SPSC 2015 Assistant Director Public Awareness, Planning Officer & Law Officer BPS-17 (2015) — English Paper

Assistant Director Public Awareness, Planning Officer & Law Officer BPS-17 (2015) — English. Pre-interview written test for the posts of Assistant Director Public Awareness (B-17) in Environment & Alternative Energy Department, Planning Officer in different sections under Planning & Development Department, and Law Officer (B-17) in Mines & Minerals Development Department · Tuesday 16 June 2015, 10:00 am to 01:00 pm · Maximum marks 100. Attempt all questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. 1Write an organized essay on any one of the following: (20 marks) (i) Life is not a bed of roses. (ii) Pakistan is rich in natural resources but poor in their management. (iii) The role and responsibilities of an ideal bureaucrat. (iv) Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

2. 2Make a précis of the following passage and give it an appropriate heading: (20 marks) Fascism in the words of Mussolini believes that war does bring up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it. Again a doctrine which is founded on the harmful postulate of peace is hostile to fascism. The fascist then is one who believes that the bombardment of open towns with fire, poison and explosives (in other words modern war) is intrinsically good. He is one who rejects the teachings of the prophets and believes that the best society is national society living in a state of chronic hostility towards other national societies and preoccupied with ideas of slaughter. He is one who despises non attached individuals and holds up for admiration the person who, in obedience to the boss who happens at the moment to have grabbed political power, systematically cultivates all the passions (pride, danger, envy, hatred) which the philosophers and the founders of religions have unanimously condemned as the least worthy of human beings. All fascist planning, therefore, has but one aim: to make the national society more efficient as a war machine. Industry, commerce and finance are all controlled for this purpose.

3. 3(a) Write an application to the Chief Engineer WAPDA for reduction of load shedding hours and change of its timing in your locality. (10 marks) (b) Choose any five of the following pairs of words. Define them and use them in sentences of your own which bring out the difference in their meaning: (10 marks) (i) Veracity, Voracity (ii) Ordnance, Ordinance (iii) Lose, Loose (iv) Nay, Neigh (v) Quite, Quiet (vi) Eruption, Irruption (vii) Insure, Ensure (viii) Mare, Mayor

4. 4(a) Given below are the groups of spellings commonly misspelt. Choose the correct one and use it in your own sentences. Attempt any five. (10 marks) 1. Professor / Proffesor / Profesor / Proffessor 2. Contamporary / Contemporary / Contemprary / Cuntemporary 3. Hipercritical / Hypercretecal / Hypercritical / Hypercritecal 4. Millioneare / Millionere / Milioniare / Millionaire 5. Dillema / Dilemma / Dillemma / Dellema 6. Capasious / Capacious / Capashious / Kapacious 7. Misanthrop / Misenthrope / Misanthrope / Misenthrope (b) Give meanings of any five of the following idioms / phrases and use them in your own sentences: (10 marks) (i) A pillar of the society (ii) Iron out (iii) The sixth sense (iv) A child's play (v) At the eleventh hour (vi) Hotchpotch (vii) In full swing

5. 5(a) Do as directed, any five of the following: (10 marks) (i) One should check the details. (Change the Voice) (ii) Can I see your ticket please. (Change the narration) (iii) My father often told me, "Every obstacle is a stepping stone to success. You should view problems in your life as opportunities to prove yourself." (Change the narration) (iv) To turn friends into enemies. (Change the narration) (v) I asked Mary if she could lend me a pen. (Change the narration) (vi) The letter is ____ Karachi. (Insert correct preposition) (vii) It's been raining. (Change the narration) (b) Translate into English (the passage was given in Sindhi and in Urdu): (10 marks) وہ ایک خط پڑھتی ہے اور سب خواتین وہ سنتی ہیں۔ خط کا مضمون سن کر خواتین اپنے اپنے نظریہ کے مطابق اس پر تنقید کرتی ہیں۔ جیسے ہی خط کا مضمون ختم ہوتا ہے فلاڈیلفیا بھاگ کر اندر آتی ہے اور بتاتی ہے کہ ابھی ابھی خبر آئی ہے کہ بادشاہ نے جنگ جیت لی ہے۔ اسی وقت باہر سے آواز آتی ہے کہ خط آیا ہے۔ سب خواتین اکٹھی ہوتی ہیں۔ ڈاک لے کر آنے والا گاؤں کے نوجوانوں کے نام لینے لگتا ہے جو جنگ میں مارے گئے ہیں۔ ان میں جون ہیریگلڈ کا شوہر اور مسٹریس نیو کا بیٹا بھی شامل ہیں۔ جو سن کر تمام خواتین خاموش ہو جاتی ہیں اور اچانک رونے لگتی ہیں اور بے خیالی میں آگے بڑھ کر ایک دوسرے کو گلے سے لگاتی ہیں اور ایک دوسرے کی دشمنی بھول جاتی ہیں۔