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LEGEND GOLDEN A+ PROGRAM
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Full Marks: 40 Sub: English 2nd Paper Time: 1 Hour
1. Use articles where necessary. Put a cross (x) where an article is not needed. .510=5
At present, Bangladesh faces (a) number of (b) problems. Of all these problems (c) population
problem is (d) _____ most acute one. Population is undoubtedly (e) _____great asset to (f) _____country. But
when (g) _____country fails to feed and provide them with (h) _____bare necessities of life, they become (i)
_____burden. Similar is (j) _____case with Bangladesh.
2. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. 15=5
Education is not confined (a) _____schools, colleges and universities only. The family, society and the whole
world (b) large educate us. What we learn (c) experience in our practical life is no less important
than what we learn from our educational institutions formally. Education begins (d) birth and ends only
at death. We continue to learn (e) our whole life.
3. Complete the sentences with suitable phrase given in the box. .510=5
as if as soon as there used to had to
was born had better let alone unless what if
a) He became sick. He ............. take medicine.
b) You cannot buy a car ........... you are a rich man. It costs a lot of money.
c) Albert Einstein ......... in Ulm, Garmany on March 14, 1879.
d) I dont like her at all. She speaks .......... she knew everything.
e) A: ............ the power goes out?
B: We have the back-up generator. Dont worry.
f) The student is weak in English. He ......... take the help of an English teacher.
g) ........... happened an accident yesterday. Five persons were injured and taken to hospital.
h) He got into the compartment of train station ............ the train whistled.
i) My village is beside a river. In my childhood I ......... swim in the river.
j) I have been suffering from cold and cough. I cannot speak clearly......... sing.
4. Complete the following sentences. 15=5
(a) Nobody can succeed in life without_____.
(b) The boy is strong enough_____.
(c) Scarcely had the teacher completed the lecture_____.
(d) Five years have passed since_____.
(e) He acted as if_____.
5. Complete the following passage with correct form of verbs as per subject and context. .510=5
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My 17 birthday ceremony (a)......... (hold) yesterday. On the occasion the whole house (b)........... (decorate)
very nicely. All the rooms (c).......... (clean). A dinning table (d)......... (set) in the middle of the dinning room.
Various delicious items of food (e)....... (cook) by the mother. An order (f)........ (give) for a birthday cake. The
guests who (g).......... (invite) started to come. They (h)........ (welcome) by my parents. They (i)........ (tell) to sit
in the drawing room. The cake (j)......... (bring) in time and kept on the dinning table.
6. Read the following passage and transform the underlined sentences as directed. 15=5
(a) Jim and Delia sacrificed their dearest possessions in order to buy nice Christmas presents for each other.
(Make it compound) (b) Delia had an ardent desire to give her husband a worthy gift. (Make it complex) (c)
Jim also thought how he could give his wife a nice gift. (Make it simple) (d) Delia saved a scanty amount of
money for this. (Make it passive) (e) Jim was one of the sincerest husbands that we have ever known. (Make it
positive)
7. Rewrite the following in the reported speech. 5
He said, I can chop some wood today. I said, But I have a boy coming from the orphanage. Im the boy.
You? But youre small, Size doesnt matter chopping wood, he said.
8. Identify the unclear pronoun references in the following paragraph. Where necessary, rewrite the
sentence so that all pronoun references are clear. 15=5
Everyone knows that illiteracy is one of the greatest problems of Bangladesh. He does not know much about
the world and one is very often compared to a frog in a well. As result of this, he remains unemployed and
becomes a burden to his family. This creates problems for his family as well as country. It is high time you
came forward to solve the illiteracy problem in order to ensure a Bangladesh free from poverty.