SPSC 2015 Social Welfare Officer / Deputy District Officer BPS-17, Social Welfare Department (2015) — English Paper

Social Welfare Officer / Deputy District Officer BPS-17, Social Welfare Department (2015) — English. Pre-interview written test · Thursday 11 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) The Charter of Medina — a code of law that can still provide an impetus to a pluralistic society. (ii) Menace of gender discrimination and its negative impacts on the social development. (iii) Cheating in Examinations. (iv) First deserve, then desire.

2. 2Make a précis of the following passage and give it an appropriate heading: (20 marks) Of all the characteristics of ordinary human nature, envy is the most unfortunate; not only does the envious person wish to inflict misfortune and do so whenever he can with impunity, but he is also himself rendered unhappy by envy. Instead of deriving pleasure from what he has, he derives pain from what others have. If he can, he deprives others of their advantages, which to him is as desirable as it would be to secure the same advantages himself. If this passion is allowed to run riot, it becomes fatal to all excellence, and even to the most useful exercise of exceptional skill. Why should a medical man go to see his patients in a car when the labourer has to walk to his work? Why should the scientific investigator be allowed to spend his time in a warm room when others have to face the inclemency of the elements? Why should a man who possesses some rare talent of great importance to the world be saved from the drudgery of his own housework? To such questions, envy finds no answer. Fortunately, however, there is in human nature a compensating passion, namely that of admiration. Whoever wishes to increase human happiness must wish to increase admiration and to diminish envy. What cure is there for envy? For the saint, there is the cure of selflessness, though even in the case of saints, envy of other saints is by no means impossible. But, leaving saints out of account, the only cure for envy in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness. But the envious man may say: 'What is the good of telling me that the cure for envy is happiness? I cannot find happiness while I continue to feel envy, and you tell me that I cannot cease to be envious until I find happiness.' But real life is never so logical as this. Merely to realize the causes of one's own envious feeling is to take a long step towards curing them.

3. 3Write a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of your District, complaining about the recent illegal price hike in the local market. (20 marks)

4. 4(a) Change the narration. Do any five: (10 marks) (i) On Monday he said, "My son is coming today." (ii) They wanted to know where he was going the following week. (iii) He said, "Did she go yesterday?" (iv) "By God," he said, "I do not know her nickname." (v) He says that we are to meet him at the station. (vi) He said, "I don't know the way. Ask the old man sitting on the gate." (vii) He said, "How will you manage it?" (b) Match the following words with their meanings and then use them in your own sentences: (10 marks) Words: (i) Arcane (ii) Vagabond (iii) Effete (iv) Abrogate (v) Whining Meanings: Barren · a loud noise · Mysterious · End a law or agreement · Having no fixed place to live in

5. 5(a) Punctuate the following passage: (10 marks) Having parked the car at a supermarket I walked about half a mile to get this jumble of low buildings that sit in a beautiful green field with a little lake in the middle arrows indicate directions over there are institutions that seemingly disconnected are complimentary if you stop to think about it the hospital ward for the elderly and a mental hospital the latter is in a beautiful building from the early twentieth century where psychiatrist nurses psychologists psycho therapists from all over Europe graduate (b) Correct only five of the following sentences: (10 marks) (i) This house is built of bricks and stones. (ii) The climate of Pakistan is better than England. (iii) He swore from God. (iv) Have either of you seen my pen? (v) My friend is very ill; I hope he will soon die. (vi) If he was here now, we should have no difficulty. (vii) The concerned officer was not present at the time of the incident.