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25th BCS: 2005
The figures in the right margin indicate full marks] Marks
1.Write an essay on any one of the following: 30
A. Qualities of a good civil servant.
B. Rich countries versus poor countries.
2.Amplify the idea in one of the following: 15
a. Time is a great healer.
b. Propaganda is the worst form of argument.
C. One lie leads to another.
d. Ambition is the last temptation of great minds.
3.Write a precis of the following extract and give it a suitable titles: 15
Long before the age of man, insects inhabited the earth a group of extraordinarily varied and adaptable beings. Over the course of time a small percentage of the more than half a million species of insects have come into conflict with human welfare in two principal ways: as competitors for the food supply and as carriers of human disease.
Disease-carrying insects become important where human beings are crowded together, especially under conditions where sanitation is poor, as in time of natural disaster or war or in situations of extreme poverty and deprivation. Then control of some sort becomes necessary. It is a sobering fact, however, that the method of massive chemical control has had only limited success, and also threatens to worsen the very conditions it is intended to curb.
Under primitive agricultural conditions the farmer had few insect problems. These arose with the intensification of agriculture the devotion of immense acreages to a single crop. Such a system set the stage for explosive increases in specific insect populations.
Single-crop farming does not take advantage of the principles by which nature works; it is agriculture as an engineer might conceive it to be. Nature has introduced great variety in to the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus we undo the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds. One important natural check is a limit on the amount of suitable habitat for each species. Obviously then, an insect that lives on wheat can build up its population to much higher levels on a farm devoted to wheat than on one in which wheat is intermingled with other crops to which the insect is not adapted.
4.Correct the following sentences: 10
a. He asked me why I have been there.
b. How was the accident occurred?
c. Would you mind close the door?
d. I do not know what is his name?
e. You have a lot of money, isn’t it?
f. What you will do if you miss the train?
g. It is a nice poetry?
h. He went to the airport in order to receiving his friend.
i. The thief ran out.
j. She got angry and started shouting to me.
5.Fill in the blanks with suitable words as phrases: 10
a. Did Kamal care…….. living in the country?
b. He is suspected…….. receiving stolen goods.
c. His wife advised him not………any risks.
d. What is the matter……… him that he is often late?
e. He mentioned all……. problems at the beginning.
6.Make sentences with any five of the following: 2×5=10
a. do away with; b. in order that; c. so long as; d. get along with; e. tum up; f. feel like; g. in addition to.
7.Make sentences with five of the following pairs of words showing the difference in meaning in the pairs: 5
a. Close down………. close in
b. Carry on………. carry out
c. Feel………. fill
d. Coma….. comma
e. Mixer…………. mixture
f. Merry ………. marry
g. Gist………jest
8.Put the correct form of verbs in any five of following: 5
a. I never thought I…. you again. (see)
b . We will tell him about it after he ……… (arrive)
c. I would have been able to come if you……….. Me know in time. (let)
d. I could have finished the work yesterday if you me (remind)
e. Do you think it will be better if he tomorrow? (come)
f. He ………. everything he could to help me. (do)
g. The boy never ……… the sea. (see)
