27th BCS written question English (1st paper)

27th BCS: 2006

FRIST PAPER

[N.B: Figures in the right margin indicate full marks for each question. Answer all the questions]

Translate the following passage into current standard Bangla: 20

I don’t want to get old. No one wants to age, but aging is inevitable. Time gives us wrinkles, a bent posture, and fragile bones. It makes us insecure, forgetful, and fearful. The elderly can easily become a burden to the families they once provided for and protected. The children who once vied for their parents’ attention are now so consumed with their own affairs that they hardly ever visit. For many elderly people, the stench of ammonia in hospital-like atmosphere of a nursing home is worse than death. To some, it signifies loneliness. cruelty and abandonment. With all the turmoil involved in the aging process, it is no wonder that we are becoming a nation of frightened adults, forever searching for that magical youth serum from the elusive fountain of youth.

Translate from Bangla to English: 20

আমাদের জীবনে আমরা অনেক জিনিসকেই কঠিন এবং অসম্ভব মনে করে পরিত্যাগ করি। কখনো কখনো আমরা কিছুটা সাহস প্রদর্শন করে কোনো কাজ শুরু করি। কিছু সামান্যতম অসুবিধা আমাদের স্নায়ু দৌর্বল্য এনে দেয় এবং আমরা সে অবস্থাতেই তা পরিত্যাগ করি। মহাপুরুষদের জীবনী আমাদেরকে এই শিক্ষাই দেয় যে, পৃথিবীতে অসম্ভব বলতে কোনো কিছুই নেই। নেপোলিয়ন এমন কথাও বলেছেন যে, অসম্ভব শব্দটি তাঁর অভিধানে নেই। এটা সত্য যে, এমনকি যে কাজকে আপাতভাবে অসম্ভব বলে মনে হচ্ছে তা দৃঢ় ও আন্তরিক প্রত্যয় দ্বারা সম্পন্ন করা যায়।

Amplify the idea in one of the following: 20

a. Life is full of surprises.
b. Science can be a blessing and also a curse.
c. Man often realizes the truth, but very late.
d. It is easy to be deceived by fancy advertisements.

Write a precis of the following extract and give it a suitable title: 15

Writing letters is one of the important tasks for managers, business executives, teachers, studerts, professionals and even for ordinary persons. Although telephone calls can substitute for letters, letters are more advantageous because they contain evidential value for recording facts and information to be shared by the writer and the recipient. Value of letter will linger because written words have permanency. Good letters are productive whereas bad ones are wasteful. Writers can produce good letters if they exercise care about the content as well as the style of their letters. Clarity and conciseness of the content depend on the language and tune used in letters. A poor letter with incomplete or incorrect facts may cause irreparable damage to the writer. The writer should be careful about language to be used in letters because he has no scope to use his voice, eyes and face to supplement his communication. However, letter-writers need to write letters in such a way that these will not only be read with interest but these will also bring expected results.

Make sentences with any five of the following: 5

a. With might and main,
b. Gift of the gab,
c. Take a fancy to,
d. Look into,
e. To the purpose,
f. Burning issue,
g. Sorry figure.

6 between the following pairs of words (any five):
a. Corporal – Corporeal;
b. Cellar-Seller;
c. Dispose-Dipose;
d. Layout-Outlay;
e. Facility-Felicity;
f. Deep-Dip;
g. Desert-Dessert

Fill in the blanks using appropriate preposition in 5
a. I cannot lower myself ———such meanness.
b. Luna has cut———her budget.
C. We went ——— boat to Sylhet.
d. Lean the ladder ———the wall.
e. Can you think ——— a better solution?
f. Don’t be ——— such a bad mood.
g. His climb ——— power has not been easy.

8 I. Choose the better altemative of the state verbs and even verbs and rewrite the sentences:
a. The soldier (be/is/is being) angry and he (shouts/is shouting/ shouted) at his enemy.
b. You should stop before you (get/will get/ are getting) into trouble.
c. This book-(belangs/is belonging) to me and you cannot-(demand/are demanding) it.
d. By the time he (receives/ will receive/ will have received) this letter, I-(am/will be) in Japan.
e. The population of the world-(increased/was increased/ is increasing) and we must (Produced/produce) more good.

ii. Change any five of the following voices from Active to Passive voice:
a. Do you see the bird?
b. Please do this work
c. Badal offered me a seat.
d. I do not like puffed rice.
e. There is no time to lose
f. I have lost my pen.
g. Had you not called him?

iii. Report the following sentences in indirect speech (any five): 5

a. The master said to his servant, “Do as I told you”.
b. He siad, “Be quiet and listen to my words”.
c. “Help! Help!” shouted the woman.
d. The holy man said, “May peace prevail”.
e. He said, “Let us wait for the award”.
f. I said to her, “Could you give me a cup of tea?”
g. He said, “What a nice bird it is!”