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English II · Language for social contexts

25 questions · 45 marks · 5 papers

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Indian Institute of Technology Madras

BS Degree Programme · Examination & Study Paper

English II

Language for social contexts

Official Paper

Examination Instructions & Guidelines

Solve on notebook/paper first before checking solutions.
MCQ: Exactly 1 option is correct. Negative marking applies.
Scientific calculator allowed for all calculations.
Official answer key is sealed at the end of this sheet.

End Term · 31 Aug 2025 (FN)End Term

Read the passage below, then answer Q1–Q5
From the given options, identify the most appropriate sentence to use in the following social context.
Context: A teacher to her students in a school.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Q1MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
About the portions for the exam.
1. AI will never, under any circumstances, reduce the portions.
2. BYou people are not going to study either way, so what is the point of reducing the mid-term portions.
3. CAs you are aware, covering these portions is integral to make sure that you have a grasp of the most important concepts that we have studied until now. Therefore, I am afraid I will not be able to reduce much from the required portions for the exam.
4. DPlease, do not judge me for not reducing the portions. After all, I am your teacher, and I request your good selves to kindly understand my predicament here and cope with the current amount of portions.
Q2MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
Asking a student to get the chalk box from the staff room.
1. APeter, I would like to respectfully request you to get the chalk box from the staff room.
2. BDear Peter, hope you are doing well. Would you mind if I call upon you to visit the staff room, take the chalk box that is there, and hand it over to me?
3. CGet that box of chalks here, right now! Run, Peter!
4. DPeter, would you please get me the chalk box from the staff room?
Q3MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
Letting a student know about her low grades.
1. AAnarkali, you have put on a poor show as always. Two off twenty.
2. BAnarkali, your grades aren’t what they should be. You seem to be having some issues with understanding certain core concepts here. Please come visit me after the class in the staff room so I can help you with understanding them better. Do let me know if you have any questions.
3. CAnarkali, you are a disgrace to this school, and this score of two off twenty, gives further proof to that claim.
4. DAnarkali, I am terribly sorry to let you know that your performance is not up to the mark in this test. I am devastated, and I apologise to you for this. I am genuinely sorry.
Q4MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
About the deadline for an assignment submission.
1. AThe last date to submit the assignment would be the 20th of this month. All of you, please be punctual.
2. BThe 20th of this month is the deadline for the assignment, and if you don’t submit it by then, I will personally come and burn your bags.
3. CI know that you are all lazy people. But if you do not submit the assignment by the 20th of this month, there would be severe consequences. This is both a threat and a warning, mind it.
4. DThe deadline for the assignment has been decided as the 20th of this month. Please let me know if any of you have any reservations about this date. If you have any, do not hesitate to tell me, although we are really short of time and there is very little chance that your reasons would be accepted. Thank you!
Q5MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
Asking a chirpy student to stop talking in class.
1. AHarini, if you do not stop talking, I will have paper thrown at you. This is a class.
2. BHarini, please be quiet during the class unless you are required to talk. You are disturbing the class, and if you go on I’d have to ask you to leave the class.
3. CHarini, would you be so kind as to consider stopping the utterance of your thoughts during class hours? I am terribly sorry to be asking you this, but I am short of choice, and I hope you will understand. Thanks a lot for hearing me out.
4. DHarini, shut up or get lost. I won’t say it again.

End Term · 31 Aug 2025 (AN)End Term

Read the passage below, then answer Q6–Q10
Identify the most appropriate sentence to use in the following social context, from the given options.
Context: Between police constables of the same level in the police station.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Q6MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
Reminding someone of an impending deadline.
1. ACan’t you just file the report already?
2. BI was just checking whether you finished the report or not. Let me know if you need any help.
3. CApologies for asking. Are you on course to finish the report? Thank you.
4. DThe deadline for this report is Sunday and aren’t you being too lazy about it? Anyways, just reminding you.
Q7MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
Inviting a colleague for your birthday party.
1. AHey, I got a party coming up. Mind dropping by?
2. BExcuse me. Could you please consider this request I am currently making to be a guest at the birthday party that I am organising for myself?
3. CHi, good morning. So, tomorrow is my birthday, and I have a small party at my home tonight. Will you be free to drop by? It’d be fun, and I really look forward to having you there.
4. DWill you come for a party?
Q8MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
Refusing a sweet that your colleague is offering you on a special occasion.
1. AI don’t eat no sweet.
2. BSweets are for lazy sloths, and I sure ain’t one.
3. CSweets make you prone to obesity, which in turn increases chances of you getting cancer. And we all know how deadly cancer can be. So no, I don’t want the sweet. Sorry.
4. DThank you for offering me this, but I am really sorry as I have to decline this. It is just that I have the opposite of a sweet tooth, and ghee-based sweets tend to give me allergies. Hope you’ll understand. Thanks a lot again, and best wishes
Q9MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
Requesting a more experienced constable for help.
1. ASir, would you please have a look at this FIR and tell me whether I have covered all the aspects and events of the case?
2. BHey bro, look what I have done. It is the FIR. Get yourself here and tell me what is wrong with this. Fix this man.
3. CTell me, have I covered everything? Is anything missing?
4. DRespected Sir, I have completed the FIR and, being an incompetent officer, I am unable to check myself whether I have included all the events and aspects of this case. Please, your majesty, be so kind as to go over this and order me how to improve it.
Q10MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
To request your colleague’s help in searching for a file you have misplaced
1. APray, sir, render your assistance in unearthing this misplaced document.
2. BSir, I seem to have misplaced this file. Could you please help me in searching for it?
3. CSo… I lost the file. Wanna help me find it?
4. DWell, it looks like I lost the file. Any idea where we might find it? Because I haven’t the faintest clue.

Quiz 2 · 3 Aug 2025 (AN)Quiz 2

Read the passage below, then answer Q11–Q15
Exercise: Identify the most appropriate sentence to use in the following social setting. Setting: Communicating with employer in an office.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Q11MCQ1 Mark·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
When refusing a request from your employer to work overtime
1. ASorry, but I can’t stay late today.
2. BI don’t think I can.
3. CI’m busy, find someone else to do it.
4. DI won’t work extra hours.
Q12MCQ1 Mark·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
When declining your employer’s request to take on an additional project due to your heavy workload
1. AI don’t have the time for this.
2. BI’m sorry, but I won’t be able to take on another project right now.
3. CI can’t handle any more work.
4. DI have other work to do, sorry.
Q13MCQ1 Mark·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
When refusing your employer’s request to attend a meeting that conflicts with your previously scheduled doctor’s appointment
1. AI can’t cancel my appointment and attend the meeting.
2. BSorry, but I have a prior commitment during that time.
3. CI won’t be able to attend the meeting, I need to visit the doctor.
4. DI won’t be able to change my plans for a meeting.
Q14MCQ1 Mark·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
When declining your employer’s request to work on the weekend
1. ANo, I already have plans for the weekend.
2. BI’m sorry, but I can’t work on the weekend.
3. CI won’t work on the weekend; it’s my personal time.
4. DI won’t sacrifice my weekend for work.
Q15MCQ1 Mark·Choose one option
Asked 15 times Key ↓
When discussing a project deadline with your employer
1. AThe deadline is unreasonable; I can’t meet it.
2. BI don’t think it will be possible to meet this deadline.
3. CThis deadline will be very tough to meet.
4. DWould it be possible to extend the deadline for this project? The current deadline will be quite challenging.

End Term · 13 Apr 2025 (AN)End Term

Read the passage below, then answer Q16–Q20
Study the conversation given below and answer the subquestions that follow by filling in the blanks with the most contextually appropriate expressions.
Judge: Mr. Foreperson, is it correct that the jury has reached a verdict?
Foreperson: (i) _____
Judge: Will the Clerk of the Court please take the verdict? (ii) _____
Clerk: As to G.S.15A-2000 murder in the first degree, what is the jury’s verdict?
Foreperson (reads): We, the jury, find the defendant, Catherine Danielle Clark, not guilty of first- degree murder of Mr. Chase Andrews.
Clerk: Members of the jury, your foreperson has announced the following verdict: G.S.15A-2000, murder in the first degree, not guilty. (iii) _____
Jurors (collectively): Yes
Judge: If anyone said no, please raise your hand.
(Nobody raises their hand.)
Judge: Do you wish the jury to be polled?
(No party makes an application for a poll.)
Judge: (iv) _____ Ms. Clark, you are free to go, and I apologize on behalf of the State for the time that you have served. The jury is hereby discharged from the case. (v) _____
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Q16MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (i) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AYeah, sure we have.
2. BYes, of course.
3. CWe have, Your Honor.
Q17MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (ii) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AHey defendant, why don’t you rise for the reading of the verdict, now?
2. BThe defendant will please rise for the reading of the verdict.
3. CStand up, defendant!
Q18MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (iii) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AMembers of the jury, is that your verdict?
2. BDo y’all agree with the verdict?
3. CAre you sure that is your verdict, jurors?
Q19MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (iv) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AWell, well, ain’t the jury of one mind here!
2. BThe jury does not uphold its verdict.
3. CThe jury upholds its verdict.
Q20MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (v) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AAssembly dispersed.
2. BThis court is dismissed.
3. CEveryone please leave now.

End Term · 22 Dec 2024 (AN)End Term

Read the passage below, then answer Q21–Q25
Study the conversation given below and answer the given subquestions that follow by filling in the blanks with the most contextually appropriate expressions.
Student: Excuse me, Professor Tate. (i) _____
Teacher: Yes, Sarah, please come in.
Student: Good morning, ma’am.
Teacher: Good morning. (ii) _____
Student: I was wondering if I may work on the theme of existentialism in Thornton Wilder’s plays for my term-end research paper. Will that be a suitable topic? (iii) _____
Teacher: That sounds like a very promising topic. (iv) _____ so that it does not become too ambitious of a project to be completed within the limited time that you have.
Student: I would like to work on The Skin of Our Teeth in that case, ma’am.
Teacher: Excellent choice! I’ll mail you the list of suggested readings by the end of the week. All the best for your paper. (v) _____
Student: Certainly, ma’am. Thank you.
Q21MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (i) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. ALet me in!
2. BWould you be so kind as to let me in?
3. CMay I please come in?
Q22MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (ii) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AWhat do you want?
2. BHow can I help you?
3. CWhy are you here?
Q23MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (iii) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AWould you please recommend some readings for the same?
2. BTell me what I should read.
3. CWhat would I even read if I wanted to work on that topic?
Q24MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (iv) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AWould you be kind enough to consider narrowing it down to any one of Wilder’s plays
2. BI would suggest that you narrow it down to any one of Wilder’s plays
3. CI command that you narrow it down to any one of Wilder’s plays
Q25MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Asked 10 times Key ↓
Fill in blank (v) with the most fitting response from the options given below. Keep in mind the setting, the tone and the subject of the conversation, and the capacities within which the speakers are interacting.
1. AWhy can't you stick to your deadline?
2. BUnder no circumstances should your paper overrun its deadline.
3. CMake sure that you meet your deadline.

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