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পরীক্ষার্থীদের জন্য রইল শেষ মুহূর্তের সাজেশন

দেখতে দেখতে উচ্চমাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষাও শুরু হয়ে গেল৷ আশা করি, তোমাদের বাংলা পরীক্ষা ভালোই হয়েছে৷ ইংরেজি পরীক্ষা আর দু’দিন পরেই, অর্থাৎ আগামী সোমবার৷ হাতে বেশি সময় না থাকলেও, ইংরেজি পরীক্ষা বলে ভয় পাওয়ারও কিছু নেই৷ ভালো নম্বরের জন্য তোমাদের রইল শেষ মুহূর্তের সাজেশন—যেগুলো পরীক্ষায় তোমাদের কাজে লাগতে পারে৷

ভালো নম্বরের জন্য ১০ মন্ত্র

● সবগুলো Prose, Poetry এবং Drama ভালো করে revision দেবে। (মনে রেখো Thank You Ma’am এবং On Killing A Tree—এই বছরের সিলেবাস থেকে বাদ দেওয়া হয়েছে।)

● Prose-এর লেখক, Poetry-র কবি এবং Drama-র নাট্যকারের নাম বানানসহ মুখস্থ রাখবে।

● প্রশ্ন পড়ার যে পনেরো মিনিট সময় দেওয়া হয়, সেটাকে পুরোপুরি কাজে লাগাবে। প্রশ্নগুলো অন্তত দু’বার পড়বে এবং যে প্রশ্নগুলোর উত্তর লিখতে চাও, সেগুলো মনে মনে ঠিক করে নেবে।

● তোমরা জানো যে তোমাদের প্রশ্নের দু’টি পার্ট থাকে— PART-A এবং PART-B
PART-A-তে থাকে বড় প্রশ্ন, গ্রামার, আনসিন এবং রাইটিং।
PART-B-তে থাকে MCQ এবং SAQ

PART-B-এর উত্তর প্রশ্নপত্রের মধ্যেই করবে, কাটাকুটি করবে না। MCQ-এর ক্ষেত্রে সঠিক option-এর দাগ নম্বরটি বক্সের মধ্যে লিখবে। SAQ-এর ক্ষেত্রে প্রশ্নপত্রে দেওয়া নির্দিষ্ট স্থানেই উত্তর লিখবে।

● মোট কতগুলি প্রশ্নের উত্তর লিখতে হবে সেটা নির্দেশে ভালো করে দেখে নিয়ে তারপর লিখবে।

● বানান ভুল না করার চেষ্টা করবে।

● বড় প্রশ্নের উত্তর লেখার সময় দাগ নম্বর সঠিকভাবে দেবে। অনেক ক্ষেত্রে একটা বড় প্রশ্নের অনেকগুলি পার্ট প্রশ্ন থাকে। পার্ট প্রশ্নগুলো আলাদা লাইনে লিখবে এবং পুরো উত্তর লেখা শেষ হলে স্কেল এবং পেনসিল দিয়ে দাগ টেনে দেবে।

● PART-B-র প্রশ্নপত্রটি মূল উত্তরপত্রের শেষে দিয়ে সূতো দিয়ে বেঁধে দেবে।

● আনসিন প্যাসেজটির প্রশ্নের উত্তর লেখার আগে ভালো করে অন্তত তিন বার প্যাসেজটি পড়বে।

● খাতা জমা দেওয়ার আগে অবশ্যই ভালো করে revision করবে।

আমি নিশ্চিত তোমাদের প্রস্তুতি খুব ভালো হয়েছে। শেষ মুহূর্তে নিজেদের আর একটু ঝালিয়ে নেওয়ার জন্য তোমাদের Prose এবং Poetry থেকে কিছু গুরুত্বপূর্ণ SAQ-র তালিকা দিলাম, যেগুলো MCQ হিসেবেও আসতেই পারে আর Drama থেকে কিছু MCQ দিলাম। আশা করি তোমরা এতে উপকৃত হবে। তবে আবারও বলছি ভালো নম্বর পাওয়ার একমাত্র উপায় হল টেক্সটা খুব ভালো করে পড়া। টেক্সট ভালো করে পড়া থাকলে শুধু যে প্রশ্নোত্তর লিখতে সুবিধে হবে তাই নয়, Grammar-এর Fill in the blanks with appropriate Articles and Prepositions এবং Error Correction-এর প্রশ্নগুলি নির্ভুলভাবে করতে পারবে।

PROSE

● What was the author’s destination?

● According to the author, which is the best time to visit the hills?

● When the author faced the window, what was he pretending?

● How do the roads of Mussoorie look in October ?

● What did the young man tell the author that left him shocked?

● What remained in the coach after the girl had left?

● Who stammered an apology?

● How many co-passengers did the author have up to Rohana?

● From where did the girl board the train?

● What did the girl’s parents seem anxious about?

● Who was coming to receive the girl at the station?

● What were the respective destinations of the author and the girl?

● What are the three questions that came to the Tsar’s mind?

● Why did the Tsar give reward to no one?

● Why did the Tsar decide to consult the hermit?

● Why did the Tsar put on simple clothes before going to meet the hermit?

● What was the hermit doing when the Tsar saw him for the first time?

● Who came running out of the woods?

● What did the Tsar bandage the man’s wound with?

● Where did the Tsar sleep that night?

● Why was the bearded man an enemy of the Tsar?

● How and by whom was the bearded man attacked?

● After the Tsar came out of the hermit’s hut, in what condition did he find the hermit?

● What answers did the Tsar get of his three questions?

● In whom did Kalam’s father find an ideal helpmate?

● What was Kalam’s opinion about prayers in his childhood?

● What did Pakshi Lakshman Shastri and Kalam’s father discuss?

● What was the role of Kalam’s father in propitiating the demonic forces?

● When did Kalam’s father take his breakfast?

● How far was the coconut grove from Kalam’s house?

● Which book is the prose passage ‘Strong Roots’ taken from?

● Where was Kalam’s ancestral house located?

● What were the names of Kalam’s parents?

● Who was Pakshi Lakshman Shastri?

POETRY

● How does the poet describe the valley?

● How does the stream flow through the valley?

● What do the ‘two red holes’ indicate?

● What does the poet mean by ‘hollow’?

● What is meant by ‘heavy undergrowth’?

● Why does the soldier look pale?

● How does the poet describe the soldier’s smile?

● What is pouring down from the mountain top?

● Where are the feet of the soldier?

● What is serving as a pillow to the soldier?

● What does the expression ‘eternal lines’ refer to?

● How is the ‘gold complexion’ of the sun dimmed?

● What is meant by ‘summer’s lease’?

● ‘So long lives this’ –What is referred to as ‘this’?

● What will make the beauty of the poet’s friend eternal?

● What does ‘eye of heaven’ refer to?

● What shakes the darling buds of May?

● ‘…a voice will run…’ —Whose voice is being referred to here?

● Who takes the lead in summer luxury in Keats’ poem?

● When will the poetry of earth come to an end?

● Where is the grasshopper seen in summer?

● Where does the grasshopper take rest?

● Which season does Keats refer to in the sestet?

● What brings warmth to the winter evening?

● What might one hear on a lone, cold, silent winter evening?

● What happens to the birds in the scorching heat of the summer?

● Who carries on with the poetry of earth in summer and winter respectively?

● What becomes one to a person half lost in drowsiness?

DRAMA

● ‘The Proposal’ is a—
a. One-act play
b. Three-act play
c. Five-act play
d. Seven-act play

● There are ……………… characters in the play—
a. Two
b. Three
c. Four
d. Five

● Lomov is —
a. Chubokov’s neighbour and a farmer
b. A famous hunter
c. Chubukov’s neighbour and a landowner
d. deeply in love with Natalya

● The setting of the play is—
a. Lomov’s country-house
b. Chubukov’s garden
c. Oxen Meadows
d. Chubukov’s country-house

● Lomov was wearing—
a. Informal dress
b. Blazer and high boots
c. Dress-jacket and white gloves
d. The dress meant for hunting

● Lomov had come to Chubukov’s house to—
a. Settle the dispute regarding Oxen Meadows
b. Propose marriage to Natalya
c. Borrow money
d. Borrow Chubukov’s threshing-machine

● What was Natalya wearing when she came out to meet Lomov?
a. Evening dress
b. Apron and negligee
c. Sleeping suit
d. Dress-jacket and white gloves

● What was Natalya doing inside the house when Lomov came to ask her hand in marriage?
a. Cleaning the house
b. Doing some knitting work
c. Shelling peas for drying
d.Watering the plants

● Which stretch of land did Natalya and Lomov quarrel over?
a. Lomov’s aunt’s grandmother’s garden
b. Oxen Meadows
c. Birchwoods
d. Burnt Marsh

● How much area did Oxen Meadows cover?
a. Five acres
b. Five dessiatins
c. Three dessiatins
d. Five square kilometers

● How much is the approximate worth of the Oxen Meadows?
a. 100 roubles
b. 300 dollars
c. 500 pounds
d. 300 roubles

● Nastasya Mihailovna is—
a. Natalya’s mother
b. Chubukov’s sister
c. Lomov’s mother
d. Lomov’s younger aunt

● When Natalya got involved in the quarrel with Lomov regarding the ownership of the Oxen Meadows—
a. She did not know that Lomov had come to propose her
b. Lomov had already proposed her
c. She was already married to Lomov
d. Her father had turned down Lomov’s proposal

● As a result of the quarrel between Natalya and Lomov over the ownership of the Oxen Meadows—
a. Lomov lost his senses
b. Lomov lost his temper and struck Chubukov
c. Lomov threw water on Natalya
d. Lomov left their house in a terribly ill condition

● When Natalya came to know that Lomov had come to propose marriage to her—
a. She got all the more furious with him
b. She felt happy at having throw him out of their house
c. She shouted angrily that she would never marry a man like Lomov
d. She fell into the arm-chair and repented at having quarrelled with him and wailed desperately to bring him back

● ‘I’ll shoot myself! I’ll hang myself!’ The speaker here is—
a. Chubukov
b. Natalya
c. Lomov
d. Chekhov

● The name of Lomov’s dog was—
a. Guess
b. Squeezer
c. Overshot
d. Scarecrow

● The name of Natalya’s dog was—
a. Guess
b. Squeezer
c. Overshot
d. Scarecrow

● Lomov bought his dog—
a. From Chubukov for 50 roubles
b. From Mironov for 50 roubles
c. From Mironov for 125 roubles
d. From Volchanetsky for 125 roubles

● Chubukov bought his dog for—
a. 85 roubles
b. 75 roubles
c. 95 roubles
d. 55 roubles

● According to Lomov, Natalya’s dog was—
a. The best
b. An overshot
c. Young and energetic
d. A dog with good pedigree

● Natalya and Lomov’s point of second argument was—
a. The ownership of Oxen Meadows
b. The ownership of Burnt Marsh
c. Whose dog was the best
d. Who would to propose first

● As a result of the second quarrel between Natalya and Lomov —
a. Lomov leaves their house and never comes back
b. Lomov falls into an armchair and faints
c. Natalya refuses to marry Lomov
d. Natalya falls into an armchair and faints

● After Lomov and Natalya are married —
a. They happily seek Chubukov’s blessings
b. They immediately resume their quarrel
c. Chubukov faints with joy
d. All three of them have champagne

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