Time
allowed: 3 hours
Maximum marks: 100
Question No 1 make a précis of the following passage in about 250
words:
Up to a point the Second German War
resembled the first, Each began with a German bin for power which almost
succeeded in spite of the opposition of France and great Britain. In each the
United States came to the rescue after year of neutrality. Each with a German
defeat. But the differences were easier to see than the resemblances. The powers
were difference grouped:
It’s and japan were on the German
side, Russia was neutral until the Germans attacked across what had been, on
begin with, Poland and Baltic States. The second war lasted even longer than
the other. It pressed harder on the civilian population. After a period of
restraint, perhaps, intended to conciliate American opinion, bout sides dropped
bombs from the air, without respect for the nature of the largest, wherever the
officers concerned expected to cause the greatest effect. In Great Britain
60,000 were killed though the island was not invaded, the population was more
directly involved than it was in any former war. Children and other were
evacuated from towns in to the country. Food supplied ran so short that, at the
worst, even potatoes were rationed. Of all the stated opposed to Germany, Great
Britain was the only on which fought throughout war. The resources of the
nation were concentrated on the war effort more completely than those of any
other nation on either side. LA hour for women as well as men became
compulsory.
Nevertheless, once the war reached its
full severity in the west, eight months after i was declared, there was less
disunion between classes and interests than in any other five years. Within
living memory. Fighting spread all over the world. The Pacific was as vital a
theatre as Europe. Scientists, especially Physicists, made revolutionary
discoveries during the war, not only in the fields of weapons and defense
against them, but in supply, transport, and control in action. Strange to say
the fight services suffered fewer casualties than in 1914- 18: 300,000 of the
armed forces and 35,000 of the navy were killed. There was nothing like the
trench warfare of loaner war, though there was almost every other sort of
warfare, from mechanized war of movement in the North African desert to han4 to
hand jungle lighting in Burma. Bot1 sides experimented and built up stocks for
gas-warfare and biological warfare, but neither side used them. (George Clark:
English History: a survey)
Question No 2 Rewrite the following poem in simple prose and then
comment on the difference between the poetic achievement in the poem and the
literal rendering in prose made by you:
the force that through the green fuse drives the
flower
Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees.
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose.
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
The force that drives the water through the rocks.
Drives my red blood, that drives the mouthing streams,
Turns mine to max. –
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins.
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.
The hand that whirls the water in the pool.
Stirs the quicksand, that ropes the blowing wind,
Hauls my shroud sail.
And I am dumb to tell the hanging. Man,
How of my clay is make the hangman’s lime.
The lips of time leech to the fountain head.
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood,
Small calm her sores.
And I am dumb to tell a weather’s wind,
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.
And I am dumb to tell the lover’s tomb,
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worn. (Dylan Thomas)
Question No 3 a) Distinguish between the meaning of the words in
the following pairs. And use them in illustrative sentences: Consciousness,
conscientiousness: ingenious, ingenuous, fantastic, fanatical, honorable,
honorary, politician, statesman.
b) Use the
following expressions in sentences to bring out their meanings :
To fall hack on something, to fall through. On right
earnest, vested interests. Meaningful dialogue.
Question No 4 Write a dialogue between a CSP officer and a young
man aspiring to become one on how to improve civil administration in Pakistan.
OR
a) Religion is
the only force that can keep our people together.
b) But L seems to
have failed to do so in our country. Continue the discussion.
Question No 5 List, with brief amplification, what you regard as
the five most serious problems before the Government of Pakistan. OR
“in the opinion of this house Regionalism is greatest
hindrance In the way of our national progress.”
Write a speech for or against the above mentioned.