Book-II, Part-I
Additional Questions from Past Papers BISE Faisalabad
- The Dying Sun
Q.No.1: Does, according to Sir James Jeans, life seem to have any part in the plan of the universe? (FB-2009)
Q.No.2: What, according to Sir James Jeans, are the main characteristics of human beings? OR For what qualities does the writer distinguish humankind from other creatures? (FB-2015 Supp)
- No.3: How large are the stars? OR How small is the earth? (FB-16)
Q.No.4: What are temperature belts and what has the existence of life to do with them? (FB-2015)
2- USING THE SCIENTIFIC METHODS
Q.No.1: Why do we eat a variety of food? (FB-2008)
Q.No.2: Where are the babies born these days? (FB-2008)
Q.No.3: How is water supplied to cities and towns today? (FB-2012)
Q.No.4: How is water supplied to Los Angeles? (FB)
Q.No.5: How did thrifty wives preserve food in the past? (FB-2014)
Q.No.6: How has scientific method improved our living standard? (FB-2014)
Q.No.7: What do you mean by an attitude? (FB-2014)
Q.No.8: What are the effects of unsanitary conditions? OR What do the unsanitary conditions cause? (FB-2014)
- No. 9: How did the people obtain water in the past and how was it consumed? OR Why did the people use water sparingly in the past? (FB-2015)
3 – WHY BOYS FAIL IN COLLEGE
Q.No.1: What are the two main groups of the boys who fail to get through? (FB-2008)
Q.No.2: How do the poor students meet their expenses? (FB-2014)
4- END OF TERM
- No. 1: What were the writer’s feelings on Friday? OR What was the importance of Friday night for the writer?
- No. 2: What were the writer’s feelings on Saturday and Sunday?
- No. 3: What were the writer’s feelings about Christmas and Easter holidays? OR How long were the Christmas and Easter holidays?
- No. 4: When did the writer get his first bicycle?
Q.NO. 5: How did David Daiches wish whenever he saw sweet shops or some ice-cream barrow? (FB-2015)
5- ON DESTROYING BOOKS
Q.No.1: What did the writer think when he saw a policeman? (FB-2008)
Q.No.2: Why did the people want to get rid of useless books? (FB-2008)
Q.No.3: What sort of books did the writer get accumulated in J.C. Squire’s flat? OR What sort of books had piled up in J.C. Squire’s room? (FB-2010)
Q.Mo.4: What were the fears of Squire about the possible splash to be produced in water? (FB-2015)
- THE MAN WHO WAS A HOSPITAL
Q.No.1: Why did the writer call himself a hospital? (FB-2008)
Q.No.2: How had the writer walked into the reading room of the British Museum and how had he returned? (FB-2009)
Q.No.3: What is the moral lesson of “The Man Who Was a Hospital? (FB-2011)
Q.No.4: How did the writer feel his pulse and what was its beat rate? (FB-13)
Q.No.5: How did the doctor examine the writer? (FB-11,16,17)
Q.No.6: Why did the medical man talk about the weather and not about the disease of the writer? (FB-2015)
- MY FINANCIAL CAREER
Q.No.1: What kind of man manager was? OR How did the manager try to look?(FB-08)
Q.No.2: Why did the writer go to bank? OR How much was the writer’s salary raised? OR What was the writer’s reaction at the increase of salary? (FB-09,12)
- No.3: What mistake did the writer commit when he wanted to withdraw his money? OR Why did Leacock want to draw out money? (FB-2012)
Q.No.4: Having committed the mistake of writing 56 instead 6, how did the writer try to look at that time? (FB-2010)
Q.No.5: How did the manager turn Leacock out of the safe? (FB-2013)
- CHINA’S WAY TO PROGRESS
Q.No.1: Who Was Chou En-Lai? (FB-2008)
Q.No.2: How according to the writer will be China in the year 2000? (FB-2009)
Q.No.3: What does Mao say about women in “China’s Way to Progress?” (FB-2009)
Q.No.4: Who was Mao Tse-tung?
Q.No.5: What final answer to the problems of mankind does the West claim to have found? (FB-2015)
- THE HUNGER AND POPULATION EXPLOSION
Q.No.1: How was the wide-spread disease averted during the seven years of famine in Egypt? (FB-2009)
- THE JEWEL OF THE WORLD
Q.No.1: Write a brief note on the mosque of Cordova. (FB-2009)
Q.No.2: What change did Abd-al-Rehman-I bring about in Muslim Spain in 773? OR When and why did Abd-al-Rehman-I discontinue the Friday sermon?
Q.No.3: What was the condition of Muslim Spain? (FB-2011)
Q.No.4: How did Cordova deserve to be titled as the Jewel of the World? (Fb-2014)
Q.No.5: How big was Al-Zahra and where was it situated?
Q.No.6: How old was Abd-al-Rehman when he died?
Book-II, Part-II
- FIRST YEAR AT HARROW
Q.No.1: In which subjects were the examiners interested? OR What were the favourite subjects of the writer? (FB-2008)
Q.No.2: Why was Churchill selected for admission in spite of his bad performance? OR Why was Churchill admitted to Harrow despite his bad performance? (FB-2010, 13)
Q.No.3: Why were the examinations a great trial for the writer? OR Why did Churchill dislike examinations? OR Why did Churchill call examinations an “Inhospitable region?” (FB-2010,15)
Q.No.4: Where was the writer placed in the list of the newly admitted students and why? OR Where were the names of new boys written? OR What does the writer regret to say? (FB-2009)
Q.No.5: What were the intelligent boys taught at Harrow? (FB-2011)
Q.No.6: Who was the head master of Harrow? What was his role in the molding Churchill’s personality? OR Why did the writer have great regard for the Headmaster? OR Who was the Headmaster of Harrow and what was his opinion about Churchill?
(FB-2012)
Q.No.7: Who was Churchill? (FB-2014)
- HITCH-HIKING ACROSS THE SAHARA
Q.No.1: What one of the worst experiences did Christopher suffer at the suggestion of Behemed? (FB-2009)
Q.No.2: Why did Christopher like El-Golea? (FB-2009)
Q.No.3: Where is Timbuktu situated? (FB-2013)
Q.No.4: What is Hitch-Hiking?
- SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING
- No. 1: Why did Fleming choose St. Mary Medical School for admission? (FB-2009)
Q.No.2: Why did Fleming fail to concentrate penicillin? (FB-2012)
Q.No.3: How did Lister avoid what the surgeons in the past did without knowing? OR How did surgeons infect their patients in the past? (FB-2012)
Q.No.4: What is Lysozyme? OR How was Lysozyme different from other chemicals? OR How did Fleming discover Lysozyme? (FB-08)
Q.No.5: How were Fleming’s services to mankind acknowledged? OR When was Fleming knighted and awarded the Noble Prize? OR How was Fleming appreciated?
(FB-10, 14, 15)
- LOUIS PASTEUR
Q.No.1: Who discovered germs? OR Who discovered germs and who killed them? OR Who were Pasteur and Lister? What did they do? (FB-08, 10)
Q.No.2: What happened to Pasteur on his wedding day? OR What happened to Pasteur on his marriage day? Why did Pasteur forget his wedding ceremony? (FB-09, 11, 12)
Q.No.3: Describe hydrophobia or rabies briefly. (FB-2009)
Q.No.4: When was the Pasteur Institute built and why?
Q.No.5: When did Pasteur die?
- MUSTAFA KAMAL
Q.No.1: What was the famous battle call of Mustafa Kamal? (FB-2008)
Q.No.2: What was the first declaration by Grand National Assembly of Turkey? (FB-2012)
Q.No.3: What was the first step taken by Mustafa Kamal to educate his people? (FB-2013)
Q.No.4: Why did Turkish people reject the treaty? (FB-2014)