Idleness gets a defence in the English Precis and Composition past paper 2017. The precis passage argues that busy people who never pause bring most evils into the world, and it pictures the devil himself denouncing laziness. The comprehension passage tells schools to teach students how to love and what to love, since saints, scientists, and artists built the great things of history. The 20 and 80 split holds. This paper revives word analogies at Q.5, a question only 2016 shares in this set. Q.4 mixes correction with fill-in-the-blank sentences that carry options. Q.6 joins word pairs to idioms. The translation passage gives candidates a neat argument: enemies expose our hidden faults while friends hide them, so a person owes thanks to an enemy.
What this paper contains
- Part-I (Q.1) — MCQs on the OMR sheet (20 marks)
- Q.2 — Precis of a passage in praise of idleness, with a title (20 marks)
- Q.3 — Comprehension: a passage on education and learning to love (20 marks)
- Q.4 — (a) Correct five sentences (5 marks); (b) rewrite five sentences after filling blanks (5 marks)
- Q.5 — Choose the analogy for capitalised word pairs, any five (5 marks)
- Q.6 — (a) Explain five word pairs in sentences (5 marks); (b) use five idioms in sentences (5 marks)
- Q.7 — Translate an Urdu passage on learning your faults from enemies into English (10 marks)
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