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Class: vii
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Subject: English 1st Paper
Section A : Reading (40 Marks)
Read the
following text and answer the question that follows: [Unit-4; Lesson-2 (A)]
Shahana’s
husband Mr Zamil Huda works in a company office. His firm has a vacant
position. On several days he told Shahana, “I want you to apply for the post.”
But Shahana said, “Please don’t insist. I’m joining the local high school as a
teacher.” “What do you find in a teaching job, Shahana? I don’t want you to do
it”. Her in-laws were also on his side. Yet Shahana joined the school against
the will of the family.
Weeks,
months went by. Every day Shahana helps with the household work. Every day she
works hard to prepare her lessons. Every day she goes to school, teaches her
students and helps both weak and bright ones. They often come to her in the
teachers’ room, in the corridor and even on the road, and talk to her about any
academic or personal problems.
Within a
year Shahana becomes a very good teacher. Students give her salam wherever they
see her. Teachers, even the Headteacher, admire her. Parents and other people
in the community come to see her at home and at the school and pay her great
respect.
One day her
husband said, “You’ve opened my eyes, Shahana. Teaching is more than a job. I
didn’t know it. Congratulations!”
“Thank
you,” she smiled.
“Tell me
Shahana, how you could be such a great teacher!” Zamil wanted to know.
“I don’t
only teach my subject, I care for my students. I love them. I myself
demonstrate good behaviour and inspire them to be good. That’s all I do,”
replied Shahana.
1.
Guess the meaning of the following words and choose the correct
meaning closest to the text.
(a)
vacant
(i) evict (ii) full (iii) empty (iv) complete
(b)
respect
(i) obey (ii) honour (iii) dishonour (iv) disregard
(c)
academy
(i) farm (ii) firm (iii) schooling (iv) institution
(d)
admire
(i) ignore (ii) disobey (iii) praise (iv) avoid
(e)
demonstrate
(i) prove (ii) determine (iii) show (iv) describe
(f)
inspire
(i)
discourage (iii) influence (iii) impress (iv) encourage
(g)
position
(i) place (ii) situation (iii) area (iv)
surrounding
(h)
several
(i) none (ii) many (iii) some (iv) huge
(i)
want
(i) desire (ii) wish (iii) ask for (iv) fancy
(j)
apply
(i) request
(ii) appeal (iii) ask for (iv) submit
(k)
insist
(i) order (ii) command (iii) request (iv) persist
(l)
help
(i) serve (ii) support (iii) assist (iv) harm
(m) Huda is Shahana’s _____.
(i) husband
(ii) brother (iii) colleague (iv) friend
(n)
Very soon Shahana becomes a very good _____.
(i) teacher
(ii) officer (iii) mother (iv) helper
(o)
Her husband works in a ______.
(i) govt.
office (ii)
corporate office (iii) company (iv) none
Reading
Test (Seen Passage)
Read the
following passage and then answer the questions below it.
“Don’t be
sad, Farabi, and don’t think seriously about what your friend Harun did. .... I
know a story about friends. Listen.”
Two friends
were walking through a desert. After a while they had a quarrel, and one friend
slapped the other in the face. The friend who got slapped was hurt. But without
saying anything he wrote in the sand :
Today my
best friend slapped me in the face.
They kept
walking until they found an oasis. There they decided to take a bath. The one
who was slapped before got stuck in the quicksand and started going down, but
his friend saved him. After he was saved he wrote on a stone:
Today my
best friend saved my life.
The friend
who slapped and saved his best friend asked, “After I hurt you, you wrote in
the sand and now you write on a stone. Why?”
The other
friend replied, “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand. The
wind can erase it away. But when someone does something good for us, we should
engrave it one stone, so no wind can erase it.”
“Do you
know the moral of the story?” Flora asked.
Farabi
nodded and smiled, “Yes, we should forget our hurts, but remember our good
deeds forever.”
2.
Give short answers to the following questions.
(a)
Who knows a story about friends?
(b)
Who was listening to the story?
(c)
What did the friend do who was slapped?
(d)
Where did they decide to take bath?
(e)
Who saved a friend’s life!
Reading
Text (Unseen Passage)
3.
Read the text and answer the following questions.
Dr.
Mohammad Shahidullah was the
greatest scholar of Bengal. This great scholar was born at 24 Pargana in West
Bengal on the 10 July in 1885. He passed the Entrance Examination in 1904. He
obtained his B.A. degree in 1910, M.A. in 1912 and B.L. in 1914. He joined the
University of Dhaka in 1921 as a professor of Sanskrit and Bengali. His “Bengal
Sahitter Katha’ was published in 1953. The great scholar breathed his last on
13 July, 1969, in Dhaka. We all remember him with gratitude.
Sir Walter
Scott was both a poet and novelist. He
was born at Edinburgh in Scotland in 1771. In spite of his being sickly and
lame in his early life, he studied in school and university till he was twenty
one. The king and the queen of England requested the poet to stay in the palace
leaving his birth place. In reply to their request, the poet wrote his longest
poem “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” in 1802 which was published three years
later. The poem made him famous. “The Lady of the Lake” is also a famous poem
of the poet. He died in September, 1832.
(A) Complete the following table with
the information given in the passage.
Dr.
Mohammad Shahidullah
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Sir
Walter Scott
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1.
Born in (year, city/town)
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2.
Nationality
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Occupation
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4.
Major works
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5.
Death
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(B) Read the following statements.
Write (T) in your answer script if the statement is true. Write (F) if the
statement is false. If false, give the correct answer.
(a)
Dr. Mohammad Shahidullah obtained B.A. degree in 1910.
(b)
Scott was very sick in his early life.
(c)
Shahidullah taught only Bangla in Dhaka University.
(d)
Scott obeyed the request of the king and the queen.
(e)
We remember Shahidullah with respect.
4.
Complete the text with the right words in the box.
class
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hospital
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lady
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sharp
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college
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them
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with
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sisters
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retired
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time
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I live (a)
______ my parents, grandfather and grandmother. We are three brothers and (b)
______. I am the eldest of (c) ______. My gradfather is a (d) ______ government
school teacher. At present he spends his (e) ______ in social activities. My
grandmother is a nice old (f) ______. My father is a doctor working in a
government (g) ______. My mother is a professor of English in a (h) ______. My
younger brother and sister read in (i) ______ vii. They are very (j) ______.
5.
The texts in column A are the beginnings of some sentences. The
extensions are given in Column B and Column C. Match the texts in Column A, B
and C to make complete sentences.
Column A
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Column B
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Column
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One night Haji Mohsin
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caught hold
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of the thief.
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It
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was
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his prayers.
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The room
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broke
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into his room.
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At that time a thief
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was saying
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midnight.
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Mohsin
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silent.
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6.
Read the texts and rearrange them in correct order.
(a)
She saw a box marked half a crown.
(b)
She was not permitted to exceed it.
(c)
But her governess said, “No, you see the princess has not the
money and so of course, she cannot buy the box.”
(d)
She considered that the box would be the most appropriate gift for
him.
(e)
Queen Victoria when a little girl was taught economical habits by
her governess.
(f)
Once at a market at Wales she has spent all her money in buying a
number of presents for relatives and friends.
(g)
The princess had a fixed allowance for pocket money.
(h)
The people in the shop wanted to enclose the box with the other
articles.
(i)
But alas! she had no money.
(j) As she was leaving, she remebered
another cousin for whom she did not buy any present.
Section B :
Writing (Total Marks: 40)
7.
Read the beginning of the following story and complete it.
Once a lion
was fast asleep in a deep forest. A little mouse was there. He ran over the
lion’s body several times. The lion got up and felt much disturbed.
.................................
8.
Write an e-mail to your father in Singapore telling him that you have
done well in your final examination.
9.
Suppose, you are Habib/Habiba. You want to open a bank account and
keep your scholarship money in it. You have gone to a bank as a client and had
a talk with the Manager of the bank.
10. Write a paragraph on Village Market.
Use the following cues.
(a)
What do the villagers do in the market?
(b)
Where does it sit?
(c)
How many sections usually does a village market have?
(d)
What types of things are sold in different sections of the market?
(e) What good does a village market do
to the villagers?
