HSC English 1st Paper Test Paper Question & Answer PDF

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Part 1 : Reading Test [60 Marks] (HSC English 1st Paper Test Paper PDF)

1.Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.

Nishat Mazumder, a Bangladeshi woman in her early forties, is a sports icon. She comes of a modest
background; her father is a businessman and her mother is a housewife. She is the second of four siblings. She is not very tall or well built, or does not have a charming princess look; but this apparently ordinary girl has three things that she can be proud of. These are: she has extraordinarily supportive parents who accepted her dreams as real; her father was a freedom fighter in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, and she scaled the highest peak in the world as the first Bangladeshi girl in 2012.
Nishat’s life presents an inspirational story that the youth in Bangladesh needs to know. Nishat was born on 5 January 1981 in a village called Teori, which is situated in Ramganj upazila in Lakshmipur District. She completed her schooling from Bottomley Home Girls’ High School in 1997, and passed HSC from Shahid Anwar Girls’ College in 1999. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Accounting from Dhaka City College, and currently works for Dhaka WASA as an accountant. She is also interested in different languages and cultures of the world, and has enrolled for her MA in Japan Studies at Dhaka University. For us, Nishat’s life comes across as especially significant because it tells us how the influence of one person can motivate someone to dream big. As the daughter of a freedom fighter, Nishat had to face many obstacles in her life, but her mother, her role model, gave her courage and determination to overcome them and pursue her dreams. Ashura Mazumder, Nishat’s mother, is a hardworking and understanding woman, who has been a pillar of support for her family in the direst of situations. Nishat learned from her mother how to keep mental strength in calamitous moments of life.
Learning from her, Nishat began her dream of conquering mountains.

A.Choose the correct answer from the alternatives.

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(a) Which is the closest meaning for ‘scale’ as used in the text?
i. balance ii. forward iii. Climb iv. weight

(b) What does the word ‘pursue’ in the passage refer to?
i. follow someone
ii. try to achieve something
iii. persuade someone
iv. continue to do something

(d) The phrase ‘understanding woman’ in the text refers to —-.
i. a woman sympathetically aware of other’s feelings
ii. a woman having required knowledge
iii. a woman having the ability to understand
iv. a woman providing encouragement to others

(e) Nishat’s age is between —.
i. 31-35 ii. 36-40 iii. 41-45 iv. 46-50

(f) The phrase ‘come of’ in the text may be best replaced by —.
i. come from ii. take birth iii. result from iv. belong to

(g) The phrase ‘modest background’ as used in the text refers to —.
i. humble origin ii. moderate family iii. reserved family iv. decent setting

(h) The word ‘calamitous’ is synonymous to —.
i. dominant ii. Catastrophic iii. tolerable iv. auspicious

(i) Though Nishat Mazumder does not look very attractive, she has —.
i. a luxurious life
ii. something to be proud of
iii. an ambitious story
iv. something valuable

(j) She is not very tall or well built the phrase ‘well built’ means —.
i. having a healthy body
ii. having a slim body
iii. having a perfectly build body
iv. having an attractive and strong body

B.Answer the following questions. (HSC English 1st Paper Test Paper PDF)

a) What are the factors behind Nishat’s success?
b)Do you think that Nishat’s mother is an extraordinary woman? Justify your answer in 2/3 sentences.
c)What should the youth in Bangladesh know according to the text? Why?
d)”Nishat is an inspiration for each and every girl.” Do you agree with the statement? Why/Why not?
e)What do you learn about the potential of the youth from the text? Write in 2/3 sentences.

2.Read the following text and make a flow chart showing the functions of education. (No. 1 has been done for you)

The first thing education does is to give us an awareness about ourselves which leads to the development of our personality. As we begin school, we feel the need to belong to the class and make friends. We then expand our sense of belonging to include the school at large, our community and finally our country. Education thus prepares every child to become an active member of the community and work for its welfare.
Education, it is believed, releases our potentials and our inner strengths. It sharpens our intellect and develops our creativity. As we are taught to reason well and find solutions to the problems of life we become productive members of society. Education by definition is progressive and liberal, teaching us to respect human diversity and cultural and religious differences. If all of us practise these values in life, the world becomes a much happier place.

1.Making us aware of ourselves › 2 › 3 › 4 › 5 › 6

3.Write a summary of the following text.

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

4.Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable word from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary. (HSC English 1st Paper Test Paper PDF)

To encourage female education, the government has taken some (a) — steps such as giving stipends to girl students, (b) — more female teachers, etc. (c) — girls cannot receive the full benefit of education mainly because of the following reasons. (d) — misinterpretation and social strictures (e) — girls from going to schools. Even in urban schools girls are not (f) — by many parents to live in hostels for their daughters’ (g) —-. Early marriage and childbirth make women (h) — to home with no (i) — of going back to school. Any expenditure for sending girls to school is considered a (j) — by many parents whereas it is regarded as an investment in case of boys.

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5.Fill in the blanks with appropriate word in each gap.

In recent years there have been many alarming reports that world’s climate is undergoing a significant change. All these reports provide (a) — evidence (b) — world’s temperatures are increasing day by day. This increase in global (c) — is caused (d) — increased amounts of carbon dioxide (e) — the earth. Most climatologists (f) —- that greenhouse effect is the likely (g) — of this global warming. It may harm human (h) —- seriously. This could catastrophically (i) — mankind’s (j) — to grow food.

6.Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.

(a) In 1880, Rabindranarth was called back to India.
(b) He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his Gitanjali.
(c) He returned home without any qualifications of distinction.
(d) He wrote Gitanjali, a collection of Bengali songs of superior quality.
(e) Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 into a respectable family at Jorasako in Kolkata.
(f) At the age of seventeen, in 1878 he reached London to attend school.
(g) He went to school early and wrote his first verse at the age of eight.
(h) The experience had a lasting effect on his later life.
(i) However, he never gave up his habit of writing poetry.
(j) He gathered much experience from his stay in London.

Part II : Guided Writing [40 Marks] (HSC English 1st Paper Test Paper PDF)

7.Look at the chart below. It shows the sources of air pollution in a city. Now, analyze the chart focusing the main aspects.

8.The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words. (HSC English 1st Paper Test Paper PDF)

Once there was a small boy named Bayazid. His mother was ill. One night he was studying by the side of the bed of his ailing mother. All on a sudden, his mother woke up, raised her head and told her son to give her a glass of water ………

9.Suppose, you are Aryan of 12 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, Shahbag, Dhaka. Your friend Areeb of 12/7. Sholoshohor, Chattogram is very afraid of English. Now, write a letter to him describing how to improve in English.

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