ইংরেজী ২য় পত্র-কুমিল্লা ক্যাডেট কলেজ-২০২৩
1. Write a paragraph on 'Climate Change and Its Impact'. (200-250 words)
2. Complete the text with suitable prepositions.
Education should never work (a) ____ a person's destiny, but should achieve the full development (b) ____ his or her own dispositions. The education of people today so often lags (c) ____ the talents and tendencies which their destinies have implanted in them. We must keep pace (d) ____ these powers to such an extent that the human beings (e) ____ our care can win their way through to all that their destinies will allow (f) ____ the fullest clarity ____ thought, the most loving deepening (h) ____ their feeling, and the greatest possible energy and ability of will. This can only be done (i) ____ an art of education and teaching which is based (j) ____ a real knowledge of people.
3. Complete the following sentences with suitable words/phrases.
what if | it | would rather | had better | there |
as soon as | have to | as if | let alone | what…..does look like |
(a) He always wants to have the best food. He behaves ____ he were the only member in the family.
(b) At present, Zimbabwe cricket team is very weak. They cannot defeat Afghanistan, ____ Bangladesh.
(c) There is no guarantee for the safety of our life here. In our country, we ____ lead a very risky life.
(d) A lot of students are inattentive to their studies. ____ they were attentive to their studies?
(e) We ____ walk fast. It may start raining. The sky seems stormy.
(f) ____ seems that he is very happy with the life in the village. Actually, he likes the countryside very much.
(g) We informed the police ____ the incident took place. But the police didn't arrive even after two hours.
(h)____ was a time when the people had to fight against the ferocious animals. Now , they have to fight against poverty.
(i) We ____ develop our humanity than observe hartal and strike. It is time we changed our destructive behaviour and culture.
(j) The authoress:____ your mother____. Jerry? Jerry : She is a very nice woman. She looks like the star twinkling in the cloudless sky.
4. There are fourteen errors in the use of capitalization and punctuation marks in the following text. Rewrite the text correcting the errors.
Aryan : Do you read newspaper regularly Farhan.
Farhan : Yes, I do. What's about you?
Aryan : To tell you frankly I do not read newspaper regularly.
Farhan : Why you get enough time during the break in the college.
Aryan : Yes, I do get but I do not like. Moreover I think it is a wastage of time.
Farhan : Remember newspaper is called the 'storehouse' of knowledge. The more you will read
Aryan : Then, from today, I will start reading newspaper.
Farhan : If you are interested in the news of games and sports you can read the sport news page.
Aryan : Yes, that's like a good friend.
5. Use appropriate sentence connectors in the blank spaces of the following passage.
Unemployment is a great problem in our country. (a) ____ it is the burning question of the day. (b) ____ almost all the countries of the world suffer from the curse of unemployment problem. (c) ____ Bangladesh is the worst sufferer of this so-called problem. (d) ____ nowhere in the world is this problem so acute as in our country. (c) ____ there are many reasons behind it. (f) ____ our country is industrially backward. (g) ____ our system of education fails to give a student an independent start of life. ____ it has little provision for vocational training. (i) ____our students and youths have false sense of dignity. (j) ____ they run after jobs blindly. Now, it is seen (k) ____ students are running after govt. job specially BCS. (l) ____ they are encouraged to involve in self-employment, they don't try. (m) ____, we should try to overcome this situation by developing our skills in different fields. (n)____ we are to face many other problems connected to it.