2010

Question 4: Write a comprehensive note on any one of the following

1) When flatterrers get together, the devil goes to dinner.
2) The impossible is often the untried.
3) A Civil servant is a public servant
4)Internet---a blessing or a bane
5) Hope is the buoy of life.

2009
Q.4. Write a comprehensive note (250—300 words) on any ONE of the following: (20)

(i) The importance of industrialization.

(ii) Do we live better than our forefathers?
(iii) Protecting freedom of expression not lies.
(iv) Adopting unchecked Western life styles.
(v) Variety is the spice of life.

2008
Q.3. Write a comprehensive note (250—300 words) on any one of the following: (20)

a. To rob Peter to pay Paul

b. The child is father of the man.
c. Art lies in concealing art
d. Life without a philosophy is like a ship without rudder
e. A contented mind is a blessing kind.

2007
Q-3 Note (250-300 words) on any one of the following

1- Honesty is the best policy but advertising also helps.

2- It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
3- A suspicious parent makes an artful child.
4- Spontaneity and creativity as symbols of freedom.
5- Means justify ends.

2006
Q # 3... Write a comprehensive note (250-300 words) on any ONE of the following: ( 20 marks )

(a) Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.

(b) A pen becomes a clarion.
(c) Charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul
(d) What fools these mortals be!
(e) Stolen glances, sweeter for the theft.
2005
3. Write a comprehensive note (250-300) words ) on any one of the following . (20)

a. each man is the architect of his own destiny

b. ignorance is bliss, knowledge worry
c. democracy fosters mediocrity
d. unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talent and our expectations
e. they know enough who know how to learn.

2004

3. Write a comprehensive note (250-300 words) on ONE of the following: (20)

1. One may smile and smile, and be a villain.

2. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
3. No sensible man ever made an apology.
4. Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

2003
. Write a comprehensive note (250-300) words on ONE of the following: (20)
(1) Lots of people confuse bad management with destiny.
(2) If a window of opportunity appears don't pull down the shade.
(3) We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals: others by their act.
(4) Goodwill is earned by many acts: it can be lost by one.

2002
3. Write a Comprehensive note (250-300 words) on ONE of the following subjects (20)
(a) The winds are always on the side of the ablest
navigator. ENGLISH (PRECIS AND COMPOSITION)
(b) Keep your face to the Sunshine and you cannot see the Shade.
(c) In strategy it is important to see distant things close, and take a distant view of close
things.
(d) You \vill find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.

2001
3. Write a comprehensive note (250 – 300) on ONE of the following subjects. (20)

(a) Modern history registers so primary and rapid changes that it cannot repeat itself.
(b) “The golden rule is that there is no golden rule”. G. B. Shaw
(c) Crisis tests the true mettle of man
(d) It is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannical to use it like a giant.
2000

1999
. Write a comprehensive note of approximately 250 words on
ONE of the following subjects: (25)

(a) The Hand that Rocks the cradle Rules the World.
(b) Charm strikes the sight but Merit wins the soul.
(c) Lord, What Fools these Mortals be!
(d) Is Democracy possible in the Third World?

1998
3. Write a comprehensive note of approximately 250 words on
ONE of the following subjects: (25)

(a) The two main reasons for reading imaginative literature are
pleasure and insight.
(b) Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon them.
(c) Democracy if it is stupid and unjust, is as evil as, stupid and cruel
tyranny. (Socrates)
(d) The so-called custodians of human rights are guilty of violating the
rights of the backward nations.

1997
. Write a comprehensive note of approximately 250 words on ONE of the following
subjects: (25)

(a) The Problem of Noise in the modern world.

(b) The motorway age
(c) "A contented mind is a blessing kind."
(d) A competitive society brings out the best in every individual
(e) The Supernatural man (or woman)

1996
3. Write a comprehensive note of approximately 250 words on ONE of the following
subjects: (25)
(a) Religion is the greatest benefactor of human race;
(b) The devotional believers coin baseless stories about their gurus;
(c) And when I love thee not chaos 13 come again;
(d) Every system of government emerges from its economic system;
(e) Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
1995
3. Using about 250 words, comment on One of the following subjects: 25
a. Conscience is the basis of justice.
b. The Industrial Society has reached its logical end.
c. Eye for eye and tooth for tooth, has gone on too long in the world.
d. In freedom lies the happiness of the individual.
e. Children have no childhood in Pakistan.
f. To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

1994
3. Expand the idea embodied in One of the following in about 200 words. 20
a. The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
b. Art is long and time is fleeting.
c. The better part of valour is discretion.
d. Conscience is God’s presence in man. -
e. Capital is only the fruit of labour, and could never have existed if labour had not first
existed.

1993
6. Comment on any one of the following about 200 words: 20
a) To err is human, to forgive divine,
b) The child is father of the man,
c) God helps those who help themselves,
d) Beggars are no choosers,
e) - Handsome is one who handsome does,
f) The impossible is often the untried,
g) Man has his will and woman her way.

1992
6. Expand the idea contained in any one of the following in about 200 words:
i) “Uneasy lies the head, that wears a crown”
ii) “If winter comes, can spring be far behind”
iii) “Mankind is an abstraction, man is a reality”
iv) “The Press and the Nation rise and fall together”
v) Environmental pollution — a global problem
vi) Population explosion.

1991
6. Write a note of about 150 words on any one of the following ideas: 20
i) What can't be cured must be endured,
ii) A bee in one’s bonnet,
iii) Make a virtue of necessity, -
iv) A red rag to a bull.

1990
6. Develop the idea contained in any one of the following in about 150 words: 20
a) A thing of beauty is a joy for ever, -
b) Cowards die many times before their death,
c) In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place,
d) Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter,
e) Unity, Faith, Discipline.