BAF Shaheen College Dhake Practice Half Yearly Examination – 2020
Class: Six (English Version) Subject: English 1st Paper
Time: 3 hours Marks: 80
1. Read the following passage and then choose the right answer from the given options:
0.5X10=5 My friend Sajjad and I were sitting at the railway station. I came to see him off. Sajjad was going to Dhaka to his elder sister’s house. It was very crowed in the station. There was a long line of people at the ticket counter. A woman was standing in the queue. She was holding her child’s hand tightly. A group of young people was talking loudly and drinking tea in front of a tea stall.
An old couple was trying to find a quiet place to sit down and rest. The waiting room was crowded, too. I saw one man who was trying to carry three heavy suitcases. A young lady was sitting on a bench with her luggage at one corner. She was reading a magazine.
My friend and I stood near a newspaper stall talking and watching the crowd around. Soon my friend’s train started to leave. As the train whistled, he picked up his suitcase and we said goodbye to each other.
a) The word ‘tightly’ means-
(i) quietly (ii) soundly (iii) remarkably (iv) firmly b) The word ‘around’ means-
(i) round (ii) circle (iii) near (iv) circular
c) The word ‘crowded’ means-
(i) people (ii) populated (iii) popular (iv) many d) The word ‘queue’ means-
(i) clue (ii) line (iii) platform (iv) spot e) The word ‘quiet’ means-
(i) full (ii) quite (iii) exact (iv) noiseless
f) The word ‘whistled’ menas-
(i) flute (ii) instrument (iii) signaled (iv) sang g) Where was Sajjad going?
(i) Dhaka (ii) Sylhet (iii) Rajshahi (iv) Chottogram h) How was the railway station?
(i) clam (ii) silent (iii) quiet (iv) very busy
i) The woman who was standing in the queue, was holding her ____ .
(i) bag (ii) child (iii) purse (iv) luggage
j) The writer stood near a ____ .
(i) tea stall (ii) book stall (iii) train (iv) newspaper stall 2. Read the following passage and then answer the questions below it. 2X5=10 Bulbul collects rubbish from Sankar area in Dhaka. Every morning, he wakes up at 5 o’clock and walks along the streets of Sankar to collect rubbish. People of Sankar put their rubbish in plastic bins and leave them in front of their houses. Bulbul walks from door to door to collect them.
Sometimes the bins are very dirty and they smell bad. But Bulbul does not mind. He takes out everything from the bins and puts them in a large plastic bag. He believes that all jobs are important. He works hard every day to keep this area clean.
Last month Bulbul became sick for two days. So, he could not come to collect the rubbish. The people of Sankar were in great trouble. They got piles of rubbish waiting in front of their houses. The whole area became dirty and unhygienic. When Bulbul got well, he came back to Sankar. He collected everything from the bins. Bulbul does not like to fall sick again. He knows, if he stops working for few days, the whole area will turn into a big dustbin.
(a) Where does Bulbul collect the rubbish from?
(b) Where do people of Sankar put their rubbish?
(c) What does Bulbul believe?
(d) What happened during Bulbul’s illness?
(e) What would happen if Bulbul stops working?
3. Read the text and answer the following questions.
Begum Sufia Kamal, poet and social activist was born on 20 June 1911 in a landowning family of Shayestabad in Barisal. She was the daughter of Abdul Bari, a lawyer, and Sabera Banu. In accordance with aristocratic social practice of the time, Begum Sufia Kamal was given education at home. She learnt Urdu, Arabic and Persian from family tutors. She got lessons in Bangla from her mother and maternal uncle, Syed Mohammad Hossain. In 1923, she wrote her first story
“Sainik Bodhu” which was published in the Tarun. Her first book of poems “Sanjher Maya” was published from Kolkata in 1938. Author of more than a dozen volume of poetry, Sufia Kamal also wrote several volumes of short stories and an autobiography named “Ekale Amader kal”.
Sufia Kamal received nearly fifty major awards including Bangla Academy Award (1962), the Ekushey Padak (1976), the Independence Award (1997). She died in Dhaka on 10 November 1999.
A. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage. 1X5=5
Literary Work / Award Name Year
First story (a) (b)
First book of poems (c) (d)
Award Ekushey Padak (e)
* Read the text and answer the following questions.
The three boys tried and tried, but they couldn’t break the bundle of sticks. Then their father untied the sticks and his wife gave one stick to each of her sons. There were two more sticks and she gave one to her husband and kept one for herself. “Now,” she said, “Try to break your stick.” This time they all broke the sticks easily. Then the old farmer asked his sons, “Did you like my story?” “Yes, we did,” they replied. “What did you learn from it?” he asked. The wisest son answered, “We’re like these sticks. Together we’re strong.” “Good,” their father. “That’s right. Now you know why quarrelling is bad.”
B. Read the following statements. Write (T) in your answer script, if the statement is true.
Write (F) is the statement is false. If false, give the correct answer. 1X5=5 (i) The sons could easily break the bundle of sticks.
(ii) The wife of old farmer kept two sticks for herself.
(iii) The sons could easily break their respective stick.
(iv) After giving the sticks to the sons, there were no more sticks.
(v) The sons liked the story.
4. Read the text below and complete it with suitable words given in the box. 0.5X10=5
physically educated is and provides
his useful assist sympathetic Be
Education illuminates a man’s life. Proper education (a) _____ a learner with opportunity to develop all (b) _____ talents. Its aim is to improve him (c) _____ and mentally so that he can be (d) _____ to himself and to the society. An (e) _____ man is self-reliant, but he can also (f) _____ others in attaining this great virtue. He (g) _____ supposed to be well mannered, kind and (h) _____ . So a man who has acquired knowledge (i) _____ skill only for his material development cannot (j) _____ called a truly educated man.
5. The texts in Column A are the beginning 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.
1X5=5
Column A Column B Column C
Democracy get the precondition of
democracy.
It elect fair and equal treatment.
In this system people is freedom of speech.
People all a system of government.
Free and fair election is their representative.
6. Read the texts and arrange them in correct order. 0.5X10=5 (a) They said to the Mayor to do something about rats.
(b) At that time, there was a knock at the door.
(c) It became full of rats.
(d) The Mayor and the counselors talked about this problem.
(e) The stranger entered the hall.
(f) A long time ago, the town of Hamelin faced with a great problem.
(g) But they could not find a way.
(h) The Mayor called a meeting.
(i) The people of the town came to the mayor.
(j) The Mayor said, “Come in.”
7. Write a paragraph on ‘Your First Day at School’. 10
8. Read the beginning of the following story and complete it. Give a suitable name for your
story. 10
Once upon a time a greedy dog stole a piece of meat from a nearby house. Holding it in his mouth, he began to cross the river over a narrow bridge…..
9. Suppose you are Shakib. Write a letter to your friend, Mashrafe, congratulating him on his
brilliant success. 10
or,
Suppose you are Messi. Write an e-mail to your friend, Ronaldo, inviting him to your
birthday. 10
10. Write a dialogue between a doctor and a patient. 10
