Communicative English Midterm Spring 2025 Question Paper

1 Daffodil International University Department of Business Administration Midterm Examination, Spring 2025 Course Code: 0231-111 Course Title: Communicative English Semester: Spring 2025 Examination: Midterm examination Time: 1.5 Hours Full Marks: 25 Section: 68 (A-D) Teachers’ Initial: FA, JFH 1. Change the tense of the following sentences as mentioned in the brackets. (CLO 1, Level 1) 5x1=5 i. The manager approves the project. (Past Continuous) ii. She had been practicing the speech for two hours. (Future Indefinite) iii. We will complete the assignment by next Monday. (Present Perfect Continuous) iv. They do not understand the problem. (Past Perfect) v. When did she submit the report? (Future Perfect) 2. Change the following statements as mentioned in the brackets. (CLO 2, Level 2) 5x1=5 i. I sincerely apologize for the delay in responding to your email. (Informal) ii. Huh? Can you say that again? (Formal) iii. I’m afraid that might not be the most effective solution. (Informal) iv. Please do not hesitate to contact me. (Informal) v. I’ve got other plans, so I can’t come. ( Formal) 3. Read the passages below and answer Question 3. (i-x) that follows. (CLO 3, Level 3) 10x1=10 Bats to the rescue: How Madagascar’s bats are helping to save the rainforest There are few places in the world where relations between agriculture and conservation are more strained. Madagascar’s forests are being converted to agricultural land at a rate of one percent every year. Much of this destruction is fuelled by the cultivation of the country’s main staple crop: rice. And a key reason for this destruction is that insect pests are destroying vast quantities of what is grown by local subsistence farmers, leading them to clear forest to create new paddy fields. The result is devastating habitat and biodiversity loss on the island, but not all species are suffering. In fact, some of the island’s insectivorous bats are currently thriving and this has important implications for farmers and conservationists alike. Enter University of Cambridge zoologist Ricardo Rocha. He’s passionate about conservation, and bats. More specifically, he’s interested in how bats are responding to human activity and deforestation in particular. Rocha’s new study shows that several species of bats are giving Madagascar’s rice farmers a vital pest control service by feasting on plagues of insects. And this, he believes, can ease the financial pressure on farmers to turn forest into fields. Bats comprise roughly one-fifth of all mammal species in Madagascar and thirty-six recorded bat species are native to the island, making it one of the most important regions for conservation of this animal group anywhere in the world. Co-leading an international team of scientists, Rocha found that several species of indigenous bats are taking advantage of habitat modification to hunt insects swarming above the country’s rice fields. They include the Malagasy mouse- eared bat, Major’s long-fingered bat, the Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat and Peters’ wrinkle-lipped bat.