Cold weather does the heavy lifting in the English Precis and Composition past paper 2018. The precis passage credits the cold climate of northern Europe with training human energy, since an obstacle that people can fight sharpens them. The comprehension passage attacks a defect of civilisation: science hands us godlike powers, yet we handle machines like children and let servants turn into masters. The split stays 20 MCQ marks and 80 written marks. Q.4 splits its 10 marks between correction and punctuation inside single sentences. Q.5 tests prepositions with options and then asks candidates to rewrite a direct-speech dialogue as a paragraph. Q.6 pairs word pairs with idioms. The translation passage celebrates Lahore as an old centre of politics, culture, and Sufi learning.
What this paper contains
- Part-I (Q.1) — MCQs on the OMR sheet (20 marks)
- Q.2 — Precis of a passage on cold climate and human energy, in about 120 words, with a title (20 marks)
- Q.3 — Comprehension: a passage on civilisation, science, and machines (20 marks)
- Q.4 — (a) Correct five sentences (5 marks); (b) punctuate five sentences (5 marks)
- Q.5 — (a) Fill blanks with prepositions, any five (5 marks); (b) rewrite a direct-speech dialogue as a paragraph (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 Lahore’s cultural history into English (10 marks)
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