ইংরেজি প্রথমপত্র
আব্দুল্লাহ আল মামুন, সিনিয়র শিক্ষক
ন্যাশনাল আইডিয়াল স্কুল এন্ড কলেজ, ঢাকা
Time: 3 Hours Marks: 100
Part-A [Reading Test-50 Marks]
Read the passage. Then answer the questions below (1-2).
"Heritage is what inherit from the past live with them in the present and then pass on to our children or future generation. Our unique source of life and inspiration is our cultural and natural heritage. When we speak of World Heritage, it indicates places and sites that we got from the past and pass on to the future generation of the entire world. The Shat Gambuj Mosque in Bagerhat is such a heritage. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. Originally, the historic Mosque City was known as Khalifatabad. It is situated at the outskirts of Bagerhat town not very far from the dense mangrove forest of the Sundarbans. Klialifatabad was a Muslim colony. It was founded by the Turkish general, a saint warrior Ulugh Khan Jahan in the 15th century. The infrastructure of the city reveals significant technical skills in many mosques as well as early Islamic monuments. Baked bricks are used for the construction of the buildings. The planning of the city was distinctly dominated by Islamic architecture and the decorations are a combination of Mughal and Turkish architecture.
Khan Jahan built a network of roads, bridge, public buildings and reservoirs to make the city habitable. There are about 360 mosques in the city. Among them the most remarkable is the multi-domed Shat Gombuj Mosque. The mosque is unique in the sense that it has 60 pillars that support the roof, with 77 low Wit domes. The 4 towers at 4 corners have smaller domes on the roof as well. The vast prayer hall has 11 arched doorways on the east and 7 each on the north and south for light and ventilation. It has 7 aisles running along the lengtli of the mosque and 11 deep curves between the slender stone columns. These columns support the curving arches created by the domes. The thickness of the arches is 6 feet and have slightly narrowing hollow and round wall.
The west wall in the interior has 11 'mihrabs' (niche in mosque pointing towards Makkah). These mihrabs are decorated with stonework and terracotta. The floor of the mosque is made of brick.
Besides being used as a prayer hall, Khan Jahan used the mosque as his court too. Today, it is one of the greatest tourist attractions and one of the best architectural beauties of Bangladesh.
1. Choose the correct answer from the following
alternatives: 1 × 7 = 7
(a) In paragraph 3, the author says, "The planning of the city was distinctly dominated by Islamic architecture." What does the author mean by this'?
(i) The city has very religious people
(ii) The design of the city resembles the architecture of Islamic countries
(iii) The planning is Islamic in nature
(iv) All the buildings look like mosques
(b) Which of the following describes Khan Jahan Ali best?
(i) Kind
(ii) Warrior (iii) Philanthropic
(iv) Pious
(c) The original name of the city of 'Shat Gambuj Mosque' is -
(i) Bagerhat (ii) Sundarbans
(iii) Khalifatabad (iv) Khulna
(d) Khan Jahan originally came from -
(I) Bagerhat (ii) Delhi
(iii) Turkey (iv) Makkah
(e) The phrase 'our future generation' means -
(i) people who see the future (ii) people who will come gradually
(iii) our future activities (iv) those who come after us
(f) Which of the following has the closest meaning of the word 'generation' used in line 2?
(i) People (ii) Age (iii) Group(iv) Production
(g) The main purpose of the author of this passage is -
(i) to show the heroism of Khan Jahan Ali
(ii) to show the infrastructure of Bagerhat district
(iii) to represent Shat Gambuj Mosque built by Khan Jahan Ali
(iv) to introduce Khan Jahan Ali to the readers
2. Answer the following questions: 2 × 5 = 10
(a) What is Mosque city? Why is it called so?
(b)"Our unique source of life and inspiration is our cultural and natural heritage." Why does the author say this? Explain it in 2/3 sentences.
(c)What did Khan Jahan do to make the city livable?
(d) What makes the mosque unique?
(e) How will you justify the view that Khan Jahan Ali was a great-hearted Muslim colonizer? Why/Why not? Explain in 2/3 sentences.
Read the following passage and answer the question no 3.
Lake Baikal is the deepest and one of the biggest and most ancient lakes of the world. It is situated almost in the centre of Asia. Lake Baikal is a gigantic bowl set at 445 meters above sea level. This grand, enormous, unusual and charming miracle of nature is located in the south of Eastern Siberia, in the Buryat Autonomous Republic and region of Irkutsk, Russia.
The lake covers 31,500 sq.km. It is 636 km long and an average of 48 km wide. The widest point of the lake is 79.4 km. The water basin occupies 557,000 sq. km. and contains 23,000 cii.km. (cubic kilometer) of water, which is about one-fifth of the world's reserves fresh surface water. There are hot springs in the surrounding area of Lake Baikal. The quality of the water of these springs is excellent. Baikal is a stormy lake. The wind blows various directions and the weather depends on the wind. If it is blowing from the north, the weather is bright and sunny. The water of the lake looks green and dark blue. But if the winds get stronger, Baikal turns black, waves rising high with white crest. The beauty of Lake Baikal is exceptional.
3. Read the above text and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text. 1× 5 = 5
The deepest and the most ancient lake of the world is the lake Baikal. The (a) - position of this magnanimous lake is nearly in the heart of Asia. The area of this lake is 31000 sq km. The lake Baikal is (b) - by many hot springs which are excellent (c) - of water. Due to the blowing of the wind into several direction, the lake Baikal always (d) - a stormy look green and dark blue aspects of the lake water are quite natural (e)- here are the fury of the wind.
Read the passage on Titanic and answer the questions No. 4 and 5:
In 1912 an American Shipping Company launched a new ship called the Titanic. It was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of that time. It weighed 46,000 tones and could carry about 2, 200 passengers. Experts said that nothing could sink it. It was definitely unsinkable. On April 14, 1912 the ship sailed on its first voyage across the Atlantic from Southampton in England to New York in the United States with 2 244 passengers -men, women and children. On April 15 just before midnight, the ship struck an iceberg. The iceberg tore a great hole in the ship's side and unsinkable Titanic' began to sink. There was a great alarm on board. Warning bells rang out. Every one rushed to the lifeboat but there was not enough room for them all. There was room for only 1178 passengers. The lifeboats took mostly women and children. It was a terrible scene.
4. Complete the table below with information .from the above passage: 1 × 5 = 5
5. Write a summary of the above passage in your own
words. 10
6. Match the parts of sentences given in column 'A, 'B' and 'C' to write five complete sentences : 1×5 = 5
Column A
Column B
Column C
(a) Bangladesh is affected with many problems
(i) removing theseproblems atfirst we
have to educate
(i) the government to rootout the evils from the society.
(b) Our government has taken a number of steps
(ii) such as poverty, environment
pollution, unemployment
(ii) our people in the truest sense of the term.
(c) The government alone cannot remove these problems and so private organizations
(iii) against these problem and it has advanced
(iii) terrorism, violence
against women, etc.
d) As part of the process of alleviating and
(iv) be put up through media so that people
(iv) being aware' of these evils, can assist the government.
(e) Along side it, the causes and effects of these problems should
(v) as well as people from all walks of life cooperate with
v) closer to alleviating or removing these problems.
7. Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. You need to make a box for writing corresponding numbers. 8
a.Porus came forward with his men and arms in order to defend his land from the attack of Alexander
b.But unfortunately, he was defeated in a battle and then he was taken prisoner.
c.'Like a king', was the reply of Porus.
d.Alexander asked him how he would like to be treated.
e.He allowed him to rule his country as before.
f.Alexander was pleased with his bold reply.
g.He was brought before Alexander.
h.Alexander, the king of Macedon, attacked the land of Porus.
Part B [Writing Test - 50 Marks]
8. Write a paragraph on 'A School Magazine. You should write about 250 words. 10
9. Read the beginning of a story. Write ten new sentences to complete the story. 10
Once there lived an honest woodcutter who used to go to the forest to cut down trees ............
10. The following chart shows the internet users of 1998-2000. Describe the graph in your own words highlighting and submersing the information given the chart:- 10
11. Suppose, you have a friend named Tahmid/TahminaHe/She lives at Sonapur in Rangpur district. He/She wants to know about the prize giving ceremony of your school. Now write a letter to him/her about the prize giving ceremony of your school.10 12. Write a dialogue between two friends about the bad effects of smoking. 10
