Tick the appropriate option :-
A. The word extinct means :-
a) Obsolete
b) Thriving
c) No longer existing or living
B. According to author, man has made efforts to protect only those species that
are :- (1)
a) Of economical interest
b) Kept as pets
c) Beautiful in appearance
C. Which word represent movement :-
a. Lovely
b. Remorselessly
c. Steadily
4. Write antonyms of the given words from the passage.
i. Interesting
ii. Protection
iii Obscure
Insert in the blanks suitable phrase :-
a. She always comes_____________.
b. They have considered _____________.
c. The children over there _________________.
d. He likes _______________.
Supply the blanks in the sentences given below with a suitable clause.
a. Having settled the quarrel ____________.
b. I would like him ___________.
c. I cannot guess _______________.
d. I saw a girl _____________.
Fill in the blanks with one of the two words given in brackets.
a. The owner of this house ___________ very rich. (are/ is)
b. Either he or she _____________ committed a mistake. (has / have)
c. The clothes of this girl ____________very trendy. (is / are)
d. It’s an ill wind that ______________ nobody good. (blow / blows)
Convey the following notion / concept through a sentence of your own.
a. Ability
b. Concession
c. Preference
d. Suggestion
Write the past and participle form of the given simple form words.
a. Hide
b. Ring
c. Fall
d. Choose
Do as directed :-
a. He has money. His father has money. (make compound sentence)
b. There __________ some rupees in my wallet. (is / are)
c. He gave us a cheque. (passive voice)
d. Walking in the field he saw a snake. (use comma)
Convey the following notion / concept through a sentence of your own.
a. Hesitation
b. Intention
c. Consequence
d. Comparison
Write the past and participle form of he given simple form words.
a. Rise
b. Say
c. Shrink
d. Dig
Do as directed :-
a. She broke the glass. She broke the plate. (compound sentence)
b. Crowds’ _________ spoil a vacation resort. (can / should)
c. There _________ a carton of milk in the refrigerator. ( is / are)
d. The house was painted last year. (active voice)
Read the following passage and answer the given questions.
I don’t believe there’s any man who in his heart of hearts wouldn’t rather be called
brave than have any other virtue attributed to him. And this elemental, if you like,
unreasoning, male attitude is a sound one, because courage is not merely a virtue. It’s
the virtue, without it there are no other virtues. Faith, hope, charity all the rest don’t
become virtues until it takes courage to exercise them. Courage isn’t only the basis of
all virtue; it’s like its expression. True, you may be bad and brave, but you can’t be
good without being brave.
Courage is a mental state – an affair of spirit – and so it gets its strength from spiritual
and intellectual sources. The way in which these spiritual and intellectual elements are
blended, I think produces roughly the two types of courage. The first, an emotional
state which urges a man to risk injury or death – physical courage. The second, a
more reasoning attitude which enables him coolly to state career, happiness, his whole
future, on his judgment of what he thinks either right or worthwhile – moral courage.
Now these two types of courage, physical and moral, are very distinct. I have known
many men who had marked physical courage but lacked moral courage. Some of them
were in high places but they failed to be great in themselves because they lacked it.
But I’ve never met a man with moral courage who wouldn’t, when it was really
necessary, face bodily danger. Moral courage is a higher and rarer virtue than physical
courage.
A. What is the difference between physical courage and moral courage-
B. What courage according to author-
Tick the appropriate option :-
a) The word virtue means :-
a. A moral depravity
b. A commendable quality
c. An imperfection
b) Which word in the passage represents generosity :-
a. Faith
b. Hope
c. Charity
c) According to the author which type of courage Is a rare virtue :-
a. Physical
b. Bodily
c. Moral
C. Write the synonyms of the following words from the passage.
a. Fundamental
b. Notable
c. Wise