Kerala PSC Range Forest Officer – Forest / Compulsory Subjects- II English Previous Question Paper – 062/2015

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1. Write an essay of not more than 860 words on any ONE of the following: i (1 x 15 = 15)
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2. Write a Précis on the following passage reducing it to ONE-THIRD of its length: (15)
(First write down the important ideas, then write the first draft and then the final draft. Give
a suitable title also)
The system of naming of Atlantic cyclones (known as hurricanes or typhoons), is a fairly old
practice, but giving names to cyclones that originate in the northern Indian Ocean and affect
South Asian countries began only at the turn of this century. The system was formalised at a
meeting of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Economic .
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in 2000, and the first cyclone was
named in 2004. :
| Hight north Indian Ocean countries, namely, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, |
Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand, were asked to contribute names so that a |
combined list could be compiled. Each country gave eight names and a combined list of |
64 names was prepared. This list is currently in use, and all cyclones arising in the north |
Indian Ocean are named from this list, with one name from each country being used in turn. |
d Almost 38 or 39 names from the list have been used up, but since many cyclones dissipate
long before they hit land, their names rarely figure in the papers or other media. The names
that people do know about and remember are those that were most destructive ones, or very
| recent, Aila, in 2009 is remembered with a shudder for the enormous destruction it caused in
West Bengal and Bangladesh; Phaillin, also for the damage it caused when it hit the Odisha
coast in 2013. Two harmless cyclones, which also might remain in people’s memory, are the
more recent ones of 2014 — Hudhud, which threatened the east coast of India and Nilofar,
which was expected to, but did not, devastate the western coast.
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