My brothers, I stand before you today with a heart overflowing with grief.
- Model Test-01
- HSC/ALIM
- English First Paper
- Subject Code: 238
Part A Reading Marks 30
Read the passage below and answer the following questions:My brothers,
I stand before you today with a heart overflowing with grief. You are fully aware of the events that are going on and understand their import. We have been trying to do our best to cope with the situation. And yet, unfortunately, the streets of Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur are awash with the blood of our brothers.
The people of Bengal now want to be free, the people of Bengal now want to live, and the people of Bengal now want their rights. What have we done that was wrong? After the elections, the people of Bangladesh voted as one for me, for the Awami League. We were to sit in the National Assembly, draft a constitution for ourselves there, and build our country; the people of this land would thereby get economic, political, and cultural freedom.
But it is with regret that I have to report to you today that we have passed through twenty-three tragic years; Bengal's history of those years is full of stories of torture inflicted on our people, of blood shed by them repeatedly. Twenty-three years of a history of men and women in agony!
The history of Bengal is the history of a people who have repeatedly made their highways crimson with their blood. We shed blood in 1952; even though we were the victors in the elections of 1954 we could not form a government then. In 1958 Ayub Khan declared Martial Law to enslave us for the next ten years. In 1966 when we launched the six point movement our boys were shot dead on 7 June.
The history of Bengal is the history of a people who have repeatedly made their highways crimson with their blood. We shed blood in 1952; even though we were the victors in the elections of 1954 we could not form a government then. In 1958 Ayub Khan declared Martial Law to enslave us for the next ten years. In 1966 when we launched the six point movement our boys were shot dead on 7 June.
When after the movement of 1969 Ayub Khan fell from power and Yahya Khan assumed the reins of the government he declared that he would give us a constitution and restore democracy; we listened to him then. A lot has happened since and elections have taken place. I've met President Yahya Khan. I've made a request to him not only on behalf of Bengal but also as the leader of the party which has the majority in Pakistan; I said to him: "You must hold the session of the National Assembly on 15 January." But he did not listen to me.
He listened to Mr. Bhutto instead. At first he said that the meeting would take place in the first week of March. We said, "Fine, we will be taking our seats in the Assembly then" I said we will carry out our discussions in the Assembly. I went so far as to say that if anyone came up with an offer that was just, even though we were in the majority we would agree to that offer.
1. Choose the best answer from the alternatives:
(g) Give the meaning of torture.
(i) suppress
In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he shared with F.W. de Klerk, the white African leader who had freed him from prison three years earlier and negotiated the end of apartheid.
Mandela went on to play a prominent role on the world stage as an advocate of human dignity in the face of challenges ranging from political repression to AIDS. formally left public life in June 2004 before his 86th birthday, telling his adoring countrymen: "Don't call me. I'll you." But he remained one of the world's most revered public figures, combining celebrity sparkle with an evering message of freedom, respect and human rights.
(e) When he was 12, he fled away from home and took a job in a baker's
(f) But he was not attentive to his studies.
(g) He was born in 1899 A.D at Churulia in the district of Burdwan.
(h) For this he had to struggle hard against poverty.
(b) What is the difference between etiquette and manners?
(c) How are the bad mannered persons treated? (d) How do etiquette and manner vary?
(e) What is the importance of etiquette and manner?
7. The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words. Give a title to it:
1. Choose the best answer from the alternatives:
(a) What is the closest meaning of the word deplorable?
(i) pitiable
(i) pitiable
(ii) excellent
(iii) praiseworthy
(iv) disaster
(b) What does the phrase cope with mean?
(i) deal in
(b) What does the phrase cope with mean?
(i) deal in
(ii) deal out
(iii) survive
(iv) deal with
(c) Bengal's history of twenty three years is full of
(i) oppression
(c) Bengal's history of twenty three years is full of
(i) oppression
(ii) humiliation
(iii) deprivation
(iv) all the options
(d) What is the closest meaning of agony?
(i) painful
(ii) anguish
(iii) miserable
(iv) suffering
(e) The people of Bengal now want to be free, the people of Bengal now want to live and the people of Bengal now want their rights.'-What does it mean?
(i) people want independence
(d) What is the closest meaning of agony?
(i) painful
(ii) anguish
(iii) miserable
(iv) suffering
(e) The people of Bengal now want to be free, the people of Bengal now want to live and the people of Bengal now want their rights.'-What does it mean?
(i) people want independence
(ii) people want to survive
(iii) people want to have their rights
(iii) people want to have their rights
(iv) all the options
(f) The word aware in the speech means
(i) careless
(f) The word aware in the speech means
(i) careless
(ii) callous
(iii) weary
(iv) alert
(g) Give the meaning of torture.
(i) suppress
(ii) supersede
(iii) oppression
(iv) opponency
(h) What does crimsons refer to?
(i) radish
(iii) oppression
(iv) opponency
(h) What does crimsons refer to?
(i) radish
(ii) reddish
(iii) red
(iv) deep red
(i) Barrack refers to:-
(i) a permanent lodging for troop
(ii) a temporary lodging for troop
(iii) a staying place for troop
(iv) a transient habitat for troop
(j) Why did people of Bangladesh express their firm determination?
(i) to respond Bangabandhu's call
(ii) to carry out the struggle
(iii) to kill Pakistani army
(iv) to shut down all mills and factories
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions (2 & 3):
(iii) red
(iv) deep red
(i) Barrack refers to:-
(i) a permanent lodging for troop
(ii) a temporary lodging for troop
(iii) a staying place for troop
(iv) a transient habitat for troop
(j) Why did people of Bangladesh express their firm determination?
(i) to respond Bangabandhu's call
(ii) to carry out the struggle
(iii) to kill Pakistani army
(iv) to shut down all mills and factories
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions (2 & 3):
Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to a multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice around the world.
Imprisoned for nearly three decades for his fight against white minority rule, Mandela never lost his resolve to fight for his people's emancipation. He was determined to bring down apartheid while avoiding a civil war. His prestige and charisma helped him win the support of the world.
"I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I will fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days," Mandela said in his acceptance speech on becoming South Africa's first black president in 1994, "The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.
"We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation."
"I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I will fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days," Mandela said in his acceptance speech on becoming South Africa's first black president in 1994, "The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.
"We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation."
In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he shared with F.W. de Klerk, the white African leader who had freed him from prison three years earlier and negotiated the end of apartheid.
Mandela went on to play a prominent role on the world stage as an advocate of human dignity in the face of challenges ranging from political repression to AIDS. formally left public life in June 2004 before his 86th birthday, telling his adoring countrymen: "Don't call me. I'll you." But he remained one of the world's most revered public figures, combining celebrity sparkle with an evering message of freedom, respect and human rights.
Is at the epicenter of our time, ours in South Africa, and yours, wherever you are," Nadine Gordimer, the South rican writer and Nobel Laureate for Literature, once remarked. he years Mandela spent behind bars made him the world's most celebrated political prisoner and a leader of mythic stature for millions of black South Africans and other oppressed people far beyond his country's borders.
Charged with capital offences in the 1963 Rivonia Trial, his statement from the dock was his political testimony.
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.
"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities," he told the court.
"It is an ideal I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Friends adored Mandela and fondly called him "Madiba," the clan name by which he was known. People lauded his humanity, kindness and dignity.
2. Answer the following questions:
(a) Who was Nelson Mandela? What did he do for the blacks of South Africa?
(b) What did Mandela say in his acceptance speech?
(c) What helped Mandela win the support of the world?
(d) Why is Nelson Mandela famous?
3. Read the above passage again and then write the antonym/synonym of the following words as directed within brackets:
(a) icon (synonym); (b) embody (synonym); (c) peace (antonym); (d) minority (antonym); (e) resolve (synonym); (f) emancipation (synonym); (g) acceptance (antonym); (h) discrimination (synonym); (i) heal (synonym); (j) freedom (antonym).
4. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words..
I was ten years old. My grandmother sat on the string bed, (a) the mango tree. It was late summer (b) there were sunflowers in the garden and a (c) - wind in the trees. My grandmother was (d) - -a woolen scarf for the winter months. She (e) very old, dressed in a plain (f) sari. Her eyes were not very strong (g) - but her fingers moved quickly with the (h), and the needles kept clicking all afternoon. (i) -had white hair, - but there were very (j)-wrinkles on her skin.
5. Re-arrange the following sentences to make a coherent order :
(a) At this time he drew the attention of a Muslim sub-inspector of police.
(b) In his early life Nazrul lost his father.
(c) At the age of ten, he was admitted to a local primary school.
(d) Kazi Nazrul Islam is our national poet.
Charged with capital offences in the 1963 Rivonia Trial, his statement from the dock was his political testimony.
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.
"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities," he told the court.
"It is an ideal I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Friends adored Mandela and fondly called him "Madiba," the clan name by which he was known. People lauded his humanity, kindness and dignity.
2. Answer the following questions:
(a) Who was Nelson Mandela? What did he do for the blacks of South Africa?
(b) What did Mandela say in his acceptance speech?
(c) What helped Mandela win the support of the world?
(d) Why is Nelson Mandela famous?
3. Read the above passage again and then write the antonym/synonym of the following words as directed within brackets:
(a) icon (synonym); (b) embody (synonym); (c) peace (antonym); (d) minority (antonym); (e) resolve (synonym); (f) emancipation (synonym); (g) acceptance (antonym); (h) discrimination (synonym); (i) heal (synonym); (j) freedom (antonym).
4. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words..
I was ten years old. My grandmother sat on the string bed, (a) the mango tree. It was late summer (b) there were sunflowers in the garden and a (c) - wind in the trees. My grandmother was (d) - -a woolen scarf for the winter months. She (e) very old, dressed in a plain (f) sari. Her eyes were not very strong (g) - but her fingers moved quickly with the (h), and the needles kept clicking all afternoon. (i) -had white hair, - but there were very (j)-wrinkles on her skin.
5. Re-arrange the following sentences to make a coherent order :
(a) At this time he drew the attention of a Muslim sub-inspector of police.
(b) In his early life Nazrul lost his father.
(c) At the age of ten, he was admitted to a local primary school.
(d) Kazi Nazrul Islam is our national poet.
(e) When he was 12, he fled away from home and took a job in a baker's
(f) But he was not attentive to his studies.
(g) He was born in 1899 A.D at Churulia in the district of Burdwan.
(h) For this he had to struggle hard against poverty.
Part B Writing Marks-20
6. Write a paragraph on 'Etiquette and Manners' in about 200 words based on the answers to the questions:
(a) What do etiquette and manners refer to?(b) What is the difference between etiquette and manners?
(c) How are the bad mannered persons treated? (d) How do etiquette and manner vary?
(e) What is the importance of etiquette and manner?
7. The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words. Give a title to it:
There lived a farmer in a village. He had five sons. They were all idlers and never helped their father. They always quarreled with each other. The farmer tried to correct them but in vain,....
8. Write the summary of the following text.
Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo, Tutayevsky District, in Central Russia. Tereshkova's father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. Tereshkova began school in 1945 at the age of eight, but left school in 1953 and continued her education through distance learning. She became interested in parachuting from a young age, and trained in skydiving at the local Aero club, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959.
8. Write the summary of the following text.
Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo, Tutayevsky District, in Central Russia. Tereshkova's father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. Tereshkova began school in 1945 at the age of eight, but left school in 1953 and continued her education through distance learning. She became interested in parachuting from a young age, and trained in skydiving at the local Aero club, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959.
At that time she was employed as a textile worker in a local factory. It was her expertise in skydiving that led to her selection as a cosmonaut. After the flight of Yuri Gagarin (the first human being to travel to outer space in 1961), the Soviet Union decided to send a woman in space. On 16 February 1962, "proletariat" Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from among more than four hundred applicants.
Tereshkova had to undergo a series of training that included weightless flights, isolation tests, centrifuge tests, rocket theory, spacecraft engineering, 120 parachute jumps and pilot training in MiG 15UTI jet fighters. Since the successful launch of the spacecraft Vostok-5 on 14 June 1963, Tereshkova began preparing for her own flight.
On the morning of 16 June 1963, Tereshkova and her back-up cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in space-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by a bus. After completing her communication and life support checks, she was sealed inside Vostok-6. Finishing a two-hour countdown, Vostok-6 launched faultlessly.
