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Precis – English – WBPSC Miscellaneous Main Question Paper
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2019
- Give a precis of the following passage and add a suitable title: 40
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Kapil Dev is a former Indian cricketer. He was a medium fast bowler and a hard hitting middle order batsman. Dev is widely regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders to play the game of cricket, he is also regarded as one of the greatest captains in the history of cricket. He was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002. Dev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He was India’s national cricket coach between October 1999 and August 2000. He retired in 1994, holding the world record for the greatest number of wickets taken in test Cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At the time, he was also India’s highest wicket-taker in both major forms of cricket, Test and ODIs. He is the first player to take 200 ODI wickets. He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5000 runs in Tests, making him one of the greatest all-rounders to have played the game. On 11 March, 2010, Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He is considered to be the Renaissance man in Indian cricket.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2018
- Give a precis of the following passage and add a suitable title: 40
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This is the answer to the question, what is the aim of education? Well, its aim is to know the first-rate in any subject that we study, with a view of achieving it as nearly as our powers allow. If we could fix this firmly in our minds, we should not stumble through a variety of lessons, lectures, and books like a drunk man, only partially aware where we are or what we are doing. We should cease to think that we go to school or college to pass examinations or to secure degrees or diplomas or to satisfy our teachers, though these may be and are incidental and limited objectives. We should have brought order into our education by realising its true aim and we should have deepened in our minds through practice the sense that a worthy purpose in life is the desire for excellence, the pursuit of the best, or the first-rate.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2010
- Write a precis of the following passage and add a suitable title: 40
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One day the other limbs of the body fell out with the belly. They said that each of them worked but the belly alone did nothing and lived on the fruit of their labour. They had their heads together and the hand said, ” From today I stop carrying food “. The leg said, ” I will no longer walk to get the food “. The mouth said, ” I won’t chew food to feed the idle belly “.
All the member struck work in order to teach the belly a good lesson. The belly was helpless and it kept silent. Every day, all the limbs began to grow thinner and weaker. The belly then said, “My friends, I worked for you all, but you did not feel it. When I stop you have to suffer.” The other members understood their mistake. They lost no time to become friendly with the belly as before. Again each of them began to work for the good of all, and soon they got back their usual health and happiness.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2009
- Give a precis within about 80 words and add a suitable title to it.
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The increasing ecological disturbances in the Himalayan region have forced veteran environmentalist —Mr. Sundarlal Bhaugana to rise up for the cause once again. Upset by the sorry state of affairs in the Himalayan region, Mr. Bahugana met President Pratibha Patil and the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and asked them to save the Himalayan region by formulating a comprehensive development policy. Bahugana said the Himalayan region is paying the price of unplanned development that is taking place all around which has aided to the woes of the people living in the area.
Once the hero of the Chipko Movement and a pioneer in opposing the construction of the Tehri Dam, Bahugana is concerned over the situation in the region and has agreed to lead the mission to save the Himalayas. “It is not alone an issue which is related to ecology and life of the people of Himalayan region but it is the question of the safety of the entire nation.” Mr. Bahugana said, adding that it would not be wise to put the mighty Himalayas at stake since they are guarding our national borders. ” the Govt. should take steps to work for the conservation of the Himalayas, rivers, forests and wildlife”, added Bahugana.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2007
- Make a precis of the following passage within about 80 words and a suitable title to it: 40
Modernity calls for a sceptical attitude not only towards what has come down from the past but also towards what appears attractive at a distance. It does not accept without question that what prevails must be preserved because it is and has been for generations a part of our own way of life. Nor does it accept without question the view that success somewhere is a guarantee of success in every society, including one’s own. It does not put a premium on the other ways of life over one’s own, but it recognizes that the ways of the past are also other ways of life, and not necessarily one’s own way. Modernity entails not just openness to innovation but also openness to the outside world. Every living tradition has, without exception, accommodated ingredients from other traditions. The present world allows this to be done openly and consciously to an unprecedented degree. But blind and thoughtless imitation is not an aid to modernization; it is an impediment to it. The pressures to catch up are continuous and relentless in our time. They often impel the leaders of society to act mechanically and thoughtlessly against its long-term interests. This is often the case with countries that are less advanced economically who immittance those that are more advanced without any consideration of their capacity to absorb or integrate what they borrow. Unless that which is borrowed is properly absorbed or grafted in that society, progress would be hindered.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2006
- Write a precis of the following in about eighty words (Use special sheets provided): 40
To be travelling through the middle of a city as great, historic, and forlorn as Istanbul, and yet to feel the freedom of the open sea-that is the thrill of a trip along the Bosphorus. Pushed along by its strong currents, invigorated by the sea air that bears no trace of the dirt, smoke and noise of the crowded city that surrounds it, the travelling begins to feel in spite of everything, this is still a place in which he can enjoy solitude and find freedom. This waterway that passes through the centre of the city is not to be confused with the canals of Amsterdam or Venice or the rivers that divide Paris and Rome in two : strong currents run through the Bosphorous its surface is always ruffled by wind and waves, and its wate are deep and dark. If you have the current behind you, if you are following the itinerary of a city ferry, you will see apartment buildings, old ladies watching you from balconies as they sip there tea, coffee houses perched on landing stations, children in their underwear entering the sea just where the sewers empty into it and sunning themselves on the concrete, people fishing from the shore, others lazing of their yachts, travellers gazing out to the sea through bus windows while stuck in traffic, tall apartment buildings looming in the background, and slowly, in the distance. Istanbul in all its confusion-mosques, poor quarters, bridges, minarets, rowers.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2005
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You know that for five hundred years my revered ancestors have lived in this age-old city of the Middle Kingdom, not one of the august ones was modern, nor did have a desire to change himself. They all lived in quietness and dignity, confident of their rectitude. Thus did my parents rear me in all the honoured traditions. I never dreamed I could wish to be different. Without thinking on the matter it seems to me that as I was, so were all those who were really people. If I hear faintly, as from the distance outside the court-yard walls, of women not like myself, women who came and went freely like men, I did not consider them. I went as I was taught, in the approved ways of my ancestors. Nothing from the outside ever touched me. I desired nothing. But now the day has come when I watch eagerly these strange creatures – these modern women – seeking how I may become like them. Not for my own sake, but for my husband’s.
He does not find me fair! It is because he has crossed the Four seas to the other and the other countries, and he has learned in those remote places to love new things and new ways.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2004
- Summarize the following passage. Do not use more than 90 words (use special sheets provided for the purpose): 40
More than seventy percent of our earth is covered with seas and oceans. It is a watery planet! A vast variety of fishes, from mantas to minnows, inhabit the seas. They naturally play a crucial role in man’s existence on land, both as food and as targets for exploitation by man for his industrial advance and for his leisure activities. It is in our interest therefore, to make special efforts to observe them in their natural habitat. While many wildlife lovers watch birds or ‘shoot’ jungle animals with a camera, few bother to observe fishes at first hand.
This is reflected in the paucity of books on Indian fishes. The few books we have are mostly serious tomes written in scientific jargon and are understood only as academics. To my mind, one of the best is that by Sir Francis Day, written as early as 1878, but still an excellent book for a detailed knowledge of Indian fishes. It was out of print for a long time and, though a reprint is now available, it is very expensive and is intended for the specialist rather than the lay reader.
The need for a book on Indian fishes, written for the lay person, has therefore been a long felt need.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2003
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The fact that men cannot have babies and suckle them nor remain in association with their children closely as the wife has an enormous by the differences in the hormonal secretions of the sexes, one can safely say that the mother-child relationship confers enormous benefits upon the mother which are not nearly so substantially operative in the necessary absence of such a relationship between father and child. The maternalizing influences of being a mother in addition to the fact of being a woman has from the very beginning of the human species about a million years ago made the female more human of the sexes. The love of a mother for the child is the basis patent and the model for all human relationship . Indeed, to the extent to which men approximate in their fellow men to the attachment independent one. The inter-stimulation between mother and child is something which the father misses it and to that extent suffers from the want of. In short, the female is more considerate, more cooperative and more artistic than usually falls to the lot of the male.
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2002
- Summarize the following passage. Do not use more than 90 words. 40
Have a look at a map of the ancient world, if you can find one. Some of the descriptions of the world and maps given by the old writers are amusing. In those maps the several countries assume extraordinary shapes. Maps of ancient times prepared now are much more helpful, and I hope you will consult them when reading about these times. A map helps greatly. Without it, we can have no real idea of history. Indeed, to learn history one should have as many maps and as many pictures as possible; pictures of old buildings, ruins, and such other remains of those times as have come down. These pictures fill up the dry skeleton of history and make it live for us. History, if we are to learn anything from it, must be a succession of vivid images in our minds, so that when we read it, we can almost see events happening. It should be a fascinating play which grips us, a comedy sometimes, more often a tragedy, of which the stage is the world, and the players are the great men and women of the past.