English | Unseen Passage for Class 8 with Answers 36-40 | PDF

English | Unseen Passage for Class 8 with Answers 36-40 | PDF: This an important discussion on unseen passage with an answer sheet for class eight English subject so read the post carefully.

36. Milestone College, Dhaka 

Read the following text carefully and answer questions 4 and 5 :

National Professor Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim, physician, teacher, organizer, was born in Murshidabad, India on 31 December 1911. He spent major part of his life in the Government Health Services in 12 different key positions after getting the MB degree in 1938. He received MRCP in 1949. He was made FCCP in 1950.

He founded the Diabetic Association in Dhaka in 1956. He also founded its branches in Karachi and Lahore, West Pakistan in 1964. He established BIRDEM (Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders), in 1980.

In recognition of his contributions in the health and social sectors, Mohammad Ibrahim received numerous prizes, medals and honours from different organizations. Some of such awards are Independence Day Gold Medal (1979), Mahbub Ali Khan Memorial Trust (1985), Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah Memorial Trust (1989).

4. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.

5. Read the passage again and write ÔtrueÕ or Ôfalse beside the following statements. Give correct answer for the false statements.

(a)  Mohammad Ibrahim was a government service holder.
(b)  BIRDEM was founded in 1956.
(c)  He was the founder of Diabetic Association in Dhaka.
(d) He was born in Dhaka.
(e)  He was awarded Independence Day Gold Medal in 1985.

37. Dhaka Residential Model College, Dhaka

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Begum Rokeya was born in 1880 at Pairabond, a village in the district of Rangpur. Her family was very conservative. Yet she received her education in English and Bengali  from her elder brother, Ibrahim Saber.

In 1896, at the age of sixteen, Rokeya was married to Shakhawat Hossain. Shakhawat was pleased to see the eagerness of his wife for education. In 1909, Shakhawat Hossain died. After the death of her husband Rokeya started the Shakhawat Memorial Girls’ School at Bhagalpur. But the local people opposed it.

She therefore, left Bhagalpur for Calcutta and in 1911, she started the Shakhawat Memorial Girls’ School in Calcutta with only 8 female students. In 1917 Lady Chemsford, wife of the then Viceroy of India, visited the school. It was then upgraded to a High English School. In 1931, three girl students appeared at the Entrance Examination under the Calcutta University.

The school still stands at the heart of the city of Calcutta. In 1916, Begum Rokeya established the Muslim Mahila Samity. Begum Rokeya was a writer also. Through her pen she tried to awaken the Muslim women of the Indian subcontinent. In 1932, on the 9th December, Begum Rokeya died at the age of 52. At her death the country plunged into a deep grief.

4. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.

5. Read the passage again and write true or false beside the following statements. Give answer for the false statements.

(a)  Shakhawat was only supportive to his wife’s education not to her sperading of it.
(b)  Rokeya’s husband died in 1911.
(c)  Shakhawat Memorial Girls’ School still stands at the nucleus of the city of Dhaka.
(d) Local people did not try to thwart the proposal of Rokeya to establish Shakhawat Memorial Girls’ School.
(e)  At Rokeya’s death the country was fallen into a deep grief.

38. Shamsul Haque Khan School & College, Dhaka 

Read the text below and answer the question no 4 & 5.

Mother Teresa, the servant of humanity, was born on August 26, 1910 in Mecedonia. She was the youngest of the three siblings. At the age of 12, she felt an urge to spread the love of Christ and so she decided to become a missionary.

In 1928 she left home and joined the sisters Loreto, an Irish community of nuns which had missions in India. After receiving training for some months she came to India. On May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. Then Mother Teresa taught Geography and religion at St. Mary’s High School in Kolkata.

However poverty in Kolkata moved her and she left the convent in 1948 to work for the poor. She founded the home for the dying and sick helpless in kolkata and named it Nirmal Hriday.

She along with her fellow nuns gathered the dying people and brought them to his home. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize for peace in 1979 for the love and compassion for humanity.

4. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.

5. Read the passage again and write true or false beside the statements. If false, give the correct answer.

(a)  Mother Teresa was a Muslim woman.
(b)  She was born in Mecedonia.
(c)  “Nirmal Hriday” was in Mecedonia.
(d) She got the Nobel  Prize for treatment.
(e)  Mother Teresa was a student of St. Mary’s High School in Kolkata.

39. Motijheel Govt. Boys’ High School & College, Dhaka 

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions following it 4 & 5.

Thomas Hardy is one of the greatest Victorian novelists. He was born in 1828. He is both a poet and novelist. He began as a poet but his early verses found no publisher. He wrote novels then again turned to poetry with the turn of century when his last novel Jude and Obscure met with harsh criticism.

As a matter of fact, Hardy the novelist belongs to the Victorian age and Hardy the poet belongs to the twentieth century. His first novel, ÒDesperate Remedies” was published in 1871. ÒTess o f the d’Urbervilles’ is his masterpiece.

It’s a tragedy for the heroine Tess, a pure woman who is the victim of chances, coincidences and social prejudices. Actually, Hardy was a pessimist in his expression as in his tone.

4. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.

5. Read the passage again and write True or False beside the statements. If false, give the correct answer.

(a)  Hardy is a writer of melancholic mood.
(b)  He started his career as a playwright.
(c)  He was born in the twentieth century.
(d) As a poet he became successful at his first attempt.
(e)  Fatalism belongs to Hardy’s attitude.

40. Bir Shreshtha Noor Mohammad Public College, Dhaka 

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George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856. At his ten he was sent to school, but he received from there a scanty education. Most of his cultural background he owed to his mother. At the age of fifteen Shaw worked for five years as a clerk in a land-agent’s office.

Then he went to London with his mother where he now and then earned a few shilling. Here he became an active member of the Fabian Society which was founded in 1884. from 1873 to 1883 Shaw tried to become a novelist by writing four novels. But they were a failure and this failure made him a playwright. His play ÔWidowers Houses’ published in 1892, made a mild hit.

Afterwards Shaw wrote play after play. Among them ÔArms and the Man’ (1894), ÔCandida (1894), ÔMan and Superman’ (1903), ÔSaint Joan’ (1923) are famous. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his great contribution in literature. Three weeks after his ninety-fifth birthday George Bernard shaw died.

4. Complete the table below with information from the above passage.

5. Read the passage again and write true or false beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements.

(a)  Shaw owed to his mother for his academic education.
(b)  He wrote four dramas from 1873 to 1883.
(c)  School had a poor impression on him.
(d) He received Nobel Prize at the age of ninety-five.
(e)  Shaw was more than a novelist than a playwright.

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