1424 - Compulsory English-II Past Paper 2020

 

1424
 Past Paper 

Question No 1:

Which is your favorite football league and why? Your answer must include (Raise For Success) the techniques of "comparison and contrast" given in the Unit-5 of your course-book?

Question No 2:

Write a summary of the above paragraph in your own words and give a (Raise For Success) suitable title to it. Explain the results of heavy traffic on roads while using the techniques of causes and effect relationship?

Question No 3:

How would you define modern "transportation" facilities? Write a paragraph (Raise For Success) using the techniques of classification as given in your course-book?

Question No 4:

Correct the following sentences:

• How long has you been living here?
• None of the (Raise For Success) students have arrived.
• They have been living in Karachi since the last four years.
• Now a days, the workers walked out daily for three hours for increase in their wages.
• Would he gives me his cell phone for a call?
• It was bitter cold.
• I could not help (Raise For Success) not laughing at the joke.
• I have not got no money.
• I never remember to have seen a more excited football match.
• This hardly won liberty was not to be lightly was not to be lightly abandoned.

Question No 5:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end:

Where are we in the COVID-19 vaccine race?

Drug makers and research centers around the world are working on COVID-19 (Raise For Success) vaccines, with global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway. As some companies close in on unveiling their initial findings, with Canadian and European regulators already reviewing early data (Raise For Success) on some vaccines this is what we know about the race to deliver vaccines to help end the corona virus pandemic that has claimed over a million lives so far. The companies are testing their vaccines through a number of ways including using it as a placebo in healthy volunteers to see the effectiveness of the proposed vaccine and compare its results with the dummy shot. Neither trial participants nor researchers will know who has a received the actual vaccine or placebo until the data is ready for review. This is going to be an interesting trial experiment with a lot of chances chances for the experts to come up with an effective treatment of the pandemic. (Raise For Success) On the other hand, the risk factors involved have challenged the developers to work really hard. The US Food and Drug Administration has said it will not approve a vaccine unless it is both effective and safe. On Tuesday, it added more stringent safety guidelines for US vaccines. The FDA wants developers to follow trial subjects for at least two months after receive their final vaccine dose to check for any side effects that may crop up.

• Relate the progress on COVID-19 vaccine in your own words.
• What is the real (Raise For Success) challenge now for the developers who are working on the vaccine?
• What does the author mean by these words: placebo, volunteers, stringent, challenge?
• Enlist the main (Raise For Success) points given by the author on the “vaccine race”?

Question No 6:

Write an essay on “a day in the life of a medical nurse” using transition words (Raise For Success) and sequence markers?

Question No 7:

Using the techniques given in Unit 1 of the course book, write a “narrative essay” (Raise For Success) of approximately 350 words on any one of the following topics:

Question No 8:

Write down both the connotative (Raise For Success) and denotative meaning of the following words:

• Tiger
• Smart
• Donkey
• Labor
• Clever
• Old
• Fresh
• Poor
• Child-play
• Coward

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