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Faridpur Govt. Girls' High School, Faridpur Test Examination—2023; English
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Part–A
: Grammar (60 Marks)
1. Fill in
the blanks with the words from the box. You may need to change the forms of
some of the words. You may need to use one word more than once. .5´10=5
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from |
exercise |
desire |
at |
the |
up |
to |
a |
Self-control
is (a) —— root of all virtues. Let (b)
—— man give rein (c) —— his impulses and passions and (d) —— that moment he
yields (e) —— his moral freedom. His carried along (f) —— current of life and
becomes (g) —— salve of his strongest (h) —— for the time being. To be morally
free, to be more than an animal (i) —— man must be able to resist his
instinctive impulse and this can only be done by the (j) —— of self-control.
2. Fill in the blanks with suitable words. .5´10=5
Dengue
fever is a (a) —— fever. It is a (b) ——
disease. A (c) —— called Aedes carries in virus of this fever. Though it was
first found in Africa, it has (d) —— all over the world. It lays eggs on (e) ——
water in bottles, green coconut, etc. If it bites a healthy man, dengue virus
(f) —— into his body. He feels severe (g) —— all over his body and severe
headache. If the (h) —— of this disease is found, we must (i) —— a good doctor
and take medicines as per his or her advice. In Bangladesh, this dengue fever
has (j) —— out in an epidemic form this year.
3. Make five
sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table below. 1´5=5
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Feminism |
belong/belongs |
to
eradicating existing gender inequalities |
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It never |
accelerate/accelerates
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hatred
towards men |
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Rather, feminists |
is |
to
any gender |
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They |
mean/means |
the
belief in women's rights |
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The rise
of nations |
stick |
the
rise of men and women together |
4. Complete the following text with right forms of the verbs given
in the box. .5´10=5
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report |
learn |
replace |
earn |
come |
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control |
manipulate |
paralyze |
take |
gallop |
Price
of essential is such a crucial factor that it directly (a) —— the life and living of the majority
people. The measures so far (b) —— by the government (c) —— appreciation from
the people. But it is (d) —— by despair as the majority of the people (e) ——
under the crushing burden of (f) —— prices. It (g) —— that the business syndicate
(h) —— the market prices and the retailers (i) —— out of their evil mechanism.
Moreover, the police are (j) —— to have been involved in illegal extortion.
5. Change the narrative style of the following text. 5
"Have
you cut off your hair?" asked Jim. "Cut of and sold it," said
Della. "Don't you like me just as well anyhow? I am me, without my hair,
aren't I?" Jim looked about the room curiously. "You say your hair is
gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy.
6. Change the sentences according to directions. 1´10=10
(a) Terrorism
is a devastating phenomenon of the modern world. (Exclamatory)
(b) At
present, it is called a challenge to fight against it. (Active)
(c) Who is
not now in the threat of violence? (Assertive)
(d) Terrorism
is more disastrous than anything. (Positive)
(e) It is
one of the most corrosive problems of the modern world. (Comparative)
(f) Nobody
wants his children to be terrorist in future. (Interrogative)
(g) Though
there is law to punish the terrorists, it is not properly applied. (Simple)
(h) By
applying the law properly, we can get rid of it. (Complex)
(i) We have
to create social awareness to fight against corruption. (Compound)
(j) We all
should avoid the killers of mankind. (Negative)
7. Complete the following sentences. 1´5=5
(a) If you
don't waste your time, ——.
(b) This is
the man whom ——.
(c) —— I
were a child again.
(d) —— were
love is thin.
(e) The boy
is so weak in mathematics ——.
8. Complete
the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both with the root words given in the
parenthesis. .5´10=5
Everybody
is (a) —— (like) —— to be impressed
with the (b) —— (majesty) —— beauty of the setting sun. The (c) —— (impress) ——
may differ from man to man according to man, according to his feelings, likes
or (d) —— (likes) ——. Even if somebody is mentally (e) —— (retard) —— or has
physical (f) —— (deform) ——, he or she (g) —— (joy) —— such a sight. It is (h)
—— (possible) —— to resist the (i) —— (tempt) —— of witnessing the beauty of
the setting sun. We become grateful to the (j) —— (create) —— for creating such
a wonderful universe.
9. Make tag questions of these statements. 1´5=5
(a) Many a
boy was present there, ——?
(b) What he
says may be true, ——?
(c) He let
us enter into the house, ——?
(d) She
hardly hurt other, ——?
(e) The
father rose in him to see the pathetic scene, ——?
10. Complete the passage using suitable connectors. 1´5=5
The
paragraph and the essay are different from each other. (a) —— there are some similarities between them. (b) ——, the paragraph has a
topic sentence to introduce the main idea. Secondly, it has a number of
sentences in the middle to develop that main idea. (c) —— there is a concluding
sentence in it to bring the main idea to a close. (d) ——, the essay also
consists of a beginning, a middle and an end. It is, (e) ——, obvious that the
paragraph and the essay share some common features in respect of the
structures.
11. Use capitals and punctuation marks where necessary in the following
text. 5
follow
my example she said as we shook hands and never eat more than one thing for
luncheon ill do better than that i retorted ill eat nothing for dinner tonight
humorist she cried gaily jumping into a cab.
Part–B
: Composition (40 Marks)
12. Suppose,
you are Anita of 3/5, Jhiltuli, Faridpur and passed MSc in Computer Science.
You have seen a vacancy ad for the position of an IT Officer in a mobile
company. Now, write a CV with a cover letter for the post. 8
13. Suppose,
you are Shinthia of class X of ABC High School, Rajbari, Now, write an
application to your Head Teacher to make the school campus Dengue free. 10
14. Write a
paragraph in about 250 words on "Deforestation." 10
15. Write a composition in about 300 words on
"The profession you like most." 12
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