Business Laws and Business Correspondence and Reporting

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being. Sedentary and studious men are the most apprehensive on this score. Dr. Johnson was an instance in point. A few years seemed to him soon over, compared with those sweeping contemplations on time and infinity with which he had been used to pose himself. In the still life of a man of letters there was no obvious reason for a change. He might sit in an arm chair and pour out cups of tea to all eternity would it had been possible for him to do so. The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. If we mere wish to continue on t he scene to indulge our head - strong humour and tormenting passions, we had better be gone at once; and if we only cherish a fondness for existence according to the good we desire from it, the pang we feel at parting it will not be very server.
(i) What type of people are afraid of death and Why?      (1 Mark)
(ii) How can we get rid of fear of death?     (1 Mark)
(iii) What idea do you form about Dr. Johnson from this passage?     (1 Mark)
(iv) Write Summary of the Passage.     (2 Marks)

(i) Make Notes, using headings, sub headings, and abbreviations whenever necessary.      (3 Marks)
(ii) Write Summary.        (2 Marks)

(I) Anything printed and bound in a book size can be called a book, but the quality or mind distinguishes the value of it.

What is a book? This is' how Anatole France describes it: "A series of little printed signs essentially only that. It is for the reader to supply himself the forms and colors and sentiments to which these signs correspond. It will depend on him whether the book be dull or brilliant, hot with passion or cold as ice. Or if you prefer to put it otherwise each word in a book is a magic finger that sets a fibre of our brain vibrating like a hard string and so evokes a note from the sounding board of our soul No matter how skilful, how inspired the artist's hand, the sound it makes depends on the quality of the strings within ourselves"
 
Until recently books were the preserve of a small section ______ the urban upper classes. Some, even today, make it a point to call themselves intellectuals. It would be a pity if books were meant only for intellectuals and not for housewives, farmers, factory workers, artisans and, so on.
 
In India there are first generation learners, whose parents might have been illiterate. This poses special challenges to our authors and to those who are entrusted with the task of disseminating knowledge. We need much more research in the use of language and the development of techniques by which know ledge can be transferred to these people without transmission loss. Publishers should initiate campaigns to persuade people that a good book makes a beautiful present and that reading a good book can be the most relaxing as well as absorbing of pastimes. We should aim at books of quality no less than at quantitative expansion in production and sale. Unless one is constantly exposed to the best, one cannot develop a taste for the good.       (2 Marks)

Perpetual
(1) General
(2) Emotional
(3) Stubborn
(4) Continuous                              (1 Mark)

(ii) Select a suitable antonym for the word given in question:

Disparage
(1) Eulogise
(2) Belittle
(3) Alert
(4) Defame

(iii) Change the following sentence to indirect speech:

 The policeman said to the stranger who are you.   (1 Mark)

Teaching is the noblest of professions. A teacher has a scared duty to perform. It is he on whom rests the responsibility of moulding the character of young children. Apart from developing their intellect, he can inculcate in them qualities of good citizenship, remaining neat and clean, talking decently and sitting properly. These virtues are not easy to be imbibed. Only he who himself leads a life of simplicity, purity and rigid discipline can successfully cultivate these habits in his pupils.

Besides a teacher always remain young. He may grow old in age, but not in spite. Perpetual contact with budding youths keeps him happy and cheerful. These are moments when domestic worries weigh heavily on his mind, but the delightful company of innocent children makes him overcome his transient moods of despair.       (5 Marks)

(i) Despot (1) Tyrant (2) Storage (3) Hot meal (4) Against      (1 Mark)
(ii) Illicit (1) Storage (2) Emotional (3) Unlawful (4) Grand    (1 Mark)
(iii) Change the following sentence into indirect speech:

The Shopkeeper says, "prices are shooting up alarmingly.       (1 Mark)

(ii) What is diagonal communication?                                      (2 Marks)

 Choose your answer from the options given in brackets.

We will take __________ this issue when we meet next week. (up / on / over) (1 Mark)

(ii) Rewrite the following sentence in Passive Voice

 The customer should receive the delivery by Friday.                      (1 Mark)

(iii) Rewrite the following sentence in Active Voice.

 He will be given a ticket for over speeding by the police officer.   (1 Mark)

(i) Storm in tea cup

(1) Crave for something
(2) Drink tea often
(3) Get into quarrel
(4) Making a big issue out of a small thing.   (1 Mark)

(ii) To grease the palm

(1) Treat suffer
(2) To offer bribe
(3) To swim in deep sea
(4) To be in deep thought.                          (1 Mark)

(iii) Rewrite the following sentences in the active voice:

  The entire district was destroyed by cyclone. (1 Mark)