✅ Q.2: Precis Writing with Title 🔹 Original Passage Word Count: ~300 🔹 Target Precis Word Count (⅓): ~100 🧾 Title: “Manto: Mirror of Society's Duality” ✍️ Precis (Word Count: 101)
Saadat Hasan Manto faced criticism for portraying the harsh realities of life, often labeled as vulgar by moralists. Undeterred, he continued to depict the lives of marginalized individuals such as wage-earners and prostitutes, emphasizing human complexity over moral binaries. Manto viewed man as a blend of virtue and vice, and his characters reflected real human emotions. He despised social hypocrisy and exposed the contrast between appearance and reality. Like literary greats Joyce and Lawrence, Manto discreetly handled bold themes without vulgarity. His sincerity and moral insight elevated him beyond his time, resonating with readers through powerful social reflection.
✅ Q.3: Reading Comprehension (4 marks each)
Define globalization.
Globalization is the process of integrating economies, cultures, and societies across nations, leading to the formation of a global society where ideas, labor, and products are exchanged freely.
- What is electronic mass communication?
It refers to digital methods like computer networking and broadcasting that allow information exchange across borders instantly and widely.
- What does the term Third World denote?
It refers to developing countries, especially those in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, often economically less advanced and undergoing liberalization reforms.
- What is privatization?
Privatization is the process of transferring public sector enterprises and responsibilities to private ownership or control.
- Explain ‘liberalism’ in the above context.
In this context, liberalism means opening up economies through deregulation and reduced state control to encourage private sector participation and global integration.
✅ Q.4: Correct only FIVE sentences
❌ I won him in the race.
✅ I defeated him in the race.
- ❌ He said that I am playing chess.
✅ He said that I was playing chess.
- ❌ Unless you do not try, you will never succeed.
✅ Unless you try, you will never succeed.
- ❌ He wrote with ink.
✅ He wrote in ink.
- ❌ What country he belongs to?
✅ Which country does he belong to?
- ❌ When he reaches to manhood, he will visit to England.
✅ When he reaches manhood, he will visit England.
- ❌ The new session commences from February 1st, 2020.
✅ The new session commences on February 1st, 2020.
- ❌ Please send this letter on my address.
✅ Please send this letter to my address.
✅ Q.5 (a): Punctuate the passage
Corrected Text:
Letters between relatives and friends are called personal letters. The most important thing in such letters is the content. Don’t begin with a hackneyed phrase like, “I was delighted to get your letter,” “Received your letter,” or “I have often thought of writing to you.” Use a vigorous, clear, chatty style.
✅ Q.5 (b): Fill in the blanks with correct prepositions
- I was annoyed with him.
- This train is bound for Gujrat.
- The pistol went off by accident.
- He kept on asking silly questions.
- He was knocked down by the bus.
- Do not meddle with my affairs.
- The meeting was put off by the Chairman.
- He rounded off his speech with a quote from Ghalib.
✅ Q.6: Use idioms in sentences
- To break the ice – At the party, he told a joke to break the ice and start a conversation.
- Nip in the bud – The teacher decided to nip the bad habit in the bud before it spread.
- See eye to eye with – I don’t see eye to eye with my manager on this issue.
- For good – He left the city for good and never returned.
- Tamper with – Do not tamper with the settings of this machine.
- The small hours – I studied until the small hours of the morning.
- Keep up appearances – Even though they were struggling financially, they tried to keep up appearances.
- Prima facie – Prima facie, the case seems to be in favor of the defendant.
Translation:
In the world, the system of oppression has taken many forms, but the spirit behind it remains the same. It changes its disguise, yet continues to play its game. Whether it is slavery under colonialism or injustice in the name of nationalism, it is still tyranny. Sometimes it wears the mask of democracy, other times it hides behind the curtain of dictatorship. In truth, both systems are two sides of the same coin. In this age, exploitation is carried out in the name of economic progress, and tyranny is disguised as law and order.