IT, MID-1 KEY, SEMESTER-1, 2016

KEY- Mid-1, IT

1.             

1)      A

2)      A

3)      D

4)      A

5)      C

6)      C

7)      C

8)      A

9)      D

10)  D

2.            (a)

1.      Calling the world "dark and wide" makes it sound like a scary place. Interestingly, Milton makes it seem as if the world has run out of light, rather than growing dark because of any blindness on his part.

2.       we think of skills like throwing a perfect spiral or being a piano prodigy. But there's a double meaning intended for people who know history or Biblical scripture. In the ancient world, a "talent" was also a standard of weight used to measure money, just as a "pound" is a measure of both weight and currency.

3.      The third servant just buries the money, the ancient equivalent of hiding it under your mattress. This "talent" is "lodged" or buried within the speaker just like the money in the story. It cannot be used to make greater profit.

4.      When Milton says that talent is "death to hide," he is referring to the money in the Biblical story and also to his own "talent," in the sense of a skill or trade.

5.      God , The Creator.

(b). Polonius advises his son to hold on to his old friends but be slow to embrace new friends; Polonius is telling Laertes to recognize who his true friends are, people who have proven themselves, and treasure them.  He warns him, however, to be cautious and suspicious about new people who enter his life; they will not necessarily be of the same caliber as his tried and true associates.

3.   (a)

1.      non

2.      in

3.      un

4.      in

5.      ill

6.      addition

7.      delightful

8.      greenish

9.      approval

10.  excitement

11.  agenda

12.  entomology

13.  polyglot

14.  atheist

15.  anglophile

4.      (a) Textual Answer  (content 2m + punctuation, speling , grammar 3m)

(b) Textual Answer  (content 2m + punctuation, speling , grammar 3m)

5.      (a)

1.      is sleeping

2.      had

3.      plays

4.      has seen

5.      will be

6.      died

7.      was watching

8.      went

9.      been

10.  is having

11.  want

12.  are

13.  sit

14.  was

15.  suit

6.      (a) Textual Answer  (content 2m + punctuation, speling , grammar 3m)

(b) Textual Answer  (content 2m + punctuation, speling , grammar 3m)

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IT, MID-1 QUESTION PAPER, SEMESTER-1, 2016

                                                                   Roll No                                                 

Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous)

(Approved by AICTE, Affiliated to JNTU-K, Kakinada)

Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam–530 048

Branch: IT 1&2

B. Tech., I Semester

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Course Title	English Reading and Writing Skills	TEST – I	Course Code	15HE1101
Date	06/10/2016		Academic Year	2016 - 2017
Time	90 Minutes		Max. Marks	30

        Signature of Invigilator:                       

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Signature of the student                                                 Signature of the faculty                     

Answer All Questions

                                                                                         

1. (a) Reading comprehension:                                                                         1x 10 =10 M

           

William Henry Gates III (Bill) was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Bill was the second of three children in an upper-middle class family. He enjoyed playing games with the family and was very competitive. He also loved to read. Bill became bored in public school so his family sent him to Lakeside School, a private school, where he excelled in math and science and did well in drama and English.

Gates became interested in computer programming when he was 13, during the era of giant mainframe computers. His school held a fund-raiser to purchase a teletype terminal so students could use computer time that was donated by General Electric. Using this time, Gates wrote a tic-tac-toe program using BASIC, one of the first computer languages. Later he created a computer version of Risk, a board game he liked in which the goal is world domination. At Lakeside, Bill met Paul Allen, who shared his interest in computers. Gates and Allen and two other students hacked into a computer belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC) to get free computer time but were caught. After a period of probation, they were allowed back in the computer lab when they offered to fix glitches in CCC’s software. At age 17, Gates and Allen were paid $20,000 for a program called Traf-O-Data that was used to count traffic.

In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and was accepted by Harvard University. Steve Ballmer, who became CEO of Microsoft after Bill retired, was also a Harvard student. Meanwhile, Paul Allen dropped out of Washington College to work on computers at Honeywell Corporation and convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard and join him in starting a new software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They called it Micro-Soft. This was soon changed to Microsoft, and they moved their company to Bellevue, Washington.

In 1980, IBM, one of the largest technology companies of the era, asked Microsoft to write software to run their new personal computer, the IBM PC. Microsoft kept the licensing rights for the operating system (MS-DOS) so that they earned money for every computer sold first by IBM, and later by all the other companies that made PC computers. Microsoft grew quickly from 25 employees in 1978 to over 90,000 today. Over the years, Microsoft developed many new technologies and some of the world’s most popular software and products such as Word and Power Point. Although some have criticized Gates for using questionable business practices, he built Microsoft into one of the largest companies in the world. He has been described as brilliant but childlike, driven, competitive, intense, fun, but lacking in empathy.

Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world. In 2012, his $61 billion dollars in assets made him the world's second richest man according to Forbes Magazine. In 2006, Gates announced that he would cut back his involvement at Microsoft to spend more time on philanthropy and his foundation. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports many causes including the quest to eradicate Polio, fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; providing vaccinations for children; and even reinventing the toilet among many other things.

1. Which of the following WAS NOT a program written by Bill Gates or Paul Allen?

A.     BASIC

B.     A computerized version of Risk

C.     Traf-o-Data

D.     A computerized version of Tic-Tac-Toe

2. Where was Steve Ballmer a student?

A.    Harvard University

B.    Albuquerque, New Mexico

C.    Washington College

D.    The passage doesn't say

3. In which of the following ways were Bill Gates and Paul Allen NOT alike?

A.    They both liked computers

B.    They went to the same school

C.    They both dropped out of college

D.    They both went to the same college

4. Microsoft earned money every time....

A.    IBM sold a computer running MS-DOS

B.    Traf-O-data was used

C.    IBM built a computer

D.    CCC used its software

5. If the entire passage was limited to the last paragraph, what would an appropriate name for the passage be?

A.    The Rise of Microsoft

B.    Microsoft and its Software

C.    Microsoft and its Billionnaires

D.    The Business Practices of Microsoft

6. Which is NOT true about Bill Gates in the first paragraph?

A.    He was born in Seattle, Washington

B.    He was involved in drama

C.    He enjoyed public school

D.    He was competitive

7. What does the word "philanthropy" mean in the last paragraph?

A.    wealth

B.    business

C.    charity

D.    computer technology

8. The second to last paragraph describes...

A.    how Microsoft rose to a major corporation

B.    how Bill Gates became a billionnaire

C.    how Microsoft became a bigger company than IBM

D.    the technical details of MS-DOS

9. What question is answered in the second to last paragraph?

A.    What does empathy mean?

B.    How rich is Bill Gates?

C.    What new technologies, besides MS-DOS, did Microsfot develop?

D.    How many people work for Microsoft today?

10.    Which of the following was the EFFECT of Bill hacking into the CCC computer

A.    He wrote a TIC-TAC-TOE program

B.    He met Paul Allen

C.    They were allowed back on the computer eventually

D.    He lost computer privileges

(Or)

2.      (a) Read the poem and answer the following questions:                                                           1 x 5 = 5 M

When I consider how my light is spent

Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,

And that one talent which is death to hide

Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent

To serve therewith my Maker,

3.        

1.       What does this ‘dark world and wide’ signify?

2.       What is the ‘one talent’ referred to in the poem?

3.       Why does the poet feel that it’s lodged with me useless?

4.       What does the ‘death to hide’ means?

5.       Who is the ‘Maker’ in the poem?

(b)  Interpret the lines:                                                                                                                      1 x 5 = 5 M

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.

3.         (a) Choose the correct prefix to complete the word so that it matches the definition.  1/2x10=5 M

1.       ( un / dis / non ) -fiction: writing about things which are true

2.       ( il / in / un / anti ) -decent: not suitable or correct for a situation

3.       ( dis / un / counter / mis ) -prepared: not prepared; not ready

4.       ( non / ill / in / un ) -adequate: too low in quality or too small in amount; not good enough

5.       ( de / mis / ill / non ) -mannered: not polite

Complete each sentence using the word shown in CAPITALS with the correct suffix (an ending such as -al, -ence, -ment, -tion, -ism etc)

6.       A secretary would be a welcome ______________________ to our staff. (ADD)

7.       Thank you for a ______________________ evening. (DELIGHT)

8.       The walls are a ______________________ shade of yellow. (GREEN)

9.       All children want the ______________________ of their parents. (APPROVE)

10.    The children were racing round and shouting in ______________________. (EXCITE)

(b). Please choose the suitable one-word substitutes                                                  1 x 5 = 5 M

11.    List of the business or subjects to be considered at a meeting (Schedule/ Agenda/ Plan)

12.    Scientific study of insects (Insectology/ Entomology/ insectography)

13.    A person who knows many foreign languages (Linguist/ Bilingual/ Polyglot)

14.    One who does not believe in existence of god (Egoist/ Stoic/ Atheist)

15.    One who loves all that’s English (anglophile/ anglobile/ anglophobia)

(Or)

4.                  (a) Who has better chances of survival – the humans or the insects?                       1 x 5 = 5 M

   

(b) Define culture. Explain the factors that lead to cultural change.                           1 x 5 = 5 M

5.         (a) Please supply the correct form of the verb:                                                                   1/2x10=5 M

1.       Please be quiet! The baby ____________. (has slept/ sleeps/ is sleeping)

2.       For dinner last night we ______ fish and chips. (have had/ had/ were having)

3.       My brother ______ football in the same club as me. (played/ plays/ is playing)

4.       She’s shocked because she ______ a terrible accident.( saw/ has seen/ sees)

5.       My mother ______ 42 years old next Saturday. (was/ will have/ will be)

6.       Two children and one adult ______ in a fire last night. (died/ have died/ will die)

7.       While I ______ TV last night, I did my homework. (watched/ am watching/ was watching)

8.       Yesterday I ____________ to see my grandparents. (go/ have gone/ went)

9.       Have you ever ___________to Nepal? (being/ been / have been)

10.    He always ___________ a headache in the morning.( have / has/ is having)

(b). Choose the correct verb  from the options given in the brackets.                                             1 x 5 = 5 M

11.    Some members of the teachers’ union (want, wants) to go on strike.

12.    Where (is, are) my keys?

13.    A small black cat and a large yellow dog (sit, sits) on the front stairs.

14.    Not only the students but also the teacher (was, were) anxious to finish the lesson.

15.    Neither of those hats (suit, suits) your face.

(Or)

6.               (a) How can we achieve unity of minds ? What happenned to Kalam at Sabrmathi Asram?                                                                                                                                               1 x 5 = 5 M

(b) Why should we go towards gender neutral socialization? Discuss                                       1 x 5 = 5 M

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