ইংরেজি প্রথমপত্র
মোহাম্মদ সারবিন মুন্সী
প্রভাষক (ইংরেজি)
বীরশ্রেষ্ঠ নূর মোহাম্মদ পাবলিক কলেজ, ঢাকা
Model Question
Full Marks: 100; Time: 3 H
Part A: Seen Comprehension (40 Marks)
4. Make a list of five points on what micro-finance institutions do for the poor. 1 x 5 = 5
Read the passage carefully and answer questions 5–8:
The selection interview has had a long and dishonourable history as the world’s most popular method of sorting out the wheat from the chaff. Despite being in constant use from the moment when the first cave-dweller asked a succession of nervous cave painters the immortal question ‘So why should I offer you this job?’, the humble interview has always been thought of as a pretty useless way to select the right candidate. And yet, despite the widespread feeling that interviews are only marginally more successful at predicting success at work than examining the entrails of a dead cockerel, all employees continue to inflict this unnatural experience upon successive generations of graduates.
Your performance in the interview is very important, even though some people regard interviews as poor predictors of future performance. There is a good deal of subjectivity in an interview to judge a candidate, but as a candidate, the subjectivity inherent in interviews can work to your advantage. If you manifest confidence and enthusiasm, smile a lot and generally look as though you know what you are talking about, then you’re well on the way to a result. How you respond is probably more important than what you say.
5. Write short answers to the following questions. 1 x 5 = 5
(a) How is a candidate selected for any job?
(b) What is necessary to judge a candidate’s aptitude?
(c) What is the objective of the job interviews?
(d) Who gets a job?
(e) What type of history does the selection interview have?
6. Fill in the gaps with suitable words:1 x 5 = 5
An interview is very important for the (a)————- of the right candidates. Many people (b)————- that an interview (c)———— a poor predictor of future performance. Self-confidence and enthusiasm (d)————- very essential for (e)———— well in an interview.
7. Summarise the above passage in five sentences. 1 x 5 = 5
8. Based on your reading of the passage, make short notes in each of the boxes in the flowchart showing the ways of doing well in an interview. (No. 1 has been done for you) 1 x 5 = 5
Part-B: Vocabulary (20 Marks)
09. Fill in the gaps with suitable words from the box (make any grammatical change if necessary). There are more words in the box than you need. 1 x 10 = 10
UNICEF is the (a)—— of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. This organisation works to ensure the good (b)—— life of children in the world. Especially, it helps the children of (c)—— countries. It has taken up some (d)—— projects in Bangladesh. By these (e)——, it supports not only the helpless children but also affected people of different disasters. A number of maternity and baby care centres have (f)—— in the country. Children and pregnant women get (g)—— help in the centres. Beside, this organisation has established some training centres where rural health workers are being (h)——. This organisation also plays a (i)—— role during cyclones, flood and famine by (j)—— the affected people. Again, it encourages village girls to go to school by giving them sufficient facilities.
10. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word in each gap. 1 x 10 = 10
Our (a)—— is to get a better future. Sometimes we (b)—— about something and it happens very (c)——. We imagine that we shall be able to (d)—— cancer and paralysis. Our medical science will be able to (e)—— super-drug to treat serious (f)——. It may happen that some serious (g)—— will not be treated as disease in the near future. (h)—— engineering will be able to (i)—— the average life (j)—— and man will live 150 years on this Earth.
