Exam Details
| Subject | communication | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | ma | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | central university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | 2016 | |
| City, State | telangana, hyderabad |
Question Paper
1. Which prize did Rabindranath Tagore win in 1913 for his book 'Gitanjali'?
A)Man Booker
Nobel Prize
Goethe Prize
D)Jnanpith Award
2. Siddharth Varadarajan is the founding editor of which online news publication?
The Hoot
DailyO
The Wire
HuftPost India
3. Which famous journalist wrote the book 'This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines'?
Barkha Dutt
Ravish Kumar
Rajdeep Sardesai
Rahul Kanwal
4. Francis, who succeeded Benedict as the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church belongs to
Argentina
Canada
South Africa
Peru
5. The tagline "Solutions for a smart planet" is associated with the brand
Dell Computers
IBM
Panasonic
Hitachi
6. The first of the five bullet trains in India will connect the following two cities:
Mumbai-Ahmedabad
Pune-Mumbai
Varanasi-Lucknow
Varanasi-Patna
7. The recipient of the 63rd Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2015 is
A)Shashi Kapoor
Guizar
Javed Akhtar
Manoj Kumar
8. conducted a sting operation that showed Trinamool Congress Leaders accepting cash in lieu of lobbying for companies.
Tehelka
Narada News
Cobra Post
D)India TV
9. Sanchar Bbavan is the headquarters of
A)Ministry of Information Broadcasting
Ministry of Communication and IT
Ministry ofScience Technology
HRD Ministry
10. Which party was in power in Arunachal Pradesh when President's rule was imposed recently?
A)Arunachal People's Party
Trinamool Congress
Congress
BJP
11. The designer of 'Make In India' logo
V. Sunil
Vivek Sharma
Rohit Goyal
Tarun Tahliani
12. Which of the following films that won an award at the Oscars held recently is based on journalism?
A)The Revenant
B)Spotlight
C)Mad Max
D)Spectre
13. Which social networking platform celebrated its 10th anniversary recently?
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Twitter
Instagram
14. Who is Sania Mirzas women's doubles partner?
Martina Hingis
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Martina Navratilova
Agnieszka Radwanska
15. EI Nifio related to which issue?
Climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean
War against on Terror
Related to Nuclear Bomb
Related to Poverty
16. What is India's rank in the United Nations' World Happiness Index 2016?
101
112
118
129
17. Who is the newly elected President ofMyanmar?
A)Aung San Suu Kyi
B)Htin Kyaw
Henry Van Thio
D)Myint Seo
18. On which river bed was the recent Art of Living World Culture Festival held?
Ganga
Yamuna
Tungabhadra
Brahmaputra
19. A dreaded virus recently broke out in most of the,Latin American Country. The name of
that virus is
A)Ebola virus
Zika virus
SARS virus
Influenza virus
20. The famous noodles brand "Maggi" is owned by
Nestle India
Pepsico India
Parle Foods
D)ITC
21. Which of the following cities was recently adjudged the cleanest city by the Union Urban Ministry?
Bangalore
Mysore
Trivandrum
Cochin
22. The 'Statue of Unity' is to be located in
Gujarat
Punjab
Haryana
Rajasthan
23. Which channel broadcasts the popular show 'Big
Colors
Zee TV
Sony TV
Romedy Now
24. Einstein's famous General Theory of Relativity received a measure of proof when the following was detected last year:
Collision of two black holes
A new planet in the solar system
Evidence of water on Mars
Existence of dwarf stars
25. Jhulan Goswami represents India in which of the following sports?
Cricket
Hockey
Kabaddi
Boxing
26. The role of Hermoine in the stage adaptation of Harry Potter will be played by an actress of which ethnicity?
Black
Asian
Caucasian
Hispanic
27. The Shani Shignapur temple which was in news for refusing entry to women is in
Telangana
Maharashtra
Kerala
Kamataka
28. This mobile brand landed in a controversy for offering a smart phone at an incredibly low price. Independence 251 Freedom 251 C)25l M MF-25 1
29. The symbols used to express emotions in online chats are called
Netspeak
Emojis
Smileys
Trolls
30. Who anchors the show the Point' on India Today TV?
Rajdeep Sardesai
Shekhar Gupta
Amab Goswami
Karan Thapar
VERBAL ABILITY
In each of the questions below, one of the pairs does not fall into the same category or conceptual group as the rest. Pick out the odd one in each set of pairs.
31.
dog/bark
peacock/cry
pig/grunt
lion/mane
32.
knife/slice
spoon/fork
spade/dig
scissors/cut
33.
waiter/table
clerk/counter
secretary/note
writer/desk
34.
anger/rage
ask/question
sight/vision
D)scent/fragrance
35.
taste/sweet
sound/melody
touch/smooth
smell/nose
36. Success in this examination depends hard work alone.
at
over
for
on
37. Go to the traffic lights, __turn right.
than
then
when
where
38. The grapes are now enough to be picked.
ready
mature
ripe
advanced
39. Ramu has a short temper, so nobody gets with him.
A)about
along
through
up
40. Please pull your socks, or we'll give your job to someone else.
above
overhead
up
out
41. If you don't stop checking your mobile during class, I will it.
give
confiscate
buy
return
42. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Exposition of 1889.
was designed
designed
is designed
designer
43. She gave an in the class.
A)verbal
aural
auxiliary
oral
44. Would you like coffee?
any
few
some
mine
45. Who for President in the last election?
runs
run
ran
running
Section WORD USE AND ABUSE
46. The of the Minister's statement cannot be verified by people who have no access to official records.
Verbocity
veracity
c. validity
d. voracity
47. Anuj and Manav could not buy train tickets to home towns because of long waiting lists.
A)they're
their
there
they are
48. I will buy all the T-shirts, that one.
accept
redress
receipt
except
49. The drug had several unpleasant side
affects
B)effects
reflect
dissect
50. going to catch a cold if you don't wear a pullover.
A)Your
You're
Yours
You've
51. That burger is more I can eat.
A)than
then
them
that
52. The best synonym for 'impetuous' is
angry
looking guilty
careful
acting quickly
53. Doesn't she just love to be the of attraction?
star
centre
point
middle
54. Some people have difficulty in making understood.
A)Them
one
oneself
themselves
55. When a car pulled out in front of her, Shailja did well not to control of her bicycle.
Give
lose
fail
loose
III: READING COMPREHENSION
In the 1850s, the French printer Leon Scott de Martinville conducted the first experiments with sound recording. Using a hog's hair bristle as a needle, he tied one end to a thin membrane stretched over the narrow part of a funnel. When the inventor spoke into the funnel, the membrane vibrated, and the free end of the bristle made grooves on a revolving cylinder coated with a thick liquid called lamp black. Different sounds made different trails in the lamp black.
However, de Martinville could not figure out how to play back the sound. That is what Thomas Edison did in 1877. He recorded his voice by using a needle to press his voice's sound waves onto tinfoil wrapped around a metal cylinder about the size of a cardboard toilet paper roll. After recording his voice, Edison played it back by repositioning the needle to retrace the grooves in the foil, a material he later replaced with wax.
Most new media pass through three developmental stages. The first is the novelty stage, in which inventors experiment to solve a particular problem, such as how to play back recorded music.
In the second or entrepreneurial stage, inventors and investors work out a practical and marketable use for the new device. Edison, for example, initially thought of his phonograph as a kind of answering machine; he envisioned a "telephone repeater" that would "provide invaluable records, instead of being the recipient of momentary and fleeting communication."
In the third stage, entrepreneurs figure out how to market the new device as a consumer product. For sound recording, a key breakthrough at this stage came from Emile Berliner, a German engineer who had immigrated to America. In the late 1880s, he began using a flat spinning five inch disk to trace voices. Through a photo-engraving process, he recorded the sounds onto disks made of metal and shellac. These disks became the first records. Using Edison's ideas, Berliner developed a machine for playing his disks on the first turntable, which he called a gramophone.
(From: Richard Campbell, Media and Culture, St. Martin's Press,2000)
Answer the following questions:
56. The first records engraved sound waves onto disks covered with
shellac
wax
vinyl
lamp black
57. In the novelty stage of media development, which of the following is the most important feature?
A)financial support
entrepreneurship
experimentation
commercialization
58. The idea for recording sound may be credited to
A)Edison
Berliner
Marconi
de Martinville
59. Edison's idea of commercializing the phonograph was tied to which other important invention of the period?
A)The telephone
The telegraph
Radio
The microphone
60. One of the key elements that connects de Martinville's recording device to Edison's playback device is
A)photoengraving
the needle
revolving cylinder
tinfoil
A)Man Booker
Nobel Prize
Goethe Prize
D)Jnanpith Award
2. Siddharth Varadarajan is the founding editor of which online news publication?
The Hoot
DailyO
The Wire
HuftPost India
3. Which famous journalist wrote the book 'This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines'?
Barkha Dutt
Ravish Kumar
Rajdeep Sardesai
Rahul Kanwal
4. Francis, who succeeded Benedict as the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church belongs to
Argentina
Canada
South Africa
Peru
5. The tagline "Solutions for a smart planet" is associated with the brand
Dell Computers
IBM
Panasonic
Hitachi
6. The first of the five bullet trains in India will connect the following two cities:
Mumbai-Ahmedabad
Pune-Mumbai
Varanasi-Lucknow
Varanasi-Patna
7. The recipient of the 63rd Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2015 is
A)Shashi Kapoor
Guizar
Javed Akhtar
Manoj Kumar
8. conducted a sting operation that showed Trinamool Congress Leaders accepting cash in lieu of lobbying for companies.
Tehelka
Narada News
Cobra Post
D)India TV
9. Sanchar Bbavan is the headquarters of
A)Ministry of Information Broadcasting
Ministry of Communication and IT
Ministry ofScience Technology
HRD Ministry
10. Which party was in power in Arunachal Pradesh when President's rule was imposed recently?
A)Arunachal People's Party
Trinamool Congress
Congress
BJP
11. The designer of 'Make In India' logo
V. Sunil
Vivek Sharma
Rohit Goyal
Tarun Tahliani
12. Which of the following films that won an award at the Oscars held recently is based on journalism?
A)The Revenant
B)Spotlight
C)Mad Max
D)Spectre
13. Which social networking platform celebrated its 10th anniversary recently?
StumbleUpon
14. Who is Sania Mirzas women's doubles partner?
Martina Hingis
Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Martina Navratilova
Agnieszka Radwanska
15. EI Nifio related to which issue?
Climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean
War against on Terror
Related to Nuclear Bomb
Related to Poverty
16. What is India's rank in the United Nations' World Happiness Index 2016?
101
112
118
129
17. Who is the newly elected President ofMyanmar?
A)Aung San Suu Kyi
B)Htin Kyaw
Henry Van Thio
D)Myint Seo
18. On which river bed was the recent Art of Living World Culture Festival held?
Ganga
Yamuna
Tungabhadra
Brahmaputra
19. A dreaded virus recently broke out in most of the,Latin American Country. The name of
that virus is
A)Ebola virus
Zika virus
SARS virus
Influenza virus
20. The famous noodles brand "Maggi" is owned by
Nestle India
Pepsico India
Parle Foods
D)ITC
21. Which of the following cities was recently adjudged the cleanest city by the Union Urban Ministry?
Bangalore
Mysore
Trivandrum
Cochin
22. The 'Statue of Unity' is to be located in
Gujarat
Punjab
Haryana
Rajasthan
23. Which channel broadcasts the popular show 'Big
Colors
Zee TV
Sony TV
Romedy Now
24. Einstein's famous General Theory of Relativity received a measure of proof when the following was detected last year:
Collision of two black holes
A new planet in the solar system
Evidence of water on Mars
Existence of dwarf stars
25. Jhulan Goswami represents India in which of the following sports?
Cricket
Hockey
Kabaddi
Boxing
26. The role of Hermoine in the stage adaptation of Harry Potter will be played by an actress of which ethnicity?
Black
Asian
Caucasian
Hispanic
27. The Shani Shignapur temple which was in news for refusing entry to women is in
Telangana
Maharashtra
Kerala
Kamataka
28. This mobile brand landed in a controversy for offering a smart phone at an incredibly low price. Independence 251 Freedom 251 C)25l M MF-25 1
29. The symbols used to express emotions in online chats are called
Netspeak
Emojis
Smileys
Trolls
30. Who anchors the show the Point' on India Today TV?
Rajdeep Sardesai
Shekhar Gupta
Amab Goswami
Karan Thapar
VERBAL ABILITY
In each of the questions below, one of the pairs does not fall into the same category or conceptual group as the rest. Pick out the odd one in each set of pairs.
31.
dog/bark
peacock/cry
pig/grunt
lion/mane
32.
knife/slice
spoon/fork
spade/dig
scissors/cut
33.
waiter/table
clerk/counter
secretary/note
writer/desk
34.
anger/rage
ask/question
sight/vision
D)scent/fragrance
35.
taste/sweet
sound/melody
touch/smooth
smell/nose
36. Success in this examination depends hard work alone.
at
over
for
on
37. Go to the traffic lights, __turn right.
than
then
when
where
38. The grapes are now enough to be picked.
ready
mature
ripe
advanced
39. Ramu has a short temper, so nobody gets with him.
A)about
along
through
up
40. Please pull your socks, or we'll give your job to someone else.
above
overhead
up
out
41. If you don't stop checking your mobile during class, I will it.
give
confiscate
buy
return
42. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel the Eiffel Tower for the Paris Exposition of 1889.
was designed
designed
is designed
designer
43. She gave an in the class.
A)verbal
aural
auxiliary
oral
44. Would you like coffee?
any
few
some
mine
45. Who for President in the last election?
runs
run
ran
running
Section WORD USE AND ABUSE
46. The of the Minister's statement cannot be verified by people who have no access to official records.
Verbocity
veracity
c. validity
d. voracity
47. Anuj and Manav could not buy train tickets to home towns because of long waiting lists.
A)they're
their
there
they are
48. I will buy all the T-shirts, that one.
accept
redress
receipt
except
49. The drug had several unpleasant side
affects
B)effects
reflect
dissect
50. going to catch a cold if you don't wear a pullover.
A)Your
You're
Yours
You've
51. That burger is more I can eat.
A)than
then
them
that
52. The best synonym for 'impetuous' is
angry
looking guilty
careful
acting quickly
53. Doesn't she just love to be the of attraction?
star
centre
point
middle
54. Some people have difficulty in making understood.
A)Them
one
oneself
themselves
55. When a car pulled out in front of her, Shailja did well not to control of her bicycle.
Give
lose
fail
loose
III: READING COMPREHENSION
In the 1850s, the French printer Leon Scott de Martinville conducted the first experiments with sound recording. Using a hog's hair bristle as a needle, he tied one end to a thin membrane stretched over the narrow part of a funnel. When the inventor spoke into the funnel, the membrane vibrated, and the free end of the bristle made grooves on a revolving cylinder coated with a thick liquid called lamp black. Different sounds made different trails in the lamp black.
However, de Martinville could not figure out how to play back the sound. That is what Thomas Edison did in 1877. He recorded his voice by using a needle to press his voice's sound waves onto tinfoil wrapped around a metal cylinder about the size of a cardboard toilet paper roll. After recording his voice, Edison played it back by repositioning the needle to retrace the grooves in the foil, a material he later replaced with wax.
Most new media pass through three developmental stages. The first is the novelty stage, in which inventors experiment to solve a particular problem, such as how to play back recorded music.
In the second or entrepreneurial stage, inventors and investors work out a practical and marketable use for the new device. Edison, for example, initially thought of his phonograph as a kind of answering machine; he envisioned a "telephone repeater" that would "provide invaluable records, instead of being the recipient of momentary and fleeting communication."
In the third stage, entrepreneurs figure out how to market the new device as a consumer product. For sound recording, a key breakthrough at this stage came from Emile Berliner, a German engineer who had immigrated to America. In the late 1880s, he began using a flat spinning five inch disk to trace voices. Through a photo-engraving process, he recorded the sounds onto disks made of metal and shellac. These disks became the first records. Using Edison's ideas, Berliner developed a machine for playing his disks on the first turntable, which he called a gramophone.
(From: Richard Campbell, Media and Culture, St. Martin's Press,2000)
Answer the following questions:
56. The first records engraved sound waves onto disks covered with
shellac
wax
vinyl
lamp black
57. In the novelty stage of media development, which of the following is the most important feature?
A)financial support
entrepreneurship
experimentation
commercialization
58. The idea for recording sound may be credited to
A)Edison
Berliner
Marconi
de Martinville
59. Edison's idea of commercializing the phonograph was tied to which other important invention of the period?
A)The telephone
The telegraph
Radio
The microphone
60. One of the key elements that connects de Martinville's recording device to Edison's playback device is
A)photoengraving
the needle
revolving cylinder
tinfoil