এইচএসসি পরীক্ষা-২০১৯
ইংরেজি প্রথমপত্র মডেল প্রশ্ন
স্বপন হালদার, প্রভাষক
নটরডেম, ঢাকা
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions A and B:
Universities should never be made into mechanical organizations for collecting and distributing knowledge. Through them the people should offer their intellectual hospitality, their wealth of mind to others, and earn their proud right in return to receive gifts from the rest of the world. But in the whole length and breadth of India, there is not a single University established in the modern time where a foreign or an Indian student can properly be acquainted with the best products of the Indian mind. For that we have to cross the sea, and knock at the doors of France and Germany. Educational institutions in our country are India's alms-bowl of knowledge; they lower our intellectual self-respect; they encourage us to make a foolish display of decorations composed of borrowed feathers..
Man's intellect has a natural pride in its own aristocracy, which is the pride of its culture. Culture only acknowledges the excellence; whose criticism is in its inner perfection, not in any external success. When this pride succumbs to some compulsion of necessity or lure of material advantage, it brings humiliation to the intellectual man. Modem India, through her very education, has been made to suffer this humiliation. Once she herself provided her children with a culture which was the product of her own ages of thought and creation. But it has been thrust aside, and we are made to tread the mill of passing examinations, not for learning anything, but for notifying that we are qualified for employments under organisations conducted in English. Our educated community is not a cultured community, but a community of qualified candidates. Meanwhile the proportion of possible employments to the number of claimants has gradually been growing narrower, and the consequent disaffection has been widespread. At last the very authorities who are responsible for this are blaming their victims. Such is the perversity of human nature. It bears its worst grudge against those it has injured....
A. Each of the following question has a word with four alternatives meanings. Choose the word which is closest in meaning in the context that has been used in the text. 5x1=5
i) What does the word " aristocracy" mean?
a)wealth & property b) nobility c) critical thinking d) intellectual
ii) What does the word "perversity" mean?
a)unacceptable b) conscience
c) morality d) ethic
iii) What does the word "feathers " mean?
a)tools b) education c) light parts of bird d) teaching methods, tools and materials
iv) What does the word "succumb" mean?
a)to not be able to fight a temptation , etc b) overlook c) ignore d) avoid
v) What does the word " notify" mean?
a) alert b) awake c) show d) manifest
B. Answer the following questions:5x2 10
a)What are "India's alms-bowls of knowledge''?
b)What do you mean by "product of Indian age" and " cultured community?
c) What do you mean by "tread the mill of passing examinations" ?
d)What do you understand by 'mechanical organization'?
e)What do you mean by "intellectual hospitality"?
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