Class - IX
Subject: English 1st Paper
Time : 3 hrs. Marks. 100
Part A : Reading Test ( 40 marks)
Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions following it:
Feroza was fighting for the survival of her family and herself. The days were hard. Day by day work became even scarcer. One day some people came to her village. They were from the Grameen Bank. They said they were interested in helping the poor people, the landless and the helpless. A Grameen Bank branch had just opened in the village. She learnt from them that only the poor and landless people were eligible ones to take a loan from the bank. However, before they could borrow money, they would have to make 5-6 groups of workers, each having five members. Then they would have a centre where the bank will work to give loans and receive repayment of loans. Feroza immediately started to look for people. She talked to other women of the village to persuade them to form groups. After about a month there were six groups in Makorkhola village. All the group members became registered members of the Grameen Bank project. A centre was set up. A thatched hut was built as the centre house. Feroza's group elected a chairperson and her sister in law was make secretary of the group. They would hold office for a year. The group chairperson would be responsible for discipline in the group. Members would conduct their business with the Bank through her. All members were obliged to attend any meetings called. They were fully make aware of the rules and procedures governing the activities of the group. Each member of a group was given a registered number.
1. Choose the best answer from the alternatives : 1x5=5
a) Feroza was struggling for ____
i) herself ii) her family iii) villagers iv) herself and her family
b) The Grameen Bank intended to help ______
i) the poor people ii) the fishermen iii) students iv) the farmers
c) Each group of workers should have _____ members.
i) five ii) six iii) seven iv) eight
d) After about a month there were _____ groups in Makorkhola village.
i) ten ii) seven iii) six iv) eight
e) Feroza's _______ was made the secretary.
i) sister ii) husband's sister iii) daughter iv) mother -in- law
2. Write whether the following statements are true or false. If false, give the correct information. 1x5=5
a) The Grameen Bank had just started its work in Feroza's village.
b) Without forming groups of workers none could take loan from the Grameen Bank.
c) Feroza made her sister -in-law the secretary.
d) A tin shed building was built as the centre house.
e) Members could conduct their business with the Bank individually.
3. Fill in each gap in the following passage with a suitable words from the box. There are more words than necessary: 
| eligible | people | branch | survival | struggle | from |
| herself | tough | interested | scarcer | helpless | just |
Feroza was struggling for the (a) _____ of her family and (b) _____ . The days were (c) ___ and so day by day work became even (d) _____. One day (e) ____ the Grameen Bank some (f) _____came to her village. The Grameen Bank was (g)____in helping the poor people, the landless and the (h) _____. In the village a Grameen Bank (i) ____ had just opened. The poor and landless people were (j) _____ ones to take loan from the bank.
4. Fill in each gap with a suitable words of your own :
Feroza's (a) _____ was for the (b) _____ of her family and herself. One day some people (c) _____ the Grameen Bank (d)_____to their village. They were talking about (e) ____ to help the poor people, the (f) _____ and the helpless. They have to (g) _____ 5-6 groups of workers before (h ) ______ money. They must have a (i) _____ in the village where the bank will work to give loans and (j) _____ repayments of loans.
5. Make five true sentences from the following substitution table : 1x5=5
| (a) Feroza immediately started | their business with | any meetings called. |
| (b) All the group members became | obliged to attend | of the Grameen Bank project. |
| (c) They would hold | to look | the Bank through her. |
| (d) Members would conduct | resistered members | a year. |
| (e) All members were | office for | for the people. |
6. Answer the following questions in your own words : 1x5=5
a) Why do people generally go to a bank?
b) What did the people of Grameen Bank wish?
c) Who were eligible to take loan from the bank?
d) What did Feroza say to other women?
e) How could the members of a group run their business with the Bank?
7. Write down the ins and outs of Grameen Bank loan in five sentences. 1x5=5
8. Write down the summary of the passage in five sentences. 1x5=5
Part B : Vocabulary Test ( 20 marks)
9. Fill in each gap with suitable word from the box. There are more words than necessary: 1x10=10
| treatment | compounds | intake | installed | extremely | poison |
| ponder | drinkable | drinking | run | toxic | operation |
About 25 million litres of (a) ____ water supplied from the Chandnighat water works daily is heavily polluted with (b)_____heavy metals and chemical (c) ____ because the water at the (d)____ point at the Buriganga is (e) _____ polluted. Water supply Authority to (f) _____ as to whether its water will remain (g)____ by the time the Saidabad water treatment plant goes into (h) ____ next year. The 225 litre per day capacity water (i) ____ plant that is being (j) ____ at cost of Taka 750 core will draw water from the Sitalakhya.
10. Fill in each gap with a suitable word of your own: 1x10=10
The National Memorial at Savar is a (a) ______ of the nation's (b) _____ for the martyrs of the War of Liberation. It is built with (c ) _____ , but make of (d) _____. It stands 150 feet tall, but every martyr it stands for stands so much (e)____. It is an (f) _____ the dimensions of which can be (g) ____, but it stands for an achievement which is (h) ____. It stands upright for the millions of martyrs who (i) ____ down their lives so that we may stand upright, in honour and dignity, (j)____ the nations of the world.
Part C : Writing Test ( 40 marks)
11. Write a paragraph in about 120 words on any one of the following topics : 10
(a) Pahela Baishakh (b) A New Experience
(c) How to Cook Your Favourite Food
12. Write a letter to one of your friends telling him/her about how you enjoyed your last religious festival. 10
13. Write a composition in about 200 words about any one of the following topics. 10
a) Power of Media b) Computer
c) A Journey By Train
14. Suppose you don't believe that men landed on moon in 1969. One of your friends upholds another view opposing yours. Now write a conversation between you and your friend whose name is Moon. 10
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment