2014 (November)
Alternative English
(Commerce)
Course: 302
Full Marks: 80
Time: 3 Hours
The Figures in the margin indicate full marks
for the questions
SECTION – A
(BUSINESS COMMUNICATION)
1. (a) A
week ago you bought a washing machine from M/s D.D Traders, Silpukhuri,
Guwahati. The machine is not working properly. Write a letter of complaint
asking for a replacement. 8
Or
(b)
Reader’s Digest India Ltd., Mumbai has bought out a book called How to write
Speaker Better. As the marketing manager of the company, write a letter to a
potential customer offering the book at a special price of Rs 250 against the
print price of Rs 500.
2. Write
an assay on any one of the topics given below: 10
(a)
Advertisements and consumers
(b)
Dealing with crimes against women
(c)
Friendship
(d)
The India of your dreams
3. (a)
What is business report? Discuss the need and importance of report writing in
modern business. 8
Or
(b) Draft
a report on the need to introduce some incentives, schemes to boost t. Make he
sales of the company.
4. Make a
comparative analysis on the growth of literacy rate in India using the facts
given in the table below: 6
|
Year
|
Literacy rate
|
Male-Female
|
|||
|
Person
|
Male
|
Female
|
|||
|
1981
|
43.6
|
56.4
|
29.8
|
26.6
|
|
|
1991
|
52.2
|
64.1
|
39.3
|
24.8
|
|
|
2001
|
56.4
|
75.8
|
54.2
|
21.6
|
|
5. (a)
What are the objectives of a memorandum? 4
(b) Draft
a memo warning an employee against his habit of reading newspapers and
magazines during office hours. 4
Section-B (Prose)
6. Answer
any four of the following questions: 1x4=4
(a)
What according to Aurobindo, is our first necessity, if India is to survive and
do her appointed work in the world?
(b)
What according to Krishnamurti, is much more important than merely to prepare
ourselves for examinations?
(c)
In which year didi Satyajit Ray decide to make a film in color?
(d)
What reason dose Coetzee give for the boy’s father not becoming a batsman?
(e)
Which newspaper did Naipaul’s father work for?
(f)
Name the collection of essays by Amitav Ghosh, which contains the essay, Books.
7. Answer
any four of the following questions in brief: 2x4=8
(a)
“ We need not fear that we shall by that process cease to be Indians or fall in
the danger of abandoning Hinduism.” What process is referred to here by Sri
Aurobindo?
(b)
What is intelligence according to Krishnamurti?
(c)
What were two questions frequently asked to Ray by the interviewers?
(d)
How does Coetzee describe the boy’s father in the first paragraph of
Playground?
(e)
What does Naipaul find in his father’s desk?
(f)
What, according to Amitav Ghosh, guided his uncle’s selections of books?
8. Answer any
two of the following: 7x2=14
(a)
How, according to Sri Aurobindo, should European ideas be assimilated?
(b)
“ So the function of Education, surely, is to eradicate, inwardly as well as
outwardly, this fear that destroys human thought, human relationship and love.”
Explain the above statement after J. Krishnamurti.
(c)
How does Satyajit Ray describe his experience on the very first day of the
shooting of Pather Panchali?
9. Answer
any two of the following: 7x2=14
(a)
What does Coetzee mean when he says, “Cricket is not a game. It is the truth of
Life”?
(b)
“ The ambition to be a writer was given to me by my father.” Explain this
statement of V.S. Naipaul in the light of Beginnings.
(c)
Who was Mya Than Tint? Write a note on his meeting with Amitav Ghosh.
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