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NOTE: Attempt all questions.

Q1. A) Mohabat khan mosque is the true peshwaries favourite sight. This sentence has been taken from

The way of the Pathans. Describe the life picture of Peshawar as narrated by JS Spain.

OR

B) They took him up in a supersonic jetfor a parachute drop. He asked what am I to do this tiem.

Narrate the training given to Yuri Gagarin. (Marks 15)

Q2. Develop the following points into a well organized, coherent essay of about 500 words on The standard

of health in Pakistan.

a) There are not enough hospitals for the size of the population.

b) Hospitals and clinics are usually found in towns and cities. People living in villages have great

difficulties in going to their hospitals and clinics.

c) Most of the Doctors do not want to serve in the rural health centers.

d) Specialists practices in big cities: their treatment is expensive and only the rich can benefit.

e) Many people do not have a well balance diet containing those proteins and vitamins necessary for good

health.

f) There are still no known cures for many diseases.

g) Some are frightened to go to hospitals when ill.

h) Many people go to local doctors and Hakims having little knowledge of medicine.

i) Hospitals are frequently short of doctors, trained nurses, medicines and apparatus.

Q3. Read the following passage from Two wheels over nine Glaciers and answer the questions given at the

end of the passage. Your answer MUST be in your own words. (15 Marks)

At this point I stopped to consider what I should do. To follow the track approximately would be much

less exhausting than to take short cut, but it might be much more dangerous for someone ignorant of the

idiosyncracies of glaciers. So,I decided to drag hoz up the direct route, not suspecting that what look like

twenty minute climb would take almost two hours.

By now clouds were dark and close, and a sharp wind sent gusts of snow flakes whisling around me at

intervals. I reveled in this and went bare- headed, enjoying the keenness of the air. High peaks

surrounded me, cutting cutting off the valley below, and it was a rare joy to move alone among them

with the chaotic symphony of re-echoing thunder as background music.

I was now higher than I had ever been before and when I stopped at six minute intervals to regain breath

my heart beats rounded as loud as the thunder. This suffocating sensations frightened my until I realized

that the illusory feeling of repeatedly coming to the point of death was simply the mountains way of

teasing novices. By the time I was half way up the ponies wisdom seemed open to doubttheir trial

crossed many outcrops of rock and every time I lifted roz over one of these barriers I collapsed with

Subject : English - Compulsory (Paper B)

Time Allowed: 03 hours

Examination: Final, Annual 2013

Total Marks: 75

Sarhad University, Peshawar (Distance Education)

Name: _________________________________________, Roll No. __________________

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exhaustions. In places the snow was so soft that I rank into it up to the knees. Elsewhere it was so hard

that even the ponies hoofs had made little impression and I kept upright only by driving my specially

nailed into it at each stepa process which still further exhausted me. After about an hour and half of

this struggle I was at the peculiar stage when one doesnt really believe that ones objective will ever be

reached, and ones only mental awareness concern the joy(to some incomprehensible, if not downright

unnatural) of driving ones body far beyond the limits of its natural endurance. Then having dragged

Roz up another savage gradient, and over yet another litter of boulders, we suddenly found ourselves on

a level plateau, about quarter of a mile square. Sitting where I had subsided beyond the rocks and still

clutching Roz, I slowly assimilated the unlikely fact that we were on Babusar top.

1. What does the writer refer to by the idiosyndacies of the glaciers?

2. What was the weather like and what was its effect on writer?

3. What did the writer feel on the high altitudes?

4. What did she say about snow?

5. What is a trail? What are the features of a trail the writer is travelling along? Where does it lead?

Q4. Summarize the following passage in your own words to about one third of its original length. No credit

shall be given for mere reproduction from the passage. (Marks 10)

Two spirits are always in conflict in human affairs: one striving for freedom, breaking out into new

expressions, finding new channels, the other trying to establish exact bounds, formalizing, crystallizing.

We find then in art and literature as a romantic and classic movements. In political life they are

respectively revolutionary and conservative; in the church, reformatory against authoritarian .Bothe are

necessary. The one breaks new ground: the other first opposes the movement, and then accepting it or

much of it, eventually establishes the new boundaries and again marks them with rigid lines; thus far and

no further.

Because of this process the work of almost all the great reformers and revolutionaries becomes, in due

course, itself hidebound and opposed to some ultimate attempt to reform it. Then , too, there is a

tendency for things to slip back in to the old ways, so that the work of many reformers has been to try to

get back some earlier spirit or ideal. All this is true of mankind all over the world, in the East as in the

West; and in the age long history of China Confucianism has been a conservative and stabilizing

element. Bun when first Kung-fu-tzu (whose latinised name become confucious to the western world)

taught his doctrines in the sixth and fifth centuries BC it was as one of those reformers who urged

people to get back to an almost forgotten Golden age of the emperor Yao and Than when according to

legend, government, social habits, religion and morality were firm and established. His time were those

same days of civil wars and feudal strife which drove Lao-Tse to advocate that every man should find

peace within himself and in the ordered ways of nature. Born half a century after the old philosopher,

and therefore being a young man when Lao-Tse was already old, Confucius sought the salvation of the

china in another direction. Let us he said make a good state with an ordered government and laws, let us

all firmly obey these laws and those in authority over us.the emperor in the society, the father in the

familylet us draw up careful rules of conduct, private and public. So will every man be enabled to live

happy, secure and good life?

Q5. Explain in your own words the contextual meaning of any Ten of the underlined words or phrases in the

above passage. ( 10 Marks)