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Nearer the church, farther from God means چراغ تلے اندھیرا, 

Explanation

"Scraggly" کا مطلب ہے پتلا یا پتلا دھانپ۔ (Spindly - پتلا دھانپ)

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The Dublin of Joyce's youth was a city of paradoxes, where piety and profanity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, went hand in hand. It was a city of narrow streets and narrow minds, where the Catholic Church held sway over the lives of its citizens, and where the British Crown exercised a distant but palpable authority. Yet it was also a city of wit and humor, satire and irons where Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw had honed their craft. Joyce's own family embodied these contradictions: his father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was a singer and a drinker, a devout Catholic, and a fervent nationalist who nonetheless harbored a deep love of Shakespeare and a disdain for the pretensions of the Irish middle class.

What is the author's tone towards Dublin in the passage?

(A) Entirely nostalgic

(B) Ambivalent

(C) Indifferent

(D) None of these

Explanation

The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer breeze stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open window the sweet murmur of the fountain, or the more subtle music of the bees as they moved from flower to flower. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-colored blossoms of the laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence around the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a_____organ 

The word that would most accurately fit the blank at the end of the passage is:

(A) Peeling

(B) Jarring

(C) intimate

(D) distant

What is the dominant sensory experience in the passage?

(A) Visual

(B) Auditory

(C) Olfactory

(D) Tactile

What is the effect of the "momentary Japanese effect" created by the shadows of birds in flight?

(A) It adds to the sense of stillness and calm

(B) It creates a sense of movement and energy

(C) It emphasizes the beauty of nature

(D) It highlights the artificiality of the scene

Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

(A) the city's beauty and music

(B) the city's noise and chaos

(C) a sense of distance and removal

(D) the city's power and dominance

85. The underlined word, as used in this passage, most nearly means:

(A) Trembling

(B) torpid

(C) wavering

(D) infirm

Explanation

The Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) famously remarked: "Surah Hud and its sisters have made me grow old." 

Surah Hud that many scholars attribute this statement to is Ayah 112:

فَٱسْتَقِمْ كَمَآ أُمِرْتَ وَمَن تَابَ مَعَكَ وَلَا تَطْغَوْا۟ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ

"So remain steadfast as you have been commanded, [you] and those who have turned back [to Allah] with you, and do not transgress. Indeed, He is Seeing of what you do." (Surah Hud, 11:112)

Explanation

Usama bin Zaid (RA) was chosen by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

To lead the army against the Byzantine Empire to avenge the Muslim defeat at the Battle of Mutah,

Additional information 

He was the son of Zayd ibn Haritha, Muhammad's adopted son, and Umm Ayman (Barakah), a servant of Muhammad

Explanation

Jon Fosse, a Norwegian author and dramatist, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature: 

Recognition

Fosse was awarded the prize for his "innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"

Explanation

Lionize: کسی کو ہیرو کے طور پر پیش کرنا

Vilify: بدنام یا بدگوئی کرنا

Explanation

 "Catacomb" کا مطلب ہے زیر زمین قبر۔ (Crypt - زیر زمین قبر)

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"Metanoia" کا مطلب ہے توبہ یا ندامت۔ (Repentance - توبہ)