CSS Solved Idioms 2001
Q: Use any FIVE of the following idioms in sentences to make their meaning clear:
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CSS Solved Idioms 2000
Q: Use any FIVE of the following idioms in sentences to make their meaning clear:
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CSS Solved Passage 2012
Q: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Use your own language.
Human Beings feel afraid of death just as children feel afraid of darkness; and just as children’s fear of darkness is increased by the stories which they have heard about ghosts and thieves, human beings’ fear of death is increased by the stories which they have heard about the agony of the dying man. If a human being regards death as a kind of punishment for the sins he has committed and if he looks upon death as a means of making an entry into another world, he is certainly taking a religious and sacred view of death. But if a human being looks upon death as a law of nature and then feels afraid of it, his attitude is one of cowardice. However, even in religious meditation about death there is something a mixture of folly and superstition. Monks have written books in which they have described the painful experience which they underwent by inflicting physical tortures upon themselves as a form of self-purification. Such books may lead one to think that, if the pain of even a finger being squeezed or pressed is unbearable, the pains of death must be indescribably agonizing. Such books thus increase a Man’s fear of death.
Seneca, a Roman Philosopher, expressed the view that the circumstances and ceremonies of death frighten people more than death itself would do. A dying man is heard uttering groans; his body is seen undergoing convulsions; his face appears to be absolutely bloodless and pale; at his death his friends begin to weep and his relations put on mourning clothes; various rituals are performed. All these facts make death appear more horrible than it would be otherwise.
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1. What is the difference between human beings’ fear of death and children’s fear of darkness?
A: The difference between human’s fear of death and children’s fear of darkness is due to the difference in their stories they hear. Children read and listen the stories of ghosts and thieves. Therefore, they fear from darkness. On the other hand, human beings read and listen the stories about death and life after death. Thus, they fear from death.
2. What is a religious and sacred view of death?
A: The religious and sacred view of death is that death is merely change from one world to another.
3. What are the painful experiences described by the Monks in their books?
A: The painful experiences described by the Monks in their books are the physical violence on oneself in order to achieve self-purification. These stories increase the fear of death.
4. What are the views of Seneca about death?
A: The views of Seneca about death are rituals and the atmosphere at the time of death. According to Seneca, these rituals increase the fear of death in human more than the death itself.
5. What are the facts that make death appear more horrible than it would be otherwise?
A: The appearances of dying man, the crying of friends and family, and the rituals and ceremonies are the facts that make death more horrible than it would be otherwise.
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CSS Solved Translation 2019
Q: Translate the following into English by keeping in view figurative/idiomatic expressions.
پاکستان، افغانستان میں امن کے لیے پر عزم ہے کیونکہ افغانستان میں امن، پاکستان کے لیے انتہائی اہم ہے۔ تاریخی تناظر میں دیکھا جائے تو پاکستان اور افغانستان پڑوسی برادر اسلامی ملک ہونے کے ناتے تاریخی، ثقافتی، لسانی رشتوں میں جڑے ہوئے ہیں۔ یہ رشتے اٹوٹ ہیں، دونوں کا انحصار ایک دوسرے پر ہے اور دونوں الگ الگ رہ بھی نہیں سکتے۔ پاکستان کا موقف روز اول سے یہی رہا ہے کہ افغان مسئلے کا سیاسی حل نکالا جائے۔ اس موقف کی حمایت چین بھی کرتا ہے۔ اس ضمن میں چین نے کہا ہے کہ افغان تنازع کا افغان قیادت میں ہونے والے امن مذاکرات سے ہی حل ممکن ہے۔ پاکستان اور چین اسٹریجک شراکت داری کے لیے افغان تنازع کو مذاکرات کے ذریعے حل کرنے میں اپنا کردار ادا کریں گے۔
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Precis Writing – Rules, Tips, and Questions
Precis Writing is a part of the descriptive paper conducted for various competitive and Government exams under the English Language section.
In this article, we shall discuss at length about what is precis writing, the important points that need to be kept in mind while writing a precis, the Dos and Don’ts, followed by some sample precis writing examples and questions.
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Full Length Essay on Real Development should transform people’s lives, not just economic statistics
I. Introduction
Real development is people-centric development and economic indicators are mere numbers.
II. How can the term 'Real Development' be conceptualized?
III. What are economic indicators of development?
- GDP
- Foreign Exchange Reserves
- Stock Market Index
- National Debt
CSS Solved Precis 2019
Q. 2. Write a précis of the following passage and also suggest a suitable title:
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company. If you have the sort of liking for children that many people have for horses or dogs, they will be apt to respond to your suggestions, and to accept prohibitions, perhaps with some good-humoured grumbling, but without resentment. It is no use to have the sort of liking that consists in regarding them as a field for valuable social endeavour, or what amounts to the same thing as an outlet for power-impulses. No child will be grateful for an interest in him that springs from the thought that he will have a vote to be secured for your party or a body to be sacrificed to king and country. The desirable sort of interest is that which consists in spontaneous pleasure in the presence of children, without any ulterior purpose. Teachers who have this quality will seldom need to interfere with children’s freedom, but will be able to do so, when necessary, without causing psychological damage.
Unfortunately, it is utterly impossible for over-worked teachers to preserve an instinctive liking for children; they are bound to come to feel towards them as the proverbial confectioner’s apprentice does towards macaroons. I do not think that education ought to be anyone’s whole profession: it should be undertaken for at most two hours a day by people whose remaining hours are spent away from children. The society of the young is fatiguing, especially when strict discipline is avoided. Fatigue, in the end, produces irritation, which is likely to express itself somehow, whatever theories the harassed teacher may have taught himself or herself to believe. The necessary friendliness cannot be preserved by self-control alone. But where it exists, it should be unnecessary to have rules in advance as to how “naughty” children are to be treated, since impulse is likely to lead to the right decision, and almost any decision will be right if the child feels that you like him. No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
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