ইংরেজি প্রথমপত্র সাজেশন- ৩
Part A:
Reading Test (50 Marks)
Read the
passage then answer the questions below.
'Heritage'
is what we inherit from the past, live with them in the present and then pass
on to our children or future generation. Our unique source of life and
inspiration is our cultural and natural heritage. When we speak of World
Heritage, it indicates places and sites that we got from the past and pass on
to the future generation of the entire world.
The 'Shat
Gambuj Mosque' in Bagerhat is such a heritage. It became a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in 1985.
Originally,
the historic Mosque City was known as 'Khalifatabad'. It is situated at the
outskirts of Bagerhat town- not very far from the dense mangrove forest of the
Sundarbans. Khalifatabad was a Muslim colony. It was founded by the Turkish
general, a saint warrior Ulugh Khan Jahan in the 15th century. The
infrastructure of the city reveals significant technical skills in maû mosques
as well as early Islamic monuments. Baked bricks were used for the construction
of the buildings. The planning of the city is distinctly dominated by the
Islamic architecture and the decorations were a combination of Mughal and
Turkish architecture.
Khan Jahan
built a network of roads, bridges, public buildings and reservoirs to make the
city habitable. There were about 360 mosques in the city. Among them the most
remarkable is the multidomed Shat Gombuj Mosque. The mosque is unique in the
sense that it has 60 pillars that support the roof, with 77 lwo height domes.
The 4 towers at 4 corners have smaller domes on the roof as well. The vast
prayer hall has 11 arched doorways on the east and 7 each on the north and
south for light and ventilation. It has 7 aisles running along the length of
the mosque and 11 deep curves between the slender stone columns. These columns
support the curving arches created by the domes. The thickness of the arches is
6 feet and have slightly narrowing hollwo and round wall.
The west
wall in the interior has 11 'mihrabs' (niche in mosque pointing towards
Makkah). These mihrabs are decorated with stonework and terracotta. The floor
of the mosque is made of brick.
Besides
being used as a prayer hall, Khan Jahan used the mosque as his court too.
Today, it is one of the greatest tourist attractions and one of the best
architectural beauties of Bangladesh.
1. Choose
the correct answer from the alternatives. 1×7=7
a. Which of
the following has the closest meaning of the word 'inherit' used in line 1?
(i) Offer
(ii) Get (iii) Ancestor (iv) Succeed to
b. The word
'unique' means-.
(i)
conventional (ii) hub (iii) universal (iv) distinctive
c. A Muslim
coloû was formed near the seacoast in Bagerhat which was a ---.
(i) Desolate
place (ii) inhumation place
(iii)
welcoming stranger's place
(iv)
barbarous place
d. The Shat
Gambuj Mosque has --- domes altogether.
(i) 60 (ii)
81 (iii) 77 (iv) 84
e. 'Colony'
means---.
(i)
corruption (ii) ruled independently
(iii) rule
of overseas (iv) rule of native people
f. The word
'outskirts' means---.
(i)
periphery (ii) hub (iii) nucleus (iv) axis
g. What is
the main purpose of the author of this passage?
(i) To state
the beauty of Bagerhat
(ii) To
narrate the importance of the Shat Gambuj Mosque
(iii) To
describe the architectural beauty of the Shat Gambuj Mosque
(iv) To
highlight the activities of Khan Jahan Ali
2. Answer
the following questions. 2×5=10
a. What do
you understand by 'Heritage' and 'World Heritage'?
b. How did
Khan Jahan Ali Make the city habitable?
c. What is
'Mosque City'? Why is it called so?
d. For what
purposes the Shat Gambuj Mosque were used?
e. Describe
the mihrabs of Shat Gambuj Mosque in 2/3 sentences.
3. Read the
following text and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the
information of the text. 1×5= 5
21st
February is a memorable day in our national history. We observe the day every
year as International Mother Language Day. The day is a national holiday.
On this day,
we pay tribute to the martyrs who laid down their lives to establish Bangla as
a state language in undivided Pakistan in 1952. This is known as the Language
Movement.
The seed of
the Language Movement was sown on 21 March 1948 when Mohammad Ali Zinnah, the
then Governor General of Pakistan, at a public meeting in Dhaka declared that
Urdu would be the only official language of Pakistan. The declaration raised a
storm of protest in the eastern part of the country. The protest continued
non-stop, gathering momentum day by day. It turned into a movement and reached
its climax in 1952. The government outlawed all sorts of public meetings and
rallies to prevent it.
The students
of Dhaka University defied the lwa and they brought out a peaceful protest
procession on 21st February 1952. When the procession reached near Dhaka Medical
College, the police opened fire on the students, killing Salam, Rafiq, Barkat,
and Jabbar. This enkindled the sparks of independence movement of Bangladesh.
Our Language
Movement is our (a)---. The sacrifice of the (b)---of Dhaka University in this
movement is the greatest because it is they who (c)---down into the street
demanding the (d)---of the legitimate right of the people (e)---in the eastern
part of the then Pakistan.
4. Read the
passage on Zahir Uddin Mohammad Babor. Complete the table belwo with
information from the passage. 1×5=5
Zahir Uddin
Mohammad Babor, born in 1483 was the founder of the Mughal dynasty. At the age
of 11, Babor lost his father and became the king of Farghana. When he ascended
the throne, Babor was surrounded by enemies on all sides. Babor was attacked by
Ahmed Mirya in 1495 but the attack failed and he himself died in the same year.
In November 1497, Babor was able to capture Sourate, but soon he lost both
Sourate and Farghana and in February 1498 Babor was no more the king of aû
place. He had to live a life of a wanderer for more than one year. In June
1499, he was able to recapture the capital of Farghana. In 1500, Babor
conquered Samarkand for the second time but he was forced to vacate it by the
Uybegs. In the same year he again lost Farghana. The result was that in 1502,
Babor decided to try his luck somewhere else. So he set out for Kabul where
there was political chaos. He was able to manage the situation to his own
advantage and occupied Kabul in 1504. As the king of Kabul, he ruled twenty two
years when he went into his major offensive against India. He died in 1530.
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