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yes you are right there should be 1/3 of the original passage...... and 5 to 10 words can be increased or decreased........
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it from 2001

It was not from want of perceiving the beauty of external nature but from the different way of perceiving it, that the early Greeks did not turn their genius to portray, either in colour or in poetry, the outlines, the hues, and contrasts of all fair valley, and hold cliffs, and golden moons, and rosy lawns which their beautiful country affords in lavish abundance.

Primitive people never so far as I know, enjoy when is called the picturesque in nature, wild forests, beetling cliffs, reaches of Alpine snow are with them great hindrances to human intercourse, and difficulties in the way of agriculture. They are furthermore the homes of the enemies of mankind, of the eagle, the wolf, or the tiger, and are most dangerous in times of earthquake or tempest. Hence the grand and striking features of nature are at first looked upon with fear and dislike.

I do not suppose that Greeks different in the respect from other people, except that the frequent occurrence of mountains and forests made agriculture peculiarly difficult and intercourse scanty, thus increasing their dislike for the apparently reckless waste in nature. We have even in Homer a similar feeling as regards the sea, --- the sea that proved the source of all their wealth and the condition of most of their greatness. Before they had learned all this, they called it “the unvintagable sea” and looked upon its shore as merely so much waste land. We can, therefore, easily understand, how in the first beginning of Greek art, the representation of wild landscape would find no place, whereas, fruitful fields did not suggest themselves as more than the ordinary background. Art in those days was struggling with material nature to which it felt a certain antagonism.
There was nothing in the social circumstances of the Greeks to produce any revolution in this attitude during their greatest days. The Greek republics were small towns where the pressure of the city life was not felt. But as soon as the days of the Greeks republics were over, the men began to congregate for imperial purposes into Antioch, or Alexandria, or lastly into Rome, than we seek the effect of noise and dust and smoke and turmoil breaking out into the natural longing for rural rest and retirement so that from Alexander’s day …… We find all kinds of authors --- epic poets, lyricist, novelists and preachers --- agreeing in the precise of nature, its rich colours, and its varied sounds.

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Since times, the earlier Greeks were not familiar with natural beauty, art and the abundance of rich resources of their country. They assumed those things as barrier of communication, agriculture, and homes of dangerous animals. They did not realize the importance of sea, and thought it as wastage of huge landmass, but when they knew about its significance, it became the symbol of their integrity and economy.In those days people did not like art, and assumed it as hostility of nature. As time passed, the Greek republics extended in towns and cities, where they live easy life. When they progressed and developed their industries, they felt noise and pollution in surrounding,then they flashed back to the natural beauty and its need in human life. In this way the art put its feet in Greek period.

Total words. 420
required.......140
given...........137

Title: Origin of Art in Greek period.

Seniors please point out my mistake as its my first precis practice.
Your precise is really good..i have a little ambiguity about the title..after reading passage the title which came in my mind was "THE REVOLUTION IN GREEK ART" because in the last line it is mentioned that before in Greek art such as portrays,poetry etc the beauty of nature was not expressed but as the Greeks came to cities or towns then they realized the true beauty of nature.After that they started expressing the beauty in their art..please recheck your last line...GOOD LUCK!!
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Your precise is really good..i have a little ambiguity about the title..after reading passage the title which came in my mind was "THE REVOLUTION IN GREEK ART" because in the last line it is mentioned that before in Greek art such as portrays,poetry etc the beauty of nature was not expressed but as the Greeks came to cities or towns then they realized the true beauty of nature.After that they started expressing the beauty in their art..please recheck your last line...GOOD LUCK!!
Thank you so much for such encouraging comments..... yes it seems like a revolution, so it would be more suitable...

I will post an other precis of subsequent year, and hopefully you will critically comment on that....Thanks again
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Make a precise of the following passage in about one third of its length and suggest a suitable heading. CE-1995

When you see a cockroach or a bed-hug your first reaction is one of disgust and that is immediately, followed by a desire to exterminate the offensive creature. Later, in the garden, you see a butterfly or a dragonfly, and you are filled with admiration at its beauty and grace.

Man’s feelings towards insects are ambivalent. He realizes that some of them for example, - flies and cockroaches arc threats to health. Mosquitoes and tsetse flies have in the past sapped the vitality of entire tribes or nations. Other insects are destructive and cause enormous losses. Such arc locusts, which can wipe out whole areas of crops in minutes; and termites, whose often insidious ravages, unless checked at an early stage, can end in the destructing of entire rows –of houses.

Yet men’s ways of living may undergo radical changes if certain species of insects were to become extinct. Bees, for example, pollinate the flowers of many plants which are food sources. In the past, honey was the only sweetening agent known to man in some remote parts of the world. Ants, although they bite and contaminate man’s food are useful scavengers which consume waste material that would otherwise pollute the environment.

Entomologists who have studied insect fossils believe them to have inhabited the earth for nearly 400 million years. Insects live in large numbers almost everywhere in the world, from the hottest deserts and the deepest caves to the peaks of-high mountains and even the snows of the
polar caps.

Some insect communities are complex in organizations, prompting men to believe that they possess an ordered intelligence. But such organized behaviour is clearly not due to - developed brains. If we have to compare them to humans, bee and ant groups behave like extreme totalitarian societies. Each bee or ant seems to have a determined role to play
instinctively and does so without deviation.

The word “instinct” is often applied to insect behaviour. But some insect behaviour appears so clear that one tends to think that some sort of intelligence is at work. For example, the worker bee, upon relating to the hive after having found a new source of nectar, communicates his discovery by a kind of dance which tells other bees the direction and distance away of the nectar.
Word=381

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Man has negative and positive feelings for different insects. The fluctuation in men,s feeling towards insects is owing to the nature and type of insects. as some of them are harmful with bad effects and some of them are good for their beauty.however the insects are 400 million years old.and found everywhere on earth .they live like in a totalitarian society, playing their specified role.though this behaviour is not because of their intelligence but of their naturally instinct ,except some of them who possesses intelligence like bees. and a dancing of a bee to tell the other bees about a new target is the example of their intelligence.
Preci words: 122
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(A university is not also,a childbed )I think it should be written like this A university is neither a childbed of poets,scholars,leaders or conquerors nor
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Hey , by the way , I haven't been practicing much English off late , I guess your précis are too short or atleast I feel that . Though, I think the topic envy one is covered alright . You guys still preparing , passed ?
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The most unfortunate characteristic of ordinary human nature is envy. The envious person feels himself unlucky. Instead of being happy for what he has, he remains upset for what other have. It is a fatal disease, if it is not cured, it can destroy the personal qualities and excellent traits in a person. Appreciation is considered as the best way to remove the feeling of enviousness about others. To realize the major cause of envy is the first step to cure this feeling.



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title:University Education and Society

University education yields better society and world by training its members.Since heroic works of genius do not fall in one category its training is not limited to a specific field. University education does not promise genius but their works and scope are taught there. Real aim of university education is to make society intellectual,cultivate and purify minds and define common interests and objectives. Education urges man to develop and express his own opinion. It enables him to determine right and wrong. It also enables him to hold a post with dignity and to further master a subject.

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Make a precise of the following passage in about one third of its length and suggest a suitable heading. CE-1995

When you see a cockroach or a bed-hug your first reaction is one of disgust and that is immediately, followed by a desire to exterminate the offensive creature. Later, in the garden, you see a butterfly or a dragonfly, and you are filled with admiration at its beauty and grace.

Man’s feelings towards insects are ambivalent. He realizes that some of them for example, - flies and cockroaches arc threats to health. Mosquitoes and tsetse flies have in the past sapped the vitality of entire tribes or nations. Other insects are destructive and cause enormous losses. Such arc locusts, which can wipe out whole areas of crops in minutes; and termites, whose often insidious ravages, unless checked at an early stage, can end in the destructing of entire rows –of houses.

Yet men’s ways of living may undergo radical changes if certain species of insects were to become extinct. Bees, for example, pollinate the flowers of many plants which are food sources. In the past, honey was the only sweetening agent known to man in some remote parts of the world. Ants, although they bite and contaminate man’s food are useful scavengers which consume waste material that would otherwise pollute the environment.

Entomologists who have studied insect fossils believe them to have inhabited the earth for nearly 400 million years. Insects live in large numbers almost everywhere in the world, from the hottest deserts and the deepest caves to the peaks of-high mountains and even the snows of the
polar caps.

Some insect communities are complex in organizations, prompting men to believe that they possess an ordered intelligence. But such organized behaviour is clearly not due to - developed brains. If we have to compare them to humans, bee and ant groups behave like extreme totalitarian societies. Each bee or ant seems to have a determined role to play
instinctively and does so without deviation.

The word “instinct” is often applied to insect behaviour. But some insect behaviour appears so clear that one tends to think that some sort of intelligence is at work. For example, the worker bee, upon relating to the hive after having found a new source of nectar, communicates his discovery by a kind of dance which tells other bees the direction and distance away of the nectar.
Word=381

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Man has negative and positive feelings for different insects. The fluctuation in men,s feeling towards insects is owing to the nature and type of insects. as some of them are harmful with bad effects and some of them are good for their beauty.however the insects are 400 million years old.and found everywhere on earth .they live like in a totalitarian society, playing their specified role.though this behaviour is not because of their intelligence but of their naturally instinct ,except some of them who possesses intelligence like bees. and a dancing of a bee to tell the other bees about a new target is the example of their intelligence.
Preci words: 122
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Hey , by the way , I haven't been practicing much English off late , I guess your précis are too short or atleast I feel that . Though, I think the topic envy one is covered alright . You guys still preparing , passed ?
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The most unfortunate characteristic of ordinary human nature is envy. The envious person feels himself unlucky. Instead of being happy for what he has, he remains upset for what other have. It is a fatal disease, if it is not cured, it can destroy the personal qualities and excellent traits in a person. Appreciation is considered as the best way to remove the feeling of enviousness about others. To realize the major cause of envy is the first step to cure this feeling.



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title:University Education and Society

University education yields better society and world by training its members.Since heroic works of genius do not fall in one category its training is not limited to a specific field. University education does not promise genius but their works and scope are taught there. Real aim of university education is to make society intellectual,cultivate and purify minds and define common interests and objectives. Education urges man to develop and express his own opinion. It enables him to determine right and wrong. It also enables him to hold a post with dignity and to further master a subject.

98 words.

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