Ashuganj Tap Bidyut Kendra High
School
Model Test Examination-2020
Class – Ten
Subject : English First Paper (part-1),
Date-11/09/2020, Friday.
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Marks : 50 Time : 1 Hour & 30 minutes
Part
A : Reading Test (50 marks)
Read
the passage carefully and answer the questions below:
‘Heritage’
is what we inherit from the past, live with them in the present and then pass
on to our children or future generation. Our unique source of life and
inspiration is our cultural and natural heritage. When we speak of ‘World
Heritage’, it indicates places and sites that we got from the past and pass on
to the future generation of the entire world. The ‘Shat Gambuj Mosque’ in
Bagerhat is such a heritage. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. Originally,
the historic Mosque City was known as ‘ Khalifatabad’. It is situated at the
outskirts of Bagerhat town--- not very far from the dense mangrove forest of
the Sundarbans. Khalifatabad was a Muslim colony. It was founded by the Turkish
general, a saint warrior Ulugh Khan Jahan in the 15th century. The
infrastructure of the city reveals significant technical skills in many mosques
as well as early Islamic monuments. Baked bricks are used for the construction
of the buildings. The planning of the city is distinctly dominated by Islamic
architecture and the decorations are a combination of Mughal and Turkish
architecture.
Khan
Jahan built a network of roads, bridges, public buildings and reservoirs to
make the city habitable. There are about 360 mosques in the city. Among them
the most remarkable is the multi-domed Shat Gombuj Mosque. The mosque is unique
in the sense that it has 60 pillars that support the roof, with 77 low height
domes. The 4 towers at 4 corners have smaller domes on the roof as well. The
vast prayer hall has 11 arched doorways on the east and 7 each on the north and
south for light and ventilation. It has 7 aisles running along the length of
the mosque and 11 deep curves
between
the slender stone columns. These columns support the curving arches created by
the domes. The thickness of the arches is 6 feet and have slightly narrowing
hollow and round wall.
The
west wall in the interior has 11 ‘mihrabs’ (niche in mosque pointing towards Makkah).
These mihrabs are decorated with stonework and terracotta. The floor of the
mosque is made of brick.
Besides
being used as a prayer hall, Khan Jahan used the mosque as his court also. Today,
it is one of the greatest tourist attractions and one of the best architectural
beauties of Bangladesh.
1. Choose the correct answer from
the alternatives: 1×7=7
(a) The word
dense means- (i) apparent (ii)
impenetrable (iii) foggy (iv) smog .
(b) ‘slender’ means-(i)
lean (ii) wide (iii) thick (iv) dense.
(c) What was the size of
the domes?- (i) triangle (ii) round (iii) oval (iv) v-shaped.
(d) The mosque was
used as- (i) prayer hall (ii) court (iii) both i & ii (iv) none of these.
(e) Which part of the
mosque indicates Makkah?- (i) mimbar (ii) mihrab (iii) dome (iv) arched
way.
(f) Which one is the
antonym of ‘interior’?- (i) exterior (ii) inner (iii) close (iv) inclusive.
(g) Khan Jahan Ali
originally came from- (i) Makkah (ii)
Bagerhat (iii) Turkey (iv) Delhi.
2.
Answer the following questions: 2
5=10
(a) What do you
understand by the word ‘heritage’?
(b) How was the
southern part of Bangladesh made habitable?
(c) Why was Turkish
architecture so famous?
(d) Give a short note
of the founder of the mosque?
(e) In what sense was
the mosque unique?
Read the passage carefully and fill
in each gap with a suitable word:
5
Mainul Islam is a qualified
farmer in Naogaon. Mr Islam was very brilliant as a student. He took his higher
education from Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh. After
completing his higher education Mainul came back home and started advanced
farming. He has two other brothers who are graduates in different areas. The
specialty of the Islam family is that they all are living in their village and all
have fame in their own fields. His younger brother, who is a Rajshahi
University graduate, is a science teacher in a local school. His youngest
brother is a social science graduate and he too would like to start a local NGO
to work for this area. When asked “What makes you decide to stay here in this
village?”, Mr Islam smiled. He said, “Look, it’s true that we could leave this
village for a city life. I could be an officer or my brother could be a
bureaucrat. But it didn’t attract us. We are sons of this soil. Yes, we have
education but does education prepare a person only to be an officer? Don’t we
have any obligation to the soil that has made us what we are?” He also added
that every educated individual shouldn’t be a job seeker. He continued that
since his discipline was Agriculture, after his education he took the
occupation of a farmer. In response to the question whether they have any
frustrations to live in a village, he confirmed that they were very pleased
with their life. He said, “I work in my own farm, stay with my family members,
pass time with my old friends, and sleep at my own home. All these count a lot.”
Mr Islam is right. Many people go
to cities and forget or loosen their roots knowingly or unknowingly. Mr Islam
and his brothers are great - they never forgot their roots. They not only stuck
to their own roots, they have been torch bearers for others to be respectful of
their own roots.
3. Mr. Islam is not …(a)… in choosing to live in the village. He took
the …(b)… of agriculture in spite of being highly …(c)… . He could be wealthy
by becoming a …(d)… . Instead he chose to return to his . …(e)… and tried to
give something back to his native people.
4. Read the passage on. Complete the table
below with information from the passage. 5
Tipu Sultan was born on November 20,
1750, to military officer Hyder Ali of the Kingdom of Mysore and his wife,
Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa. They named him Fath Ali but also called him Tipu Sultan
after a local Muslim saint, Tipu Mastan Aulia.
His father Hyder Ali was an able soldier and won such a complete victory against an invading force of Marathas in 1758 that Mysore was able to absorb the Marathan homelands. As a result, Hyder Ali became the commander-in-chief of Mysore's army, later the Sultan, and by 1761 he was the outright ruler of the kingdom.
While his father rose to fame and
prominence, young Tipu Sultan was receiving an education from the finest tutors
available. He studied such subjects as riding, swordsmanship, shooting, Quranic
studies, Islamic jurisprudence, and languages such as Urdu, Persian, and
Arabic. Tipu Sultan also studied military strategy and tactics under French
officers from an early age, since his father was allied with the French in
southern India.
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The life of
Tipu Sultan |
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Tipu Sultan |
His father |
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Birth |
(i) |
Father’s profession |
(ii) |
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Expert in language |
(iii) |
Father was ally of |
(iv) |
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Tipu learnt military tactics from |
(v) |
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5. Write a
summary of the passage. 10
6. Make five sentences from the table. 5
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Column A |
Column B |
Column C |
Column D |
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A large
percentage of the people |
demand
for slave labour |
were
women in |
transatlantic
slave trade. |
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The
largest numbers of slaves |
controlled |
rose
sharply |
lawlessness
and violence |
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In the
17th century, however, |
promoted |
about half
of the |
during
the 18th century. |
|
taken
captive |
an
atmosphere of |
with the
growth of sugar plantations in the Caribbean. |
|
|
The
slave trade |
were
taken to |
the
Americas |
their
childbearing years. |
7.
Rearrange the following jumbled sentences and put them in a whole story. You
need not to rewrite the whole story. Write only the corresponding numbers of
the sentences. 8
(a) During some point of
the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the
face.
(b) The one who got slapped was hurt.
(c) The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started
drowning, but the friend saved him.
(d) They kept on walking
until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath.
(e) Without saying
anything, wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped
me in the face.”
(f) The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked
him, “After I
hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”
(g) After he recovered from
the near drowning, he wrote on a stone, “Today my
best friend saved my life.”
(h) Once two friends were walking through the desert.
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