ARUNACHAL PRADESH PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
GENERAL ENGLISH

Time-3 (Three) Hours Full Marks-100
Note:
a.
Answer the questions following the instructions strictly.

b.
Write legibly, concisely and in your own words as far as practicable.

c.
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate full marks for the questions.


Q.l. Write an Essay in 300 words on anyone ofthe following topics:
a.
Uses and Abuses of Mobile.

b.
Smoking Health Hazard.


Q.2. Write a letter consoling your friend who has lost his mother recently. OR
Write a letter of suggestion to the Chief Councillor of Itanagar Municipal Council to regulate and improve garbage disposal in the capital complex. ..
Q.3. Write a paragraph in 200 words on anyone of the following ideas.
a.
All that glitters is not Gold.

b.
Work is worship.


Write a precis of the following passage and suggest a suitable title to it.
One of the major problems we have to face today is that of unemployment. It is a big problems, a human problem, which we cannot ignore. Yet in looking at it, it has to be remembered that merely giving some kind of occupation to a large number of people does not ultimately increase employment or lessen unemployment. Employment comes from newer and more effective means of wealth production. The whole experience and history of the past two hundred years shows that it through the growth of technological methods. Do not imagine that we can effectively deal with the problem of unemployment without technological progress. We cannot. Every country which boasts of full employment today is a country which is technologically advanced. Every country which is not technologically advanced has unemployment or under employment. Therefore, if India is to advance, she must advance in science and technology. The fact is that our poverty is due to our backwardness in science and technology. If we remedy that backwardness we create not only wealth but also employment.
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Q.5. Correct the following and re-write. (any Five) Two-thirds of the work are finished.
b.
One of his bother is an lAS officer.

c.
He has no any friend.

d.
Do not make noise.

e.
He is senior than me by two years.

f.
Tell me who is he.


Q.6. Do as directed in the brackets. (any five) (2x5=10)
a.
The light out while I (have) tea. (supply the correct tense ofthe verbs)

b.
I (not see) you for more than a week. (supply the correct tense ofthe verbs)


c.
They took him for a madman. (Change the voice)

d.
She is a beautiful woman. (Express in an Exclamatory sentence)

e.
Everyone has sorrows in his life. (Make it an interrogative sentence)

f.
He said to me, "did you go to college yesterday?" (Express in Indirect speech)



Q.7. Make sentences using the following phrases/idioms. (Any five)
a.
Deal in

b.
Black and white.

c.
Abone of contention

d.
In cold blood

e.
For good

f.
Pass away



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