Attempt all the questions.
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below. [10]
Pollution-the simple visible kind of pollution is now worldwide. When Apollo 8 took photographs of the earth's surface, where did they reveal the most serious smog and polluted air? Not Los Angeles, which as somehow got the reputation of having biggest and nastiest smog, but over Osaka and Tokyo in Japan. Along this strips, 34 tons of dirt a month fall on every square kilometer, compared to a mere 17 tons in New York. Coastal vessels collide regularly or run aground because they cannot see each other's navigation lights in day-light, or because light buoys are invisible. Traffic policeman go back to the police-station after four hours of duty and breathe pure oxygen from the oxygen cylinders to re-oxygenate their carbon monoxide loaded blood. In cafes and shopping centers coin-in-the slot machines give oxygen to shoppers who feel themselves about to collapse. In school, children wear face-masks while they do their lessons on among-warming days. ("Pollution and Super Pollution")
a) Differentiate between pollution and super pollution.
b) How can we reduce Super-pollution?
c) What is the crux of this passage?
d) What is the topic sentence of this paragraph?
e) Give a title to this paragraph.
2.
a) What do you mean by 'cybernetics'? Discuss its impacts on human society on the basis of the text that you have read. [7.5]
b) What is the main idea of Bronwski's essay "Man and Nature"? To what extent do you agree with his argument? Give reasons of your answer. [7.5]
3.
a) Remove possible ambiguities in the sentences by changing the position of faulty modifiers. [2.5]
i) John only scored a ten runs.
ii) He promised when a vacancy occurred to consider me for the position.
iii) He found the dog in the boat, which was dark brown color with a white tail.
iv) The car came down the street decked with flowers.
v) The car is in the garage which he smashed.
b) Give the nouns forms to the following adjectives. [2.5]
Complacent
solitary
enjoyable
elegant
doubtful
4. Write a short paragraph on the basics of communication. [5]
5. What are basic components of an essay? Write an essay on "Ways to combat Pandemics" [5+10]
OR,
"Importance of English Language in Nepal"