Write a precis of the following passage reducing it to one third of its length:
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B.Sc. ZBC (Year-III)
English–III (BZBC308)
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Max. Marks: 70
Min. Marks: 28
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Though Tagore was essentially a poet, he was more than a mere poet as Gandhi was more than a mere
politician. His genius enriched whatever it touched. Like the sun after which he was named (=Rabi means
the Sun) he shed light and warmth on his age, vitalised the mental and moral soil of his land, revealed
unknown horizons of thought and spanned the arch that divides the East from the West. The vitality of his
genius is truly amazing. No less amazing are the variety and beauty of the literary forms he created. He gave
to his people in one life time what other peoples have taken centuries to evolve - a language capable of
expressing the finest modulations of thought and feeling, a literature worthy to be taught in any university in
the
world. There was no field of literary activity which was not explored and enriched by his daring adventures,
and
of these were virgin fields in Bengali which his hands were the first to stir into fruit fulness. He is
one of the worlds five writers whose works withstand the challenge of the severest tests of modern times.
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2. Write a précis of the following passage reducing it to 1/3 of its length. (20)
Streamlining is really a very old idea used in a modern way. Long ago when the
Red Indian shaped his canoe or carved his arrowheads he was following out this
idea. He found out that he could paddle his boat more swiftly through the water if
he built it with a sharp arrow and slim sides. Probably he learnt his craft by
watching fishes swimming in the rivers resistance as possible against the water or
air in which they moved. This knowledge was sufficient for him to design his
simple boats and weapons.
In the modern world many new problems have arisen owing to the invention of the
stream engine and the petrol engine –inventions which have made it possible to
travel at very high speeds. Speeds of transport has become the greatest feature of
the modern industrial world. Rapid transport saves so much valuable time, that
designers and mechanics everywhere are doing their utmost to increase the
speeds of motor-cars, ships and aeroplanes.
There are three chief ways by which speed can be increased. We can improve the
engine, we can improve the fuel which drives the engine. We can reduce the airresistance, Until few years ago little attention was given to air-resistance, but
today streamlining of vehicles is being developed to overcome it.
What exactly is air-resistance? To understand the answer to this question it must
be realized that air like water or other fluids has weight and volume. On every
square inch of our body the air presses with a weight of fourteen pounds, and this
weight has to be pushed away by a swimmer. The air resists our effort to push it
aside and this sets up friction or drag which acts like a brake upon our speed. To
reduce this friction to the lowest possible fraction is the object of streaml