Time Allowed: Three
Hours maximum
Marks: 300
Candidates should attempt all questions.
1.
Write an essay in about 800 to 1000 words on any
one of the following topics:
(a)
Global Warming: its causes and Effects
(b)
Tenth Five- Year Plan: Priorities and Prospects
(c)
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
(d)
Our Future Wars will be Wars for water
(e)
The pleasures of Reading
2.
Write a report on measures taken by your country
to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Or
Write a letter (signing you as ‘X’) to the
Editor of national daily demanding severe checks on the increasing noise
pollution in the metropolises of the country.
3.
Attempt a précis of the following passage in
your own words, using no less than 215 and no more than 240 words. The exact
number of the words used must be mentioned. If the précis is not written on the
special précis sheet, it shall be marked down: 75
Science affects the average man and woman
in two ways already. He or she benefits by its applications, driving in a motor
car or omnibus instead of a horse- drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by
a doctor or surgeon rather than a priest or a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or a
shell in place of a dagger or a battle- axe. It also affects hoes or her
opinions. Almost everyone believes that the earth is round, and the heavens
nearly empty, instead of solid. And we are beginning to believe in our animal
ancestry and the possibility of vast improvements in human nature by biological
methods.
But science can do something far bigger for
the human mind than the substitution of one set of beliefs for another or the
inculcation of skepticism regarding accepted opinions. It can gradually spread
among humanity as a whole the point of view that prevails among research
workers and has enabled a few thousand men and a few dozen women to create the
science on which modern civilization rests. For if we are to control our own
and one another’s actions as we are learning to control nature, the scientific
point of view must come out of the laboratory and be applied to the events of
daily life. It is foolish to think that the outlook which has already
revolutionized industry, agriculture, war and medicine will prove useless when
applied to the family the nation, or the human race.
Unfortunate the growing realization of this
fact is opening the door to innumerable false prophet who is advertising their
own pet theories in sociology as scientific. Science is continually telling us
through their mouths that we are doomed unless we give up smoking, adopt- or
abolish – birth control, and so forth. Now it is not my object to support any
scientific theory, but merely the scientific standpoint. What are the
characteristics of that standpoint? In
the first place, it attempts to be truthful and, therefore, impartial. And it
carries impartiality a great deal druthers than does the legal point of view. A
good judge will try to be impartial between Mr. John Smith and Mr. Chang Sing.
A good scientist will be impartial between Mr. Smith, a tape- - worm, and the
solar system. He will leave behind him his natural repulsion of the tape- worm,
which would lead him to throw it away instead of studying it as carefully as a
stature or symphony and his awe for the solar system which led his predecessors
either to worship its constituents, or at least to regard them as inscrutable
servants of the Almighty, too exalted for human comprehension.
Such an attitude leads the scientist to a
curious mixture of pride and humility. The solar system turns out to be a group
do bides rather small in comparison with many of their neighbours, and
executing their movements according to simple and easily same order as the
monkeys, while his mind is at the mercy of a number of chemical processes in his
body which he can understand but little and control hardly at all.
In so far as it places all phenomena on the
same emotional level, the scientific point of view may be called the God’s –eye
–view. But it differs profoundly from that which religions have attributed to
the Almighty in being ethically neutral Science cannot determine what is right
and wrong, and should not try to. It can work out the consequences of various
actions, but it cannot pass judgment on them. The bacteriologist can merely
pint out that pollution of the public water supply is likely to cause as many
deaths as letting off a bomb in the public street. But he is no better equipped
than anyone else in possession of the knowledge he has gained, for determining
whether these two acts are equally wrong. The enemies of science alternately
sabuse its exponents for being deaf to moral considerations and for interfering
in ethical problems which do not concern them. Both of these criticisms cannot
be right.
4.
Rewrite the following sentences correctly,
choosing the appropriate words given below:
Official, expunged, generalities,
advancement, guard reciprocal.
(a)
So far no- announcement has been made.
(b)
The remarks were offensive and ______.
(c)
He talked in ______ instead of focusing on
specific examples.
(d)
The ____ of
technical education must be given priority
(e)
India cannot lower her __ till she has overcome
the crisis.
5.
Rewrite as directed (without changing the
meaning):
(a)
She (discover) to her horror that she (swallow)
a fly.
(Supply the correct past tense of the verbs)
(b)
The child has seen a tiger. (insert ‘ never’ at
the right place)
(c)
She is very weak. She cannot walk. (Make a
simple sentence by using an infinitive)
(d)
Mumbai is the biggest city in India.
(restructure the sentence by using the positive degree of the adjective)
(e)
They loudly cheered the Prime Minister’s speech.
(turn the sentence into passive voice)
(f)
She is very tall. She can reach that picture.
(Make a simple sentence by using ‘ enough’)
(g)
My daughter’s birthday coincides ______ mine,
(use the appropriate preposition)
(h)
I wish that I were a king. (change into an
exclamatory sentence)
(i)
What thought the field be lost? (transform into
an assertive sentence)
(j)
The river (overflow) its banks a week ago. (Use
the correct tense of the verb)
6.
Supply ‘a(n)’, ‘ some ‘ or ‘ the’ where
necessary:
(a)
As- writer she is __ class of her own.
(b)
The ship has been at ____ Sea for ______ long
time.
(c)
___ Tea is very sweet; you must put _______ milk
in it.
(d)
I must get _____ food with _____ glass of milk.
(e)
Take _____ umbrella with you when you go to
______ office to your duties.
(f)
We will have ___ picnic in _____ forest, next
week.
7.
Rewrite the following sentences removing the
errors, if any:
(a)
No sooner the sun rose, he was off again.
(b)
You cannot leave the place until he does not
come back.
(c)
He has bought a new car last week.
(d)
If I am you, I should agree.
(e)
It cannot be anything else than pride
(f)
I am laid down with fever.
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