3. Read the following text carefully.
The statue of liberty was a joint venture between the USA and France. The French people would build the statue and assemble it in the States, and the people of the USA were to build the pedestal for the statue. Raising money for the pedestal was completed in August 1885. The construction of the pedestal was finished in April 1886. In the meantime, France completed the Statue in July 1884. They sent it to New York on board the French war ship ‘Isere’ in 1885. While transporting the statue, it was split up into 350 individual pieces and packed in 214 crates. It took four months to put the Statue together and place it on the pedestal. Thousands of people saw the unveiling ceremony of the Statue of Liberty on October 28th 1886. It was centennial gift ten years late. The Freedom that the Statue stands for is not stationary. The broken chain wrapped around her feet, protruding from the bottom of her robe, symbolizes her free forward movement, enlightening the world with her torch, free from oppression and slavery.
Now fill in each gap with suitable a word based on the information of the text. 1×5=5
The Statue of Liberty was a centennial gift ten years late. Both America and France took part in the (a) _ of the statue. While France finished the construction of the statue in 1884, America (b) _ raising money in 1885. The statue was split into many pieces so that it could be easy to (c) _. After assembling in America, it was (d) _ in 1886. Now the Statue has become the symbol of (e) _.
Read the following passage carefully on the autobiography of Birsreshtho Munshi Abdur Rouf.
Munshi Abdur Rouf was a Lance Nayek in East Pakistan Rifles during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was born on 1 May, 1943 at Salamotpur village under Boalmari thana (currently Madhukhali Thana) in Faridpur district. Rouf had to stop his education at his eighth grade. He joined the East Pakistan Rifles on 8 May, 1963. He had to increase his age three years in order to get the job. After the preliminary training at the EPR Camp at Chuadanga, Rouf went to West Pakistan to receive advance training. He was enlisted in the East Bengal Regiment on 8 May 1963 and was attached with a regular infantry unit during the War of Liberation. Munshi Abdur Rouf embraced martyrdom on 18 April 1971 at Kurighat in Chittagong Hill Tracts after causing extensive damage to Pakistan Army with his MG and forcing them to retreat. He was buried at Naniarchor Upazilla in Rangamati District. He was awarded Birsrehtho which is the highest recognition of bravery in Bangladesh.
4. Now complete the table below with information from the passage. Write only the answers serially. 5
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5. Write a summary of the above passage in not more than 90–100 words. 10
6. Match the parts of sentences given in column A, B and C to write five complete sentences. 1×5=5
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7. Put the following parts of the story in correct order to re-write the whole story. Write the sequence only. 1×8=8
(a) He showed extraordinary credit in every examination of the school.
(b) In 1953, he was appointed Chairman of Secondary Education Board.
(c) He has great contribution to the scientific research of Bangladesh.
(d) At the age of six, he was admitted in a Furkania Madrasha and then in an English School.
(e) Dr. Kudrat-E-Khuda was born in Birbhum District of West Bengal in 1900.
(f) In 1925, he passed M.Sc in Chemistry from Kolkata University and in 1929, he passed D.Sc. from Imperial College in England.
(g) He died on 3rd November, 1977.
(h) His father Hazrat Shah Abdul Mukit was a pious man and his mother Fashiha Khatun was also a pious woman.
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2. (a) Michael Madhusudan Dutta was born in Sagordari on the bank of the Kopotaksha River, a village in Keshobpur Upazila under Jessore district.
(b) He was born in an aristocratic Hindu family. His father was Rajnaryan Dutt, a pleader. His mother was Jahnabi Devi.
(c) From his adolescence Michel started believing that he was born on the wrong side of the planet, and that his society was unable to appreciate his intellect. He also believed that the west would be more receptive to his creative genius.
(d) His early exposure to English education and European literature and his college inspired him to imitate the English in taste, manners and intellect.
(e) He return to his native land and language because he did not get expected appreciation from Europe. Moreover when he composed a sonnet in Bangla “Kapataksha Nad”, it earned him huge reputaion in Bangla.
3. (a) building
(b) completed
(c) carry (d) unveiled (e) freedom
4. (i) Salamotpur, Faridpur (ii) 8 May, 1963
(iii) East Bengal Regiment
(iv) embraced martyrdom (v) 1971
5. Munshi Abdur Rouf, born in 1943 in Faridpur district was a Lance Nayek in East Pakistan Rifles during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was enlisted in 1963 and was attached with a regular infantry unit during the War of Liberation. He embraced martyrdom on 18 April 1971 at Kurighat in Chittagong Hill Tracts after causing extensive damage to Pakistan Army. He was buried at Naniarchor Upazilla in Rangamati District. He was awarded Birsrehtho in recognition of his bravery.
6. (a) The Bangabandhu Satellite-1 is the first Bangladeshi geostationary and communication satellite.
b) It was manufactured by Thales Alenia Space and was launched in 11 May 2018 by Space X.
c) The satellite covers the whole South Asia including the Bay of Bangle.
d) Now, remote areas of the country can be provided with internet service and disaster time aid easily.
e) Satelliate TV channels can use the cheap bandwidth and frequency and thus can save a huge amount of foreign currency.
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