Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Honesty Is The Best Policy for JSC Exam

Once upon a time there lived a poor man called Suruj Ali. He was an honest, hard-working man and looked after a large mango orchard. The owner of the orchard, Hamidur Rahman, was a very rich man.
One day, some of Hamidur Rahman’s friends came to visit him. It was during the summer season when the mangoes were ripe. So, Hamidur Rahman asked Suruj Ali to pick some of the ripe mangoes and give them to his friends.
Suruj Ali went to the orchard and carefully picked some nice, large mangoes. Then he gave them to his master. When Hamidur Rahman and his friends started eating them, Hamidur Rahman said, ‘These mangoes don’t taste sweet. They’re sour! How can we eat them?’ So, he called Suruj Ali back and asked him to take the sour mangoes away and bring some sweet ones from his orchard.
Q. 1. Choose the best answer from the following alternatives:
(a) Suruj Ali was a very — man.
(i) poor and honest (ii) wealthy (iii) rich and clever (iv) famous and proud
(b) The duty of Suruj Ali was to —.
(i) sell the mangoes (ii) taste the mangoes (iii) plant trees in the orchard (iv) look after the orchard
(c) Some of the — of Hamidur Rahman came to visit him.
(i) relatives (ii) neighbours (iii) students (iv) friends
(d) Going to the orchard Suruj Ali picked some — mangoes carefully.
(i) ripe and small (ii) lovely and large (iii) ripe and sweet (iv) green and sour
(e) Hamidur Rahman is the — of the orchard.
(i) owner (ii) servant (iii) caretaker (iv) helper
Answer to the question no-01:
(a) (i) poor and honest
(b) (iv) look after the orchard
(c) (iv) friends
(d) (ii) lovely and large
(e) (i) owner
2. Write whether the following statements are true or false. If false, give the correct information.
(a) Surij Ali was not a dishonest man.
(b) Hamidur Rahman’s friends ate all the mangoes.
(c) Suruj Ali went to the garden and picked some apple.
(d) The name of the caretaker of the orchard was Bahadur.
(e) The mangoes which Suruj Ali picked were green.
Answer to the question no-02:
(a) True
(b) False. Correct Information: They did not eat all the mangoes.
(c) False. Correct Information: He went to the orchard and picked some nice, large mangoes.
(d) False. Correct Information: The name of the caretaker was Suruj Ali.
(e) False. Correct Information: The mangoes which Suruj Ali picked were sour.

3. Answer the following questions.
(a) What was Suruj Ali’s occupation?
(b) When were the mangoes ripe?
(c) Who was Hamidur Rahman?
(d) Why did Hamidur Rahman ask Suruj Ali to pick some mangoes?
(e) How did the mangoes taste?
Answer to the question no-03:
(a) Suruj Ali was the caretaker of a large mango orchard.
(b) During the summer season the mangoes were ripe.
(c) Hamidur Rahman was the owner of the orchard.
(d) Hamidur Rahman wanted to entertain some of his friends giving them mangoes to eat. So he asked Suruj Ali to pick some mangoes.
(e) The mangoes tasted sour.
4. Re-arrange the following sentences according to sequence and rewrite them in a paragraph form.
(a) It wasn’t tiger.
(b) In fact, it is a dangerous place.
(c) It has many wild animals.
(d) One of them visited Ruplal’s hut during the night.
(e) He wanted to be comfortable.
(f) But the jungle isn’t a comfortable place.
(g) It was only a little mouse!
(h) Ruplal was a brave man to live in the jungle.
(i) But it was difficult for him to live in the alone.
(j) But he was lucky.
Answer to the question no-04:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
h i e f b c d j a g
Ruplal was a brave man to live in the jungle. But it was difficult for him to live in the alone. He wanted to be comfortable. But the jungle isn’t a comfortable place. In fact, it is a dangerous place. It has many wild animals. One of them visited Ruplal’s hut during the night. But he was lucky. It wasn’t tiger. It was only a little mouse!
5. Fill in each blank of the following passage with a suitable word from the list given in the box below. There are more words than necessary.
grow Hard snowing covered inside out
grew finished windows outside bare Off
After some time, the warm sunny days (a) —. Then the winter season came and the weather in Greece (b) — cold. The soft earth became (c) — and nothing could (d) —. The leaves dropped (e) — the trees and countryside looked(f) — and grey. Then it started (g) — and the filed was covered in soft white snow. Mr. Ant stayed (h) — his house. Through his (i) — he looked at the trees and the white fields (j) — in snow.
Answer to the question no-05:
(a) finished (b) grew (c) hard (d) grow (e) off (f) bare (g) snowing (h) inside (i) windows (j) covered.

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