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.
