Unseen Passage for practice!

 Unseen comprehension for practice!

The land where a person takes birth and grows up with the touch of motherly love and affection of the land is called his/her motherland. The name of our motherland is Bangladesh. We were born here. Bangladesh is an independent country. She got her freedom in 1971 after a long time of nine months’ sanguinary war. Dhaka is her capital. Bangladesh is a small country with the area of 1, 47, 570 square kilometers. But we have a big population which is about 140 million. Bangladesh is a green, fertile and an agricultural country. Her main crops are rice, jute, sugar-cane and tea. Many kinds of fruits like jack-fruit, mango, and banana grow here. Many becautiful rivers like the Padma, the Jamuna are running here. The Royal Bengal Tiger is our national animal, doel is our national bird and jackfruit is national fruit. We have many interesting and attractive places like the Sundarbans, Rangamati and Cox’s Bazar. People of different religions and professions live here in peace. We love my country very much. We should perform our duty properly to uphold the honour of our country in the whole world.

 

1.      Write only the answer on the answer paper.                                                                                          10

(a)       The words ‘takes birth’ mean _____.

(i) to be born                          (ii) to grow                  (iii) to live                    (iv) to leave

(b)      Here the word ‘birth’ is a/an______.

(i) verb                                   (ii) adjective                (iii) adverb                   (iv) noun

(c)       We were _____ in Bangladesh.

(i) bear                                   (ii) bore                        (iii) borne                     (iv) born

(d)      Bangladesh is a _____ country.

(i) dependent                                     (ii) free                        (iii) dependable           (iv) reliant

(e)       The word ‘sanguinary’ means _____.

(i) bloody                               (ii) happy                     (iii) sad                        (iv) charming

(f)       Bangladesh has a _____ land area.

(i) huge                                  (ii) vast                        (iii) large                      (iv) tiny

(g)      Our population is _____ than our land area.

 

(i) small                                  (ii) large                       (iii) larger                     (iv) big

(h)      Rice, jute, sugar-cane, tea etc. are the _____ crops here.

(i) prime                                 (ii) mainly                    (iii) unimportant          (iv) minor

(i)        We have many _____ places.

(i) interesting                         (ii) uninteresting          (iii) attractive               (iv) both a and c

(j)        We should be _____ to our duties.

(i) careless                              (ii) indifferent                         (iii) careful                   (iv) none of these

2.      Fill in the gaps with the best word from the box. Find the information in the story. There are extra words which you need not use.                                                                              1´5=5

continued

depend

independence

land

birth

peaceful

agricultural

   (a)    A motherland is the ____ place of a person.

   (b)   Bangladesh got ____ is 1971.

   (c)    The war ____ for nine months.

   (d)   Bangladesh is an ____ country.

   (e)    The people of Bangladesh are ____.

3.      Answer the following questions in a sentence or sentences.                                             2´5=10

   (a)    Which is your homeland?

   (b)   When did Bangladesh get independence?

   (c)    What is the land area of Bangladesh?

   (d)   What are national animal, bird and fruit of the country?

   (e)    Why should you perform your duty properly?

4.      Write at least in five sentences about “Your Homeland”. The following questions will help you. (Remember to use capital letters, punctuation, correct spelling and sentence structure.)   10

   (a)    What is the name of your homeland?

   (b)   What kind of country it is?

   (c)    What is her capital?

   (d)   How many people live here and how are they?

   (e)    What should you do to uphold the honour of your motherland?

Prepared by Noor E Alam