Q 1: Read the following paragraph and write down the main idea (stated or implied) as well as two supporting details in your own words. Also, give a suitable title. (5 Marks) China has many qualities. Among them the greatest quality is that like other arms producing countries, it is not the trader of arms. Pakistan is good friends with China, due to which China and Pakistan help each other in all matters fearlessly and selflessly. China is not only trying to be self-sufficient in producing heavy arms defending foreign invasion but also does not want to see Pakistan dependent in this field. Only in the recent past, a project called CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) was started to ensure a transformation of Pakistan’s economy, and alongside connecting the deep-sea Pakistani ports of Gwadar and Karachi to China’s Xinjiang province and beyond by overland routes. This would reduce the time and cost of transporting goods and energy such as natural gas to China by circumventing the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea. Numerous other countries have also shown interest in participating in the initiative.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.