PMS English Precis & Composition Past Paper 2023 PDF

PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2023

For Recruitment to the Posts of Provincial Management Service (PMS)

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SUBJECT: English Precis and Composition (COMPULSORY)

Time Allowed: 3 Hours

Q1. Write a paragraph of 200 words on any one of the following topics:

1. Neocolonialism

2. Ethics and Journalism

3. Consequences of Rural Migration to Cities

4. A critical analysis of judicial system of Pakistan

Q2. Use any Ten of the following idiomatic expressions in your own words.

i. Get your act together
ii. Scrape the barrel
iii. Cut corners
iv. Lose your marbles
v. Bite the bullet
vi. On the ball
vii. Take a rain check
viii. To get bent out of shape
ix. Keep up appearances.
x. To fly in the face of
xi. Comparing apples to oranges
xii. The salt of the earth

Q3. Write a letter to the Inspector General Police about the discriminatingly attitude of the police towards the citizens. OR

Write an application to the General Manager, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) about the installation of gas in your colony.

Q4. Write the antonyms of the following words:

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• Astigmatism

• Centrifugal

• Diurnal

• Exhaustible

• Gluttonous

Q5. Change the narration of any Five of the following sentences.

1. My father often told me, “Every obstacle is a stepping stone to success.”

2. All said, “I must go to Lahore next week to visit my ailing mother.”

3. “Hurrah”! said the captain of the team, “We won the match.”

4. He said to me, “Do you know the fact?”

5. “Could you ever afford to displease your parents?” said I to my friend.

6. The teacher pointed, “Here in this mausoleum lay buried the king.”

7. He reminded me, “When the cat is away the mice will play.”

8. The king said, “You have made me feel happy with your sweet music although I have never felt so much happy before.”

Q6. Change the voice of any FIVE of the following sentences:

1. Do not pay him anything.

2. They will have caught the thief

3. Lock the door

4. I shall prove her innocence

5. I had rung the bell

6. I bought two books.

7. He issued three tickets to them.

Q7. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions

1. He insisted seeing the documents.

2. She made a point in coming late so that everyone would look

3. How al e you getting at school?

4. In spite of the heat he refused to take his coat.

5. He is unreliable do not count his help.

6. He is interested history.

7. He began explaining the wonders of the brain and its ability to conjure subconscious fairy tales.

8. In other words, 1,300 people were jostling every single position.

9. They looked back upon his pusillanimity awe.

10. After all, everyone assumes that people hanker happiness and pleasure.

Q8. Make a precis of the following passage and suggest a suitable title.

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What the future of oratory in general will be it is impossible to forecast. The English word ‘orator’ seems to have fallen on evil days. It is rarely used without a slightly derisory accent as when men say with curious emphasis, ‘I am no orator as Brutus is’. The orators of ancient times felt themselves to be engaged on a task of the highest worth and value. They were ‘shaping works for all the future’ and “offering themselves to be examined by all-testing Envy and Time”, as one of the ancient writers said when defending and praising the scrupulous care taken by Demosthenes. Today, the care and attention given to the art of public speaking has sensibly declined. Sir Winston Churchill was, in many respects, a survivor from the golden age of oratory. No doubt it could be said of him as was said of the great orator of ancient times, ‘he adopts no thought, no word at random, but takes much care of both the arrangement of his ideas and the graciousness of his language”. English oratory is adorned with many famous names and among them Churchill stands extraordinarily high. For more than fifty years he has expressed himself on great national and international matters, and the volumes of his speeches are a history in themselves. Many of his speeches will live as examples of human speech at its highest and best, and they will be woven into the fabric of our own history and the history of the world.

Q9. Translate the following passage into English.

اس کرہ ارض پر زندگی کو تباہی بربادی اور غیر فطری اور غیر طبعی موت سے بچانے کے لیے بقائے باہمی کے اصولوں کی پابندی ایسی ناگزیر ہے کہ انسان تو انسان حیوان بھی اس کا شعور رکھتے ہیں ہیں جنگلی حیات کا معمولی مشاہدہ کرنے والوں کو یہ بھی علم ہے کہ مختلف انواع کے جانور باہم مل کر رہتے ہیں۔ چارے پانی کی تلاش میں اجتماعی سفر کرتے ہیں سینکڑوں ہزاروں کی تعداد میں  اکٹھے رہتے ہیں اپنی خوراک کے حصول کی جدوجہد میں ایک دوسرے کو فنا کر دینے کی کوشش بھی نہیں کرتے ۔ درندے اگر چرندوں کو  چیر پھاڑ کر کھا جاتے ہیں تو اس لیے کہ وہ اگر ایسا نہ کریں تو ان کی بقا خطرے میں پڑ جائے گی تاہم  ان کی چیڑ پھاڑ وہاں ختم ہو جاتی ہے جہاں ان کی بھوک مٹ جاتی ہے۔ درندوں کے برعکس انسان ہیں کہ ان کی بھوک ان کی زندگی میں کبھی مٹتی نظر نہیں آتی ان کا پیٹ جیتے  جی ممکن حد تک سب ہڑپ کر لینے کے باوجود  نہیں بھرتا تو قبر کی مٹی سے بھرتا ہے۔ تاہم تاریخ کے مطالعے سے یہ بھی معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ کبھی کوئی دور ایسا نہیں رہا جو انسانوں میں باہمی محبت کے جوت جگانے والوں کی جدو جہد سے خالی رہا ہو۔