Suggestion of Advanced Reading and Writing

Suggestion of

Advanced Reading and Writing

For 2^nd Year

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Part-1

Read the passage below and answer any five questions that follow:

Stress is a twentieth century illness. The pressures on all of us are very great because speed and competition have become part of everyday life. social isolation, overcrowding, competitiveness of our society and several other factors are responsible for stress. We often refer to competition in society as ‘rat-race’. Some of us get tired easily; others get depressed; some other are worried. The rat-race affects everybody in society–from teenagers to ealderly people. There is often smething that worries us. Sometimes the stresses on us are too great. We fall out of the race and have a nervous breakdown. Extreme cases of illness lead to suicide. Still there is hope because only a few people crack while others do not.

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Free and fair election is the precondition for democracy. Abraham Lincoln, the great President of America, defines democracy as “the government of the people, by the people and for the people.” It means fair and equal treatment for the citizens without social class division. In fact, in a democratic country people elect their representatives who work for the people. In a democratic country, people enjoy the rights of food, cloth, shelter, education, medical treatment and other facilities. Democracy is the system of government which allows freedom of speech, religious and political opinion. People are the source of power, that is, people possess the absoluate power in a democratic country. Ours is a democratic country. We hope to stride ahead towards a brighter tomorrow. Only people’s government is not sufficient for it. To make a corruption free society, we have to begin from the personal level; otherwise, democracy will be but crying in the wilderness. A corruption free society is the one that meets the necessities of it.

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Three passions, simple but overwhelming strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for mankind. These passions, like great winds have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish reaching to very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy–ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of the life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally because in the union of love have seen in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and thought it might seem too good for a human life; this is what-at last-I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the heart of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds says above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward towards the heavens. But always pity brought me a back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, Victims tortured by opprerssors, helpless old people a heated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

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Various kinds of nuclear weapons have been produced in the past few years by many countries. This is a new and terrible development in the history of mankind. Very few events can be more frightful than a nuclear war. In a nuclear war, of the world’s population will be exterminated. The few living things that survive will be exposed to radiation or electric rays harmful to life. It has been said by scientists that many new diseases will be caused by radiation. There will also be an acute shortage of food, for all the crops and stores will be poisoned by radiation. If nuclear bombs are dropped on any area, it will be ruined. Therefore, the survivors of a nuclear war will be sick, hungry and homeless. It might be better to be killed in a nuclear war than to survive it. It will be better still for men to live in peace with one another. If this can be achieved there will be no nuclear wars.

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The ocean abounds with life. many different kinds of plants and animals live in the ocean and the study of these is called Marine Biology. The ocean is the home of the largest animal in the world, the blue whale and of the smallest ones as well. The plants and the animals in the sea can be divided into two groups, those that cannot swim but just float or drift in the water, called plankton and those that can swim freely in the sea. The plankton plants and animals are so small that they cannot be seen without a microscope. The plankton plants are called “the pasture of the sea” because they are the basic food for all sea animals. Since plants need sunlight to make their food from the minerals in the water, sea plants can grow only within about 150 meters of the ocean’s surface, up to which light can reach. So animal life which depends on sea plants is abundant in the surface layer of the ocean. In the deep sea where sun-light cannot reach, there is no plant life. yet some animals do, live there. The deep-sea animals and fishes that live in this dark, cold, hostile world have developed strange forms and habits which help them in their struggle for existence. The deep-sea fishes are obviously carnivorous animals. They have gigantic mouths with sharp teeth, but there bodies are small. The dragon fish can expand its stomach to swallow its prey six times larger than itself. Thus it can make one meal last a long time as food being scarce in the deep-sea. Some deep-sea fishes are blind and have feelers to guide them. But of them produce their own light which illuminates their surroundings and helps them to find food.

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You may be surprised to learn that there are carnivorous plants as well as carnivorous animals. Carnivorous plants grow in poor soil and need other food to make up for the lack of food in the soil itself. They use ingenious devices to trap insects for their food. The pitcher plant is a common carnivorous plant in tropical forests. This plant has a clever trap shaped like a pitchers or jug. It even has a lid to keep out the rain. The mouth of the pitcher is covered with sweet, sticky substance like honey or nectar. Insects come to the plant to feed on this substance. When they have eaten all that is round the mouth they crawl into the pitcher to look for more. There is more honey at the bottom and they go down to feed on it. The inner wall of the pitcher is covered with fine hairs. These hairs point downwards, so that the insects cannot climb out of the pitcher. They are trapped in it. They die there and their bodies are digested by the plant and absorbed as food.

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To write pointedly and at the same time wittily on any particular topic demands both a keen sense of perception and a lively sense of humour. ‘Brevity’ it is said, ‘is the soul of wit’. Hence short, crisp sentences which hint skillfully at the concealed humour serve the witty writer best. Moreover, wit is possessed of such a subtle, intangible quality that any attempt to force or over-emphasize it is bound to detract from its excellence. What Keats said in another context could well be applied to it: ‘If it comes not naturally, it should not come at all.’ The wit of a Dean Swift, an Oscar Wilde, a Shaw or a Chesterton is born, not made. Perception of wit is an intellectual enjoyment closely akin to a sense of humour, an acquirement by means to be despised.

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William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford on Avon. His father was a merchant and a man of prominence. It is believed that Shakespeare attended Stratford Grammar School where he acquired a knowledge of Latin. He developed an affair with Anne Hathway who was his senior to him by eight years. They got married in 1582 and a daughter was born to them in 1583. By 1593 Shakespeare moved to London to work as an actor and a playwright, he chose this career to earn his living and in course of time he became one of the greatest dramatists of the world. He was a member of the successful drama troupe, the Chamberlain’s Men. He not only acted and wrote for this company but also became a leading shareholder. By dint of his merit and labour he reached the peak of his success, though his life was not a bed of roses for him at the beginning. Shakespeare is a man for all men of all ages.

Read the following short piece of composition attentively and identify the statement mentioning true or false:

Hummingbirds are very small and speedy species of birds. They can hover in the air by flapping their wings very rapidly. They are the only birds that can fly backwards. Like bees, hummingbirds drink nectar, a sweet liquid found inside flowers. Nectar is a poor nutrient, which supplies only carbohydrate. Therefore, hummingbirds prey on insets for protin, amino acids, vitamins and minerals.

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Tolerance is the needed there where opinions are divided, beliefs are different. Creeds and ideologies are opposed to each other. It teaches one to tolerate, opinion, belies, creeds, policies and politics. Political leaders of differentisms and ideologies should cultivate it but unfortunately it is wanting in them. They shout their voices hoarse for their institionalization of democracy but in the parliament and outside they hardly exercise to trace, which is essential for democracy. Those who listen to opposite opinions through arguments are really great. Where there is no cultivation or exercise of tolerance there prevail chaos and disruption, disorder and lawlessness. The political parties that do not show and exercise tolerance get involved in destructive activities and create unrest and chaos. Because of the lack of tolerance the whole edifice of liberty and international brotherhood collapses intolerance breeds distrust and hatred, malice and jealousy, antagonism and hostility and leads people to stand against one another and ultimately, in cases’ causes bloodshed and death to many. In fact, for a oeaceful coexistence among people of all classes’ castes and creeds tolerance has no alternative. It must be cultivated for the sake of humanity and true development.

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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but to be yourself all the time. And this is the difficult thing to do: whether you are ugly or beautiful, whether you are envious or jealous, always to be what you are, and understand it. To be yourself is very difficult, because you think that what you are is ignoble, and that if you could only change what you are into something noble, it would be marvelous, but that never happens. Whereas, if you look at you actually are and understand it, then it is that very understanding there is a transformation. So freedom lies not in trying to become something different, nor in doing whatever do you happen to feel like doing, nor in following the authority of tradition, of your parents, of your guru, but in understanding what you are from moment to moment.

Read the passage below and tag the following statements as True, False, or Not Given:

What are the difficulties in learning a second language? Clearly one of the main difficulties is that usually the learner lives in an environment where the second language is not spoken. The language may be used in special language classes or even as a medium of instruction in school, but generally a fairly small proportion of the learner’s time is spent in using it. Another difficulty is that of interference between learner’s mother tongue and the second language. Interference is perhaps noticeable in pronounciation, but it also affects the learner’s understanding of grammar and ability to write well in the second language. Learning another language then is clearly not easy. It requires interest, persistence, the confidence to make mistakes and the determination to correct them.

Read the passage below and answer the following questions:

The oldest stories we know were first told as poetry. In a poem the words are often arranged to a musical beat or rhythm. Poetry which is written in a metre, or rhythm, is known as verse. But the rhythm does have to be regular all the time. this would be dull. Blank verse has a rhythm, but it does not rhyme. Shakespeare used blank verse in his plays, which does not rhyme or have a strict rhythm. There are different styles and forms of poetry. Story-poems with short verses and, often, with exciting stories are called ballads. Long-story poems are called epics. The greatest of the ancient epic poems, full of the deeds of brave heroes, are the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, a Greek, and the Aeneid of the Roman poet Virgil.

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Pollution is when something is added to the environment that is harmful or poisonous to living things. Smoke in the air from factories is a type of pollution as it is bad for the lungs when breathed in. sewage in drinking water is another type of pollution, as it can make people ill because it contains germs and viruses. People living next to a building site where there is too much noise can become sick as they cannot sleep or relax.

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Self-control is at the root of all virtues. Let a man give the rein to his impulses and passions, and from that moment yields up his moral freedom. He is carried along the current of life and becomes slave of his strongest desires for the time being. To be morally free- to be more than an animal –man must be able to resist his instinctive impulse, and this can only be done by the exercise of self-control. This is the power which constitutes other real distinction between physical and moral life, and forms the primary basis of the individual character. By the watchful exercise of this virtue, the purity of heart and mind becomes habitual and the character is built up in chastity, virtue and temperance.

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An intellectual is one who is an enlightened person. He has to give light to others who one in need of it. In every society we find intellectuals such as philosophers, scientists, scholars, writers and critics. They have a great responsibilitiy towards society as enlightened men. In a society all cannot be intellectuals. If a time comes when allare intellectuals, it would be a blessed time indeed; but at present, at any rate, all are not intellectuals and those who are intellectuals, have the great responsibility of guiding others on to the right path. If today we have our civilization and culture, if we have order and security in life, and if our life is better than that of our primitive ancestors, it is because the intellectuals, from time to time have been guiding humanity on the path of felicity and amity. An intellectual should come out of his ivory power and try to elevate others to his level. This is the theme of Tennyson’s famous poem “The Palace of Art”. An intellectual has the duty of seeing the truth and teaching it to others. An intellectual contemplates on the eternal laws of the universe to explore the truth. The perception of the truth is althe same as the perception of beauty, and the duty of an intellectual is to see the truth or beauty, and to reveal it to others.

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When I was a small boy, my ankles were weak, and I was slow in learning to walk. As a result, I learned to read sooner than children. My grandmother used to read a great deal to me school stories, all very virtuous, where the hero and his favourite teacher were incredibly brave, and the bad lad was terribly bad, and came to an edifying end in the last chapter but one. From these stories we came to Eric or little by little and St Winfred’s which were similar in moral tone, but much better written. As I grew older, and chose my own reading, I rushed to comic papers and penny-bloods. The youth of today can have no idea what a wonderful period that was for penny-bloods. It was the golden age of thrillers, and I read them all. I have got some still in my bookcase. Only a few; but I treasure them.

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It is rare to find people who actually like to be single and want to stay that way. Wat one finds more frequently are men and women who say they adore being single but who spend of their non-working time looking for some kind of sexual or romantic attachment. Tony, for example, has a certain image of life with a women. It includes fidelity, marriage, domesticity. But until he finds the particular woman with whom he can have total communication he won’t give u p his freedom. He has had several almajor involvements in the past years. But each time he started measuring the current woman against this mental image. Reality never quite matched the ideal : the woman was too thin; they didn’t have that much in common–there were always objection. And he’d begin to long for his single days again. The last time this had happened, the woman found someone else. And he continued on his rounds of the single life. After a time Tony wtched the woman got more and more involved with her new man. He began to rethink his relationship with her. She was actually more intelligent, prettier and more sexually exacting than he had realised. She would not have been a bad person to spend a life with. He even talked to her about that prospect, but she was too attached to her new beau and they were thinking of living together.

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Is it possible to persuade mankind to live without war? War is an ancient institution which has existed for at least six thousand years. It was always wicked and usually foolish, but in the past the human race managed to live with it. Modern ingenuity has changed this. Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man. For the present, it is nuclear weapons that the gravest danger, but bacteriological or chemical weapons may, before long, offer an even greater threat. If we succeed in abolishing nuclear weapons, our work will not be done. It will never be done until we have succeeded in abolishing war. To do this, we need to persuade mankind to look upon international questions in a new way, not as contests of force in which the victory goes to the side which is skilful in massacre, but by arbitration in accordance with agreed principles of law. It is not easy to change age-old mental habits, but this is what must be attempted.

Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions:

Modern ideas are beginning to influence the Eskimos. but not enough to make such difference to their way of life. They still spend their winters in igloos, the round huts that are built of of snow frozen hard. They still travel on sledges that are pulled by doge. The winter is too cold for hunting, so during the season they live on the stores of the seal meat that they have killed in the summer. But seal meat is the only food they eat. In summer they hunt reindeers and bears. They also fish all the year round. The Eskimos who are hunters in summer are fishermen in winter. Eskimos live in very difficult situations. There is not enough wood to make furniture and there is no metal for tools. Only adaptable workmen can live in these conditions.

Writing-I

Answer any five questions:-

1. What is writing?

2. What kind of skill is writing?

3. What is language?

4. How many skills are there in English?

5. What are the four skills in English

6. What are the integrated skills of language?

7. What is brain storming?

8. What are the stages of writing process?

9. What is cohesion?

10. What do you mean by drafting?

11. What is bibliography?

12. What is skimming?

13. How does scanning differ from skimming?

14. Define biography.

15. What is plagiarism?

16. What is subjectivity?

17. What is objectivity?

18. What is Scanning?

19. What is proofreading?

20. What does revising mean?

Topic Sentence

1. On “Higher education for women in Bangladesh”.

2. on “A Good Book”.

3. on “Causes of Environment Pollution”.

4. on “Disadvantages of Internet”.

5. on “Your Favourite Poet”.

6. on “Moral Values”.

7. on “Reading makes a full man”.

8. on “Mobile Phone”.

9. on “Female Education”.

10. on “E-mail”.

11. on “Global Warming”.

12. on “A Village Market”.

13. on “Tree Plantation”.

14. on “Distance Learning”.

15. on “Drug Addiction”.

16. on “Friendship”.

17. on “Gender Discrimination”.

18. on “Internet”.

19. on “Social Violence”.

20. on “Global Warming”.

21. on “Freedom of Speech”.

22. on “Punctuality”.

23. On “Charity”.

24. On “Facebook”.

25. On “Tension”.

26. On “Student Politics”.

27. On “Acid Throwing”.

28. On “Globalization”.

29. On “Good Manners”.

30. On “Self-Reliance”.

31. On “A Rainy Day”.

32. On “Corruption”.

33. On “Road Accident”.

34. On “Patriotism”.

35. On “Your Department”.

36. On “Study of Science”.

37. On “Computer”.

38. On “Climate Change”

39. On “Load Shedding”.

40. On “Study Tour”.

Paragraph

1. What is a paragraph?

2. What is listing paragraph?

3. What is the terminator in a paragraph?

4. What is a topic sentence?

5. How many kinds of process paragraph do we have?

6. What are the main parts of a paragraph?

7. What is a process paragraph?

8. What are the functions of a topic sentence?

9. What is an expository paragraph?

10. What is a definition paragraph?

11. What is the controlling idea in a paragraph?

12. What is a lead sentence?

13. What is the key sentence in a paragraph?

14. Write the classification of a paragraph.

15. What is a cause and effect paragraph?

16. What is descriptive paragraph?

17. What is a contrast paragraph?

18. What do you know about persuasive paragraph?

19. What do you know about argumentative paragraph?

20. What is a classification paragraph?

21. What is a comparison paragraph?

22. What are the features/characteristics/qualities of a good paragraph?

23. What are the elements of a paragraph?

24. What are the developers in a paragraph?

25. How many step processes/preparation are there for a paragraph development?

26. Give the layout of a paragraph.

27. Which is the basic difference between paragraph and essay?

28. Which is complete- essay or paragraph?

29. What is restatement in a paragraph?

Linkers/Transition Phrases/Transitional Expressions/Transitions

1. What do you mean by linkers?

2. Which transition marker would you use to write a comparative paragraph?

(i) Similarly; (ii) In addition to; (iii) To sum up

3. What sentence linker of the following ones will you use to link two sentences of cause and effect relation?

(i) in fine; (ii) as a result; (iii) ultimately

4. What transition maker of the following ones would you be applicable in making alternative approach in writing?

(i) moreover (ii) in connection to (iii) in lieu of

5. Which transition maker would you use to conclude a paragraph?

(i) Secondly (ii) Moreover (iii) To sum up

6. Which transition maker would you use to introduce an example?

(i) as a result (ii) for instance (iii) in addition

7. What are the linkers commonly used in a contrast paragraph?

8. Give a list of linkers in cause and effect writing..

9. What are the linkers used in a listing paragraph?

10. Which of the following sentence linkers will you use to link two sentences to express ‘sequence’?

(i) moreover (ii) subsequently (iii) to sum up

11. Which of the following transition maker would be applicable in case of opposition or contradiction?

(i) unlike (ii) like (iii) if

12. Which transition maker would you use to show the cause and effect relationship?

13. Which transition maker would you use to introduce a contrast?

14. Write the names of five common punctuation marks.

Essay

1. What is descriptive essay?

2. What is a narrative essay?***

3. What is a thesis statement?

4. What do you mean by an expository essay?

5. What is the function of an expository essay?

6. What is a formal essay?

7. Give a definition of subjective essay?

8. Name a title on which an argumentative essay can be written.

9. Write down the names of four types of essays.

10. What is an essay?

11. What are the different types of essays?

12. What are the three basic parts of an essay?

13. What is an ‘introduction’ in an essay?

14. Show the position of ‘thesis statement’ in an introductory of an essay.

15. What is the main body of an essay?

16. What is the conclusion of an essay?

17. What do you know about critical essay?

18. What is a literary essay?

19. What is the function of an argumentative essay?

20. What is argumentative essay?

21. What is persuasive essay?

22. What do you mean by an example essay?

LETTER

1. What are the major types of letter?

2. What is a covering letter?

3. What is a formal letter?

4. What does the subscription convey?

5. What is business letter?

6. You are writing a job application letter, but you don’t know a named contact. How do you sign off your letter?

(i) kind regards, (ii) yours sincerely, (iii) your faithfully

7. What is block format in writing letters?

8. What is commercial letter?

9. What is a letter of complaint?

10. What is D.O. letter?

11. What are the parts of a formal letter?

12. What is an informal letter?

13. How many parts are there in an informal letter?

14. What are the “four A’s” of sales letter?

15. What is L/C?

16. What is the subscription in a letter?

17. What is a letter?

18. How many kinds of letter are there?

19. What should be the proper complementary closing of a Job Application?

20. What does N.B. stand for?

21. What is the elaboration of PS?

22. What is an official letter?

23. What are the types of business letter?

24. How many parts are there in a private letter?

25. What is the important part of a letter?

26. Give two examples of formal letter.

27. How many parts are there in an application?

CV/Resume/Bio-Data

1. What do you mean by bio-data?

2. What is CV?

3. What does CV stand for?

4. What is the American word for CV?

5. What are the elements of a CV?

6. What is a resume?

7. What is the main function of a resume?

8. What is biography?

Memo

1. What is the purpose of a memo?

2. Show the structure of a memo with essential parts.

3. What is a memo?

4. What does the word memorandum mean?

5. What is the full name of memo?

6. Mention the types of memo.

7. What are the parts/elements of a memo?

8. Give format of a Memo.

9. What are the functions of a memo?

10. To whom are memos written?

Punctuation

1. What is punctuation?

2. Make a list of five common punctuation marks.

3. What are the uses of capitalization?

4. How many punctuation marks are used in English?

5. Write a sentence with a direct question using appropriate punctuation marks.

Notice

1. What is the main function of a notice?

2. What is the purpose of a notice?

3. What is a notice?

4. What is the difference between a notice and a circular?

5. Where a notice hung?

6. What type of communication is notice?

7. Where is a notice published?

Report

1. What are the essential parts of a report?

2. What is a report?

3. What should be the tone and language of a report?

4. What is the purpose of report writing?

5. Name the parts of a news report.

6. What is the structure of a short report?

7. Name the types of report.

8. What is news report?

9. What are the parts of a news report?

10. What is ‘Lead paragraph’?

11. What is ‘Story’ in a report?

12. Why is long report prepared?

13. What is appendix?

14. What is glossary?

Press Release:

1. What should be the language of a press release?

2. What kind of announcement is a press release?

3. What is a press release?

4. What is the purpose of a press release?

5. What is the headline of a press release?

6. What special mark should be used at the end of a press release?

7. What is an embargo?

8. What is embargo date?

9. Why does a company send a press release to the media?

10. What is dateline in a press release?

11. What is boilerplate?

12. Who are the targets of a press release?

Extra Question for Practice

1. What is cohesive device?

2. What is bibliography?

3. What do you understand by an executive summary?

4. What is briefing note?

5. What is skimming?

6. What is scanning?

7. At least how many person needs for a dialogue?

8. What do you mean by minutes?

9. Which linking words would you use to give an example?

(i) such as, (ii) as well as, (iii) finally

10. Which linking word would you use to make a contrast?

(i) but, (ii) while, (iii) whereas

Part: B (Reading-II)

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The aim of education is to make a man fully equipped to be useful to himself and to the society. A truly educated man should be well mannered, thoughtful, creative, kind, respectful, sympathetic and co-operative. It is by cultivating these virtues that a human being transcends all the limitations of his life imposed upon him and becomes the significant creation of God. If at the distress and suffering of a fellow human being your love and sympathy or such other human feelings are not roused, if you do not feel anguish in your heart and do not feel an urge to alleviate the sufferings of other human beings, you have not been properly educated. A person who had acquired knowledge and skill for material development alone is also not fully educated.

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Men have travelled since they first appeared on the earth. In primitive times they did not travel for pleasure but to find new places where their herds could be fed or to escape from hostile neighbours or to find more favourite climates. They travelled on foot. Their journeys were long, tiring and often dangerous. They protected themselves with simple weapons such as: wooden sticks or stone clubs or by lighting fires at night, and above all, by keeping together. Being intelligent and creative, they soon discovered easier ways of travelling. They rode on the backs of their domesticated animals, they hollowed out tree trunks, and they were able to travel across water by using bits of wood as paddles. Later they travelled not for necessity, but for the joy and excitement of seeing and experiencing new things. This is still the main reason why we travel today. Travelling, of course, has now become a highly organized business. There are cars and splendid roads, express trains, huge ships and jet airlines, all of which provide us with comforts and security. If you want to go abroad, you need a passport and a visa, tickets, luggage and many other things. If you loss any of them, your journey many be ruined.

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Exports are either raw materials or manufactured goods. Raw materials are products of the land, such as cotton, timber or rubber. Some raw materials such as iron ore come from mines. These raw materials are often exported by the countries that produce them toother countries where they are made into manufacturered goods. Some countries produce food for export, for example meat, sugar or cereals such as wheat and maize. These countries are agricultural countries. An agricultural country needs fertile land and a good climate. A cold, wet climate is not suitable for agriculture. A country which produces manufactured goods is known as an industrialized country. An industrialized country cannot always produce enough food for its own needs. It has no import food. It relies on exports of manufactured products and play for the imports with the money it earns from the exported goods.

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I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of the life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally because in the union of love have seen in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and thought it might seem too good for a human life; this is what-at last- I have found.

Read the text and answer any three of the following (2-6) :-

Men usually want to have their own way. They want to think and act as they like. No one, however, can have his own way all the time. a man cannot live in society without considering the interests of others as well as his own interests. ‘Society’ means a group of people with the same laws and same way of life. people in society may make their own decisions, but these decisions ought not to be unjust or harmful to others. One man’s decision may so easily harm another person. For example, a motorist may be in a hurry to get a friend’s house. He sets out, driving at full speed like a computer in a motor race. There are other vehicles and also pedestrians on the road. Suddenly there is a crash. There are screams and confusion. One careless motorist has struct another car. The collision has injured two of the passengers and killed the third. Too many road accidents happen through the thoughtlessness of selfish drivers.

We have governments, the police and the law courts to prevent or to punish such criminals acts. But in addition, all men ought to observe certain rules of conducts. Every man ought to behave with consideration for other men. He ought not to steal, cheat or destroy the property of others. There is no place for there sort of behavior in a civilized society.

Men in a free society have certain privileges. The government and the police do not watch all their movements. Officials do not dictate to them everything they may or may not do. Men in a free society think as they please. They may even choose their own government. In return for these privileges they ought not to act selfishly. They ought-always to respect the rights of others. It is very important for men to remember this. Whenever they may live, whether in a town or in a village, in a large or a small community, they ought not to behave thoughtlessly. The happiness of a community depends on the behavior of its individual members. It is every good citizen’s responsibility to give as well as to receive.

Read the text and answer any three of the following (2- 6):-

Go into a coffee bar, sit down, relax and try to talk to someone. It may look to others as though they are wasting your time. it may even feel that way to you. But as long as you are doing this in a foreign country where you speak the language or not at all, you are probably acquiring a new language better than your ever could by formal study with a teacher and a textbook.

The social situation, properly used, beats the classroom hollow. It is full of native speakers asking you questions, telling you to do things, urging you to take an active part in conversation, and using gestures freely to make their intentions clear-just like your parents did when you were an infant. So plunge in. All you have to do is talk back. There may be biological reasons why the capacity to learn languages falls away with age, even more than the capacity to learn other things. The brain must be designed to do its best language learning in infancy, and then to redeploy its resources at puberty. But psychological factors play a big part too. As we get older, we get more self conscious, more inhibited, more capacity to acquire a new language because language underpius a sense of personality and indentity. We fear to make mistakes in it.

When we want to learn a new language in mid life for reasons of career on curiocity, we commonly but wrongly tackle it with the sense of doing something difficult and unnatural. We turn to grammar books and compact discs expecting a fight. We are going to ‘struggle’ with the language. We will ‘master’ it, unless it defeats us. And with that sort of attitude, it probably will.

All other things being equal, the best learner will be the person who is the relaxed in conversation and the self-confident.

Read the text and answer any three of the following (2-6):-

Read the essay and answer the questions that follow:-2×5=10

Culture shock can be an excellent lesson in relative values and in understanding human differences. The reason culture shock occurs is that we are not prepared for these differences. Because the way we are taught our culture, we are all ethnocentric. This term comes from the Greek root ethnos, meaning a people or group. Thus it refers to the fact that our outlook or world view is centred on our own way of life. Ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s own patterns of behavior are the best, the natural beautiful right or important. Therefore other people to the extent that they live differently, live by standard that are inhuman, irrational, unnatural or wrong.

Ethnocentrism is the view that one’s own culture is better than all others; it is way all People feel about themselves as compared to outsides. There is no one in our society who is not ethnocentric to some degree, on matter how liberal and open minded he or she is. People always find some aspect of another culture distasteful. But we should not be ashamed of it, because it is a natural outcome of growing up in any society.

Ethnocentrism can be found in many aspects of culture–myths, folktales, proverbs and even language. For example, in language the English term barbarian was used to refer to tribes that lived around the edge of ancient Greek society. So originally it is a Greek word. The Greeks reffered to these people as barbars because they could not understand their speech. Bar-bar was the Greek word for the sound a dog makes. The Greeks in a classic example of ethnocentrism, considered those whose speech they could not understand to be on the same level as dogs which also could not be understood.

Writing-II

Short Questions

1. Write the definition of plagiarism?

2. What are the ways to avoid plagiarism?

3. What do you know about biography?

4. What is brainstorming? How does it help you in writing a paragraph?

5. Define cohesion in writing.

6. Tell what you know about biblography.

7. Write an introduction for a paragraph on the topic, Integrity.

8. What is a thesis statement?

8. Write a topic sentence for a paragraph on the topic – ‘Book fair’.

9. What language should be applicable in a writing when its purpose is to directions?

10. Write the definition of Rubric.

11. What tone and attitude would be applicable in a writing when its purpose is to entertain writer’s friend?

Part: C (Reading-III)

Read the following poem, The Tyger by William Blake and answer any two of the following questions(10-12):- 10×2=20

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;

What immortal hand or eye,

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? And what dread feet?

What the hammer? What the chain,

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? What dread grasp,

Dare it deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears

And water’d heaven with their tears;

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he Who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;

What immortal hand or eye,

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Read the following poem, Sonnet-18 by William Shakespeare and answer any two of the following questions(10-12):- 10×2=20

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Read the following poem, When We Two Parted by George Gordon Byron and answer any two of the following questions (10-12):- 10×2=20

When we two parted

In silence and tears,

Half-broken-hearted

To sever for years,

Pale grew thy cheek and cold,

Colder thy kiss;

Truly that hour foretold

Sorrow to this.

The dew of the morning

Sunk chill on my brow-

It felt like the warning

Of what I feel now.

Thy vows are broken,

And light is thy fame;

I hear thy name spoken,

And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,

A knell to mine ear;

A shudder comes o’er me-

Why wert thou so dear?

They know not I knew thee,

Who knew thee too well-

Long, long shall I rue thee,

Too deeply to tell.

In secret we met-

In silence I grieve,

That thy heart could forget,

Thy spirit deceive.

If I should meet thee

After long years,

How should I greet thee?-

With silence and tears.

Read the following poem, Ozymandias by P.B. Shelley and answer any two of the following questions(10-12):- 10×2=20

I met a traveler from an antique land

Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinked lip and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!”

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Read the following poem and answer any two of the following questions (10-12):- 10×2=20

Sweet and low sweet and low

Wind of the western sea.

Low, low, breath and blow

Wind of the western sea!

Over the rolling wants go.

Come from the dying moon and blow

Blow him again to me;

While my little one, while my pretty ones, sleep.

Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,

Will come to his babe in the nest.

Silver sails all out of the west

Father will come to thee soon;

Rest, rest on mother’s breast.

Father will come to to thee soon;

Father under the silver moon;

Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep.

Read the following poem by Emily Dickinson and answer any two of the following questions (10-12):- 10×2=20

I’m nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there’s a pair of us–don’t tell!

They’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How Public, like a frog

To tell your name the live long day

To an admiring bog!

Read the following poem London and answer any two of the following questions (10-12):- 10×2=20

I wander thro’ each chartered street,

Near where the chartered Themes does flow,

And mark in every face I meet

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,

In every infant’s cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind forged manacles I hear.

How the chimney-sweeper’s cry

Every blackening church appals,

And the hapless soldier’s sigh

Runs in blood down palace walls.

But thro’ midnight streets I hear

How the youthful harlot’s curse

Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

Read the following poem and answer any two of the following questions (10-12):- 10×2=20

Under the greenwood tree,

Who loves to lie with me,

And turn his merry note

Unto the sweet bird’s throat,

Come hither, come hither, come hither

Here shall he see

No enemy,

But winter and rough weather,

Who doth ambition shun,

And loves to live i’ th’ sun.

Seeking the food he eats,

And pleas’d with what he gets,

Come hither, come hither, come hither

Here shall he see

No enemy,

But winter and rough weather.

Read the following poem, When You Are Old by William Shakespeare and answer any two of the following questions (10-12):- 10×2=20

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true;

But one man love the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

And bending down beside the glowing bars

Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hide his face amid a crowd of stars.

Read the following poem and answer any two of the following questions (10-12):-

Much I have travell’d in the realms of gold,

And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;

Round many western islands have I been

Which bards in fealty to Aopllo hold.

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told

That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;

Yet did I never breathe its pure serene

Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies

When a new planet swims into his ken;

Or like stout cortex when with eagle eyes

He star’d at the Pacific–and all his men

Look’d at each other with a wild surmise–

Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Reading the following poem by Arnold and answer any two of the following questions (10-12) :

The sea is calm to –night

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the straits; on the French coast the light

Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;

Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

Only, form the long line of spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen! you hear the grating roar

Of Pebbles which the waves draw back and fling,

At their return, up the high strand,

Begin and cease, and then again begin,

With tremulous cadence slow, and bring

The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago

Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought

Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow

Of human misery; we

Find also in the sound a though,

Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

Reading the following poem My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold by Wordsworth and answer any two of the questions given below (11-14) : 10´2=20

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began,

So is it now I am a man,

So be it when I shall grow old

On let me die!

The child is father of the man:

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

Read the following poem, Crabbed Age and Youth by Shakespeare and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-16) :

Crabbed Age and Youth

Cannot live together;

Youth is full of pleasance

Age is full of care;

Youth like summer morn,

Age like winter weather,

Youth like summer brave,

Age like winter bare.

Youth is full of sport,

Age’s breath is short,

Youth is nimble, Age is lame;

Youth is hot and bold,

Age is weak and cold,

Youth is wild and Age is tame;

Age, I do abhor thee

Youth, I do adore the;

O! my Love, My Love is young’s;

Age, I do defy thee –

O sweet shepherd, hie thee,

For methinks thou stay’st too long.

Read the following poem and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-16) :

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever lover.

Read the following poem and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-14) :

“Dreams” -

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams

For it dream die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

Read the following poem and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-14) :

Sigh no more, ladies sigh no more

Men were deceivers ever,

One foot in sea, and one on shore,

To one thing constant never.

Then sigh not so, but let then go,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no more

Of dump so dull and heavy.

The fraud of men was ever so

Since summer first was ever so

Since summer first was leafy.

Then sigh not so, but let them go,

And be you blithe and bonny,

Converting all your sounds of woe

Into hey nonny, nonny.

Read the following poem and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-16) :

Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour

England hath need of thee: she is a fen

Of stagnant waters; alters, sword, and pen

Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower

Have forfeited their ancient English dower

Of inward happiness. We are selfish men

Oh! Raise us up, return to us again

And give us manners, virtues, freedom, power

Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart

Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea

Pure as the naked heavens, majestics, free

So didst thou travel on life’s common way

In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart

The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

Read the following poem by Robert Frost and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-15) :

A Minor Bird

I have wished a bird would fly away

And not sing by my house all day;

Have clapped my hands at him from the door

When it seemed as if I could bear no more

The fault must partly have been in me

The bird was not to blame for his key.

And of course there must be something wrong

In wanting to silence any song.

Read the following poem by Robert Frost and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-15) : 1

Whose woods these are I think I know

His house is in the village, though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake,

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Read the following poem by Robert Frost and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-14) :

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Read the following poem by Robert Frost and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-15) :

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed-and gazed-but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Writing-III

Attempt any three of the following (13-17):-

13. Amplification

Amplify the idea contained in the following proverb:-

(i) Man is the architect of his own fortune.

(ii) Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

(iii) Pride goes before a fall.

(iv) Failure is the pillar of success.

(v) As you sow, so you reap.

(vi) Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

(vii) The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

(viii) Slow and steady wins the race.

(ix) We live in deeds, not in years.

(x) A stich in time saves nine.

(xi) Great talkers are never great doers.

(xii) All that glitters is not gold.

(xiii) Honesty is the best policy.

14. Paragraph

(i) Uses and Abuses of Facebook

(ii) The Book You Like Best

(iii) Students and Social Service

(iv) Benefits of Good Manners

(v) Uses and Abuses of Mobile Phone

(vi) Necessity of Learning English

(vii) Fashion: Impact on young star

(viii) Benefits of ICT

(ix) Winter Morning

(x) Uses and Abuses of Internet

(xi) Food Adulteration

(xii) Price Hike

(xiii) A Book Fair

(xiv) Road Accident

(xv) Mobile Phone

15. Composition

(i) The Problems and Prospects of the Bangladesh Cricket Team

(ii) The Role of Women in the Nation-Building Activities

(iii) Memories of Your School Life

(iv) Trial of War Criminals

(v) Computer Education in Bangladesh

(vi) Value of Time

(vii) Morality

(viii) A Moonlit Night

(ix) Female Education in Bangladesh

(x) Students and Social Service

(xi) Humayun Ahmed as a Writer

16. Letter

(i) Write a letter to your foreign friend describing the recent performance of Bangladesh Cricket Team.

(ii) Write a letter to a friend condoling his/her father’s death.

(iii) Write a letter to your friend about the importance of reading Newspaper.

(iv) Write a letter to your mother about your future plan.

(v) Write a letter to your youngest sister or brother advising her/him not to spend much time on facebook.

(vi) Write a letter to a book stall complaining about a defective book.

17. Application

(i) Write an application to the Principal of your college to provide multimedia projector in your classroom.

(ii) Write an application to the Principal of your college for increasing facilities in your college hostel.

(iii) Write an application to the Principal of your college for arranging a Study Tour to the sea-beach of Cox’s Bazar.

(iv) Write a job application to the Chairman of a garments factory for the post of ‘Quality Control Officer’

(v) Write a job application to the Managing Director of a manufacturing company for the post of ‘Marketing Manager’.

(vi) Write an application to your Principal requesting him/her to set up a Wi-Fi zone on the campus.

(vii) Write a job application to the Principal of a private college for the post of a lecturer in English.

(viii) Write an application to the Principal to your college seeking permission for staging a drama.

(ix) Write an application to the Divisional Forest Officer of the Sunderbans seeking permission for a visit.

(x) Write an application to the Principal of your college requesting him/her for permission to set up an “English Debating Club” at your college.

18. Report

(i) Write a report for a newspaper on the celebration of 21^st February in your college this year.

(ii) Suppose you are a reporter of “The Daily Star”. Draft a report on unscrupulous use of preservatives in foodstuff.

(iii) Prepare a news report on the issue of sudden increasement of Drug Abuses in your native town.

(iv) A heat-wave is sweeping over the country for a few days. The meteorologists have forcasted about it. You are the staff reporter of “The Daily Star”. Now make a report of it.

(v) Suppose you are a reporter of “The Daily Star”. Now write a report on a road accident.

(vi) Write a report for newspaper on the celebration of “Pahela Baishakh”/ “Independence Day”/ “Victory Day”/ “the 21^st February in My College”

(vii) The prices of essential commodities are not decreasing. You are concerned about the fact. Now, write a report about this.

(viii) Write a report on fire accident in a garment factory.

(ix) Prepare a news report on the increase of sudden increase of Drugs Abuses in your native town.

(x) Write a report on your visit to the Rohingya Camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

19. Notice:

(i) Write a notice as a course co-ordinator informing the students about the schedule of their in-course exams.

(ii) Ekushey February, the International Mother Language Day will be observed in your college with due solemnity. Suppose, you are the principal of the college. Now, write a notice.

(iv) Think, you are the principal of a college. One of your teachers died by an accident. Now, write a notice for a condolence meeting in this case to mourn his death.

(v) Suppose, you are a principal. Now, write a notice informing the students of the celebration of the Victory Day in your college.

(vi) Write a notice informing the students of the starting of Honours First Year Test Examination.

A-2-7/2018

ENLGISH

(Advanced Reading and Writing)

Subject Code : 221105

Time–4 hours

Full marks–80

[N.B. – The figures in the right margin indicate full marks.]

Part A

Marks - 10

(Reading–I)

Marks – 1 ×5 = 5

Read the paragraph and answer the questions give below:-

The french word “Renaissance” has originated from the Latin word “renasci” which means “to be born again”. In English, the “Renaissance” means the rebirth or revival of the ancient Greek and Roman learning, art and culture. The rebirth was caused by a historical event. In 1453 with the fall of the then Constantinople, the scholars living there fled to different countries of Europe, especially to Italy. They took with them the ancient Greek and Italian literature which gradually became the centre of interest of the people. The ancient learning was rediscovered. This rediscovery or rebirth is called renaissance. It kindled a kind of wild fire of knowledge that kept of burning for several centuries. In England it led the writers to classical learning that liberated them from religious control. It broadened the literary, philosophical and intellectual horizons. It generated among them the spirit of adventure, inquiry and doubt in old ideas. In literaturealso it took numerous forms. Spenser, Bacon, Shakespeare, Marlowe and many other later writers had been writing in the literary atmosphere. “The Renaissance” was thus the result of various series of events that followed and accompanied one another from the fourteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth century.

1×5=5

1.(a) Identify the structural name of the following sentence: -

“In England it led the writers to classical learning that liberated them from religious control.”

(b) What is the meaning of “Renaissance” in English?

(d) Who is Bacon?

(e) How many centuries are mentioned in the passage?

Writing–1

(Answer any five questions)

Marks - 1×5=5

(f) What are the main parts of a paragraph?

(g) Write the names of five common punctuation marks.

(h) What is a descriptive essay?

(i) What is a resume?

(j) What is the purpose of a notice?

(k) What is embargo date?

(l) What are footnotes?

Part B

Marks –20

(Reading–II)

Marks –4´3=12

Read the text and answer any three of the following (2- 6):

Nuclear energy is basically the use of exothermic nuclear process that is used to generate useful electricity and heat. This term usually includes nuclear fusion, nuclear fission and nuclear decay. The energy comes from the nucleus which is the core of an atom. Nuclear energy has risen to be the subject of national conversation recently with the rise in need of meeting our power’s need. This sort of energy usually arises from its two main processes – the Fission and Fusion. Nuclear fission basically works by splitting an unstable uranium nucleus releasing energy. This process is what is mainly used in nuclear reactors that helps in boiling water and creating steam which helps in turning the turbines and creating energy.

The drawback in this aspect is that the leftover burnt material remains radioactive for years together. Nuclear fusion, on the other hand, is a process of very clear energy and has great impact. The only drawback is that it requires very high amount of heat and the isotopes of Hydrogen being used here are an unlimited source and hence may last for a lifetime. The amount of energy released is great and the fear of running out of power supply is ruled out. Nuclear power runs on uranium which means that it would be more efficient than running on coal or oil. They are more dependable than other energy plants and are not vulnerable to market fluctuations. They do not emit greenhouse gases which affects global warming. This is cheap and helps in providing jobs to many. The greatest adventage is the usage of nuclear medicines in incurable diseases like cancer therapy and in medical process like CAT scan and MRI machines. Nuclear energy emits high level radioactive waste, which then not disposed with careful measures could be harmful. They take thousands of years to become inactive. The meltdown of nuclear power is very dangerous and careful measures need to be taken care of for seeing these possibilities.

On the whole, nuclear energy is safe to use and one among the best sources of energy.

2. How is the nuclear energy generated?

3. What are the dangers of using nuclear energy?

4. How is nuclear technology used in medical treatment?

5. What safety measures need to be taken at nuclear power plant?

6. What is your opinion regarding the use of nuclear power plants in Bangladesh? Why do you think so?

Writing–II

Marks - 4´ 2 = 8

Answer any two of the following questions (7-10) within a few sentences:-

7. What tone and lingual style would be applicable in writing when its purpose is to persuade undergraduate students?

8. Write an introductory paragraph for an essay on the topic – Climate change.

9. How can you avoid plagiarism?

10. Distinguish between Reference and Bibliograpgy.

Part C

Marks –50

(Reading–III)

Marks - 10´ 2 = 20

Read the following poem “London” by William Blake and answer any two of the following questions given below (11-14):-

I wander thro’ each chartered street,

Near where the chartered Themes does flow,

And mark in every face I meet

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,

In every infant’s cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind forged manacles I hear.

How the chimney-sweeper’s cry

Every blackening church appals,

And the hapless soldier’s sigh

Runs in blood down palace walls.

But thro’ midnight streets I hear

How the youthful harlot’s curse

Blasts the new-born infant’s tear,

And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

11. What picture of London city is presented in this poem?

12. What is the tone of the poem? Analyze.

13.What is the theme of the poem “London”?

14. Explain the last four lines of the poem.

Writing–III

Marks - 10´ 3 = 30

Attempt any three of the following questions given below (15-19):-

15. Amplify the idea contained in the following proverb:

“The old order changeth yielding place to new”

16. Suppose you are a student of an imaginary college, Rangpur. Now, write an application to the principal requesting him not to allow any student to use cell phone in the classroom.

17. Write a report on the cultural week of “Govt. Chandpur College” observed a few days ago.

18. Write a paragraph on “Uses and abuses of Facebook”.

19. Suppose you are the chairman of the department of English of Sonapur Govt. College. Now, write a notice informing the students of 2^nd Year Honours about 2^nd In-course Examination.

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