West Bengal Civil Judge Mains 2020 (Compulsory Papers) Question Paper

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West Bengal Judicial Service (Main) Examination 2020: Compulsory Papers

WEST BENGAL JUDICIAL SERVICE MAINS (COMPULSORY PAPERS)

West Bengal Judicial Service (Main) Examination 2020:

Compulsory Papers

ENGLISH ESSAY, COMPOSITION AND PRÉCIS WRITING

Time Allowed: 3 Hours

Full Marks: 100

If the questions attempted are in excess of the prescribed number, only the questions

attempted first up to the prescribed number shall be valued and the remaining ones ignored.

The figures in the margin indicate marks for each question.

1. Write an essay on any one of the following topics: [30]

(a) Social media and social awareness.

(b) India’s progress in the field of science and technology in the last century.

(c) Necessity of art in the modern world.

2. Write a précis of the following passage and add a title: [20 + 5 = 25]

The world has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. The

Paris climate agreement – the nonbinding, unenforceable and already unheeded treaty signed

on Earth Day in 2016 – hoped to restrict warming to two degrees. The odds of succeeding,

according to a recent study based on current emissions trends, are one in 20. If by some

miracle we are able to limit warming to two degrees, we will only have to negotiate the

extinction of the world’s tropical reefs, sea-level rise of several meters and the abandonment

of the Persian Gulf. The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming “a

prescription for long-term disaster.” Long-term disaster is now the best-case scenario. Three-

degree warming is a prescription for short-term disaster: forests in the Arctic and the loss of

most coastal cities. Robert Watson, a former director of the United Nations

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has argued that three-degree warming is the

realistic minimum. Four degrees: Europe in permanent drought; vast areas of China, India

and Bangladesh claimed by desert; Polynesia swallowed by the sea; the Colorado River

thinned to a trickle; the American Southwest largely uninhabitable. The prospect of a five-

degree warming has prompted some of the world’s leading climate scientists to warn of the

end of human civilization. Is it a comfort or a curse, the knowledge that we could have

avoided all this?

Because in the decade that ran from 1979 to 1989, we had an excellent opportunity to solve

the climate crisis. The world’s major powers came within several signatures of endorsing a

binding, global framework to reduce carbon emissions – far closer than we’ve come since.