English 1st Paper চট্টগ্রাম কলেজ 2023
Write a summary of the following text.
Education gives us knowledge and a set of abilities to function meaningfully in life, such as the ability to decide things rationally and make the right choices. As we learn how to read, write and do the basic operations of arithmetic, we gain a degree of self-confidence. We learn to think for ourselves and articulate our thoughts; we pick up skills to communicate with others and manage our affairs well. Education helps us think independently and make our own opinions. As we know more about the world, we appreciate the good things it offers us but also become critical of the deviations from the values it imparts and the rise of hatred or conflict that follows.
The first thing education does is to give us an awareness about ourselves which leads to the development of our personality. As we begin school, we feel the need to belong to the class and make friends. We then expand our sense of belonging to include the school at large, our community and finally our country. Education thus prepares every child to become an active member of the community and work for its welfare.
Education, it is believed, releases our potentials and our inner strengths. It sharpens our intellect and develops our creativity. As we are taught to reason well and find solutions to the problems of life, we become productive members of society. Education by definition is progressive and liberal, teaching us to respect human diversity and cultural and religious differences. If all of us practise these values in life, the world becomes a much happier place.
Read the following text and make a flow chart showing the activities of Jerry. (No. 1 has been done for you)
At daylight I was half awakened by the sound of chopping. Again it was so even in texture that I went back to sleep. When I left my bed in the cool morning, the boy had come and gone, and a stack of kindling was neat against the cabin wall. He came after school in the afternoon and worked until time to return to the orphanage. His name was Jerry.... he had been at the orphanage since he was four. I could picture him at four, with the same grave gray-blue eyes and the same - independence? No, the word that comes to me is "integrity".... It is bedded on courage, but it is more than brave. It is honest, but it is more than honesty. The ax handle broke one day. Jerry said the woodshop at the orphanage would repair it. I brought money to pay for the job and he refused it.
"I'll pay for it," he said. "I broke it. I brought the ax down careless."
"But no one hits accurately every time," I told him. "The fault was in the wood of the handle. I'll see the man from whom I bought it "
It was only then that he would take the money. He was standing back of his own carelessness. He was a free-will agent and he chose to do careful work, and if he failed, he took the responsibility without subterfuge.
And he did for me the unnecessary thing, the gracious thing, that we find done only by the great of heart. Things no training can teach, for they are done on the instant, with no predicated experience. He found a cubbyhole beside the fireplace that I had not noticed. There, of his own accord, he put kindling and "medium" wood, so that I might always have dry fire material ready in case of sudden wet weather. A stone was loose in the rough walk to the cabin. He dug a deeper hole and steadied it, although he came, himself, by a shortcut over the bank. I found that when I tried to return his thoughtfulness with such things as candy and apples, he was wordless. "Thank you" was, perhaps, an expression for which he had had no use, for his courtesy was instinctive. He only looked at the gift and at me, and a curtain lifted, so that I saw deep into the clear well of his eyes, and gratitude was there, and affection, soft over the firm granite of his character....
The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words.
Sufia is a worker in a big garment factory. More than five thousand workers work in that factory. One day, while she was busy in work, a sound was heard, "Fire! Help! Help!" .....
The chart below shows the Infant Mortality Rate in Bangladesh from the year 2005 to 2012. Describe the chart in at least 80 words. You should highlight the information and report the main features :
Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.
(a) In 1880, Rabindranath was called back to India.
(b) He was awrded the Nobel Prize in 1913 for Gitanjali.
(c) He returned home without any qualification of distinction.
(d) He wrote Gitanjali, a collection of Bengali song of superior quality.
(e) Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 into a respectable family at Jorasanko in Kolkata.
(f) At the age of seventeen, in 1878, he reached London to attend school.
(g) He went to school early and wrote his first verse at the age of eight.
(h) The experience had a lasting effect on his later life.
(i) However, he never gave up his habit of writing poetry.
(j) He gathered much experience from his stay in London.