Dr MGR University Model Question Paper www.drmgrdu.ac.in : PhD Entrance Exam Common English

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Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute University
Ph. D. Entrance Examination
Model English Paper (Common for all Department Candidates) (20 Marks)

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1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: ( 5x2= 10)
For the last three hundred years, newspapers have played an important role in the social, political and economic life of the United States. As recently as the middle of the 1980’s, there were about 1800 daily newspapers in the country, but in the following ten years the number dropped to about 1500. In 1950, each household read about 1.3 newspapers every day. By 1985, that number had dropped almost by half, and the average number of newspaper read per household was 0.7. In 1870, 80 percent of all adult Americans read a newspaper everyday. By 1944, the number had decreased to 60 percent. These numbers suggest that newspapers are disappearing but that may not be the case

a) Write any two pieces of information that you have gathered from the above passage
b) Frame a question on the news that you have read
c) Can you point out the topical sentence of the above paragraph?
d) Infer the implied message of this paragraph
e) Two types of data are available in the above passage. Can you frame a table of information for
any one data?

2. Read the given passage and do the Note making, You may choose any one passage (5Marks)
Technical / scientific passage
Or
Business /general information
3. Write a paragraph on any one of the following topics not exceeding 100 words(5Marks)
a) What do want to achieve joining research programme?
b) Brief review of a book or article that you have read recently relevant to your area of research