Read the following passage and answer the questions :
Statistics show that about 350 million people speak English as a language and another 300 million use it as a second language. It is the official or semi-official language in more than 60 countries and of many international organizations. The International Olympic Committee, for example, always holds meetings in English. English helps the international community and the business world to communicate across national borders. Today, more than 80% of all the information in the world’s computers is in English, so organizations frequently need employees who speak and write a standard form of English. In fact some companies provide English language training for their staff. It is therefore little wonder that job advertisements now a days often ask for a ‘good working knowledge’ of English. Many believe now that English usually helps them to get good jobs and better salaries.
1. Choose the right world/expression to complete each sentences :
i. First language means the important/main /natural language.
ii. A second language is one that is taught and learnt regarding it as next in importance to the mother tongue/a foreign language/a dead language.
iii. The number of people who use English as a second language is about 300/350 million.
iv. International Olympic Committee always holds its meetings in French/English /Spanish.
v. English is used as, official or semi-official language in more than 60/50/70 countries.
2. True/ false? If false, give the correct information :
i. Nowadays more than eighty percent of all the information in the world’s computers is in English.
ii. Many nowadays get good jobs because they know English.
iii. Many international organizations often use different languages.
iv. A good knowledge of English is necessary for a good job.
v. No companies arrange training for their staff to make them able to use English well.
3. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the words. Add any preposition if necessary:
i. Statistics show that English is (speak) as a first language by 350 million people.
ii. The International Olympic Committee (use) English in its meetings.
iii. English (help) communication across national borders.
iv. More than 80% of all the information in the world’s computers (be) in English.
v. Employers nowadays want applicants (have) a good working knowledge of English.
4. Make a list of five reasons why English is important.
Answer to the question no. Set-4:
1. (a) main (b) mother tongue
(c) 300 (d) English (e) 60
2. (a) True (b) True (c) False, Correct answer: Many international organizations always use English languages. (d) True (e) False, Correct answer: Many companies arrange training for their staff to make them able to use English well.
3. (a) spoken (b) uses (c) helps to (d) is (e) having
4. A list of five reasons why English is important: (a) is spoken as the first language by 350 million people. (b) is used as the second language by 300 million people. (c) holds meeting by the International Olympic Committee in English. (d) more than 80% of all the information in the world’s computers is in English (e) helps us to get good jobs and better salaries.
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Read the following passage and answer the questions :
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, he word that comes to me is ‘integrity.’ It is embedded 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 orphanage woodshop would repair it. I brought money to pay for the job and he refused it. “I’ll pay for it, “He said, “I brought the axe down careless.” “But no one hits accurately every time”, I told him, “The fault was in the handle.” It was only then he would take the money. He was standing back of his own carelessness. He was a freewill 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 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 tired 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 deeper into the clear well of his eyes; and gratitude was there, and affection, soft over the firm granite of his character.
1. Choose the right word and complete each sentence.
(a) Jerry’s sense of duty/courtesy/integrity impressed the authoress.
(b) Jerry wanted to get the axe-handle repair/repaired/repairing.
(c) Jerry’s courtesy was formal/artificial/inborn.
(d) Jerry came to the orphanage at the age of eight/four/twelve.
(e) The phrase of his own accord means willingly/at random/freely.
2. True/false? If false, give the correct information.
(a) Jerry steadied the loose stone for his own use.
(b) Jerry had been at the orphanage for four years.
(c) The axe-handle broke because Jerry brought the axe down careless.
(d) Integrity is embedded on courage.
(e) Jerry did for the authoress the necessary things.
3. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the word. Add prepositions if necessary.
(a) Jerry (be) at the orphanage since he was four.
(b) He took the (responsible) breaking the axe-handle.
(c) He chose to work (careful) .
(d) He was an orphan boy (lived) the orphanage.
(e) (Dig) a deeper hole, Jerry steadied a loose stone.
Answer to the question no. Set-5
1. (a) courtesy (b) repaired (c) inborn (d) four (e) willingly
2. (a) False, Correct answer : Jerry steadied the loose stone for the authoress. (b) False, Correct answer: Jerry had been at the orphanage since he was four. (c) False, Correct answer : The axe-handle broke because there was a fault in the wood of the handle. (d) True (e) False, Correct answer : Jerry did for the authoress the unnecessary things.
2. (a) had been (b) responsibility of (c) carefully (d) living in
(e) digging
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Read the following passage and answer the questions :
In recent years, there have been many alarming reports that the world’s climate is undergoing a significant change. All these reports provide strong evidence that world temperatures are increasing day by day. This increase in global warming is caused by increased amounts of carbon dioxide around the earth. Most climatologists believe that the greenhouse effect is the likely cause of this global warming. What is the greenhouse effect? It is the gradual warming of the air surrounding the earth as a result of heat being trapped by environment pollution. This is exemplified by the destruction and burning down of tropical rain forests, by traffic that clogs up city streets, by the rapid growth of industry, the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in packing and manufacturing commercial products, the use of detergents such as washing powder and washing-up liquid and so on. The oceans are also said to be affected both because of human waste and because of pollution caused by industrial waste products, oil seeping from damaged supertankers and from other maritime disasters. However, the main culprits for global warming are carbon dioxide gas, produced by the burning of fossil fuels and forests, and pollutants such as methane and chlorofluorocarbons. Climatologists predict that midway through the next century, temperatures may have risen by as much as 4°c. This could catastrophically reduce mankind’s ability to grow food, destroy or severely damage wildlife and wilderness, raise sea levels and thereby flood coastal areas and farmland. The alarming news about Bangladesh is that as a result of the rise of the sea level, the lower southern part of the country may one day go under water.
1. Choose the right word and complete each sentence :
(a) According to majority of the climatologists, the greenhouse effect is the plausible/probable/prime cause of the global warming.
(b) The global warming may have a disastrous/magnificent/heinous effect on life on earth.
(c) The burning of fossil fuels, forest and various pollutants is the effect/root/source of carbon dioxide gas.
(d) The dumping of industrial wastes and waste-products in to the ocean affects/causes/diminishes environmental pollution.
(e) The rise of temperature may one day damages/swallow/submerge the lower southern part of Bangladesh.
.Write whether the following statements are true/false. If false, give the correct information :
a) Carbon dioxide gas is the only culprit for global warming.
b) The greenhouse effects is a global phenomenon.
c) Fossil fuels and forests are some of the main culprits for global warming.
d) The greenhouse effect can be diminished if we can reduce the environmental pollution.
e) Global warming is good for the cold countries of the world.
3. Fill in the gaps with correct form of words. Add appropriate prepositions if necessary :
a) The greenhouse effect may be the cause of (distract) wildlife and wilderness.
b) According to the (believe) the climatologists, the greenhouse effect is the most likely cause of the global warming.
c) If the sea level rises abnormally, we have reason to be (worry)___.
d) Carbon dioxide is (produce) the burning of fossil fuels an forests.
e) Even the oceans are getting (pollution) .
4. Make a list of five causes of global warming :
Ans. to the ques. no. Set-6:
1. (a) probable (b) disastrous (c) source (d) causes (e) submerge.
2. (a) False, Correct answer : Carbon dioxide gas is one of the main culprits for global warming. (b) True (c) False, Correct answer : The burning of fossil fuels and forests are some of the main culprits for global warming. (d) True (e) False, Correct answer : Global warming is harmful for the whole world.
3. (a) destruction of (b) belief of (c) worried (d) produced by (e) polluted
A list of five causes of global warming : 4. (a) Increasing carbon dioxide (b) Cutting down of forests (c) Burning of fossil fuels (d) Using CFC gas (e) Using of detergents.
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Read the following passage and answer the questions :
Humans, animals, and plants are all important elements of the natural environment. But humans are cruelly destroying plants and animals and thereby creating a danger for us all. The destruction of forests and other habitats is causing the extinction of various plants and animals every day. These losses are particularly severe in the areas of tropical forests which cover only 7% of the surface of the globe, but which provide the living space for between 50% and 80% of all our wildlife. Many wild animals and birds such as pandas, bears, tigers, alligators, whales, wolves, eagles, falcons, kites and buzzards are faced with the threat of extinction today. Their decline has been accelerated by the destruction of their feeding and nesting places, by the collection of eggs, and above all by the widespread use of chemicals and pesticides which enter their food chains leading to sterility and mass deaths. Hunting of birds and animals is another cause of their extinction. Men kill birds for food and feathers, hunt big cats to make fur coats and slaughter alligators and other reptiles for shoes and bags. In addition, whale hunting has also drastically reduced the number of blue whales in the Atlantic ocean.
1. Choose the right world/expression to complete each sentences :
a. Human are destroying plants and animals, which are good/useful/dangerous to us.
b. The tropical forests cover about 70/17/7 percent of the surface of the earth.
c. Most of the wild animals live in the tropical/subtropical/coastal forests.
d. Hunting of birds is a cause of their destruction/increase/extinction.
e. Whale hunting has reduced the number of blue-whales in the Indian/Pacific/Atlantic Ocean.
2. True/False? If false, give the correct information :
a) Humans, animals and plants are ordinary elements of natural environment.
b) Losses of plants and animals are severe in the tropical region.
c) Men kill birds for food and feathers.
d) In order to protect environment we should not protect our wildlife.
e) Sterility among the birds is caused by destruction of forests.
Statistics show that about 350 million people speak English as a language and another 300 million use it as a second language. It is the official or semi-official language in more than 60 countries and of many international organizations. The International Olympic Committee, for example, always holds meetings in English. English helps the international community and the business world to communicate across national borders. Today, more than 80% of all the information in the world’s computers is in English, so organizations frequently need employees who speak and write a standard form of English. In fact some companies provide English language training for their staff. It is therefore little wonder that job advertisements now a days often ask for a ‘good working knowledge’ of English. Many believe now that English usually helps them to get good jobs and better salaries.
1. Choose the right world/expression to complete each sentences :
i. First language means the important/main /natural language.
ii. A second language is one that is taught and learnt regarding it as next in importance to the mother tongue/a foreign language/a dead language.
iii. The number of people who use English as a second language is about 300/350 million.
iv. International Olympic Committee always holds its meetings in French/English /Spanish.
v. English is used as, official or semi-official language in more than 60/50/70 countries.
2. True/ false? If false, give the correct information :
i. Nowadays more than eighty percent of all the information in the world’s computers is in English.
ii. Many nowadays get good jobs because they know English.
iii. Many international organizations often use different languages.
iv. A good knowledge of English is necessary for a good job.
v. No companies arrange training for their staff to make them able to use English well.
3. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the words. Add any preposition if necessary:
i. Statistics show that English is (speak) as a first language by 350 million people.
ii. The International Olympic Committee (use) English in its meetings.
iii. English (help) communication across national borders.
iv. More than 80% of all the information in the world’s computers (be) in English.
v. Employers nowadays want applicants (have) a good working knowledge of English.
4. Make a list of five reasons why English is important.
Answer to the question no. Set-4:
1. (a) main (b) mother tongue
(c) 300 (d) English (e) 60
2. (a) True (b) True (c) False, Correct answer: Many international organizations always use English languages. (d) True (e) False, Correct answer: Many companies arrange training for their staff to make them able to use English well.
3. (a) spoken (b) uses (c) helps to (d) is (e) having
4. A list of five reasons why English is important: (a) is spoken as the first language by 350 million people. (b) is used as the second language by 300 million people. (c) holds meeting by the International Olympic Committee in English. (d) more than 80% of all the information in the world’s computers is in English (e) helps us to get good jobs and better salaries.
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Read the following passage and answer the questions :
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, he word that comes to me is ‘integrity.’ It is embedded 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 orphanage woodshop would repair it. I brought money to pay for the job and he refused it. “I’ll pay for it, “He said, “I brought the axe down careless.” “But no one hits accurately every time”, I told him, “The fault was in the handle.” It was only then he would take the money. He was standing back of his own carelessness. He was a freewill 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 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 tired 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 deeper into the clear well of his eyes; and gratitude was there, and affection, soft over the firm granite of his character.
1. Choose the right word and complete each sentence.
(a) Jerry’s sense of duty/courtesy/integrity impressed the authoress.
(b) Jerry wanted to get the axe-handle repair/repaired/repairing.
(c) Jerry’s courtesy was formal/artificial/inborn.
(d) Jerry came to the orphanage at the age of eight/four/twelve.
(e) The phrase of his own accord means willingly/at random/freely.
2. True/false? If false, give the correct information.
(a) Jerry steadied the loose stone for his own use.
(b) Jerry had been at the orphanage for four years.
(c) The axe-handle broke because Jerry brought the axe down careless.
(d) Integrity is embedded on courage.
(e) Jerry did for the authoress the necessary things.
3. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the word. Add prepositions if necessary.
(a) Jerry (be) at the orphanage since he was four.
(b) He took the (responsible) breaking the axe-handle.
(c) He chose to work (careful) .
(d) He was an orphan boy (lived) the orphanage.
(e) (Dig) a deeper hole, Jerry steadied a loose stone.
Answer to the question no. Set-5
1. (a) courtesy (b) repaired (c) inborn (d) four (e) willingly
2. (a) False, Correct answer : Jerry steadied the loose stone for the authoress. (b) False, Correct answer: Jerry had been at the orphanage since he was four. (c) False, Correct answer : The axe-handle broke because there was a fault in the wood of the handle. (d) True (e) False, Correct answer : Jerry did for the authoress the unnecessary things.
2. (a) had been (b) responsibility of (c) carefully (d) living in
(e) digging
===============
Read the following passage and answer the questions :
In recent years, there have been many alarming reports that the world’s climate is undergoing a significant change. All these reports provide strong evidence that world temperatures are increasing day by day. This increase in global warming is caused by increased amounts of carbon dioxide around the earth. Most climatologists believe that the greenhouse effect is the likely cause of this global warming. What is the greenhouse effect? It is the gradual warming of the air surrounding the earth as a result of heat being trapped by environment pollution. This is exemplified by the destruction and burning down of tropical rain forests, by traffic that clogs up city streets, by the rapid growth of industry, the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in packing and manufacturing commercial products, the use of detergents such as washing powder and washing-up liquid and so on. The oceans are also said to be affected both because of human waste and because of pollution caused by industrial waste products, oil seeping from damaged supertankers and from other maritime disasters. However, the main culprits for global warming are carbon dioxide gas, produced by the burning of fossil fuels and forests, and pollutants such as methane and chlorofluorocarbons. Climatologists predict that midway through the next century, temperatures may have risen by as much as 4°c. This could catastrophically reduce mankind’s ability to grow food, destroy or severely damage wildlife and wilderness, raise sea levels and thereby flood coastal areas and farmland. The alarming news about Bangladesh is that as a result of the rise of the sea level, the lower southern part of the country may one day go under water.
1. Choose the right word and complete each sentence :
(a) According to majority of the climatologists, the greenhouse effect is the plausible/probable/prime cause of the global warming.
(b) The global warming may have a disastrous/magnificent/heinous effect on life on earth.
(c) The burning of fossil fuels, forest and various pollutants is the effect/root/source of carbon dioxide gas.
(d) The dumping of industrial wastes and waste-products in to the ocean affects/causes/diminishes environmental pollution.
(e) The rise of temperature may one day damages/swallow/submerge the lower southern part of Bangladesh.
.Write whether the following statements are true/false. If false, give the correct information :
a) Carbon dioxide gas is the only culprit for global warming.
b) The greenhouse effects is a global phenomenon.
c) Fossil fuels and forests are some of the main culprits for global warming.
d) The greenhouse effect can be diminished if we can reduce the environmental pollution.
e) Global warming is good for the cold countries of the world.
3. Fill in the gaps with correct form of words. Add appropriate prepositions if necessary :
a) The greenhouse effect may be the cause of (distract) wildlife and wilderness.
b) According to the (believe) the climatologists, the greenhouse effect is the most likely cause of the global warming.
c) If the sea level rises abnormally, we have reason to be (worry)___.
d) Carbon dioxide is (produce) the burning of fossil fuels an forests.
e) Even the oceans are getting (pollution) .
4. Make a list of five causes of global warming :
Ans. to the ques. no. Set-6:
1. (a) probable (b) disastrous (c) source (d) causes (e) submerge.
2. (a) False, Correct answer : Carbon dioxide gas is one of the main culprits for global warming. (b) True (c) False, Correct answer : The burning of fossil fuels and forests are some of the main culprits for global warming. (d) True (e) False, Correct answer : Global warming is harmful for the whole world.
3. (a) destruction of (b) belief of (c) worried (d) produced by (e) polluted
A list of five causes of global warming : 4. (a) Increasing carbon dioxide (b) Cutting down of forests (c) Burning of fossil fuels (d) Using CFC gas (e) Using of detergents.
=================================
Read the following passage and answer the questions :
Humans, animals, and plants are all important elements of the natural environment. But humans are cruelly destroying plants and animals and thereby creating a danger for us all. The destruction of forests and other habitats is causing the extinction of various plants and animals every day. These losses are particularly severe in the areas of tropical forests which cover only 7% of the surface of the globe, but which provide the living space for between 50% and 80% of all our wildlife. Many wild animals and birds such as pandas, bears, tigers, alligators, whales, wolves, eagles, falcons, kites and buzzards are faced with the threat of extinction today. Their decline has been accelerated by the destruction of their feeding and nesting places, by the collection of eggs, and above all by the widespread use of chemicals and pesticides which enter their food chains leading to sterility and mass deaths. Hunting of birds and animals is another cause of their extinction. Men kill birds for food and feathers, hunt big cats to make fur coats and slaughter alligators and other reptiles for shoes and bags. In addition, whale hunting has also drastically reduced the number of blue whales in the Atlantic ocean.
1. Choose the right world/expression to complete each sentences :
a. Human are destroying plants and animals, which are good/useful/dangerous to us.
b. The tropical forests cover about 70/17/7 percent of the surface of the earth.
c. Most of the wild animals live in the tropical/subtropical/coastal forests.
d. Hunting of birds is a cause of their destruction/increase/extinction.
e. Whale hunting has reduced the number of blue-whales in the Indian/Pacific/Atlantic Ocean.
2. True/False? If false, give the correct information :
a) Humans, animals and plants are ordinary elements of natural environment.
b) Losses of plants and animals are severe in the tropical region.
c) Men kill birds for food and feathers.
d) In order to protect environment we should not protect our wildlife.
e) Sterility among the birds is caused by destruction of forests.
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Please post a list of important words(with meaning)
for HSC English 1st part's vocabulary test.
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