2080 BBS 1st yrs Business English Question paper with Solution

BBS 1st yrs Business English 

TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY
2080
Solution

B.B.S 4 Yrs Programme/ 1 Year/MGT                                                 Full Mark: 100
BBS 1st yr Business English (MGT 201) (Regular)                        Time: 3hrs

1. Rewrite the following sentences by choosing the appropriate form of the verb.
(a) By this time tomorrow, l ………. 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

2. Identify the prepositions and their case types (nominative case, possessive case or objective case) in the following sentences.
(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.

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3. Answer the following questions as instructed [5]
a) Whose wallet was left in the conference hall? (Identify interrogative pronoun)
Answer: Interrogative pronoun: Whose

b) The competition was very tough. (Identity adjective)
Answer: Adjective: tough

c) Did anybody attend the meeting? (Change into passive voice)
Answer: Was the meeting attended by anybody?

d) The kinds in the school are very cheerful. (Identify subject and predicate)
Answer: Subject: The kids in the school, Predicate: are very cheerful.

e) You may have either a salad or cup of soup with your main course. (Identify correlative conjunction)
Answer: correlative conjunction: either...or

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

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

6. 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]

7. 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]

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

Group B

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

10. 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 those for individual faces. The attractiveness ratings increased with increases in the number of faces that were used 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?
Answer: The main purpose of the passage is to describe and present research findings about the perception of facial attractiveness, primarily based on an experiment involving psychology students rating pictures of faces.

b. What does the passage say about beauty?
Answer: The passage suggests that according to the research conducted, composite faces made up of features from multiple individuals were rated as more attractive compared to individual faces. This indicates a preference for averageness in facial features, as the attractiveness ratings increased with the number of faces used to create the composite face.

c. Do you agree with the writer's opinion?

11. Develop the following topic sentence into a paragraph:
Parents need to grow up children providing them with the freedom of choice.
Answer: Parents play an important role in their children's growth by giving them the freedom to make choices. This means allowing their children to decide anything for themselves, like what they want to wear, what activities they enjoy, or what hobbies they prefer. When parents give this freedom, they are giving their children a chance to learn and understand the consequences of their choices. It helps children become responsible and independent individuals as they grow older. It's like guiding them on how to ride a bike; parents hold the back of the bike at first, but as children gain confidence, they let go, allowing them to ride on their own. Giving children the freedom to choose is an important part of their life toward becoming capable and self-reliant adults.

12. Edit the following sentence based on the guidelines within in the brackets.
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)

Group 'C'

Answer any THREE of the following questions: [3x10-30]
18. Imaging that you have just moved to your first air-conditioned residence after years of suffering without it. write an essay explaining how air conditioning has changed your life.

14. According to Daniel Engber, 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.

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

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

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