Communication in Everyday Life Past Paper PDF

# Communication in Everyday Life ## Instructions for Candidates 1. Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt of this question paper. 2. This Question Paper contains SIX questions. Candidates will attempt ANY FOUR questions. 3. Questions carry 20 marks each. ## Questions: 1. What is the...

# Communication in Everyday Life ## Instructions for Candidates 1. Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt of this question paper. 2. This Question Paper contains SIX questions. Candidates will attempt ANY FOUR questions. 3. Questions carry 20 marks each. ## Questions: 1. What is the communication process? Explain with a diagram and illustrate with examples. (20) 2. Explain what you understand by effective communication. How far can the following 7 Cs make communication effective? (20) 3. **Read the passage and answer the following questions.** Political freedom is possible only where justice is in the seat of authority, where all orders and decrees work in harmony with the organic laws which man neither made nor can alter-where the unwise are directed by the wise. Those who are trusted with power use it for the common good. A country so governed is free, be the form of the constitution what it may. A country not so governed is in bondage, be its suffrage never so universal. Where justice is supreme, no subject is forbidden anything he has a right to do or desire. Therefore, political changes, revolutions, reforms, and power transfers from one order to another, from kings to aristocracies, and from aristocracies to peoples, are no necessary indications of political or moral advance. They mean that those in authority are no longer fit to be trusted with exclusive power. They mean that these high persons are either representatives and so incapable or have forgotten the public good in their pleasures, ambitions, or superstitions; that they have ceased to be the representatives of any superior wisdom or deeper moral insight; and may, therefore justly be deprived of privileges which they abuse for their advantage and for the public of privileges which they abuse for their advantage and public mischief. Healthy nations, when justly governed, never demand constitutional changes. Men talk of entrusting power to the people as a moral education, as enlarging their self-respect, elevating their imaginations, and making them alive to their dignity as human beings. It is well that we should dress up in acceptable words, a phenomenon which is less agreeable in its nakedness. But at the bottom of things, the better sort is always loyal to governments doing their business well and impartially. They doubt the probability of being themselves likely to mend matters and are thankful to be left well alone. The growth of popular constitutions in a country governed initially by an aristocracy implies that the aristocracy is no longer a natural aristocracy-that it is alive to its interests and blind to other people's interests. It does not imply that those others are essentially wiser or better, but only that they understand where their shoe pinches and that if it is merely a question of interest, they have a right to be considered and the class above them. In one sense, it may be called an advance that introduced particular forms of aggravated injustice in the balance of power, which may be rendered impossible. Still, we are brought no nearer to the indispensable thing without which no human society can work healthily or happily-the sovereignty of wisdom over folly-the pre-eminence or justice and right over greediness and self-seeking. The unjust authority is put away; the proper authority is not installed. **(a) What is the writer's conception of a free country? (2)** **(b) In the writer's view, what qualities are necessary to those in power? (2)** **(c) What are the arguments used for and against popular suffrage? (2)** **(d) To what does the writer attribute the rise of democracy? (2)** **(e) Choose words from the passage which most nearly mean the same as (i) agreement, (ii) slavery, (iii) of increased gravity, (iv) necessary (2)** **(f) Write a Summary of the above passage and provide an appropriate title. (10)** 4. Imagine you are the director of an NGO working on pavement dwellers. You have been tasked with finding a solution to safeguard them during winter. Write a dialogue in 300-350 words with your coworker discussing this topic. (20) 5. Your college recently organised an event to raise awareness about cultural diversity and inclusivity issues. Write a report of the event. (20) 6. Write an essay on "Movies should have a social message, but not at the cost of entertainment." (20)