ইংরেজি প্রথমপত্র সাজেশন- ৩

Time: 3 hours Full Marks: 100

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.