Business English 2079 Board Question Paper

1. Identify the types of pronoun of the italicized words as in the example. [5]
Example: I will be present in the meeting.
Ans: Personal pronoun (nominative case)
(a) Everybody loves chocolates.
(b) Who is creating this mess?
(c) I know the man who stole my watch.
(d) He told her that he was busy that day.
(e) That was awesome!

Complete the following sentences following the rules of subject-verb agreement. [5]
(a) The scissors ......... blunt.
i. is   ii. have
iii.has   iv. are
(b) Two-thirds of the students ........ him.
i. recognizes   ii. recognize
iii. has recognized   iv. are recognizing
(c) Fifty thousand pesos ........ a large amount for Armando Gonzalez.
i. was   ii. were
. iii.are   iv. have been
(d) The Prime Minister and Chancellor of Tribhuvan University ........ attending the meeting today.
i. are   ii. is
iii.has   iv. have
(e) The datum on the table ........ vary significant.
i. were   ii. are
iii. in   iv. is

Answer the following questions as instructed. [5]
(a) Furthermore, she had taken additional classes. (Identify the additional detail indicator)
(b) Write a complex sentence with the subject 'he.'
(c) The boy, who is standing at the corner, is my brother. (Identify relative pronoun)
(d) Analyze the sentence pattern of the given sentence: She offered me a gift.
(e) Write a sentence by using 'only' as a modifier.

Write the most probable language functions of the following sentences, words, or phrases with a short explanation for each answer. [5]
(a) Nepal is a beautiful country.
(b) Either you're with us or with them.
(c) CC TV, ozone, endoscopy
(d) Neologisms and slangs
(e) You are nominated as the Dean of Tribhuvan University.

Write any five banking terms with their meanings. [5]

Write a notice to announce a welcome program for the new students of 'Rudrawati Multiple Campus Gulmi'. [5]

Suppose your college is going to organize a one-day workshop on "Role of Youths for the Development of Nepal". Write a press release inviting local media to cover the news of the event. [5]

Prepare a brochure design for a furniture industry that is renowned in your city. [10]

Write a short paragraph (at least 7 sentences) which contains claim, reason(s), evidence(s) and example(s). [7]

Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow: [6]
Americans are probably the most pain-conscious people on the face of the earth. For years we have had it drummed into us—in print, on radio, over television, in everyday conversation—that any hint of pain is to be banished as though it were the ultimate evil. As a result, we are becoming a nation of pill-grabbers and hypochondriacs, escalating the slightest ache into a searing ordeal. We know very little about pain, and what we don’t know makes it hurt all the more. Indeed, no form of illiteracy in the United States is so widespread or costly as ignorance about pain—what it is, what causes it, how to deal with it without panic.
Almost everyone can rattle off the names of at least a dozen drugs that can deaden pain from every conceivable cause—all the way from headaches to hemorrhoids. There is far less knowledge about the fact that about 90 percent of pain is self-limiting, that it is not always an indication of poor health, and that, most frequently, it is the result of tension, stress, worry, idleness, boredom, frustration, suppressed rage, insufficient sleep, overeating, poorly balanced diet, smoking, excessive drinking, inadequate exercise, stale air, or any of the other abuses encountered by the human body in modern society! The most ignored fact of all about pain is that the best way to eliminate it is to eliminate the abuse. Instead, many people reach almost instinctively for painkillers—aspirins, barbiturates, codeines, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, and dozens of other analgesics or desensitizing drugs.
(a) What is the main purpose of this passage? To persuade? Compare and contrast? Define? Describe? Or what else? How do you know?
(b) Which one do you think is the topic sentence? Is that in the normal position?
(c) What does the writer say about American’s attitude towards medicine? Does the writer support it?

Develop the following topic sentence into a paragraph. [6]
I love watching television because of three reasons.

Read the paragraph and edit, correcting the mistakes in parallelism. There are six mistakes altogether. [6]
In his discussion of developing countries, Schumacher says that dual economies create political problems, and tensions arise in society, too. Every country has poor people and those that are very rich. However, in a dual economy, the difference between the two groups is so great that a cultural gap develops between the two groups. The rich, a small percentage, typically live in the capital or are inhabitants of the second largest city. The poor live in the country or are town dwellers. The problem is that most development efforts go to the big cities and help the rich. The gap between the poor and people with money increases as the rich benefit from the changes and the poor do not.

What extended definitions are given to the words 'wife' in Judy Brady's "I Want a Wife" and 'wife-beater' in Gayle Rosenwald Smith's "The Wife-Beater"? How do you think these words are connected to each other in the two essays?

Write a narrative account of a typical day at the worst job you ever had. Include and label a thesis statement that expresses your negative feelings.

Do you think Stan Cox is overly optimistic about the "good old days" before air conditioning was widely available? Give reasons to support your answer ("The Case Against Air Conditioning").

Describe a food that is as meaningful as pulao for Jhumpa Lahiri. Make sure that your answer has a clear thesis, and it has used sufficient references from Lahiri's essay "Rice". [10]

Write an essay discussing under what circumstances animals should be used for scientific experimentation.