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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
SIXTH SEMESTER APRIL 2017
EL 6607 ENGLISH FOR CAREER EXAMINATIONS
Date: 20-04-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
SECTION A
I. Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the key word: (10x1=10)
A B C D
1. Ravish accumulate preserve uphold misuse
2. Genesis beginning style movement relevant
3. Incompatible capable reasonable indifferent contradictory
4. Reiterate frustrate illustrate repeat deny
5. Divulge to strip conceal explore reveal
6. Fiasco strength success failure hope
7. Emulate imitate deny question discuss
8. Candid vague secretive experienced frank
9. Ecstasy exhausted strong joy greed
10. Haughty tall proud casual careless
II. Choose the correct antonym for the following words. (10x1=10)
1. Genuine rotten bogus transformation intolerance
2. Candid anxious vague secretive shallow
3. Turbulence hostility noisy impropriety calmness
4. Audacious accountable vulnerable daring cowardly
5. Deviate follow locate release break
6. Clemency corporal compromise transformation intolerance
7. Dogmatic peremptory spellbound simple unscrupulous
8. Anger party love happiness joy
9. Obey attract repel disobey diffuse
10. Hard smooth delicate easy soft
III . Choose the exact meaning of the idioms/phrases. (10x1=10)
1. To scale up
to kill to die for to measure to deepen
2. In a delicate state
hanging in balance hanging by a hair looming large hanging in fire
3. In abeyance
in absence in no time in suspension in a nut shell
4. pillar to post
very tiresome journey One place to another main supports of a building
post box on a pillar
5. to clear the air
to work hard to wash properly to remove tension to create confusion
6. Within a stone's throw
very far-off with a certain radius at a short distance
within a definite circumference
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7. In a jam
bad in trouble hindrance eatable
8. Fair play
no cheating honest means good chances good name
9. Fair and square
successful very happy honest worthy
10. To curry favour
to attract to seek favourable attention miserly warning
IV One word substitute. (Out of the given alternatives, choose the one which can be
substituted for the given words or sentence)
1. One who travels from place to place.
itinerant mendicant journeyman tramp
2. One who thinks that human nature is essentially evil.
agnostic misogynist cynic sceptic
3. A style in which a writer makes a display of his knowledge
pedantic ornate verbose pompous
4. Parts of a country behind the coast or a river's banks
swamps archipelago hinterland isthmus
5. One who loves books
bibliphoebe bibliographer bibliophile bibliphagist
Write the expansion of the following Acronyms.
1. NATO 2. WHO 3. AIDS 4. ROM 5. VIRUS
V . Answer the following in about 200 words. (10 marks)
Discuss the reasons for selecting or rejecting a candidate in an interview.

Discusss the guidelines for a successful Group Discussion.
SECTION B
VI. Read each sentence to find if there is any grammatical error in it. If there is any error, it will be
only in one part of the sentence. The alphabet of that part is your answer. Write only the alphabet.
(10x1=10)
1. I shall ring him tomorrow in the afternoon No error.
A B C D E
2. I enjoyed during my stay in England. /No error.
A B C D E
3. The clothes were neatly hanged on the cloth line. No error.
A B C D E
4.The Major along with his soldiers were killed in the field. No error.
A B C D E
5. The film show began when we arrived in the hall. No error.
A B C D E
6. I believe that respect is more preferable than money. No error.
A B C D E
7. I never have visited or intend to visit foreign countries. No error.
A B C D E
8. In this way nuclear fission, or the splitting of the atom, have been achieved. No error.
A B C D E
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9. Modern film techniques/ are far superior than that employed in the past. No error.
A B C D E
10.Hardly had we/ settled down for the night's rest/when we were startled by loud noises
A B C D
outside the house./ No Error.
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VII. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below it. (10x1=10)
Several suggestions have been advanced to remove obstacles in the way of fast agricultural growth.
One such suggested policy measure is to accord industry status to agriculture on the remise that it would
lead to eradication of rural poverty through the fuller utilization of the vast potential of agriculture to
generate additional production, jobs and income. To what extent would such a step serve the desired aim and
what would be its implications?
Agriculture and industry differ significantly in some very important aspects. These references are
with regard to processes and techniques of production and nature, marketing pattern and pricing of products.
All farm products are good media for4 bacteria and are, therefore, perishable. The life of industrial products,
on the other hand, is relatively much longer as they are less perishable.
Most farm crops come to maturity during a relatively short and specific period and are consumed
throughout the year. Industrial production, on the contrary, takes place throughout the year and is hence less
seasonal. This and other special features of agriculture subject it to the problems of storage and
transportation.
In agriculture, supply of commodities is less controllable than in the industrial sector. Industry
attempts to gauge demand continuously and match the supply accordingly. In agriculture, the position is just
the reverse.
The relationship between rice and output is strikingly different in the two sectors. Industrial output is
directly related to price. In agriculture, the price is inversely related to production. Also, industrial prices are
generally more stable than agricultural prices.
Some apprehensions have also been expressed that agriculture has not been treated at par with
industry in terms of prices. The main objective of the agriculture price policy in India is to provide an
inducement to the producer for adopting improved technology and for maximum production and income.
The minimum support/procurement prices for major agricultural commodities numbering about 20 are fixed
each year on the basis of recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural costs and Prices (CACP).
They are meant to enable the farmer to pursue his activities with the assurance that the price of his produce
would not be allowed to fall below the minimum.
The aim of the price policy in the industrial sector is not to support but to control prices. The
industrial prices of certain selected products, particularly basic consumer goods and important industrial
and agricultural inputs, are controlled and regulated on the recommendations of an expert body like the
Bureau of Industrial Costs and prices (BICP) or interministerial committees or groups in the case of certain
public enterprises. The factors taken into account in recommending the prices include the cost of more
efficient firms accounting for a high percentage of total output, the optimum norms of consumption of raw
materials and energy as well as capacity utilization and a fair rate of return on net worth generally ranging
between 10 to 14% depending on risks, priorities, growth prospects, etc.
1. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
The agricultural sector involves more non-skilled workers
Agriculture is a priority sector.
There is no definite market policy adopted by agricultural sector.
The industrial sector is more organized than the agricultural sector.
Industrial products are linked to the demand position.
2. According to the passage, which of the following is the main purpose to give an industry status to
agriculture?
to improve conditions of rural poor.
To produce more food.
To create more jobs for the rural population.
To make the rural population economically sound.
All of these.
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3. According to the passage, which of the following is the most important hurdle in giving an industry status
to agriculture?
Less durability of agricultural products.
Difficult mode of transportation.
High production costs.
Involvement of comparatively large number of laborers.
None of these.
4. Which of the following, according to the passage, was the main factor of industrial price policy set up by
the Government?
Supporting the industry to attain an optimum price for its products.
Consumption of more raw material and higher return.
Controlling of new industrial units.
Providing a favoured status to industry.
Higher output-input ratio.
5. Which of the following words has the same meaning as the word as used in the passage?
obtain quality assess match support
6. What step, according to the passage, is taken up by the Government to improve the situation of the
agriculture sector?
providing better facilities to farmers.
Providing electricity at a lower rate to the farmers.
By giving an industry status to agriculture.
Increasing eh number of government controlled procurement centres.
Providing minimum support to a large number of agriculture products.
7. The author's writing style is
argumentative constructive analytic narrative. verbose.
8. Which of the following has the same meaning as the word as used in the passage?
bright equal considerable just extraordinary.
9. Which of the following has the same meaning as the word 'premise' as used in the passage?
basis assumption argument position condition.
10. What, according to the passage, is the main reason for the absence of a fixed pricing policy of
agricultural products?
Non-availability of structured marketing policy.
Lack of competition among producers.
Agricultural output is not related to demand
Industrial output is directly related to rice.
None of these.
VIII. Write a précis for the following passage. (15 marks)
Religion can be defined as a system of beliefs and practices by means of which a group of people
struggle with the ultimate problem of human life. It is the refusal to capitulate to death, to give up in the face
frustration, to allow hostility to tear apart one's human associations.
All men experience these wrenching difficulties to some degree. For some persons, however, they
stand out as the most significant experiences of life. These individuals are impelled to try to discover some
meaning in what seems to be senseless suffering, some find a road to salvation through the obstacles of
human life. The beliefs and rites that make up a religion are the expressions of those who have felt the
problems most intensively, who have been most acutely sensitive to the tragedies of death, the burdens of
frustration, the sense of failure, the disruptive effects of hostility. Powered by the strength of their feelings,
such religious innovations have created 'solutions' that frequently have burst the bonds of man's senses and
of nature, that have brought their adherents some relief. Thus religions are built to carry the 'peak load' of
human emotional need.
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Defined in this way, religion is and seems likely to remain an inevitable part of human life. Although
the ways of struggling with these ultimate problems are enormously diverse, and seem destined for
continuous change, the problems themselves are universal. A society that did not furnish its members with
beliefs and practices that sought to deal with an enormous burden of tragedy unallayed with hostility
unrestrained could not flourish, if indeed it could survive at all.
IX. Write an essay on any one of the following in about 300 words. (15 marks)
Discuss the influence of the mass media in shaping people's ideas.

Damage of the environment is an inevitable consequence of worldwide improvements in the standard
of living. Discuss.