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English 2nd Paper |
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Part A : Grammar
(Marks 60)
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. 0.5´10=5
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develop |
to |
fear |
conscious |
both |
punish |
for |
be |
Nowadays,
parents are very (a) ¾ of the harmful effects of (b) ¾ on children. Child psychologists think that (c) ¾ physical and mental punishment can be disastrous (d) ¾ a child's growth and (e) ¾. It may lead to (f) ¾ and hatred of the person who (g) ¾ the child. Again, if a child (h) ¾ punished, he may lack initiative. He may also feel
hostile (i) ¾ others.
2. Fill in the blanks with suitable words. 0.5´10=5
E-mail is the most (a) ¾ modern communication system. Students also get a lot
of (b) ¾ from e-mail. A student
can (c) ¾ his difficult lesson with
teachers staying at home. Sometimes, if a student fails to join an important
class, he can be (d) ¾ of the class by e-mail. He can also get necessary academic (e) ¾ from administrative office by e-mail. He can also
discuss his academic lesson with his friend by e-mail. In the same way, a
student can (f) ¾ with international educational (g) ¾ places for the (h) ¾ of studies. In a word, a student can think the world in
his hand by the (i) ¾ of e-mail system. So, we see that the students of
3. Make five
meaningful sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table
below. 1´5=5
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went |
the war |
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No nation |
took place |
to the battle field to save the country |
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Our War of Liberation |
is |
it without struggle |
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People of all walks of life |
can achieve |
in 1971 |
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They |
joined |
the birthright of a nation |
4. Complete
the following text with right forms of verbs given in the box. 0.5´10=5
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bestow |
have
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owe |
be |
belong |
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enable
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cause
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lose
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show
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grow
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We (a) ¾ our nature for (b) ¾ us with her gifts lavishly. We (c) ¾ a large area of land but the negligible area of land
that (d) ¾ to us is very fertile. We
(e) ¾ ungrateful to her. But
our activities (f) ¾ that we have (g) ¾ ungrateful to our soil. We are constantly (h) ¾ soil pollution by our unwise activities. As a result,
our fertile land is (i) ¾ its fertility which has (j) ¾ us to grow crops easily.
5. Change the narrative style of the following text. 5
Suddenly a voice called out,
"Good morning, gentlemen. Where are you going and what are you doing
here?" "Oh, nowhere and nothing." "But you look so pensive,
why?" "Yes, you are right, we are looking for something,"
replied the six blind men.
6. Change the
sentences according to directions. 1´10=10
(a) Anger is
nothing but a vice. (Make it interrogative)
(b) It begets only the worst. (Make it negative)
(c) So, we
should control it for our sake. (Make it passive)
(d) He who is taken by anger causes a lot of
troubles. (Make it simple)
(e) Realizing it, we should be emotionally
balanced. (Make it compound)
(f) An angry
man is not liked by all. (Make it affirmative)
(g) Everybody cannot but hate an angry man. (Make
it Affirmative)
(h) An angry man is not so favourite as others.
(Make it comparative)
(i) He is the most despised person in a society.
(Make it comparative)
(j) Nothing is
more furious than anger. (Make it positive)
7. Complete the sentences. 1´5=5
(a) It is price hike which is considered as ¾.
(b) ¾ lead a miserable life.
(c) The government has taken necessary steps to ¾.
(d) The people who are greedy ¾.
(e) Day-to-day life in the city is going out of
the capacity of ¾.
8. Complete
the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the with the root words given in the
parenthesis. 0.5´10=5
Mobile
phone is a great (a) ¾ (invent) of modern science. The
(b) ¾ (consume) of mobile phone are increasing day by
day. People are getting benefits. But it is (c) ¾ (fortunate) that mobile phone
sometimes (d) ¾ (comes) a cause of health hazard,
especially the (e) ¾ (child) are affected much.
Scientists (f) ¾ (belief) that mobile phones cause
brain tumors, genetic damage and many other (g) ¾ (curable) diseases. They believe
that (h) ¾ (visible) uncontrolled radioactivity of mobile
phone cause (i) ¾ (reparable) damage to human body.
They say that the
(j) ¾ (govern) should control radioactive sources.
9. Make tag
questions of the following statements : 1´5=5
(a) Man is fond of turning back to the past, ¾?
(b) The present may be good, ¾?
(c) But everybody hardly forgets golden, ¾?
(d) Nothing is more pleasant to him than the
memories of childhood, ¾?
(e) The memories of childhood really haunt us, ¾?
10. Complete
the passage using suitable connectors. 1´5=5
(a) ¾ fish and whales live in water.
Whales do not behave like fish. (b) ¾ they behave like human beings.
Many whales show strong family ties. (c) ¾, the youngs remain with their
parents for 15 years or even more. In times of danger they look after one
another. (d) ¾ a member is wounded or sick, the others do not
abandon it. They support it on their backs (e) ¾ it can breathe.
11. Use capitals and punctuation marks where
necessary in the following text. 5
you look a little bit like my mother he said but you
were only four jerry when you came here do you remember her face all these
yours my mother lives in mannville have you seen her lately said she
Part B : Composition (Marks 40)
12. Suppose you are Mirana Sultana. You have a Bachelor's Degree in journalism
and you are interested to build up a career as a News Reporter. You have found
a vacancy advertisement published in 'The Daily Ittefaq' for the post of a News
Reporter in 'The Daily Sangbad.' Now write a CV with a cover letter for the
post. Your CV should not exceed one page. 8
13. Suppose you are Sanjana Ahmed and a student of cantonment
Board High School at Gazipur, Dhaka. You know multimedia classroom are
necessary for modern way of teaching. But there is no such classroom in your
school. Now, write an application to the Headmaster of your school for setting
up a multimedia classroom in your school. 10
14. Price hike makes the life of the common people
very miserable. But it has become a common problem in our country.
Now
write a paragraph in 150 words on 'Price Hike'. 10
15. Climate
change is causing different problems all over the world. Bangladesh is also
suffering from many natural disasters due to this change. Now write a
composition on 'Climate Change'. 12