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SSC English Second Paper Model Question- 22

English Second paper

Total Marks - 100

Time : 3 Hours

(Answer all the questions. Figures in the margin indicate full marks.)

Part-A: Grammar (Marks 60)

1. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box. You may need to change the forms of some of the words. You may need to use one word more than once.(1×10=10)

prepare, natural, generously, hand, use, purpose, resources, fertile, land, rocky

Nature has given her (a) _______ to us more (b) _______ than many other countries of the world. Think about our (c) _______. It is soft and (d) _______. Our farmers who have simple (e) _______ made tools can easily dig, plough, and (f) _______ the soil with them. Whereas lands of most other countries, which are hard and (g) _______, cannot be easily dug, ploughed, and prepared. We have great (h) _______ advantages too. We can (i) _______ most of our lands for the (j) _______ of agriculture and industry.

2. Make five sentences using the parts of sentences from each column of the table below.(1×5=5)

Tea	is grown	in plenty in China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
It	is	a popular drink all over the world.
Tea plant	is	grown in hilly places where there is much rainfall as well as sunshine.
Bangladesh	grows	tea in large quantity.
Bangladesh	earns	a lot of foreign currency by exporting tea.

3. Complete the following text with the right forms of the verbs given in the box.(1×10=10)

contribute, come, flee, achieve, be, kill, show, involve, have, take

Today we (a) _______ a free nation. We (b) _______ to take great pains to gain freedom. Our war of liberation (c) _______ place in 1971. People of all walks of life (d) _______ forward and got (e) _______ in the war directly and indirectly. Many a man (f) _______ in the battlefields. They (g) _______ from the battlefields (h) _______. Rather all of them (i) _______ much to (j) _______ independence.

4. Change the sentences according to the directions given in the brackets:(1×10=10)

(a) Copying in the exams is one of the greatest social crimes. (Make Complex Sentence)

(b) It is a very serious crime. (Make Exclamatory Sentence)

(c) A student copying in the exam deceives only himself. (Make Negative Sentence)

(d) Copying in the exam cannot bring any benefit. (Make Interrogative Sentence)

(e) What a shameful practice it is! (Make Assertive Sentence)

(f) By resisting this malady, we can strengthen our education. (Make Compound Sentence)

(g) We all should come forward to stop it and save our students. (Make Simple Sentence)

(h)  Our examination system should be moderated. (Make Interrogative Sentence)

(i)  Nothing is as hateful as copying in the exam. (Make Affirmative Sentence)

j) The government is sincere in removing this crime. (Make Negative Sentence)

5. Make tag questions of these statements.                                                       1x5=5

(a)           Let her solve the matter, -------------- ?

(b)           We ought to love our motherland, --------------

(c)'     Look at this paper,-------------- ?

(d)           It is a beautiful -afternoon, -------------- ?

(e)           Both are responsible, --------------- ?

6. Complete the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both with the root words given in the

parenthesis. 1x5=5

Mr. Shah Jalal was driving to his office in the morning. He had started late as usual. His car stopped at a traffic signal. As the lights became green, the car in the front was not moving. The driver got down from the car and was asking for (a) --------------  (assist). Mr. Shah Jalal became very (b) -----------  (anger). He had become very (c) ------------  (popular) in the office for being late every day. He was (d) --------------   (certain) going to be late again. He could see the face of his boss in his (e) -----------  (imagine).

7.      Fill in the gaps with appropriate preposition.                                                    1x5=5

It is known (a) -------  all that one day all will pass (b) ---------  So we have no escape (c) ---------------- death. Death is common (d) --------  all. So we should not mourn (e) -------  the dead.

8.      Complete the passage using suitable connectors.,                             1X5=5

There lived a poor (a) --------  honest farmer in a village. He lived a very simple life with his wife (b)-------  children. (c) ---------------  he was honest, he worked hard on his farm from dawn to dusk. One day (d) ------------------ . he was walking to his field; he suddenly saw a purse of gold on the road. He carried it home (e)------ he could show it to his wife and children.

9.     Use capitals and punctuation marks where necessary in the following text. 5 asif come to our house after prayer all of us will have food together says mrs fatema banu thank you ill come and eat with you after that we will go to the eid fair says asif

Part B : Writing (Marks 40)

10.   Suppose, recently you have made a journey by train. New;_ write a paragraph in 250 words on "A Journey by Train".      10

11.   Now it is summer season. It is very hot during day time. It's -quite impossible to continue classes after 11 am. Now, write an application to your headmaster/headmistress praying for morning school. 10

12 Write a composition about "A Journey by Bus". 20

 

✅ Answer Key

Part-A

1.       (a) resources (b) generously (c) land (d) fertile (e) hand (fl prepare (g) rocky (h) natural (i) use purpose

2 (a) ' Tea is a popular drink all over the world.

(b)        It is made from the leaves of the tea plant.

(c)        Tea grows in plenty in China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Srilanka.

(d)        Tea plant is grown in hilly places where there is much rainfall as well sunshine.

(e)        Bangladesh earns a lot of foreign currency by exporting tea.

3.  (a) are (b) had (c) took (d) came (e) involved (fl was killed (g) did not flee (h) showing (i) contributed 0) achieve.

4. (a) Very few social crimes are as great as copying in the exams.

(b) What a serious crime it is!

(c) A student copying in the exam deceives none but himself.

(d)        Can copying in the exam bring any benefit?

(e)        It is -a very shameful practice.

(f) We can resist this malady, and we can strengthen our education.,

(g)        We should come forward to stop it to save our students.

(h)        Shouldn't our examination system be moderated?

(i)          Copying in the exam is the most hateful thing.

The government is not insincere in removing this crime.

5. (a) Let her solve the matter, will you?

(b)              We ought to love our motherland, oughtn't we?

(c) Look at this paper, will you?

(d)              It is a beautiful afternoon, isn't it?

(e) Both are responsible, aren't they?

6.      (a) assistance (b) angry (c) unpopular (d) certainly (e) imagination

7.       (a) to (b) away (c) from (d) to (e) for

8.        (a) but (b) and (c) As (d) while (e) so that

9. "Asif, come to our house after prayer. All of us will have food I'll  together," says Mrs. Fatema Banu. Thank you. I' come and eat with you. After that we will to the Eid Fair," says Asif.

Part-B

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