English 1st Paper শহীদ সৈয়দ নজরুল ইসলাম কলেজ 2024

1. Read the following text and make short notes in each of the boxes in the flow chart showing the conditions of the speaker for joining the assembly. (one is done for you).

My Brothers, 
The Assembly has been called into session on the 25th of March. But the blood spilled on 
our streets has not yet dried. About the 10th of this month, I have told them: Mujibur 
Rahman won’t join them. Round Table Conference because that would mean wading over 
the blood that has been shed. Although you have called the Assembly into session, you’ll 
have to listen to my demands first. You’ll have to withdraw Martial Law, You’ll have to return 
all army personnel to their barracks. You’ll have to investigate the way our people have 
been murdered. And you’ll have to transfer power to the representatives of the people. It is 
only then that I’ll decide whether we will take our seats in the Assembly or not. I don’t want 
the Prime Minister’s office: We want The people of this country to have their rights. I want to 
state clearly that from this day Bangladesh’s courts, magistracies, government offices and 
educational institutions will be shut down in definitely. So that the poor don’t have to suffer, 
so that my people don’t have to go through hardships, all other things will, be exempted 
from the General Strike from tomorrow. Rickshaws, horse carriages, trains, - and launches 
will be allowed to move. Only the Secretariat, the Supreme Court, the High Court. Judges’ 
Court, and semi-government organizations such as WAPDA will not be allowed to work. On 
the 28th employees will go and collect their salaries. If their salaries are not paid, if another 
bullet is fired, if my people are shot dead again; I request all of you convert every house into 
a fort, confront the enemy with whatever you have. And even at the risk of your life. And 
even if I am not around to direct you, shut down all shops and make sure that traffic on all 
roads and ports are brought to a standstill. If need be, we will starve to death, but we’ll go 
down striven for our rights. 

2. Read the Passage and answer the following questions.  
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 – ambience? 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 axe handle broke one day. Jerry said the wood shop 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 axe-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 from 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 in 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.

B. Answer the following questions: 
b) Which thing cannot be trained? Why? 
c) What does jerry’s act of steadying the stone imply? 
d) What does the metaphor ‘granite of his character’ refer to? 
e) What does the authoress symbolize through ‘ grave grey-blue eyes’? 
f) He did for me the unnecessary thing’- why have the activities together been 
called unnecessary? 

3. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical changes if necessary. 

Darkness	Awareness	Choice	Enlighten	Human	Learn
Parochialism	Intellectual	Eloquent	Sensibility	Purpose	Attain

Education is the process by which our mind develops through formal (a)___ at an institution. It is mental and (b)___ training, it provides opportunities of growth and helps to (c)___ challenges. Moreover, the purpose of education is to (d)___ an individual aim . The aim of education is also to train individuals to make right (e)___ it enobles our mind and refines our (f)___  It broadens our outlook and removes (g)___ and It helps us to be (h)___  of our rights and responsibilities. Education furnishes us with an (i)___ in expressing truth. Therefore it is compared to light which dispels the (j)___ of ignorance .

4. Summarize the following passage, 

Junk foods are processed foods consisting of high calories, but that is considered only as a 
road umbrella. These foods are prepared in a way that they look appealing and are 
enjoyable so you are chemically programmed to ask for more. According to Dr. Sunali 
Sharma, a Dietician & 1Vutritionist, “Commercial products including salted snack foods, 
chewing gum, candy, sugary desserts, fried fast food, and sweetened carbonated 
beverages that have little or no nutritional value but are high in calories, salt, and fats may 
be considered junk foods. Though not all fast foods are junk foods, a great number of them 
are. For instance, a salad may be fast food but is definitely not junk food. Some foods like 
burgers, pizzas and tacos may alternate between junk and healthy categories depending on 
the Ingredients, calories and process of manufacturing.” Frequent consumption of junk 
food increases the intake of excess fat, simple carbohydrates, and processed sugar which 
may lead to a higher risk of obesity and cardiovascular diseases, among other chronic 
health problems. The resulting obesity may begin clogging up the arteries and lay the basis 
of an impending heart attack. It has also been suggested that eating junk food affects the 
brain in the same way as consuming addictive drugs. An addiction to junk food may even 
result in the rejection of healthier food options like fruits, vegetables, salads, etc. Leading 
to further ,Tack of nourishment. 

5. Rearrange the following sentences to make a coherent order.

(i) They dug the hole, killed the snake and took the necklace. 
(ii) The crow at last thought of a plan to get rid of its enemy.  
(iii) It stole an expensive necklace of the princess from the Royal Palace and dropped it into the snake’s hole after scattering a few rubies here and there. 
(iv) A snake lived in a hole at the foot of a tree. 
(v)The king became very angry at the loss and sent out men to look for the necklace. 
(vi)High up on its branches was the nest of a crow. 
vii) In this way, the snake ate up three of the chicks. 
(viii) In course of time, they noticed the scattered rubies near the hole. 
(ix) The crow had four young chicks in its nest. 
(x) Whenever the crow would leave the nest to bring food for its chicks, the snake would climb and eat one.