Friday, July 27, 2012

Model English 1st Paper for JSC Exam

 Read the passage below carefully and then answer the following questions.
Mrs. Ayesha Amin liked to tell stories to her students every month. She told them from memory, because she didn’t like to read to her students from story books. ‘Did Aesop red these stories from books?’ asked kishan. ‘Oh, no,’ replied Mrs. Amin. ‘If you stand in front of people and read from a book, it’s boring!’ she exclaimed.
All the students liked Mrs. Amin’s stories. ‘What kind of stories did Aesop tell?’ asked Anwar. ‘Fables,’ replied Mrs. Amin. ‘Do you know what fables are?’ Nobody replied because nobody knew. ‘Well’, continued Mrs. Amin. ‘Fables are stories with a massage or a moral. They help to teach a lesson like work hard, don’t be lazy. In fact, that’s the moral of my story this morning. You’ve all helped to make our school better and worked hard very much to make the school garden. Now we can see the result. My story’s about this.’ ‘Was Aesop like a teacher then?’ asked sarah. ‘Well, yes,’ replied Mrs. Amin. ‘He liked to teach people. But he also liked to entertain them. People like being entertained. They learn better when they enjoy themselves. Aesop thought and I agree with him. Stories with a moral help to make us wiser!’
Questions
1. Write whether the following sentences are true or false. If false give the correct answer.
a) Mrs. Amin disliked story telling.
b) Mrs. Amin read the story from book.
c) Aesop liked to tell stories standing before people.
d) Fable is a kind of poem.
e) The students have worked hard for the school garden.
2. Choose the best answer from the alternatives given after each question :
a) Story telling is ——- for studies.
i) good ii) bad iii) harmful iv) disturbance.
b) What did Aesop do?
i) Made fun ii) Made people fool
iii) teach people iv) Wrote poems.
c) Aesop used to tell stories ——- before people
i) sitting ii) sat iii) stood iv) standing
d) Fable has a ——- lesson.
i) coward ii) moral iii) religious iv) social
e) The students ——- to work hard for the school garden.
i) has ii) had iii) needs iv) have been.
3. Fill in each blank with a word from the given words :
No. 2
a. good b) Teach people e) Standing d) moral e) Had.
No. 3
a) Thinks b) should c) tells d) every e) pleased f) performance g) got h) hard j) looks j) garden.
No. 4
a) Aesop is a story teller and a good teacher.
b) He used to teach people through interesting stories.
c) He lived in Greece.
d) Fable is a kind of story having a moral lesson.
e) The students have made the school garden.
No. 5
a) agree b) explain c) entertain d) bring e) result f) message g) memory h) moral i) continue j) fable.
No. 6
a) liked b) stories c) students d) from e) memory f) like g) story h) from i) all j) liked
No. 7
Aesop was a great sage. He liked to teach people moral lessons by entertaining them. He told such stories as are full of moral. These stories are called fables. In this sense he was a great teacher. He thought that people learn better when they enjoy themselves.
No. 8
Mrs. Ayesha Amin is a teacher who tells stories with moral or message to her students every month. She follows Aesop in teaching her students by telling stories from her memory so that the students can enjoy themselves. The moral of one her stories workd hard don’t be lazy. She believes that stories with a moral help to make man wiser.



Mrs. Amin (a) ——- that stories (b) ——- be said to the students. For this she (c) ——- stories (d) ——- month. She is (e) ——- at the (f) ——- of the students. The students have (g) ——- the result of their (h) ——- work. The school (i) ——- beautiful for the (j) ——-.
4. Write short answer of the following question :
a) Who is Aesop?
b) What did he do?
c) Where did he live?
d) What is fable?
e) Who have made the school garden?
5. Choose a word from the box and put it in the blank next to its meaning:
a) ............... = very good
b) ............... = keen
c) ............... = more
d) ............... = be informed
e) ............... = plan
f) ............... = table
g) ............... = self
h) ............... = regarding
i) ............... = frame
j) ............... = display
6. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
Mrs. Amin (a) ...........to tell (b)................. to her (c) ............every month (d) ...........her (e) ...........she did not. (f) ........... to read any (g) .......... to her students (h).............story books. (i) .............the students (j) ...........the stories of mrs. Amin.
7. Read the passage again. Now write a pragraph using the clues in the box below. Write the information in the correct sequence as it appears in the text. The paragraph should not exceed 70 words.
Aesop —— moral lessons ——-tables ———teacher ———story
8. Read the passage again. Now, summarise the story in your own words.
Answer
1. a) False. C.A. Mrs. Amin like story telling.
b) False. C.A Mrs. Amin told the stories from memory.
c) True.
d) False. C.A. Fable is a kind of story with moral leason.
e) True.
Read the passage carefully and answer the Questions following it :
‘Our school garden looks so beautiful that everyone admires it.’ Rina told her mother one day. ‘Would you like to see it too?’ ‘Yes, I would,’ Mrs. Rehana Salam replied, ‘Oh! good,’ exclaimed Rina. ‘Then I’ll show you everything, but I especially want to show you our eggplants. They look like lovely green balls now.’ So the next day Mrs. Salam went to her daughters school and Rina and her friends showed her round the school garden. First she saw the new bamboo fence. Then she saw the scarecrow as well as the plants. ‘you and your teacher have worked very hard.’ Mrs. Salam said, ‘And now your school garden looks like a paradise!’
But you haven’t seen our eggplants yet. Said Rina. ‘They look lovely! came and see!’ Rina and her friends look Mrs. Salam to see the eggplants. ‘Here they are.’ said Rina and she pointed to the eggplants, but the lovely green balls were gone. Rian and her friends were shocked. ‘Someone’s stolen them!’ exclaimed Luna, ‘We must tell Mr. Ahmed at once’. ‘When Mr. Ahmed came he was shocked too. ‘Well have to ask Bahadur.’ he said, ‘He may know some thing about it.’
Questions
1. Write whether the following statements are true or false. It false, give the correct answer.
a. Rina’s school garden looks very ugly.
b. The next day Rina’s mother visited her nephew’s school.
c. Rina showed more interest in showing the eggplants to her mother.
d. Mrs. Salam scarecrow first one day after Rina’s invitation.
e. Mrs. Salam went to her daughter’s school.
2. Choose the best answer from the alternatives :
a. What do the eggplants look like?
i) Round ii) Lovely iii) Beautiful iv) Ugly
b. Which building looks beautiful?
i) the school building ii) The house building iii) The college building iv) The office building
c. What was the name of Rina’s mother?
i) Mrs. Ayesha Alam ii) Mrs. Rehana Salam iii) Mrs. Sunjida Begum iv) Mrs. Farida Bgeum
d. Mrs. Salam saw the —- First.
i) Fence ii) plant iii) scarecrow iv) garden
e. Rina and her friends were shocked because the eggplants were—-.
i) green ii) lovely iii) gone iv) white
3. Fill in each gap in the following passage with a Suitable word from the box. There are more words than necessary.
Rina’s school garden (a)—- very beautiful. The eggplant’s (b) —- like lovely green balls then. Next day, Rina’s mother, Mrs. Salam (c) —- to her daughter’s school (d) —- observed the school garden. First she saw the (e) —- bamboo fence and then saw the scarecrow as well as the (f) —-. She compared the garden (g)—- paradise. Then Rina and her friends look Mrs. Salam to (h)—- the eggplants. But the lovely green balls (i)—- gone. Rina and her friends were shocked. They are going to (j) —- Bahadur about this.
4. Read the passage again, Now answer the following questions in your own words :
a. Why did everyone admire Rina’s school garden?
b. How did eggplants look like?
c. What did Mrs. Salam see when she visited Rina’s school?
d. Why were Rina and her friends shocked?
e. Who thought that Bahadur might know some thing about the stolen eggplants?
5. Choose a word from the box and put it in the blank next to its meaning :
a. — = take something unlawfully which belongs to another, took stealthily.
b. — = praise.
c. — = particularly.
d. — = the colour of growing grass, unripe, inexperienced.
e. — = a female child.
f. — = a figure of man set up to scare away birds.
g. — = heaven.

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