(Solved by Prof. Muzaffar Bokhari) Q No. 2: PRECIS Education and Morality The only protection for today’s man is to find the use of his intelligence in the service of love. Intelligence can become a means of morality and survival if its training includes human sympathy. Educators can add morality to intelligence. The task of teaching morality was entrusted to …

Culture has two aspects i.e. formal and ideological, the former being the expression of the latter. They together form a social structure, causing a change in the parent organism. Cultural problems are linked with social problems which can be solved only in the social context. Q1. Synonyms: 1. BRISTLE: Flare up 2. DELUGE: None of these 3. TIRADE: Angry speech …

What is a Precis? A Precis is the expression of a given passage in a condensed form. A precis has to be a shorter re-statement of the original. In the examination, the length of the precis is mentioned, and the precis should not exceed or fall short of the prescribed length by more than 5 words. In case the length …

The most common idioms we use in our daily life? Have/Keep your eye on somebody. To be carefully watching everything that someone does, especially because you do not trust them to do things properly. I have got my eye on you now, so you do as you’re told. Clap/Lay/Set eyes on somebody/something An expression meaning to see someone or something, …

Emotional problems and conflicts, especially depression and anxiety, are by far the most common causes of prolonged fatigue. Fatigue may represent a defence mechanism that prevents you from having to face the true cause of your depression, such as the fact that you hate your job. It is your body’s safety valve for expressing repressed emotional conflicts, such as feelings …

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF POPULATION IN A SOCIETY Ignoring population question is a deplorable symptom of lack of honesty in sociology. Obviously in the absence of natural checks, state alone can check the growth of population. As an increase in population affects the standard of living, the sensible rich will practise birth-control whereas the foolish and immoral poor continue increasing burden …

Here is a very familiar vocabulary test. It is the first question in the CSS comprehension paper. Directions: In each of the following sentences one word has been italicised. Under each sentence four alternative words, marked a-d, are given. Select from these alternatives, the word which conveys more or less same meaning as the italicised word in the sentence. Answers …

Comprehension of a passage is generally difficult for most candidates because the topics are varied. They may be about medicine, science and technology, religion or philosophy. Some of the subjects discussed may not be familiar to you. Here speed as well as understanding of the contents of the given passage is of the essence because in every competitive examination, several …

1- PLAY A TRICK Someone has played a trick on him. (i.e. deceived him or gave  him a surprise.) 2- PLAY THE INNOCENT The accused tried to play the innocent in the court. (i.e. tried to pretend to be innocent.) 3- PLAY DEAF I complained about his son but he played deaf. (i.e. pretended not to hear anything.) 4- PLAY …

English is one of the richest languages of the world, and its richness arises from the fact that it has freely borrowed words and phrases from other languages, both European and non-European, and has absorbed and naturalised them. Here is a list of such foreign words and phrases as have passed into everyday speech and writing. However, the students are …