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Govt. Laboratory High School, Dhaka Test Examination; English : Paper II |
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Part
A : Grammar (40 Marks)
1. Complete
the passage with suitable verbs from the list. Put them in the correct tenses.
Use negatives where necessary. 1x5=5
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use |
adopt |
divide |
finish |
hold |
work |
last |
2. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions. 1x5=5
The evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master (a) —— his cook’s uniform, stationed himself (b) —— the copper; his pauper assistants arranged themselves (c) —— him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered (d) —— each other, and winked (e) —— Oliver, while his next neighbours nudged him.
3. Use
articles where necessary. Put a cross (x) where an article is not needed. 0.5x10=5
Dowry
means property or money brought by a bride to her (a) —— husband. During
marriage ceremony (b) —— section of greedy people claim much wealth or money
from (c) —— guardians of (d) —— brides. (e) —— poor illiterate girls usually
become (f) —— victims of dowry. If (g) —— guardians fail to accomplish (h) ——
demand of (i) —— bridegrooms, the brides are ill-treated. So, the poor cannot
think of marriage of their daughters. It is (j) —— special curse. We all have
to stand against this social evil.
4. Fill
in the gaps with suitable phrases and idioms from the following list. 5
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right and left |
nine days wonder |
of the first water |
ram into |
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over head and ears |
rule out |
tell upon |
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(a) Less sleep at last —— her health.
(b) His achievement will remain a —— to escape
arrest.
(c) The snatcher ran —— to escape arrest.
(d) He is in love with Mina ——.
(e) We cannot —— the possibility of failure in
Cadet College.
5.
Rewrite the following in the reported speech. 1x5=5
“Did Dr Dunbar sew may nose once again?” I asked her.
“Yes,” she said.
“Will it stay on?”
“He says, It will. How do you feel my darling?”
“Sick,” I said.
“Look under your pillow,” my mother said smiling.
6. Read
the following passage and transform the underlined sentences as directed in the
brackets. 1x5=5
(a) A poor woman is the worst sufferer
in our country. (Positive) (b) She cannot work independently without
taking help of others. (Compound)
(c) She depends on pity of the people of the society. (Complex) (d) She
leads a very wretched life. (Exclamatory) The father took the female child
to be his a burden, (e) but Allah granted them equal civil rights.
(Passive)
7.
Add tag questions to the following sentences. 1x5=5
(a) I am right, ——?
(b) Let’s walk to the shore, ——?
(c) Nobody cared for the child, ——?
(d) Your luck has let down you this time, ——?
(e) She never wastes her any moment, ——?
8. Complete
the following sentences. 1´5=5
(a) As soon as he heard the news ——
(b) The boy hid behind the bush lest, ——
(c) Had we met earlier, ——
(d) ——, you learned your lessons.
(e) —— was not known to me.
Part
B : Composition (60 Marks)
9. Write
a paragraph on “Our School Magazine”. Your answer should include the answers to
the following questions. 10
(a)
What is called a school magazine? (b) Who publishes this? (c) What is the name
of it? (d) Who are included in the committee? (e) Who write in it? (f) How can
it help the students?
10. Suppose,
you are Mazhar of the village Deyana, Upazilla-Daulatpur, District-Khulna.
Recently a severe flood has affected the village seriously. People are
suffering the aftermath of the flood. They need immediate help. Now write an
application to the Deputy Commissioner of your district for relief and medical
aid for the affected people. 10
11. Write a short composition on any one of the
following topics in about 200 words. 15
(a) The Season You Like Most (b) Science in
Everyday Life.
12. Suppose, you are Rana and you are an SSC
candidate. Regular traffic congestion has got on your nerves nowadays. Now,
write a dialogue between you and your friend Sabbir about how this traffic
blockage has been interrupting your normal way of life. 10
Or, Write
the summary of the following passage and a suitable title.
Sincerity
is the root of success of all works. One can go a long way if one does anything
with sincerity. The people who are sincere to their work are capable of making
anything a success. The great men are sincere because they know that sincerity
is the key to success. Those who do not follow the rules of sincerity can never
prosper in life. The people who are not sincere always lag behind. If they do
not know the benefit of sincerity, they cannot make a good use of it. Sincerity
is the tonic to any work because it helps the work to be done properly. If any
work is not done properly, one will never get good output from it. So we should
be sincere in every walk of life. Sincerity does not mean only to do any work
properly. It also means dutifulness, honesty and modesty.
13. Read the beginning of the following story and
complete it in your own way. Give a suitable title to it. 15
One
day two cats found a piece of bread somewhere. Each of them wanted to have the
larger share of it. They began wrangling. They could not decide how to deal out
with that piece of bread. They.................
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