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ENGLISH COMPOSITION 2003
Time : 3 Hours                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Maximum Marks : 150

Note : Write an essay is about 2000 words on any one of the following topics:-

Q.1  Write an essay in about 2000 words on any one of the following topics :-
(a)  The President of India has given a dream to out people to make India a developed country by 2020.  Discuss four key areas on which out policy makers must focus to achieve this goal.
(b)  9/11  (September 11, 2001)  globalised terrorism and no country is beyond its threat.  Do you think it is time for a new International peace Charter to be adopted or can the United Nations still meet this new challenge ? Discuss  this in the light of the U.N. Charter.
(c)  India and China started the developmental process almost together but today China is far ahead of India.  Why?
(d)  Is adoption of Common Civil Code as visualized in the constitution essential to make India a truly modern State?

Q.2.  Given below are five pairs of words similar in sound/spelling or almost synonymous.  Make sentences using each word so as to clearly being out the difference in their meanings.
(a)  Apposite
Opposite
(b)   Envelop
Envelope
(c)   Proscribe
Prescribe
(d)   Prosecute
Persecute
(e)   Rein
Reign

Q.3  Give one-word meaning of the following sentences :-
(a)  A written statement made on oath before a Magistrate.
(b)  Social and political disorder caused by lawlessness and lack of government.
(c)  A person who claims to foretell the supposed influence of stars and planets on the life on an individual. 
(d)  Marrying two wives or having two husbands at the same time.
(e)  A Collective name given to public servants and officers to the government.

Q.4.  Make sentences using the following idioms and phrase so as to clearly bring out their meanings.
(a)  All moonshine
(b)  Dead language
(c)  Tax one's patience
(d)  Throw out of gear
(e)  Take the bull by the horns

Q.5.  Condense the following in your own words(not exceeding 95) and also suggest a suitable title :-
Realizing these limits of reason and the scientific method, we have still to hold on to them with all our strength, for without that firm basis and background, we can have no kind of grip on any kind of truth or reality.  It is better to understand a part of truth or apply it to out lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.  The applications of science are inevitable and unavoidable for all countries and peoples today.  But something more than its application is necessary.  It is the scientific approach, the adventurous and yet critical temple of science, the search for truth and new knowledge, the refusal to accept anything without testing and trial, the capacity to change previous conclusions in the face of new evidence, all this is necessary, not merely for the application of science but for life itself and the solution of its many problems.  To many scientists today, who swear by science, forget all about it outside their particular spheres.  The scientific approach and temper are of acting and associating with out fellow men.  That is a large order and undoubtedly very few of us, if any at all, can function in this way with even partial success.  But this criticism applies in equal or even in great measure to all the injunctions which philosophy and religion had laid upon us.  The scientific temper points out the way along which the man should travel.  It is the temper of free men.  We live in a scientific age, so we are told, but there is no evidence of this temper in the people anywhere, even in their leaders.