6.

YEAR 2006 (GROUP II)

Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the
end in your own words.
Great progress has been made by America in the field of mechanization. It
is spending lavishly on labour-saving machines. Efficient organization of
highly mechanized system has resulted in maximum productivity in America.
With mass production, the amenities of life are available to almost every
citizen. On the contrary Europe subordinates the use of machines to human
happiness and welfare. It encourages man's reliance on his own faculties and
realizes the dangers inherent in the American scheme. However great the
advantages of mechanization, it crushes the creative faculty of man and
makes a machine out of him. His individual liberty and personality suffer on
irretrievable loss. In his moments of leisure the worker finds it difficult to turn
his hands to creative work, because the machine-made goods do not inspire
him in the direction of refinement. These goods also lose their fascination
because mass production has given a setback to the individuality of the
articles produced. The Europeans, therefore, contend that it is better to
sacrifice a few material comforts than crush the aesthetic and spiritual urge
in the individual which large-scale mechanization is doing in America.
Questions:
(i)
Suggest
a
suitable
title
for
the
passage.
(ii) What is the result of progress in the field of mechanization in America?
(iii)
How
has
it
affected
the
citizens?
(iv)
What
is
the
case
in
Europe?
(v)
Why
do
Europeans
sacrifice
a
few
material
comforts?
(vi) Make a summary of the passage.
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7. YEAR 2007 (GROUP I)

Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the
end. The answers must be in your own words.
Pakistanis are sometimes treated as suspects as they enter Saudi Arabia.
They procedures for search and investigation are aggressive, and naturally,
time-consuming may be a humiliating experience for a self-respecting
Pakistani. Lately, another trend is developing which can hurt as still more as
injury is being added to insult. Quite a few Saudis are now unwilling to
employ Pakistanis as they used to do in the Seventies. One main reason
cited is the incidence of drug-trafficking (business) through expatriate
Pakistanis who, at times, collaborate with drug-traffickers. Thus, the channel
of employment of our labour in Saudi Arabia is drying up, partly owing to our
failing as a people.
Pakistan is a victim as drugs produced in Afghanistan pass through our
territory. It cannot be denied that drugs are produced in Pakistan, but the
Government is trying to curtail their production. However, with an estimated

indigenous (native) population of just over three million addicts the local
production of drugs does not appear enough to meet the home demand.
Thus, having started as a producer of heroine in 1979, thanks to the transfer
of such technology by a western adventurer, it is now the major consumer.
However, in the western countries, the treatment meted out to Pakistani
nationals is humiliating.
Questions: