1. Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.
.And as for our martyrs and those who have been wounded, we in the Awami League will do everything we can to assist them and their loved ones. If you have the means, please give what little you can to our Relief Committee. To owners of factories whose workers had participated in the General Strike the last seven days I have this to say: make sure that they are paid wages for those days. To government employees I have this to tell: you'll have to listen to my directives. Till our country is liberated, taxes and custom duties won't be collected. No one will pay them either.
Remember: the enemy is amidst us to create chaos and confusion, to create anarchy and to loot. In our Bengal Hindus and Muslims, Bengalis and non-Bengalis are all brothers. We are responsible for their safety; let us not taint ourselves in any way.
Remember those of you who work for radio and television: if the people running the radio station aren't ready to listen to us, no Bengali will report for work there. Banks will be open for two hours every day so that people can collect their salaries. But we won't allow even a single poisha to be transferred from East Bengal to West Pakistan. Telephones and telegram services will continue as before in our East Bengal; if we have to transmit news abroad you will see to that. But if any attempt is made to exterminate our people all Bengalis must take appropriate action.
Form Revolutionary Committees under the leadership of the Awami League in every village, every community. Be prepared to act with whatever you have in your possession. (L 116)
Remember: since we have already had to shed blood, we'll have to shed a lot more of it; by the Grace of God, however, we'll be able to liberate the people of this land.
The struggle this time is a struggle for freedom-the struggle this time is a struggle for emancipation.
Long live Bengal!
A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives. 1☓5 = 5
(a) What is the closest meaning of 'anarchy'?
(i) control (ii) order (iii) lawless (iv) disorder
(b) "The struggle this time is a struggle for freedom, a struggle for emancipation"- What does it imply?
(i) political freedom (ii) economic freedom
(iii) freedom from want and illiteracy (iv) all of the above
(c) What was the order for the factory owners?
(i) to participate in strike (ii) to pay workers' wages
(iii) to run their factories (iv) to stop production
(d) Banks were ordered to be opened for — salaries only.
(i) collecting (ii) collect (iii) collection (iv) collected
(e) Which of the following is synonymous to 'liberate'?
(i) deliver (ii) emancipate (iii) discharge (iv) rason
(f) What is the closest meaning of the word 'wounded'?
(i) trauma (ii) injured (iii) hit (iv) insulted
(g) The word 'confusion' means —.
(i) disorder (ii) composure (iii) chaos (iv) shame
(h) Which one is the synonym of the word 'safety'?
(i) shelter (ii) secure (iii) jeopardy (iv) protection
(i) The word 'revolutionary' refers to —.
(i) rebel (ii) novel (iii) mutinous (iv) drastic
(j) The word 'exterminate' stands for —.
(i) remove (ii) eradication (iii) abolish (iv) annihilate
(k) What is the closest meaning of the word 'appropriate'?
(i) apt (ii) suitable (iii) opportune (iv) belonging
(l) The word 'taint' means —.
(i) soil (ii) muddy (iii) ruin (iv) stain
(m) The word 'collect' means —.
(i) heap (ii) amass (iii) gather (iv) raise
(n) The synonym of the word 'continue' is —.
(i) carry on (ii) prolong (iii) stop (iv) last
(o) The word 'grace' means —.
(i) mercy (ii) favour (iii) virtue (iv) courtesy
(p) The word 'assist' means —.
(i) benefit (ii) help (iii) relieve (iv) enable
(q) The synonym of 'participate' is —.
(i) engage (ii) join (iii) share (iv) take part
(r) The closest meaning of 'wage' is —.
(i) salary (ii) stipend (iii) allowance (iv) reward
(s) The word 'directive' refers to —.
(i) notice (ii) charge (iii) command (iv) ruling
(t) What is the closest meaning of 'chaos'?
(i) order (ii) disorder (iii) lawless (iv) confuse
(u) The word 'responsible' means —.
(i) accountable (ii) steady (iii) adult (iv) sober
(v) The word 'transmit' is synonymous to —.
(i) receive (ii) dispatch (iii) transfer (iv) broadcast
(i) enslavement (ii) release (iii) freedom (iv) discharge
Answer (A):
(a) (iv) disorder (b) (iv) all of the above (c) (ii) to pay workers' wages (d) (i) collecting (e) (ii) emancipate (f) (ii) injured (g) (i) disorder (h) (iv) protection (i) (iii) mutinous (j) (iv) annihilate (k) (ii) suitable (l) (iv) stain (m) (iii) gather (n) (i) carry on (o) (i) mercy (p) (ii) help (q) (iv) take part (r) (i) salary (s) (iii) command (t) (ii) disorder (u) (i) accountable (v) (iv) broadcast (w) (ii) suitable (x) (iv) ownership (y) (i) contest (z) (iii) freedom
B. Answer the following questions. 2☓5 = 10
(a) What did Bangabandhu mean by saying "The struggle this time is a struggle for freedom- the struggle this time is a struggle for emancipation"?
(b) What did Bangabandhu mean by saying "Since we have already had to shed blood; we'll have to shed a lot more of it"?
(c) Why is Bangabandhu's 7 March speech an unforgettable history?
(d) What directives did he give to the office employees?
(e) What do 'struggle for freedom' and 'struggle for emancipation' mean?
(f) What direction did Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman give to the radio and television workers?
(g) How long will the Banks remain open and why?
(h) What are the two main parts of his speech?
(i) Which features of the speech do you appreciate most and why?
(j) How do you differentiate between the 'struggle for freedom' and the 'struggle for emancipation?
Answer (B):
(a) This is a very inspirational speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. By this words he encouraged the people of Bengal to fight for their freedom and emancipation.
(b) Actually by saying this Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman inspired the people of the then East Pakistan to encounter the enemies at any cost. He reminded that they had already shed a lot of blood and if needed they were ready to shed much more of it.
(c) Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's March 7 speech is an unforgettable history because in his speech he described the past 23 years of history of Bengal (the then East Pakistan) as a history of torture, deprivation and political oppression. He also outlined a message of freedom from foreign domination and emancipation from want, illiteracy and poverty.
(d) He gave the following directives to the office employees: (i) stop paying taxes and custom duties (ii) only the Secretariat, the Supreme Court, the High Court, Judge's court and semi-government organization such as WAPDA will not be allowed to work (iii) the armed forces are asked to stay in barracks.
(e) 'Struggle for freedom' means the struggle or fight to be free from foreign domination. 'Struggle for emancipation' means the struggle or fight to overcome slavery and achieve political, social and economic freedom.
(f) Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman directed the radio and television workers that no Bengali would report for work it the people running the radio station were not ready to listen to them.
(g) The Banks will remain open for two hours everyday so that people can collect their salaries.
(h) The two main parts of the speech are struggle for freedom and struggle for emancipation.
(i) The features of the speech. I appreciate most are his gift of the gab, his power of motivation and his firm will to make the people of our country free.
(j) Struggle for freedom means the fight for independence and straggle for emancipation means the fight to get free from oppression and to enjoy economic and political right.
Answer:
Bangla Translation
বাংলা অনুবাদঃ
............আর যে সমস্ত লোক শহিদ হয়েছে, আঘাতপ্রাপ্ত হয়েছে, আমরা আওয়ামী লীগের থেকে যদ্দুর পারি, তাদের সাহায্য করতে চেষ্টা করব। যারা পারেন আমার রিলিফ কমিটিকে সামান্য টাকা-পয়সা পৌঁছে দেবেন। আর এই ৭ দিনের হরতালে যে সমস্ত শ্রমিক ভাইয়েরা যোগদান করেছে, প্রত্যেক শিল্পের মালিক তাদের বেতন পৌঁছে দেবেন। সরকারি কর্মচারীদের বলি, আমি যা বলি তা মানতে হবে। যে পর্যন্ত আমার এই দেশের মুক্তি না হচ্ছে, তত দিন খাজনা-ট্যাক্স বন্ধ করে দেওয়া হলো- কেউ দেবে না।
শুনুন, মনে রাখবেন, শত্রুবাহিনী ঢুকেছে, নিজেদের মধ্যে আত্মকলহ সৃষ্টি করবে, লুটতরাজ করবে। এই বাংলায় হিন্দু-মুসলমান, বাঙালি, অ-বাঙালি যারা আছে তারা আমাদের ভাই, তাদের রক্ষার দায়িত্ব আপনাদের উপর, আমাদের যেন বদনাম না হয়।
মনে রাখবেন, রেডিও-টেলিভিশনের কর্মচারীরা যদি রেডিওতে আমাদের কথা না শোনে, তাহলে কোনো বাঙালি রেডিও স্টেশনে যাবেন না। যদি টেলিভিশনে আমাদের নিউজ না দেয়, কোনো বাঙালি টেলিভিশনে যাবেন না। ২ ঘণ্টা ব্যাংক খোলা থাকবে, যাতে মানুষ তাদের মাইনেপত্র নিতে পারে। পূর্ব-বাংলা থেকে পশ্চিম পাকিস্তানে এক পয়সাও চালান হতে পারবে না। টেলিফোন, টেলিগ্রাম, আমাদের এই পূর্ব বাংলায় চলবে এবং বিদেশের সাথে দেয়া-নেয়া চলবে না।
কিন্তু যদি এই দেশের মানুষকে খতম করার চেষ্টা করা হয়, বাঙালিরা বুঝেসুঝে কাজ করবেন।
প্রত্যেক গ্রাম, প্রত্যেক মহল্লায় আওয়ামী লীগের নেতৃত্বে সংগ্রাম পরিষদ গড়ে তোল এবং তোমাদের যা কিছু আছে, তাই নিয়ে প্রস্তুত থাকো।
মনে রাখবা, রক্ত যখন দিয়েছি, রক্ত আরো দেব। এই দেশের মানুষকে মুক্ত করে ছাড়ব, ইনশাল্লাহ।
এবারের সংগ্রাম আমাদের মুক্তির সংগ্রাম, এবারের সংগ্রাম স্বাধীনতার সংগ্রাম।
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Passage-2
1. Read the passage and answer the questions following it
Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to a multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice around the world. Imprisoned for nearly three decades for his fight against white minority rule, Mandela never lost his resolve to fight for his people’s emancipation. He was determined to bring down apartheid while avoiding a civil war. His prestige and charisma helped him win the support of the world. ‘I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestation. I have fought it all during my life; I will fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days,’ Mandela said in his acceptance speech on becoming South Africa’s first black president in 1994,… ‘The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.’ ‘We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation.’ In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he shared with F.W, de Klerk, the white African leader who had freed him from prison three years earlier and negotiated the end of apartheid.
A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives 5
a) What could be the closest meaning for ‘shackles of apartheid’ in the first paragraph?
i. Tentacles of domination ii. Bondages of slavery
iii. Manacles of racial discrimination iv. Chains of exploitation
b) The word ‘reconciliation’ in the first paragraph refers to
i. memorization ii. recall iii. reuniting iv. Change
c) ‘Resolve’ in the second paragraph could be replaced by
i. dissolve ii. determination iii. hesitation iv. Solution
d) Mandela spent around years behind the bars.
i. twenty ii. thirty iii. forty iv. Fifty
e) The best synonym of ‘chasm’ is
i. exposition ii. rift iii. harmony iv. union.
B. Answer the following questions 10
a) What, according to text, is apartheid?
b) Mention three great achievements in Mandela's life.
c) Why did Mandela want to break the manacles of apartheid?
d) What does the expression ‘I have fought it all during my life; I will fight it now, and I will do so until
the end of my days’ mean?
e) Do you find any similarity between Mandela and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman? If any, mention. Ans. to the Ques. No. Set-1
1A. Ans.:
a. iii. Manacles of racial discrimination, b. iii. reuniting, c. ii.determination, d. ii. thirty, e. ii. rift,
1B. Ans.:
a. According to text apartheid means the racial segregation prevailing in South Africa. It means the domination of the white over the black people of South Africa. Nelson Mandela is famous for breaking the manacles of apartheid from South Africa.
b. Though Mandela had to suffer a lot, his achievements were noteworthy. His frist achievement was to break the manacles of apartheid. His second achievement was to become the first black president of South Africa. His third achievement was to win the Nobel Prize.
c. Mandela wanted to break the manacles of apartheid because this very evil practice was responsible for the racial bigotry in South Africa. The manacles of apartheid confined the black people of South Africa inside the four walls of oppression.
d. This very statement is the expression of Mandela's firm resolution to fight against racial bigotry. Mandela had an absolute abhorrence towards race discrimination. He fought against it and was ready to fight against till his last breath.
e. I see some similarities between Nelson Mandela and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman fought respective countries. Finally, Mandela fought against the white rulers of his country. In the same way, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman fought against the Pakistani rulers. Then both of them were undisputable a presidents in their respective countries. Finally, both of them were would famous leaders.
Passage-3
3. Read the passage below and answer the questions following it.
Beauty is easy to appreciate but difficult to define. As we look around, we discover beauty in pleasurable objects and sights – in nature, in the laughter of children, in the kindness of strangers. But asked to define, we run into difficulties. Does beauty have an independent objective identity? Is it universal, or is it dependent on our sense perceptions? Does it lie in the eye of the beholder? -we ask ourselves. A further difficulty arises when beauty manifests itself not only by its presence, but by its absence as well, as when we are repulsed by ugliness and desire beauty. But then ugliness has as much a place in our lives as beauty, or may be more-as when there is widespread hunger and injustice in a society. Philosophers have told us that beauty is an important part of life, but isn’t ugliness a part of life too? And if art has beauty as an important ingredient, can it confine itself only to a projection of beauty? Can art ignore what is not beautiful?
Poets and artists have provided an answer by incorporating both into their work. In doing so, they have often tied beauty to truth and justice, so that what is not beautiful assumes a tolerable proportion as something that represents some truth about life. John Keats, the romantic poet, wrote in his celebrated ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ by which he means that truth, even if it’s not pleasant, becomes beautiful at a higher level. Similarly, what is beautiful forever remains true. Another meaning, in the context of the Grecian Urn-an art object-is that truth is a condition of art.
Poetry in every language celebrates beauty and truth. So does art. Here are two poems from two different times that present some enduring ideas about beauty and truth. The poems are by Lord Byron (1788-1824), an English poet of the Romantic tradition, and Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), an American poet who wrote about the human scene, love and death.
A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives. 1´5=5
(a) Which of the following has the closest meaning of the word “pleasurable”?
(i) dissatisfaction (ii) pain (iii) offend (iv) delightful
(b) What is the closest meaning of the word “incorporate”?
(i) embody (ii) corporation (iii) incorporeal (iv) intangible
(c) ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is written by ——-.
(i) Lord Byron (ii) John Keats (iii) Wordsworth (iv) PB Shelly
(d) What does the word ‘tolerable’ mean?
(i) not so good (ii) bad (iii) moderately good (iv) tolerant
(e) Lord Byron is a ——– poet?
(i) Revolutionary (ii) Romantic (iii) Classical (iv) Modern
Answer the following questions. 2´5=10
(a) How can we discover beauty in our surroundings?
(b) How much place does ugliness have in our life?
(c) What is the name of the poet of “Ode and a Grecian Urn”?
(d) Do you get any definition of beauty from the poem ‘She Walks in Beauty’?
(e) What was Byron’s intention?
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