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Alamdanga Degree College, Chuadanga
Test Examination-2017; English 2nd Paper
Part A: Grammar: 60 Marks
- Fill in the blanks in the following text with articles (a/an/the) as necessary. Some of the blanks may not require an article. Put a (´) those blanks. 0.5´10=5
To become (a) ¾ educated person is probably the most significant change in one’s life. (b) ¾ education is (c) ¾ locomotive that drives much of the economic development throughout (d) ¾ world. It works as a vehicle for (e) ¾ personal success. (f) ¾ illiterate person can’t be successful in his life. He can’t even contribute to (g) ¾ development of the society. He is (h) ¾ burden to the society. (i) ¾ literate person is (j) ¾ honourable man because he can contribute to the progress of the society.
- Complete the text with suitable prepositions. 0.5´10=5
During holidays when my mother went to sleep (a) ¾ noon, we went to the railway line. There, along with other children I watched how the trains passed (b) ¾ innumerable unknown facts. My father got an appointment (c) ¾ a town school and he moved (d) ¾ the town immediately with all the members of the family. I was admitted (e) ¾ my father’s school. I felt that my school fellows had no feeling (f) ¾ one another as we had in the village. However, I have gradually adjusted myself (g) ¾ town life. I am happy with my new friends but my heart aches (h) ¾ the happy childhood days. Childhood is free (i) ¾ worries and has infinite capacity (j) ¾ enjoyment.
- Complete the sentences with suitable phrases/ words given in the box. 0.5´10=5
| there | as soon as | what’s it like | what dose …. look like | was born |
| would rather | have to | as if | let alone | had better |
(a) We ¾ be conscious of environmental pollution.
(b) You ¾ go to the concert than stay at home.
(c) We ¾ stop cutting down trees. Deforestation is detrimental to environment.
(d) He can’t recall the incident ¾ the causes of it. He become a victim of it.
(e) It looks ¾ it were going to rain. Everybody expects rain.
(f) I plan to move ¾ I find another apartment. I went to live in a well furnished apartment.
(g) ¾ listening to others? You don’t want to talk to others.
(h) Daughter : Mom, ¾ an albatross ¾?
(i) ¾ seemed to be no doubt about it. It is wonderful.
(j) Sir, Walter Scott was a poet and novelist. He ¾ in 1771.
- Complete the sentences using clauses/phrases. 0.5´10=5
(a) Good results don’t come without hard work. The students are working hard so ¾.
(b) Mini saw me. She called me while ¾.
(c) Love is mutual. You can’t win the heart of the people without showing that ¾.
(d) You have become lazy nowadays. You are falling behind as ¾.
(e) I think that you should come. It does not matter whether ¾.
(f) People love a patriot. A traitor betrays the whole country whereas ¾.
(g) He needs a cycle to go to college. He will ride the cycle so that ¾.
(h) He is known to be a good athlete. He ran so fast lest ¾.
(i) He is supposed to lose the chance. We will play no role ¾.
(j) We have always known him to be honest. It was beyond my imagination that ¾.
- Read the text and fill in the gaps with correct form of verbs as per subject and context. 0.5´10=5
Now, the most acute problem, accommodation problem, (a) ¾ (face) by the women garment workers of our country. No attempt yet (b) ¾ (make) so far to provide shelters to them. Sometimes they are not (c) ¾ (let) houses by the house owners. It is high time we (d) ¾ (take) steps regarding this matter. Some hostels for women garment workers (e) ¾ (establish) by the Nari Uddug Kendra. Safe housing and furnished accommodations are provided by these hostels. Had the government and the private sectors come forward, the shelter problem of women garment workers in Dhaka city (f) ¾ (solve) a great deal. She along with the members of her family (g) ¾ (suffer) much. She continues to suffer as though she not (h) ¾ (suffer) much. The government desires the problem had better (i) ¾ (solve) by private sector. Unfortunately, no survey of the problems of garment workers (j) ¾ (do) by the government.
- Read the text and change the sentences as directed. 1´5=5
Frugality is a good habit. (a) A man who is frugal does not like to spend money without reasons (Simple). (b) The target of a frugal man is to save money for future (Complex). (c) Everyone should practice frugality to make a well-planned family (Passive). (d) Since he is a frugal man, he can spend it in time of crisis (Compound). (e) A frugal man is happier than a prodigal man (Positive).
- Read the text and change the sentence as directed. 5
“Will you buy my hair?” asked Della. “I buy hair,” said Madame. “Take your hat off and let’s have a sight at the locks of it. Twenty dollars,” said Madame. “Give it to me quick,” said Della.
- Identify the unclear pronoun references in the following passage. Where necessary, rewrite the sentences so that all pronoun references are clear. 1´5=5
On a summer day, becoming very thirsty, a lion and a boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink. Those fiercely quarrelled which of them should drink first, and were soon engaged in a moral fighting. On his stopping on a sudden to take breath for renewal of the fighting, it saw some vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one which should fall first. They at once stopped the quarrel, saying. “That is better for us to make friends than to become the food of crows or vultures, as will certainly happen if ourselves are disabled.”
- Read the following text and use modifiers as directed in the blank space. 0.5´10=5
St. Martian’s Island, (a) ¾ (post-modify the noun with an appositive), is about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf peninsula. It is the (b) ¾ (use adjective to pre-modify the noun phrase) coral island in Bangladesh. It is about 8 km west in (c) ¾ (use determiner to pre-modify the noun) north-west coast of Myanmar at the mouth of the Naf river. The (d) ¾ (use adjective to pre-modify the noun phrase) name of the island has become a popular (e) ¾ (use noun djective) spot. Three shipping liners run (f) ¾ (use adjective to pre-modifier the noun) trips to the island. (g) ¾ (use demonstrative to pre-modify the noun) liners are Kutubdia, Sea-Truck and Keary-Sindbad. Tourists can book (h) ¾ (use possessive to pre-modify the noun) trip either from Chittagong or from Cox’s Bazar. The island is home to a (i) ¾ (use quantifier to pre-modify the noun) endangered species of turtles, as well as corals, some of which are found only on (j) ¾ (use demonstrative to pre-modify the noun) island.
- Use appropriate sentence connectors in the blank spaces of the following passage :
0.5´10=5
Education is essential for any kind of development. (a) ¾, no development is possible without education. (b) ¾, most of the people in Bangladesh are illiterate. (c) ¾ most of the people here live below the poverty line. (d) ¾, they cannot afford to send their children to school. The uneducated have no knowledge of health and sanitation. (e) ¾, they are not aware of population control. (f) ¾, they are not aware of what is right and what is wrong for them. (g) ¾, they are to suffer a lot. (h) ¾ if they were educated, they could live a healthy and pleasant life. (i) ¾, education should be ensured for all. (j) ¾, the people will be a great burden on the nation.
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- Read the passage and then write the synonym or antonym of the words as directed below: 0.5´10=5
Presentation is a very important issue in good witting. Your opening paragraph should arrest the readers attention and show him what you are writing about and why. If you are going to give the readers some information, tell them what subject you are going to deal with if you are going to argue in support of a particular point of view, say what this point of view is. The main body of your place of writing should collect together and present the ideas promised in the first paragraph or give good arguments to support the view put forward there. You should come to the point at once; say what you promised to say avoiding irrelevant material then finish. Your last paragraph or sentence should bring what have written to satisfying end.
(a) Important (antonym); (b) arrest (synonym); (c) subject (synonym); (d) support (antonym); (e) present (synonym); (f) first (antonym); (g) forward (antonym) (h) irrelevant (synonym); (i) last (synonym); (j) satisfying (antonym).
- 12. There are ten errors in the use of punctuation marks in the following text. Rewrite the text correcting the errors. 5´10=5
Anis : Excuse me where is the nearest hosptial.
Naim : Its about 2 kilometers from here you will have to hire a taxi you a can also go by bus
Anis : I see is there a bus station near here
Naim : yes there is a bus stop at the corner
Anis : Thank you
Naim : Don’t mention it.
Part B: Composition: 40 Marks
13 Write an application to the principal of your college for setting up a “Computer Lab” in your college. 8
14 Write a report on the devastating consequences of drug addiction in the context of Bangladesh. 8
15 Write a paragraph on the uses and abuses of “Facebook”. 10
16 Write a composition on “Female Education”. 14
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