PRE-TEST EXAM QUESTIONS CADET COLLEGE 1. MYMENSINGH GIRLS' CADET COLLEGE, MYMENSINGH Sub Code 1 0 8 Time : 3 hours Pre-Test Examination-2011; English (Compulsory) 2nd Paper Total Marks : 100 (a) Mr. Brown has to say it, ⎯? A Grammar : 40 Marks (b) You need not go to the field, ⎯? 1. Complete the passage with suitable verbs. Give their 1 (c) Kindly do me a favour, ⎯? correct tenses: /2×10=5 (d) Nobody went there, ⎯? My friend Shumon lives in UK. He (a) ⎯ MBA in Leads (e) There is no king in China, ⎯? University. He (b) ⎯ SSC from Bangladesh. After (c) ⎯ 8. Complete the following sentences : 1×5=5 SSC he got himself (d) ⎯ in a reputed college from where (a) Unless youwork hard . he (e) ⎯ a good result in 2004. Then he left the country. ⎯ (b) ⎯ when we go to school. 2. Here is a part of a continuous passage. Put in suitable 1 (c) ⎯ because he is not attentive to study. prepositions in the blanks : /2×10=5 (d) Be truthful if you ⎯. am an astronaut and (a) ⎯ present working (b) ⎯ NASA. (e) The old man walks slowly lest ⎯. (c) ⎯ completing my studies in the USA, have joined NASA as a pilot. The moon has always fascinated me (d) B Composition : 60 Marks ⎯ my childhood. I have an earnest lesire to land (e) ⎯ 9. Write a paragraph about "The life of a Fisherman" the moon. answering the following questions: 10 3. Use article where necessary. Put a cross (×) where an (a) Who is a fisherman? article is not needed : 1×5=5 (b) How does he pass his days? Speech is a great blessing, but it can also be (a) ⎯ great (c) How does he maintain his family? curse, while it helps us to make our intentions and (b) ⎯ (d) Why can't he overcome his poor condition? desires known to our fellows. It can also, if we use it (e) What is his contribution towards the economy of the carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood. coutnry? A slip of (c) ⎯ tongue, (d) ⎯ use of (e) ⎯ unusual or an 10. Write a short composition on 'The Utility of Reading ambiguous word and soon may create (f) ⎯ enemy where Newspaper', we had (g) ⎯ hope to win a friend. Again, (h) ⎯ different Or, 'Child Labour' 15 classes of people use different vocabularies and (i) ⎯ 11. Supoose, you are Maha, a student of class X in ordinary speech of (j) ⎯ educated man may strike an SonapurHigh School, Rangpur. There is no computer clut uneducated listener as showing pride. your school. But students are interested to acquire knowledge about the operation of computer. 4. Fill in the gaps with phrases and idioms from the box: Now, write an application to the Headmaster of your 1×5=5 school for opening a computer club in you school quickly stand in the part and parcel most of as possible. 10 way of vary from lag behind take advantage 12. Rakib gets up late in the morning. So he cannot complete of his lesson in time and his result is bad in examination. On well of speak ill of the other hand, Sakib rises early in the morning and learns (a) Human nature ⎯ from man to man. his lesson. He is doing well in examination. (b) We should not ⎯ one's weakness. Now, write a dialogue between Rakib and Sakib about the (c) Poverty ⎯ his progress in studies. benefit of early rising. 10 (d) Once upon a time the people of the village were ⎯. Or, Write down the summary of the following passage. (e) A library is a ⎯ of a school. Give a suitable title to it: 5. Re-write the following in the reported speech : 5 Education is a process by which our mind develops "Don't mix with bad boys," my father said to me. "You through formal learning at an institution like a school, coll should read attentively as your examination is knocking at or university. It is mental and intellectual training which the door," he said. "No, I don't keep any bad company. I provides opportunities for growth and helps to overed have just asked him if he knows the date of the obstacles to progress. Again, the purpose of education is examination," I replied. to enlighten the individual and to develop his/her cap to 6. Read the following passage and transform the the limit. It is also the business of education to train underlined sentences as directed in brackets : 1×5=5 individuals to make the right choices to go ahead ennobles (a) The padma is the biggest of all the rivers in our mind and refines our sensibility. It also broadens our Bangladesh (Positive). outlook and helps us become aware of our and (b) When it is summer, it becomes emaciated (Simple). responsibilities. (c) During the rainy season it assumes a terrible shape 13. Read the following story. It is not complete. Use your (Complex). imagination to complete it and give it a sutable title.15 (d) Everybody knows this (Interrogative). One day some boys are playing cricket in a school (e) Fishermen catch various kinds of fishes in this river ground. All on a sudden they heard a hue and cry nearby, (Passive). boys stopped playing and then they went to the spot. They 7. Add tag questions to the following questions : 1×5=5 found........ 2English 2nd Paper Q Pre-Test Exam Questions 2. MIRZAPUR CADET COLLEGE, TANGAIL Sub Code 1 0 8 Time : 3 hours Pre-Test Examination-2011; English (Compulsory) 2nd Paper Total Marks : 100 A Grammar : 40 Marks (e) How nicely he sings, —? 1 Complete the passage with suitable verbs from the list. 8 Complete the following sentences: 1×5=5 Put them in the correct tenses. Use negatives where (a) Danger comes where —. necessary. 1×5=5 (b) Neither he came nor —. please pray fall pay report be go (c) Nobody can deny love as —. I have the honour to (a) — that our school compound and (d) Scarcely had I heard the explosion —. its surroundings have become very dirty and filthy for our (e) Had you forbidden me —. carelessness. There has (b) — a bad smell everywhere B Composition : 60 Marks around our school compound. For this reason we can (c) 9 Write a paragraph on ‘Tree Plantation’ by answering — attention to our studies. Again, a few of our classmates the following questions: 10 have (d) — ill of unhealthy to atmosphere. We think this (a) What are the main functions of tree? situation (e) — for long. (b) How does it prevent global warming? 2 Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions. 1×5=5 (c) How does it serve mankind and other creatures? A good student is never indifferent (a) — his study. He (d) How does it contribute to the land and forest? knows well that success lies (b) — hard work. So, he is (e) Why is its campaign so important? absorbed (c) — deep studies. Nothing can prevent him (d) 10 Write a short composition on any one of the following — working hard. His hard work and sincerity result (e) — : 15 ultimate success. (a) A village fair you have visited recently; 3 Use articles where necessary. Put a (×) where an 1 (b) Science in every day life. article is not needed. /2×10=5 11 Suppose you are a student of Savar Thana in Dhaka Rahim has (a) — elder brother who is (b) — engineer. He district. Recently a devastating flood has visited your area works in (c) — office in (d) — Dhaka. Last summer his and damaged crops and property. The poor of the area are brother asked him to stay (e) — few days with him. He in a distressful state. Now, write an application to the sent him (f) — air ticket. He arrived at the airport about District Commissioner of your area to arrange the (g) — hour before the flight. He entered the waiting (h) distribution of relief materials there. 10 — room. He was given (i) — boarding card (j) — where 12 Suppose, you are Milton. Now, write a dialogue between he had to write his address. yourself and your friend Munir on the preparation of 4 Fill in the blanks with suitable linking words from the your upcoming examination. 10 list. 1×5=5 Or, Write down the summary of the following passage and than as though however at last give a suitable title to it: then at first incidental Smoking is a usual practice among most of the people (a) — King Lear asked his eldest daughter Goneril, how living in our country. Most of us are unaware of the much she loved him. She declared in front of the whole danger of smoking. But some people smoke cigarette or court that she loved him more than her life. (b) — Lear tobacco being conscious of the danger of it. Smoking is asked his second daughter Regan the same question. She the main reason behind many serious diseases like lung replied saying that her only happiness was in loving him. cancer, bronchitis, tuberculosis, and many other fatal (c) — he calls his youngest daughter, Cordelia to speak. diseases. Respiratory troubles, lack of eye sight, kidney Lear expected her to speak even more lovingly (d) — her problem, irritation of the eyes are also created as an sisters had done. (e) —. Cordelia just stood there and said impact of smoking. Smoking at an early age can damage nothing. one’s nervous system. A smoker pregnant mother can 5 Rewrite the following in the reported speech. 5 give birth abnormal babies. Again, smoking before a non- “Zaman, can you tell me what I am teaching?” the teacher smoker will undoubtedly harm both.