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The idea of television first came into the mind of a German scientist named Paul Nepkow. With great effort, a Scottish scientist named John Logie Beyard invented the television in 1926. Television technology has made a great advancement. Even watches with TV facilities have been invented by Japanese scientists. Videos and computers are also attached to TVs. The word 'tele' means distance and 'vision' means sight. So, we can see the pictures of far off places through photo-electrical process. It has likeness to movies. We can see people talking, reading news, singing, dancing, acting in a play and reciting poems on TV screens. TV can receive pictures from the farthest corner of the world and even from the outer space.. The whole world comes to our homes and we can enjoy the live telecast of the news or politics, scientific inventions, discoveries, sports and other important events of the world like Olympic Games, World Cup Football and many other. TV is a medium of mass communication and learning. The film shows, drama, and a variety of other shows serve the purpose of good entertainment. At present, Open University's informal and formal educational programs like the SSC (Open), B.Ed. and other vocational skills, training, etc. are helpful in propagating education. 'Mati O Manush and other such instructional programs are teaching the youths to be self employed and self-reliant through horticulture, pisciculture, dairy, poultry and other beneficial and profitable projects. Television has abuses too. Children, being attracted by the programs on television, neglect their studies, Sitting very near to a TV set may affect the eye sight. At present, through the dish antenna, many programmes can be viewed by the television viewers which are polluting mental thought of our youngsters. Our customs, culture and way of life are also. adversely affected.

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(a) Television is ___________ device to receive pictures from distant places.

(b) It carries over photographic picture____________ with voices to the farthest comer of the world.

(c) It serves the __________ of our recreation.

(d) After a day's work, sit ____________ a television set and enjoy songs, dances, plays, sports and games.

(e) It is_____________ as a blessing of modern science.

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Man's dignity depends upon his works. Man is a (a) — being on earth. He is to (b) — for others. He should not be (c) — if he is of (d) — blood. He should be (e) — to help any (f) — of man. The man whom he is helping may be (g) — to him by (h) —. But after all, he is a man. He has the (i) — blood and flesh as the above (j) — man.

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(a) ————-blind people cannot (b) ———, their sense of (c) ————becomes far more (d) —————than that of most sighted people. This ability was put to use by a brilliant man (e) ———Louis Braille. In the early 19th century, he invented a (f) ————-of writing which (g) ————his name. The Braille system reproduces the letters of the alphabet by a series (h) ————-in certain positions which are raised on the paper. The blind person runs the (i) ————of his fingers across the pages of the Braille book and can work out the letters and numbers (j) ————-there.

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The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two (a) _____ awards given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), (b) _____ one living author an one living illustrator for their "lasting (c) ______ to children's literature", The writing award was first (d) ______ in 1956, the illustration award in 1966. The former is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize for children's literature". The awards are (e) ______ after Hans Christian Andersen, the $19^{\text {th }}$-century Danish (f) _______ of fairy tales, and each winner receives the Hans Christian Andersen Medaille (a gold medal with the bust of Andersen) and a diploma. Andersen's fairy tales, (g) ______ of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily (h) _____ to children but presenting lessons of (i) ______ and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His mot famous fairy tales (j) _____ "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", and "Thumbelina". His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live. action films.

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To encourage female education, the government has taken some (a) —— steps such as giving stipends to girl students, (b) —— more female teachers, etc. (c) —— girls cannot receive the full benefit of education mainly because of the following reasons. (d) —— misinterpretation and social structures (e) —— girls from going to schools. Even in urban schools, girls are not (f) —— by many parents to live in hostels for their daughters' (g) ——. Early marriage and childbirth make women (h) —— to home with no (i) —— of going back to school. Any expenditure for sending girls to school is considered a (j) —— by many parents whereas it is regarded as an investment in case of boys.