IESL- Engineering Certificate Course Stage One

Language Skills Development HM 1001 - Model Paper

Answer all questions.
Question 1: Imagine that there is a large forest area close to your hometown. A
company is making plans to build a tourist hotel on it. What is your reaction to this plan?
Would you support this idea or dislike it? Write down 5 arguments either for or against
this business venture.
(25 marks)
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iv)

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Question 2:

Imagine that you participated as a news reporter,

at a
discussion forum, conducted jointly by the UNESCO, Ministry of Education and
some NGOs to launch an educational program for street children. Rewrite the
different statements in Formal language style for your press report, Begin each
with the sentence fragment given here.
(15 marks)
i) At the last meeting, we discussed several ideas about the high number of street
children without any education.
At the previous meeting of the forum, a number of factors prevailing
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ii)

Some are on streets due to poverty and lack of love and kindness at home.
It
is
very
pathetic
to
see
situations
such

as

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.

iii)
Lack

Uneducated parents can be seen as one reason for this situation

of
guidance
by

parents

iv)
The

So, it is sad to see that these children can not do much for the society.
pathetic
outcome
of
the
above
situation
is

that

v)
A

Starting a school to guide street children and their parents can produce good
results.
positive
remedy
for
this

Question 3: Write a summary of the following passage in approximately 90

words. (20 marks)
Petroleum is a naturally occurring liquid found in rock formations. It consists of a complex
mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds. It
is generally accepted that oil is formed mostly from the carbon rich remains of ancient
plankton after exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust over hundreds of
millions of years. Over time, the decayed residue was covered by layers of mud and silt,
sinking further down into the Earths crust and preserved there between hot and
pressured layers, gradually transforming into oil reservoirs.[citation needed] Petroleum in
an unrefined state has been utilized by humans for over 5000 years. Oil in general has
been used since early human history to keep fires ablaze, and also for warfare.
Petroleum is vital to many industries, and is of importance to the maintenance of
industrial civilization in its current configuration, and thus is a critical concern for many
nations. Oil accounts for a large percentage of the worlds energy consumption, ranging
from as low of 32% for Europe and Asia, up to a high of 53% for the Middle East.

Its importance in the world economy evolved slowly, with whale oil used for lighting into
the 19th century and wood and coal used for heating and cooking well into the 20th
Century. The Industrial Revolution generated an increasing need for energy which was
fuelled mainly by coal, with other sources including whale oil. However, it was discovered
that kerosene could be extracted from crude oil and used as a light and heating fuel.
Petroleum was in great demand, and by the twentieth century had become the most
valuable commodity traded on the world markets. (279 words)

Question 4:

Edit and rewrite the following passage to make it more

readable. Delete unnecessary words, correct spelling mistakes/ awkward
phrases.
Add
words,
phrases
where
necessary.
(20 marks)
Paper recycling is the way of changing waste paper into new. There are three categories
of paper that can use as feed stocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer
waste, and post-consumer waste. Mill broke is paper trimmings and other paper scrap
from the making of paper, and is recycled internally in a paper mill. Pre-consumer waste
is material which left the paper mill but was discarded before it was ready for peoples

use. Post-consumer waste is material discarded after consumer use, like old corrugated
containers (OCC), old magazines, old newspapers (ONP), office paper, old telephone
directories, and residential mixed paper (RMP). Paper good for recycling is called "scrap
paper", often used to produce molded pulp packaging. The industrial system of removing
printing ink from paper fibers of recycled paper to make deinked pulp is called deinking,
an invention of the German jurist Justus Claproth.
The process of paper recycling involves mixing used paper with water and chemicals to
break it. It is then chopped up and heated, which breaks it down further into strands of
cellulose, a type of organic plant material; this getting mixture is called pulp, or slurry. It
is strained through screens, which take away any glue or plastic that may still be in the
mixture then cleaned, de-inked, bleached, and mixed with water. Then it can be made
into new paper. The same fibers can be recycled about seven times, but they get shorter
every time and eventually are strained out.

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Question 5: Fill in the blanks of this passage with suitable words.

(20 marks)
A man consumes around 675 litres of oxygen per day. He obtains this amount of
the gas from 1) . atmosphere. When he rises to a height of about 10 000 metres
above the Earth, he does not find sufficient 2). air at that level, for him to
breathe. The density of air diminishes with the height above the earth. 3).
altitude of about 800 kilometres, above the Earth level, one will find no air at all. Hence,
there should be 4). compressed gaseous oxygen, or liquid oxygen or chemical
compounds that evolve oxygen with 5). spacecraft. Also, any object in the space
outside the atmosphere, is subject to the powerful at 6). cosmic rays. These
cosmic rays lose their original powers, as they enter into the atmosphere of the 7)
. But when an astronaut is in the space, he is definitely away from the
atmosphere, and he has to 8). protection from these cosmic rays. Also, the
intensity of the ultraviolet rays that come to him from 9). so great, that it may
cause even his death. Another danger, that has to be faced while travelling in the 10)
. is the presence of thousands of meteorites that travel in it. Various protective
devices have been incorporated in the spacecraft to protect the astronaut from all such
hazards.