Cumilla Board 2016

 

4. Cumilla Board 2016

[English (Compulsory 2nd Paper)

Part A: Grammar (60 marks)

1. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box. You may need to change the forms of some the words. You may need to use one word more than once:

too	people	an	grow	in
favourable	soon	motherland	buy	become

 Our (a) — Bangladesh is (b) — agricultural country. Most of our (c) — are engaged (d) — cultivation. Many cultivators are (e) — poor to (f) — and use modern tools. Still they can (g) — bumper crops if the climate is (h) —. We hope to (i) — a developed nation (j) —. 2. Fill in the blanks with suitable words: Honesty is (a) — to be (b) — best policy. An honest man never (c) — from the path (d) — morality. He is (e) — by (f) — but hated by (g) — (h) — enemies believe and respect an (i) — and truthful man. So, it is our duty to remain honest (j) — our life.

3. Make five sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table below:

Earthquake	destroy	have enough preparation to save us from it.
We	is	a natural disaster.
Earthquakes	do not get	any warning before it.
	should	many towns with the people.
		more destructive than flood.

4. Complete the following text with right forms of the verbs given in the box:

struggle	purchase	invent	build	be
keep	harm	go	follow	borrow

“Health (a) — wealth,” (b) — the proverb. We cannot (c) — it. We cannot (d) — it. We must (e) — our body by (f) — the rules of health. People (g) — against germs that (h) — the body since their birth. Medicines (i) — to kill germs, but we have to (j) — the body fit by ourselves through the maintenance of the rules of health.

5. Change the narrative style of the following text:

“Hello rickshawpuller, will you go?” said I. “Where?” said the rickshawpuller. “I want to go the railway station.” “I may go, if you pay me 200 taka.” said the rickshawpuller.

6. Change the sentences according to directions in the brackets:

(a) Mr. Rahim, one of my cousins is a good teacher. (Complex)

(b) He is older than I. (Positive degree)

(c) He wants his students to be good citizen. (Complex)

(d) He leaves no stone unturned to teach them morality. (Affirmative)

(e) He becomes very happy when the students achieve good results in public examinations. (Exclamatory)

(f) Mr. Rahim is not only punctual but also sincere. (Simple)

(g) He is the best teacher in our area. (Negative)

(h) He cannot remain sitting in the class. (Affirmative)

(i) He goes to class after taking preparation. (Compound)

(j) All the students respect him very much. (Passive)

7. Complete the following sentences:

(a) We come to know about the happenings of home and abroad if —.

(b) People read newspaper lest —.

(c) Many students do not read newspaper regularly as —.

(d) Many people earn their living by —.

(e) I become happy when —.

8. Complete the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both with the root words given in the parenthesis:

The other name of water is life. Clean water is (a) — (drink). Dirty water is (b) — (safe). Clean water is (c) — (contaminate) and (d) — (suit) for drinking. Bangladesh is a (e) — (river) country. But we get (f) — (adequate) water for use. The water of our rivers is (g) — (filth) and (h) — (poison). We should keep water clean for health, happiness and (i) — (long). The Government should play an (j) — (act) role to keep water safe.

9. Make tag question of the following statements:

(a) I need a pen, —?

(b) I must write a letter to my friend, —?

(c) I have not written any letter to him for a long time, —?

(d) As we are friends, I think, we should keep in touch, —?

(e) I am irregular in writing but my friend is always regular in writing, —?

10. Complete the passage with suitable connectors:

Student life is the best time in life (a) — almost every student is free from cares (b) — anxieties of life. He has nothing to do (c) — study. (d) — a student, he should read novels, magazines, newspapers (e) — text books.

11. Use capitals and punctuation marks where necessary in the text below:

my dear mother your letter is just to hand it seems to me that you are anxious for me why you need not think about me.