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Part-A : Seen Comprehension (30 Marks)

Read the passage below and answer the question (1 – 4): It has been over three hundred years since emperor Shajahan of Delhi built the Tajmahal as a tomb for his wife in Agra. Architecturally, it is still one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. The building is made of fine white marble with inlays of coloured marble. It has eight sides and many open arches. It rests on a platform or terrace of red sandstone. Four slender white towers rise from the corners of the terrace. There is a large dome above the centre of the building. Around this large dome there are four smaller domes. Just inside the outer walls, there is an open corridor from which visitors can look through carved marble screens into a central room. The bodies of Shahjahan and his wife Mumtaz lie in two graves below this room. The Taj Mahal is surrounded by a beautiful garden and there is a long pool that stretches out in front of the building. One can see the beauty of the Taj Mahal in its reflection in the pool water. Visitors come to see this wonderful building at different times of the day since it assumes a different look at different times. Most people like it best on moonlit nights.

1.	Choose the right word to complete each sentence. 15=5	a)	The building is studded with (fine/white/coloured) marble. 	b)	The Taj Mahal passed its (three centenary/golden jubilee/diamond jubilee). c)	It is regarded as one of the most beautiful buildings for its (construction/beauty/stone). 	d)	The Taj was built as a (mausoleum/recreation/secticular) building for his wife. e)	The buildings (deduce/reduce/produce) different look at different times of the day.

2.	True/False? If false, give the correct information. 15=5 	a)	A beautiful garden encompasses the Taj Mahal. 	b)	The Taj Mahal was built after the death of Shahjahan. c)	Inside the dome there is one grave. 	d)	The Taj Mahal was named after the wife of Shahjahan. e)	The Taj Mahal looks very beautiful at moonlit nights.

3.	Fill in teh gaps with the correct form of words in brackets. Add any preposition of necessary. 15=5	a)	The visitors view in that the beauty of the Taj is (stun)-. 	b)	The (pass)-time has out faded its beauty remarkable. c)	The (beautiful)-The Taj Mahal has been charming its visitors for more than three hundred years. 	d)	The structural beauty of the Taj has (wane)-a little bit. e)	The visitors are often over joyous to see the (reflect)-the Taj in the pool.

4.	Make a list of five important information about Taj Mahal. 5 Read the passage below and answer the question 5 – 8. Gender discrimination in Bangladesh begins at birth. Most Parents want to have children so that they can, when the are older, supplement their family income and / or help with the domestic work. In the existing socio-economic set-up, male children are best suited to this purpose. So girls are born to an unwelcome world. However they are assigned, rather confined to domestic chores. Some of these girls may be at school. But all their work-domestic or academic-stops as soon as they are married off, which is the prime concern of the parents about their daughters. This discriminatory treatment has some long-term negative effects on the body and mind of the girl children and women in a family. They are given to understand that they should keep the best food available for the male members in the family; that they should eat less than the male members; that they should raise their voice when they speak; that they should not go out of their house without permission from, and without being escorted by the male members. All these shape the girls’ thinking about life and the world, and go to establish their relationships with the male members in the family.

5.	Write short answers to the following questions. 15=5	a)	What do you understand by gender discriminations? 	b)	Why do parents in Bangladesh prefer a male child? c)	How is the birth of a girl unwelcome? 	d)	What is the prime concern of parents in our country about their daughters? e)	What is the result of the discriminatory treatment to the girl children?

6.	Fill in gaps with suitable words. 15=5 Girl members in Bangladeshi family do not receive the same (a)-as the male members. The (b)-against girls, in face, begins as soon as they are born. As they grow up, caring for domestic shores becomes their main (c)-. Some of them are sent to (d)-. But everything stops as soon as their parents are able to arrange their (e)-.

7.	Summarise the passage in five sentences. 15=5

8.	Based on your reading of the passage, make short notes in each of the boxes in the flow charts showing the position of girl or a woman in the family. (No. 1 has been done for you). 15=5

Part-B : Vocabulary Test (10 Marks)

9.	Fill in the gaps with suitable words from the box. Make any grammatical changes in necessary. There are more words in the box than you need. 110=10 common	popular	influence	economic	exceptional	colurful passenger	outstanding	up	road	have	illustrate The development of railway in the 19th century has (a)-a profound (b)-on social and (c)-development in many parts of the word. This process is (d)-in an (e)-fashion by the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. It is the first and still the most (b)-model of a (g)-train that goes (h)-a mountain. It is (i)-known as toy train perhaps because of its (j)-wagons and its slow speed.

10.	Fill in the blanks with and appropriate word in each gap. 110=10 Many diseases are (a)-at an alarming rate, which experts believe is due to (b)-pollution of the environment. Pollution appears to be (c)-in urban areas (d)-rural societies too are (e)-by increased use of chemical fertilizers and (f)-. Nevertheless, today city people appear to (g)-from many (h)-diseases and suffer more (i)-than country people. Now let us see how life in cities is (j)-from that in the country.

11.	Match the phrases from the following table and make meaningful. 12 (i) Feeding the ever growing 	pressure on land 	challenge for our country	level of agricultural production. (ii) The major challenge for 	our farms are small	for human settlement	fragmented. (iii) There is excessive 	to compensate for the 	one approach for promoting 	reclamation in the Bay of Bengal. (iv) About 80% of 	The country is to 	loss of land is to go for land	and building of infrastructure. (v) The newly emerging 	Population is a big 	And highly 	in the coming decades. (vi) We have one possibility 	contract farming is 	sustain the current 	food production.

12.	Rearrange the following fumbled sentences in proper order. 14 	i)	They set it on fire. 	ii)	Seeing the armed forces taking position, Dr. Zoha came forward. iii)	Finally, Dr. Zoha was shot in the back at 11a.m in the morning. 	iv)	Later he was bayonet charged too. v)	Meanwhile, the students doused parked army jeep with kerosene. 	vi)	The teachers saw this. vii)	The armed forces saw the situation. 	viii) They started to take up their position against the students. ix)	Then, he declared that their bullets would pierce his heart first. 	x)	 He requested the armed forces not to open fire on students. xi)	But they did not pay any heed to him.	xii)	So, they requested the guards on duty to open the gate. xiii) The situation went beyond control. 	xiv) The agitated students of Rajshahi University started to jump over the locked gate and scale the wall.

13.	Answer the following questions to form a paragraph. 14 	a)	What is globalization? 	b)	Who have introduced the idea of globalization? c)	Who are mainly benefited by globalization?	d)	What are the effects of globalization on developing nations?