ENGLISH (C) NORMAL PAPER-I (MODEL PAPER)
Annual Examination - 2023
TIME: 2
Hours 40 minutes Max. Marks:
50 SECTION B (SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS)
Note: Attempt TEN part-questions from this section,
including at least TWO part-questions from each
sub-section. All questions carry equal marks.
SUB-SECTION I (READING COMPREHENSION)
1.
(i). Which is the greatest
curse according to the Quaid-e-Azam? Explain.
Ans:
Unit Reference: Unit
#: 01 - Quaid on 11th August
1947.
The biggest and colossal curse according to Quaid-e-Azam is bribery and corruption. This curse excavates entire system of any state. The Quaid-e-Azam has termed this a poison that works like a termite. However, The Quaid trusted that through adequate measures this curse can be taken under control to crush this evil with iron hand.
(ii). What are the benefits of E-Commerce in today’s world?
Unit Reference: Unit #: 04 - Technology Smart and
Tech-Savvy
Ans: The World is moving so fast since the invention of computers and internet. In the new Global Economy, most of the businesses around the world have changed from conventional to virtual. As Technology is the key to continued advancement in every walk of life, E-Commerce is one of those. It means Electronic Business and dealing of merchandize through Internet. As Internet is part and parcel of our lives now so the business through internet is a common norm aswell. Those who don’t change with the passage of time become extinct so no one can deny the importance of E-Commerce in 21st Century.
(iii). What mistake did Stephen Leacock make when he wrote the cheque?
Unit Reference: Unit #: 05
- My Bank Account by Stephen Leacock
Ans: Author Stephen Leacock has
lost his head due to nervousness and in that condition he committed a serious
mistake of writing wrong amount i. e. total amount of Sixty Six (66) Dollars on
the cheque instead of Six (06) dollars which he intended to withdraw for his
daily expenses.
(iv). Why should you choose a career that interests you?
Ans:
Unit Reference: Unit #: 09
– Choosing Career
UB-SECTION II (POETRY):
(v). Discuss the poem “The Character of a Happy Life” with reference to the
line; “And having nothing yet hath all.”
Ans:
Poem Reference: Unit #: 01 – The Character of a Happy Life
The poet Sir Henry Wotton described that the
man of happy life doesn’t possess any worldly wealth of materialistic objects
to make him rich yet he has the contentment of mind and soul that he hasn’t
done any wrong nor have hurt anyone in any sense that he would be accountable
on the Day of Judgment. According to the poet this is having all in real.
(vi). What irony has been presented in the poem Ozymandias?
Ans:
Poem Reference: Unit #: 03 – Ozymandias
P. B shelly has composed
the poem “Ozymandias” in which he has described that every rise has a fall and
people forget anyone with time. He has given the example of most powerful
Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II whose broken status is lying in the desert and when
a traveler passes by, it tells the story of its glory and power in its time
realizing its helplessness in the wake of time.
(vii). What reward does a Khahori get after his hard work?
Ans:
Poem Reference: Unit #: 07 – Lines from Sur Khahori
A Khahori gets the
ultimate reward of being saved from ignorance. He gets the trophies of
contentment and satisfaction in this world and hereafter.
(viii). Identify the Poem and the Poetic Devices used in the following lines:
Where thickest lies the forest
growth
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches
show the scars,
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common
law of life.
Ans:
Poem Reference: Unit #: 04 – Good Timber by Douglas Malloch
SUB-SECTION
III (PLAY- “A VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET”)
(ix). Why was Kreton interested in visiting the
planet “Earth”?
Ans:
Play Reference: “A VISIT TO THE SMALLE PLANET: Scene – ONE”
STATEMENTS | |
(a). The manager said to the customer, “Get out of my office.” (b). He said, “The earth is round.” (c). Raza said, “I must arrange a couple of things.” (d). She said, “Be quite and listen to my words.” (e). She said to me, “What are you doing now?” | |
SOLUTION | |
(a). The manager ordered / told the customer to get out of his office. | Present Indefinite Tense |
(b). He stated / wised / told said the earth is round. | Universal Truth |
(c). Raza emphasized that he must arrange a couple of things. | Present Indefinite Tense |
(d). She ordered to be quiet and listen to her words. | Declarative Sentence |
(e). She asked / inquired me what I was doing then. | Continuous - Interrogative |
(xiv). Change the Voice:
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STATEMENTS |
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(a). He has to purchase a car. (b). Let her write
a poem. (c). Why did you
help her? (d). Who did this? (e).
Someone killed the criminal. |
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SOLUTION |
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(a). A car has to be purchased by him. |
Present Perfect Tense |
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(b).
Let a poem be written by her. |
Present Indefinite Tense |
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(c).
Why was she helped by you? |
Past Indefinite Tense - Interrogative |
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(d). This
was done by whom? |
Present Indefinite – Interrogative |
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(e). The criminal
was killed by someone. |
Past Indefinite Tense |
(xv). Spot the errors and do the correction of Verb, Preposition and Adjectives in the following sentences:
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STATEMENTS |
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(a).
He does his homework at the afternoon. (b).
The lamp will be lit on 8.00
pm. (c).
She clean her room every
day. (d).
They have make a cake
on their birthday. (e).
My bed is more big
than my desk. |
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SOLUTION |
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(a). He does his homework in the afternoon. |
Error of Preposition |
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(b). The lamp will
be lit at 8.00 pm. |
Error of Preposition |
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(c). She cleans her room every
day. |
Error of Verb (Third Person -s / es) |
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(d). They have made a cake on their birthday. |
Error of Verb (Tense) |
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(e).
My bed is bigger than
my desk. |
Error of Adjective |
(xvi). Do as directed:
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STATEMENTS |
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(a).
Do you play tennis said
Bilal (Punctuate) (b).
If I were you, (Complete the
Sentence) (c).
My brother does not write
letters to his
friends. (Put the Adverb
“usually” in the right place) (d).
He could not win a scholarship. He is careless. (Make a Compound Sentence) (e).
You visit your
dentist at least
twice a year.
(Modal Verb showing Advice) |
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SOLUTION |
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(a). “Do you
play tennis?” said
Bilal. (b).
If I were you, I had accepted this job offer. (Conditional
Sentence) (c).
My brother usually does
not write letters
to his friends. (d).
He could not win a scholarship
due to being careless. (Make a Compound Sentence) (e).
You should visit your dentist at least twice
a year. (Insert Modal Verb showing Advice) |
SECTION ‘C’ (DETAILED-ANSWER QUESTIONS) (Max. Marks:
30)
Note: Attempt
all questions from this section.
Q: 03. Read the following Passage
and answer the Questions that follow:
OR
Make a Précis of the passage
and suggest a Suitable title to it.
READING COMPREHENSION:
Harland Sanders was born in the USA in 1890s but his childhood wasn’t a happy one. His father died when he was only six. So, his mother needed to find a job. She went to work in a shirt factory and Harland stayed at home to look after his younger brother and sister. That was when he first learned to cook. He left home when he was twelve and worked on a nearby farm. After that he had a lot of different jobs and in 1950 he became a service station manager in Corbin Kentucky. He started cooking meals for hungry travellers who stopped at the service station and soon people came only for the food. Harland moved to 142 seat restaurant across the street. Where he could serve all his customers. Over the next nine years he developed the secret chicken recipe that made him famous. In the early 1950s he closed the restaurant and decided to sell his recipe to other business. The first official Kentucky fried chicken restaurant didn’t open until August 1952--- by 1964 there were more than 600 KFCs in North America. That year Sanders sold the company for $ 2 million, but he continued to work as KFC’s public spokesman and visited restaurants all over the world. He travelled every year until he died in 1980 aged 90. There are now KFC restaurants in more than 80 countries and they sell 2.5 billion chicken dinners every year and the recipe is still a secret.
QUESTIONS:
(a). How long did it take Sanders to develop his secret chicken
recipe?
Ans: It
took Sanders around nine years to develop the secret chicken recipe
that made him famous.
(b). What did Sanders
do after he had sold his company?
Ans: In the
early 1950s after closing the restaurant Sanders had decided to sell his recipe
to other business. However, he continued to work as KFC’s public spokesman and
visited restaurants all over
the world.
(c). Give a suitable
title to the passage.
Ans: Suitable title for the passage, in my opinion, can
be:
History of KFC or Harland
Sanders – a Trend Setter or A
Dream Came True
(d). Identify
Regular and Irregular Verbs: (i). left (ii). went (iii).
needed (iv). stayed
Ans:
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Regular Verbs |
Irregular Verbs |
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needed – first form need |
left – first form leave |
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stay – first form stayed |
went – first form go |
PRÉCIS
AND SUITABLE TITLE
Harland
Sanders, born in the USA in 1890s with an unhappy childhood as his father had
died in childhood and mother being jobless. She worked at a factory and he
stayed home to look after his siblings and also learnt to cook. He left home at
the age of twelve and worked on a farm. He did multiple jobs including a
service station manager’s Job in Corbin Kentucky where he cooked for hungry
travelers stopping there. It turned into food visits making Harland to move to
a 142 seat restaurant across the street. He developed his famous secret chicken
recipe in nine years’ time which he decided to sell in the early 1950s after
closing the restaurant. The first official Kentucky fried chicken restaurant
didn’t open until August 1952 but by 1964 there were more than 600 KFCs in
North America. Sanders sold the company for $ 2 million but continued as KFC’s
public spokesman visiting all over the world till his death in 1980 aged 90.
KFC restaurants in more than 80 countries selling 2.5 billion chicken dinners
every year with the same secret recipe.
Suitable Title: Suitable Title for the passage, in my opinion, can be: History of KFC or Harland Sanders – a Trend Setter or Where there is a Will there is a Way.
Q: 04. Write a Formal Email to your College Principal asking / requesting him to allow your team to participate in Sindh Inter-College Cricket Tournament.
To: PrincipalABCcollege@abc.edu.pk
CC: Ichagestudentaffairs@abc.edu.pk
BCC: Classteacher.gradeXI@abc.edu.pk
From: studentsofXI@Gmail.com
Subject: Permission for participation in Sindh Inter-College Cricket Tournament.
Date: June 11, 2022 Time: 2:29 pm
Respected Sir / Madam,
I am writing this email requesting you to allow our
college team to participate in Sindh Inter-College Cricket Tournament.
As it is
said “All work no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Our college facilitates sports
and games opportunities with proper coaching available and we have a proper
college cricket team which is talented as well as a very balanced team that has
won many prizes in internal and external tournaments.
Sindh
Inter-College Cricket Tournament is a place where students can showcase their
talents and can get an opportunity to make their names. It is also a place
where selectors from PCB come to pick talented guys for under 19 team and
domestic cricket chances. It is also a platform to make a name of our college
and win laurels for it. Our college coach has done a lot of effort throughout
the year and has made our team ready for any type of game. We also want to make
him proud and assure that his efforts didn’t go in vain. All the formalities
have already been done and only your permission is required to proceed for
registration.
Therefore, it is humbly requested that our team may kindly be granted permission to participate in the Sindh Inter-College Cricket Tournament. That we can prove that Government College students and teachers are not lesser than any other private institute and they do not lack talent and confidence.
I, on
behalf of our college students and cricket team, hope that your kind office
will approve my request and will facilitate us with this opportunity by
granting permission to participate.
Yours Obediently.
X. Y. Z
OR
Write a Report
about Student Week held in the college
(Including events, days and dates).
Q: 05. Write a Narrative Account of an incident that influenced you greatly.
“On October 05th, 2021, at around 10:34 AM, when we were travelling at Main Shah Rah-e-Faisal, near Hotel “Lal Qila”, one Black Audi car crossed us whose driver was driving recklessly. It seemed like the driver was a very young guy who was in quite hurry to reach somewhere or had some sort of emergency as he was not only driving recklessly but honking his horn to get way from cars ahead.
Ali, who was with me in the car mentioned that this guy looks trouble and we should be careful while he is ahead of us. We were wearing our seatbelts yet we checked them to reaffirm that those were tied on and reduced speed to keep the things in control. The guy slowed down a bit and when we crossed him, we saw that he was wearing branded sun glasses, decent outfit consisting upon a short-sleeved shirt and jeans.
We were hit by surprise that such a decent man could be
in such rash driving and meanwhile we were thinking that, the guy again put his
foot on the accelerator and went again at the top speed. I told Ali that he is
putting himself and others in danger and Ali nodded in agreement. Suddenly a
car coming down from Nursery Bridge gave indicator of coming towards the fast
lane.
Car indicator was shouting a warning that the coming car is moving towards its right to take the fast lane but the car who was flying from our side had no time to notice and pull over avoiding collision with the prior one. The result was obvious. The guy who was rushing on Shahrah-e-Faisal all the way went right into the car turning towards the fast lane. The guy had tried his level best to pull handbrakes but as the car was at maximum speed so it turned and rolled like 100 times on the road, hitting two auto rickshaws, 5 bikes and ending into the side wall. There were many other witnesses to report on the circumstances of the accident. We pulled over and immediately called Emergency service to send in some ambulance and police on the accident spot.
When we walked to the wreckage of the car we saw that the driver whose car had rolled on was wearing his seat belt and fortunately his airbag came out timely yet he was unconscious and bleeding from many parts of his body. The other car was also damaged but somehow the driver was safe.
We, including all others present, thought about the severe outstanding hazards related to the incident and reminded each other that all the drivers and riders need to be careful about over speeding, driving and keeping it in control even in emergency.
The Police and emergency services approached the accident site and took control but this accident had left a great impact on me and I have left driving since. Now I am afraid of sitting on the staring wheel and can’t drive as whenever I step up the same scene revolves in front of my eyes and I start having my blood pressure raised. We should always be careful for our and others safety when we are on road and specially driving on highly packed traffic highways. In fact, doing so can not only reduce such incident rates but can also save precious lives.
OR
Write an Essay to Compare and Contrast on any one of the
following:
(i). Physical
Classes vs Online
Classes
“Man never stops learning”
no matter how and what the circumstances are. Since the invention of Computers
and discovery of Internet later on, education has taken many new faces and have
emerged in all aspects. Traditional classroom teaching has adopted many new
ways and inclusion of Electronic gadgets like tabs, Projectors, Computer and
OHDs have become a part and parcel of the teaching learning process. However, since
the COVID-19 things have turned the other way around. In the wake of COVID it
was impossible and could have been a complete disaster to try face to face
teaching and learning. As it is said “Necessity is the mother of invention”
world was forced to switch from F2F to complete Online or Hybrid mode which was
a combination of Face to Face and Online Classes. Education got slow like the
rest of the things in life and learning process was hampered due to Corona.
Face to Face Classes:
Face to Face classes have
their own pros and cons. Teacher and his/ her expressions do help students
learn better. A teacher has time to explain and can judge if any student is not
getting the ideas discussed in class. When as student is present in class his
physical ability and mental agility helps him / her understand and cope with
the concepts in a better way. Direct communication and touch of the books and
copies helps him / her better comprehend the concepts learned
These classes also make a
student time bound and disciplined as he / she has to be available for studies
at specific time. It also teaches them time management and to be socially
mobile with their peers. It also promotes group and individual learning take
place simultaneously. It also teaches learners basic skills of being a helpful,
responsible and tolerant citizens of the digital world.
However, in certain
circumstances these classes have their limitations too as the people are
exposed to pollution when they commute from homes to educational institutes.
They suffer irritation on roads due to heavy traffic and traffic jams both at
the time of arrival and departures. Change of weather and global warming are
also the risks a learner faces when he / she comes out of the secure
environment of homes.
Online Classes:
When a student studies online he/she has to
face a lot of hurdles for a smooth learning process. Internet data is quite
expensive. Technology and internet speed is not as advanced as required for smooth
video and voice calling. Frequent power outbreaks also make it difficult to
connect and take classes without interruption. Moreover, the teaching faculty
is not always as tech-savvy as it is needed to conduct classes using digital
technology and modern gadgets. Computers and internet are way complicated for
traditional and stereotype teachers and they stuck up if some technical glitch
happens. At times support staff is limited and they can’t handle any
technicality immediately at all the places. Free Voice and Video platforms
provide limited time slots as most of the institutes cannot afford their high
prices and have to restrict themselves to the options provided by the platforms
like Microsoft Teams, Skype, Zoom, Google meet etc.
Apart from all these hurdles online classes are
not secure as those are vulnerable to hackers and data streaming is not safe on
those. Any hacker can access sensitive information of the students / teachers
and even institutes by using hacking software and tactics. Digital accounts are
not safe as compared to the face to face strategies of noting and keeping
record of the learning.
To conclude we can say both of the class types have their own advantages and disadvantages but to conclude we can say that Face to Face classes, in every way, are comparatively better than the Online Classes due to the limitations those have.
(ii). Football
vs Cricket
It is truly said that “A
healthy brain lives in a healthy body” and “All work no play makes Jack a dull
boy.” Sports and games are equally important for students to develop and groom
their personalities and students adopt many physical activities for the same
purpose. Cricket and Football are two of the most played physical sports in the
world but both have their set of rules and gears.
Football:
Football is a game played
around the globe in league and on international levels. It is a timed game
consisting upon on two halves of limited time in which a team has to score
goals against their counterparts putting the ball in a specific area called
goal. Football gear is specific from dress till the shoes only used for this
game. Players are categorized as attackers, defenders and midfield men
according to their place and position in game. Only one player (Goal Keeper)
has permission to touch or hold the ball in hands else touching the ball by any
player is considered as a foul. The team consists upon a number of players
performing different tasks on the field. The field is rectangular in shape and
has proper marked lines diving it into different areas like Side lines, Half,
Dee, Corner and penalty shooting areas. Any push or mishandling during tackling
ball or trying to defend a goal can result in a foul and the defaulter is given
warning, in case of dangerous foul a yellow and at extreme a red card is given
to the player causing him suspended from the game.
There are referees on side
lines to give their decisions about sideline crossing, offside in case of
attack and fouls where as a referee is in the middle of the field on toes to
cope up with the game.
If the game doesn’t end in
given time then extra time is giving and if even the game doesn’t finish in
that extra time then five (05) penalty corners are awarded to each time,
hitting most in the goal is announced as the winner.
Cricket:
Both are played in open air in grounds and have a team kind of procedure to play but Cricket is played in a circular or oval ground where the ball and bat is used to play. There are 11 players in a team and the game is divided into different formats like Super Sixes, T-10, T-20, One Day and Test Matches. Each of the mentioned ones have different set of rules and different format. Each time can keep 11 plyers including bowlers, batsmen, fielders and a special field placement called wicket keeper. The game is played on a specific kind of plain which is called cricket pitch where two batsman are to be present at the same time. One plays as the striker whereas the other, from other end, supports as a runner. A wooden bat is used to hit a ball while being in front of wickets. When a ball is hit, a complete run-up from one side of the pitch to other side of the pitch makes one run. There is a specific area for batsman to stand and play his / her shots called crease. It is indicated with a line and if the batsman on strike somehow misses the area of crease, fielder behind the bells, wicketkeeper, can end his batting by hitting the ball to wickets. The scoring criteria is typical too having at least one and maximum 6 runs as a normal routine. There are other runs as BIs, Wide and No Ball if a foul is done by the bowler during balling or the batsman has missed the ball hitting on his batting gear somewhere.