B.A Punjab university 2018
English(paper-B)
Time:3 Hrs Max.Marks:100
Note: Over attempted idioms / correction of sentences will not be marked.Only the first five
will be marked.Do not write your name,ph#or identity in your answer.
1. Write an essay with outline of 300-350 words on one of the following topics:
(i) Water Crisis in Pakistan
(ii) Our Education System
(iii) How to Build a Democratic Pakistan?
(iv) Pleasures of Childhood
(v) Therapeutic Value of Literature
Q.2. Read the following passage and answer the questions at the end. The answer must be in your own words. [10+15]
Of all the characteristics of ordinary human nature, envy is the most unfortunate; not only does the envious person wish to inflict misfortune and do so whenever he can with impunity, but he is also himself rendered unhappy by envy. Instead of deriving pleasure from what he has, he derives pain from what others have. If he can,he deprives others of their advantages, which to him is as desirable as it would be to secure the same advantages himself. If this passion is allowed to run riot it becomes fatal to all excellence, and even to the most useful exercise of exceptional skill.
Why should a medical man go to see his patients in a car when the labourer has to walk to his work? Why should the scientific investigator be allowed to spend his time in a warm room when others have to face the inclemency of the elements?
Why should a man who possesses some rare talent of great importance to the world be saved from the drudgery of his own housework?
To such questions envy finds no answer. Fortunately, however, there is in human nature a compensating passion, namely that of admiration. Whoever wishes to increase human happiness must wish to increase admiration and to diminish envy.
1-Which is the most unfortunate characteristic of human nature?
Ans:Envy is the most unfortunate characteristic of human nature
(ii) What does an envious person wish to do?
Ans:The envious person wishes to inflict misfortune and do so whenever he can with impunity.
(iii) What happens when the passion of envy gets unrestrained?
Ans:When the passion of envy gets unrestrained, the envious person deprives others, if he can, of their advantages.
(iv) What is the compensating passion for envy in human nature?
Ans:Admiration is the compensating passion for envy in human nature.
(v) How can human happiness be increased?
Ans:The passion of increasing admiration and to diminish envy can increase human happiness.
(vi) Make a precis of the passage.
Envy is the most unfortunate characteristic in an ordinary human being. The envious person wants to impose his misfortune to the others, instead of deriving pleasures from what he has. He reaches at extreme level even his passion of envy gets unrestrained. There are many questions about this characteristic, to such questions envy finds no answer. Only the passion of admiration can diminish envy and increase human happiness.
Q:3 write an application for Appointment for the Post of an English Teacher in a Government School.
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Q:4 correct any five of the following:No extra attempt will be marked (10)
(1) Who do you want to see?
Whom do you want to see?
(2) she died from cancer.
She died of cancer.
(3) He is sitting besides his mother.
He is sitting beside his mother.
(4) His hairs have turned grey.
His hair have turned grey.
(5) I met him prior than his departure for Karachi.
I met him prior to his departure for Karachi.
(6) He ran as fast as he could run.
He ran as fast as he could.
(7) This poultry belong to him.
This poultry belongs to him.
(8) Write with ink.
Write in ink.
(9) The man is selfish by nature.
A man is selfish by nature.
(10) He made a goat against our college.
He scored a goal against our college.
Q: 5 Use any Five of the following phrases in sentences(no extra attempt will be marked) (10)
(a) To egg on (b) Null and void (c) By and large (d) A narrow escape (e) Every inch (f) Foul play (g) Root and branch (h) Achilles heel (i) Break out (j) Give up
(a) To egg on;
Ahmad actually eggs on Naveed to quarrel with his staff.
Null and void:
(b) This agreement is null and void now.
(c) By and large:
By and large, the Africans are not so advanced.
(d) A narrow escape:
I had a narrow escape yesterday in a road accident.
(e) Every inch:
At the debate, she was every inch as successful as her friend.
(f) Foul play:
The police said that they had no reason to suspect foul play.
(g) Root and branch:
We should destroy social evils root and branch.
(h) Achilles’ heel:
Inability to act soon was the ruler’s Achilles’ heel.
(i) Break out:
The cholera broke out in the city.
(j) Give up:
Please give up smoking now.
Q.6. Write a dialogue between two friends on the use and , misuse of mobile phones. (15)
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use and , misuse of mobile phones.
Translate the following paragraph into English
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