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Do you want 100% Marks with less
effort? Then prepare the YSA Guess. Especially
designed for Karachi Board of Secondary Education (New
Pattern).
GUESS
PAPER X ENGLISH
NEW
PATTERN
Q.1. Write an essay of 150 to 200 words
on any ONE of the following:
i.Importance of Discipline in Life
ii. War against Terrorism
iii. Unity is Strength
iv. Importance of Computer
v. The Annual Function at your School
vi. Importance of Games and Sports
vii. Wonders of Science or Blessings of
Science
viii. Traffic Hazards in Karachi
‘’’OR’’’ The Problems of the City Where I Live
ix. My Favourite Personality
x. Environmental Pollution
xi. A Picnic
xii. A Road Side Accident.
Q.2. Applications
i.Write an application to your
Headmaster / Headmistress requesting him / her to allow your
class to visit any place of interest.
ii. Write an application to your
Headmaster / Headmistress of your school requesting him /
her to grant you leave for five days to attend your
brother’s / sister’s marriage.
iii. Write an application to the
Executive District Officer Education, City District
Government Karachi for the post of a teacher.
iv. Write an application to your
Headmaster / Headmistress requesting him / her to issue you
a _______ Certificate.
OR
Letters:
i.Write a letter to your father seeking
his permission to go on a picnic arranged by your school.
ii. Write a letter to your friend
inviting him to spend a few days with you during the coming
summer vacations.
iii. Write a letter to the Nazim of your
area complaining of the insanitary condition in your area
and the negligence of the staff responsible for the job.
iv. Write a letter to the editor of a
newspaper about the frequent power failure / shortage of
water / insanitary condition / reckless driving / need of
Park or Library.
OR
i.Write a dialogue between two friends
on the importance of English in the modern world.
ii. Write a dialogue between two friends
on the merits and demerits of Computer Studies.
iii. Write a dialogue between father and
his son / daughter about the preparation for the annual
examination.
Q.3. Do as Directed: (It consists of 15 questions related to
English Grammar).
Q.4 (a). Answer any SIX of the following
in two or three sentences each.
(i). What are the different modes of
fishing?
OR
Why do the people of the East has very
high regard for the teachers?
OR
What steps have been taken by the
Government to improve and modernize Fish Industry?
OR
What does the word “Akhund” means?
How does a teacher fulfil God’s Command?
(ii). What was the reaction of the horse when the rich man
touched it?
OR
What was the Caliph Haroon-ur-Rashid
know about the difficulties of his people?
OR
How did the Caliph find out the real
owner of the horse?
(iii). What is the difference between the old and modern
methods of farming?
OR
What was the name of the machine working
on the agricultural farm? What does a thresher do?
OR
Why is there a difference in the output
of an ordinary farm and a modern farm?
(iv). What is meant by dignity of work? How did our Holy
Prophet (S.A.W) set the examples of dignity of work?
OR
What are the Chief Exports of Nigeria?
OR
What are food crops and cash crops of
Nigeria?
OR
Describe the hut of an African Village.
OR
Where do the most Nigerian farmers live
and what are their areas made up of?
OR
What is made from cocoa beans?
(v). How did the Muslim rulers set the examples of dignity
or work?
OR
How did King Faisal develop his country?
What was his desire?
OR
How did the companions of the Holy
Prophet (S.A.W) set the examples of dignity of labour?
OR
What did King Faisal do for the
education of his people?
OR
What were the feelings of King Faisal
about Pakistan?
(vi). How did the juggler and the conjurer entertain the
people at the village fair?
OR
What sort of benefits did the Village
people get from the village fair?
OR
What were the different entertainments
for children in the village fair?
OR
What is Tent-Pegging?
OR
What did moazzam do when Azam was
milking the cow?
OR
How did Azam give up cheating moazzam?
OR
How idi Azam cheat his brother moazzam?
OR
How was the property divided between the
two brothers?
(vii). What menu and games did Shahnaz prepare for the
party?
OR
Describe the process of mending a
puncture at a bicycle repair shop?
OR
What is “Parcel Game”? How is it
played?
OR
What does a puncture mending kit
contain?
OR
When is a bicycle ride a joy? When does
this joy vanish?
OR
What points must be kept in mind while
making a summary?
(viii). What is the Khyber Pass? And hong is it.
OR
What is the historical importance of
Khyber Pass?
OR
What is the difference between beaf and
mutton?
(ix). How old is the civilization of the valley of Mehran?
What are the famous crafts of this valley?
OR
What are the various customs of the
valley of mehran?
OR
What are the famous crafts of Sindh?
Q.4 (b). Answer any FOUR of the following in two or three
sentences each.
(i). What message does the poet give in
his poem “The Voice of God”?
OR
What does the poet want us to do?
OR
Why did the poet climb the steeple?
OR
What is the central idea of the poem
“The Voice of God”
OR
What did God advice the poet?
(ii). What can make a nation strong?
OR
What kind of men can lift their country
to sky?
OR
Who wrote the poem “A Nation’s
Strength”. What makes a nation strong and respectable?
OR
Who wrote the poem “Little things”?
What makes our world an Eden?
OR
What is behind the poem “Little
things”?
OR
What is the importance of Little things?
(iii). Why should we speak gently to all?
OR
What message does the poet give in the
poem “Speak Gently”?
OR
What does “anonymous” mean? Why
should we speak gently to the aged people?
OR
What is the message of the poem “The
Man who Wins”.
(iv). How can we say that the credit of all great
achievements is due to the mother?
OR
Whom does the poetess praise in the poem
“Beautiful Hands”?
OR
Why does the poet compare mother’s
hands to a rainbow? Which hands rule the world?
(v). What does the poet see from the railing carriage?
OR
What do you know about the sights and
scenes witnessed by the poet “From the Railway
Carriage”?
OR
What lesson did King Bruce learn from
the Spider?
OR
Why did King Bruce decide not to give up
his struggle?
OR
Who was Robert Bruce? Why was he so sad?
(vi). What qualities did the boy in Casabianca posses?
OR
What lesson do we learn from the poem
“Casabiance”?
OR
Why did the minstrel boy destroy his
harp?
OR
What future does the poet promise us in
the poem “There’s a Good Time Coming”.
Q.5. Fill in the blanks of any FIVE of the following
choosing the correct answer for each from the brackets.
NOTE SIX objectives with multiple choice
are given from English Text Book-II.
Q.6. Use any THREE of the following structures in sentences
of your own.
Day in day out, to break the ice, to put
into practise, a narrow escape, to cry over, spilt milk,
with open arms, to shed crocodile tears, to wind up, with a
high hand, far and wide, by fits and starts, in black and
white, to make both ends meet, with heart and soul, to look
for, to get rid of, to nip in the bud.
Q.8. Read the following passage and answer the questions
given below:
Arabia is mostly a desert, so that it is
impossible to walk over it bare-footed during the day.
Occasionally, however one comes across a fertile patch, an
oasis, with deep spring, tall graceful, shadowy big and palm
trees on its banks and green grass growing all around it.
The Arabs are nomads. They live in portable tents and eat
figs and dates. They also preserve dates. Arabian horses are
the best in the world. The Arabs deeply lover their horses
and never treat them as beasts of burden. Infact it is the
camel, rightly called the ship of the desert that is used to
carry goods.
i. Describe on Oasis
ii. What does the diet of the Arabs
chiefly consist of?
iii. How are the horsed treated in
Arabia?
iv. How do the Arabs transport their
goods?
v. Give the other degrees of adjective
“bad” and “clever”.
Q.9. Make the Precise of the following
passage.
All the people must realize that it is
our moral duty to provide a suitable environment to the
child. It should have a chance to live a decent life with
good education, good upbringing and a sense of being loved.
It is not fair to throw it into the sea of unwanted,
uneducated, miserable and hungry humanity. This is what
happens in an over-populated country where the mouths to be
fed outnumber the resources available in it. That is why it
is said that a child is beautiful but over population is
ugly.
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