Read the passage below and answer questions 1-4:
His name was Jerry; he had been at the orphanage since he was four. I could picture him at four, with thesame grave grey-blue eyes and the same independence? No, the word that comes to me is “integrity”. It isembedded on courage, but it is more than brave. It is honest, but it is more than honesty.The axe handle broke one day. Jerry said the orphanage wood shop would repair it. I brought money to pay for the job and he refused it. “I‟ll pay for it,” he said, “I brought the axe down careless.” “But no one hits accurately every time,” I told him. “The fault was in the handle.” “It was only then that he would take the money. He was standing back of his own carelessness. He was a freewill agent and he chose to do careful work; and if he failed, he took the responsibility without subterfuge. And he did for me the unnecessary thing, the gracious thing that we find done only by the great of heart. Things no training can teach, for they are done on the instant, with no predicated experience. He found a cubby-hole beside the fireplace that I had not noticed. There, of his own accord, he put wood, so that I might always have dry fire material ready in case of sudden wet weather. A stone was loose in the rough walk to the cabin. He dug a deeper hole and steadied it, although he came, himself, by a shortcut over the bank.
1. Choose the right word to complete each sentence.1 x 5 = 5
(a) Jerry‟s sense of (duty/courtesy/integrity) impressed the authoress.
(b) Jerry wanted to get the axe-handle (repair/repaired/repairing).
(c) Jerry‟s courtesy was (formal/artificial/inborn).
(d) Jerry came to the orphanage at the age of (eight/four/twelve).
(e) The phrase „of his own accord‟means (willingly/at random/freely).
2. True/False? If false, give the correct information.1 x 5 = 5
(a) Jerry steadied the loose stone for his own use.
(b) Jerry had been at the orphanage for four years.
(c) The axe-handle broke because Jerry brought the axe down careless.
(d) Integrity is embedded on courage.
(e) Jerry did for me the necessary things.
3. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the words in brackets. Add any preposition if necessary.5
(a) Jerry (be) —— at the orphanage since he was four.
(b) He took the (responsible) —— breaking the axe-handle.
(c) He chose to do work (careful) ——.
(d) He was an orphan boy (live) —— the orphanage.
(e) (Dig) —— a deeper hole, Jerry steadied a loose stone.
4. Make a list of five points describing Jerry’s character.1 x 5 = 5
Read the passage below and answer questions 5-8:
Television has become the most common and widespread source of entertainment of the present world. A wide range of programmes of varied interest is telecast on numerous channels. Almost every middle class and even working class families have a television set today. Television programmes are not only entertaining; they can be highly educative too. For example, television is used for distance learning. Courses run by the Open University are shown on BTV. Several channels like the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel telecast highly informative programmes. Watching TV, however, has become an addiction for many. Satellite telecasting has added new dimensions to television but it has sometimes been branded as a cultural assault on developing nations. The East is being exposed more and more to Western music, entertainment and modes of life. As a result, young people‘s tastes are gradually being influenced by them.
5. Write short answers to the following questions.1 x 5 = 5
(a) Why is television so popular in the present world?
(b) What do numerous channels do?
(c) What is cultural assault?
(d) What are the good effects of television?
(e) How are the young people being influenced?
6. Fill in the gaps with suitable word/words.1 x 5 = 5
Television has become the most (a)---------- source of entertainment in the modern world. Almost every middle class family of Bangladesh (b)---------- a TV set. Television not only entertains (c)---------- but also educates them. Satellite channels of television have added a new (d)---------- in the field of entertainment. (e)---------- television has become an addiction for many.
7. Summarise the passage in five sentences.1 x 5 = 5
8. Based on your reading of the passage, make short notes in each of the boxes in the flow chart showing the merits and demerits of watching television.