QIL. Write a precise for the following passage and give a suitable title for it
Machines have, in fact, become the salves of modern life. They do more and more work that
human beings do not want to do themselves. Think for a moment of the extent to which
machines do work for you. You wake, perhaps, to the hoot of a siren by a machine in a
neighbouring factory. You wash in water brought to you by the aid of machinery, heated by
machinery and placed in basins for your convenience by a machine. You eat your breakfast
quickly cooked for you by machinery, go to school in machines made for saving leg labour. And
if you are lucky to be in a very modern school, you enjoy cinema where a machine teaches you
or you
listen to lessons broadcast by one of the most wonderful machines. So dependent has man
become on machines that a certain writer imagines a time when machines will have acquired a
will of their own and become the master of men, doomed once more to slavery. [10 Marks)
Answers
So far you have been reading solved examples intended to help you understand precis writing. But it is practice alone which would enable you to grasp the technique in proper way. So write the precis of the following paragraphs and give an appropriate title to each. Misers are generally characterized as men without honor or without humanity, who live only to accumulate, and to this passion scarifies who live only to accumulate, and to this passion sacrifices the most of the joy of abundance, banish every pleasure and make imaginary wants real necessities. But few, very few, correspond to this exaggerated picture; perhaps there is not one in whom all these circumstances are found united. Instead of this we find the sober and the industrious branded by the vain and the idle with the odious appellation: men who by frugality and the idle with the obvious appellation; men who by frugality and labour, raise themselves above their equals and contribute their share of industry to the common stock. Whatever the vain or the ignorant may say, well where it for society had we more of this character among us. In general with these avaricious men we seldom lose in our dealings; but too frequently in our commerce with prodigality.