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HSC Barishal Board - 2024 English First Paper Question with Answer

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HSC  Barishal Board -2024 English 1st Paper Question

     

ENGLISH FIRST PAPER

[According to the Syllabus of 2024]

Subject Code: 10 7

Time 3 hours Full marks-100

[N.B. The figures in the right margin indicate full marks.]

Part I-Reading Test Marks-60

1. Read the passage and answer the questions A and B:

Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo, Tutayevsky District, in Central Russia. Tereshkova’s father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. Tereshkova began school in 1945 at the age of eight but left school in 1953 and continued her education through distance learning. She became interested in parachuting from a young age, and trained in skydiving at the local Aeroclub, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959. At that time she was employed as a textile worker at a local factory. It was her expertise in skydiving that led to her selection as a cosmonaut.

After the flight of Yuri Gagarin (The first human being to travel to outer space in 1961), the Soviet Union decided to send a woman in space. On 16 February 1962, Proletaria Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from among more than four hundred applicants. Tereshkova had to undergo a series of training that included weightless fights, Isolation tests, centrifuge tests, rocket theory. Since the successful launch of the spacecraft Vostok-5 on 14 June 1963, Tereshkova began cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in spacesuits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by a bus. After completing her communication launched port checks, she was sealed inside Vostok-6.Finishing a two-hour countdown Vostok-6 launched faultlessly.

Although Tereshkova experienced nausea and physical discomfort for much of the flight, she orbited the earth 48 times and spent almost three days in space. With a single flight, she logged more flight time than the combined times of all American astronauts who had flown before that date. Tereshkova also maintained a flight log and took photographs of the horizon, which were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere.

Vostok-6 was the final Vostok flight and was launched two days after Vostok-5, which carried valary Bykovsky into a similar orbit for five days, landing three hours after Tereshkova. The two vessels approached each other with 5 kilometers at one point, and from space Tereshkova communicated with Bykovsky and the Soviet leader Khrushchev by radio.


A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives: Marks 0.5×10=5

(a) What is the best antonym of the word ‘Faultlessly?

(i) perfectly. faultily of ‘ (iii) accurately under (iv) flawlessly

(b) What is the meaning is undergo

(i) go through (ii) exclude (iii) cause (iv) comfort

(c) It was her expertise in skydiving that led her selection as cosmonaut. The word ‘skydiving’ stands for-

(i) Present participle (ii) Gerund (iii) Infinitive (iv) Both i and ii

d) Tereshkova logged more flight time than the combined times of all American astronauts who had flown before that date. Identify the clause

(i) Noun clause (ii) Adjective clause (iii) Adverbial clause (iv) All of them

(e) What does the word ‘communicate’ in the passage refer to?

(i) interact (ii) contact (iii) continue Both i and ii

(f) The word ‘isolation’ can be best explained as-

(i) to be exclusive (ii) to be concerned (iii) to stand aside (iv) segregation

(g) Mig-15 UTI is a/an

(i) space project (ii) aircraft (iii) flying saucer (iv) projector

(h) What is the closest meaning of ‘ plant’?

(i) workshop (ii) mill (iii) factory (iv) all of them

(i) The word ‘parachuting’ in the passage refers to

(i) Noun (ii) Adjective (iii) Verb (iv) Adverb

(j) What is the meaning of the word ‘launch’?

(i) taking off (ii) comfort (iii) rule (iv) space craft


B. Answer the following questions: 3×5=15

(a) Which was the first journey by a woman in space? How?

(b) What do you mean by kosto write in 2/3 sentences.

(c) Briefly discuss Tereshkova’s life in not more than 3 sentences.

(d) How did Tereshkova communicate with Bykovsky and the Soviet leader Khrushchev?

(e) Who were dressed in space-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by bus? When?


2. Read the following text and make a flow-chart giving information about civic engagement. (one has been done for you):

In civic engagement, issues of public concern are crucial. Civic engagement includes individual or group activities to protect public interests and change the way the community values itself. For example, if you are protesting against any unjust decision of the local municipality such as raising taxes or an act that might work against people’s interests, you are civically engaged and your action is considered a civic engagement. This protest can be done in different ways such as organizing rallies, collecting signatures, making human chains, writing petitions, etc. You can also help control traffic in front of a so school, help children to cross the roads, work in a team to clean a park or a sea beach, You can also give some services to elderly people. These are all examples of civic engagement as what you do directly affects the community.

i. To help children to cross the roads



3. Summarize the following text:

The orphanage is high in the Carolina mountains. I was there in the autumn. I wanted quiet, isolation, to do some troublesome writing. I wanted mountain air to blow out the Malaria from too long a time in the subtropics. I was home-sick too, for the flaming of Maples in October, and for corn shocks and pumpkins and black-walnut trees  . . . I found them all living in a cabin that belonged to the orphanage, half a mile beyond the orphanage farm. When I took the cabin, I asked for a boy or man to come and chop wood for the fireplace . . . . . I looked up from my type- writer one late afternoon, a little startled. A boy stood at the door and my pointer dog, my companion, was at his side and had not barked to warn me. The boy was probably twelve years old, but under sized. He wore overalls and a torn shirt, and was barefooted. He said, “I can chop some wood today.”


4. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical changes if necessary:

cheat

make

story

completely

tell

face

care

matter 

rescue

treat

think

promise

Keeping promise given to anyone is a must though it takes much perseverance to keep promise honestly. Since keeping promise is a (a) _______ of remembrance, we should be (b) ______ whenever we make promises. While (c) ______ an unavoidable danger, people. usually (d) _______ any promise only to be (e) _____ from the situation without perfect (f) ________ . After being rescued, most people (g) _____ forget the promises given. A (h) _____ about the Pied Piper of Germany. (i) ______ how the Piper was deliberately (j) ______ by the Mayor, who has made promises to give Piper one thousand guilders for his work.


5. Fill in the blanks with appropriate word in each gap:

When a girl gets married, she usually drops out of school and begins full-time work in her inlaws’ household. In the in-laws’ house, she is marginalized. She (a) — vulnerable to all forms of abuse, (b) — dowry-related violence. In Bangladesh, it is still (c) — for a bride’s family to pay dowry, (d) — the practice being illegal. Dowry demands can also (e) — after the wedding. For an adolescent (f) —, even if her in-laws are supportive, there (g) — greater health risks in terms of (h) — and child birth. The majority of adolescent (i) — and their families are uninformed or insufficiently (j) — about reproductive health and contraception. The maternal mortality rate for adolescents is double the national rate.


6. The following sentences are jumbled. Re-arrange them in proper sequence:

(i) Hojja became furious and decided to teach him a lesson.

(ii) Suddenly, he saw someone calling from below.

(iii) Hojja immediately replied, for why did you make me climb all the way down stairs money? Couldn’t you see that I was working?”

(iv) When he came near, the man said that he was a beggar and wanted some money.

(v) One day, Nasiruddin Hojja was mending a hole on the roof of his two storeyed house. 

(vi) The beggar was very surprised and asked why Hojja had made him climb the stairs to say he had no money. 

(vii) When they both got to the rooftop, where he was previously working, Hojja turned towards the man and said, “Sorry, I have no money, so you have to leave.” 

(viii) He saw there was a man standing at the foot of the stairs and was asking him to get down and listen to him. 

(ix) So, he told the man to climb the stairs with him. 

(x) Being curious, he climbed down from the roof and went down the stairs.


Part II-Guided

Writing Marks-40

7. The graph below shows the importance and usage of English. Describe the graph in at least 80 words: 100 80- 60- 80 58. 50 40- 20 33 30 0 Usage of English in information technology 80% Usage of English as the 1st language 33% Used in various organizations 30% Used in other purposes 50% Using English as the 2nd language 58% 18. 15

8. The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words:

Urmi was an HSC examinee. After completing her HSC exam, she went to take admission test Dhaka to in Dhaka University. But she did not get chance in the university. Being frustrated, she returned Chashi

9. You have many friends who are students with dengue fever and hospitalized. Now, write a letter to your friend showing sympathy.

 


 Key

 HSC  Barishal Board -2024 English 1st Paper Question with Answer

Part I-Reading Test Marks-60

1. Read the passage and answer the questions A and B:

Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo, Tutayevsky District, in Central Russia. Tereshkova’s father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. Tereshkova began school in 1945 at the age of eight but left school in 1953 and continued her education through distance learning. She became interested in parachuting from a young age, and trained in skydiving at the local Aeroclub, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959. At that time she was employed as a textile worker at a local factory. It was her expertise in skydiving that led to her selection as a cosmonaut.

After the flight of Yuri Gagarin (The first human being to travel to outer space in 1961), the Soviet Union decided to send a woman in space. On 16 February 1962, Proletaria Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from among more than four hundred applicants. Tereshkova had to undergo a series of training that included weightless fights, Isolation tests, centrifuge tests, rocket theory. Since the successful launch of the spacecraft Vostok-5 on 14 June 1963, Tereshkova began cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in spacesuits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by a bus. After completing her communication launched port checks, she was sealed inside Vostok-6.Finishing a two-hour countdown Vostok-6 launched faultlessly.

Although Tereshkova experienced nausea and physical discomfort for much of the flight, she orbited the earth 48 times and spent almost three days in space. With a single flight, she logged more flight time than the combined times of all American astronauts who had flown before that date. Tereshkova also maintained a flight log and took photographs of the horizon, which were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere.

Vostok-6 was the final Vostok flight and was launched two days after Vostok-5, which carried valary Bykovsky into a similar orbit for five days, landing three hours after Tereshkova. The two vessels approached each other with 5 kilometers at one point, and from space Tereshkova communicated with Bykovsky and the Soviet leader Khrushchev by radio.


A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives: Marks 0.5×10=5

(a) What is the best antonym of the word ‘Faultlessly?

(i) perfectly. faultily of ‘ (iii) accurately under (iv) flawlessly

(b) What is the meaning is undergo

(i) go through (ii) exclude (iii) cause (iv) comfort

(c) It was her expertise in skydiving that led her selection as cosmonaut. The word ‘skydiving’ stands for-

(i) Present participle (ii) Gerund (iii) Infinitive (iv) Both i and ii

d) Tereshkova logged more flight time than the combined times of all American astronauts who had flown before that date. Identify the clause

(i) Noun clause (ii) Adjective clause (iii) Adverbial clause (iv) All of them

(e) What does the word ‘communicate’ in the passage refer to?

(i) interact (ii) contact (iii) continue Both i and ii

(f) The word ‘isolation’ can be best explained as-

(i) to be exclusive (ii) to be concerned (iii) to stand aside (iv) segregation

(g) Mig-15 UTI is a/an

(i) space project (ii) aircraft (iii) flying saucer (iv) projector

(h) What is the closest meaning of ‘ plant’?

(i) workshop (ii) mill (iii) factory (iv) all of them

(i) The word ‘parachuting’ in the passage refers to

(i) Noun (ii) Adjective (iii) Verb (iv) Adverb

(j) What is the meaning of the word ‘launch’?

(i) taking off (ii) comfort (iii) rule (iv) space craft


Answer:


(a) (ii) faultily

(b) (i) go through

(c) (ii) Gerund

(d) (i) Noun clause

(e) (ii) contact

(f) (iv) segregation

(g) (ii) aircraft

(h) (iii) factory

(i) (i) Noun

(j) (i) taking off



B. Answer the following questions: 3×5=15

(a) Which was the first journey by a woman in space? How?

(b) What do you mean by kosto write in 2/3 sentences.

(c) Briefly discuss Tereshkova’s life in not more than 3 sentences.

(d) How did Tereshkova communicate with Bykovsky and the Soviet leader Khrushchev?

(e) Who were dressed in space-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by bus? When?


Answer:

(a) Which was the first journey by a woman in space? How?

Valentina Tereshkova made history as the first woman to journey into space. She was selected for the mission from over four hundred applicants. After undergoing extensive training, she flew aboard Vostok-6 on 16 June 1963.

(b) What do you mean by 'kosto'? Write in 2/3 sentences.

The word 'kosto' appears to be unclear in this context. If it refers to "cost," it typically means the expenditure or amount required to complete something. However, further clarification would be needed to explain 'kosto' specifically.

(c) Briefly discuss Tereshkova’s life in not more than 3 sentences.

Valentina Tereshkova was born in Russia and worked as a textile worker before becoming passionate about skydiving. Her expertise in skydiving led to her selection as a cosmonaut, and she became the first woman in space on 16 June 1963. Tereshkova orbited the Earth 48 times and spent almost three days in space.

(d) How did Tereshkova communicate with Bykovsky and the Soviet leader Khrushchev?During her flight, Tereshkova communicated with Bykovsky and Soviet leader Khrushchev using radio from space.

(e) Who were dressed in space-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by bus? When?

Valentina Tereshkova and cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in space suits and taken to the launch pad by bus on 16 June 1963, before the launch of Vostok-6.





2. Read the following text and make a flow-chart giving information about civic engagement. (one has been done for you):

In civic engagement, issues of public concern are crucial. Civic engagement includes individual or group activities to protect public interests and change the way the community values itself. For example, if you are protesting against any unjust decision of the local municipality such as raising taxes or an act that might work against people’s interests, you are civically engaged and your action is considered a civic engagement. This protest can be done in different ways such as organizing rallies, collecting signatures, making human chains, writing petitions, etc. You can also help control traffic in front of a so school, help children to cross the roads, work in a team to clean a park or a sea beach, You can also give some services to elderly people. These are all examples of civic engagement as what you do directly affects the community.


Answer:

i. To help children to cross the roads

ii. To protect public interest

iii. To protest against any unjust decision

iv. To help control traffic in front of a school

v. To work in a team to clean a park

vi. To give some services to elderly people



3. Summarize the following text:

The orphanage is high in the Carolina mountains. I was there in the autumn. I wanted quiet, isolation, to do some troublesome writing. I wanted mountain air to blow out the Malaria from too long a time in the subtropics. I was home-sick too, for the flaming of Maples in October, and for corn shocks and pumpkins and black-walnut trees  . . . I found them all living in a cabin that belonged to the orphanage, half a mile beyond the orphanage farm. When I took the cabin, I asked for a boy or man to come and chop wood for the fireplace . . . . . I looked up from my type- writer one late afternoon, a little startled. A boy stood at the door and my pointer dog, my companion, was at his side and had not barked to warn me. The boy was probably twelve years old, but under sized. He wore overalls and a torn shirt, and was barefooted. He said, “I can chop some wood today.”

Answer:

The author went to an orphanage in the Carolina mountains to find peace and focus on writing. Seeking relief from the subtropical heat and longing for the sights of autumn, such as colorful maples and pumpkins, the author stayed in a cabin about half a mile from the orphanage. The author asked for help with chopping wood for the fireplace. One late afternoon, while working, the author looked up to find a barefoot, under-sized boy at the door. Wearing overalls and a torn shirt, the boy offered to chop wood for the day.


4. Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical changes if necessary:

cheat

make

story

completely

tell

face

care

matter 

rescue

treat

think

promise

Keeping promise given to anyone is a must though it takes much perseverance to keep promise honestly. Since keeping promise is a (a) _______ of remembrance, we should be (b) ______ whenever we make promises. While (c) ______ an unavoidable danger, people. usually (d) _______ any promise only to be (e) _____ from the situation without perfect (f) ________ . After being rescued, most people (g) _____ forget the promises given. A (h) _____ about the Pied Piper of Germany. (i) ______ how the Piper was deliberately (j) ______ by the Mayor, who has made promises to give Piper one thousand guilders for his work.


Answer:

(a) matter

(b) careful

(c) facing

(d) break

(e) saved

(f) treatment

(g) completely

(h) story

(i) tells

(j) cheated


5. Fill in the blanks with appropriate word in each gap:

When a girl gets married, she usually drops out of school and begins full-time work in her inlaws’ household. In the in-laws’ house, she is marginalized. She (a) — vulnerable to all forms of abuse, (b) — dowry-related violence. In Bangladesh, it is still (c) — for a bride’s family to pay dowry, (d) — the practice being illegal. Dowry demands can also (e) — after the wedding. For an adolescent (f) —, even if her in-laws are supportive, there (g) — greater health risks in terms of (h) — and child birth. The majority of adolescent (i) — and their families are uninformed or insufficiently (j) — about reproductive health and contraception. The maternal mortality rate for adolescents is double the national rate.

Answer:

(a) is

(b) including

(c) common

(d) despite

(e) continue

(f) bride

(g) are

(h) pregnancy

(i) brides

(j) educated



6. The following sentences are jumbled. Re-arrange them in proper sequence:

(i) Hojja became furious and decided to teach him a lesson.

(ii) Suddenly, he saw someone calling from below.

(iii) Hojja immediately replied, for why did you make me climb all the way down stairs money? Couldn’t you see that I was working?”

(iv) When he came near, the man said that he was a beggar and wanted some money.

(v) One day, Nasiruddin Hojja was mending a hole on the roof of his two storeyed house. 

(vi) The beggar was very surprised and asked why Hojja had made him climb the stairs to say he had no money. 

(vii) When they both got to the rooftop, where he was previously working, Hojja turned towards the man and said, “Sorry, I have no money, so you have to leave.” 

(viii) He saw there was a man standing at the foot of the stairs and was asking him to get down and listen to him. 

(ix) So, he told the man to climb the stairs with him. 

(x) Being curious, he climbed down from the roof and went down the stairs.

Answer:

(v) → (ii) → (viii) → (x) → (iv) → (ix) → (i) → (iii) → (vi) → (vii)

Part II-Guided

Writing Marks-40

7. The graph below shows the importance and usage of English. Describe the graph in at least 80 words: 100 80- 60- 80 58. 50 40- 20 33 30 0 Usage of English in information technology 80% Usage of English as the 1st language 33% Used in various organizations 30% Used in other purposes 50% Using English as the 2nd language 58% 18. 15

8. The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words:

Urmi was an HSC examinee. After completing her HSC exam, she went to take admission test Dhaka to in Dhaka University. But she did not get chance in the university. Being frustrated, she returned Chashi

9. You have many friends who are students with dengue fever and hospitalized. Now, write a letter to your friend showing sympathy.


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