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66. Bogra Govt. Girls’ High School, Bogra
Read the following text carefully and answer the questions 4 & 5.
Before Helen Keller was two years old, she lost her sight and hearing. She lived in a world of confusion until the arrival of Anne Mausfield Sullivan, the woman who was to change Helen’s life. On March 3, 1887, Miss Sullivan arrived at the Keller’s home.
It was three months before Helen’s seventh birthday. Miss Sullivan worked closely with her new student. At times, the teacher became frustrated, eventually; Miss Sullivan’s efforts were rewarded. The deaf and blind Helen Keller learned to communicate verbally.
- Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.
A | B |
(i) ……………… | has no power of sight and hearing |
Sullivan arrived at Helen’s home | (ii) ………………… |
Helen Keller’s teacher | (iii) ………………. |
(iv) ……………….. | Keller became able to communicate |
(v) ………………… | was intimate with Helen Keller |
- Read the passage again and write true or false beside the following statements. Give answers for the false statements.
(a) Helen Keller was blind since her birth.
(b) Anne Sullivan was Helen Keller’s teacher.
(c) Sometimes Sullivan became frustrated.
(d) Sullivan arrived at Keller’s home on March 3, 1887.
(e) Finally, Helen Keller was able to communicate verbally.
67. BIAM Model School & College, Bogra
Read the passage carefully and answer questions 4 & 5.
Suchitra Sen, a legendary Indian actress, was born on 6 April, 1931 in Pabna, Bangladesh. Her father Karunamoy Dasgupta was the headmaster of the local school and her mother Indira Devi was a homemaker. She was their fifth child and third daughter.
She received her formal education in Pabna. Partition threw off her family to West Bangal. She was the first Indian actress to receive an award at an International Film Festival. She was awarded the Padmashri, one of the highest civilian awards in India at the age of 41.
From 1979 on, she retreated herself from public life. In 2005, she refused the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. In 2012, she was conferred the West Bengal Government’s highest honour : Bangla Bibhushan. She departed on 17 January, 2014 in Kolkata, India.
- Complete the following table with the information from the given passage.
Who/What | Information | Where/Place | When/Time |
Suchitra Sen | born | (i) ……………… | 6 April, 1931 |
Padmashri | (ii) …………….. | India | |
(iii) …………. | threw her off | West Bengal | |
Suchitra | retreated herself | (iv) …………………. | |
She | departed | (v) …………….. | 2014 |
- Write true or false beside the following statements. Give the correct answer for the false statements.
(a) Suchitra Sen was the third child of her parents.
(b) Suchitra was awarded Padmashri in 1974.
(c) Dadashaheb Phalke is the highest civilian award in India.
(d) Suchitra’s father taught in a college.
(e) She breathed her last in Kolkata.
68. Govt. K.D. High School, Naogaon
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions 4 & 5.
Liberation does not descend upon people. People must raise themselves to it. It is a fruit that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. That freedom means freedom only from foreign domination is an out-worn idea.
It is not merely the government that should be free but people themselves should be free and freedom has no real value for the common men and women unless it also means freedom from want, freedom from disease, freedom from ignorance.
This is the main talk which confronts us if we are to take our rightful place in the modern world. We can’t hold the clock back and therefore, it is we who must go forward at a double pace bending all our resources and all our energies to this great purpose.
- Read the passage again and write true or false beside the following statements. Give the correct answer in case of false statements.
(a) Liberation comes to people automatically.
(b) Freedom from foreign rule is a modern idea.
(c) Freedom from want, disease, ignorance is a real freedom.
(d) We have to use all our resources to have the fruits of freedom.
(e) We can’t take time back.
- Complete the following table with the information give in the passage.
Who/What | Activity | Whom/When/How/What |
(1) Liberation | (i) ……………….. | people automatically |
(2) Freedom | can’t be enjoyed | (ii) ……………….. |
(3) Freedom | means | (iii) ………………. |
(4) We | (iv) ………………. | at double pace |
(5) We | (v) ………………. | by any means |
69. Pabna Govt. Girls’ High School, Pabna
Read the following text carefully and answer questions 4 and 5.
Charles Dickens was born on 17th February in 1812 at Port Sea. His father was a clerk in the Navy pay office. At the age of 3 his family moved to Chatham. By that time his father got promotion in his service. But when Dickens was only 12 his father was arrested for debt and taken to the Marshal Sea Prison.
The family had to fall in troubles. At the age of 12 Dickens was bound to take a job in Warren’s Black Factory owned by a relative. They had to live with hardship, Dickens again began his schooling but he left school again when he was 15. He took up the job of an office boy in a farm.
At the same time he started learning shorthand. In 1828 he left the job and became a shorthand writer. After two years he became a reporter of the press gallery of the House of Commons.
At the age of the 18 he began to write his book Sketched by Boz which appeared in 1831. Later he became a famous writer. At the age of fifty-eight he had sudden stork at dinner and died on 9th June.
- Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.
Who/What | Event | Time |
Charles Dickens | i……………………………. | 1812 |
Family of Dickens | moved to Chatham | ii………………………… |
iii…………………………… | arrested for debt | 1828 |
A job in a factory | iv……………………………. | 1824 |
Dickens’ first book | v……………………………. | 1831 |
- Read the passage again and write true or false. Give answer for the false statements.
- a) Dickens was born in the 19th century.
- b) Dickens family fell in troubles when he was 3.
- c) Dickens got a job in 1824..
- d) Dickens had a luxurious life.
- e) Dickens left his job when he was 16.
70. Pabna Zilla School, Pabna
Read the following text carefully and answer questions 4 and 5.
Abul Fazl, educationist and writer, was born on 1 July 1903 in the village of Keochia in the Satkania Upazila of Chittagong district. His father, Moulvi Fazlur Rahman was an Imam of Chittagong Jame Masjid. He completed his B.A. from Dhaka University in 1928.
In 1930 he did his BT from Teachers Training College in Dhaka. He completed his masters in Bangla Language and literature from Calcutta University in 1940. He worked as a teacher of Bangla in Krishnanagar College and Chittagong College. In 1973 he was made Vice-chancellor of Chittangong University.
In 1975 he joined as the advisory council of the Government of Bagladesh as a member in-charge of education and culture, but resigned on 23 June, 1977. Abul Fazl wrote novels, short stories, play, memories, travels etc.
His contribution to Bangla literature earned him the Bangla Academy Award 1962, the President’s Award (1963), the Adamje Literary Award 1966 etc. He died on 4 May 1983 in Chittagong.
- Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.
Year | Event | Place |
1928 | (i)…………………. | Dhaka University |
(ii)…………….. | completed MA | Calcutta University |
1973 | was made Vice-Chancellor | (iii)………………….. |
4 May 1983 | died | (iv)…………………… |
- Read the passage again and write true or false. Give answer for the false statements.
- a) Abul Fazl was an imam.
- b) He was the Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka Varsity.
- c) He hailed from Chittagong.
- d) He breathed his last in Dhaka.
- অষ্টম শ্রেণি-JSC এর অনুধাবনমূলক প্রশ্ন ও উত্তর
- JSC : শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়‘র জীবনী ও জ্ঞানমূলক প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর
- JSC : শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়‘র জীবনী ও সৃজনশীল প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর
- JSC : শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়‘র জীবনী ও সৃজনশীল প্রশ্নোত্তর
- অষ্টম শ্রেণি: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়‘র জীবনী ও সৃজনশীল প্রশ্নোত্তর
Answer
66. Bogra Govt. Girls’ High School, Bogra
4. (i) Helen Keller; (ii) On March 3, 1887; (iii) became frus treted at times; (iv) The deaf and blind; (v) Miss Sullivan.
5. (a) False. Helen Keller became blind before she was two years old.
(b)True.
(c)True.
(d)True.
(e)True.
67. BIAM Model School & College, Bogra
4. (i) Pabna, Bangladesh; (ii) One of the highest civilian awards; (iii) Partition; (iv) 1979; (v) Kolkata, India.
5. (a) False. Suchitra Sen was the fifth child of her parents.
(b)False. Suchitra Sen was awarded Padmashri in 1972.
(c)False. The Padmashri is one of the highest civilian awards in India.
(d)False. Suchitra’s father taught at a school.
(e)True.
68. Govt. K.D. High School, Naogaon
4. (a) False. Liberation does not come to people automatically. People must raise themselves to it.
(b)False. It is an outworn idea.
(c)True.
(d)True.
(e)True.
5. (i) does not descend upon. (ii) until it is be earned. (iii) freedom from want, disease and ignorance. (iv) must go forward. (v) can’t hold the clock back.
69. Pabna Govt. Girls’ High School, Pabna
4. (i) born; (ii) 1815; (iii) Charles Dickens father; (iv) in Warren’s Black Factory; (v) appeared.
5. (a) True.
(b)False. Dickens’ family fell in troubles when he was 12.
(c)True.
(d)False. Dickens had a struggling life.
(e)True.
70. Pabna Zilla School, Pabna
4. (i) completed his B.A; (ii) 1940; (iii) Chittagong University; (iv) Chittagong.
5. (a) False. Abul Fazl was an educationist and writer.
(b)False. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Chittagong University.
(c)True.
(d)False. He breathed his last in Chittagong.
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