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Rajbari Govt. High
School, Rajbari Test Examination—2023; English : Paper I |
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Part A : Reading Test
(50 Marks)
Read the following text and answer the questions 1 and 2. [Unit—12; Lesson—2(D)]
Mainul Islam is a
qualified farmer in Naogaon. Mr Islam was very brilliant as a student. He took
his higher education from Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh. He
then came back home and started advanced farming. He has two other brothers who
are graduates in different disciplines. The specialty of the Islam family is
that they all are living in their village and all are renowned in their own
fields. Mr. Islam's younger brother, who is a Rajshahi University graduate, is
a science teacher in a local school. His youngest brother is a social science
graduate who likes to start a local NGO to work for this area. When asked
"What makes you decide to stay here in this village?" Mr Islam smiled
and said, "Look, it's true that we could leave this village for city life.
I could be a banker or my brothers could be bureaucrats. But it didn't attract
us. We are sons of this soil. Yes, we have education but does education prepare
a person only to be an officer? Don't we have any obligation to the soil that
has made us what we are?" He also added that not every educated individual
should be a job seeker. He added that since his discipline was agriculture,
after his education he took the occupation of a farmer. In response to a
question whether they had any frustration living in a village, he confirmed
that they were indeed very pleased with their life. He said, "I work in my
own farm, stay with my family members, pass time with my old friends, and sleep
at my own home. All these count a lot." Mr Islam is right. Many people go
to cities and forget or loosen their roots knowingly or unknowingly. Mr Islam
and his brothers are great—they haven't forgotten their roots. They have not
only stuck to their own roots, they have been torch bearers for others to be
respectful of their roots.
1. Choose the best answer from the
alternatives. 1´7=7
(a) What
does the phrase 'very brilliant' mean?
(i) ordinary (ii) satisfactory (iii) good (iv) very talented
(b) Which of the following has the closest
meaning of the word 'qualified' used in line 1?
(i) learner (ii) studious (iii) educated (iv) knowledge
(c) Mainul Islam lives a rural life ¾¾.
(i) because of his
failure to procure a good job in urban area
(ii) because city
life has much fascination for him
(iii) because of his
obligation to the soil which has given him a lot.
(iv) because city
life is hazardous
(d) The special aspect of Mainul Islam's family
is that ¾¾.
(i) in spite of their
higher education they are living among the rural common people
(ii) they are very
happy
(iii) they, not
having good job, are living in village
(iv) they hate city
(e) The word 'whether' is a ¾¾.
(i) noun (ii) conjunction (iii) interjection (iv) no one
(f) He has two other brothers who are
graduates in different disciplines. Here the underlined sentences is ¾¾.
(i) noun clause (ii) adjective clause (iii) adverbial clause (iv)
co-ordinate clause
(g) His youngest brother is a social science
graduate who likes to start a local NGO to work for this area. The
underlined word to work is ¾¾.
(i) a noun phrase (ii)
adjective phrase
(iii) adverbial
phrase (iv)
prepositional phrase
2. Answer the following questions. 2´5=10
(a) What is the specialty of Islam family?
(b) It's
true that we could leave this village for a city life. What does Mainul Islam
want to mean by this?
(c) How
many Mr Mainul and his brothers be our model?
(d) Describe
the metal state of Mainul Islam living with his family in his village.
(e) What
made Mainul Islam come back to his village?
3. Read the following text and fill in each gap
with a suitable word based on the information of the text. 1´5=5
Let's imagine a citizen's ordinary day at work.
The morning probably starts with a cup of coffee/tea, followed by greeting the
colleagues. Then comes the inevitable, which is logging in the computer. For
many of us the third step has become and automatic behaviour and it dominates
the rest of our work day, receiving and sending dozens of emails.
An email is an electronic mail. It is a
computer-aided way of exchanging digital text messages from a sender to one or
multiple recipient/s. Emails operate through a network of computers linked by
the Internet. There are commercial server agencies such as Yahoo, Gmail, Ymail,
Hotmail, etc. that accept the text message from the sender, forward it and
deliver instantly to the digital mailbox of the recipient. If the recipient is
not online, the message is stored and delivered later when the recipient is
online. It works instantly just with the click of your mouse. It has been a
powerful communication tool in modern life.
Now fill in each gap with a suitable wrod
based on the information of the text. 1´5=5
The role of emails is vital in
modern age because it is the age of communication. (a) ¾¾ a powerful tool of
communication, email (b) ¾¾ a revolution in this sector. A
citizen's ordinary day at work has become an automatic behaviour and the rest
of our work day
(c) ¾¾ by it which is (d) ¾¾ and send dozens
emails. Yahoo, Gmail, Ymail, Hotmail, etc. are the commercial servers that (e) ¾¾ the text message
from the sender, forward it and deliver instantly to the digital mailbox of the
recipient.
4. Read the following passage carefully and
complete the table below with the information given in the passage. 1´5=5
Albert Einstein, the
greatest scientist of the twentieth century and one of the supreme intellects
of all time, was born on March 14, 1879 in the city of Ulm in Germany. He
attended Ulm high school in Switzerland and became a Swiss citizen in 1901.He
was appointed an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in 1902. He served at this
post for three years. He received his PhD in 1905 from the University of
Zurich, but was unable to find an academic position at that time. However, the
same year he began to publish original papers on the theoretical aspects of
problems of physics. Within a few years, these papers, particularly the one on
relativity, established his reputation as one of the most brilliant and
original scientists in the world. His theories were highly controversial. In
spite of this, he was appointed a professor at the University of Berlin. In
1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. Einstein's situation in
Germany became precarious when Hitler rose to power. He moved to Princeton, New
Jersy, the USA in 1933 to work at the institute for advanced study and in 1940,
he became a United States citizen. Einstein's first marriage ended in divorce,
but his second marriage was quite happy. He had two sons. He died in 1955 in
Princeton.
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Aims |
Propoundig his theoretical aspects of problems of physics and
some outlying situation of his life to the readers. |
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Life span |
Born in 1879 and died in 1955 in (i) ......... |
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Who/What |
Event |
Place |
Time |
Why/How |
Specialty |
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Albert Einstein |
was appointed |
(ii) ......... |
1902 |
as an examiner |
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He |
received his PhD |
(iii) ......... |
1905 |
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unable to find an
academic position at that time |
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He |
(iv) .......... |
New Jersey, the USA |
1933 |
(v) ......... |
became a US citizen
in 1940 |
5. Write a summary of the above passage in your
own words. 10
6. Match the parts of sentences given in column
'A', 'B' and 'C' to write five complete sentences. 1´5=5
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Column A |
Column B |
Column C |
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(a) Friction between teenagers and parents |
(i) are the kind of behaviours |
(i) that are the result of loneliness |
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(b) One obviours reason of friction |
(ii) self-centered and want |
(ii) which the 8 think are outdated |
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(c) Moody and sulky behaviours |
(iii) is very common and one |
(iii) to think for themselves |
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(d) Consequently, adolescents are |
(iv) thoughts of the older generations |
(iv) of the major problem of modern age |
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(e) They rebel against the ways and |
(v) is the difficult behaviours of the
adolescent |
(v) which are common features of the teenagers |
7. Put
the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only
the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written. 1´8=8
(a) Now he could distinguish what so far looked
hazy.
(b) Tiny
drops of dew on them and on the cobwebs reflected the golden rays of the
morning sun.
(c) The
numerous shades of green fields, bushes and trees, which a short time before
had been uniform, now became distinct from each other.
(d) The
early morning began to reveal itself.
(e) Now
he could see what he could not see moments earlier.
(f) The
leaves and the blades of grass began to sparkle.
(g) Trees,
fields and houses that were hidden from his sight now revealed themselves.
(h) The
mist suddenly started to disappear.
Part B : Writing Test (50 Marks)
8. Answer the following questions to write a
paragraph on 'A book fair you have visited".
(a)
What does a book fair mean? (b) Where was it held? (c) What was the occasion of
the fair you visited? (d) What sort of book did you buy from the book fair? (e)
What experience did you gather by visiting the fair? (f) What is your personal
impression about a book fair?.
9. Read the beginning of the story. Write at
least ten new sentences to complete it. 10
The king of Iran used to invite the
great poet Sheikh Saadi very often to his court. Once on his way to the king's
court, the poet took shelter in a noble man's house for a night. He was then
.................
10. The
Graph shows the literacy rate of Bangladesh in different years. Now, describe
the information available in the graph in your own words. 10
11. Suppose,
you're Rajin/Rajia living at Court Para, Kushtia. Your friend is Nahid/Nahida
who lives at 45/A Mirpur, Dhaka. Now, write a letter to him/her telling about
your plan after the SSC examination. 10
12. Suppose
you are Nayeem and your friend is Akash both of you use internet. Now, write a
dialogue between
you and your friend on the merits and demerits of using internet. 10
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