HSC English First Paper Chattogram Board Questions and Answers
Chattogram Board-2022
English First Paper
[According to the Syllabus of 2022]
Time 2 hours; Full marks 50
[N.B. Answer all the questions. Figures in the right margin indicate full marks.]
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Part I-Reading [Marks 30]
Read the following text and answer the questions:
Adolescents constitute a nation’s core resource for national renewal and growth. Adolescence in a period in life when transition from childhood to adulthood takes place and behaviours and life styles are shaped. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), adolescence is the period which shapes the future of girls’ and boys’ lives. There are 28 million adolescents in Bangladesh; 13.7 million of them are girls and 14.3 million boys. The situation of adolescent girls in Bangladesh is characterized by inequality and subordination within the family and society. This inequality leads to widespread practice of child marriage,
marginalization or exclusion from health, education and economic opportunities and vulnerability to violence and sexual abuse. In Bangladesh, the legal age of marriage is 18 for girls and 21 for boys. However, 33 percent of adolescent girls are married off before the age of 15 and 60 percent become mothers by the age of 19. Research finds that adolescents with higher level of education and from more affluent families tend to marry at later age. Boys, however, become ready for marriage only after several years of adolescence and young adulthood.
- Choose the correct answer from the alternatives:0.5×10=5
(a) What could be the closest meaning of the word ‘constitute’ in the first sentence?
(i) Take (ii) Form
(iii) Add (iv) Mark
(b) The phrase ‘take place’ in the second sentence stands for ……..
(i) occur (ii) recur
(iii) go to a place (iv) all of them
(c) The synonym of ‘affluent’ is…….
(i) destitute (ii) poor
(iii) poverty (iv) well off
(d) What could be the closest meaning of the word ‘core’ in the first sentence?
(i) Alternative (ii) Subsidiary
(iii) Central (iv) Minor
(e) The phrase ‘leads to’ in the passage refers to ……..
(i) results of (ii) results in
(iii) results from (iv) results to
(f) Adolescence is a …….. period from childhood to adulthood.
(i) constant (ii) transitional
(iii) rigid (iv) fixed
(g) The synonym of legal is ……
(i) illicit (ii) banned
(iii) prohibited (iv) lawful
(h) The word ‘economic’ can be replaced by ……..
(i) monetary (ii) economical
(iii) cheap (iv) financed
(i) The word ‘widespread’ mentioned in the passage means ……
(i) limited (ii) wide-ranging
(iii) narrow (iv) minor
(j) The word ‘marginalization’ refers to ……
(i) holding a lot of power (ii) underestimation
(iii) boldness in decision making (iv) having sympathy for others
Read the following text and answer the questions no. 2 and 3:
When adolescent girls are pulled out of school either for marriage or work, they often lose their mobility, their friends and social status. The lack of mobility among adolescent girls also curtails their economic and non-formal educational opportunities. Moreover, they lack information about health issues. According to a study, only about three in five adolescents have even heard of HIV. It is also reported that more than 50 percent of adolescent girls are undernourished and suffer from anaemia. Adolescent fertility rate increased from 20.3% in 1993 to 24.4% in 2007. Moreover, neonatal mortality is another concern for younger mothers. While the situation for adolescent boys is somewhat better, many are vulnerable and lack the power to make decisions about their own lives. Many boys who are unable to go to school, or are unemployed, remain unaware of social or health issues. They are at considerable risk of being drawn into criminal activities. They are likely to get exposed to drugs and alcohol causing irreparable damage to their health and life.
- Answer the following questions:2×4=8
(a) Why are adolescent girls pulled out of school?
(b) What happens to a girl when she loses mobility?
(c) Who are more vulnerable to adolescent health problems-boys or girls? Why?
(d) What major problems do boys face during adolescence?
- Read the passage and then write the antonym or synonym of the words as directed below:0.5×10=5
(a) usually (synonym) (b) illegal (antonym) (c) demand (synonym) (d) majority (antonym) (e) maternal (antonym) (f) mortality (antonym) (g) mobility (antonym) (h) curtail (antonym) (i) unemployed (antonym) (j) expose (antonym)
- Fill in the blanks with appropriate word in each gap:0.5×8=4
In recent years there have been many alarming reports that world’s climate is undergoing a significantchange. All these reports provide (a) …… evidence (b) …….world’s temperatures are increasing day by day. This increase in global (c) ……. is caused (d) ……. increased amounts of carbon dioxide (e) …….the earth. Most climatologists (f) ……. that greenhouse effect is the likely (g) ………of this global warming. It mayharm human (h) ……… seriously.
- The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a proper sequence:1×8=8
(i) He wrote a lot of poems, songs-gazals, short stories, poems, novels, etc.
(ii) He lost his father at the age of eight and at the age of eleven he showed his poetic genius.
(iii) At the age of nineteen, he joined the Army as an ordinary soldier to the fight in the First World War.
(iv) On his return from the battlefield, he gave up the sword for the pen.
(v) It was tragic that he had been suffering from a fatal disease since 1942 and remained paralysed for the rest of his life.
(vi) In 1924 he married Promila in Kolkata.
(vii) Bangladesh became independent in 1971 and he was brought to Bangladesh from Kolkata in 1972.
(viii) Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1899 in the district of Burdwan in West Bengal.
Part II-Writing [Marks 20]
- Write a paragraph on The Victory Day’ based on the answers to the following questions:7
(a) When is our Victory Day?
(b) Why is it called so?
(c) What is the brief history behind it?
(d) How do we observe the day?
(e) What is the significance of the day?
- The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words:7
Once a golden necklace was lost from a richman’s house. A few servants worked in that house. Naturally, it was suspected that any one of the servants had stolen the necklace …….
- Summarize the following text:6
My brothers,
I stand before you today with a heart overflowing with grief. You are fully aware of the events that are going on and understand their import. We have been trying to do our best to cope with the situation. And yet, unfortunately, the streets of Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur are awash with the blood of our brothers. The people of Bengal now want to be free, the people of Bengal now want to live, and the people of Bengal now want their rights.
What have we done that was wrong? After the elections, the people of Bangladesh voted as one for me, for the Awami League. We were to sit in the National Assembly, draft a constitution for ourselves there, and build our country; the people of this land would thereby get economic, political and cultural freedom. But it is with regret that I have to report to you today that we have passed through twenty-three tragic years; Bengal’s history of those years is full of stories of torture inflicted on our people, of blood shed by them repeatedly. Twenty-three years of a history of men and women in agony!
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Solution To Chattogram Board-2022
Part-I
- (a) (ii) Form (b) (i) occur (c) (iv) well off (d) (iii) Central (e) (ii) results in (f) (i) transitional (g) (iv) lawful (h) (i) monetary (i) (ii) wide-ranging (j) (ii) underestimation
- Question and answer:
(a) Adolescent girls are pulled out of school either for marriage or work.
(b) When a girl she loses mobility, she loses her friends and social status. It also curtails her economic and non-formal educational opportunities. Moreover, she lacks information about health issues.
(c) Girls are more vulnerable to adolescent health problems. About 50 percent of adolescent girls are undernourished and suffer from anaemia. Moreover, neonatal mortality is another concern for younger mothers.
(d) Boys face some problems during adolescence. They are the lack of power to make decisions about their own lives, the unawareness of social or health issues, the risk of being drawn into criminal activities etc.
- (a) generally/normally (b) legal/lawful (c) need (d) minority (e) paternal (f) immortality (g) immobility (h) expand (i) employed (j) cover
- (a) clear (b) that (c) temperature (d) by (e) on (f) believe/think/opine (g) cause (h) existence
- Rearrangement:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| viii | ii | iii | iv | i | vi | v | vii |
উক্ত বিষয় সম্পর্কে কিছু জানার থাকলে কমেন্ট করতে পারেন।
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।
