Begum Sufgia Kamal
4.Read the passage on Begum Sufia Kamal. Complete the following table with information from the passage.17
| Begum Sufgia Kamal, poet, literateur, and social activist, feminist was born on 20 June 1911 in a landowning family of Shayestabad in Barishal. 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 1918 Sufia went to Kolkata accompanied by her mother. Here the young Sufia met Begum Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain. In 1923, she wrote her first story “Sainik Bahadur” which was published in the Tarun. Her first book of  “Sanjher Maya” was published from Kolkata in 1938. Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote the Foreword. Rabindranath Tagore also read the book and praised her highly. 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 (1862) , the Ekushey Padak (1976), the independence Award (1997). She died in Dhaka on 20th November 1999. |
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| About Sufia Kamal | |||||
| Role | Poet, litterateur, social activist, feminist | ||||
| Life Time | From 1911 to (i) ——— | ||||
| Who/ What | Event | Place | Time | Contribution | Award |
| Begum Sufia Kamal | birth | (ii) ————- | 1911 | ||
| She | (iii) ———— | Kolkata | 1918 | ||
| She | was given | 1976 | (iv) ————– | (v) ———- | |
5. Write a summary of the above passage in your own words.
6. Match the parts of sentence given in column “A” “B” and “C” to write five complete sentences.17
| Column A | Column B | Column C |
| (a)The migration of meritorious, skilled | (i) brilliant boys and girls leave their native lands | (i)to stop it so that the country can be benefited from these valuable assets. |
| (b) Lured by the great advantages of developed countries | (ii) the government should create suitable atmosphere in the country. | (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.
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| (e) Brain drain being a great curse | (v) and experienced people from one country to | (v) and after finishing their higher education settle there. |
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.16
(a) The tortoise accepted the challenge.
(b) Covering considerable distance the hare stopped to rest and while taking rest fell asleep.
(c) Being very proud of his fast pace and speed; the hare challenged the tortoise to a race.
(d) The hare ran very swiftly but the tortoise ran very slowly.
(e) They both went to a fox and requested him to act as a judge and the fox agreed.
(f) The tortoise ran nonstop and defeated the hare in the race.
(g) Long ago there lived a hare and a tortoise in a jungle.
(h) Next day, as soon as the fox waved the flag, the two contestants started running.
English 2nd Paper.
1.Make five sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table below.14
| Men usually | means | In society without considering the interest of others as well as his own interests. |
| They | want to | his own way all the time. |
| No one, however | can have | a group of people with the same laws and the same way of life. |
| A man | cannot live | think and act as they like. |
| Society | Have their own way. |
2. Complete the sentences.
(a) English is considered to —————.
(b) We find people speaking ———— / All the books for higher studies written by famous writers –.
(c) English helps the international community ————.
(d) People having good knowledge in English ————–.
(e) ————–, we cannot prosper.
3. Make tag questions of these statements.
: Water is essential for life, (a) ————-?
: Oh, sure, but it is polluted in many ways, (b) ————–?
: People are responsible for water pollution, (c) ————?
: Men polluted water, (d) —————-?
: We should minimize water pollution, (e) ———–?
4. Change the narrative style of the following text.
The traveler said to the peasant, “Can you tell the way to the nearest inn?” The peasant said, “Yes, do you want one in which you can spend the night?” The traveler said, “I do not wish to stay there, but I only want a meal.”
5. Use capitals and punctuation marks where necessary in the following text.
Once upon a time there was a little boy called Paulo one day he saw a beautiful blue bird in his garden the bird had a bean in its claw the bird said to Paulo take this bean and plant it in your garden
6. Complete the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both with the root words given in the parenthesis.
Money cannot buy (a) ———— (happy). Money is a must for our life. But it is not necessary to bring happiness. Happiness is (b) ——– (absolute) a (c) ———- (psychology) thing. It is the name of a (d) ——— (feel) . It means the (e) ———- (content) of the mind. He who has (f) ———– (satisfy) with what he has is (g) ——— (real) a happy one. Above all, we should keep in mind that (h) ——– (world) happiness is not at all. If we want to be (i) ——— (eternal) happy and lead a (j) ——- (dignify) life, we have to earn money in an honest way.
7. Change the sentence as directed.
(a) Only the French senators eat there. (Negative)
(b) Foyot’s is one of the most expensive restaurants in Paris.
(c) In it, she expressed her desire to have a chat with me. (Interrogative)
(d) I have received from her another latter. (Passive)
(e) The writer was earning barely enough money to keep body and soul together. (Complex)
(f) I know a dishonest man. (Complex)
(g) The food being rotten, we could not eat it. (Complex)
(h) I found the boy playing with other boys. (Complex)
(i) They caught the flying birds. (Complex)
(j) Seeing the police, the thief ran away.