Dr. Muhammad Yunus
4.Read the passage about the European explores. Complete the following table with information from the passage.
| Dr. Muhammad Yunus was born in the seaport city of Chittagong in 1940. Professor Yunus studied Economics at Dhaka University. Then he received a full bright scholarship to study Economics at Vanderbilt University, USA. He received his PhD in Economics from Vanderbuilt University, USA in 1969. And the following year he became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Middle Tennessee State University. Returning to Bangladesh, he became the Chairman of the department of Economics at Chittagong University. He established the Grameen Bank in 1983. He believed that credit is a fundamental human right. His objective was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable for them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles so that they can help themselves. Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Prize for peace in 2006 for the attempt to remove poverty from the society. |
- From your reading of the above passage, fill in the blanks with suitable words. Use one word only in each blank.
Dr. Muhammad Yunus
| Events | Year/Time | Place/What | Achievement |
| Born | (i)————– | ||
| Received PhD degree | (ii)—————- | ||
| Grameen Bank | (iii)————- | ||
| 2006 | (iv) ————– | ||
| Belief | (v)——— |
2.
| Person | Action/ Achievements | Place/ Country | Time |
| Dr. Yunus | born | Chattogram | (a) ——– |
| Yunus | received (b)———- | Vanderbuilt | 1969 |
| The Grameen Bank | established | University of (c) —- | (d)——— |
| (e)———- | Nobel Prize | 2006 |
- Read the passage again and summarize it.
- Match the parts of sentences given in column A, B and C to write five complete sentences.
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) We want to see Bangladesh | (i)their democratic rights | (i) looking ahead |
| (b) We have a vision | (ii) will be sent | (ii) as well as their constitutional rights |
| (c) Education will be | (iii) of seeing or imagining or | (iii) to the museum |
| (d) Every citizens of Bangladesh will exercise | (iv) as a democratic, corruption-free and developed country | (iv) as it is their fundamental right |
| (e) Poverty, injustice and corruption | (v) free for all | (v) in the world in 2041 |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) We should say “no” to corruption | (i) our craving for luxurious and comfortable life | (i) destroys a nation |
| (b) Corruption is not only immoral but also harmful | (ii) against corruption or we will be | (ii) is ensuring rule of law |
| (c) Now, it is high time we took stern action | (iii) to our society as it slowly | (iii) that hinders the development of a society |
| (d) If we want to root out corruption | (iv) because it is a serious social crime | (iv) marked as a corrupt nation |
| (e) But we are so self-centered because of | (v) the most necessary thing which we require to do | (v) that we do not think of the welfare of the country |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) Price hike has added | (i) short supply of commodities | (i) widespread corruption and moral degradation |
| (b) Price hike is caused by | (ii) leads to | (ii) to the problems of Bangladesh |
| (c) The vast majority are hard hit | (iii) for the fixed income group of people | (iii) of daily necessities |
| (d) It is very difficult | (iv) a new dimension | (iv) to meet up the excessive load |
| (e) Price hike | (v) by the hike in price | (v) and inflation |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) Friction between teenagers and parents | (i)are kind of behaviours | (i) that are the result of loneliness |
| (b) On obvious reason of friction | (ii) self centered and want | (ii) which they think are outdated |
| (c) Moody and sulky behavbiours | (iii) is very common and one | (iii) to think for themselves |
| (d) Consequently, adolescents are | (iv) thoughts of the older generations | (iv) of the major problems of modern age |
| (e) They rebel against the ways | (v) is the difficult behaviours of the adolescents | (v) which are common features of teenagers |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) Digital means using a system | (i) with the target of achieving | (i) in the premises of education. health, etc |
| (b) The philosophy of Digital Bangladesh | (ii) has been playing a vital role | (ii) establishing of resourceful country by 2021 |
| (c)Bangladesh is resounding | (iii) of receiving and sending information | (iii) in the field of communication of the 21st century |
| (d) The use of digital technology | (iv) the “Vision 2021” which targets at | (iv) through electronic signal |
| (e) The present government has declared | (v) means implementation of technology | (v) “Digital Bangladesh” |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) Padma multi-purpose bridge is | (i) bridge in the country | (i)Bangladesh with the capital Dhaka |
| (bIt is the longest) | (ii) 21 districts of south-western | (ii) constructed of steel and concrete |
| (c) The two-storied | (iii) on the upper level and a single | (iii) and a glorious achievements of Bangladesh |
| (d) It has a four-lane roadway | (iv) a challenge construction | (iv) and the deepest in the world |
| (e) It has connected | (v) Padma Bridge is | (v) rail track on the lower level |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) Migration of meritorious, skilled | (i) brilliant boys and girls leave their native lands | (i) in the country to stop it |
| (b) Lured by the great advantages of developed countries | (ii) the government should create suitable atmosphere | (ii) for fat salaries and better service condition |
| (c)Often expert doctors, scientists and | (iii) every country as there is always a scarcity | (iii) of skilled and talented people |
| (d) Brain drain is a great loophole for | (iv) engineers go abroad and work there | (iv) another is called brain drain |
| (e) curse | (v) and experienced people from one country to | (v) and settle there |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) Dengue | (i)standing or stagnant water in the house or trees | (i) virus may get into his body or blood |
| (b) Aedes, a kind of mosquito | (ii) bites a healthy man | (ii) through mosquitoi bite |
| (c) This mosquito lays eggs on | (iii) carries the virus | (iii) infection and lasdts up to ten days |
| (d) If Aedes mosquito | (iv) begin four or six days after | (iv) after the rain has stopped |
| (e) Symptoms of dengue usually | (v) is a viral fever transmitted | (v) of the disease |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) Mosquitoes find | (i) break out, if we fail to | (i) by insecticides |
| (b) Dengu fever will | (ii) a safe breeding ground | (ii) neat and clean regularly |
| (c) Larva of mosquitoes | (iii) kerosene or other kinds of | (iii) on stagnant water |
| (d) People can use or spray | (iv) their surroundings | (iv) insect-killing powder to kill the larva |
| (e) They should keep | (v) should be destroyed | (v) take proper steps in this respect |
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| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a) Dengu fever is | (i)medical attention late | (i) including bleeding, muscle pains, rash, etc |
| (b) Dengu virus is spread | (ii) a mosquito-borne tropical disease | (ii) limiting exposure to bite |
| (c) People infected with dengue | (iii) reducing mosquito habitats and | (iii) of aedes types |
| (d) Patients who seek | (iv) suffer from sudden onset of fever | (iv) have less chance of survival |
| (e) The only way to prevent it is | (v) by several species of female mosquitoes | (v) caused by dengue virus |
61.Put the following part of the story in correct order to rewrite the whole story. 10
- a) The next day the wise man went to the king and begged for seven years.
- b) The wise man went home sadly because the king threaten him to kill if he failed.
- c) Once there was a foolish king who had a white horse.
- d) His daughter advised him to go to the king and beg seven years to teach the horse.
- e) The king also had a wise friend whom everyone liked.
- f) The king was angry because he wanted that people should like him instead of the wise man.
- g) One day he called the wise man and asked him to teach his white horse to speak.
- h) When he reached home, he told everything to his daughter.
Answers : [c+e+f+g+b+h+d+a]
13 . a) He was specialist in treating boils.
- b) He was a false doctor and patients from far and near used to come for treatment.
- c) He would operate boils with his razor.
- d) The barber treated them in their illness.
- e) Once there lived a shrewd barber in a village who pretended to know everything.
- f) When some of his patients were cured, the Barber felt proud of his success.
- g) Finding no other way, the poor people called in him as he was available.
- h) The patients would cry loudly in pain.
Ans: e+g+f+b+h+d+e+a
- a) He was quite happy in Brighton.
- b) But the girl’s parents in fact treated him like a son.
- c) But soon his mother sent him to London to benefit from the education in the west.
- d) Their two daughters were taken a back with the presence of a ‘blakie’ in the house.
- e) Though he was full of admiration for English society yet he was called back to India.
- f) He returned home without any qualification of distinction.
- g) Rabindranath, the fourteenth child of Debandranath and Sarada Devi, joined his brother’s family at Brighton and attended school there.
- h) Away from his brother’s home, he was lucky to find a friendly English family of Dr. and Mrs Scott.
Ans: g+a+c+h+d+b+e+f