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JSC English 1st paper Model Test (1) – 2015

Time: 3 hours                                                                                                                                       Full Marks: 100

Section A: Reading Test (Seen passage)

Read the text and answer questions 1, 2 & 3.

Bangladeshi cuisine is rich and varied with the use of many spices. We have delicious and appetizing food, snacks and sweets.

Boiled rice is our staple food. It is served with a variety of vegetables, curry, lentil, soups, fish and meat. Fish is the main source of protein. Fishes are now cultivated in ponds. Also we have fresh-water-fishes in lakes and rivers. More than 40 types of fishes are common. Some of them are carp, rui, katla, magur, chingrhi. Shutki or dried fishes are popular. Hilsa is very popular among the people of Bangladesh. Panta ilish is a traditional platter of Panta Bhat. It is steamed rice soaked in water and served with fried hilsha slice, often together with dried fish, pickles, lentil soup, green chilies and onion. It is a popular dish on the Pohela Boishakh.

The people of Bangladesh are very fond of sweets, almost all Bangladeshi women prepare some traditional sweets, ‘Pitha’ a type of sweets made from rice flour, sugar, syrup, molasses, and sometimes milk, is a traditional food loved by the entire population. During winter Pitha Utsab, meaning pitha festival is organized by different groups of people.

Sweets are distributed among close relatives when there is good news like births, weddings, promotion etc. Sweets of Bangladesh are mostly milk based. The common ones are roshgulla., sandesh, rasamalai, gulap jemun, kala jamun, and chom-chom. There are hundreds of different varieties of sweet preparations. Sweets are therefore an important part of the day to day life of Bangladeshi people.

1. Guess the meaning of the following words and chose the correct meaning closest to the text.  1x5=5

(i) delicious ——-

(a) tasty  (b) rich   (c) new   (d) foreign

(ii) entire ——

(a) total   (b) main (c) local  (d) troublesome

(iii) distribute —-

(a) collect (b) divide  (c) tribute  (d) sell

(iv) variety —

(a) taste   (b) colour   (c) price  (d) diversity

(v) organize ———-

(a) create   (b) arrange (c) show   (d) utilize

2. Answer the following questions:                                                                                                             2x 5= 10

a) What is our main food item?

b) Why are sweets an important part of our life?

c) What has made Bangladesh so special?

d) Apart from fish, what other foods do we eat with rice?

e) How is boiled rice served?

3. Summarize the text in section A in your own words (around 85 words) :                                                                   10

Section B: Reading Test (Unseen passage)

Read the text carefully and answer the questions 4, 5 & 6:

Humayun Ahmed was born in 13 November 1984. He was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. Humayun reached peak of his fame with the publication of his novel Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell) in 1972, which remains one of his most famous works, winning admiration from literary critics, including DR. Ahmed Sarif. he wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh. In recognition to the works of Humayun, Times of India wrote Humayun was a custodian of the Bangladeshi literary culture whose contribution single-handedly shifted the capital of Bengali literature from Kolkata to Dhaka without any war or revolution. Ahmed’s writing style was characterized as magic realism. Sunil Ganguly described him as the most popular writer in the Bengali language for a century and according to him, Ahmed was even more popular than Sarat chandra Chattopadhyay. Ahmed’s books have been the top sellers at the Ekushey Book Fair during the 1990s and 2000s. In 2011, Ahmed had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer. He died on 19 July 2012 at 11.20 pm BST at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. he was buried in Nuhash palli.

4. Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.                                                           1x5=5

Who/What	Event	Place/Time/Creation
Humayun Ahmed	was born in	(i) ————-
He was a	(ii) ————————	Author
he	reached peak of his	(iii) —————
(iv) ————-	was published	in 1972
He	died on	(v) ———————

5. Read the passage again and write whether the statements are true or false. Give correct information for the false statements.                                                                                                                                                                 2x5=10

a) Humayun Ahmed was born in 13 November, 1948.

b) He was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker.

c) Nondito Noroke was published in 1972.

d) Humayun Ahmed wrote over 2000 fiction.

e) Humayun Ahmed died on 19 July At Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

6. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words.                                                                                                   1x5=5

Bangladesh (a) —- a poor country with a per capita annual income of about four thousand taka. Although poverty (v) ——– everybody, it is the women who are the worst sufferers. Social prejudices and customs (c) —— to degrade their position. When a girl (d) ——– in a poor family, it is not (e) —— as a happy event. She has come, as if to add to the sufferings of her parents.

7. Read the texts and rearrange them in correct order.                                                                        0.5x10=5

a) Then the leader of the robbers came to Saadi.

b) The merchants had their goods and a lot of money.

c) He had a bundle of books and some money with him.

d) They travelled for twelve days without any trouble.

e) he ordered Saadi to give all he had to them.

f) ON the thirteenth day, a gang of robbers attacked them.

g) Sheikh Saadi handed him the bundle of books and also the little money he had without any fear.

h) Once Sheikh Saadi was going to Bagdad with a group of rich merchants.

i) Saadi then said, “I hope that you will make good use of these books.”

j) The robbers took away all the goods and money from the merchants.

8. Fill in the gaps using clues from the box. There are more words than necessary.                                0.5x10=5

washed	take	planted	exclude	add	provide
insist	protect	needs	breathe	produce	prevent

Trees are very useful to man. They (a) — the rich top soil from being (b) —— away by rain water and floods. You can see tree being (c) ——- along mountain slopes, on roadside and in parks. They (d) —– life to a place with their colourful flowers, beautiful leaves and fruits. They (e) ——- shelter to bird and animals, they give us timber, medicines, paper, gum etc. They (f) —–  if Carbon dioxide and (g) —— Oxygen. As you know by now, man (h) ——- Oxygen to (i) ——— and live. They are our best friends. We should (j) ——– them and try to plant more trees around us.

9. The phrases in column A are the beginnings of some sentences. The phrases in column B are the endings. Match the phrases in column A with the phrases in column B to make complete sentences.                         1x5=5

Column A	Column B
(i) Joynul Abedin was born at	a) pictures secretly.
(ii) He din not like the hard and	b) went to Kolkata.
(iii) So, he drew	c) admitted into Kolkata Govt. Art College.
(iv) At the age of fifteen, he	d) fast rules of schools.
(v) At the age of nineteen	e) a village in Kishoreganj in 1914.

Section C: writing Test

10. Suppose, you are Faria and Fahim is your younger brother. You have appeared at the JSC examination this year and are waiting for your result. you asked him to help you to choose the group of your study.

Now make a dialogue in 100 words between you and your younger brother about future plan of your life/your aim in life.                                                                                                                                                                                                            10

11. Write a paragraph on “Nakshi Kantha” in about 150 words.

12. Read the beginning of the story. Now complete it in 150 words.                                                                                            10

Once there was an old farmer who had five sons. The sons always quarreled among themselves and got separated. The old man was very unhappy. Soon he fell ill. They could always quarreled with one another. One day the old farmer called his sons to bring some sticks and tied them in a bundle. He told them to break the bundle. They tried but could not-----------------

13. Supposed, one of your friend got golden A+ in the JSC examination. Now write a letter congratulating him/her for his brilliant success in the examination.