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Punjab Civil Service Examination 2012

Judicial Branch

ENGLISH

Time: Three HoursMaximum Marks : 200

Q.1. Writ an essay on any one of the following subjects in not more than 1000-1100 words.100

(1)Turmoil in Pakistan – Will the Democracy survive?

(2)Parallel economy: Factors responsible for its growth.

(3)Global economic problems: Ways and Means to tackle it.

(4)Where do you draw the line between ‘Right to Privacy’ and ‘Public Interest’?

(5)Corruption – Can the Lok Pal cut the Gordian Knot?

Q.2. Make sentence using each of the following words:- (20)

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1Celestial6Imperceptible

2Impervious7Proscription

3Quibble8Scurrilous

4Sequester9Slander

5Underpin10Wile

Q.3. Give meaning of the following idioms and also form a sentence using the said idioms:-(20)

1To catch a Tartar6To be out of the wood

2To put one on one’s mettle7To give the devil his due

3It’s like a red rag to a bull8To muse on

4T hit the jackpot9To cool one’s heels

5To haul over the coals10To bite one’s lips

Q. 4. Correct the following sentences:-(20)

  1. He spoke confidentially about his prospects.
  1. A magistrate should be uninterested in any case he hears.
  1. He is averse from hard work, as it tells upon his health.
  1. We eat that we may live.
  1. I have criticize the remarkable book because I benefited from reading it.
  1. Distrust seems to be a factor borne out of prevailing circumstances.
  1. The notorious gang opened the door quietly and escaped in the dark with whatever they would collect.
  2. I know who this job should be entrusted to for smooth handling.
  1. They have the nasty habit of looking down upon people and criticized them for no reason.
  1. Even though they weren’t expecting us they managed to knock up a marvelous meal.

Q.5. Make a précis of the following passage (about one third of the original):-(20)

Although organic agriculture may seem to be the wave of the future some experts believe that the next stage in agricultural development requires the widespread adoption of something very inorganic: fertilizer made from powered rocks, also known as “rock flour”. The biochemical processes of life depend not only on elements commonly associated with living organisms, such as oxygen, hydrogen, and cardon (the fundamental element or organic chemistry), but also on many other elements in the periodic table. Specifically, plants ned the so-called “big six” nutrients: nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, sulfur, and magnesium. In modern industrial agriculture, these nutrients are commonly supplied by traditional chemical fertilizers. However, these fertilizes omit trace elements, such as iron, molybdenum and manganese, that are components of essential plant enzymes and pigments. For instance, the green pigment chlorophyll, which turns sunlight into energy that plants can use, requires iron. As crops are harvested, the necessary trace elements are not replaced and become depleted in the soil. Eventually, crop yields diminish, despite the application or even over-application of traditional fertilizers. Rock flour, produced in abundance by quarry and mining operations, may be able to replenish trace elements cheaply and increase crop yields dramatically.

Not all rock flour would be suitable for use as fertilizer. Certain chemical elements, such as lead and cadmium, are poisonous to humans; thus, applying rock flour containing significant amounts of such elements to farmland would be inappropriate, even if the crops themselves do not accumulate the poisons, because human contact could result directly on indirectly (e.g., via soil runoff into water supplies). However, most rock flour produced by quarries seems safe for use. After all, glaciers have been creating natural rock flour for thousands of years as they advance and retreat, grinding up the ground underneath. Glacial runoff carries this rock flour into rivers, and downstream, the resulting alluvial deposits are extremely fertile. If the use of man-made rock flour is incorporated into agricultural practices, it may be possible to make open plains as rick as alluvial soils. Such increased in agricultural productivity will be necessary to feed an ever more crowded world.

Q.6. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below: - (20)

Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has it technical vocabulary, the function of which is party to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English, and party to secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects, or jargons, are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.

Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts and other vocations, such as farming and fishing, that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary is very old. It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fibre of our language, hence, though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity and philosophy have also, in their older strata, become pretty familiar to cultivated persons, and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet, every vocation still possess a large body of technical terms than remain essentially in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the greatest freedom and abandoned within difference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions and their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet, no profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a closed guild. The lawyer, the physician, the man of science, and the cleric associate freely with his fellow creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way. Furthermore, what is called popular science makes everybody acquainted with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a remote or soon taking about it as in case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus, our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace.

  1. What does the author mean by saying that professions are no longer “closed guilds”?
  1. If the author desires to study new files, what would he do?
  1. Why has the vocabulary of vocations like farming and fishing has got in the ‘fiber’ of English language”?
  1. What does the passage imply about the English language?
  1. What advantage does the technical vocabulary have over ordinary English?