Federal Board Class English 2008

SECTION “A”

Q.1. (a) Pick the correct meaning from the options. (05)

i. Obligatoin = (Moral responsibility)
ii. Facilitate = (Make easier)
iii. Tyrannise = (To use authority cruelly)
iv. Fallow = (Uncultivated)
v. Resistance = Withstanding

Q.2. (b) Give one word substitute from the given options.

i. “A person authorize to speak and act for others”. (Spokesman)
ii. “Noticeable at once”. (Prominent)
iii. “The property that a woman brings to her husband at marriage”. (Endowment).
iv. “Making free from ignorance”. (Enlightenment)
v. “The person whom mail etc is to reach”. (Postman)

Q.1. (c) Choose the correct option.

i. Hazrat Ali (R.A) was gentle in behavior and ………….. (Brave)
ii. Mohammad Ali Jinnah never wasted any spare ………. (time)
iii. Kind words and kind ………. are a sure way of winning God’s grace. (Deed)
iv. The Chinese go to temples to ………. to their gods. (make offerings)
v. The water very slowly ……….. the lime stone. (dissolves)

SECTION “B”

Q.2. Answer any NINE of the following parts. (38)

i. For what did Hazrat Mohammad (SAW) admire Hazrat Khalid Bin Waleed? What title was given to him by Hazrat Mohammad (SAW)?

ii. What were Hamid’s remarks when he looked at the departmental store in liberty market?

iii. In what fields are women excelling now a days?

iv. What qualities does the discipline at sports field instill in our practical life?

v. Describe the composition of the family of bees.

vi. What is our religious obligation regarding environment?

vii. What was the father’s advice about honest earning?

viii. How do the Muslims celebrate Shab-e-Barat?

ix. What is the cultural value of handicrafts?

x. What did Hazrat Umer Bin Abdul Aziz say when the guests refused to eat saying that they were full?

xi. How were the girls waiting for barat dressed?

xii. What qualities of Quaid differentiate him from great personalities of the 20th century on the international political science?

Q.3. (a) Paraphrase ONE of the stanzas. (05)

i. Awake! Arise! The hour is late
Angles are knocking at the door!
They are in haste and cannot wait
And once departed come no more

ii. The waves beside them danced; but they outdid
The sparkling waves in glee
A poet could not but be gay;
In such a jocund company,
I gazed wealth the show to me had brought.

Q.3. (b) Read and answer the questions. (06)

When thou art feeble, old and grey
My healthy arm shall be thy stay
And will soothe thy pains away.
My mother

QUESTIONS

i. When would the mother need the help of her son?
ii. How could the mother feel?
iii. What important lesson do we learn form this poem.

Q.4. Translate ONE of the passages into URDU or re-write it in simple English: (10)

i. They should support the orphans, widows and prisoners or war with the wealth that Allah had made them guardians of the Muslims if they followed the model presented by the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and spent their wealth in doing good to the cause of humanity and Islam this land could progress and prosper well.

ii. For, when a ruler has learned to listen closely to the people’s heart, hearing their feelings uncommunicated, pains unexpressed and complaints not spoken of, only then he can hope to inspire confidence in his people. The demise of states comes when leaders listen only to superficial words and do not go deeply into the souls of the people.

Q.5. Read and answer the questions. (12)

My dear son, if the devil were to create doubts in your mind, let firm belief overpower him and silience his Whispers, and if he tempts you to be negligent in virtues defeat him by remembrance of the grave and the day of resurrection, if he tempts you towards joys of the world, or makes you afraid of the hardships of this life, say him; “one must inevitably leave this world (neither the luxuries nor the hardships of this life are everlasting)”.

QUESTIONS

i. Who could create doubts in one’s mind?
ii. How can the temptation of negligence in virtue be defeated.
iii. What would you say if the devil makes you afraid of the hardships of this life?
iv. How can you overpower the devil if he tries to create doubts in you mind?
v. Make one meaningful sentence with each of the underlined words.