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    The passage discusses the multiple meanings of common words and how context helps determine the intended meaning. It gives the example of the word "foot" which can refer to parts of the body, units of verse, areas around trees, and measurements. Similarly, most nouns and verbs have multiple senses. However, the context surrounding a word's usage usually makes clear which sense is relevant. For instance, if a poet refers to a verse having three feet, the reader would understand the poetic rather than physical sense of "foot" based on the context. The context thus rules out unintended meanings.

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    The passage discusses the multiple meanings of common words and how context helps determine the intended meaning. It gives the example of the word "foot" which can refer to parts of the body, units of verse, areas around trees, and measurements. Similarly, most nouns and verbs have multiple senses. However, the context surrounding a word's usage usually makes clear which sense is relevant. For instance, if a poet refers to a verse having three feet, the reader would understand the poetic rather than physical sense of "foot" based on the context. The context thus rules out unintended meanings.

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    ENGLISH (PRECIS & COMPOSITION)


    TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS PART-I (MCQS): MAXIMUM MARKS = 20
    PART-I (MCQS): MAXIMUM 30 MINUTES PART-II MAXIMUM MARKS = 80
    NOTE: (i) Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
    (ii) Attempt ALL questions from PART-II
    (iii) All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
    (iv) Candidate must write Q.No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q.No. in the Q.Paper.

    PART-II
    Q.2 Make a précis of the following passage and suggest a suitable title. (20)
    One of the fundamental facts about words is that the most useful ones in our language have many
    meanings. That is partly why they are so useful; they work overtime….. Think of all the various things
    we mean by the word “foot” on different occasions: one of the lower extremities of all human body, a
    measure of verse, the ground about a tree, twelve inches and the floor in front of the stair. The same is
    true of nearly every common noun or verb.
    Considering the number of ways of taking a particular word, the task of speaking clearly being
    understood would seem pretty hopeless if it were not for another very important face about language.
    Though a word may have many senses, these senses can be controlled, up to a point, by the context in
    which the word is used. When we find the word in a particular verbal setting, we can usually decide
    quite definitely which of the many senses of the word is relevant. If a poet says his verse has three feet,
    it doesn’t occur to you that he could mean it’s yard long or is three legged (unless perhaps you are a
    critic planning to puncture the poet with a pun about his “lumping verse”). The context rules out these
    maverick senses quite decisively.
    Q.3 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. (20)
    Recently the mass media, formerly subsequent to the medical profession, have become
    increasingly restive, and occasionally hostile. In Germany, in particular, the newspapers and television
    have given great deal of time and space to the complaints against the medical profession. In Britain on
    BBC radio and television, the medical practical have come under sharp and aggressive criticism.
    Is this antagonism to the profession justified? And if so why? I have fried to answer that question
    by looking at the way it deals with some of the diseases of our civilization, including the most lethal,
    heart attack and cancer. If what emerges is an indictment of the profession, then I would rebut the charge
    that I am anti-doctor. Montaigne said: I honor physicians not for their services but for themselves. That
    goes for me too. (Brian Ingles)
    Questions:
    (a) What do you understand by the mass media?
    (b) What is Brian Ingles stance towards the medical profession?
    (c) What is a lethal disease?
    (d) Is there a radical change in presentation of the art of healing by the mass media?

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