University of Delhi 2006-3rd Year Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) English Stream C An Anthology of Short Stories, Prose Passages and Poems, Writing and Gram Regular Year : - Question Pape

Q. 1. (A) learn the subsequent passages and ans the ques. beneath every one:
She was opted as a member of the Indian contingent to Moscow and was the youngest participant at th Moscow Olympics. At the Asian Games at New Delhi, Usha did incredibly welt by bagging 2 silver medals. But neither she nor her countrymen were very happy, Perhaps, she had aroused too many expectations in the hearts of her admirers. Usha continued to win several medals at different athletic meets at her home state Kerala and at many other national and international competitions. The Jakarta meet in 1985 was a landmark in Usha’s athletic career because here she got a chance to defeat her old rival, Lydia of Philippines, and won 5 gold medals and 1 silver medal. Usha became so popular in Jakarta that 1 of the Indonesian newsprints even nicknamed her ‘The Indian Gold Company’. Usha had caught the imagination of the Indian public by her awesome performance at 1984 Los Angeles Olympics where she narrowly lost a medal by 1 hundredth of a second.
Her greatest moment of triumph, however, came when she participated in the 1986 Asian Games at Seoul, South Korea. Here, she reached the height of her glory with 4 gold medals and 1 silver. No 1 doubted now that a star was born in Asia, none doubted her quality as an international athlete.
ques. :
(i) Write actual (T) or False (F) against the statements provided beneath and accurate the false ones :
(a) P.T. Usha went to participate in the Moscow Olympics,
(b) She won 2 gold medafs at the Asian Games in Delhi.
© P.T. Usha came from the state of Kerala.
(d) She was the youngest member of the team in Moscow.
(e) P.T. Usha is famous as a swimmer.
(ii) ans the subsequent ques. in 1 or 2 sentences:
(a) Which was the 1st Olympic Games that P.T. Usha participated in ?
(b) What did P.T. Usha achieve in Jakarta ?
© When was the Los Angeles Olympics held ?
(iii) obtain words in the passage which means the identical as :
Someone who takes art in, winning, famous, questioned.
(B) Imagine to yourself a caveman residing in those remote times when man had not yet learnt to speak. Perhaps he has just seen a few monstrous beast, feared by all his people. How could be warn them of the approach of such a terrible enemy ? Would it not be natural for him to roar if it were a lion, or hiss with a wriggling motion if it were a snake ? By this means his comrades would quickly understand what he meant, and so prepare themselves against attack.
We cannot be absolutely sure, but this is probably how language began. Having once obtained that he had a voice, primitive man would want to go on using it. No doubt he was very proud of his new accomplishment and wished to show it off at every opportunity. So gradually, in the

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