English Punjab PMS Paper 1996

PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION

FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE, ETC 1996

ENGLISH (COMPOSITION)

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100

Note: Attempt in English Language. All questions are to be attempted.

1 Make a precis of the following extract and provide a suitable captions:- (25)
It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts; just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinners. So all healthy-minded people like making money, ought to like it – and enjoy the sensation of winning it; but the main object of their life is not money; it is something better than money. A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay-very properly so, and justly grumbles when you keep him without it – still, his main notion of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them. So of the doctors. They like fees no doubt, ought to like them; Yet if they are brave and well-educated, the entire object of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole, desire to cure the sick; and if they are good doctors, and their choice were fairly put to them, they would rather cure the patient, and lose the fee then kill his and get it.
And so with all other brave and rightly trained men; their work is first, their fee second – very important, no doubt, but still second. But in every nation, as I said, there are vast numbers of people who are ill-educated, cowardly, and more or less stupid. And with these people just certainly the fee is first, and the work second, as with brave people the work is first and the fee second.

2 Explain the meanings of FIVE of the following expressions and use them in sentences. (15)

On the horns of a dilemma;

the leaves and fishes of office;

a laconic speech; a broken reed;

to give one the sack;

to give up the ghost;

to keep the wolf from the door,

to pull a long face;

an oily tongue,

a jaundiced eye

3 Explain the meaning of FIVE of the following pair of words and use them in sentences. (15)

1. Accede, concede

2. Team, Teem

3. Peal, Peel

4. Metal, Mettle

5. Urban, Urbane

6. Willing, Willful

7. Dual, Duel

8. Dose, Doze

9. Canon, Cannon

10. Affect, Effect

4 Correct any Five of the following sentences and briefly point out the nature of error in them. (20)
1. The post and the statesman is dead.
2. He asked me why did I speak?
3. He is too tired that he cannot study.
4. He was ill for two days when the doctor was called for.
5. After crossing the river the weather became pleasant.
6. No sooner he reached the station he put his luggage in the train.
7. Beauty as well as wealth have fallen to her lot in life.
8. He is a coward boy.
9. When he reaches to England he will visit to his friend.
10. For whose benefit the post office is maintained?

5 Translate the following passage into English. (25)