Passages On PRECIS WRITING (1) (1) 1

PRECIS WRITING
1. Write a précis of the following passage and give it a suitable title:

Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a
justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be
killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated
of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human
joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of
death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it— so at least it
seems to me is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until
bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in
the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river— small at
first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders
and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the bank recee de, the waters
flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged
in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who in old age, can
see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he
cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the
thought of rest will be not unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work,
knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the
thought that what was possible has been done.
2. Write a précis of the following passage and give it a suitable title.
In this world of human affairs there is no worse nuisance than a boy at the age of
fourteen. He is neither ornamental nor useful. It is impossible to shower affection
on him as on a little boy; and he is always getting in the way. If he talks with a
childish lips he is called a baby, and if he answers in a grown-up way he is called
impertinent. In fact, any talk at all from him is resented. Then he is at unattractive
growing age. He grows out of his clothes with indecent haste, his voice grows
hoarse and breaks and quavers; his face suddenly angular and unsightly. It is easy
to excuse the shortcomings of early childhood, but it is hard to tolerate even
unavoidable lapses in a boy of fourteen. The lad himself becomes painfully self-
conscious. When he talks with elderly people he is either unduly forward, or else
so unduly shy that he appears ashamed of his very existence. (169)
3. Write a précis of the following passage with a suitable title.
Many people say that future is unknown, and unpredictable. This may be true in
many regards. But there are certain factors and trends in the present that serve as
pointers or sign-posts of what the future may hold for us. The sign-posts enable us
to have a picture of the nature of the future. But one of the most important
questions is: Are we ready for the future? Or one might as well ask: Is the future
ready for us? Whichever question one prefers to answer, what remains critical is
that the future needs to be imagined; it needs to be sketched, deemed, thought out
and constructed; made, unmade and composed. It is hence important to realize that
the future will not impose itself on us, but that we can intervene in shaping how the
future lo
4. Write a précis of the following passage with a suitable title:
It is only the poor who really and truly feel for the poor. They alone know each
other’s sufferings and each other’s need of sympathy and kindness. The charity of
the rich is nothing compared with the charity of the poor. In seasons of sickness, of
distress, the poor are each others comforters and supporters, to an extent that,
among better circles, is never dreamt of. Contented to toil on, from day to day, for
a scanty sum, they arc ready to spare when a brother is in want or distress. Nor is
there wanting some friendly hand to smooth the pillow, or do all those little kindly
offices which make sickness and suffering tolerable. The women of the poorer
classes are, in this respect, especially devoted and untiring. They make sacrifices
and hear hardships and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world
never knows of and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
5.Write a précis of the following passage with a suitable title.
It is pertinent to observe that knowledge generally defined as “the sum total of the
physically intangible resources (skills, competency and experience), information,
principles and values required to solve a problem, to make decisions, and to
actively manage and carry out tasks.” In this regard it is worth noting that
knowledge is a key to the future, it is indispensable for economic growth, social
transformation, cultural enrichment and political empowerment. We witnessed in
the past century, the rapid transition from agrarian societies to industrial societies
in different regions of the world. We are now witnessing a process of
transformation of industrial economics to knowledge economies. In a world
knowledge has become the principal driving force of the post-industrial economy.
6.Write a précis of the following with a suitable title:
Of two men who walk side by side along a country lane only one may know the
names and natures of the plants and trees they see; yet we will not on that account
call the other man immature. We will not call him immature unless his attitude
toward such knowledge brands him so. If his life work is such that he should, for
effectiveness, know the names and natures of those plants and trees, but if he has
chosen to bluff instead of to learn, then we can call him immature. We can call him
so, if, lacking a certain type of knowledge, he self-defensively holds that it is not
worth possessing. We can call him so if this specific ignorance is but one
expression of a kind of total obtuseness – a general indifference to the world he
inhabits. It is not, in brief, the mastery of this or that fact that marks a person as
mature in his knowledge — relation ship. It is rather, his attitude toward knowing
and the tie up that exists between his knowledge and situation.
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