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5 sample paragraph for typing test on 1. When My Teacher Scolded Me 2. The
Saddest Day of My Life 3. The Habit of Reading 4. A Visit to an Exhibition 5. My
Favorite Teacher

1. When My Teacher Scolded Me

Scolding is something common in student life. Being a naughty boy, I am always
scolded by my parents. But one day I was severely scolded by my English teacher.
She infect teaches well. But that day, I could not resist the temptation that an
adventure of Nancy Drew offered. While she was teaching, I was completely
engrossed in reading that book. Nancy Drew was caught in the trap laid by some
smugglers and it was then when I felt a light tap on my bent head. The teacher had
caught me red handed. She scolded me then and there and insulted me in front of
the whole class. I was embarrassed. My cheeks burned being guilty conscious.
When the class was over, I went to the teacher to apologize. When she saw that I
had realized my mistake, she cooled down and then told me in a very kind manner
how disheartening it was when she found any student not paying attention. I was
genuinely sorry and promised to myself never to commit such a mistake again.

2. The Saddest Day of My Life

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Days are not of equal value in one’s life. Some bring happiness while others bring
sadness. Sadness and happiness both are equally important to man’s life, since they
are the two sides of a coin. As we cannot forget the happiest day, we are unable to
forget the saddest day of our life too. The saddest day of my life was the Diwali Day.
Diwali is considered to be a happy festival and till last Diwali, it was my favorite
festival. On last Diwali, my sister, my brother and I were busy lighting the fireworks. I
was holding a ‘fuljhari’ in my hand and unfortunately my younger brother, who was
standing just beside me, had a cracker in his hand. This cracker caught fire and a
very loud explosion was heard which shook my sister and me. After that, we all could
think of nothing else than blood stained cotton, bandage, dettol etc. My cousin took
my brother to the doctor where he got 14 stitches in his forefinger and thumb. But at
home, everybody kept cursing and blaming me for the mishap. That night, I could not
sleep and I cried a lot. For next few days, I bore the burden of this blame for being
responsible for this unfortunate incident. I felt deeply guilty conscious which I was
able to overcome after a long time.

3. The Habit of Reading

Studying is the main source of knowledge. Books are indeed never failing friends of
man. For a mature mind, reading is the greatest source of pleasure and solace to
distressed minds. The study of good books ennobles us and broadens our outlook.
Therefore, the habit of reading should be cultivated. A student should never confine
himself to his schoolbooks only. He should not miss the pleasure locked in the
classics, poetry, drama, history, philosophy etc. We can derive benefit from other’s
experiences with the help of books. The various sufferings, endurance and joy
described in books enable us to have a closer look at human life. They also inspire
us to face the hardships of life courageously. Nowadays there are innumerable
books and time is scarce. So we should read only the best and the greatest among
them. With the help of books we shall be able to make our thinking mature and our
life more meaningful and worthwhile.

4. A Visit to an Exhibition
Recently, an exhibition ‘Building A New India’ was held in the capital. It was
organized by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. The
exhibition was set up in the Triveni Kala Sangam. The chief exhibits were
photographs, novels, some sculptures by Indian modern artists presenting Indian
cultural inheritance. First of all, I visited the general section of the exhibition where
different charts and photographs depicting India’s development in various fields were
set. Most impressive photographs among these were those showing India’s nuclear
development. The second section dealt with India’s magnificent historical
background. I was fascinated by the pictures of Mohanjodaro excavation. Then I saw
the most beautiful and colorful section of the exhibition i.e. the cultural section. It
consisted of paintings, sculptures, photographs etc. The Rajasthani and Gujarati
paintings were very colourful and attractive. This exhibition, inaugurated by the
Prime Minister, lasted for a week. It proved to be of great educational value. It
brushed up my knowledge about India as my motherland. It enhanced my respect for
my great country, India. I would very much appreciate if the Indian government
organized some more such exhibitions.

5. My Favorite Teacher
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A teacher is called builder of the nation. The profession of teaching needs men and
women with qualities of head and heart. There are many teachers in our school and
a large number of teachers among them are highly qualified. I have great respect for
all of them. Yet I have a special liking for Miss Y. Miss Y is a woman of great
principles. She is jewel among all the teachers. Almost all the students respect her.
She teaches us English. She is quite at home in this subject. She takes keen interest
in teaching students. Simple living and high thinking is her motto. She is a woman of
sweet temper and is always ready to help in difficulties. She treats us like her own
brothers and sisters. She is an ideal teacher. It is these qualities of head and heart
that have endeared Miss Y to the students and teachers alike. She is an ideal
teacher in real sense of the word. She is the real model to emulate. May she live as
long as there is sweet fragrance in the flowers?
The 300-word (essay) challenge
04.08.2011

in TOEFL, TOOLS & TECHNI QUES

One of the best ways to learn something is to watch a

master at work. William Zinsser is a master. While
his books will teach you a lot of what you need to know
to write well, his writing will teach you more. He
deserves to be read – and re-read – by anyone who
wants to write. This article, reproduced from The
American Scholar, is a good lesson in essay writing.
I once got a call from a woman who said she was the editor
of a magazine called Endless Vacations. Endless
vacations! The very name gave me a thrill: a vacation that
never stopped. I could be seamlessly whisked from a safari
in Kenya to a Club Med on the Riviera to a temple dance in
Bali. When I calmed down I realized that what was endless
was the number of vacations being recommended by the
magazine, not the vacation itself. But I was hooked.
The editor explained that a regular feature of her magazine
was a 300-word essay, on the back page, about an iconic
American site. She had seen a review of my book American
Places, a journey to 16 such sites, and she asked if I would
write some 300-word icon pieces for her. I said that after
two years of traveling and writing I was through with the
icon business, but that she could buy any of my chapters
and I would condense them into 300-word excerpts. I
believe that anything can be cut to 300 words.
The editor agreed, and for a while we kept that gig going.
After that she again asked if I would try writing a 300-word
piece from scratch. By then I thought it might be an
interesting exercise. I only insisted that the site be close to
home; I didn’t want to fly to San Francisco to write 300
words about the Golden Gate Bridge. The site I chose was
Ellis Island, a mere subway and ferry ride away.
My only preparation was arrange an interview with Ellis
Island’s superintendent; places are only places until they
are given meaning by the people who look after them. I just
spent a day walking around the site, taking as many notes
as I would for a 5,000-word article. Nonfiction writers should
always gather far more material than they will use, never
knowing which morsel will later exactly serve their needs.

Here’s Ellis Island in 300 words:

Of the two highly symbolic pieces of land in New York

harbor, the more obvious icon is the Statue of Liberty; the
lady embodies every immigrant’s dream of America. But I’ll
take Ellis Island—that’s an icon with its feet in reality.
Almost half the people now living in America can trace their
ancestry to the 12 million men and women and children
who entered the country there. mainly between 1892 and
1924. “It’s their Plymouth Rock,” says M. Ann Belkov,
superintendent of the National Park Service’s Immigration
Museum, which occupies the distinctive red brick building,
now handsomely restored, where the immigrants were
processed. “Tourists who come here are walking in their
families’ footsteps,” Belkov told me. “Three of my four
grandparents first stepped on land in the U.S.A. in this
building.”

Unlike most museums, which preserve the dead past, Ellis

Island feels almost alive, or at least within reach of living
memory. People we all know made history–American
history and their own history–in the vast Registry Room,
where as many as 5,000 newcomers a day were examined
by officials and doctors and were served meals that
contained strange and wonderful foods. Many had never
seen a banana. “The white bread was like cake already,”
says one old man who came from Russia, his voice typical
of the many oral recollections that animate the building,
along with exhibits displaying the much-loved possessions
that the immigrants brought from their own culture: clothes
and linens and embroidery, ornaments and religious objects
and musical instruments.

Strong faces stare out of innumerable photographs: men

and women from every cranny of the world. The captions
quote them eloquently on the poverty and persecution that
impelled them to leave (“always there was the police”) and
on the unbelievable freedoms that awaited them here. One
of them says, “It was as if God’s great promise had been
fulfilled.”

Is there anything more about Ellis Island that an ordinary

reader needs to know? The first paragraph is packed with
necessary facts about the site: its setting and historical
importance. It also contains an ideal summarizing metaphor
(“It was their Plymouth Rock”) and a tremendous fact about
American possibility: in two generations the granddaughter
of three of those immigrants had become superintendent of
the place where they “first stepped on land in the U.S.A.”
The second paragraph fills the long-empty buildings with
people–old-world men and women marveling at white bread
and bananas—and with the belongings they couldn’t bear
to leave behind. The final paragraph tells what kind of
people they were–what they looked and sounded like. It
also explains why they left the oppression at home to seek
a new life in America.

The language is highly compressed. Facts are crammed

into one sentence that I would normally spread over three
or four sentences, adding rhythm and grace and some
agreeable details. But nothing fundamental has been lost;
the grammar and the syntax are intact.
My students tell me that this 300-word piece is unusually
helpful. They seem to be taken by surprise by its economy–
that so much work can be accomplished just by tightening
some screws. But the English language is endlessly supple.
It will do anything you ask it to do, if you treat it well. Try it
and see.

A zoo is a place where a number of

wildlife species are housed in sepa
rate enclosures. Habitats similar t
o the natural habitats of the anima
ls are re-
created for them to live in. The an
imals are fed and are given water t
o drink. They are kept in hygienic
surroundings. An animal that falls
ill or develops a disease is given
medical attention by trained veteri
narians and nursed back to health.
Mammals, birds and reptiles as also
aquatic animals are kept in zoos.
People are allowed to visit zoos an
d take a look at the animals. Child
ren love to visit the zoo. There ar
e zoos in many cities around the wo
rld. People can go and visit zoos a
s they are open for public viewing.
Many different wildlife species ar
e kept in a zoo. A wide variety of
mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish
es and birds are kept and cared for
in a zoo. In a zoo you can see lar
ge carnivorous mammals like tigers,
lions and leopards. There are smal
ler carnivores too like the fox, ja
ckal and hyena. There are also larg
e and small herbivorous mammals lik
e the elephant, hippopotamus, rhino
ceros, and many varieties of deer.
You can see the red deer, spotted d
eer and blackbuck. The varied birds
that can be seen in the zoo let yo
u see many different colours of plu
mage. The birds can be heard callin
g and singing. Fishes, reptiles and
amphibians too are kept in the zoo
. The animals in a zoo also breed a
nd raise their young ones. A zoo is
a property that houses wildlife sp
ecies from around the world. The ma
mmals, birds, amphibians, fishes an
d reptiles that are kept in a zoo a
re found naturally in the wild in d
ifferent kind of habitats. The habi
tats include forests of varied flor
a and vegetation, mountainous areas
of varying altitudes, deserts of d
ifferent kinds, and many varied wat
er bodies. In order to keep a great
 variety of wildlife in a zoo, the
different habitats where the animal
s are naturally found are re-
created in a zoo. The wild animals
are kept in separate enclosures in
a zoo. Visitors are allowed to go a
round and take a look at the wild a
nimals. Children enjoy going on an
excursion to a zoo. While it may be
difficult to see the animals in th
eir natural habitats, in a zoo one
can easily see them in their enclos
ures. There are caretakers who are
trained to take care of the animals
. The animals are fed and provided
water to drink in the zoo. Veterina
rians also provide medical attentio
n to the animals. The wildlife in a
zoo is protected by law. Visitors
are not allowed to harm, injure or
tease the animals, nor even feed th
em. There are many different wild a
nimals that can be seen in a zoo. T
here are mammals, amphibians, birds
, fishes as also reptiles that are
housed in a zoo. There are large an
d small carnivorous and herbivorous
mammals. It includes tigers, lions
, elephants, deer, monkeys, rhinoce
roses, pandas and leopards. There a
re also a great variety of birds th
at may be resident, endemic, exotic
and migratory ones that can be see
n in a zoo. Snakes such as the cobr
a and the python are also kept in a
zoo. Aquatic species of wildlife c
an be seen in the water bodies crea
ted in a zoo. The animals you see i
n a zoo are found in different habi
tats around the world. There are an
imals that are found naturally in f
orests, deserts, mountains, seas, r
ivers and other water bodies. In th
e zoo the animals are kept in separ
ate enclosures, and their natural h
abitats are re-
created. It is not possible, howeve
r, to house all wild animals from a
round the world in a zoo. The anima
ls that are kept in a zoo are fed a
nd provided water to drink. The ani
mals are also kept clean, and are m
aintained in clean surroundings. Th
ere are trained caretakers who take
care of the animals. If an animal
falls sick or develops a disease, v
eterinarians help to treat and cure
them. Visitors are permitted to go
 around and see the animals in a zo
o. The animals should not be distur
bed or teased by the visitors. The
animals should also not be fed. Peo
ple like to go and visit a zoo to t
ake a look at the large number of v
aried wildlife housed therein. Taki
ng a look at these wild animals in
the wild in their natural habitats
would require going into different
types of forests or different water
bodies or other wildlife habitats.
But in a zoo many different wildli
fe species that live in many varied
habitats can be seen in a single p
roperty. Animals that inhabit diffe
rent habitats are brought in from a
round the world and kept in separat
e enclosures in a zoo. There are ma
mmals, reptiles, fishes, amphibians
and birds that are kept in zoos. T
hese animals may be found in far of
f places that may be difficult to g
o to. For instance, going to Africa
from India to see the giraffe and
the zebra that inhabit the forests
would constitute a long journey. Bu
t these can be seen in a zoo in Ind
ia itself. Similarly, zoos have ani
mals that may be elusive and diffic
ult to spot in their natural habita
ts in the wild. The snow leopard an
d the red panda are such elusive cr
eatures in difficult terrain. In a
zoo, however, these can be easily s
een. Zoos also have endangered crea
tures. The animals in zoos also bre
ed and raise young ones. Captive br
eeding also helps in increasing pop
ulations of wild animals that are e
ndangered and threatened in the wil
d. In the zoo you can take a look a
t large carnivorous mammals like th
e royal Bengal tiger, lion and leop
ard, and smaller ones like the hyen
a, fox and jackal. Herbivores like
the elephant, rhinoceros and hippop
otamus are also kept in the zoo. A
variety of birds with colourful plu
mage and trademark calls and songs
can be spotted in a zoo. Many kinds
of reptiles are also kept in the z
oo.
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