Business English 2080 Board Question Paper

Rewrite the following sentences by choosing the appropriate form of the verb. [5]
(a) By this time tomorrow, I .......... to New York.
i. will fly   ii. will have flown   iii. fly   iv. am flying
(b) Now News .......... good news.
i. is   ii. has   iii. were   iv. have
(c) The minister ........... last night.
i. had passed away   ii. past away  iii. passed away   iv. have passed away
(d) If no one stops, he will keep on ...........
i. to talk   ii. talk   iii. talked   iv. talking
(e) A team of experts ............ working on this matter.
i. is   ii. are   iii. has   iv. have

Identify the prepositions and their case types (nominative case, possessive case or objective case) in the following sentences. [5]
(a) I will not attend the annual sales review meeting.
(b) What are your plans for this Dashain?
(c) If the report is not yours, it must be theirs.
(d) He threw the pass to me.
(e) It was they who surveyed the property.

Answer the following questions as instructed: [5]
a) Whose wallet was left in the conference hall? (Identify interrogative pronoun)
b) The competition was very tough. (Identify adjective)
c) Did anybody attend the meeting? (Change into passive voice)
d) The kinds in the school are very cheerful. (Identify subject and predicate)
e) You may have either a salad or a cup of soup with your main course. (Identify correlative conjunction)

Discuss at least five techniques of using language effectively. [5]

5. Write the meaning of the following business idioms and expressions. [5]
i) a rule of thumb   ii) ahead of the game
iii) blockbuster   iv) crunch time
v) Multi-task

Write a memo to all the staff of your office to attend a brief meeting to discuss new plans and policies. (Assume that you are the Manager in a project) [5]

Suppose your college is organizing a one-day Food Festival to collect funds for flood victims. Write a press release inviting the media to cover the news. [5]

Prepare a leaflet for a newly opened restaurant in your city. [10]

Write a paragraph on 'Social Media'. (your paragraph should have a claim, supporting details and concluding sentence) [7]

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. [6]
What makes a beautiful face? How long or short should the perfect nose be; is there an optimal length to the face or ear lobe; what should the angle of the eyes be in respect to the bridge of the nose? Recent research suggests that beauty is simply a matter of being Mr or Ms Average.
Three hundred psychology students were asked to rate pictures of faces using an attractiveness score of one to five. Some of the pictures were of a single individual, and some were composite faces, made up from the features of 2, 4, 8, 16 or up to 32 individual faces. The lowest scores for attractiveness were found for individual faces. The attractiveness ratings increased with increases in the number of faces which were combined to make a composite face.
a. What is the main purpose of the passage? To persuade, to argue or to describe? How do you know?
b. What does the passage say about beauty?
c. Do you agree with the writer's opinion?

Develop the following topic sentence into a paragraph: [6]
Parents need to grow up children providing them with the freedom of choice

Edit the following sentence based on the guidelines within in the brackets. [6]
a. Violence in sports is a bad thing. (Avoid vagueness choosing specific words that identify particular examples and details)
b. The reason Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence was because he felt the king was a tyrant. (Eliminate awkward phrasing and smooth it out)
c.If you develop skills, you can easily get employment opportunities. (Change into compound sentence)

Imagine that you have moved to your first air-conditioned residence after years of suffering without it, write an essay explaining how air conditioning has changed your life.

According to Daniel Goleman, organic food advocates argue that real, natural, healthy food tastes better than junk food. Do you think this argument is valid or just a propaganda to promote another business? Discuss.

Write a subjective description of a scene you remember from your childhood. In your thesis statement and conclusion, explain how your adult impressions of the scene differ from those of your childhood.

Briefly describe Sandra Cisneros's struggle against gender stereotypes as narrated in "Only Daughter". Do your parents also have different expectations for their sons and daughters?

Based on your reading of Amy Chua's essay "Why Chinese Mother Are Superior", Explain how child-reading practices in China are different from those in Nepal.