University of Delhi 2006 B.Com English Stream A Precis, Business Correspondence, Text, etcRegular - Question Paper

part ‘A’
Q. 1. discuss with reference to the situation any 4 of the subsequent :
(a) Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, Cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness.
(b) The employees have just presented me with an album and I understand that the shareholders want to provide me an ad¬dress and a silver decanter.
© This, then, was the truffle he had routed out of the earth! Rotten at the centre-rotten at the core !
(d) The perfume of our garden is entangled in the filaments of the waiting night.
(e) What have I accomplished today ? What acts of heroIsm?

The endless task of yoking yesterday with today.
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Q. 2. provide brief and relevant answers to any 3 of the subsequent (100-150 words) : 15

(i) Write the activities that the city of Chicago is associated with.
(ii) What was the ruse, the Duchess made use of to cheat Oliver and what was the effect on him ?
(iii) What warning does Clarence B. Randall provide to fresh graduates in the matter of handling labour union leaders?
(iv) Why does Dale Carnegie regard a ‘No’ response as a handicap ?
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Q. 3. How does advertising damage ‘Nature’ and ‘Youth’ according to Herman Wouk
(250-300 words). 8


Or

What does G.C. Thornley mean when he says that mass production is not an unmixed blessing ? explain in detail. (250-300 words)
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part ‘B’
Q. 4. learn the passage provided beneath and ans the ques. that follow: 10

The words ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ in a few cases refer to the pos¬session of qualities and in a few cases to the possession of material wealth. In common parlance, however, the use of the words ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ implies possession of material wealth and the relative non-possession thereof. As a rule when we say ‘the rich’ we mean the people or families with a net income of, say, at lowest sixty or seventy thousand rupees a year. When we say ‘poor’, we mean families with an income of 5 hundred rupees a month or less. In ranging from ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ we place the lower or higher middle class families.

Very rich nations or governments are a danger to the rest of the world. The U.S.A. had waged a war in Vietnam, a tiny country, which had’cost the U.S.A. so much money that with this sum alone poverty could have been abolished from the whole of Asia. If war could be abolished from the world for ever, the rich nations of the world could help raise the income and purchasing power of poor families all over the world within a decade and a half. Equality of income for every family is not possible nor is perhaps necessary. We can have a few dozen or a few hundred favulously rich families in every country. But we can make every family all over the globe a well-to-do-family, well-fed, well-clothed, well-housed and well-provided with many of the comforts and luxuries which modern science and technology have made available. Poverty can be effected from the face of the earth.

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