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Read the passage carefully and answer the questions following it.
Feroza’s childhood was full of sufferings and sorrows. She never had a moment of happiness in her life. All she remembered from her childhood was the extreme want of food, want of shelter and want of clothing. In 1972 at the age of 12 she was married to a 24-years old unemployed man.
Feroza entered into her husband’s house with the dreams and hopes of a young girl but all she saw was more want. It was Feroza who worked for a handful of grains to feed herself, her mother in law and her husband. When her first son was born she was 19. The birth of a child meant another mouth to feed.
Feroza toiling days became harder with the birth of her second son in 1982. Her husband was still unwilling to work and therefore she had to work even harder to feed all the five mouths. From morning till dark she worked, worked and worked. When she was 24 her third son was born. Each day became more difficult for Feroza. No matter how hard she worked she could never earn enough to feed everyone.
English 1st paper model questions for SSC Exam 2023
Eight years went by and Feroza was still struggling for herself and her family. Then she came to learn about the Grameen Bank. She became a member of the Bank, took a loan and started her own ‘rice-husking’ business. Gradually she managed to improve her conditions and managed to repay the loan she had borrowed from the Grameen Bank.
In 1995 Feroza took an even larger loan and started a stationary shop alongside her husking business. She went to adult literacy centre and learned to read and write. By 2000 Feroza’s worst day were over. She had solvency, security and happiness.
1.Choose the best answer from the alternatives.
(a) Feroza’s bad days started ___.
(i) after her marriage
(ii) when her first child was born
(iii) after having a loan from Grameen Bank
(iv) from her childhood.
(b) How was Feroza’s husband?
(i) employed
(ii) job seeker
(iii) industrious
(iv) jobless
(c) Feroza’s first child was born in the year of___.
(i) 1972
(ii) 1979
(iii) 1982
(iv) 1995
(d) Feroza learnt reading and writing from___.
(i) the Grameen Bank
(ii) local people
(iii) her parents
(iv) the adult literacy centre
(e) Who or what made Feroza solvent and happy?
(i) her family
(ii) her own effort
(iii) Grameen Bank
(iv) help of friends and relatives
(f) Feroza’s third son was born__.
(i) in 1984
(ii) in 1992
(iii) in 1982
(iv) in 1995
(g) During the early years of Feroza’s life, she had a lot of___.
(i) land
(ii) clothes
(iii) sufferings
(iv) happiness
(h) Feroza wished for a ___– life.
(i) difficult
(ii) miserable
(iii) luxurious
(iv) comfortable
(i) Feroza’s husband was ___.
(i) hard-working
(ii) optimistic
(iii) averse to work
(iv) job-seeker
(j) How was the economic condition of Feroza’s in-law’s house?
(i) affluent
(ii) solvent
(iii) well-off
(iv) miserable
(k) Feroza was experiencing ___ from her early life.
(i) happiness
(ii) poverty
(iii) peace
(iv) joy
(l) The food that Feroza earned for her family members was___.
(i) adequate
(ii) inadequate
(iii) enough
(iv) sufficient
(m) Feroza had been suffering from___.
(i) fever
(ii) extreme poverty
(iii) diabetes
(iv) polio
(n) Feroza got solvency and happiness because___.
(i) she learned how to work
(ii) she got a good harvest of paddy
(iii) she learned to read and write
(iv) she got a loan from the Grameen Bank
(o) Feroza’s worst days started from___.
(i) 1972
(ii) 1982
(iii) 1984
(iv) 2000
2. Write, whether the following statements are true or false. If false, give the correct answer.
(a) Feroza though both for herself and her family.
(b) At the first stage, Feroza’s income was sufficient to manage her family.
(c) She failed to repay the loan that she took from the Grameen Bank.
(d) Feroza married a man of her own age.
(e) Her evil days were over by 2000.
(f) Feroza married a solvent man.
(g) She overcame all her miseries through handwork.
(h) Feroza had three children.
(i) Feroza’s husband worked in a factory.
(j) By cultivating paddy, Feroza improved her condition.
(k) She started a stationery shop a alongside her house.
(l) Feroza’s income was insufficient to manage her family.
(m) Feroza could repay the loan borrowed from the Grameen Bank.
(n) Feroza was born in 1960.
(o) Feroza’s initiative to survive was praiseworthy
3. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the box below.
| memories | employment | extreme | dream | however | determination |
| past | off | reality | reshaped | overcame | days |
(a) Feroza’s (a) ___-days were full of sufferings. She had bitter (b) ___-of childhood. Her father married her (c) ___-at an early age. Her husbands had no (d) ___-.Feroza’s (e) ___-was shattered by the stern (f) ___-.She became a victim of (g) ___-poverty. (h) ___-she did not get upset. Through (i) ___-and hard labour, she (j) ___-her own life.
| best | solvency | confidence | load | moment | profit |
| secured | start | extreme | sorrowful | want | succeeded |
(b) Feroza never saw a happy (a) ___-during her childhood. What she saw was (b) ___-poverty. So, she tried her (c) ___-to improve her economic condition. Of course, she (d) ___-though sheer determination. Her efforts and (e) ___-helped her to (f) ___-and independent business. She got much (g) ___-from her business. Gradually her (h) ___-days were over. She got a (i) ___-life. She began to (j) ___-a happy life.
| jobless | familiar | aspiration | within | blessings | harder |
| going | deprived | after | facing | circumstances | double |
(c) Feroza’s childhood was not unmixed (a) ___-. After her birth she became (b) ___-with starvation. She was (c) ___-of other basic needs. In these (d) ___-she got married to a (e) ___-man who was (f) ___-of her age, (g) ___-to her in law’s house with hopes and (h) ___-,she fell in much trouble. She started (i) ___-more difficulties when she gave birth to three sons (j) ___-five years.
| solemnized | dream | tale | exception | seventies | reality |
| tell | entering | rural | for | by | most |
(d) The text is about Feroza. She was a (a) ___-girl. Early marriage is (b) ___-in the villages of Bangladesh Feroza was not an (c) ___-of that. In the early (d) ___-she was married to a man who was older than her (e) ___-12 years. (f) ___-into her husband’s house with the hopes of a young girl. Feroza saw more want. So, her (g) was shattered by the stern (h) ___-. This happens to (i) ___-of the rural girls in Bangladesh Feroza’s (j) ___-is only a case study.
| best | solvency | confidence | sorrowful | profit | extreme |
| lead | moment | succeeded | want | business | bitter |
(e) Feroza had (a) ___-memories of her childhood. She never saw a happy (b) ___-during her childhood what she saw was (c) ___-poverty. So, she tired her (d) ___-to improver her condition. Of course she (e) ___-through sheer determination. Her efforts and (f) ___-helped her to start and independent (g) ___-.She got much (h) ___-from her business. Gradually, he/his (i) ___-days were over. She got a secured life. She began to (j) ___-a happy life.
| succeeded | want | poor | maintain | bitter | lack |
| poorer | feed | jobless | materialized | improve | inclinetl |
(f) Feroza had (a) ___-memories of her childhood. She grew up amidst hunger and (b) ___-of security. At the age of twelve, she was married to a (c) ___-man. Her husband’s family was (d) ___-than here. So, her vision of happy life could not be (e) ___-.There she was in more (f) ___-as her husband was not (g) ___-to work. Feroza alone worked hard to (h) ___-the family. She tried her best for a better life and (i) ___-through determination. Her efforts and ideas helped to start an independent business. Gradually, Feroza got (j) ___-and was a self-made woman who reshaped her own life.
| job | hard | happiness | poor | young | story |
| worse | succeeded | ended | family | became | example |
(g) This (a) ___-is about Feroza, a (b) ___-grilf from Dhamarai. She was married at a (c) ___-age. She had to work (d) ___-as her husband had no (e) ___-.Her sufferings became (f) ___-when she (g) ___-a mother of three children. Her struggle finally (h) ___-.She ran her own business through hard work and (i) ___-.Feroza set a good (j) ___-for the people in the village.
| fulfilled | poorer | inclined | employed | vision | married |
| maintain | poor | hers | her | want | jobless |
(h) Feroza came of a (a) ___-family. At the age of twelve, she was (b) ___-to a (c) ___-man. Her husband’s family was (d) ___-than (e) ___-.So, her (f) ___-of happy life could not be (g) ___-.There, she was in more (h) ___-as her husband was not (i) ___-to work. Feroza alone worked hard to (j) ___-the family.
| knew | solvent | determination | diligent | early | indolent |
| purpose | poor | hers | her | want | jobless |
(i) Feroza got married her (a) ___-age. Her husband was (b) ___-.In her mother-in-law’s house Feroza saw nothing but (c) ___-of money. In that situation, Feroza’s strong (d) ___-inspired her to be a (e) ___-worker. She engaged herself in (f) ___-tasks. Once she (g) ___-about the Grameen Bank. She took loan for the (h) ___-of running business. (i) ___-she became, secured and happy.
| managed | struggling | moment | conditions | gradually | learn |
| started | borrowed | worst | solvency | happiness | alongside |
(j) Eight years went by and Feroza was still (a) ___-for herself and her family. Then she came to (b) ___-about the Grameen Bank. She became a member of the Bank, took a loan and (c) ___-her own rice husking business. (d) ___-She (e) ___-to improve her (f) ___-and managed to repay the loan. She had (g) ___-from the Grameen Bank. In 1995, Feroza took an even larger loan and started a stationery shop (h) ___-her husking business. She went the adult literacy center and learned to read and write. By 2000. Feroza’s (i) ___-days were over. She had (j) ___-security and happiness.
| happy | born | tender | extreme | unwilling | jobless |
| other | hopes | dreams | less | more | much |
(k) Feroza was (a) ___-in a poor family. Her childhood was not (b) ___-at all. She was in (c) ___-want of food, shelter and clothing. She was married at the (d) ___-age. Her husband was a (e) ___-person. Even he was (f) ___-to work to the last. Feroza entered into her husband house with (g) ___-and (h) ___-like (i) ___-girls. She saw (j) ___-want in her law’s house.
- Read the passage again. Now, write a paragraph based on the information about Feroza’s life. Use the clues in the box below. Write the information in logical sequence as it appears in text. The paragraph should not exceed 70 words:
| happiness-education- childhood- business- marriage-loan |
5. Read the passage again. Now, answer the following questions in your own words.
(a) Why could not Feroza be happy in her childhood?
(b) What were Feroza’s dreams?
(c) What are the things that made her life more diffcult?
(d) What sort of business did Feroza start after taking loan from the Grameen Bank?
(e) How did she change her economic condition/life?
(f) Why didn’t her dreams come true?
(g) How old was Feroza at the time of her marriage?
(h) Why did she work hard?
(i) What do you think, Feroza’s dreams were about?
(j) Why did Feroza work in her father in-law’s house?
6. Fill in each blank with a suitable word of your own, based on the information from the passege.
(a) Feroza’s childhood was very (a) ___. She was married at an early (b) ___. Her husband was lazy. Her dreams of (c) ___shattered down. So, she had to struggle to (d) ___her family. She (e) ___some money from the Grameen Bank and (f) ___a business was. (g) ___. So, she could reapy the loan. After much (h) ___she could overcome her (i) ___.So, she got a solvent, secured and (j) ___life.
(b) Feroza had (a) ___memories of her childhood. It (b) ___her struggle against poverty. Her husband was (c) ___.She had to (d) ___hard to feed herself and her family. Her husband had no (e) ___to work. She (f) ___three children. (g) ___about Grameen Bank, she became a member of the Bank. The Bank (h) ___her loan to start a business. This business (i) ___a change in her life. She (j) ___her condition and ensured solvency, security and happiness.
(c) (a) ___of Feroza was not happy. She was (b) ___to an idle at an (c) ___age. Her dreams of (d) ___and (e) ___were shattered. She worked hard to (f) ___her family. She took a loan from bank and started a business of (g) ___.After much (h) ___her bad days were (i) ___.She became (j) ___in changing her life.
(d) The life of Feroza was not (a) ___and smooth. When she was (b) ___, she was married to a (c) ___who was reluctant do any work. She had to work hard to (d) ___her family. She was (e) ___a big trouble when she (f) ___birth to her first son. She fell in big big trouble after giving birth to other two sons consecutively. She started hoping when the member of the Grameen Bank came to (g) ___the hopless people. (h) ___a small loan from the Grameen Bank, she somehow survived (i) ___a rice husking business. Finally, she became solvent expanding her business with a (j) ___shop.
(e) Feroza’s childhood was not (a) ___.She was totally (b) ___of experiencing a single moment of happiness in her life then. The extreme want of food, shelter and clothing (c) ___presenting the most part of her (d) ___.She could not get anything more-than that from her early life, she was given in (e) ___with a matured man at a tender age. Although she entered into her husbands with dreams and hopes of a young girl, she soon (f) ___disillusioned as she (g) ___more want there. For the (h) ___ of her husband to work, she had to work harder to feed the whole family. Having (i) ___loan from the Grameen Bank, she started a rice husking business. Slowly she began (i) ___her condition.
(f) Feroza (a) ___her childhood amidst grief and troubles. She was totally (b) ___of experiencing a single moment of happiness in her life then. The extreme want of food, want of shelter and want of clothing (c) ___present in the most part of her (d) ___, she could not (e) ___anything more than that from her early life. She was (f) ___in marriage with a matured man at a time when she (g) ___not yet a teen-ager. Her husband was (h) ___.Although she entered into her husband’s house with dreams and hopes of a young girl she soon (i) ___more want there.
(g) Feroza’s life was full of sorrows and sufferings. She never had a (a) ___moment. All the that came to her (b) ___from her childhood was the extreme want of food, shelter and cloth. At the age of 12, she was given in (c) ___to a 24 years old unemployed man. Feroza entered into her husband’s house with the dreams and hopes of a young girl but all she saw was more want. Feroza (d) ___hard to feed herself, her dreams and hopes of a young girl but all she saw was more want. Feroza (d) ___hard to feed herself, her mother-in-law and her husband. At the (e) ___of nineteen she gave (f) ___to her first son, which meant another mouth to feed. When her second son was (g) ___her tolling days became harder. For the (h) ___of her husband to work she had to work even harder to feed all the five mouths. With the (i) ___of her third son. each day came difficult for her. In spite of her (j) ___hard, she could never earn enough to feed everyone.
(h) This story is about Feroza, a poor woman of Dhamarai. Feroza’s husband being a (a) ___man was lazy by nature. He would not (b) ___though there was no (c) ___in the house. He would chat with the village (d) ___, or spend the (e) ___day idly. Feroza was tender in age but mentally very (f) ___.The hardships have not taken her (g) ___off rather infused the spirit to fight and (h) ___against all the odds. She ran her (i) ___through hard work and finally (h) ___ against all the olds. She ran her (i) ___through hard work and finally (j) ___. She set a good example in the village.
(i) This (a) ___is about Feroza, a (b) ___girl from Dhamari. She was married at a (c) ___age. She had to work (d) ___as her husband had no (e) ___.Her sufferings became (f) ___when she (g) ___a mother of three children. Her struggle finally (h) ___.She ran her own business through hard work and (i) ___. Feroza set a good (j) ___for the people in the village.
(j) Feroza had (a) ___memories of her childhood. She grew up amidst hunger and (b) ___of security. At the age of twelve she was married to a (c) ___man. Her husband’s family was (d) ___than hers. So her vision of a happy life could not be (e) ___.There she was in more (f) ___as her husband was not (g) ___work. For the (h) ___of her family she alone work hard. She tried work hard. She tired her best for a better life and (i) ___through determination. Feroza (j) ___her own life by the help of Grameen Bank and strong will power.
(k) (a) ___of Feroza was not happy. She was (b) ___to a man who was (c) ___to work. Her dreams of happiness, (d) ___were shattered. She worked hard to (f) ___her family. She took a loan from the Grameen Bank and started a business of (g) ___.After much (h) ___her bad days were (i) ___.She became (j) ___in changing her life.
7. Read the passage again. Imagine you are Feroza. Now write in about 70-80 words starting about yourself. How loans, business and education changed your life?
8. Read the passage again. Now write the main ideas of the passage in your own words in not more than five sentences.
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