Guess English Inter Part 2
Book-2, Part-1
1.The Dying Sun
1) How is it that a star seldom finds another star near it?
2) What happened when, according to Sir James Jeans, a wandering star, wandering through the space, came near the sun?
3) Why is there no life on stars?
4) Why is the universe frightening?
2. Using the Scientific Method
1) How has the scientific method helped us in our fight against diseases?
2) How has the scientific method helped us in the production and preservation of foods?
3) We are generally less fearful than our ancestors. What were our ancestors afraid of? OR How are we better than our ancestors?
4) How has the scientific method enabled us to get over the fears or superstitions?
3. Why boys fail in college
1) How does a mistaken ambition on the part of the boys and their parents lead to the failure of the boys? OR What do you mean by, “A mistaken ambition”? What is the effect of parents’ mistaken ambition on their children?
2) How does financial pressure lead to failure of students described in the lesson? How can the financial problems be solved?
3) What place would you accord to the sportsmen in college?
4) There are some boys who join college for the fun of it. Should they be allowed to stay? OR Who are lazy bluffers? What should be done with lazy bluffers?
4. End of Term
1) What was the writer’s attitude towards the weekend? Why did he long for it? OR What was the writer’s general view of the school life?
2) The writer liked holidays for their freedom – freedom of what?
3) How did he spend his summer holidays? OR For what did the writer wait anxiously and why?
4) “Wishes don’t come true in this life.” What are the things he longed for but could not have?
5) What did he do with his pocket money?
5. On Destroying Books
1) Why should bad books be destroyed?
2) Why is it difficult to destroy books?
3) Why could not the writer burn the unwanted books?
4) How did the writer muster up courage at last to throw the books into the river?
6. The Man Who was a hospital
1) What was the disease he discovered he didn’t have? OR Was he pleased to find he didn’t have House maid’s knee? OR What was his first reaction?
2) Why should he be an acquisition to the medical class?
3) He thought he was doing the good turn by going to him. Why?
7. My Financial Career
1) What light do the following expressions throw on Leacock’s state of mind when he entered the bank, “Looked timidly”, “Shambled in”?
2) Why did the manager come to think that Leacock had an awful secret to reveal?
3) What was attitude of the manager towards the writer on learning that he only wished to deposit 56 dollars?
4) After misadventure in the bank where did Leacock keep his money?
8. China’s Way to Progress
1) How does China rely on its own resources?
2) Describe a day in the life of a Chinese student? OR How does Je Sui, a Chinese girl student, spend her way?
3) What are the social security benefits provided to the Chinese workers?
4) “It is the people and not the things that are decisive.” Discuss.
9. Hunger and Population Explosion
1) What does the writer mean hunger mean on large scale as viewed by the writer?
2) How do famines occur?
3) What is the main reason for increase in population today? OR What have public health measures to do with increase in population?
4) What is meant by birth rate and death rate and how do they affect the population of a country?
10. The Jewel of the World
1) How did Abd-al-Rehman-I deal with the Governor appointed by the Abbasid Caliph to contest his rule?
2) What did Abbasid caliph say on receiving the head of hid governor?
3) What did Abd-al-Rehman-I do to make himself strong and to beautify his capital? OR How did Abd-al-Rehman gather his army?
4) What did Al-Hakam do to promote learning and scholarship in his kingdom? OR Who was Al-Hakam?
Prose: Book-2, Part-2:
1.First Year at Harrow
1) What sorts of questions are asked by your examiners?
2) Why didn’t Churchill do well in the examination?
3) How did he (Churchill) do his Latin Paper?
4) What good did his three years’ stay at Harrow do him?
5) In after years how did the knowledge of English stand him in good stead?
2. Hitch-Hiking Across the Sahara
1) Give an idea of the size of the Sahara. How does it compare with England?
2) What had Christopher’s foster mother to do with his desire to see distant places? OR Why did Christopher undertake the expedition to cross the Sahara?
3) What was the most noticeable feature of the desert city, named Ghardaia? OR What were Christopher’s impressions about the town of Ghardaia? OR How did children look in Ghardaia?
4) What did the driver of the truck tell Christopher about three Englishman who had attempted to cross the desert?
5) Give an account of the little town named El-Golea and compare it with In-Salah, bringing the difference between the two.
3. Alexander Fleming
1) What are antiseptics and what is the antiseptic method?
2) What was the chief defect of antiseptic method?
3) What part is played by the white cells in the blood of a human body?
4) Describe how Fleming discovered Penicillin?
5) In what respect is penicillin better than the chemical antiseptics?
6) Write a note on penicillin as a wonder drug? OR How did penicillin benefit mankind?
4. Louis Pasteur
1) Describe the early life of Pasteur.
2) Write a note on Pasteur’s Patriotism.
3) What did you mean by spontaneous generation?
4) How did Pasteur prove that spontaneous generation was not a fact?
5) How did Pasteur discover the treatment of the cattle disease Anthrax?
6) Give an account of Pasteur’s treatment of Hydrophobia and how did he cure the first patient suffering in it?
5. Mustafa Kamal
1) Why was Mustafa Kamal sent to Anatolia?
2) Why did Mehmet order Mustafa Kamal to return to Constantinople?
3) How did Mehmet try to regain Anatolia for himself?
4) Describe the reforms introduced by Mustafa Kamal with reference to (1) the position of women (2) removal of illiteracy (3) adoption of the Roman script
Book-4: Good-bye Mr. Chips
Chapter No.1:
1) What type of novel is “Good-bye Mr. Chips?
2) What is the significance of the title “Good-bye Mr. Chips?”
3) What was the real name of Mr. Chips?
4) When did Chips graduate?
5) How did Chips measure time?
6) What did doctor Merivale say about Chips’ health? OR Who was Merivale?
7) Why did Mr. Chips leave Melbury Public School?
8) When did Mr. Chips join Brookfield?
9) What advice did Mr. Wetherby give to Mr. Chips?
10) What happened when Mr. Chips took his first class? OR Describe Chips’ first day experience at Brookfield?
11) Who was Colley? What story was attached to him? OR What did Chips say to the third Colley?
12) Write a note on Mr. Wetherby. OR When did Mr. Wetherby join Brookfield?
13) Trace out the similarities between Chips and Brookfield?
14) How did Chips go to sleep?
15) Why 1870 was easy to remember for Chips?
16) What were Mr. Chips’ feelings when he remembered his past?
Chapter No. 2, 3 & 4
1) Where was Brookfield school situated? OR Describe the building of the school. OR What was situated beyond Brookfield? OR Write note on the building of school.
2) What type of school was Brookfield? OR What was the status of Brookfield?
3) What type of people did Brookfield produce?
4) What was Mr. Chips’ dream in his youth?
5) What was Mr. Chips presented at the time of retirement? OR When was Chips given a farewell party?
6) How much time did Chips spend at Brookfield? OR When did Chips retire?
7) What type of scholar was Chips? OR Write a note on Chips as a teacher.
8) What job did Mrs. Wickett do at Brookfield? OR Who was Mrs. Wickett?
9) What was the condition of Mrs. Wickett’s house?
10) What was the condition of Chips’ rented room?
11) How did Chips spend his afternoons? OR What would Chips do in the afternoon in mild weather when he lived at Mrs. Wickett?
12) With what did Chips serve the new boys and the teachers?
13) Who was young Branksome? OR What did young Branksome tell Chips about Collingwood?
14) What did Chips tell Mrs. Wickett about Major Collingwood? OR Why was Collingwood thrashed by Chips?
15) What was the financial condition of Chips after retirement?
16) What was Chips’ taste in reading?
17) What was Chips’ favourite newspaper? OR Why did Chips like “The Times?”
18) What were Chips’ quiet enjoyments?
19) When did Mr. Chips and Katharine meet each other and what were their ages?
20) How did they meet each other? OR What caused Mr. Chips to rush to a dangerous edge at Great Gable? OR How did Chips wrench his ankle?
21) How did they fall in love?
22) What did Chips think about the modern woman? OR What were Mr. Chips’ views about nice women?
23) When did Mr. Chips marry Katherine?
24) Write a note on Katherine’s physical appearance.
25) What was Katherine’s taste in reading? OR What were Katherine’s political views?
26) Why was summer of 1896 very dear to Chips?
Book-4 Good Bye Mr. Chips: Chapter No. 5, 6, 7 & 8
1) Why did Chips often look at his feet?
2) What were Katherine’s views about school mastering?
3) What was Katherine’s family background? OR How was Katherine married?
4) Write a note on Mr. Chips’ married life.
5) How much popular was Katherine at Brookfield? OR How did Katherine impress Brookfield?
6) Write a note on Chips’ personality before marriage. OR What kind of fellow was Mr. Chips before marriage?
7) What role did Katherine play to change Mr. Chips’ life? OR Write a note on Katherine as a wife. OR How did Katherine change the boring and dry personality of Chips? OR What was the effect of marriage on Chip’s humour?
8) How did Katharine convince the school administration to play a match between Brookfield school and Missionary school?
9) Who was Gribble?
10) How was Chips honoured at Brookfield?
11) What memories of Katherine haunted Chips?
12) What services did Katherine perform at the school?
13) Was Chips able to write a book on the memories of his life? OR What title did Chips suggest for his book? OR Why could he not write book? OR What was Chips’ desire regarding his memories?
14) Who was Ogilvie?
15) Who was Dunster?
16) What was the name of the old fifth-form room?
17) When did Katherine die? OR What were Chips’ feelings on the death of his wife? OR What was the effect of Katherine’s death on Chips?
18) What did Chips receive on 1st of April? OR How did Chips react to receive the letters of condolence? OR Was it a piece of April foolery?
19) Why did Chips take the class on the day his wife and child died?
20) Who was Faulkner? OR What did Faulkner ask Chips on the day his wife and child died? OR What did Chips say in reply to Faulkner?
Book-4 Good Bye Mr. Chips: Chapter No. 9 & 10
1) Where did Chips shift after the death of his wife?
2) Who was Naylor? What did Chips remember about him?
3) What were Chips’ ideas about Boers? OR Who were Boers?
4) What did Chips say to Lloyed George?
5) Write a note on Mr. Meldrum. OR Who was Meldrum and how long did he serve the school?
6) Who became the acting head after the death of Mr. Meldrum? OR Why was Chips not made the permanent head master after the death of Mr. Meldrum?
7) Who was appointed the new head master of the school after the death of Meldrum?
8) Write a note on Ralston.
9) Who was Cricklade and what did he ask Chips?
10) What was the final news about Grayson’s father? OR Who was Grayson?
Book-4 Good Bye Mr. Chips: Chapter No. 11-14
1) What charges did Ralston bring against Chips?
2) When did the row between Ralston and Chips take place?
3) Who was John Rivers? What role did he play to settle the dispute between Ralston and Chips?
4) What happened when the fatal disease “German Measles” spread? OR Why was the big hall of Brookfield turned into a hospital ward? (CH#12)
5) Write a note on Mrs. Brool. (CH#12)
6) Who was the successor of Ralston? OR Write a note on Mr. Chatteris. (CH#12)
7) When did Mr. Chips retire and what was his age at that time? OR Why did Chips decide to retire? (CH#12)
8) Where did Chips live after his retirement? OR Why did Chips decide to live across the road near Brookfield after his retirement? (CH#12)
9) What changes did Chips remember that took place in school in the last 42 years? (CH#12)
10) When and where did Chips go for a cure? OR Where did Chips stay at Wiesbaden? OR When did Chips return from Wiesbaden? (CH#12)
11) How did Chips spend his life after retirement? (CH#12)
12) When and why did Chips join school again? (CH#13)
13) What was the contribution of Brookfield during World-War-1? OR What services did Brookfield render during the First World War? (CH#13)
14) What did Chips feel when he rejoined school? (CH#14)
15) Why was Chips called “Pre-war?” (CH#14)
Book-4 Good Bye Mr. Chips: Chapter No. 15-18
1) How did Chips encourage his students during the air raids? OR How did Chips take his
2) When and why did Chips resign for the 2nd time? OR Why did Chips resign after the war? (CH#15)
3) What season did Chips like the most and why? OR Why did Chips not like winter? (CH#16)
4) When did Chips make his will? OR What was Chips’ will? (CH#16)
5) What were the things Chips had never done in life? (CH#17)
6) Write a note on Cartwright. (CH#18)
7) How the death of Chips was announced? OR What was announced in Brookfield at the death of Chips? OR What did Cartwright say in his speech about Chips’ death? (CH#18)
8) IMPORTANT IDIOMS & PHRASAL VERBS
| Above board | By leaps and bounds | Every inch | Leave no stone unturned | Through and through |
| Add fuel to fire | Call a spade a spade | Eye wash | Lick the dust | Turn a deaf ear to |
| All and sundry | Capital punishment | Eat humble pie | Lion’s share | To turn the table |
| All in all | Call names | To fall a prey to | Live from hand to mouth | Under a cloud |
| Apple of discord | Call in question | Fair and square | Look forward to | Up to the mark |
| An axe to grind | To call to account | Find fault with | Look down upon | Uphill task |
| Bad blood | Carry the day | Finger in the pie | Maiden speech | A white elephant |
| Bag and baggage | Carry weight | Flesh and blood | Make both ends meet | A white lie |
| Beat about the bush | Child’s play | For good | Once in a blue moon | A wild goose chase |
| A bird’s eye view | A close-fisted man | Face the music | Part and parcel | Abide by |
| Black sheep | A cock and bull story | To fall flat | Red letter day | Break down |
| Blue blood | In cold blood | Few and far between | Red tape | Break into |
| A bolt from the blue | A cold comfort | In full swing | Royal road | Break out |
| A bone of contention | Come to blows | Get rid of | Run short of | Bring up |
| Bread and butter | Come to grief | Go in smoke | Safe and sound | Bear out |
| Break the news | Cut a sorry figure | Hair-breadth escape | At sixes and sevens | Come of |
| Break the ice | Come to terms | Hard pill to swallow | Spick and span | Carry out |
| Bring to book | Be at daggers drawn | Heart and soul | A square deal | Carry on |
| Bring to light | A dark horse | After one’s own heart | A square meal | Deal in |
| Burn midnight oil | Die in harness | In black and white | At a stone’s throw | Do away with |
| A burning question | A dog in the manger | Keep at arm’s length | Split hairs | Give up |
| To bury the hatchet | A drawn match | Kith and kin | Sum and substance | Go through |
| By and large | Down and out | Kick the bucket | Take to task | Give in |
| By fits and starts | At the eleventh hour | Be at large | Take into account | Look after |
| By hook or by crook | Eat one’s words | Leave in the lurch | Through thick and thin | Put off |
| Abide by | Belong to | Break off | Break down | Bring up |
| Bear out | Come of | Cut out | Cut down | Carry out |
| Deal in | Do away with | Go through | Give in | Look after |
| Make out | Put off | Put by | Run at | Run down |
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1. My Aim in Life/My Ambition
2. My First Day at College
3. A Visit to a Historical Place
4. My Hero in History/My Favourite Poet/Allama Iqbal
5. Uses and Abuses of Science
6. Patriotism/Why I Love Pakistan
7. Technical Education
8. Computer/Advantages and Disadvantages of Computer
9. City Life
10. My Last Day at College
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