Fully Solved Precis Exercise There is no doubt that people are growing more and more interested in the seas, and that there is a great need for that interest. Men have long tried to probe the secrets of the oceans to gain knowledge for its own sake, but there are other practical reasons for doing so. The sea can provide us with many things that we need in everyday life. Future...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise As material civilisation advances and the supply of available goods and services increases, man’s needs correspondingly, multiply. Advertising plays a key role in this never—ending process by stimulating the public’s desire for certain products, and thereby promoting the sales thereof, until it has, in effect, created new needs, real or supposed, where there were none before. A familiar example is the motor car —once a rare and...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise I vividly recall my first visit, as a boy of twelve, to a big town. I had hardly been outside the confines of the village where I was born and I had met and talked to no more than a few hundred people; but those few hundred I knew very well. Of course, we did sometimes meet a strange face but visitors from the outside world, whose...

Fully Solved Precis Exercise A hundred—years ago there was much less specialization in work than there is today. One furniture—maker would make the whole of a table—indeed, perhaps, all the furniture needed to furnish a house, and he worked in a simple workshop, probably entirely with hand tools. The furniture he made was very good and very beautiful, but it would take him a long time to make it. The output...

Fully Solved “Precis” Exercise For all industrial development we need power and the ultimate restriction on power is the fuel from which it is extracted. Is there enough fuel to satisfy our ever—growing hunger for power? For conventional fuels such as wood, coal, oil, the answer is quite clearly no. The world’s known stock of oil is only sufficient to last sixty years at the present rate of consumption and the...

Art of Precis Writing There is a great importance attached to the art of precis writing in the modern age. Precis writing, in one form or the other, is a part of the daily job of the officials in both public and private organisations. It is for this reason that candidates for recruitment to almost all types of services are now-a-days required to do Precis-writing in the General English Paper. It...