Tiêu đề PASS FAST/NTS-NAT ENGLISH COMPREHENTIONS 1-2 ✅

For Online Entry Test Preparations Contact: 0304-0666000 PASS Entry Test Series (ECAT , NUST-NET , NTS-NAT , COMSATS, FAST , PIEAS , GIKI , UHS , Army Medical , PIMS) www.passpk.com ENGLISH COMPREHENTION # 01:- Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the senses or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind; until it has been put into absolute terms, of an invariable significance, it does not exist at all. It cannot awaken this emotion in one, and that in another, if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say him, it says nothing, and is nothing. So that when a poet has put his heart, much or little, into a poem, and sold it to a magazine, the scandal is greater than when a painter has sold a picture to a patron, or a sculptor has modelled a statute to order. These are artists less articulate and less intimate than the poet; they are more exterior to their work; they are less personally in it; they part with less of themselves in the dicker. It does not change the nature of the case to say that Tennyson and Longfellow and Emerson sold the poems in which they couched the most mystical messages their genius was charged to bear mankind. They submitted to the conditions which none can escape; but that does not justify the conditions, which are none the less the conditions of hucksters because they are imposed upon poets. If it will serve to make my meaning a little clearer, we will suppose that a poet has been crossed in love, or has suffered some real sorrow, like the loss of a wife or child. He pours out his broken heart in verse that shall bring tears of sacred sympathy from his readers, and an editor pays him a hundred dollars for the right of bringing his verse to their notice. It is perfectly true that the poem was not written for these- dollars, but it is perfectly true that it was sold for them. The poet must use his emotions to pay his provision bills; he has no other means; society does not propose to pay his bills for him. Yet, and at the end of the ends, the unsophisticated witness finds the transaction ridiculous, finds it repulsive, finds it shabby.- Somehow he knows that if. our huckstering civilization did not at every moment violate the eternal fitness of things, the poet's song would have been given to the world, and the poet would have been cared for by the whole human brotherhood, as any man should be who does the duty that every man owes it. The instinctive sense of the dishonour which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience. But Byron's publisher profited by a generosity which did not reach his readers; and the Countess Tolstoy collects the copyright which her husband foregoes, so that these two eminent instances of protest against business in literature may be said not to have shaken its money basis. I know of no others; but there may be many that I am culpably ignorant of Still, I doubt if there are enough to affect the fact that
For Online Entry Test Preparations Contact: 0304-0666000 PASS Entry Test Series (ECAT , NUST-NET , NTS-NAT , COMSATS, FAST , PIEAS , GIKI , UHS , Army Medical , PIMS) www.passpk.com Literature is Business as well as Art, and almost as soon. At present business is the only human solidarity; we are all bound together with that chain, whatever interests and tastes and principles separate us. QUESTIONS 1. The author implies that writers are (a) incompetent businessmen (b) not sufficiently paid for their work (c) greedy (d) profiting against their will 2. A possible title that best expresses the meaning of the passa (a) the man of letters as a man of business (b) literature and the arts (c) progress in literature (d) poets and writers 3. The author laments the fact that Tennyson, Longfellow, and Emerson (a) wrote mystical poems (b) had to sell their poetry (c) were not appreciated in their time (d) were prolific poets # 02:- It has been documented that, almost twelve million years ago at the beginning of the Pliocene Age, a horse, about midway through its evolutionary development, crossed a land bridge where the Bering Straits are now located, from Alaska into the grasslands of Europe. The horse was the hipparion, about the size of a modern-day pony with three toes and specialized cheek teeth for grazing. In Europe the hipparion encountered another less advanced horse called the anchitheres, which had previously invaded Europe by the same route, probably during the Miocene Period. Less developed and smaller than the hipparion, the anchitheres was completely replaced by it. By the end of the Pleistocene Age both the anchitheres and the hipparion had become extinct in North America, where they had originated. In Europe they had evolved into an animal very similar to the horse as we know it today. It was the descendant of this horse that was brought by the European colonists to the Americas.
For Online Entry Test Preparations Contact: 0304-0666000 PASS Entry Test Series (ECAT , NUST-NET , NTS-NAT , COMSATS, FAST , PIEAS , GIKI , UHS , Army Medical , PIMS) www.passpk.com QUESTIONS 1. Both the hipparion and the anchitheres. (a) were the size of a modern pony (b) were native to North America (c) migrated to Europe in the Pliocene Period (d) had unspecialized teeth 2. According to this passage, the hipparions were (a) five-toed animals (b) not as highly developed as the anchitheres (c) larger than the anchitheres d) about the size of a a small dog 3. The author suggests that the hipparion and the anchitheres migrated to Europe (a) by means of a land route which is now nonexistent (b) on the ships of European colonists (c) because of a very cold climate in North America (d) during the Miocene Period 4. This passage is mainly about (a) the evolution of the horse (b) the migration of horses c) the modern-day pony (d) the replacement of the anchitheres by the hipparion. 5. It can be concluded from this passage that the (a) Miocene Period was prior to the Pliocene (b) Pleistocene Period was prior to the Miocene (c) Pleistocene Period was prior to the Pliocene (d) Pliocene Period was prior to the Miocene