B.A Papers

2.
YEAR WISE PAPER B

PAPER NO. 1 (YEAR 2004 - GROUP I)
1. Write an essay, with an outline, of 300-350 words on ONE of the
following topics: (5 + 20 = 25)
(i) Muslim Unity
(ii) Social Evils in Pakistan
(iii) Music Addiction
(iv) Elementary Education
(v) After-effects of Modern War
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at
the end. (10 + 15 = 25)
Fortunately, however, the growth of industrialism has coincided in the
west with the growth of democracy. It is possible now, if the population of the
world does not increase too fast, for one man's labour to produce much more
than is needed to provide a bare subsistence for himself and his family. Given
an intelligent democracy not misled by some dogmatic creed, this possibility
will be used to raise the standard of life. It has been so used to a limited
extent, in Britain and America, and would have been so used more
effectively but for war. Its use in raising the standard of life has depended
mainly upon three things; democracy, trade unionism, and birth control. All
three, of course, have incurred hostility from the rich. If these three things
can be extended to the rest of the world as it becomes industrialized, and if
the danger of great wars can be eliminated, poverty can be abolished
throughout the whole world, and excessive hours of labour will no longer be
necessary anywhere. But without these three things industrialism will create
a regime like that in which the Pharaohs build the pyramids. In particular, if
the world population continues to increase at the present rate,
the abolition if poverty and excessive work will be totally impossible.
Questions:
(i) What connection does the writer show between industrialism and
democracy?
(ii) How can the standard of life be raised?
(iii) How can poverty be abolished?
(iv) What will be the impact of increase in population at the present rate?
(v) Suggest a suitable title for the passage.
(vi) Make a precis of the passage.
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper about the acute traffic
problem on city roads. (15)
OR
Write an application in response to the following advertisement.
4. Use any FIVE of the following idiomatic expressions in sentences
of your own: (10)
(i)Bear up
(ii) Die out
(iii) Come to
(iv) Vest in
(v) Damocles' sword
(vi) Feather in one's cap
(vii) Gift of the gab
(viii) A fishy story
(ix) Stand of ceremony
(x) Make a bee line for
5. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences: (10)
(i) Climbing down the stairs, he fell head long.
(ii) Tell me the last news of war.
(iii) They decided for starting on their journey.
(iv) He denied to accept the invitation.
(v) The jury were unanimous in their verdict.
(vi) Whom was she talking?
(vii) The population of Karachi is greater than any other town in Pakistan.
(viii) I went there with a view to get first hand information.
(ix) Though he has enough money, but he will not purchase a house.
(x) I don't know the reason why he dislike me.
6. Translate the following into English: (15)
OR
Write a dialogue between a student and a police sergeant on one
wheeling.
PAPER NO. 2 (YEAR 2004 - GROUP II)
1. Write an essay, with an outline, of 300-350 words on ONE of the following topics: (5 + 20 =
25)
(i) An Ideal College
(ii) Science and Arts
(iii) Muslims' Backwardness
(iv) Health Care in Pakistan
(v) Role of Electronic Media
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. (10 + 15 = 25)
Real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self. The beauty of a porcelain jar
is a matter of shape, of colour, of surface texture. The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders,
full of honey or stinking slime - it makes no difference to its beauty or ugliness. But a woman is
live, and her beauty is therefore not skin deep. The surface of the human vessel is affected by
the nature of its spiritual contents. I have seen women who, by the standards of a connoisseur
of porcelain, were ravishingly lovely. Their shape, their colour, their surface texture were
perfect. And yet they were not beautiful. For the lovely vase was either empty or filled with
some corruption. Spiritual emptiness or ugliness shows through. And conversely, there is an
interior light that can transfigure forms that the pure aesthetician would regard as imperfect or
downright ugly. There are numerous forms of psychological ugliness. There is an ugliness of
stupidity, for example, of unawareness (distressingly common among pretty women). An
ugliness also of greed, of lasciviousness, of avarice. All the deadly sins, indeed, have their own
peculiar negation of beauty. On the pretty faces of those especially who are trying to have a
continuous good time, one sees very often a kind of bored sullenness that ruins all their charm.
Questions:
(i) What does real beauty signify?
(ii) Where does the beauty of a porcelain jar lie?
(iii) Differentiate between inner beauty and outer beauty.
(iv) Point out some forms of psychological ugliness.
(v) Make a precis of the passage.
3. Write a letter to the Health Minister about the lack of medical facilities in Government
Hospitals/Dispensaries. (15)
OR
Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about the problems faced by commuters in the
city.
4. Use any FIVE of the following idiomatic expressions in sentences of your own. (10)
(i) Do up
(ii) Get away with
(iii) Live by
(iv) At loggerheads
(v) Out of bounds
(vi) Play upon
(vii) As the crow flies
(viii) The under dog
(ix) The school master is abroad
(x) A blue stocking
5. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences. (10)
(i) Open this knot.
(ii) He does not care for his money.
(iii) He behaved cowardly.
(iv) I am ill since three months.
(v) Send this letter on my home address.
(vi) There is nothing such as chance.
(vii) My friend told me that he is not to blame.
(viii) The judge disposed the case at once.
(ix) No sooner I had fallen than they ran away.
(x) What to speak of French, he does not know even English.
6. Translate the following into English. (15)
OR
Write a dialogue between a teacher and a student who is a habitual late comer.
25)
(i) Reading for Pleasure
(ii) Ills of Smoking
(iii) Literacy Campaign
(iv) An Ideal Student
(v) How to Make Pakistan Strong and Stable
A person who is aware of his duties and rights in his society in a good citizens. He knows that he
is a member of a group with which he is associated by a thousand and one ties. He realizes that
he should live in harmony with other members of society.
Man cannot live without a society. He cannot live alone. He must live with his fellow human
beings. But living in a society means cooperation with other members of that society. When you
live in a society, you have to live as others live. You have to accept the conditions and traditions
that a society prescribes for its members. These conditions and standards of behaviour are for
the common good and welfare of the society and individuals. Society gives you some rights and
some duties.
A good citizen does his best to do his duty to the society. He always keeps in view the
interests of his society and state. He lives a clean and honest life. He keeps away from such
activities that may harm the interests of his fellow citizens.
A good citizen is aware of the fact that his is indebted to his society in many ways. He knows
that the labour and work of countless persons have enriched his life. His life, to a very great
extent, depends on others. He has received much in material and spiritual benefits from others.
It is only just and right that he should pay his debts.
How does a good citizen pay his debts to the society? By living a useful and fruitful life. He
lives not for himself alone. He lives for others. He pays his taxes. He takes keen interest in the
affairs of his state. He does not live in isolation. He is not selfish. He is tolerant, kind and
virtuous.
Questions:
(i) Give a suitable title to passage.
(ii) Who is a good citizen?
(iii) Why is society formed?
(iv) What are the duties of a good citizen?
(v) Give other words for:
(a) Harmony (b) Prescribe (c) Indebted (d) Isolation
(vi) Make a precis of the passage in about 100 words.
3. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about smoking among students. (15)
OR
Write an application to the secretary of higher education for grand of scholarship for higher
studies abroad.
4. Use any FIVE of the following idiomatic expressions in sentences. (10)
(i) Bring forth
(ii) Die down
(iii) Go against
(iv) Knock about
(v) House of cards
(vi) Laughing stock
(vii) Nip in the bud
(viii) Play truant
(ix) Keep one's fingers crossed
(x) Have a bee in one's bonnet
(i) He or she is a thief.
(ii) Certificates are attached herewith.
(iii) She died from cancer.
(iv) No sooner he left than the storm broke.
(v) I would sooner quit than to do it.
(vi) Slower you move, greater the time you take.
(vii) They considered him as a great fool.
(viii) She was too pleased to hear the news.
(ix) He walks as if he is lame.
(x) One can learn his lesson if he applies his mind to it.
OR
Write a dialogue between a student and a teacher on the importance of discipline.
25)
(i) Mobile Phone
(ii) Drug Addiction
(iii) An Ideal College
(iv) Social Evils in Pakistan
(v) Character is Destiny
Ought women to have the same rights as men? A hundred year ago, the answer in every
country in the world would have been, "No". If you had asked, "Why not?" you would have
been told, scornfully and pityingly, that women were weaker and less clever than men, and had
worse characters. Even now, in the Twentieth Century, there are many countries where women
are still treated almost like servants, or even slaves.
It is certainly true that the average woman has weaker muscles that the average man.
Thousands of years ago, when men lived in caves and hunted animals for food, strength of body
was the most important thing; but now, in the Twentieth Century, brains are more important.
Strength of body is still needed for a few kinds of work, but the fact that such kinds of work are
not well paid shows that the Twentieth Century does not think that muscles are of very great
importance.
What about women's brains? Of course, in countries where girls are not given so good an
education as boys they know less. But in countries where there is the same education for both,
it has been clearly shown that there is no difference at all between the brain of the average
woman and that of the average man. There have been women judges in Turkey, women
ambassadors in America, women ministers in the British government and women University
professors in many countries. And among the greatest and strongest rulers of England were
Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.
But women can do one thing that men cannot: they can produce children. Because they, and
not men, do this, they usually love their children more, and are better able to look after them,
since they are more patient and understanding with small children. For this reason, many
women are happier if they stay at home and look after their house and family than if they go
out and do the same work as men do. It is their own choice, and not the result of being less
clever than men.
Questions:
(i) Why would you have been told a hundred years ago that women ought not to have the same
rights as men?
(ii) Why was strength of body important thousands of years ago?
(iii) How can we see that it is no longer so important?
(iv) What work does the writer mention that women have done as well as men?
(v) What is particular about women that men can't do?
(vi) Make a precis of the passage in not more than 120 words.
3. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about traffic mess on city roads. (15)
OR
Write an application to the director of education for the post of an English teacher.
4. Use any FIVE of the following idiomatic phrases in sentences of your own. (10)
(i) Stick to
(ii) Stand out
(iii) Run out
(iv) Carry weight
(v) Cut a sorry figure
(vi) Bury the hatchet
(vii) Do up
(viii) Turn coat
(ix) A dark horse
(x) By and large
(i) For goodness's sake leave my alone.
(ii) She is more intelligent of the two.
(iii) Who do you want to see?
(iv) Let Sabiha and I go there.
(v) We saw much less films than last years.
(vi) Between you and I, he is a cheat.
(vii) The climate of Multan is better than Lahore.
(viii) I only did two sums.
(ix) Latest part of the book is very difficult.
(x) There is a little truth in your statement.
OR
Write a dialogue between two friends on some TV programme.
25)
(i) Punjab: The Land of Five Rivers
(ii) Dreams of a College Student
(iii) Information Technology
(iv) Terrorism and Image of Pakistan Abroad
(v) Role of Women in Society
When the time for a general election approaches, candidates who wish to be elected travel
around with loudspeakers and hold meetings.
They hold meetings before the elections because they wish to appeal the electorate. They
wish to present to the public what they consider to be suitable programme for legislation when
and if they are elected, and they seek to show why their programme should be chosen in
preference to that their opponents. The candidates are in this way seeking to influence public
opinion.
Holding a meeting is probably the simplest form in influencing public opinion, but it is still a
very important method. The speaker faces his audience, which is then able to gauge his honesty
and sincerity. In these days of political parties, it is more the political party that wields the
greater influence, rather than the individual speaker and what he has to say. Nevertheless if, as
a speaker, he is unimpressive he may do a lot to reduce his party's chances in the election.
But public meetings are not the only means of influencing public opinion. Every time people
assemble in a group and discuss some matters, they are employing a method of forming and
persuading opinion. In a democracy it is important that there should always be this attempt to
get some expression of opinion even among the humblest people. When people meet and
formulate opinion they are really helping to govern themselves. So this method of assessing and
gauging public opinion and thereby arriving at an agreement is of the greatest importance.
Questions:
(i) Suggest a suitable title for the passage.
(ii) What is the importance of holding public meetings?
(iii) What is meant by "electorate"?
(iv) Why does an unimpressive speaker reduce his party's chances?
(v) What are the means of influencing public opinion?
(vi) Make a precis of the passage in about 1/3 of the whole.
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a Newspaper about the corruption by the WAPDA meter
readers. (15)
OR
Write an application in response to the following advertisement.
Wanted active and smart young graduate lady
to work as Telephone Operator in a
Multi National Company P.O. Box 45, Lahore.
(i) They found that the ship is leaking.
(ii) He was arrested under the charge of stealing.
(iii) He is sitting besides his mother.
(iv) So nice a man I have never seen.
(v) Faisalabad is Manchester of Pakistan.
(vi) The gold is more costly than the silver.
(vii) He is a man of words.
(viii) What is this book's price?
(ix) His hairs have turned white.
(x) Either he or I are right.
5. Use any FIVE of the following idiomatic phrases in sentences. (10)
(i) Bear away
(ii) Accede to
(iii) Act for
(iv) Make at
(v) A dog in the manger
(vi) A labour of love
(vii) The Old Adam
(viii) Boil over
(ix) Do away with
(x) Fall in with
OR
Write a dialogue between two friends about Black-marketing of food items.
25)
(i) Importance of Newspapers
(ii) Female Education
(iii) Democracy in Theory and Practice
(iv) My Childhood
(v) Some Problems Facing Pakistan Today
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end in your own
words. (10 + 15 = 25)
Great progress has been made by America in the field of mechanization. It is spending
lavishly on labour-saving machines. Efficient organization of highly mechanized system has
resulted in maximum productivity in America. With mass production, the amenities of life are
available to almost every citizen. On the contrary Europe subordinates the use of machines to
human happiness and welfare. It encourages man's reliance on his own faculties and realizes
the dangers inherent in the American scheme. However great the advantages of mechanization,
it crushes the creative faculty of man and makes a machine out of him. His individual liberty and
personality suffer on irretrievable loss. In his moments of leisure the worker finds it difficult to
turn his hands to creative work, because the machine-made goods do not inspire him in the
direction of refinement. These goods also lose their fascination because mass production has
given a setback to the individuality of the articles produced. The Europeans, therefore, contend
that it is better to sacrifice a few material comforts than crush the aesthetic and spiritual urge in
the individual which large-scale mechanization is doing in America.
Questions:
(ii) What is the result of progress in the field of mechanization in America?
(iii) How has it affected the citizens?
(iv) What is the case in Europe?
(v) Why do Europeans sacrifice a few material comforts?
(vi) Make a summary of the passage.
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a Newspaper about over-loading of passengers and over-
charging of fares in the public transport. (15)
OR
Write an application to the director of a theatre to case to in his stage drama as a
hero/heroine.
(i) I met him prior than his departure for Karachi.
(ii) He is the ablest and efficient teacher.
(iii) They did their duty should be rewarded.
(iv) It is no doubt that the man is dead.
(v) I doubt that he will come.
(vi) No sooner he left than the storm broke.
(vii) He likes me reading the novel.
(viii) I asked him what he ate.
(ix) He ran as fast as he could run.
(x) I said it in his face.
5. Use any FIVE of the following idiomatic phrases in sentences. (10)
(i) A bull in a china shop
(ii) Brevity is the soul of wit
(iii) Get at the bottom of
(iv) A cat and dog life
(v) Speak daggers
(vi) Cut off
(vii) Cry out
(viii) Bear up
(ix) Call God to witness
(x) Fall across
OR
Write a dialogue between a traffic sergeant and a student about violation of traffic rules
which the latter has committed.
25)
(i) Life of a Doctor's Wife
(ii) Our Educational Problems
(iii) Sports as a Pastime
(iv) Science without Conscience is a Ruin of Nature
(v) Place of Religion in the Modern World
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. The answers must
be in your own words. (10 + 15 = 25)
Pakistanis are sometimes treated as suspects as they enter Saudi Arabia. They procedures for
search and investigation are aggressive, and naturally, time-consuming may be a humiliating
experience for a self-respecting Pakistani. Lately, another trend is developing which can hurt as
still more as injury is being added to insult. Quite a few Saudis are now unwilling to employ
Pakistanis as they used to do in the Seventies. One main reason cited is the incidence of drug-
trafficking (business) through expatriate Pakistanis who, at times, collaborate with drug-
traffickers. Thus, the channel of employment of our labour in Saudi Arabia is drying up, partly
owing to our failing as a people.
Pakistan is a victim as drugs produced in Afghanistan pass through our territory. It cannot be
denied that drugs are produced in Pakistan, but the Government is trying to curtail their
production. However, with an estimated indigenous (native) population of just over three
million addicts the local production of drugs does not appear enough to meet the home
demand. Thus, having started as a producer of heroine in 1979, thanks to the transfer of such
technology by a western adventurer, it is now the major consumer. However, in the western
countries, the treatment meted out to Pakistani nationals is humiliating.
Questions:
(i) Why is the treatment humiliating for Pakistanis on entering Saudi Arabia?
(ii) What is the main reason for the reduction of employment opportunities in Saudi Arabia?
(iii) How much is Pakistan responsible for drug-trafficking?
(iv) Who is technologically responsible for the production of heroin?
(v) Suggest a suitable title to the passage.
(vi) Make a precis of the above passage.
3. Write a letter to the Inspector General Police about the discriminating attitude of the Police
towards the civilians. (15)
OR
Write an application to a landlord to hire you as a manager of his farm servants.
4. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences. (No extra attempt will be marked) (10)
(i) He made three goals in the last match.
(ii) When Amjad or his brother visits us we are delighted.
(iii) He asked me where I came from.
(iv) There is little to do in such a hopeless case as this.
(v) He always had hatred against inefficiency.
(vi) You ought to have treated him you equal.
(vii) He enjoys the most worldwide reputation.
(viii) The boy who was promoted, he was my brother.
(ix) He availed of the opportunity.
(x) I would sooner quit than to do it.
5. Use any FIVE of the following phrases in sentences. (No extra attempts will be marked) (10)
(i) Look back
(ii) Freudian slip
(iii) Get at
(iv) Drop a line
(v) Deliver the goods
(vi) Cut in
(vii) Cry down
(viii) Bolt from the blue
(ix) Around the corner
(x) At a stretch
OR
Write a dialogue between a daughter and a mother about the modern trends in dressing.
25)
(i) Growing Trends of Drug-Addiction among the Students
(ii) Cell Phones - A Social Bane
(iii) Problems Faced by Working Women
(iv) The Role of Films in Our Society
(v) The New District System in Pakistan
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions at the end. The answers must be in
your own words. (10 + 15 = 25)
One of the main objectives of Imam Khomeini's foreign and domestic policy was the
propagation of the humanitarian principles of Islam. The Islamic Republic of Iran took a bold
stand on the basis of this objective. Iran explained this stand at every international forum. The
divine commands that have shaped the Iranian policies are perhaps common to every major
religion.
The revered Imam tried to associate the masses in his own and other Muslim countries with
his objective. He addressed them directly, had a silent dialogue of the heart with them even
when he could not meet them personally. The people in almost all the Muslim countries, and
even in others whether they were inhabited by Muslims or followers of other faiths, listened to
his speeches and talks attentively and devotedly. Thus, instead of appealing to the unpopular
and reactionary governments of the day, he established durable and lasting contacts with the
common people and their true representatives.
The great leader demanded the common people's presence, through their representatives, at
important meetings and participation in his decision-making. In this way he wanted to ensure
the achievement of the aims of the Islamic Revolution. This policy was instantly successful in
winning the support of the Muslim masses even in the countries that were being ruled by the so
called representatives.
Questions:
(i) Explain the main objective of Imam Khomeini.
(ii) What was his mode of achievement towards his goal?
(iii) How can you call The Iranian Revolution a "people's revolution"?
(iv) Comment on the success of The Iranian Revolution.
(v) Suggest a suitable title to the passage.
3. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about the problems created by the beggars in
the busy streets and markets of your city. (15)
OR
Write an application to the General Manager of a Cement Factory for a job of a Mechanical
Engineer.
4. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences. (No extra attempts will be marked). (10)
(i) He is M.A. while his friend is B.A.
(ii) He has been died today.
(iii) He is hardly hit by the bank's failure.
(iv) This is another side of the question.
(v) The debate was now coming to a close.
(vi) He ran three hundred meters race.
(vii) My tooth is paining very badly.
(viii) Najma eats like Salma does.
(ix) He has lit up the fire of reform.
(x) I did not know that honesty was the best policy.
(i) Go back upon
(ii) Get into a scrape
(iii) Break away
(iv) Buy off
(v) Confide to
(vi) Hold off
(vii) Throw cold water upon
(viii) Fall out with
(ix) Cast about
(x) Hold water
OR
Write a dialogue between a mother and her daughter on the advantages and disadvantages of
an arranged marriage.
25)
(i) A Model Citizen
(ii) The Age of Machines
(iii) Importance of Advertising
(iv) Our Economic Planners
(v) Scope of Tourism in Pakistan
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions at the end. The answers must be in
your own words. (10 + 15 = 25)
It is common in our day, as it has been in many other periods of the world's history to
suppose that those among us who are wise have seen through all the enthusiasms of earlier
times and have become aware that there is nothing left to live for. The men who hold this view
are genuinely unhappy but they are proud of their unhappiness which they attribute to the
nature of the universe and consider to the only rational attitude for an enlightened man. Their
pride on their unhappiness makes people suspicious of its genuineness: they think that man
who enjoys being miserable is not miserable. This view is too simple; undoubtedly there is some
slight compensation in the feeling of superiority and insight which these sufferers have, but it is
not sufficient to make up for the loss of simple pleasure. I do not myself think that there is any
superiority rationality in being unhappy. The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit
and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate
something instead. I am persuaded that those who quite sincerely attribute their sorrows to
their views about the universe are putting the cart before the horse: the truth is that they are
unhappy for some reasons of which they are not aware.
Questions:
(ii) What is common with the wise today to suppose?
(iii) What is the result of pride on unhappiness?
(iv) How can a wise man be happy?
(v) Explain the meanings of the following words:
(a) Enthusiasms (b) Contemplation
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a Newspaper suggesting him certain conditions under which a
person can take part in General Elections. (15)
OR
Write an application to the Inspector General of Police complaining against the ever
deteriorating condition of law and order in the city.
4. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences. (No extra attempts will be marked) (10)
(i) Our parents may be resembled to a tree which gives us cool shade.
(ii) I do not know where was he at that time.
(iii) I request you not to cut jokes in class.
(iv) If I fail in this examination I will give the next.
(v) We met at the house of a mutual friend to make peace.
(vi) Have you heard of your son's robbery?
(vii) The downfall of the king is to be attributed to nothing else than pride.
(viii) If you do not come, then I shall not help you.
(ix) Scarcely had he gone than a policeman knocked at the door.
(x) Have you seen her latest photograph.
(i) Take down
(ii) Take in
(iii) Throw up
(iv) Stand for
(v) Strike down
(vi) Stand for
(vii) Ring out
(viii) Become a byword
(ix) Fall foul of
(x) Have no touch with
OR
Write a dialogue between a student and a canteen manager about the bad food items and
their high prices in the canteen.
25)
(i) Pleasures of Childhood
(ii) Interest Free Banking System
(iii) Iran's Nuclear Programme
(iv) Village Uplift
(v) Features of a Pakistani Wedding
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. (The answer must
be in your own words. (10 + 15 = 25)
Space travel is by far the most expensive type of exploration ever undertaken by man. The
vast expenditure of money and human effort now being devoted to projects for putting man
into space might well be applied to ends more practically useful and more conducive to human
happiness. It is a strange world in which tens of millions of pounds are spent to give one man a
ride round the earth at thousands of miles an hour, while beneath him in his orbit live millions
for whom life is a daily struggle to win a few coins to buy their daily bread. The money and
effort that go into the development and construction of a single type of space-rocket would
more than suffice to rid several countries of such scourge as malaria or typhoid fever, to name
only two of the diseases that medical science has conquered but still persist in the world simply
because not enough money and effort are devoted to their eradication.Why should the richer
countries of the world be pouring their resources into space when poverty and disease on the
earth are crying out of relief? One could give a cynical answer to this question and assert that
man's expensive adventures into space are merely the by-products of the struggle between
great powers for prestige and possible military advantage.
Questions:
(i) Why is it a strange world?
(ii) Why do malaria and typhoid still exist in the world?
(iii) Why is man pouring his resources into space?
(iv) Explain the meanings of the following words:
(a) Scourge (b) Eradication
(v) Suggest a suitable title of the passage.
3. Write an application to the District Health Officer about the absence as well as the
maltreatment of doctors of the rural areas with the patients. (15)
OR
Write a letter to the Nazim of your city regarding the poor sanitary conditions and broken
sewerage line of your area.
4. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences. (In case of over attempt only the First Five will
be marked.) (10)
(i) Poetries have their appeal to the heart.
(ii) This poultry belongs to him.
(iii) Unless you don't work hard, you cannot secure good marks.
(iv) I hate those sorts of men.
(v) He has been operated.
(vi) He is such a man who is linked by everyone.
(vii) He said to them if can you help me.
(viii) The rotten mangoes smell badly.
(ix) Please, do the needful.
(x) Leave was availed at once.
5. Use any FIVE of the following phrases in sentences. (No extra attempts will be marked.) (10)
(i) Stick to the point
(ii) Hush up
(iii) Bring through
(iv) Beat back
(v) Die away
(vi) Go about
(vii) Run down
(viii) Broken reed
(ix) Face the music
(x) Flog a dead horse
OR
Write a dialogue between two friends about the waywardness among the youth.
25)
(i) Why I Love Pakistan?
(ii) An Excursion Trip
(iii) Life is Struggle
(iv) Importance of Reading
(v) Life in a Big City
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. (The answers must
be in your own words.) (10 + 15 = 25)
Advertising is essentially the art of communication. As such, its origin can be traced right
back to the origin of the species. "Advertising colouration" is a familiar biological phrase
denoting the colours developed by certain animals to make them stand out against their natural
background. It is the direct opposite of camouflage. There is always a message in these colours,
such as; "keep away, "mind your step", "darling won't you care for a dance?" While camouflage
is tricky and timed, "advertising" is honest, confidant, and forthright, as far as the world of
nature goes. In human life, advertising through the mouth must have begun with the beginning
of commerce. The tradition is still kept alive by hawkers and street vendors in our towns and
villages. As regards advertising through the written word there is archaeological evidence that it
was being practiced at least 3,000 years ago. An advertisement offering a gold coin as a reward
to anyone tracing out a runaway slave was unearthed in the ruins of Thebes and is computed to
be as old as the third millennium B.C. It was the prototype of our "lost and found" classified ad
that was painted on a wall.
Questions:
(i) What was advertising?
(ii) What does the phrase "advertising colouration" mean?
(iii) What is the difference between camouflage and advertising?
(iv) When did verbal and written advertising begin in human life?
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a Newspaper on the evils of street begging. (15)
OR
Write an application to the Director of Education for the post of an English Teacher.
4. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences. (No extra attempts will be marked.) (10)
(i) Saleem and I am enemies.
(ii) He has often beat me at tennis.
(iii) He was born in nineteen hundred eighteen.
(iv) I have not seen you since a long time.
(v) The time passed off quickly.
(vi) I cannot pull on my work.
(vii) Write with ink.
(viii) I do not care for these sorts of things.
(ix) She is not clever to do it.
(x) He is a coward boy.
(i) Come about
(ii) Fix up
(iii) Look up
(iv) Turn up
(v) Run up against
(vi) Root and branch
(vii) Hang fire
(viii) Kick the bucket
(ix) On the cards
(x) Pull up
OR
Write a dialogue between the Manager and the customer about the stale food items of the
bakery.
25)
(i) An Ideal Student
(ii) Security Measures at Public Places
(iii) Drug Addiction
(iv) Inflation - Rising Prices
(v) The Power of Electronic Media
Fortunately, however, the growth of industrialism has coincided in the West with the growth
of democracy. It is possible now, if the population of the world does not increase too fast, for
one man's labour to produce much more than is needed to provide a bare subsistence for
himself and his family. Given an intelligent democracy not misled by some dogmatic creed, this
possibility will be used to raise the standard of life. It has been so used to a limited extent, in
Britain and America, and would have so used more effectively but for war. Its use in raising the
standard of life has depended mainly upon three things: democracy, trade unionism, and birth
control. All three, of course, have incurred hostility from the rich. If these three things can be
extended to the rest of the world as it becomes industrialized, poverty can be abolished
throughout the whole world, and excessive hours of labour will no longer be necessary
anywhere. But without these three things industrialism will create a regime like that in which
the Pharaohs built the pyramids. In particular, if world population continues to increase at the
present rate, the abolition of poverty and excessive work will be totally impossible.
Questions:
(i) What connection does the writer show between industrialism and democracy?
(ii) How can the standard of life be raised?
(iii) How can poverty be abolished?
(iv) What will be the impact of increase in population at the present rate?
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a Newspaper about the lack of medical facilities in
Government Hospitals. (15)
OR
Write an application to the Finance Manager of a Multinational Firm for the appointment of
an Account Clerk.
(i) My brother's only help were his friends.
(ii) These two boys hate one another.
(iii) We should pray God every morning.
(iv) It is half past five in my watch.
(v) He availed of the leave.
(vi) He visited many worth-seeing places.
(vii) Neither he comes, nor he writes.
(viii) Why he wrote that foolish letter?
(ix) I shall stay at Murree for few days.
(x) He only is responsible for this act.
(i) Bear out
(ii) Fall out
(iii) Make off with
(iv) Set up for
(v) Round up
(vi) Thumbnail sketch
(vii) Fishy deal
(viii) In the pipeline
(ix) Rule out
(x) Sit back
OR
Write a dialogue between two close friends on the ill effects of smoking.
25)
(i) Difficulties of a B.A. Student
(ii) How to Spend Your Spare Time
(iii) Noise Pollution
(iv) Human Rights in Pakistan
(v) Old Parents
be in your own words) (10 + 15 = 25)
Recently the mass media, formerly subservient to the medical profession, have become
increasingly restive and occasionally hostile. In Germany, in particular the newspaper and
television have given a great deal of time and space to the complaints against the medical
profession. In Britain on BBC radio and television, the medical practices have come under sharp
and aggressive criticism. Is this antagonism to the profession justified? And if so, why? I have
tried to answer that question by looking at the way it deals with some of the diseases of our
civilization, including the most lethal, heart-attacks and cancer. If what emerges is an indictment
of the profession, then I would rebut the charge that I am anti-doctor. What is required in the
relationship between the doctor and the patient? The trust and unshakable trust, I would say.
Montaigne said; "I honour physicians not for their services but for themselves". That goes for
me too.
Questions:
(i) What do you understand by the mass media?
(ii) What is the writer's stance towards the medical profession?
(iii) What is a lethal disease? Explain.
(iv) Is there a radical change in the presentation of the art of healing by the mass media?
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a Newspaper protesting against the corruption that prevails in
the offices. (15)
OR
Write an application to the Finance Manage of a Multinational Firm for the appointment of an
Audit Officer.
(i) There is a best teacher in that class.
(ii) These all pears are ripe.
(iii) He is reading at the medical college.
(iv) Few people attended the meeting.
(v) The man is selfish by nature.
(vi) I seldom or ever take medicine.
(vii) The child died at three year old.
(viii) Not a line of the lectures were written.
(ix) He is bent to do it.
(x) It is much hot today.
(i) Blow out
(ii) Bear up
(iii) Bear with
(iv) Back out
(v) Drop in
(vi) Compare notes
(vii) Crocodile tears
(viii) Follow suit
(ix) Feather in one's cap
(x) In a mess
OR
25)
(i) Good Manners
(ii) Energy Crisis
(iii) Mobile Phone - A Curse
(iv) Culture of Tolerance
(v) A Rescue Operation
Moral self-control, and external prohibition of harmful acts, are not adequate methods of
dealing with our anarchic instincts. The reason they are inadequate is that these instincts are
capable of many disguises as the Devil in medieval legend, and some of these disguises deceive
even the elect. The only adequate method is to discover what are the needs of our instinctive
nature, and then to search for the least harmful way of satisfying them. Since spontaneity is
what is most thwarted by machine, the only thing that can be provided is opportunity, the use
made of opportunity must be left to the initiative of the individual. No doubt, considerable
expense would be involved but it would not be comparable to the expense of war.
Understanding of human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life.
Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is
much less understood, as yet than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to
understand human nature, it will be able to bring happiness into our lives which machines and
the physical science have failed to create.
Questions:
(i) Why are moral self-control, and external prohibition inadequate to deal with our anarchic
instincts?
(ii) What is the adequate method of anarchic instincts?
(iii) What should be the basis of any real improvement in human life?
(iv) How can science help humanity to achieve happiness?
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper expressing the need for opening a girls' college
in your city. (15)
OR
Write an application to the General Manager of a Multinational Firm for the appointment of a
Medical Representative.
(i) He made a goal against our college.
(ii) I shot the bear but missed.
(iii) They pay no attention to their old father.
(iv) He is the student whom I think deserves praise.
(v) Is not he your brother?
(vi) A darkest cloud has a silver lining.
(vii) Aslam has been ill from five days.
(viii) Please tell me where is your brother?
(ix) No less than twenty people died in the accident.
(x) Himalayas lie in the North of India.
(i) Blind in
(ii) Back away
(iii) Be up to
(iv) Give up
(v) Go back on
(vi) Fall short of
(vii) Every inch
(viii) For good
(ix) Through thick and thin
(x) The under dog
OR
Write a dialogue between a student and a teacher on the importance of discipline.
25)
(i) Pleasures of Childhood
(ii) Village Uplift
(iii) Literacy Campaign
(iv) Money is Not Everything
(v) Features of a Pakistani Weeding
Poverty is almost as widely shared as Islam in Afghanistan. Except for a small number of
wealthy traders, nomadic tribal leaders, and the Royal family and its retainers, few Afghans have
lived far from the basic level of subsistence. Throughout the century their diet consists of coarse
bread, tea, and dairy products, supplemented by fruits and vegetables in season and an
occasional serving of mutton or chicken. Though the food is never plentiful, the Afghan diet
during good crop years appears to be sufficient to support a vigorous population, but the
precariousness of the food supply is obvious from the drastic and continuing erosion of the soil
and the creeping desertization of its landscape. The poverty of most Afghan farmers and
herders has imposed an elemental quality on their culture. Values are oriented toward social
survival. Loyalty to the primary group ultimately takes precedence over self-assertion, despite
the great importance given to personal independence. The conflict between these competing
values is a major feature of Afghan life, but in-group loyalty has necessarily played the
paramount role in the shaping of the attitudes toward fellow Afghans and outsiders.
Questions:
(i) What is the economic condition of the people of Afghanistan?
(ii) What does the diet of Afghan people consist of?
(iii) Why is the food supply becoming so precarious?
(iv) What is the major feature of Afghan life?
(v) Make a suitable title of the passage.
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper, criticizing the dress and habits of students at
college. (15)
OR
Write an application to the Director of Education for the post of an English Teacher. Also
provide your C.V.
(i) The wages of sin are death.
(ii) Eight miles are a long distance.
(iii) I believe your are better now.
(iv) I am studying the newspaper.
(v) He aims to please everybody.
(vi) She came here for singing.
(vii) I felt the cold air to strike my face.
(viii) Alarmed at the news, the police was informed.
(ix) Rose is the sweetest of all flowers.
(x) I am much glad that you are here.
(i) Buy off
(ii) Break away
(iii) Turn away
(iv) Hold on
(v) Bear out
(vi) Get into a scrape
(vii) Confide to
(viii) At a stretch
(ix) Dutch courage
(x) Lame duck
OR
25)
(i) Drug Addiction Among Students
(ii) Importance of Advertising
(iii) Noise Pollution
(iv) Problems of Working Women
(v) Old Parents
Great progress has been made by America in the field of mechanization. It is spending lavishly
on labour-saving machines. Efficient organization of highly mechanized system has resulted in
maximum productivity in America. With mass production, the amenities of life are available to
almost every citizen. On the contrary Europe subordinates the use of machines to human
happiness and welfare. It encourages man's reliance on his own faculties and realizes the
dangers inherent in the American scheme. However great the advantages of mechanization, it
crushes the creative faculty of man and makes a machine out of him. His individual liberty and
personality suffer on irretrievable loss. In his moments of leisure the worker finds it difficult to
turn his hands to creative work, because the machine-made goods do not inspire him in the
direction of refinement. These goods also lose their fascination because mass production has
given a setback to the individuality of the articles produced. The Europeans, therefore, contend
that it is better to sacrifice a few material comforts than crush the aesthetic and spiritual urge in
the individual which large-scale mechanization is doing in America.
Questions:
(i) What is the result of progress in the field of mechanization in America?
(ii) How has it affected the citizens?
(iii) What is the case in Europe?
(iv) Why do Europeans sacrifice a few material comforts?
(v) Make a suitable title of the passage.
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper protesting against the corruption of WAPDA
lower staff. (15)
OR
Write an application to the Finance Manager of a Multinational Firm for the appointment of
an Audit Officer.
(i) His friend and benefactor have left the room.
(ii) Every one of them want to go to sea.
(iii) He is reading at the medical college.
(iv) Few people attended the meeting.
(v) Either of these two houses are to let.
(vi) The teacher took a test of the students.
(vii) He insisted to do it.
(viii) He has no money for giving you.
(ix) I bade him to do it.
(x) It is much hot today.
(i) Stick to
(ii) Stand out
(iii) Bear with
(iv) Back out
(v) Run out
(vi) Compare notes
(vii) Carry weight
(viii) Follow suit
(ix) In cold blood
(x) A block head
OR
Write a dialogue between father and son on the choice of profession.
25)
(i) Media and Society
(ii) Internet - A Tool of Modern Age
(iii) Dignity of Work
(iv) Challenges for Pakistan
(v) Adverse Effects of Politics in Colleges
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. (Your own
constructed answers will fetch you better marks.) (10 + 15 = 25)
The rich nations have made adjustments after the 1973 oil crisis, but the poor nations, who
cannot afford the continue using oil, have to look for alternatives in order to keep up the pace of
their development. The sun, therefore, offers a free supply of thermo-dynamically high-quality
fuel -- sunshine -- to countries that are located in the earth's solar belt (35N, 35S of the
Equator), where the sun comes out every day, keeping its radiant energy undiminished. What,
however, stand in the way, are a series of institutional and economic barriers which must be
overcome if solar energy is to have an impact on the energy scene. The solar energy plan
requires new ways of thinking. It calls for a shift from centralized energy supply systems to on-
site decentralized distribution of energy. The term 'on-site' derives from the limited areas within
which the energy produced by a system is consumed. It rests its emphasis on the social benefits
rather than the cost benefits of a system.
Questions:
(i) What is the effect of 1973 oil crisis on poor nations?
(ii) What are the obstacles in the way of acquiring solar energy?
(iii) What system of distribution does the author recommend for solar energy?
(iv) What does the term "on-site" mean?
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper, complaining about unscheduled load-
shedding. (15)
OR
Write an application to the Director Education (Schools) for the appointment of a teacher.
(i) He had come yesterday.
(ii) Ahmad plays good.
(iii) She is angry on me.
(iv) Neither of these ten boys has failed.
(v) We enjoyed at the concert.
(vi) I reached prior than him.
(vii) Such students who don't work hard fail.
(viii) He requested me to say little more.
(ix) She is cooking the meal for 30 minutes.
(x) He goes there never.
(i) Fall out
(ii) Break out
(iii) Get through
(iv) Get over
(v) Make for
(vi) Apple pie order
(vii) At a loss
(viii) Face the music
(ix) Small talk
(x) Work wonders
OR
Write a dialogue between a student and a teacher on the importance of Book Reading.
25)
(i) Importance of Women Education
(ii) Festivals in Pakistan
(iii) Village Life
(iv) Computer Revolution
(v) Charm in T - 20 Cricket
The grand strategy for his campaign against Muslim backwardness envisaged two main
activities, namely; a weekly periodical to propagate progressive social and religious ideas among
the intelligentsia and an institution of higher learning to impart modern education to the new
generation. The two projects in his mind were closely interlinked; for without an enlightened
public opinion adequate support for the educational institution could not be ensured and,
obversely, without modern education the new generation would never outgrow its elders'
prejudices and misconceptions. Syed Ahmad addressed himself to the periodical first. He had
tentatively proposed it in a letter, dated 22 April 1870, to Mehdi Ali as the organ of an
association which he wanted organized before his return to India for "the uplift and reform of
the Muslim", but with which his connection was not to be divulged. He had a block prepared in
England for the title page of the periodical, which was to be called the Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq in Urdu
and the Mohammedan Social Reformer in English.
Questions:
(i) What was the strategy against Muslim backwardness?
(ii) Why were the two projects interlinked in his mind?
(iii) What was Syed Ahmed's proposal about the periodical?
(iv) When did he propose the establishment of the periodical?
3. Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper about the missing Health Facilities in the
Hospital of your area. (15)
OR
Write a job application to the District Coordinating Officer for the post of a Computer
Operator.
4. Correct and FIVE of the following sentences. (No extra attempts will be marked.) (10)
(i) The poor is neglected.
(ii) One of the players is injured.
(iii) I am senior than him in service.
(iv) I read the same book which you purchased.
(v) Lahore is a worth-seeing city.
(vi) He has any books.
(vii) None of the boys were naughty.
(viii) His hairs are brown.
(ix) The lion attacked at him.
(x) She is more cleverer than he.
(i) Break down
(ii) Bring up
(iii) Pass away
(iv) Make up for
(v) Look down upon
(vi) Oily tongue
(vii) French leave
(viii) Carry the day
(ix) Cat's paw
(x) Out of elbows
OR
Write a dialogue between two men on dearness.
25)
(i) College Memories
(ii) Your Favourite English Drama
(iii) Corruption in Society
(iv) Role of Laptop in Education
(v) Freedom of Media
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. (Your
own constructed answers will fetch you better marks.) (10 + 15 = 25)
Teaching more even than most other professions, has been transformed during the
last hundred years from a small, highly skilled profession concerned with a minority
of the population, to a large and important branch of the public service. The
profession has a great and honorable tradition extending from the dawn of history
until recent times, but any teacher in the modern world who allows himself to be
inspired by the ideals of his predecessors is likely to be made sharply aware that it is
not his function to teach what he thinks, but instill such beliefs and prejudices as are
thought useful by his employers. In former days, a teacher was expected to be a man
of exceptional knowledge or wisdom to whose words men would do well to attend. In
antiquity, teachers were not an organized profession and no control was exercised over
what they taught. It is true they were often punished afterwards for their subversive
doctrines. Socrates was put to death and Plato is said to have been thrown into prison,
but such incidents did not interfere with the spread of their doctrines.
Questions:
(i) What changes have occured in the profession of teaching during the last hundred
years?
(ii) What were the teachers supposed to be in golden days?
(iii) What is the function of a teacher nowadays?
(iv) Write a note on the rewards that a teacher gets nowadays.
3. Write a letter to the Managing Director, Pakistan Railways, complaining about
the late arrival of trains. (15)
OR
Write a job application to the Accountant General for the Post of an Assistant.
4. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences. (No extra attempts will be
marked.) (10)
(i) Mr. Zahis with his wife and children live here.
(ii) A number of boys is absent.
(iii) We should avail of this chance.
(iv) They went to the fair and enjoyed.
(v) The murdered was hung.
(vi) You are very kind on me.
(vii) You need not to go there.
(viii) He has visited Lahore yesterday.
(ix) If you will come to me, I will help you.
(x) He swore of God.
5. Use any FIVE of the following phrases in sentences. (No extra attempts will be
marked.) (10)
(i) Give up the ghost
(ii) Die in harness
(iii) Cold comfort
(iv) Cock and bull story
(v) Cut to the quick
(vi) Come of age
(vii) Get over
(viii) Fall in with
(ix) Make out
(x) Put up with
6. Tranlsate the following into English. (15)
OR
Write a dialogue between two friend on upcoming elections.
25)
(i) Spring Season
(ii) National Unity
(iii) Childhood
(iv) Elections
(v) Problems of Pakistan
This brings me along to democracy, even love the beloved Republic which feed upon
freedom. Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really and never will be. But it is less hateful than
other contemporary forms of Government and to that extent it deserves our support. It does
start from the assumption that the individual is important and that all types are needed to make
a civilization is does not divide its citizens into bossers and bossed as an efficiency regime tends
to do. The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or
discover something and do not see life in terms of power and such people get more of a chance
under a democracy than elsewhere. They find religions great or small or they produce literature
and art or they do disinterested scientific research or they may be what is called ordinary
people who are creative in their private lives, bring up their children decently for instance or
help their neighbours. All those people need to express themselves; they cannot do so unless
society allows them liberty to do so and the society which allows them most liberty is
democracy.
Questions:
(i) What other advantages of democracy can you think of in addition to the fact that it allows
most liberty?
(ii) Summarize the writer's definition of creative persons.
(iii) Why does the writer call democracy a less hateful form of Government?
(iv) What type of people does the writer like?
3. Write a letter to the District Police Officer about the increasing street crimes. (15)
OR
Write a job application to the Director of a Private Firm for the post of an Accountant.
(i) She sings good.
(ii) He comes often late.
(iii) Do you know to cook?
(iv) I had not written any letter last night.
(v) He did nothing but played.
(vi) He is suffering from fever for ten days.
(vii) He said that he can help me.
(viii) She was married with her cousin.
(ix) Although he is old but active.
(x) Tariq as well as Asad are my friends.
(i) Put in
(ii) Make over
(iii) Look into
(iv) Go over
(v) Keep down
(vi) Cat's paw
(vii) For good
(viii) Hard nut to crack
(ix) Give the devil his due
(x) In black and white.
OR
Write a dialogue between two persons about change in weather.
Write an essay, with outline, of 300-350 words on ONE of the following topics. (5 + 20 = 25)
(i) Impact of College Life on Character
(ii) National Unity
(iii) Childhood Joys
(iv) Problems of Pakistan
(v) Students Role in Nation Building
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. Your own
constructed answers will fetch you better marks. (10 + 15 = 25)
The chief causes of large-scale violence are love of power, competition, hate and fear. Love of
power will have not national outlet when all serious military force is concentrated in the
international army. Competition will be effectively regulated by law, and mitigated by
governmental controls. Fear -- in the acute form in which we know it -- will disappear when war
is no longer to be expected. There remains hate and malevolence. This has a deep hold on
human nature. The wide diffusion of malevolence is one of the most unfortunate things in
human nature, and it must be lessened if a world State is to be stable. It can be lessened, and
be very quickly. If peace becomes secure there will be a very rapid increase of material
prosperity, and this tends more than anything else to provide a mood of kindly feeling. Consider
the immense diminution of cruelty in Britain during the Victorian Age; this was mainly due to
rapidly increasing wealth in all classes. I think we may confidently expect a similar effect
throughout the world owing to the increased wealth that will result from the elimination of war.
A great deal, also, is to be hoped from a change in propaganda. Nationalist propaganda, in any
violent form, will have to be illegal, and children in school will not be taught to hate and despise
foreign nations.
Questions:
(i) What are the chief causes of large-scale violence in the world?
(ii) How can hate be lessened?
(iii) How can material prosperity be achieved?
(iv) How can nationalist propaganda be controlled?
3. Write a letter to the District Police Officer complaining about the increasing occurrences of
street crimes. (15)
OR
Write a job application to the General Manager of Multi-National company for the post of
Accountant.
(i) He was failed in B.A.
(ii) I am sick with his company.
(iii) Bring me any water to drink.
(iv) He congratulated him for his success.
(v) Many a men was present there.
(vi) Either he or his friends helps me.
(vii) None of the two brothers is intelligent.
(viii) I object to his go there.
(ix) I shall not let him to go there.
(x) Such careless students who do not work hard seldom pass.
(i) Creature comforts
(ii) A chip of the old block
(iii) Under a cloud
(iv) Between two fires
(v) A bull in China shop
(vi) Come by
(vii) Bring under
(viii) Break out
(ix) Bear out
(x) Turn up
OR
Write a dialogue between the teacher and a graduate student on the choice of career.
1. Write an essay, with outline, of 300-350 words on ONE of the following topics. (5 + 20 = 25)
(i) Education for All
(ii) A Pakistani Wedding
(iii) Modern Youth
(iv) Poverty and its Evil
(v) Importance of Social Justice
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end. Your own
constructed answers will fetch you better marks. (10 + 15 = 25)
The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither.
The man who resolves but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter suggestion of
a friend who fluctuates from opinion to opinion, from plan, and veers like a weather-cook to
every point of the compass, with every breath of caprice that blows-can never accomplish
anything great or useful instead of being progressive to any thing, he will be at best stationary,
and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves
firmly and then executes his purpose with inflexible perseverance undismayed by those
difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any time. Take your
course wisely, but firmly, and haven taken it, hold upon it with heroic resolution and the Alps
and Pyrenees will sink before you. Wavering and fickleness of the mind are not only signs of a
weak personality but also symptoms of inferiority complex. Taking a decision promptly and then
sticking to it firmly may be the quality found rarely in the selected few but average human
beings are quite capable of developing the habit of thinking deeply and wisely and then
executing the plans efficiently. It can be achieved through guidance, will power and
psychological treatment.
Questions:
(i) What is the result of indecisiveness?
(ii) Why should a man refrain from changing his plans after taking a firm decision?
(iii) What are the conditions of successful accomplishment of a task?
(iv) What do repeated change in plans show about a man's personality?
3. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing your grave concern on current wave
of terrorism. (15)
OR
Write a job application to the manager of a mobile phone franchise for the post of Office
Assistant.
(i) We all did not go.
(ii) One should not waste his time.
(iii) This is not such weather which was expected.
(iv) You need not to worry.
(v) He is more better than I.
(vi) This book is superior than that.
(vii) We had have nice tea.
(viii) Either he or his brother are at fault.
(ix) What makes you to look so happy?
(x) Both Nazia as well as Nazish are intelligent.
(i) Bring under
(ii) Kick the bucket
(iii) Jed wood justice
(iv) Off hand
(v) In hot water
(vi) To hold water
(vii) Get away
(viii) Go over
(ix) Look for
(x) To let the cat out of the bag
OR
Write a dialogue between two friends discussing B.A. Paper A.
QUESTION NO. 10
Write a general essay, with outline, of 300-350 words that covers the following topics;
(i) Energy Crisis
(ii) Unemployment
(iii) Terrorism
(iv) Drug Addiction
(v) Black Marketing
(vi) Corruption
(vii) Inflation - Rising Prices
(viii) Over-Population
(ix) Environmental Pollution
(x) Smuggling
(xi) Mass Illiteracy
(xii) Drug Trafficking
(xiii) Sectarianism
(xiv) Economic Crisis
(xv) Beggary
(xvi) Bribery
(xvii) Nepotism
(xviii) Tax Evasion
(xix) Violence
(xx) Poverty
(xxi) Political Instability
(xxii) Lawlessness
(xxiii) Social and Economic Crisis
(xxiv) Social and Economical Problems
(xxv) Injustice and Inequality
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OUTLINE
(i) Introduction
(ii) Evil impacts and complications of __________.
(iii) It breeds social, economical, political and moral problems
(iv) Causes of __________.
(v) Remedies of __________.
(vi) Conclusion
ESSAY
__________ is a major problem in most backward and developing countries. It indicates our
moral, social and religious downfall. It is a matter of great shame that in spite of becoming a
nuclear power, we are far behind other nations in the way of character and faith. There are
many factors which are responsible for __________. Illiteracy, poverty and false ideas of society
are the major causes of this social evil. However, a close analysis reveals that craze for wealth
and power is the base of all kind of __________. People have become greedy and selfish. They
do not know the virtues of love, sympathy and sacrifice.
__________ has become one of the most important problem of all the world especially of
the third world countries like Pakistan. It is full of danger of evil impacts. It destabilizes and
demoralizes nations and gives birth to depression and frustration in the society and state. It
creates and spreads the feelings of uncertainty, instability and insecurity among the masses. If it
creeps in a society, it eats into its vitals and soon roots out its inner strength. It destroys its
outer splendor, economic prosperity, social peace and national unity. Consequently, a nation's
good image is spoiled in all over the world. Lawlessness becomes order of the day due to
poverty, corruption, violence, indiscipline and mass illiteracy. It it is not effectively, properly and
promptly checked, the entire judicial, moral and economic fabric of a nation will be collapsed.
___________ is highly dangerous and devastating for a country like Pakistan that has a weak
economy and political instability. If the evil of __________ is not nipped in the bud, it may
spread like a bush fire and engulf the whole nation or region like and epidemic. _________
badly shatters people's faith in institution and supremacy of the constitution. It deprives masses
from mental, physical, spiritual, moral and economic health. It also paves way for bloody
revolutions and military take-overs.
The main causes of __________ are illiteracy, poverty, economic policies of government and
man's burning desire to become rich and bigwig over night. __________ creates economic
pressure, social and economic injustice. Feudalism, capitalism and uneven distribution of wealth
and opportunities, non-availability of basic necessities and fundamental rights also spread
__________. Non-availability of education, health care and jobs also paves the way to spread
__________. External factors like agencies of neighbouring states like India also play a vital role
in spreading __________ in Pakistan in order to destabilize it.
In the end we can say that our officers as well as the scholars, educationists, political parties,
NGO's and national mass media should take necessary steps to eradicate this wicked problem
for the best national and human interest. Only then we can raise our heads as a free and
dignified nation.
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