SECTION B
Q: 02. Read the following Passage carefully and answer any five
questions including Question No. (i) appended to it.
Note: Question (I) about summary writing is compulsory and carries
06 marks while rest of the questions carries 03 marks each.
BAHRIA COLLEGES – PNET
Masjid Cordoba is the living symbol of the past glory
of Islam and dominance of Islamic civilization In Europe. The Masjid was
founded by Abdul Rahman 1 in 784 AD, who after the fall of the Umayyad Dynasty
escaped to southern Spain. Once there, he established and consolidated his
control over almost the whole of the Iberian Peninsula. In Cordoba, he
attempted to recreate the glory and grandeur of Damascus, the
capital of the Islamic state. He erected magnificent buildings, promoted
agriculture and imported fruit trees and olive plants from his former home.
Even though the masjid was founded in 784 AD by Abdul Rehman, but the expansion
and enlargement of the masjid was carried on by his successors. This magnificent
masjld, a Jewel of Islamic architecture, was finely completed by Abu Amir Almansur
in 976 AD. The structure of the masjid comprises of a large hypostyle prayer hall
(hypostyle means filled with columns), a courtyard with a fountain in the
middle, a covered pathway circling the courtyard and minaret which is not
visible now because of It being encased in bell — tower.
Allama Iqbal paid a visit to the Masjid-e-Cordoba in 1933. This
visit was not an ordinary visit of an average tourist interested in ancient
monuments but a pilgrimage to an outstanding symbol of faith by a faithful
believer and visionary poet. The sight of the Masjid transposed him into the
golden age of Islam which provided roots to the enlightenment of Europe. These strong
feelings resulted in creation of one of his superb poems, the
Masjid- e-Qurtuba.
QUESTIONS:
i. Summarize the given passage. Also suggest a suitable title to
it.
ii. How is the masjid a living symbol of pat glory of Islam?
iIi. How did Alama lqbal feel after his visit to the masjid?
iv. Describe the structure of the masjid.
v. “The sight of the Masjid transposed him into
thegoldenage of Islam whichdevelopled roots to the enlightenmentof Europe.”
Elaborate.
vi.Whatin youropinion is the significance of the
Masjidof Cordoba to presentdayMuslims?
vii. Write Synonyms of the underlined words.
BAHRIA COLLEGE NORE–I
I belonged
to the following
clubs: Reading Club
(two years), second
year as Secretary Reading Club,
and Computer Club. In the year 2009, I received awards in the following
classes: Computer Applications, Geography, and Advanced Algebra/Trigonometry.
I currently belong to the Hiking and Outdoor Club,
and Environmental Awareness Club. In addition, this year I participated in a
programme called "Read with a Friend." In this programme I, along
with a group of students, went to the nearby elementary school to read to a
class of students from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade.
In order to gain an understanding of independence
and responsibility, I held several summer jobs in the preceding two years. I
also worked to help myself financially in a boarding school. My
first summer job was at the English Language Centre. My second job was at Mc
Donald’s, and my past summer job was at D.K. Academy. I am thankful to all
these institutions for my job experiences. They have prepared me mentally and
financially. This is important in a way that I am now more mature
and responsible; which helps me not to be worried about the future but to look
forward to it.
I am glad that I have got a taste of what the real
world has to offer. I have learned many lessons from my Public High School,
boarding school, and my work experiences. I am now ready to learn many more
lessons through my college experience. Although it has been tough, I have
succeeded so far. I am prepared to excel and make it much further
in the years to come with my college education. This developing positive
outlook has given me motivation that I need to become successful. I never give
up. When I am determined to achieve, "I shoot for the moon and land
amongst the stars."
QUESTIONS:
i. Summarize the given passage. Also suggest a
suitable title to it. (5+1=6)
ii. What are the writer’s achievements as a
student?
iii. How has the writer got the taste of the real
world?
iv. What was the writer’s purpose of doing summer
jobs?
v. How has the writer spent his summer vacation?
vi. What has the writer gained from his summer job
experiences?
vii. Give the SYNONYMS of the words that are
underlined in the passage
BAHRIA COLLEGE – KARSAZ:
One of the modern world’s intriguing sources of mystery has
been aeroplanes wanishing in mid-flight. One of themore famous of these was the
disappreance in 1937 of a pioneed woman avator Amelia earhard. On the second
stage of an attempted round the world flight, she had radioed her position as
she and her navigator searched
desperately for their destination, a tiny island in the Pacific. The plane
never arrived at Howland Island. Did it crash and sink after running out of
fuel? It had been a long haul from New Guinea, a twenty hour
flight covering some four thousand kilometres. Did Earhart have enough fuel to
set down on some other island on her radioed course? Or did she end up
somewhere else altogether? One fanciful theory had her being captured by the
Japanese in the Marshall Islands and later executed as an American spy; another
had her living out her days under an assumed name as a housewife in New Jersey.
2. Seventy years after Earhart's disappearance, 'myth busters' continue to
search for her. She was the best-known American woman pilot in the world.
People were tracking her flight with great interest when, suddenly, she
vanished into thin air. Aircraft had developed rapidly in sophistication after
World War One, with the 1920s and 1930s marked by an aeronautical
record-setting frenzy.
3. But only Earhart, the reserved tomboy from Kansas who disappeared three
weeks shy of her 40th birthday, still grips the public imagination. There are
currently two main theories about Amelia Earhart's fate. Some say the plane
could have broadcast only if it were on land. not in the water. The Coast Guard
and later the Navy, believing the distress calls were real, adjusted their
searches, and newspapers at the time reported Earhart and her navigator were
marooned on an island. An Earhart researcher, Elgen Long, claims that Earhart’s
airplane ran out of gas within fifty-two miles of the island and is sitting
somewhere in a 6,000-square-mile area, at a depth of 17,000 feet. At that depth,
the fuselage would still be in shiny, pristine condition if ever anyone were
able to locate it. It would not even be covered in a layer of silt. Those who
subscribe to this explanation claim that fuel calculations, radio calls and
other considerations all show that the plane plunged into the sea
somewhere off Howland Island.
QUESTIONS:
i)
Summarize the given passage. Also suggest a suitable title
for it.
ii)
Who was Amelia Earhart? Also men •
iii)
List the two theories about Amelia’s fate.
iv)
Explain the main idea of the second paragraph.
v)
Give the Antony of the underlined words.
vi)
Give your point of view about thetext type of the given
passage. And why do you think so?