SSC Jessore 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. Answer all the questions.]
Part A: Reading Test [Marks-50]
Read the passage then answer the questions no. 1 and 2:
The internet technology has helped design a large number of web sites to facilitate social relation among people around the world. These are known as social networking services or social networks or social media. At present, Facebook is the most popular social media site. Google +, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. are other frequently used social services social network services are web based and hence, provide ways for the user to interact through the internet. These services make it possible to connect people across the borders and thus have made the users feel that they really live in a global village.
Why are social networks expanding so fast? The answer is simple. Most of the social services are cost free. You can make use of them free, paying a very little to your internet service provider. Secondly, you can make your personal profile public before the entire online community. It is like presenting yourself before the entire world. You can also look into other people’s profile if you are interested. It is simple and easy. Thirdly, social networks allow users to upload pictures, multimedia contents and modify the profile. Some services like Facebook allow users to update their profiles. Fourthly, networks allow users to post blog entries. User profiles have a section dedicated to comments from friends and other users. Finally, there are privacy protection measures too. A user himself or herself decides over the number of visitors/viewers, and what information should be shared with others.
1. Choose the correct answer from the following alternatives: 1x 7=7
(a) Social network services are-.
(i) family based (ii) web based (iii) relation based (iv) individual based
(b) This passage highlights the importance of-.
(i) electronic media (ii) information technology
(iii) social networking services (iv) completing education
(c) ______ are sharing interests through internet.
(i) Only students (ii) People of the world
(iii) Only the rich people (iv) A privileged few
(d) What does the expression “They really live in a global village” mean?
(i) All people of the world live in village
(ii) Village people have every facility of the world
(iii) None lives in cities
(iv) Internet and social media have brought the world closer.
(e) Internet increases-
(i) relative relation (ii) family relation (iii) social relation (iv) human relation
(f) The word ‘Protection’ means?
(i) adapt (ii) guard (iii) alter (iv) adjust
(g) The word ‘Viewer’ refers to
(i) listener (ii) diplomate (iii) spectator (iv) vision
2. Answer the following questions: 2×5=10
(a) Write down the names of some social media sites.
(b) How is it possible for the social networks to provide ways for the users to interact through the internet?
(c) When do the users feel that they really live in a global village?
(d) How do social networks work?
(e) Why are social networks expanding so fast?
3. Read the following passage and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text: 1×5=5
Fish population is in serious danger from global warming. Climate change is increasing the water temperature in rivers, lakes and sea. This means there is less food and oxygen available for fish. It also means the fish may not grow fully and may have fewer fish fries. Some fishes will become extinct if temperatures rise even by one or two degree Celsius. Climate change increases the pressure on fish population. Fishes are one of the world’s most valuable biological assets. Forty percent of people in the world eat fish as their main source of protein. If we fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions we will increase the pressure on fish. As a result, people who depend on fish will suffer from hunger and poverty.
Global warming raises the stress on fish population. Fish population is severely affected (a) — to global warming. For want of food and oxygen some (b) — of fish may be (c) — one day. To stop global warming, we have to convince people not to (d) — greenhouse gas. Otherwise many people have to (e) — poverty and hunger.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions 4 and 5:
Charles Babbage was an English Mathematician. He was a mechanical engineer who is best known for originating the concept of computer. He was born on 26 December 1791 in London. He entered Trinity College in October 1810. He was transferred to peter house, Cambridge. He was the top Mathematician there. He received an honorary degree without examination in 1814. He was elected a fellow of the royal society in 1816. From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Babbage is famous for inventing the first mechanical computer in 1822 that eventually led to today’s computer. He died at his home in London on 18 October 1871.
4. Complete the table below with the information from the above passage: 1×5=5
Charles Babbage | ||||
Specialty | The master brain of inventing computer | |||
Best known | The inventor of the first mechanical computer | |||
Who/What | Event | Place | Year/Time | Contribution |
Charles Babbage | was born | London | (i) — |
|
He | was elected a fellow | (ii) — | in 1816 |
|
He | (iii) |
| in 1814 |
|
His contribution |
|
| in 1822 | (iv) — |
Death |
|
| (v) — |
|
5. Write a summary of the above passage in your own words. 10
6. Match the parts of sentences given in column ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ write to five complete sentences: 1×5=5
Column A | Column B | Column C |
(a) Price hike has added | (i) short supply of commodities | (i) widespread corruption and moral degradation. |
(b) Price hike is caused by | (ii) leads to | (ii) to the problems of Bangladesh. |
(c) The vast majority are hard hit | (iii) for the fixed income group of people | (iii) of daily necessities. |
(d) It is very difficult | (iv) a new dimension | (iv) to meet up the excessive load. |
(e) Pirce hike | (v) by the hike in prices | (v) and inflation. |
7. Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written. 1×8=8
(a) Penicillin is the life saving medicines.
(b) He passed his boyhood with his parents.
(c) It was discovered by Dr. Alexander Fleming.
(d) He was the seventh of the eight brothers and sisters.
(e) He was never absent from school up to the age of twelve.
(f) He was sent to London at the age of fourteen for higher study.
(g) He was born into a poor family in Scotland.
(h) Fleming was a very regular and attentive student.
Part B Writing Test
Marks-50
8. Write a paragraph on ‘Smart Phone’ by answering the following questions: 10
(a) What is a Smart phone?
(b) What are the uses of it?
(c) What are the abuses of it?
(d) What are the effects of Smart phone on human life?
(e) How can we control it?
9. Read the beginning of a story. Write at least ten new sentences to complete the story: 10
Once there lived a King in an island. There were green trees everywhere in the island. The King decided to build a magnificent palace in the island. So, he ordered his men to cut down all the trees. Some opposed the
King’s idea but he did not pay …
10. Look at the following graph. It shows a comparative selling rates of four types of books in Ekushey Boi Mela 2023. Now, describe the graph in 150 words: 10
Sale of Books in Ekushey Boi Mela, 2023
11. Suppose, you are Sara/Juha. You have a friend called Saba/Wasif who always cuts a sorry figure in the exam. But she/he wants to do well in the exam. She/he wants suggestions from you to overcome the problem.
Now, write an email to Saba/Wasif suggesting her/him in this regard. 10
12. Suppose, you are Sostika/Anu and your friend’s name is Tanzima/Khalid. Now write a dialogue between you and your friend about the severe impact of dengue fever.
Key
Jashore Board 2024
1. a. ii) web-based; b. iii) social networking services;
c. ii) People of the world; d. iv) Internet and social media have brought the world closer; e. iii) social relation; f. ii) guard; g. iii) spectator.
2. (a) The names of some social media sites areFacebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
(b) The social networks are web-based. Thus, it is possible for the social networks to provide ways for the users to interact through the Internet.
(c) When the users can interact with people across the borders like next-door neighbours, they feel that they really live in a global village. Now, people around the world can easily share their interests and activities through social networking services.
(d) Social networks are web-based. So, they work with the help of Internet technology.
(e) Social networks are expanding so fast, because they are cost free; they allow the users to make their profile public before the entire world; they are simple and easy to operate. Moreover, they allow users to upload pictures, multimedia contents and modify the profile; and they also have a privacy protection policy.
3. (a) due; (b) species; (c) extinct; (d) increase/emit /produce; (e) face/confront.
4. (i) on 26 December 1791; (ii) the Royal Society; (iii) received an honorary degree without examination; (iv) inventing the first mechanical computer; (v) on 18 October 1871.
5. The passage is about Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871), the father of computer. He was both a mathematician and a mechanical engineer. He received his education from Trinity College and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He worked at Cambridge University as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was also the fellow of the Royal Society. This great personality breathed his last in 1871 in London.
6. (a + iv + ii) Price hike has added a new dimension to the problems of Bangladesh.
(b + i + v) Price hike is caused by short supply of commodities and inflation.
(c + v + iii) The vast majority are hard hit by the hikein prices of daily necessities.
(d + iii + iv) It is very difficult for the fixed income group of people to meet up the excessive load.
(e + ii + i) Price hike leads to widespread corruption and moral degradation.
7. a+c+g+d+b+h+e+f
Penicillin is the life-saving medicine. It was discovered by Dr. Alexander Fleming. He was born into a poor family in Scotland. He was the seventh of the eight brothers and sisters. He passed his boyhood with his parents. Fleming was a very regular and attentive student. He was never absent from school up to the age of twelve. He was sent to London at the age of fourteen for higher study.
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