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[h=2]CSS Precis and Composition Past Paper 2011[/h]




Essay​


Time allowed: Three Houres​
Maximum Marks: 100​
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NOTE: Make an outline and write a Comprihensive Essay (2500-3500 words) on any one of the following.



1. Truth is a rare commodity despite the freedom enjoys by the print media and electronic media.

2. Whithout good comunication skills, life becomes impossible in the modern world.

3. The time we live in is the winter of the world.

4. In this country reason does not apply to anything.

5. Does pakistani society regard women as the angle in the house of the source of all evils?

6. Disaster managment and govenment preparedness.

7. Fair play and life, as it is lived, in the land of poor.

8. The pleasure of reading.

9. What are the hurdles in our way to becoming a truely indipendent state?

10. Insanity in individual is something rare but groups, parties and nations it is the rule.


[h=2]Essay Paper 2010[/h]
01. Literature is the best criticism of life.02. Dialogue is the best course to combat terrorism.
03. Pakistan is rich in natural resources but very poor in their management.
04. The U.N.O has failed to measure up to the demands of its charter.
05. All humans are born equal in dignity and rights but htey are in shackles everywhere.
06. Why is there no status of the third gender in Pakistan?
07. Can women be equal to men in Pakistan?
08. Without independent truth-finding commission , accountability is unachievable.
09. Religion has done more harm than help to human relations in the world.
10. The world politics stands more derisive than it was ever before due to the specific imperialist designs.



[h=2]Precis & Composition Paper 2010[/h]
Q1: Pick the word that is nearly similar in meaning to the capitalized word.
1) Acrimonous
a) Bitter b) Provocative c) Cheap d) Volatile
2) Calligraphy
a) Computers b) Handwriting c) Blood Pressure d) Brain waves
3) Unequivocal
a) Variable b) Plain c) Unmistakable d) Negligent
4) Demise
a) Conclude b) End c) Affection d) Death
5) Incendiary
a) Happy b) Sneer c) Causing fire d) Jolly
6) Touchstone
a) Remind b) A hall c) at rest d) Criterion
7) Void
a) Emptiness b) Lea c) Anger d) Trick
8) Essay
a) Direct b) Copose c) Attempt d) Suppose
b) Indicate the most nearly opposite in meaning
1) Ignoble
a) Lowly b) Vile c) Good d) Noble
2) Melancholy
a) Sorrowful b) Happy c) Forbidden d) Brisk
3) Obliterate
a) Preserve b) Destroy c) Ravage d) Design
4) Ally
a) Alloy b) Foe c) Partner d) Accessory
5) Vulgar
a) Coarse b) Gross c) Exquisite d) Obscene
6) Pretend
a) Sham b) Substantiate c) Feign d) Fabricate
7) Liberty
a) Permission b) License c) Serfdom d) Bound
8) Consceintious
a) Uncorrupt b) Honorable c) Principled d) Profligate
Q2: Precise
Of all the characteristics of ordinary human nature envy is the most unfortunate; not only does the envious person wish to inflict misfortune and do so whenever he can with impunity, but he is also himself rendered unhappy by envy. instead of deriving pleausre from what he has, he derives pain from what others have. if he can, he deprives others of their advantages, which to him is as desirable as as it would be to secure the same advantages himself. if this passion is allowed to run riot it becomes fatal to all excellence,and even the most useful exercise of exceptional skill. why should a medical man go to see his patients in a car when the labourer has to walk to his work? why should the scientifc investigator be allowed to spend his time in a warm room when others have to face the inclemency of the elements? why should a man who possesses some rare talent of great importance to the world be saved fromt he drudgery of his own housework? to such questions envy finds no answer. fortunately, however, there is in human nature a compensating passion, namely that of admiration. whosoever wishes to increase human happiness must wish to increase admiration and to diminish envy. what cure is there for envy? for the saint there is the cure of selflessness, though even in the case of saints envy of other saints is by no means impossible. but, leaving saints out of account, the only cure of envy in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness. but the envious man may say: 'what is the good of telling me that the cure of envy is happiness? i cannot find happiness while i continue to feel envy, and you tell me that i cannot cease to be envious until i find happiness.' but real life is never so logical as this. mereley to realize the cause of one's own envious feeling is to take a long step towards curing them.
Question 3: Comprehension
And still it moves. the words of Galileo, murmured when the tortures of the Inquisition had driven him to recant the Truth he knew, apply in a new way to our world today. sometimes, in the knowledge of all that has been discovered, all that has been done to make life on the planet happier and more worthy, we may be tempted to settle down to enjoy our heritage. that would, indeed, be the betrayal of our trust.
These men and women of the past have given everything---comfort, time, treasure, peace of mind and body, life itself---that we might live as we do. the challenege to each one of us is to carry on their work for the sake of future generations.
The adventurous human mind must not falter. still must we question the old truths and work for the new ones. still must we risk scorn, cynicism, neglect, loneliness, poverty, persecution, if need be. we must shut our ears to easy voice which tells us that human nature will never alter as an exucse for doing nothing to make life more worthy.
Thus will the course of the history of mankind go onward, and the world we know move into a new splendour for those who are yet to be.
Questions:
1) What made Galileo recant the Truth he knew?
2) What is the heritage being alluded to in the first paragraph?
3)what does the 'betrayal of our trust' imply
4) Why do we need to question the old truths and work for the new ones?
Explain the words or expressions as highlighted/underlined in the passage.
Question 4: Write a comprehensive note on any one of the following
1) When flatterrers get together, the devil goes to dinner.
2) The impossible is often the untried.
3) A Civil servant is a public servant
4)Internet---a blessing or a bane
5) Hope is the buoy of life.
Question 5: Use Only Five of the following in sentences which illustrate their meaning:
1) Make for
2) Yeoman's service
3) Discretion is the better part of valour.
4) Out of the wood
5) A casting vote
6) Look down upon
7) Iconoclast
8) A swan song
b) Five pairs of words in sentences:
1) Adverse, Averse
2) Maize, Maze
3) Medal, Meddle
4) Imperious, Imperial
5) Veracity, Voracity
6) Allusion, Illusion
7) Ordinance, Ordnance
8) willing, Wilful
Question 6:
a) Correct the following sentences
1) This house is built of brick and stone.
2) the climate of Pakistan is better than England?
3) He swore by God.
4) You ought to have regarded him your benefactor.
5) My friend is very ill, i hope he will soon die.
6) he is waiting for better and promising opportunity.
7) When I shall see her I will deliver her your gift.
8) Many a sleepless nights she spent.
b) Change the narration from Indirect to Direct or Direct to Indirect
1) On Monday he said, "My son is coming today."
2) they wanted to know where he was going the following week.
3) he said, "Did she go yesterday?"
4) 'By God', he said, "I do not know her nickname."
5) he says that we are to meet him at the station.
6) He said, "I don't know the way. ask the old man sitting on the gate."
7) My father prayed that i would recover from my illness
8) He said, "How will you manage it?"


[h=2]English Précis and Composition 2009[/h]
PART-I (MCQs)

Q.1. (a) Choose the word that is nearly similar in meaning to the word in capital letters. (Do only FIVE). Extra attempt of any Part of the question will not be considered.
(i) OBSCURE
(a) Unclear (b) Doubtful
(ii) AMIABLE
(a) Obnoxious (b) Affable
(iii) HOODWINK
(a) Delude (b) Avoid
(iv) GUILEFUL
(a) Honorable (b) Disingenuous
(v) OBSESSION
(a) Fixed ideas (b) Delusion
(vi) RADICAL
(a) Innate (b) Moderate
(vii) PRESUMPTIVE
(a) Credible (b) Timid
(b) Pick the most nearly opposite in meaning to the capitalized word:
(viii) PRESENTABLE
(a) Unable (b) Scruffy (c) Suitable (d) Personable
(ix) SALVATION
(a) Escape (b) Starvation (c) Doom (d) Rescue
(x) PLAIN
(a) Clean (b) Distinct (c) Ambiguous (d) Frugal
(xi) ODIOUS
(a) Porus (b) Charming (c) Horrid (d) Offensive
(xii) INFLAME
(a) Calm (b) Anger (c) Excite (d) Kindle
PART-II
Q.2. Make a précis of the given passage and suggest a suitable heading.
From Plato to Tolstoi art has been accused of exciting our emotions and thus of disturbing the order and harmony of our moral life.” Poetical imagination, according to Plato, waters our experience of lust and anger, of desire and pain, and makes them grow when they ought to starve with drought. “Tolstoi sees in art a source of infection. “Not only in infection,” he says, “a sign of art , but the degree of infectiousness is also the sole measure of excellence in art.” But the flaw in this theory is obvious. Tolstoi suppresses a fundamental moment of art, the moment of form. The aesthetic experience – the experience of contemplation- is a different state of mind from the coolness of our theoretical and the sobriety of our moral judgment. It is filled with the liveliest energies of passion, but passion itself is here transformed both in its nature and in its meaning. Wordsworth defines poetry as “ emotion recollected in tranquility’. But the tranquility we feel in great poetry is not that of recollection. The emotions aroused by the poet do not belong to a remote past. They are “ here”- alive and immediate. We are aware of their full strength, but this strength tends in a new direction. It is rather seen than immediately felt. Our passions are no longer dark and impenetrable powers; they become, as it were, transparent. Shakespeare never gives us an aesthetic theory. He does not speculate about the nature of art. Yet in the only passage in which he speaks of the character and functions of dramatic art the whole stress is laid upon this point. “ The purpose of playing,” as Hamlet explains, “ both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as, twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.” But the image of the passion is not the passion itself. The poet who represents a passion doest not infected us with this passion. At a Shakespeare play we are not infected with the ambition of Macbeth, with the cruelty of Richard III or with the jealously of Othello. We are not at the mercy of these emotions; we look through them; we seem to penetrate into their very nature and essence. In this respect Shakespeare’s theory of dramatic art, if he had such a theory, is in complete agreement with the conception of the fine arts of the great painters and sculptors.
Q.3. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
It is very nature of helicopter that is great versatility is found. To begin with, the helicopter is the fulfillment of tone of man’s earliest



[h=2]Essay Paper 2009[/h]
ESSAY
1. The Future of Democracy in Pakistan.
2. Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind.
3. co.education , Merits and Demerits
4. The food crisis: problems , challenges and opportunitities for Pakistan.
5. English as the Medium of Education in Pakistan.
6. The future of UNO, Hopes and Hurdles
7. There is no great genious without a mixture of madness.
8. Status of Women in Islam
9. Pakistan's War on terror and its impact on our psyche and politic.socio.economic fronts.
10. Power of Media in the Modern World.


[h=2]English (Précis & Composition) Paper 2008[/h]
ENGLISH (Précis & Composition)
Q.1. Write a précis of the following passage in about 100 words and suggest the title:
Objectives pursued by, organizations should be directed to the satisfaction of demands resulting from the wants of mankind. Therefore, the determination of appropriate objectives for organized activity must be preceded by an effort to determine precisely what their wants are. Industrial organizations conduct market studies to learn what consumer goods should be produced. City Commissions make surveys to ascertain what civic projects would be of most benefit. Highway Commissions conduct traffic counts to learn what constructive programmes should be undertaken. Organizations come into being as a means for creating and exchanging utility. Their success is dependent upon the appropriateness of the series of acts contributed to the system. The majority of these acts is purposeful, that is, they are directed to the accomplishment of some objectives. These acts are physical in nature and find purposefulemployment in the alteration of the physical environment. As a result utility is created, which, through the process of distribution, makes it possible for the cooperative system to endure.
Before the Industrial Revolution most cooperative activity was accomplished in small owner managed enterprises, usually with a single decision maker and simple organizational objectives. Increased technology and the growth of industrial organization made necessary the establishment of a hierarchy of objectives. This is turn, required a division of the management function until today a hierarchy of decision makers exists in most organizations.
The effective pursuit of appropriate objectives contributes directly to organizational efficiency. As used here, efficiency is a measure of the want satisfying power of the cooperative system as a whole. Thus efficiency is the summation of utilities received from the organization divided by the utilities given to the organization, as subjectively evaluated by each contributor.
The functions of the management process is the delineation of organizational objectives and the coordination of activity towards the accomplishment of these objectives. The system of coordinated activities must be maintained so that each contributor, including the manager, gains more than he contributes.
Q.2. Read the following passage carefully and answer all the questions given at the end.
These phenomena, however, are merely premonitions of a coming storm, which is likely to sweep over the whole of India and the rest of Asia. This is the inevitable outcome of a wholly political civilization, which has looked upon man as a thing to be exploited and not as a personality to be developed and enlarged by purely cultural forces. The people of Asia are bound to rise against the acquisitive economy which the West have developed and imposed on the nations of the East. Asia cannot comprehend modern Western capitalism with its undisciplined individualism. The faith, which you represent, recognizes the worth of the individual, and disciplines him to give away all to the service of God and man. Its possibilities are not yet exhausted. It can still create a new world where the social rank of man is not determined by his caste or colour or the amount of dividend he earns, but by the kind of life he lives, where the poor tax the rich, where human society is founded not on the equality of stomachs but on the equality of spirits, where an untouchable can marry the daughter of the king, where private ownership is a trust and where capital cannot be allowed to accumulate so as to dominate that real producer of wealth. This superb idealism of your faith, however, needs emancipation from the medieval fancies of theologians and logists? Spiritually, we are living in a prison house of thoughts and emotions, which dur




[h=2]Essay Paper 2008[/h]
ESSAY
1. Moral depravity is the root cause of poverty.
2. Peace the essential message of our religion
3. Time management is the key note of success.
4. Lack of discipline - a national disaster.
5. Materialism in the death of spirituality.
6. Poetry is teh highest form of expression - the greatest proof is the Holy Quran.
7. Dreams for future rely on the work of today.
8. Can be prevent the Third World War?
9. Global Warming, fact or fiction?

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[h=2]English Precis And Composition[/h]
Q # 1... Make a précis of the given passage and suggest a suitable heading: (20 + 5)It was not so in Greece, where philosophers professed less, and undertook more. Parmenides pondered nebulously over the mystery of knowledge; but the pre-Socratics kept their eyes with fair consistency upon the firm earth, and sought to ferret out its secrets by observation and experience, rather than to create it by exuding dialectic; there were not many introverts among the Greeks. Picture Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher; would he not be perilous company for the dessicated scholastics who have made the disputes about the reality of the external world take the place of medieval discourses on the number of angles that could sit on the point of a pin? Picture Thales, who met the challenge that philosophers were numskulls by “cornering the market” and making a fortune in a year. Picture Anaxagoras, who did the work of Darwin for the Greeks and turned Pericles form a wire-pulling politician into a thinker and a statesman, Picture old Socrates, unafraid of the sun or the stars, gaily corrupting young men and overturning governments; what would he have done to these bespectacled seedless philosophasters who now litter the court of the once great Queen? To Plato, as to these virile predecessors, epistemology was but the vestibule of philosophy, akin to the preliminaries of love; it was pleasant enough for a while, but it was far from the creative consummation that drew wisdom’s lover on. Here and there in the shorter dialogues, the Master dallied amorously with the problems of perception, thought, and knowledge; but in his more spacious moments he spread his vision over larger fields, built himself ideal states and brooded over the nature and destiny of man. And finally in Aristotle philosophy was honoured in all her boundless scope and majesty; all her mansions were explored and made beautiful with order; here every problem found a place and every science brought its toll to wisdom. These men knew that the function of philosophy was not to bury herself in the obscure retreats of epistemology, but to come forth bravely into every realm of inquiry, and gather up all knowledge for the coordination and illumination of human character and human life.

Q # 2… Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: (20 Marks)
“Elegant economy!” How naturally one fold back into the phraseology of Cranford! There economy was always “elegant”, and money-spending always “Vulgar and Ostentatoin;” a sort of sour grapeism which made up very peaceful and satisfied I shall never forget the dismay felt when certain Captain Brown came to live at Cranford, and openly spoke of his being poor __ not in a whisper to an intimate friend, the doors and windows being previously closed, but in the public street! in a loud military voice! alleging his poverty as a reason for not taking a particular house. The ladies of Cranford were already moving over the invasion of their territories by a man and a gentleman. He was a half-pay captain, and had obtained some situation on a neighbouring rail-road, which had been vehemently petitioned against by the little town; and if in addition to his masculine gender, and his connection with the obnoxious railroad, he was so brazen as to talk of his being poor __ why, then indeed, he must be sent to Coventry. Death was as true and as common as poverty; yet people never spoke about that loud on the streets. It was a word not to be mentioned to ears polite. We had tacitly agreed to ignore that any with whom we associated on terms of visiting equality could ever be prevented by poverty from doing anything t

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