PAPER NO. 6
(Year 2006 - Group II)
1. Write an essay, with an outline, of 300-350 words on ONE of the following topics:
(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.
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) Suggest a suitable title for the passage.
(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.
OR
Write an application to the director of a theatre to case to in his stage drama as a hero/heroine.
4. Correct any FIVE of the following sentences.
(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.
(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
6. Translate the following into English.
OR
Write a dialogue between a traffic sergeant and a student about violation of traffic rules which the latter has committed. 
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