ENG101 Final Term Past Paper 11

FINALTERM EXAMINATION

ENG101 - ENGLISH COMPREHENSION (Session - 1 ) Marks: 40 Time: 120min

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Exam Date: Thursday, August 17, 2006

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3. 3. Read the given passage carefully before you attempt any question.

from anyone.

it to the best of your understanding.

b. If you believe that some essential piece of information is missing, make an

appropriate assumption and use it to solve the problem.

Passage

Just as most of us were finally beginning to grasp the Y2K problem, the confusion that may follow a computer's failure to read zero-zero as the year 2000. Along comes September 9th, 1999.

Some older computers, we were told, might read 9-9-99 as a kind of shorthand used to mark the end of a program and shut something down! Like the northwest electric grid of the Bonneville Power Administration.

That got everyone's attention focused on the last big nationwide power company readiness drill for the year two thousand.

Here in Washington State, and practically everywhere else in the United States and Canada, September 9th arrived without a hitch.

At least not a computer hitch. But there was a telephone call that threatened BPA's power grid, one of the biggest in the country. The call came from someone who persuaded someone else to throw some switches. However, an alert operator rerouted power and quickly fixed the problem.

Judi Johnson is a Bonneville Power Administrator; " There are people who would like Y2K to be a real event."

After a tour of BPA's control center, energy secretary Bill Richardson declared it and the nation almost ready for New Year's Day, 2000. He says, "I can report today that Bonneville is Y2K ready, and I have had reports from power companies all over the country that they have all passed with flying colors."

The secretary acknowledged that 9-9-99 was never a serious concern but a way to focus on 1-1-2000.

In the end, the energy secretary said, it was not so much a test of Y2K readiness, as it was a show of confidence in the nation's electric companies even though, he acknowledged, one percent is still not Y2K compliant.

Question Marks Question Total Marks

Q1. ( Marks: 1 )

Choose the best option.

The K in Y2K means ____________ .

kilogram · Kilometer · 1000

Q2. ( Marks: 1 )

It was feared that computers on September 9, 1999 would _________

start a irus spreading · shut down all programs · send wrong messages to power companies · process faster than usual

Q3. ( Marks: 1 )

On September 9, 1999 at Bonneille Power Administration · a person broke in and set some switches · the computer shut down but was fixed