Cantonment Public School & College, Saidpur
First Terminal Exam-2020Class: X (BV+EV) Subject: English 1st Paper
Time: 3.00 hours Full Marks: 100 Part A: Reading Test (50 Marks)
Read the text. Then answer the questions below (1-2)
Michael MadhusudanDutt, popularly known as Madhusudan, was a celebrated 19th –century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was born in Sagordari on the bank of the Kopotaksho River, a village in KeshabpurUpazila under Jessore district. From an early age, Dutt aspired to be an English in form and manner. Though he was born in a sophisticated Hindu family, he converted to Christianity as a young man, much to the ire of his family, and adopted the first name Michael. In his childhood, he was recognized appreciate his talent. He also believed that the West would be more receptive to his creative genius. Madhusudan was an ardent follower of the famous English poet Lord Byron. So after adopting Christianity, he went to Europe and started composing poems and plays in English.
They showed his higher level of intellectual ability. However, he failed to gain the right appreciation. To his utter frustration he found that he was not esteemed as a native writer of English literature. Out of his frustration, he composed a sonnet in Bangla “KopotakshaNad” which earned him huge reputation in Bangla. Gradually he could realize that his true identity lay in Bengal and he was a sojourner in Europe. Afterwards he regretted his fascination for England and the West. He came back to Bengal and devoted himself to Bangla literature from this period. He has written the first Bangla epic MeghnadBadhKabya.
1. Choose the correct answer from the following alternatives. 1×7=7 a. What does the clause “he was sojourner in Europe” mean?
(i) He lived in Europe (ii) He left Europe
(iii) He lived Europe for a time (iv) He was affected by Europe b. Dutta‟s literacy work in Engish proved his----
(i) great intellectual power (ii) worthlessness of English literature (iii) lack of merit (iv) lack of literacy talent
c. The word „ire‟ refers to ?
(i) erosion (ii) experience
(iii) irregular (iv) wrath
d. Despite being a Bengali, he--- the English in taste, manners and culture.
(i) disliked (ii) grabbed
(iii) cursed (iv) cherished
e. Why did MadhusudanDutt travel to Europe?
(i) To compose English poetry (ii) To pursue his literacy career (iii) To stay with his native people (iv) To convert to Christianity f. Which of the following indicates Michael‟s higher nlevel of intellectual ability best?
(i) His teacher‟s appreciation (ii) His adopting Christianity
(iii) His social work (iv) His poetry and drama
g. At a time , Michael came to Bengal---London.
(i) divorcing (ii) leaving (iii) disliking (iv) loving
2. Answer the following questions. 2×5=10
a. What was the ambition of Michael MadhusudaDutt in early age?
b. Why did he go to Europe?
c. What was the impact of „KapotakshaNad‟?
d. What was the impression of Michael‟s family on his conversion to Christianity?
e. What frustrated Dutt during his stay in Europe? Explain in 1/3 sentences?
3. Read the following text and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text. 1×5=5 Let‟s imagine a citizen‟s ordinary day at work. The morning probably starts with a cup of coffee/tea, followed by getting the colleagues. Then comes the inevitable, which is logging in the computer. For many of us the third step has become an automatic behavior and it dominates the rest of our work day, receiving and sending dozens of emails.
An email is an electronic mail. It is a computer-aided way of exchanging digital text messages from a sender to one or multiple recipient/s. Emails operate through a network of computers linked by the Internet. There are commercial server agencies such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail etc. that accept the text message from the sender, forward it and drliver instantly to the digital mailbox of the recipient. If the recipient is not online, the message is stored and delivered later when the recipient is online. It works instantly just with the click of your mouse. It has been a powerful communication tool in modern life.
The present age is(a)---by the advancement of communication. Communicating with people all over the world become an (b)---part of our life . Communication between people has now become easier than (c)--- before.
Email has brought about a revolutionary change in the (d)---of communication. For this we are (e)----to computers.
Read the following passage and answer the questions No 4-5.
Stephen Hawking is consiered the greatest physicist after Einstein. He was born in England in 1942. He was very skilled in Mathematics from the early age. He wrote the book 'A Brief History of Time From the Big Bang to the Present Times' in 1988. In this book he explains cosmology for the general public. It became famous and established his reputation as a great scientist. He received his Ph.D in cosmology from Cambridge University in 1986. But fortune did not favour him. In 1972 he became a victim of Gehrig's disease. Since then, he has been confined to a wheel-chair with no power to control his body. But he continues teaching through the help of computer. In 1974 , he won the prestigious Albert Einstein award for theoretical physics. In 1979, he joined Cambridge University as Lucasian Professor of mathematics . He passed away on 14 March 2018.
Complete the table below with information from the above passage. 1×5=5
About Stephen Hawking
Aims Highlighting the glorious work despite his being handicapped Lifespan Born in 1942 and died on (i)...
What/ Who Activities Type of
work
Time/Date Subject Achievement Stephen
Hawking
wrote book (ii)... in 1988 established as agreat
scientist.
He took a degree Ph.D in 1968 (iii)...
(iv)... appointed Stephen Hawking
as Lucasian Professor
in 1979 mathematics
He was awarded (v)... theoretical
physics
Albert Einstein award
5. Write a summary of above passage not more than 50 to 60 words. 10
6. Match the parts of the sentences in the column 'A', 'B' and 'C' to write five correct sentences. 1×5=5
Column A Column B Column C
(a) Strategy is an appropriate word
(i) elaborating adequate answers (i) think how you might cope with it.
(b) It has been said that (ii) as you come to it and (ii) what you are required to do.
(c) Do not waste time (iii) that indicate (iii) to the examination on the day.
(d) Take each question (iv) about 50 per cent of your chances of success
(iv) if you ought to be moving to the next question.
(e) Underline the keywords in the questions
(v) to use for your approach (v) relate to your examination skill rather than to your subject
knowledge .
7. Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written. 1×8=8 (a) The old woman felt pity for him and quickly gave Taimur a full dish of food.
(b) Then he disguised himself as a poor traveller and supported himself by begging.
(c) As a result , he burnt his fingers.
(d) He came to a house and asked an old woman to give him something to eat.
(e) Once young Taimur attacked a province but unfortunately his soldiers were all killed.
(f) The food was very hot.
(g) One day he became very hungry and could not get anything to eat.
(h) He hurriedly dug his fingers right at the middle of the dish.
Part B: Writing Test (50 Marks)
8. Answer the following questions to write a paragraph on 'A Street Hawker.' 10 (a) Who is a street hawker? (b) Where does he usually live? (c) How does he earn his living? (d) How does he draw the attention of his customers? (e) How is his life style?
9. Read the beginning of a story. Add at least ten new sentences to complete the story. 10 Once there lived a poor cobbler who passed his days in working and singing from morning till night. A rich neighbor of his was a banker who one day said to him, “ How much a year do you earn?”--- ---...
10 The following pie-chart below shows the percentage of books in your school library. Now, describe the pie- chart in about 150 words. You are advised to highlight and summarize the information given in the pie-chart:
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11. Suppose, you are Simon/Sayma. You live at 2/3 Mirpur Road, Dhaka. Your have a friend named Sumon/Sumona who lives at 3/2 R.K. Road Rangpur. He/She wants to the know the annual sports of your school which has been held recently. Now, write a letter to him/her describing the annual sports of your school. 10 12. Suppose you are Tamal/Toma.You and your friend Nasim/Nasima, who does not know the importance of learning English.Now write a dialogue between you and your friend about the importance of learning English. 10
