ARUNACHAL PRADESH PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION,
GENERAL ENGLISH
Time: 3 Hours Full Marks: 100.
Note: Read the instruction carefully and follow them ii) Attempt all the questions. ii) The figures in the right hand side margin indicate marks.

1. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:-

Early in 2003 Tim Witezak got some good news: a new job as Vice President of sales with a start up energy-efficient company in Heart Land U.S.City Minnneapolis, in Minnesota. But with the position came stress and difficulty in sleeping. In Jane Woody, 37 he was seen by his family doctor, a general practitioner who gave him samples of Zoloft an anti-depressant that also treated anxiety [the drug's generic name is sertraline hel, and is sold in India under other brand name like serta and sedep]. "This was the first time he'd ever been to a doctor about an issue like this" says his wife Kim. He was a happy person and had no history of mental illness or depression.
Within a few days, though, Woody experienced several side effects of the drug night sweats, diarrhea, weight loss and trembling hands. His anxiety worsened, he became uncharac-teristically irritable and restless. One evening he came home crying after driving around all day when the samples ran out after three weeks, Woody's doctor doubled his dose to 50 mg and urged him to give the drug time. The instruction from Pfizer Inc. the U.S. Manufacturer of Zoloft, said it could take four to six weeks to be effective. But two weeks later, Kim recalls Woody walked in the backdoor in his blue business shirt drenched in sweat. He curled into a foetal position on the kitchen floor, his hands pressing around his head like a vice, and begged, "Help me. I don't know what's happening to me. I think I am losing my mind. I feel my head is outside my body looking in".
Less than a week later Woody seemed to be springing back. He ran almost 5 kms, bought flight tickets for a bachelor party in Las Vegas and when he spoke on phone one morning to Kim, an advertising account executive who was in Detroit on a short business trip, he suggested, they should celebrate their tenth Wedding Anniversary in Thailand. That evening, though, things had changed, "His voice
sounded hollow". She remembers I just assumed he was busy and distracted. The last thing he said was, "I love you Kim". Woody was dead. He had hung himself from the rafters. By cruel coincidence the Minneapolis star Tribuneran had a front page story that day: "UK Finds Link Between Anti-Depressant And Suicide".


1.1. Answer the following questions: 5 X 3 15Marks

What was the cause of Tim Woody's Stress?
What were the side effects of the drugs that Woody took?
Explain,'when the samples ran
Did the instruction from the manufacturing company of the medicines prove
correct? How?
What did Woody do to be a bit relaxed?

I. 2. Answer the following questions by choosing the most appropriate option:
Ix 5 5Marks.

One ofthe following words doesn't relate to Woody Witezak.
Minneapolis
ii) bronchitis
iii) depression
iv) Zoloft.

The Generic name of the medicine prescribe to "Woody" was
Sartreline
ii) sirtraline
iii)Sertraline
iv) sretreline.

Woody wanted to celebrate his tenth Wedding anniversary in.

Singapore
ii) China
iii) Thailand
iv) U.S.A. ..

Which ofthe following things Woody didn't do, after his dose was doubled up.

He curled in foetal position.
ii) He walked in the backyard in his yellow business shirt.
iii) He felt that his head was out of his body looking in.
iv) He pressed his hand around his head.

Woody Witezak was a patient of

Energy deficiency
ii) Anxiety and depression
iii) Anxiety
iv) Mental illness.

II. Write a letter to the ChiefMunicipal Councilor ofyour city complaining aboutthe insanitary conditions ofyour locality. 10 Marks. Or
Write a letter to the Editor ofa leading daily newspaper ofyour city to draw the
attentionofthe superintendent ofPolice to the deteriorating law and order
situation of your locality.

III. Write an Essay on anyone of the following: 20 Marks
1.
Corruption in public life.

2.
National Integration.

3.
Child Labour.

4.
Global Warming.


ASSTT.DIR(TH)-2015 Page-2 IV. Write a paragraph in about 100 words on anyone of the following: 10 Marks.
1.
Deeds always speak louder than words.

2.
Rome was not built in a day.

3.
Man is the architect of his own fate.


V. Do as directed: 10 Marks. He .said to me, "I was thinking of scolding him but changed my mind later on. (change into direct speech). He could not have achieved success without your help. (change into an interrogative sentence). The teacher examined the statement. He found it full of gross errors. (combine the sentences into a simple sentence). He is poor. He is honest. Goin the sentences using suitable connectors)
People say Arunachal is a land ofthe rising sun. (change into passive voice).
VI. Make sentences to illustrate the use of the following (any five): 10 Marks.
To fish in troubled waters; Leap in the dark; Bolt from the blue; through thick and thin; To strain every nerve; Point blank; Red tapism.
VII. Correct the following sentences (any five): 10 Marks.
1.
He is having a large family.

2.
The officer demanded the clerk to explain the delay.

3.
His speech was difficult to be understood.

4.
I have the possibility to go to Delhi.

5.
He availed ofthe leave.

6.
Scarcely I reach the airport then the plane started.

7.
I condole to him on the death ofhis father.


VIne Fill in the blank with the suitable prepositions: 10 Marks.
1.
The team elated joy their victory.

2.
Don't side those who act contrary national interest.

3.
the campus there is much indiscipline __want ofproper management.

4.
Kiang lives Delhi but his father lives Naharlagun.

5.
You cannot dispense the use of fan summer.




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