PAPER NO. 2
(Year 2004 - Group II)
1. Write an essay, with an outline, of 300-350 words on ONE of the following topics:
(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.
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.
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.(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.
(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.
OR
Write a dialogue between a teacher and a student who is a habitual late comer. 
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