প্রিয় শিক্ষার্থী বন্ধুরা, NCTB প্রণীত সর্বশেষ প্রশ্নকাঠামো ও মানবণ্টন অনুযায়ী ১, ২ ও ৩ নং প্রশ্নের জন্য পরীক্ষায় ৩টি Seen Passage থাকবে। সুতরাং পরীক্ষায় একই Passage ১নং বা ২নং বা ৩নং প্রশ্নের জন্য Set করা হতে পারে। তাই অনুশীলনের সুবিধার্থে বিশেষজ্ঞ শিক্ষকগণ ও মাস্টার ট্রেইনারদের পরামর্শ অনুযায়ী একই Passage এর অধীনে ১, ২ ও ৩ নং এর ওপর প্রশ্ন প্রদান করা হল। এগুলো নিয়মিত অনুশীলন করলে উপকৃত হবে, ইনশাআল্লাহ।
Model Test-27
HSC English First Paper
Question with Answer pdf download
Time: 3 hours Full Marks:100
[N.B. The figures in the margin indicate full marks.]
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Part-I: Reading Test (60 Marks)
1. Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.
............Man's intellect has a natural pride in its own aristocracy, which is the pride of its culture. Culture only acknowledges the excellence whose criticism is in its inner perfection, not in any external success. When this pride succumbs to some compulsion of necessity or lure of material advantage, it brings humiliation to the intellectual man. Modern India, through her very education, has been made to suffer this humiliation. Once she herself provided her children with a culture which was the product of her own ages of thought and creation. But it has been thrust aside, and we are made to tread the mill of passing examinations, not for learning anything, but for notifying that we are qualified for employments under organizations conducted in English. Our educated community is not a cultured community, but a community of qualified candidates. Meanwhile the proportion of possible employments to the number of claimants has gradually been growing narrower, and the consequent disaffection has been widespread. At last the very authorities who are responsible for this are blaming their victims. Such is the perversity of human nature. It bears its worst grudge against those it has injured....
In the Bengali language there is a modern maxim which can be translated, 'He who learns to read and write rides in a carriage and pair.' In English there is a similar proverb, `Knowledge is power.' It is an offer of a prospective bribe to the student, a promise of an ulterior reward which is more important than knowledge itself. .... Unfortunately, our very education has been successful in depriving us of our real initiative and our courage of thought. The training we get in our schools has the constant implication in it that it is not for us to produce but to borrow. And we are casting about to borrow our educational plans from European institutions. The trampled plants of Indian corn are dreaming of recouping their harvest from the neighbouring wheat fields. To change the figure, we forget that, for proficiency in walking, it is better to train the muscles of our own legs than to strut upon wooden ones of foreign make, although they clatter and cause more surprise at our skill in using them than if they were living and real............
[Unit-6; Lesson-1]
বাংলা অনুবাদঃ
............মানুষের বুদ্ধিজগতের নিজস্ব আভিজাত্যের এক প্রাকৃতিক মহিমা রয়েছে যা এর সংস্কৃতির প্রকাশক। সংস্কৃতি শুধু সেই শ্রেষ্ঠতা প্রকাশ করে যার সমালোচনা অভ্যন্তরীণ যথার্থতায় নিহিত এবং যার কোনো বাহ্যিক সফলতা নেই। যখন এই গর্ব কিছু প্রয়োজনীয়তার অথবা বস্তুগত সুবিধার প্রলোভনে পড়ে যায়, এটা বুদ্ধিজীবীদের জন্য অপমান বয়ে নিয়ে আসে। আধুনিক ভারতবর্ষ তার শিক্ষার মাধ্যমে অপমানিত হয়েছে। এক সময় সে তার সন্তানদের একটি সংস্কৃতি উপহার দিয়েছিল যা নিজস্ব চিন্তা ও মহিমায় মহিমান্বিত। কিন্তু তা থেকে সরিয়ে নেওয়া হয়েছে এবং আমাদেরকে পরীক্ষা পাসের ঘানি টানতে হয়েছে, কোনো কিছু জানার জন্য নয়, কিন্তু এটা নিশ্চিত করার জন্য যে, আমরা ইংরেজি দ্বারা পরিচালিত প্রতিষ্ঠানে চাকরির জন্য যোগ্য। আমাদের শিক্ষিত সম্প্রদায় কোনো সংস্কৃতিবান সম্প্রদায় নয় বরং যোগ্য প্রার্থীর সম্প্রদায়। ইতোমধ্যে দাবিদারদের সংখ্যার চেয়ে সম্ভাব্য চাকরির পরিমাণ দিনে দিনে কমে যাচ্ছে এবং অনানুগত্য বৃদ্ধি পাচ্ছে। অবশেষে, যেসব কর্তৃপক্ষ এসব কিছুর জন্য দায়ী তারা তাদের ভুক্তভোগীদের দোষারোপ করছে। মানুষের স্বভাব এতটাই বিকৃত। এটি ক্ষতিগ্রস্তদের বিরুদ্ধে বিদ্বেষী মনোভাব বহন করে.............
বাংলা ভাষায় একটি আধুনিক প্রবাদ আছে “পড়ালেখা করে যে গাড়ি-ঘোড়া চড়ে সে।” ইংরেজিতে একই অর্থের একটি প্রবাদ আছে, “জ্ঞানই শক্তি”। এটি শিক্ষার্থীদের নিকট একটি আকর্ষণীয় উৎকোচের প্রলোভন বা ভবিষ্যতের এক পুরস্কারের প্রতিজ্ঞা যা জ্ঞানের চেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ.............
দুর্ভাগ্যবশত, আমাদের শিক্ষা ব্যবস্থা আমাদের বাস্তবিক উদ্যোগ ও চিন্তার ক্ষেত্রে সাহস দেখানো থেকে বঞ্চিত করতে সফল হয়েছে। আমাদের বিদ্যালয়গুলো থেকে প্রাপ্ত প্রশিক্ষণ আমাদের মধ্যে স্থিরভাবে বাস্তবায়ন হয়েছে যা আমাদের ধার করা শিখার ক্ষেত্রে অনুপ্রেরণা দিয়েছে সৃষ্টির দিকে নয়। এবং আমরা ইউরোপীয় প্রতিষ্ঠানগুলো থেকে শিক্ষার পরিকল্পনা ধার করার অভিনয় করে যাচ্ছি। ভারতবর্ষের পদদলিত শস্যচারা পাশের গম ক্ষেত থেকে শস্যের ক্ষতিপূরণের স্বপ্ন দেখছে। অন্যভাবে বলা যায় যে, আমরা ভুলে গিয়েছি যে, হাঁটার দক্ষতা অর্জনের জন্য বিদেশে তৈরি মূল্যহীন কোনোকিছুর ওপর নির্ভর করার চেয়ে আমাদের নিজেদের পায়ের পেশী শক্ত করা ভালো যদিও সেগুলো ঠনঠন আওয়াজ করে এবং যদি জীবন্ত ও বাস্তব হতো আমাদের দক্ষতাই হার মেনে যেত।.............
A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives. 1☓5 = 5
(a) Man's intellect has a —.
(i) benevolence (ii) cruelty (iii) vanity (iv) dishonesty
(b) The word 'excellence' means —.
(i) perfection (ii) something extraordinary
(iii) greatness (iv) merit
(c) The word 'humiliation' means —.
(i) honour (ii) failing (iii) fun (iv) disgrace
(d) The word 'blame' means —.
(i) to impose some guilt on someone (ii) to acquit one from a complain
(iii) to release one from detention (iv) to punish one for one's guilt
(e) 'Maxim' means —.
(i) idiom (ii) proverb (iii) phrase (iv) sentence
❤ Extra Questions:
(f) Carriage is a —.
(i) carpet (ii) cabbage (iii) vehicle (iv) cart
(g) The word 'prospective' means —.
(i) uncertain (ii) anticipated (iii) future (iv) promise
(h) The word 'deprive' means —.
(i) to make one get something (ii) to make one lose something that one deserves
(iii) to make one win a prize (iv) to be disqualified
(i) What do you mean by 'initiative'?
(i) final steps (ii) intermediary steps (iii) negligence (iv) primary steps
(j) 'Implication' means —.
(i) implying (ii) application (iii) use (iv) misuse
(k) What does the word 'trampled' mean?
(i) neglected (ii) insulted (iii) trodden by one's feet (iv) persecuted
(l) 'Recouping' denotes —.
(i) fining (ii) punishment (iii) compensation (iv) returning
(m) The word 'proficiency' means —.
(i) perfection (ii) skill (iii) merit (iv) creativity
(n) The meaning of 'clatter' is —.
(i) to keep silent (ii) to make a noise
(iii) to create a rattling sound (iv) to beat a drum
(o) A synonym of the word 'grudge' is —.
(i) anger (ii) remorse (iii) malice (iv) mocking
(p) The closest meaning of 'disaffection' is —.
(i) pride (ii) abhorrence (iii) enmity (iv) remoteness
(q) The closest meaning of the word- 'Natural' is —.
(i) sharp (ii) flat (iii) regular (iv) artificial
(r) The closest meaning of 'learning' is —.
(i) accepting (ii) taking (iii) catching (iv) realizing
(s) The synonym of the word 'modern is —.
(i) ready (ii) prompt (iii) brisk (iv) recent
(t) In the text, 'The trampled plants of Indian corn' means —.
(i) the labourers of India (ii) the agriculture of India
(iii) the students of India (iv) the economy of India
Answer (A):
(a) (iii) vanity (b) (i) perfection (c) (iv) disgrace (d) (i) to impose some guilt on someone (e) (ii) proverb (f) (iii) vehicle (g) (ii) anticipated (h) (ii) to make one lose something that one deserves (i) (iv) primary steps (j) (i) implying (k) (iii) trodden by one's feet (l) (iii) compensation (m) (ii) skill (n) (ii) to make a noise (o) (iii) malice (p) (ii) abhorence (q) (iii) regular (r) (iv) realizing (s) (iv) recent (t) (iii) the students of India
B. Answer the following questions. 2☓5 = 10
(a) Why did Tagore call our educated community a community of qualified candidates?
(b) What do you mean by — "Man's intellect has a natural pride in its own aristocracy"?
(c) What humiliation has India suffered through her education, as Tagore says in this essay?
(d) What does 'Knowledge is power' mean?
(e) Why is the disaffection becoming widespread?
(f) What does bring humiliation to the intellectual man?
(g) "Modern India, through her very education, has been made to suffer this humiliation"- Justify this statement according to the given text.
Answer (B):
(a) Most of the people of our educated community do not study to learn but to pass the examination and make them qualified for employments under organization conducted in English. That is the reason why Tagore called our educated community a community of qualified candidates.
(b) An intellectual person has lofty thought that is usually based on firm ground. He/she believes in the supremacy of his/her ideas and feels pride in their aristocratic colourings.
(c) Indian education, as Tagore says, has failed to give the pupils any inner perfection, which causes its humiliation.
(d) The sentence is very significant and has a very deep-rooted meaning. In reality knowledge is more powerful than physical strength. In our practical life we encounter some problems that we solve through our knowledge. We can't solve them through our physical strength.
(e) The proportion of possible employments to the number of qualified candidates has gradually been growing lower. As a result the disaffection is becoming widespread.
(f) Man's intellect has a natural pride in its own aristocracy, which is the pride of its culture. When this pride succumbs to some compulsion of necessity or lure of material advantage, it brings humiliation to the intellectual man.
(g) Once India herself provided her children with a culture which was the product of her own ages of thought and creation. But it has been thrust aside, and we are made to tread the mill of passing examinations, not for learning anything, but for notifying that we are qualified for employments under organizations conducted in English. Thus, modem India, through her very elocution, has been made to suffer this humiliation.
2. Read the above text and make a flow chart showing different aspects of our education. (One has been done for you.) 2☓5 = 10
1. Not for learning anything → 2. → 3. → 4. → 5. → 6.
Answer (2):
A flow chart showing different aspects of our education is given below:
1. Not for learning anything → 2. Qualifying only for employments → 3. Making not a cultured community → 4. Depriving us of our real initiative → 5. Depriving us of our courage of thought → 6. Not for us to produce but to borrow
3. Write a summary of the above text. 10
Answer (3):
As a very committed educator, Rabindranath Tagore, the most celebrated world famous poet points out his idea on education. According to him, education should preach the truth constantly. He opines that man's intellect expresses through the pride of his/ her culture and it turns to humiliation in case of necessity. According to him, modern India has abandoned its traditional system of education by holding the tendency of passing the examination only but not learning anything. As a consequence, we get a community of qualified candidates and not a cultured community and the number of qualified candidates is decreasing day by day. Inspite of having an important maxim that knowledge is power, our very education system has been successful in depriving us of this power.
4. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable word from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary. 0.5☓10 = 5
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that in times were food than
In Bangladesh, we are accustomed to eating adulterated food. A recent survey conducted by NFSL found (a) –– around half of the vegetables and more (b) –– a quarter of fruits contain unsafe levels (c) –– pesticides. The team was comprising of 15 (d) ––. The amounts of pesticide in these samples (e) –– found to be harmful. Turmeric powder contains (f) –– which is fatal if we swallow it. (g) –– samples contained lead at 20 to 50 (h) –– above safety limit. Coriander, mango and fresh (i) –– were identified contaminated with adulteration. Poultry feed (j) –– the country had also been identified contaminated. They are found contaminated with traces of antibiotics.
5. Fill in the blanks with appropriate word in each gap. 1☓10 = 10
The situation of adolescent girls in Bangladesh is not good. After (a) –– pulled out of school, the adolescent girls often (b) –– their mobility, their friends and social status. The (c) –– of this mobility curtails their economic and non-formal (d) –– opportunities. They even lack information about health issues. (e) –– study reveals that only about three in five (f) –– have even heard of contraception. Most of the (g) –– girls are undernourished and suffer from anemia. Adolescent (h) –– is also high in Bangladesh. However, the condition (i) –– adolescent boys in our country is not good (j) –– somewhat better than the girls. The boys, who don’t go to school or unemployed, are unaware of the social and health issues.
6. Re-arrange the following sentences to make a coherent order. 10
(a) In these cases no one has right to interfere with others, emotions and thoughts.
(b) We need to preserve the human rights.
(c) It is known as a curse for a country.
(d) Human rights are being violated in many ways.
(e) In order to preserve the human rights United Nations has set up a declaration.
(f) It makes a man self-dependent and self-reliant.
(g) So, we all should be aware of these.
(h) From public service sectors to the government the will of people is mandatory.
(i) The declaration includes the rights of social, economic, political, national, geographical along with the basic human rights.
(j) As human beings, all men should have all the rights.
Part-II: Writing Test (40 Marks)
7. Write a paragraph on "Diaspora" in about 200 words based on the answers to the following questions. 10
(a) What is diaspora? (b) What do you know about the process of diaspora in the history of human civilization? (c) What are the main reasons of disapora? (d) What are the sceneries of Bangladeshi diaspora? (e) What has globalization to do with diasporas?
8. The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words. Give a title to it. 7
There lived a woodcutter in a village. One day he was cutting wood near a pond. Suddenly, his axe fell into the pond. The pond was very deep...........................
9. Suppose, you are Afsan. Your friend does not know how to open a bank account. Now, write an email to your bosom friend telling him about how to open a bank account. 5
10. The graph below shows the number of people living below the poverty line. Describe the graph in at least 80 words. You should highlight the information and report the main features given in the graph. 10
The number of people living below the poverty line (%)
11. Write down the theme of the following story (Not more than 50 words). 8
According to some Myths and legends, Gazi Pir was a Muslim saint who is said to have spread Islam in the parts of Bengal close to the Sundarbans. He was credited with many miracles. For example, he could supposedly calm dangerous animals and make them docile. He is usually depicted in paats or scroll paintings riding a fierce-looking Bengal tiger, a snake in his hand but in no apparent danger. According to some stories, he also fought crocodiles who threatened the people of a region full of canals and creeks, indeed a kind of watery jungle bordering the Bay of Bengal. Because of his alert and vigilant presence, all predatory animals were said to have been kept within bounds. It was also believed that he enabled villagers to live close to forests and jungles and cultivate their lands. Consequently, people of these regions would pray to him for protection. The story of Gazi Pir has been preserved in folk literature. In fact, some Gazir Paat scrolls are part of the collection of the British Museum.
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