মো. শহীদুল ইসলাম, শিক্ষক
পারুলিয়া তফশীলি হাইস্কুল অ্যান্ড কলেজ
Part-A : Reading Test
Read the passage. Then answer the questions below. Text book: Unit-3; Lesson- 3 (B)
21 February is a memorable day in our national history. We observe the day every year as International Mother Language Day. The day is a national holiday. On this day, we pay tribute to the martyrs who laid down their lives to establish Bangla as a state language in undivided Pakistan in 1952. It is known as the Language Movement. The seed of the Language Movement was sown on 21 March 1948 when Mohammad Ali Zinnah, the then Governor General of Pakistan, at a public meeting in Dhaka declared that Urdu would be the only state language of Pakistan. The declaration raised a storm of protest in the eastern part of the country. The protest continued non-stop, gathering momentum day by day. It turned into a movement and reached its climax in 1952. The government outlawed all sorts of public meetings and rallies to stop it.The students of Dhaka University defied the law and they brought out a peaceful protest procession on 21 February 1952. When the procession reached near Dhaka Medical College, the police opened fire on the students, killing Salam, Rafiq, Barkat, Safiur and Jabbar. As a result, there were mass protests all over the country and the government had to declare Bengali too as a state language. This kindled the sparks of independence movement of Bangladesh.
2. Answer the following questions. (a) Why did the martyrs sacrifice their lives in 1971?
(b) Why did Police kill Salam, Rafiq, Barkat & Jabbar?
(c) How have we got Bengali, our mother language, as one of the state languages?
(d) Describe the contribution of the students in Language movement?
(e) What raised storm in the Eastern part of the then Pakistan?
(f) How is Language movement related to the independence of Bangladesh?
Read the following passage and answer the question No 3.
3.Read the following text and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.
All Bangladeshis remember the memory of the (a) ___ on February 21. They walk barefooted to the Shaded Miner. They proceed (b) ____ towards the Shaheed Minar. They pay (c) ___ to the memory of the martyrs. They (d) __ flowers and pray for the souls of them. They also gather in mosques, temples and some other religious institutions and wish for salvation of the martyr's (e) ___ souls.