Unit 5 Lesson 3: Drojen Das: HSC English First Paper

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Model Question 34
Unit Five: Youthful Achievers
Lesson 3: Drojen Das: On Conquering the English Channel

Unit 5 Lesson 3: Drojen Das: HSC English First Paper
PART-1: READING TEST

Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.

Sea Sick

I get sea-sick in the ferry and also during swimming if there are breakers or waves. This sea sickness was the main cause of my failure to set a world record on September 8/9 or even in 1960. The night rest at the Cap Gris Nez hotel did me immense good. I felt on top of the world. The weather on September 21 was near perfect. I jumped into the water within 12 days of my 5th swim, a record in itself, after saying a little prayer, asking God to give me good weather all through and to crown me with success. Nearly the whole of Cap Gris Nez village had turned out to wish me luck and see me enter the water for the sixth time….

Plunge And After

Once in water, you get oblivious of time, distance or direction. The only thought which kept me worried, was that I must make it and that I must get good weather all the way. The second half of the swim is always very difficult. And if even little waves develop, it saps the ebbing energy of the swimmer all the more. Taking a lesson from my previous swims I kept my speed at a steady pace for I knew I would need every ounce of my energy towards the close….

I felt hungry and famished and shouted for my manager. In reply. I was told that I could not afford to waste 10 minutes in having the feed! If I have to break the record, I must swim on with all my might. But I refused …I am sorry now for it. For if I had gone on. I might have finished the whole swim in less than 10 hours and 15 minutes creating a new world record from both sides….

HSC English First Paper Unit 5 Lesson 3: Drojen Das

Last Efforts

After the feed I really got my teeth into the strokes…. I was squeezing my body for the last drop of energy I could get out of it…. and edged on inch by inch. The people in the motorboat were cheering me. I saw the flash on the Kent shore very clearly. I realized I was very close. I could see the record, like the proverbial carrot, dangling before my swollen eyes….

I kept pulling myself on … a little more, just a little more… the momentum was building up- then I felt rocks, sharp and craggy… Then a big rock appeared before me. And that was it….the shore it was..the time: 4.35 a.m. GMT: I had broken the world record by 15 minutes. I thanked God for fulfilling my life’s ambition. Then I remembered my parents. I had not failed my country.

Choose the correct answer from the alternatives: 0.5 x 10 = 5

(a) What is the meaning of ‘eraggy’?

flat ii. Unsmooth iii. plain iv. smooth

(b) Brojen Das used to suffer from seasickness___

when he was in the ferry ii. when he was in cold water

iii. when there were rocks in front of him iv. when he felt hungry

crushing ii. Pacifying iii.concealing iv. releasing

(d) The people of the Cap Gris Nez came to the shore to___

congratulate Brojen Das upon his success ii. to see off Brojen Das

iii. to welcome Brojen Das iv. to take photos with him

(e) The word ‘swollen’ stands for___

dilated ii. Decreased iii.large iv. diminished

(f) ‘ebbing’ means___

Increasing ii. Surging iii.recedingiv. growing

(g) The last half of the Chanel swim is___

less challenging than the first half ii. more challenging than the first half

iii. as difficult as the first one iv. all of the above

(h) The word ‘momentum’ means___

strength ii. Lethargy iiii. Weakness iv. flaw

(i) Brojen Das went to swim in the English Channel on 21 September 1961___

within 12 days of his 5th swim ii. within a week of his previous Channel swim

iii.immediately after his 5th swim iv. after 11 hours and 48 minutes of his 5th swim

(j)The word ‘oblivious’ means___

forgetful ii. Recalling iii.attentive iv.Mindful
Answer the following questions: 3×5=15

(a) What was the thought that kept the author worried?

(b) “Then a big rock appeared before me.” What does the sentence imply?

(d) What was the main reason behind the author’s failure to to set a world record on September 8/9 or even in 1960?

(e) What did the author pray to God before his 6th swim?

Read the following text and make a flow chart showing what Sheikh Kamal did for his friend. (No. 1 has been done for you)1×5=5

There are two other occasions when I met Sheikh Kamal at this time. In the first. I was among the group of students who had secured the top positions in their Honors class and met Professor Abdul MatinChoudhury, our Vice-Chancellor in his office. The meeting was organized at Kamal’s initiative. The idea was that we would find the encounter inspirational and our Vice-Chancellor would get to meet a cross-section of the top performing students of a particular year to hear from them how the university could augment its academic facilities for future students.

HSC English First Paper Unit 5 Lesson 2: Affectionate

The second occasion was in late July 1975 when I was leaving the Arts Building to go to TSC for lunch. As I was about to leave, I saw Kamal coming down from his car to attend classes. As always, he greeted me with his characteristic warm smile and wanted to know where I was heading to. When he found out, he insisted that he dropped me off at TSC, since he still had some minutes before his class. That was typical of Kamal. He was the son of Bangabandhu, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. and he still had time to spare for a friend!

Arranged a meeting with the VC→ 2. → 3.→ 4.→ 5.→ 6.
Write a summary of the following text. 10

Once upon a time, there was a strange man who was highly bothered to see others’ happiness. His own personal interest was at any cost important to him. Neither was he a polite man, nor did he like other people to be polite to each other. In fact, he hated the courteous and polite people around him and thus he hated a few expressions like please, thank you, don’t mention it etc. It troubled him a lot when people around were smiling to use these expressions.

The man considered all these expressions extravagant. So, he took a mission to invent a device that would steal these polite words. He calculated two benefits from his efforts. One, people won’t use these words and thus he would be relieved of his apathy to people’s polite behavior and the second one was earning money by selling the words stolen by the machine to somebody else. He took great caution so that nobody would understand his secret plan. After a few months’ hard work, he succeeded in inventing the machine he desired for a long long time.

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

type	institution	complete	reality	experience	real	practical
know	knowledge	receive	lot	customs	beginning	impractical

Our bookish knowledge becomes (a)___when we apply it in the (b)___life. In our practical life we mix with different (c)___of people and we learn their (d)___, manners and other things. The world is an (e)___. If we keep our eyes and ears open, we can learn a (f)___of things. The outside world gives us a wide scope of (g)___and (h)___.The things received at schools and colleges are but a (i)___of our education. We can have (j) ___education outside classroom through experience.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate word in each gap. 1 x 10 = 10

The absence of a (a)___tie does not mean that the Bangladeshi (b)___is completely detached from their (c)___.In the era of (d)___and social (e)___like other diaspora communities, British-Bangladeshis are also (f)___to their countries of (g)___by phone, mail. Internet and television. By the (h)___of (i)___advancement, communication of news is rapid and sustained, which gives migrant communities a sense of belonging to multiple homes. Indeed the first (j)___of migrants continues to regard Bangladesh as central to their identity.

Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.1 x 10 = 10

(a) It became a shelter for the sufferers.
(b) She was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1979.

(c) Mother Teresa was a dedicated soul and her earlier name was Agnes.
(d) She came to India in 1929 for serving the people and started her life in Kolkata as a teacher in a convent school.

(e) Then she became an Indian citizen.
(f). She established NirmalHriday at Kalighat in Kolkata.
(g She was born in 1910 at a small village in Yugoslavia named Skopje and she was an Albanian descent.

(h) She decided to become a nun when she was eighteen.
(i) Her activities spread all over the world.
(j) She began to serve the downtrodden.

Unit 5 Lesson 3 Drojen Das HSC English First Paper

PART-II: WRITING TEST

The pie chart below shows the time allocation of students’ daily activities. Analyse the chart focusing the main preoccupations. (At least in 80 words.) 15
Complete the following story following the clue. 15

King Solomon was renowned as a powerful king all over the world. Everyone became charmed at his ready wit and excellent wisdom. The queen of Sheba heard that the King could answer any difficult question instantly. She hit upon a plan to test the king and made two similar garlands- one was made of real flowers and another was artificial…..

Suppose, you are Ratan/Ratna of Kandirpar, Cumilla. You are going to observe your birthday on the 15th April. You have decided to invite some of your friends. Now write a letter to Kamal, one of your friends, who lives in Chattogram and invite him to attend the party of your birthday. 10

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আমাদের সাথে ইউটিউব চ্যানেলে যুক্ত হতে এখানে ক্লিক করুন এবং আমাদের সাথে ফেইজবুক পেইজে যুক্ত হতে এখানে ক্লিক করুন। গুরুত্বপূর্ণ আপডেট ও তথ্য পেতে আমাদের ওয়েবসাইটে ভিজিট করুন। Unit 5 Lesson 3: Drojen Das: HSC English First Paper