English (precise & composition) Paper 2001
 

[CENTER][B]FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN B.P.S. – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2001.[/B][/CENTER]

[CENTER][U][B](PRECISE AND COMPOSITION)[/B][/U][/CENTER]

[B]1.Make a precise of the following passage in about one third of its length and suggest a suitable heading. (20)
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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. [I][B]Mohaffy: Rambles in Greece[/B][/I]


[B]2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end in your own words. (20)
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Poetry is the language of imagination and the passions. It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to human min. it comes home to the bosoms and business of men: for nothing but what comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject of poetry. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else. Whatever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of the waves of the sea, in the growth of a flower, there is a poetry in its birth. If history is a grave study, poetry may be said to be graver, its materials lie deeper, and are spread wider. History treats, for the most part, cumbersome and unwieldy masses of things, the empty cases in which the affairs of the world are packed, under the heads of intrigue or war, in different states, and from century to century but there is no thought or feeling that can have entered into the mind of man which he would be eager to communicate to others, or they would listen to with delight, that is not a fit subject for poetry. It is not a branch of authorship: it is “the stuff of which our life is made”. The rest is mere oblivision, a dead letter, for all that is worth remembering gin life is the poetry of it. Fear is Poetry, hope is poetry, love is poetry; hatred is poetry. Poetry is that fine particle within us that expands, refines, raises our whole being; without “man’s life is poor as beasts”. In fact, man is a poetical animal. The child Is a poet when he first plays hide and seek, or repeats the story of Jack the Giant Killer, the shepherd – boy is a poet when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers; the countryman when he stops he stops to look at the rainbow; the miser when he hugs his gold; the courtier when he builds his hope upon a smile; the vain, the ambitious the proud, the choleric man, the hero and the coward, the beggar and the king, all live in a world of their own making; and the poet does no more than describe what all others think and act.[B] [I] Hazlitt[/I][/B]

(a) In what sense is poetry the language of the imagination and the passion?
(b) How is poetry the Universal Language of the heart?
(c) What is the difference between history and poetry?
(d) Explain the phrase: “Man is a poetical animal”.
(e) What are some of the actions which Hazlitt calls poetry and its doers poet?
(f) Explain the followings underlined expression in the passage.
(i) It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to human heart
(ii) A sense of beauty, or power, or harmony.
(iii) Cumbersome and unwieldy masses of things.
(iv) It is the stuff of which our life is made.
(v) The poet does no more than describe what all others think and act.


[B]3. Write a comprehensive note (250 – 300) on ONE of the following subjects. (20)
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(a) Modern history registers so primary and rapid changes that it cannot repeat itself.
(b) “The golden rule is that there is no golden rule”. G. B. Shaw
(c) Crisis tests the true mettle of man
(d) It is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannical to use it like a giant.


[B]4. Correct the following sentences. (10)
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(a) His wisdom consisted of his handling the dangerous situation successfully
(b) Many a girls were appearing in the examination.
(c) The vehicles run fastly on the Motorway.
(d) Smoking is injurious for health.
(e) He availed of this situation very intelligently.
(f) The black vermin is an odious creature.
(g) What to speak of meat, even, vegetables were not available now.
(h) No sooner we left our home when it started raining.
(i) Little money I had I spent on the way.
(j) The criminal was sent on the goal.


[B]5. Use FIVE of the following in sentences to make their meaning clear. (10)
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(i) The teaming meanings
(ii) To kick the bucket
(iii) To push to the walls
(iv) To read between the lines
(v) To be at daggers drawn
(vi) To throw down the gauntlet
(vii) To be a Greek
(viii) To stand on ceremony
(ix) From the horse’s mouth
(x) To carry the cross

[B]6. Use FIVE of the following pairs of words in sentences. (10)
[/B][LIST=1][*] Brooch, broad[*] Collusion, collision[*] Fain, feign[*] Hoard, horde[*] Illusion, delusion[*] Persecute, prosecute[*] Prescribe, proscribe[*] Respectfully, respectively[*] Complacent, complaisant[/LIST][B]7. Read the following dialogue and place the following words in it at proper places. (10)
[/B][LIST=1][*] Sweating away as usual[*] Health first, exam second[*] Can you study while confined to bed.[*] Has anyone be marketed anywhere?[*] An unwanted commodity[*] As long as there is life, there is hope.[*] You will become a thin, gaunt, half-blind weakling with sunken cheeks and haggard looks.[*] Once again grow into a rose-cheeked young man.[*] There is no deviation form it.[*] The paring of ways.[/LIST]- Good morning Waseem ___________________and looking pale. Come out in the open.
- I am sorry, Nadeem. I cannot do that. The examination is drawing near and I want to urilize every minute for its preparation.
- To hell with exam ___________________
- Well, health is good but failure is bad. Therefore, one should take books and study them for the University exam.
- Suppose you grow into a bookworm and as a result fall ill. ___________________ Again, many boys work hard and get degrees. Do you think they get jobs. Our society is flooded with graduates but ___________________? They are roaming about with degrees in their hands. They are ________________.
- Well. Degree is an ornament in itself, job or no job. Besides, there is no need to be hopeless. I am sure when I get a degree with a good grade, I am sure to get a job in a Government office or in a private firm. You know that ___________________.
- Well, how should I explain to you the blessing of a good health. If you continue treading on this path, ___________________. Please come into the fresh air take exercise and play some game and ___________________ Don’t grow old prematurely.
- Please listen, I want to be a graduate this year, now or never. I have made up my mind for this and ___________________.
- Well, if this is your aim, then ___________________.
- Bye
- Bye

Seniors please check..this one was confusing!
 

7. Read the following dialogue and place the following words in it at proper places. (10)

- Good morning Waseem you are [B]Sweating away as usual [/B]and looking pale. Come out in the open.

- I am sorry, Nadeem. I cannot do that. The examination is drawing near and I want to urilize every minute for its preparation.

- To hell with exam [B]Health first, exam second[/B]

- Well, health is good but failure is bad. Therefore, one should take books and study them for the University exam.

- Suppose you grow into a bookworm and as a result fall ill. [B][B]Can you study while confined to bed?[/B][/B] Again, many boys work hard and get degrees. Do you think they get jobs. Our society is flooded with graduates [B]Has anyone be marketed anywhere?[/B]

They are roaming about with degrees in their hands. They are [B]An unwanted commodity[/B]

- Well. Degree is an ornament in itself, job or no job. Besides, there is no need to be hopeless. I am sure when I get a degree with a good grade, I am sure to get a job in a Government office or in a private firm. You know that [B]As long as there is life, there is hope.[/B]

- Well, how should I explain to you the blessing of a good health. If you continue treading on this path, [B]You will become a thin, gaunt, half-blind weakling with sunken cheeks and haggard looks.[/B] Please come into the fresh air take exercise and play some game and [B]Once again grow into a rose-cheeked young man.[/B] Don’t grow old prematurely.

- Please listen, I want to be a graduate this year, now or never. I have made up my mind for this and there[B] is no deviation from it.[/B]

- Well, if this is your aim, [B]there is parting of ways.[/B]
- Bye
- Bye

Question 4
 

4. Correct the following sentences. (10)

(a) His wisdom consisted of his handling the dangerous situation successfully
(a) His wisdom consisted [I]in[/I] his handling the dangerous situation successfully

(b) Many a girls were appearing in the examination.
(b) Many a[I] girl[/I] were appearing in the examination.

(c) The vehicles run fastly on the Motorway.
(c) The vehicles run [I]fast[/I] on the Motorway.

(d) Smoking is injurious for health.
(d) Smoking is injurious [I]to[/I] health.

(e) He availed of this situation very intelligently.
(e) He availed[I] himself[/I] of this situation very intelligently.

(f) The black vermin is an odious creature.

(g) What to speak of meat, even, vegetables were not available now.
(g) What to speak of meat, even, vegetables [I]are[/I] not available now.

(h) No sooner we left our home when it started raining.
(h) No sooner [I]had [/I]we left our home when it started raining.

(i) Little money I had I spent on the way.
(i) I had little money that I spent on the way.

(j) The criminal was sent on the goal.
(j) The criminal was sent [I]to the jail.[/I]

[I]Please check my first effort:[/I]

[QUOTE]Poetry is the language of imagination and the passions. It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to human min. it comes home to the bosoms and business of men: for nothing but what comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject of poetry. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else. Whatever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of the waves of the sea, in the growth of a flower, there is a poetry in its birth. If history is a grave study, poetry may be said to be graver, its materials lie deeper, and are spread wider. History treats, for the most part, cumbersome and unwieldy masses of things, the empty cases in which the affairs of the world are packed, under the heads of intrigue or war, in different states, and from century to century but there is no thought or feeling that can have entered into the mind of man which he would be eager to communicate to others, or they would listen to with delight, that is not a fit subject for poetry. It is not a branch of authorship: it is “the stuff of which our life is made”. The rest is mere oblivision, a dead letter, for all that is worth remembering gin life is the poetry of it. Fear is Poetry, hope is poetry, love is poetry; hatred is poetry. Poetry is that fine particle within us that expands, refines, raises our whole being; without “man’s life is poor as beasts”. In fact, man is a poetical animal. The child Is a poet when he first plays hide and seek, or repeats the story of Jack the Giant Killer, the shepherd – boy is a poet when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers; the countryman when he stops he stops to look at the rainbow; the miser when he hugs his gold; the courtier when he builds his hope upon a smile; the vain, the ambitious the proud, the choleric man, the hero and the coward, the beggar and the king, all live in a world of their own making; and the poet does no more than describe what all others think and act. Hazlitt

(a) In what sense is poetry the language of the imagination and the passion?
(b) How is poetry the Universal Language of the heart?
(c) What is the difference between history and poetry?
(d) Explain the phrase: “Man is a poetical animal”.
(e) What are some of the actions which Hazlitt calls poetry and its doers poet?
(f) Explain the followings underlined expression in the passage.
(i) It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to human heart
(ii) A sense of beauty, or power, or harmony.
(iii) Cumbersome and unwieldy masses of things.
(iv) It is the stuff of which our life is made.
(v) The poet does no more than describe what all others think and act.

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(a) Poetry is the language of the imagination and the passion because it is related to everything that provides happiness and grief to human beings. It covers everything which the humans can experience.

(b) Poetry is the universal language of the heart as it links the heart with nature. Poetry lies wherever heart feels a sense of beauty, power or harmony.

(c) Poetry is a vast terminology as compared to history. History records events of the world over a period of time whereas poetry entails anything which a person feels delighted to communicate or get communicated.

(d) Man is a poetic animal because poetry enables a man to flourish its personality and without poetry a man’s life is no different than a beast.

(e) .........

(f)

(i) Poetry encompasses everything which can unleash human emotions. Whether it is something delightful or painful.

(ii) Anything in which a person conceives a feeling of admiration, authority or kindness.
Historical events relating to different nations and time periods.

(iii) ..........

(iv) Poetry is not an art or skill rather it is something very much related to our lives and souls.

(v) A poet interprets in words or phrases and in the form of his poetry which other persons can only feel or act upon.

2001comprehension
 

1)The subject matter of poetry is related to ordinary but real human emotions like sources of gratification or causes of pain.It gives generalized and simplistic form to human emotions and other affairs related to human life in such a way that it appeals to common sense.Thus poetry in this sense becomes a language of imagination and the passion. 2)Poetry is actually the ultimate reflection of unique feelings of heart and thus a source of self understanding.Besides it brings into prominence the relation of self with external world of nature. 3)History by its very nature is chronological account of events devoid of emotions.By contrast poetry brings life to even historical events by giving them a humanistic touch. 4)The value of life devoid of poetry comes to the level of animals.This is so since all human emotions are in essence poetical in nature .Thus poetry places humans on a higher pedestal than animals by giving form to human nature

[B]Modern history registers of primary and rapid changes that it can’t repeat itself [/B]

modern world is changing very fast. The developments, revolutions, inventions, discoveries we are having in this era are impossible to repeat. Now a day’s everything is mobilized and because of this the world has been changed into a global world. Our ways of communication around the globe has changed a lot that the difference with other countries is just of few hours. The computers in the old era are now obsolete; we have mini size systems with the latest technology which has made the life easier that it becomes the basic need of modern world. It’s the back bone of every field; a person sitting in one place can take care of one’s business around the globe anywhere. The mobile phones have changed the concept of an ordinary phone just used for calling. Now mobile phones are palm size laptops with the help of which we can communicate around the world and the best for e-banking as well. One way or other technology has added ease to all human’s life. Awareness of lay man is increasing day by day. People are more concerned about their education their future life and finding ways to success and to change the world more. Today’s human is more civilized and disciplined in every manner. They are more welcome to achievements. So it seems impossible for modern history to repeat itself.



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guys any idea on the topic "crisis tests the true mettle of man"....if any one plz share it...

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Beauty can be understand in different ways but in past for Greeks nature was not of interest.They didn’t use their talent and only rely upon bounteous country.although they were blessed with nature’s gift but they considered them a big hurdle in their agriculture.they were also in fear of wild livings.and sea, a source of wealth,they took it as a unvintagable sea.because of these thoughts their dislikes for nature increased.it clearly shows due to these facts Arts couldn’t find its respectable place in Greeks.by the time when Greek Republic ended and people gathered for imperial purposes into Antioch,or Alexandria, or into Rome from that time We find various authors, poets, lyricist,novelists and preachers.

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Q No 5: use Idioms in sentences
(a) The teeming meanings:- to present a number of meanings
During meeting, the CSP gave us the teeming meanings on the topic.
(b) To kick the bucket:- To die
Every one will kick the bucket and say good bye to this mortal world
(c) to push the walls :- to place in desperate and extreme position
Imran khan has been pushed to the walls by his party members
(d) To read between the lines:- to read carefully
Every Css aspirant should read b/w the lines his subjects.
(e) to be at daggers drawn:- very angry and close to violence
We can reveal the truth easily from those who are at daggers drawn.
(f) to throw down the gauntlet:- to declare a challenge
The minister threw down the gauntlet on the illegal activities.
(g) to stand on ceremony:- to behave in a normal manner
(h) From the horse's mouth:- responsible

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Beauty can be understand in different ways but in past for Greeks nature was not of interest.They didn’t use their talent and only rely upon bounteous country.although they were blessed with nature’s gift but they considered them a big hurdle in their agriculture.they were also in fear of wild livings.and sea, a source of wealth,they took it as a unvintagable sea.because of these thoughts their dislikes for nature increased.it clearly shows due to these facts Arts couldn’t find its respectable place in Greeks.by the time when Greek Republic ended and people gathered for imperial purposes into Antioch,or Alexandria, or into Rome from that time We find various authors, poets, lyricist,novelists and preachers.

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You have over emphasised on subtle things and avoided the important aspect more over there is loose connection in opening and closeing sentences.

"The ancient Greeks didn't portray the beauty of the nature because they were percieving it differently. Auther reasoned it as, the wilde forests and steep cliffs were hinderance to intercourse; harmeful for agriculture; havens for dangerous animals; and rude during natural desasters. Same was the case, initially, with Homer who, unbewared of the worth of the sea, called it mere wastage of the land. All this was due to small population but as the population increased and emerial setup established at Antioch Alaxandria and lastly at Rome and environmental pollution entangled them, they felt value of rural life and thus a large number of artists emerged and started praising beauty of the nature"

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