Section - A

1. Complete the following paragraph using Simple Present, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Simple Future,
Future Continuous, Simple Past or Past Continuous Tense. [0.25×12=3]

Patrick a. has always been (always/been) a fan of Barcelona. He b. is (be) crazy for football. For that reason, he c.
watches (watch) every football match on TV and d. reads (read) every sports page on various newspaper. He e.
was (be) only five when he f. went (go) to see a football match for the first time and he became g. addicted
(addict) to that sport. His first question on their way home after the match h. was (be), “Daddy, when i. are we
going (we/go) to see the next one?” “This time next month they j. will be playing (play) again. I k. promise
(promise) I l. will buy (will) you a ticket,” his father had replied.

2. Complete the following sentences with an appropriate form of the given verbs. Use Present Perfect, Past
Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous and Future Perfect tenses. Use each tense only once. [0.5×4=2]

play

a. Gina was playing with her neighbour’s cats when her mother brought them some cat food.
b. Nathan had been playing volleyball for two years when he was selected in the national team.
c. He has played volleyball since he was eight.
d. Micheal will have played hundred and twenty basketball matches for his school team by the end of 2021.

3. Each of the sentences has a mistake in it. Rewrite the sentences correctly using Future tense. [1×2=2]

a. Please inform your friend that today’s train is leaving at 8 am.

Please inform your friend that today’s train leaves at 8 am.
b. Greta knew she will feel sick by the end of the journey.
Greta knew she would be feeling sick by the end of the journey.

4. Rewrite the sentences using the modals given in brackets. The meanings of the sentences must be similar.
[1×3=3]
a. Perhaps Robert knows the answer of the trigonometry question. (may)
Robert may know the answer of the trigonometry question.
b. Students are not supposed to carry dictionaries in the examination hall. (should)
Students should not carry dictionaries in the examination hall.
 c. The public bus owners has to follow the government’s mandate regarding bus fare. (must)
The public bus owners must follow the government’s mandate regarding bus fare.

5. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of Non-Finite verbs from the table below and then identify whether
they are Present Participle, Past Participle, Gerund or Infinitive in the given blanks. [1×4=4]
swell jump see
run play join

a. Playing games was never Tom’s strong suit. His mother wanted him b. to join the neighbourhood

football club but he had already proven himself useless at c. running. He finally gave up sports when he

ended up with a d. swollen ankle after a football match.

a. Present Participle

b. Infinitive

c. Gerund

d. Past Participle

6. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of Active or Passive verbs. [0.5×8=4]

a. All of their fears was forgotten (forget) when the children saw (see) the toys in the daycare center.
b. It is believed (believe) that the students, whose parents are involved (involve) in their children’s
education, do better in school.
c. The volunteers will distribute (distribute) the refreshments after they hear (hear) the bell.

d. Last week severe rainfall was observed (observe) when the hurricane hit (hit) the coastal areas.

Section – B

7. Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct options from the table. [0.5x4=2]

residents suburbs developed tourist attraction

commuters outskirts undeveloped residential area

a) The new ice-cream factory is on the outskirts of Dhaka city.

 b) Our transportation system is designed to answer the needs of the city's commuters.
c) Graceland, Elvis Presley's former home, is now a tourist attraction that draws more than 600,000 visitors every
year.
d) The area is still very undeveloped for which many people are not comfortable going through that route with
their cars.

8. Read the following sentences and identify the figure of speech in brackets. Then rewrite the figures of speech
using literal meaning in plain language. [1x4=4]

a) Money is the only friend that I can count on when in difficulty. (Personification)
I can only count on money in difficult times.
b) Lauren was as quiet as a mouse during the test. (Simile)

Lauren was quiet during the test.

c) The offender was sent to a correctional facility for robbing the bank. (Euphemism)
The offender was sent to a prison for robbing the bank.
d) Jen is known to be a selfless person with a heart of gold due to her charity work. (Metaphor)

Jen is known to be a selfless and a generous person due to her charity work.

9. Compete the sentences using suitable figures of speech. After completing the sentences, mention the figure of
speech in brackets. [1x3=3]

a) Ben was able to finish his Chemistry homework in just a few minutes as it was very easy. Excitedly Ben says that
the Chemistry homework was a breeze. (Metaphor)

b) Sara is known to be very innocent as she never cheats in her exams and cannot play mean tricks on other
people. Her friends say Sara is as innocent as an angel. (Simile)

c) Every month, our neighbour and my mother do grocery shopping at Unimart together, however, where my
mother’s trolley always gets crammed with essentials, aunt Jenny’s trolley hardly gets to see more than a few of
toiletries and pulses. Politely my mother says she is just economical. (Euphemism)

10. Fill in the blanks with the correct word/phrase based on the meanings given in brackets. [0.5x6=3]

During the last summer vacation, I had an opportunity to visit my friend in her village. She comes from a small
countryside (land of a rural area) village of Faridpur. It was a relaxing experience to wander in the natural and
unspoiled (pure) surroundings. Together, we spotted mustard fields in the distance where the yellow flowers
waved in the breeze. It looked like a picturesque (an attractive in an old-fashioned way) scenery straight out
of a postcard. Despite being a rural area it offers the majestic (impressive) sights of hills and ponds, the sweet
note of vibrant (energetic) birds, beauty of green paddy-field and rare tranquility of nature. It might not have
the modern facilities but its serene (calm and peaceful) beauty makes it rich on its own.

Section - C

11. Read the following text and then answer the questions.

In the Graveyard

A murder was committed in cold blood, but the people were attributing it to a ghost! How very idiotic!

It was a graveyard all of us saw from outside and some of us the inside too, as the near ones were accompanied till they
were buried. In a crowded city like ours, there had been a mushrooming of flats even near the graveyard and the graveyard
was not a far off, dark and gloomy place from where eerie sounds of anklets or the whines of sickly dogs were heard or
that is what people believed till sometime back. The graveyard was at the back of a small church and once in a while
people were not startled when they heard the slow ringing of the funeral toll in the neighbourhood.

But in the recent past some rumours were being spread about the graveyard. People started talking about shady figures
seen inside the compound at dusk and strange shrieks heard in the dead of night. Some said that the old church organ
was also heard in the dead of night, sometimes, though the church was locked from the outside. But, the rumours helped
keeping the petty thieves at bay.

The real estate people, who were trying to build all over the vacant land around the graveyard, considered these rumours
malicious lies, spread in order that the price of land would hit rock bottom. Now, this murder had given a kind of
authentication to the stories on ghosts. Though the police came, it was suspected that, even some in the police
department believed that a ghost had a hand in the murder.

I walked out of the crowd. Quite suddenly I saw him also moving out of the crowd. He was wearing a worn-out overcoat,
though it was not very cold. The coat reminded me of something. I recalled the face of the dead man. I turned the pages
of my memory. I could recollect that worn-out overcoat, because it was unique. It looked like the overcoats worn in
western countries two centuries back. Yet it did not look worn out. In this city too people wore coats, but shorter ones.
The recollection of the coat led the thread of memory to where I had seen it before.

Yes, I had seen the now murdered man with the man wearing the worn-out overcoat. I had seen them in heated argument
a few days back. I had found out something. In my excitement I went very near the man. A speck of blood on the coat near
the right shoulder was what I saw.

Apparently no one had seen them together except me and so no one suspected him. He seemed just another man drawn
by curiosity. But I could guess who he was. I had seen them near the graveyard in pitch darkness. He seemed a mean
fellow. Should I tell the police? Who would believe? I followed him silently. I got into the bus along with him. I found out
where he lived. I was one hundred percent sure he was the murderer; he had that dirty smirk on his face that said it all.

The police could not get a clue to the murder. The body was brought for funeral after the postmortem. The presence of
the man in the worn-out overcoat at the funeral did not surprise me but his coat was without the stain now. It was a dark
cloudy day and people who attended the funeral, and those were not many, left quickly. The man lingered for sometime
just outside the compound. I knew what I should do. I gave him a powerful smack on the back of his head. Blood splattered
and drenched his overcoat as he fell down, lifeless. A fit punishment for one who was the cause of tarnishing the image
of ghosts!

I went inside the graveyard. I could hear someone shrieking outside. A huge crowd was gathering near the body and the
arrival of the police jeep – I could tell from the noise outside. All became quite once again around midnight. My pale
friends rose from their graves as usual for their midnight party. I walked into the church, through the church wall and sat
at the organ to play.

Answer the following questions: [10]

a) For each of the words below, circle the letter (A, B, C or D) which has the same meaning that the word has in the
passage. 2

i) gloomy A. grumpy B. moody C. melancholy D. luminous

ii) petty A. dangerous B. daring C. treacherous D. minor
iii) malicious A. mean B. harmless C. meaningless D. bland
iv) lingered A. sat down B. loitered C. sulked D. moped

b) What made people believe that the murder was committed by a ghost? Explain. 2
People believed that the graveyard was haunted, especially when rumours started to spread about people
seeing shady figures at dusk, hearing strange shrieks and church organ in the middle of night.
c) What does the narrator mean by the word “authentication” in the text? 1
Verification/proof
d) Why does the narrator take the decision to punish the man? 1
The image of the ghosts was getting tarnished because of him.
e) What does the narrator mean by “my pale friends”? 1
His ghost friends.
f) What can you conclude about the graveyard? Was it really haunted or just a rumour? Justify your answer. 1
It was haunted as the narrator himself was a ghost who walked through a wall and his ghost friends rose from
their graves for their midnight party.
g) Paraphrase the following: 2
 i. Though the police came, it was suspected that, even some in the police department believed that a ghost
had a hand in the murder.
Despite the arrival of the police there were doubts that even some officers from the police department
thought that the murder was committed by a ghost.
ii. It was a dark cloudy day and people who attended the funeral, and those were not many, left quickly.
It was a dull cloudy day and the few people who joined the memorial service, cleared out rapidly.

Section – D
12. One of your classmates tripped on a flowerpot by the stairs and injured himself. [10]

Write a report to the Principal about the incident. You must include the following:

 how bad was the injury

 how did the teacher on duty manage the situation
 what did the support staff do to prevent further accidents

You are advised to write between 200 and 250 words.

13. Describe the guard of your apartment building. [10]

(Give a detailed description of the person using vivid details.)

Remember you are not writing a story.

You are advised to write between 250 and 300 words.

You must mention the number of words written in the essay.