Answers to Unsolved Exercises of Precis Writing in BA's Learner

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Unsolved Exercise 1

Q1: A camel is more liked by the Arab tribes, as it helps them to carry their bag and baggage in the wide desert. 

Q2: A camel is called “The Ship of Desert” as it can travel in the vast desert easily, without water and food. 

Q3: The Arab tribes generally eat ripe and sweet dates that grow on the trees in the desert. 

Q4: A Arab’s horse has all the luxuries of life that an Arab gives to his family but a camel only proves a luggage carrier for him. 

Q5: A desert is the native land of the Arabs. They use portable tents as they have to look for the water and food for themselves and their cattle. The Arabs' horse has become an icon for the whole world. They take after their horse well. They provide all those facilities to it which they provide to his family. A camel is a very useful animal for them as they ride all their goods including the portable tents on them to hunt for something new. 

Title: The Hard life of Arabs

Unsolved Exercise 2 (351 – 352)

Q1: Because fictional books lead us to one path. They do not provide a complete code of life. 

Q2: Novels and stories have caught our serious attention on account of the attraction and communication, hidden in them, between the book and the viewer. 

Q3: We can develop a better taste of reading and understanding books by reading all sorts of books that are available in our nearby libraries. 

Q4: Novels and fictions can be called the books of pleasure. Whereas the books of history, philosophy, travels, science, astronomy etc have a serious reading impact on its readers. 

Q5: Rightly chosen books are a source of great pleasure as well as knowledge. Stories are considered to be created for entertainment purposes as they become a right hand for tired human beings. But these books may lead us to one, static path. We should develop the habit of serious book reading as books, written on real topics can help us to learn the real cause of humans. 

Title: Importance of book reading

67 words on count

Unsolved Exercise 3 (352)

⚠ Because, I  have a poor political sense, I have only grabbed 25 percent of the actual idea of this passage. 

Q1: Economic stability and education built foundation for a nation. 

Q2: According to Quaid-e-Azam, the urgent need for the Muslims of sub-continent was to make them economically and educationally stable. 

Q3: The Quaid’s advice to Muslims was to depend on their own strengths. 

Q4: The enemies of the Muslim nation may exploit against them. 

Q5: Quaid advises us to make us financially and educationally strong at first.  As these elements prove the base of a nation. He also says that we should rely on our own forces. He thinks that our enemies might give damage to us in the name of their “help”. 

Title: Quaid’s advice to Muslims. 

Unsolved Exercise 4 (352)

Thanks, Shehzad bro for the recent fix. 

Q1: Early rising holds many advantages as one can enjoy sound health as well as can complete his work before others. 

Q2: Everything looks fresh and enchanting in the morning. A person, who is willing to do a certain piece of work can do it efficiently and effectively because of the silent and peaceful atmosphere of the morning. 

Q3: Yes, late rising has one advantage that it does not hold any advantage. 

Q4: Early rising makes a person ready for the whole day work. Peaceful atmosphere in the morning ensures good health as well as the good finish of one’s work. The energy gained by the exercise lasts the whole day. Time is managed well by early rising. A person can gain extra hours of sleep as well. 

Title: Advantages of early rising

55 words on count

✔ Always use the third person pronoun while making a paragraph short.

Unsolved Exercise 5 (353)

Q1: Bad habits have their own attraction. One cannot live without getting it done by hook or by crook (ہر حالت میں). This is called “the force of (bad) habits”. 

Q2: Tobacco was introduced by an American, Sir Walter Raleigh, in Europe and later, it speeded like wild fire around the globe. 

Q3: Smoking is, certainly, a bad habit. First of all, it is against the teachings of Islam and “Smoking is injurious to health”. 

Q4: It is difficult to get rid of smoking as its attraction of Nicotine attracts the victim in a hard manner. 

Q5: Bad habits are difficult to give up. Bad habits like smoking are eating into the vitals of our nation and their health. It is also catching fire in other countries. This evil was spread by an American person. Recent studies exclaim that this habit holds no goodness. 

Title: The Evil habit of smoking.

Unsolved Exercise 6: (353)

Q1: It is difficult to make the speech because one has to make oneself ready to face a cluster of the audience (سامعین کا ہجوم). 

Q2: The first task of a speaker is to overcome (قابو پائے) his fear of audience. 

Q3: The main idea of this passage is a speaker should do away with (نجات حاصل کرے) his fear of facing the audience for an everlasting impression (ہمیشہ قائم رہنے والا تاثر) of his (first) speech. 

Q4: Making speech is as difficult as if someone has to observe his first trip to a swimming pool. A speaker should deal his fears of facing the audience with an iron hand as this anxiety can spoil the whole atmosphere of his speech. 

Title: Making First Speech

Unsolved Exercise 7: (353 – 354)

Q1: A good actor repeats a certain dialogue but on the other hand, a good teacher creates a dialogue. 

Q2: A good teacher uses all his abilities to make an idea or theory clear in the minds of the students. But an actor has to use his actions, his emotions for expressing something fixed to the audience. 

Q3: A good teacher acts in accordance with the interests of the audience (his class). Because a successful learning career demands the attention of the audience. If a teacher fails to maintain the attention of the audience, his delivered education will be motionless. 

Q4: A good teacher is an actor, a speaker and a stage artist (of his school). An experienced teacher uses different devices (of education) i.e. motion-training to achieve the best results of his teachings. But a teacher “acts” like an actor. It does not mean that a good teacher can hold the attention of the people, sitting in front of the stage. An actor has to repeat a certain line but a teacher expresses his experience. Every person is bestowed with his unique quality which cannot be executed by another person. 

Title: Difference between a Good Teacher and a Good Actor

Unsolved Exercise 8: (354)

Q1: Pesticides are dangerous for humans as well as animals as these medicines contain such chemical compounds which last long in the air and land and cause serious da age to the crops and humans. 

Q2: As mentioned in the passage, the half of pesticides are blown by the wind. That is why 50% of these medicines cannot make their way to the plants. 

Q3: These things are spread all around of us, like in lakes, rivers and even in oceans. 

Q4: No, they cannot be destroyed so easily as they last for a long time after being sprayed. 

Q5: Pesticides: Insect killers

Extensively: Massively

Stable: Balanced

Last: Existence

Cumulative: Increasing by successive addition (WordWeb Dictionary)

Q6: Excessive use of pesticides causes sickness to all living organisms. 50% of these medicines remain in the air and are blown away on a large scale. Like many other countries, Pakistan is also facing the shortage of every organic stuff on account of using pesticides. 

Title: Harms of Pesticides

Unsolved Exercise 9: (355)

Q1. It is our behaviour, that makes our speech a good or evil thing. 

Q2. A wrong word can spoil the whole speech as this word might create a vivid (دھندھلا) outlook of a certain topic. 

Q3. The writer wants to convey this message that we should keep a strict eye on our speech and our behaviour to make a good impression of our speech. 

Q4. Speech is a good thing but it has a dark side as well. A little mistake can lead us to failure. And we should use words in accordance with the thinking of different people. 

Title: The True Speech

Unsolved Exercise 10 (355)

Q1: The original function of a money-lender was to lend his own money. 

Q2: When people began to lend their own money to the money-lender of past, the deposit banking system came into existence. 

Q3: They wanted to save their spare money to be used in needed hours. 

Q4: The goldsmiths used premium built stuff to protect the depositor's money. 

Q5: The banker goldsmiths used to charge a special amount of money to protect the money of people. 

Q6: The establishment of the banking system started with the creation of humans. Some people used to give their money to the needy people. But soon, the other people used their services to protect their money. This evolution went on and the goldsmiths began to work as money guardians. They used unbreakable apartments to get their protection done. At first, their services were free of cost but soon, they realized that they can make this as their income source. 

Title: Beginning of the Banking System

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Unsolved exercise 11: (356)

Q1: A good scholar should take a keen interest in understanding a book instead of reading it. 

Q2: Because they cannot see through the lines. 

Q3: After passing through their university classes, they should develop the habit of serious reading. (NOT SURE)

Q4: The habit of book reading becomes a drug for thousands of people. They cannot live an hour without it

Q5: The ultimate result, according to the writer, of reading books for mere amusement is it teaches nothing but it makes a person like an empty vessel (without blood). 

Q6: A scholar should develop a sense of serious reading in himself. Some persons should not be blamed for such habit as they are unable to understand the content of the book. 

[Failed to understand some content of this passage. ]

Title: Disadvantages of Book Reading for Amusement

Unsolved Exercise 13 (357)

Q1: Quaid-e-Azam tried his best to unite Congress and The Muslim League, under the same platform, and he got (a little) success. That is why he was entitled with the Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity. 

Q2: Quaid-e-Azam parted from Congress as it was only working to promote Hinduism.

Q3: According to Quaid-e-Azam and many other Muslim scholars, we are a different nation in respect of our tradition, culture and thinking. He used two-nation theory as the base of achieving Pakistan. 

Q4: Quaid-e-Azam played an important role in the achievement of Pakistan. As he left no stone unturned to satisfy the need of a separate homeland for the Muslims. He achieved Pakistan by gathering all Muslims under the same roof. 

Q5: A community is a group of those people who have been living in the same locality for a long time but a nation is a group of such people, who have devoted themselves to a certain cause, trying to seek for independence or are independent on the basis of their caste, creed and religious activities. (Credits: Sir Faisal and Asim Rasheed)

Q6: Quaid did his best to turn Hindu-Muslim unity, into a reality. But soon, he realized that Congress was only working for the betterment of Hindus, he quit the membership of this league and devoted himself completely to the cause of Muslim League, a separate homeland, on the basis of two-nation theory. Under his dynamic leadership, the Muslims of the sub-continent became successful in achieving their homeland.

Title: Quaid’s Struggle for a Separate Homeland

Unsolved Exercise 14 (357 - 358) 

Q1: According to the paragraph, Peace in a family and calmness of minds are two major advantages of adopting punctuality. 

Q2: It is true, punctuality gives weight to its character as a person knows when will his work come to a suitable end. If another person observes this quality in him, he will appreciate it and will adopt punctuality in his work and word. 

Q3: Punctuality propagates (ایک نسل سے دوسری نسل منتقل ہوتی ہے) as if children see their parents following punctuality they will also make it as their first habit. 

Q4: In the last lines of this passage, the writer wants to convey this message that instead of wasting others' precious time, we should finish our specific work in time.

Q5: Peace and calmness of minds are two major advantages of punctuality. If a person does not follow the rule of punctuality in his life, his work will remain undone. Punctuality is a great source of maintaining our trust. It grows from one generation to another. We should focus on our work instead of wasting others' valuable time.

Title: Advantages of Punctuality

Unsolved Exercise 15 (358)

Q1: A soldier, the first person being discussed in this passage, is contented with his income. He never longs for a higher standard of life. As he has devoted his entire life to saving his motherland. 

Q2: In this passage, two type of people are being discussed. The first ones prefer their work to the money, given in return for their work. And the second ones who prefer money to their work. 

Q3: The main object of a soldier’s life is to protect his country from the invade of the other. 

Q4: A brave soldier tries his best to save his country and he never cares about his income. But on the other hand, a well-educated demands his fees first and then treats his patient. 

Q5: The main idea of this passage is we should seek for the humanity at first and then seek for the money. 

Q6: The world is full of two kinds of people. The first who do not care about their income and do their work with great devotion and interest. But the second kind of person runs after the money. A soldier’s life and a doctor’s life is an expressive representation of such kinds. The main goal of the writer is to promote a sense of sincerity towards someone’s work. 

Title: The Difference between a Soldier’s Life and a Doctor’s Life

Unsolved Exercise 16 (358)

Q1: Kamal Ataturk, at first, defeated the Greek empire and united the Turks to achieve a separate homeland for them. After independence, he worked hard to make his country financially stabilized. 

Q2: Mustafa Kamal generated a Five Year development plan to stabilize the Turkish economy.

Q3: The main theme of this passage is to explore the heroic struggle of Mustafa Kamal Pasha for a separate homeland and providing it with a stabilized economy. 

Q4: The name of Mustafa Kamal has a great importance in Turkish history. His first achievement was the victory against Greeks and a separate homeland. He not only maintained its independence but also made it an economic and religious power for the Muslim Unity. 

Title: Statesmanship of Mustafa Kamal Pasha

Unsolved Exercise 17 (359)

Q1: An flourished industry is a life-blood for a country as it makes a country financially strong. 

Q2: Industrially backward countries cannot even defend the sovereignty of their own country as most of the foreign exchange is wasted on importing different stuff. 

Q3: Here are top 3 reasons

1. To finish our blind depend upon foreign currency

2. To reestablish our economic system

3. To end up unemployment (Answered by Asim Saeed)

Q4: When industrialization takes place in a country, it helps to stabilize her economy. Resultantly, the living standard of a people (ایک قوم). 

Q5: Industry plays a key role in the development of a country. Pakistan is suffering from the foreign rule of economy, unemployment and low per capita income. The only industrialization can wipe such difficulties out. 

Title: Importance of Industrialization

Unsolved Exercise 18 (359 - 360)

Q1: Money and physical strength are mortal. But knowledge is not. It keeps increasing and flourishing with the passage of time. 

Q2: Knowledge is a great power. It is the only knowledge, which helps us to control the oceans, the wild and even climate. It has revolutionized the way of fighting a battle. 

Q3: No, the everlasting power of knowledge can be used for negative pursuits as well. The vast destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a good example of its bad usage. 

Q4: The greatest quality of knowledge is it can be stored for a long period of time and its evolution goes on. 

Q5: Wealth and health were considered the greatest power of humans for a long period of time. But this concept has been changed a lot in this era of great social and economic development. Knowledge has become a mighty sword of a nation. The impacts and discoveries made possible by the knowledge last for a long time and it keeps on. A nation cannot get through without education. Its positive use is a great blessing otherwise a curse. 

Title: Knowledge is Power

Unsolved Exercise 19 (360)

Q1: The old persons often recall their pleasant and sweet memories of their childhood. 

Q2: When they were the children, they had nothing to do to achieve food. Their mother prepared food for them. 

Q3: They did not have any idea of the cruelty and brutality of man. That is why they considered that this world was more beautiful and peaceful. 

Q4: They did not have any idea about people’s dishonesty. They believed on what was told (them). 

[Yad rahy told kay bad TO naheen lagaya jata]. 

Q5: They sigh because they want their childhood back for some time. 

Q6: Old persons often recall their childhood period. They recall their irresponsibility, their trips, their freedom and the love and care of their parents. They were unaware of the good or evil character of the people.  Sometimes, these sweet memories made them sad. 

Title: Recollection of Childhood

Unsolved Exercise 20 (360 - 361)

Q1: The officer drew his sword because his sword was firmly grabbed by a person. 

Q2: The military officer tried to kill himself. But he was stopped by a poor person. He did not like this attitude and he tried to kill him with a knife. 

Q3: The poor man told him that he had been living a life of misery for twenty years. But he did not surrender to them, he faced them bravely, having faith in God Almighty. 

Q4: The poor man’s remarks had an everlasting impression on the army officer and he gave up his cruel fate. 

Q5: This story advises us not to surrender ourselves and should face the difficulties of lfe courageously and should have faith in Allah Almighty. 

Q6: Once an army officer tried to suicide and his attempt was failed by a poor person. The officer tried to kill him but he advised him to have faith in God. These remarkable remarks had a deep effect on him and he rewarded the poor person with money. 

Title: Trust in God (Title Validity 50%)

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Unsolved Exercise 21 (361)

Q1: The duty of man is to provide the opportunity of education to himself and for his children. 

Q2: Because every child has the right to grow not to be produced. Therefore, a school should be a garden, not a foundry. 

Q3: The duty of a society is to provide an atmosphere of trust and development of an educational institute. 

Q4: The duty of every individual is to make the most of the opportunity of education. 

Q5: Every child has a right to enjoy the opportunity of education. 

Q6: Education is essential and is the basic right and duty of every human. Schools should be productive, not to produce products. Education should be equal to the values of a society. 

Title: Education is essential for the betterment of humans and humanity. 

Unsolved Exercise 22 (361 - 362)

Q1: Importance of Parent-Teacher meetings

Q2: Teachers do not pay attention to their students as they think it is not their duty to teach the importance of social and moral values of a society. And their teaching method conflicts with the physical and mental approach of a student. 

Q3: Students’ parents seldom bother to know about the positive as well as negative activities. They do not track their activities on daily bases. That’s why they become unaware of their child’s problem. 

Q4: The emotional problem of the children can only be solved if a proper co-ordination is generated between their parents and teachers. 

Q5: The impact اثر

Churn out tailored lessons رٹا رٹایا سبق پڑھانا

Q6: The atmosphere of the school is different than that of home. A common student finds it difficult to make the best of his learning terms. Consequently, he feels emotionally ill. His teacher relies on a pre-planned lesson and his parents remain unaware of his illness. Parent-teacher meetings provide a vide infrastructure to tackle with such illness. 

Unsolved Exercise 23 (362)

Q1: Complexations of Marriage Life

Q2: According to the paragraph, if a woman does not pay any attention towards her husband and his hard work for her. Then she is considered to be ungrateful to her husband. 

Q3: The writer wants to convey the message through this paragraph that nature has made the man stronger. He says that men are born to rule and women are born to obey. 

Q4: A woman should give her husband a useful and meaningful piece of advice, not to force her husband to act upon her advice. 

Q5: 

Bites the hand: Mentally disturbs her husband

Constitutional monarch: If a wife tries to rule over her husband, she should only give a suitable advice and let her husband do in accordance with his thinking. 

Q6: A happy marriage life starts with a proper co-operation and understanding between a husband and his wife. But sometimes, the situation becomes worst if a woman tries to rule over her husband. Resultantly, their peaceful marriage life becomes a battlefield. And she gets defeated. If she wants to lead a pleasant marriage life, she must not interrupt in her husband’s work, a useful piece of advice is sufficient. 

Unsolved Exercise 24 (362)

Q1: Examinations

Q2: According to the paragraph, two kinds of questions are asked by the examination. The first ones are used to produce the knowledge of a student and the other kind of questions ask him to apply his knowledge. 

Q3: If a student can apply a certain piece of knowledge to a problem as a solution, he is possessing the knowledge. 

Q4: The examination which only measures the quantity of a student’s knowledge. 

Q5: 

Mental stock-taking: Taking account of something

Industry: Hard work

Q6: Two kind of examinations are accustomed to our society. The first one checks only the quantitative amount of a student’s knowledge. The second one takes a bite of the qualitative approach of his knowledge. He is meant to be a skilled person if he makes the most of his knowledge. Such qualitative questions should be added in the examinations so that the honest students may make their mark. 

Unsolved Exercise 25 (363 - 364)

Q1: Qualities of a Good Citizen

Q2: A good citizen is a person who knows his rights and duties for his society and his other city-mates. 

Q3: A society is formed to get as many services as possible from its citizens. 

Q4: The duties of a good citizen are to live in accordance with the traditions and customs of a society. He should show his loyalty when the time arrives. 

Q5: Harmony: ہم اہانگی

Prescribe: حکم جاری کرنا

Indebted: احسان مند ہونا

Isolation: علاحدگی

Q6: Man is a social animal. He cannot live without his society. While living in a society, he has several rights and duties. He should show his patriotic spirits when the time arrives. He must be courteous to the society and its people. 

Unsolved Exercise 26 (364)

Q1: Before hundred years, women did not have the proper human rights than those of today. They were considered weaker and less clever than men. 

Q2: Thousand years ago, the strength of the body was important as a man had to live in caves and hunt for animals. 

Q3: Body strength has no importance in this century as brain power is more essential for the survival and progress of humans and humanity. 

Q4: According to the writer, women have done the task of holding the pride of the kingdom, showing a good image of her country to the other as the ambassadors and lighting the candle of knowledge and wisdom as professors in many universities. 

Q5: Women are an embodiment of patience and caring nature. They can handle the early classes of the children in a good manner. That’s what a man cannot do in particular. 

Q6: Women of past were deprived of their basic rights. But the scene is pretty different now. AS women are an active participant in every work that is meant to be for men only in the past. Power was the symbol of superiority in past but it is the power of wisdom now. In developed countries, women also have the same understanding as men do. But men cannot show the patience as the women of every generation does. 

Title: Women Empowerment

Unsolved Exercise 28 (365)

Q1: The Muslims were large in number and they had their own unique identity. 

Q2: The areas where the Muslims were in a large number, formed Pakistan. 

Q3: Their demand for a separate homeland was reasonable on the basis of their unique identity and geopolitical influences. 

Q4: If two separate countries would not have created, it might have destroyed the geography of Asia. 

Q5: Establishment of Pakistan – A Demand for the Pease

Q5: The vast area of British India had two big nations, living in their own ways. Two nation theory had its deep roots wherever we gazed. This formed the demand for a separate homeland as these nations were no longer able to live peacefully in a single country. Later, this idea came into being as the form of Pakistan, maintaining the peace of the whole of Asia. 

⚠ PLEASE REVIEW THIS PARAGRAPH BEFORE MAKING IT YOURS

Unsolved Exercise 29 (366)

Q1: Love of power, competition, hate and fear are the chief causes of the large-scale violence. 

Q2L The hate against different nations can be lessened if we stabilize the States economically. 

Q3: Material prosperity can only be achieved if we maintain the peace universally. 

Q4: Nationalist propaganda can only be controlled if all countries make it illegal. 

Q5: Title: Seeking for the World’s Peace

Q6: Madness of power, competition, hate and fear are some major causes of war and brutality. These diseases can only be cured if we stabilize the whole world’s economy, finish any kind of nationalist propaganda. 

Unsolved Exercise 30 (366)

Q1: The majority of disabled live in developing countries in misery and suffocated situation. 

Q2: The common forms of disability are blindness, deafness and mental retardation and these disabilities are caused by physical damage or malnutrition. 

Q3: Our responsibility to disabled persons is that we should make them an active part of the society. 

Q4: Disabled persons are a common but helpless part of our society. Disability is caused by some physical damage or some genetic disorder. Polio is the worst kind of disparity claiming a large amount of children’s moral life. It is our responsibility to make them a dynamic (متحرک) part of our society. 

Title: Role of Disabled Persons in our Society

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Unsolved Exercise 31 (367)

Q1: Admiring one’s country is not patriotism. Patriotism requires loyalty and loyalty requires everything that a citizen can present when the time of need arrives. A patriot never tries to break rules but he still tries to make the law, a law. 

41 Words on record

Title: Qualities of a true patriot

Q2: The writer defines love for one’s country as one should not admire one’s country or hate it. One should do something productive for one’s country. 

Q3: Some persons get the wrong meaning of patriotism. They consider it patriotism to admire their country and to hate others’. 

Q4: A good citizen, if he is unable to obey a certain law on the basis of wrong constitutional reforms. Then he must help the present government to bring the law-breakers to the book (جواب دہی).

Unsolved Exercise 32 (368)

Q1: Education is necessary for stabilizing our economy. Therefore, it has become the first priority of the government of Pakistan to provide reliable education to everyone. But the funds allocated for education are not sufficient for educational purposes. But our government is still trying for the contribution of public and private sectors to promote education. (54 words on record)

Title: Education and Economy

Q2: Economic progress can only be attained if a proper educational investment is invested in human resources. 

Q3: The government of Pakistan is planning to increase the literacy rate to develop human resources. 

Q4: The Government of Pakistan is trying to bring public and private sectors closer to increasing the literacy rate. 

Unsolved Exercise 34 (368 -369)

Q1: People consider flattery, a device of false praising. But the writer considers it to magnifying others’ good qualities without peeping into their bad deeds. But the flattered person should have such qualities otherwise it will void his dignity. Appreciating some is better than making them flattered. (46 words on record)

Title: Flattery

Q2: According to the writer, flattery is an art which magnifies the virtues of a person without looking into his faults. 

Q3: If flattery is used as a basic element of a speech and it makes a remarkable impression towards the audience, it will be called a successful flattery. If it makes people laugh then it is an unsuccessful flattery. 

Q4: Appreciation is totally pure kind of pleasing someone whereas flattery spoils the rest of self-esteem (خود توقیری) on the basis of false exaggeration.

Unsolved Exercise 35 (369)

Q1: It’s bad practice to grow the same crops years after years. As the consumed land has to suffer more. Because it is treated with the same old-fashioned methods. 

Q2: Some crops spread along the surface and protect the lad. 

Q3: Different plants affect the soil differently. Therefore, the damage rate of the soil will decrease. 

Q4: Rotation of crops means growing of crops one after the other, repeating the same spectrum. 

Q5: Legume contains such roots as the bacteria, present on such roots can take Nitrogen directly through the air.

Unsolved Exercise 45 (375)

DISCLAIMER: I have tried my best to figure out the exact answer to the question. As being unable to understand some of its contents, some answer might turn WRONG. 

Q1: This century offers much challenges to be tackle with. People may feel insecure about their basic human rights even in their houses. 

Q2: Human rights are such rights which are practically enforceable by the law. 

Q3: A democratic state is what where we observe a fair balance of human rights between our society and state. 

Q4: For past a few years, Pakistan finally has a democratic state structure. 

Q5: Pakistan does not have a proper course of equality. AS the rich and dominated persons are making the best and pushing the majority of normal people into the scourge of shortage of money. 

Q6: The dawn of new century challenges Pakistan in many ways, especially concerning human rights. Country and society are going far away from their actual concept of human rights. But human rights rely on law and law relies on equality of enforcement. Pakistan is facing the issue of social equality from beginning. But the future looks bright. 

Title: Social Equality and Pakistan

Unsolved Exercise 46

Politeness:

A polite person always thinks the best for everyone. But an ill-tempered person might be suffering from anxiety. One should not adopt any uncertain worry. Learn to live happily.

Unsolved Exercise 47

Endurence of Difficulty:

Difficuties are present in every walk of life. Each task requires its endurence.  Man is born to work.

Unsolved Exercise 48 (376 - 377)

Q1: The journey of going upwards on the stream as it was flowing the opposite side of their destination. 

Q2: Though the journey was tough natural scenery made it pleasant. 

Q3: These tropical trees looked like ghosts dressed greenly. 

Q4: The monkeys were hanging on the branches of the trees. They were not happy about the uncertain invasion of those passengers. 

Q5: Going upwards in streams was too difficult but the natural scenery wiped it out. The tall green trees looked like ghosts. The animal life was going on but the monkeys were not happy about their arrival. 

Title: A beautiful and Tough Journey. 

36 words counted

Q6: Meanings

Tedious: Difficult, tough مشکل

Trespassing into their domain: Invading into the monkeys’ kingdom بندروں کی سلطنت (جنگل) میں ان کی اجازت کے بغیر آنا

Clothed in green robes: Dressed in green, سبز لباس پہنے ہوئے

Importance of Inner Beauty | Unsolved Exercise 50 (377 – 378)

Q1: Real beauty lies under someone’s positive or negative outlook, not in his/her physical look. 

Q2: The beauty of porcelain jar (چینی کا برتن) lies in what is in it. It may be an empty jar or it might full of dust or sweet honey. 

Q3: Inner beauty is someone’s personal thinking or his/her good or bad behaviour whereas outer beauty devotes to the physical beauty of a person. 

Q4: Bad temper, dishonesty and bored sullenness are some common forms of psychological ugliness. 

Q6: Real beauty is hidden in one’s personal behaviour. But women with outer beauty are deprived of inner beauty. They have fallen a victim to many social misbelieves. This grabs their real happiness. (32 words)

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Travelling in Modern Times | Unsolved Exercise 51 (378)

Q1: The tourists start their planning for summer holidays in winter. They decide where to go and how do they reach there after deciding on a certain place. 

Q2: Travel agencies help a tourist to provide a place to stay, meals and travel in as many countries (at least six) as a traveller wants in a short period of time. 

Q3: A tourist spends a very busy life while visiting other countries. He visits a place in the morning and visits second place in the evening. He is run on a specific schedule. 

Q4: Tourists begin their planning for vacations early. They think that the whole world is too short for them to visit. Travelling has become fast, easy and planned. A traveller is bounded to follow a specific schedule. (36 words)

Suspicious Postal Ticketing | Unsolved Exercise 52 (378 - 379)

Q1:  Fake stamps are those stamps which are tempered on the basis of their appearance. 

Q2: Bogus stamps are the unauthorized kind of stamps. Published from an anonymous source. 

Q3: Reprints are such stamps which have reprinted the discontinued issues by the post office. 

Q4: Stamp collecting must be done securely. Some change their physical appearance, some print them anonymously and some people just reprint the past issues. There are numerous cures to find the suspicious ones but these methods sometimes go wrong. (39 words)

Hobbies | Unsolved Exercise 53 (379)

Q1: A hobby can help a person to maintain his everyday life. 

Q2: Some people think that some hobbies might make them forget about their actual business. 

Q3: Hobbies teach us to maintain the equilibrium of work and life. 

Q4: Some people think that hobbies might take them away from their work. But the main objective of adopting a hobby is to create a balance between their work and their healthy activities.

Missions of Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan | Unsolved Exercise 54 (379 - 380)

Q1: Sir Sayed went to England to learn how did they progress to conquer the vast lands. 

Q2: The British people did not have any interest in learning the teachings of Islam as they want to talk about science and their own religion. 

Q3: Sir Sayed's plan was to teach Muslims what he had learnt from England. 

Q4: Sir Sayed went to England to learn how did British people make their way to prosperity and to teach them Islamic values. His first mission went successful but the second one failed as they were willing to learn only about science and Christianity. Therefore, he went back to India to teach Muslims what he had learnt in England.

First Flight in the Air | Unsolved Exercise 55

Q1: It was the old dream of man to fly like birds. 

Q2: On that day, man made his first flight in the air. 

Q3: It took 59 seconds to cover the 812 feets distance. 

Q4: The day of the first flight was filled with fears but two men made it possible. They covered a short distance in the air in just a few seconds. Many persons tried their best to glide in the air but failed. But the revolution had taken place and most of the world remained unaware of this discovery.

Could not solve Unsolved Exercise 56 (380)

Q1: As a speaker, Muhammad Ali Jinnah posses three qualities, an impressive delivery of his thoughts, a suitable voice and the power of persuading someone over a decision. 

Q2: Quaid-e-Azam exhibited (مظاہرہ کیا، دکھایا) his unusual power of persuading while attending the Round Table Conference. 

Q3: Need help

Q4: There were three factors behind quid's impressive speech, selection of effective words, meaningful phonation (آواز) and carrying his cause in a good manner, as he did in Round Table Conference (گول میز کانفرنس). [I need help from "It's an open secret... ...Nineteen" ].

‎Overpopulation in Big Cities (شِہروں میں تیز رفتاری سے بڑھنے والی آباد

Q1: The worst impact of population growth is migration from ruler areas to big and overcrowded cities. 

Q2: In India, many people live on footpaths but we have solved this major issue in the early days of the establishment of Pakistan. 

Q3: India thrust (داخِل کر دیے) many people forcefully into Pakistan bt our establishment set this issue in no time and Karachi made their homeport (مَسکَن). 

Q4: Population growth in big cities has become a major issue. Many people in India have to live homelessly. Pakistan solved this problem in her early times. But our population in big cities has increased a lot.

Importance of Bilingualism | Unsolved Exercise 59 (382)

Q1: The Urdu writer has to implement a second language in his creation to make it universal. 

Q2: Yes, it is. Bilingualism is a great blessing for an Urdu writer as he can convey his idea to more people. 

Q3: It is quite difficult for a bilingual to express in two languages at once. He should elaborate in one language then in another. 

Q4: Many educated persons will elaborate (وضاحت) the importance of bilingualism. The other language ends the barrier of thoughts in another country. It's a good opportunity for our writers to publish their creations in another language to gain more audience (قارئین).

Quaid's Vision | Unsolved Exercise 60 (382 - 383)

Q1: He could avert from death if he had reduced his active hours of promoting and progressing in his mission. 

Q2: Quaid-e-Azam's soul had s thirst of liberating the Muslims of the Sub-continent whereas his body in spite of its bad health condition, served his soul as good as possible. 

Q3: The leader had been bestowed with such qualities that he could meet his destiny of liberating the Muslims of the sub-continent. 

Q4: In spite of Quaid's improper health, he still continued for the accomplishment of his mission. And he was suitable for it as no one kept such qualities as he possessed. His countless struggle, at least, wrote a new chapter in the history of politics.

The Actual Sovereignty of the Universe | Unsolved Exercise 61 (383)

Q1: Man is not the sovereign of this world as he has not created the universe. It is Allah Almighty Who has created the vast universe and is the sovereign of this world. 

Q2: The limited interest of man leads him to the shortage of thinking, making and proceeding. 

Q3: Allah Almighty has delegated some powers to humans as they can change their surroundings and can turn villages into cities. 

Q4: Quran invites men to learn about the existence of the universe. The man has learnt to change his environment. But he is not the owner of his land as Allah owns all properties available on earth.

Leasure | Unsolved Exercise 62 (383 - 384)

Q1: Idle rich people go outside of their country for hunting in Africa or for a trip around the world while women make them busy in their household stuff. 

Q2: These people cannot take a firm decision quickly and what they decide, they feel hesitate to get it done. 

Q3: The exercise of choosing a suitable hobby is not so exciting. But the people with determination can easily get into their hobbies and make the most of it. 

Q4: People with no activities cannot take a serious decision at the time. But if they add some activities, it may shine their lives. Rich people usually prefer to go foreign but their women remain busy in their kitchen.

Evolution of Human Civilization | Unsolved Exercise 63 (384)

Q1: Willpower, intelligence, the zeal of different activities and studying the world around humans are the foundations of human life. 

Q2: Language is the most ancient invention of man as it is invented in the Stone Age (پتھر کے زمانے سے). 

Q3: The power of the arts changed the way of living as it added music, poetry, story writing and painting. 

Q4: Inventions have made humans to conquer the world but these inventions cannot change the activities of humans. The arts revolutionised the human civilization. Language is considered the earliest innovation of humans as it connects us to learn about the Stone Age.

Enviornmental Warfare | Unsolved Exercise 64 (384 - 385)

Q1: Iraqi Army and Russian Army used such chemical toxins against Iran and Afghanistan respectively. 

Q2: Such tactics of wars are not a useful weapon as their use is limited. 

Q3: Chemical warfare has a bounded area of its influence but environmental warfare effects on a large scale. 

Q4: The use of chemical toxins is fixed (مِحدود) by the military operations nowadays. However, this practice has established the massive environmental war by America.

Factors behind Unemployment | Unsolved Exercise 65 (385)

Q1: Our education system has badly failed in teaching the people how to earn their livelihood in a productive way. 

Q2: The writer explains that in 1970, many skilled people migrated from Pakistan to the middle east in search for a higher lifestyle and their migration created a deep space in the economy of Pakistan as no one likes to invest on the slowly growing economy of Pakistan. 

Q3: Unemployment is more than an economic problem as it affects the individual psychologically and he becomes a drug addict. 

Q5: Unemployment is caused by many factors. Poor education cannot teach a person to earn his living professionally. Fewer wages to labour is also a set back (ناکامی) of the government. Many countries hesitate to invest in Pakistan as there is no expert to support their investment. Unemployment harms the people mentally. They are exploited in weakening a country.

Aftermaths of America-Iraq Conflict | Unsolved Exercise 66 (386)

Q1: The writer thinks that American superiority will no longer last for an eternity.

Q2: The people of America are against of her military adventure as a lions share of her economy is given to the army whereas the rest of departments do not have enough funds to continue their lifespan. 

Q4: It was a child's play for America to regenerate Germany and Japan as these nations possessed all qualities which are essential for nation building. 

Q3: It will be a difficult task for America to rehabilitate Iraq after the war as all her nation is scattered in different communities; lacking all properties of nation-building. 

Q5: The superiority of America is temporary as her nation do not believe in her economy being wasted in military ventures. It was easy to regenerate Germany and Japan after the war but Iraq will not as its people are suffering from many social issues.

Unity of Pakistani Nation | Unsolved Exercise 67 (386 - 387)

Q1: Our people had similar aims: the aim of getting independence from Hindus and English people. 

Q2: At present, this nation aims at the alleviation of social evils and protecting their country from any crisis (تکلیف). 

Q3: We can make Pakistan a strong country if we remain united against any anti-state activity and work hard for the advancement of our beloved country. 

Q4: Every emerging nation has to face many troubles and the Pakistani nation had to. It has many things in common. It fought against Sub-continental powers for independence. Many factors are trying to break into this nation but their dream will remain a dream.

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