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Govt.

Ashek Mahmud College, Jamalpur


Department of English
Model Test 2023 of Honours Part-II
Course Title: Advanced Reading and Writing (Code:221105)
Full Marks—80 Time—3 hours and 30 minutes
Part-A
Reading –I (Marks-- 1x5=5)
Read the paragraph and answer the questions given below:-
Numerous parents who are far-sighted think it is better for their children to study abroad. First of all, foreign schools have
more advanced teaching techniques and materials, which can help students learn easier. Secondly, students who attend
foreign schools are more independent and able to finish a project by themselves. Finally, students can learn about different
cultures and take in new knowledge that can help them find a good job. This kind of experience will make their resumes
look different from other applicants’ resumes. However, there are also some disadvantages to studying abroad. In fact,
studying abroad can be risky as it is similar to investing. More specifically, students going abroad need to study that
country’s national language first, so there is nothing for them to do except learn the language. Studying in a foreign
country costs more money than in their own country. On the other hand, they may not focus on their studies because there
is nobody around them to supervise them. In addition, due to the fact that they live in a strange place, they will feel lonely
and homesick. So studying abroad has both advantages and disadvantages. It will be hard for the students at the
beginning. However, after a few tough years, they will reap the rewards. Hopefully, students who study abroad can get
over all the difficult problems they encounter.
1.(a)Choose the best answer:
The word ‘far-sighted’ means---
(i)suppressing human feelings (ii) nearsighted (iii) showing a prudent awareness of future possibilities
(b)Write whether the following statement is true or false. If false, rewrite it.
Studying abroad always puts students in difficulties.
(c)Fill in the blank with an appropriate word:
By studying abroad students ---an opportunity of learning about different cultures.
(d)Change the following word as directed and make a sentence with the changed one:
different(verb)
(e)What is the antonym of the word ‘strange’ in the passage?

Writing-I(Marks-- 1x5=5)
Answer any five questions:
(f)Write the purpose of a notice.
(g) Write down the names of five most common punctuation marks.
(h) What is a resume?
(i)What do you mean by ‘embargo date’?
(j)Which transition marker would you use in writing a comparative paragraph:
(i)In addition to (ii)Similarly (iii)To sum up
(k)What is terminator in a paragraph?
(l)What is coherence?
Part B
Reading-II (Marks-4X3=12)

2. Read the text and answer any three of the following questions:-
Doing housework, taking care of children, and carrying out assorted jobs for husbands are work just as much as is
performing paid employment in an office or factory. To ignore this is to do a disservice to women in the labour force. The
reality of housework is that women’s work in the home averages 56 hours per week for a full-time homemaker, and 26
hours per week for an employed wife or mother. Husbands and children barely increase their contribution to housework
and childcare when the wife or mother is in the labour force. As a result, an employed woman with family responsibilities
gives up most of her other leisure activities to carry out the responsibilities of family life.
We realise that it may sound strange to hear women’s activities at home called work. Since women who do housework
and take care of children receive no salary or wages, homemaking is not considered ‘work’. Some people have proposed
that the solution to the problems of employed housewives would be simply to pay women housewives for being
housewives. Hence, women with heavy family responsibilities would not have to enter the labour force in order to gain
income for themselves and/or their families. This is not a solution for many reasons. Wages provide income but they do
not remedy the isolating nature of the work itself. Unless women and men are paid equally in the labour force and there is
no division of labour by sex, women’s work at home will have no value. Since it is not clear what constitutes housework,
and we know that housework standards vary greatly, it would be difficult to know how to reward it.
Pay for housework might place homemakers (mainly wives) in the difficult position of having their work assessed by
their husbands while in the case of single homemakers it is not clear who would do the assessing. Wages for housework,
derived from spouse payments, overlook the contribution women make to the society (e.g. by training children to be good
citizens) and assume that their work is only beneficial to their own families. Finally, payment for housework does not
address the basic reason why women with family responsibilities work.
2.Why is an employed woman deprived of the joys of leisure?
3. Why is home-making not considered work?
4. How long will a woman’s work at home have no value?
5.How do women make a contribution to society?
6.To what extent do husbands contribute to housework when wives are in the labour force?

Writing-II (Marks-2x4=8)
Answer any two of the following questions:
7.Write 4 sentences on the following topics for the given purposes and audience:-
Developing Reading Habit (purpose—to motivate, audience—students
8.What form, voice and style will you use if you write on the topic---Shakespearean Tragedies?
9.Write an introductory paragraph for an essay on the topic-Climate Change
10.How can you avoid plagiarism.
Part-C
Reading-III(Marks-10x2=20)
Read the following poem and answer any two of the following questions:
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;
The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea;
Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder—everlastingly.
Dear child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,
Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;
And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.

11.Write a summary of the poem.


12.What is the tone used in the poem?
13.Comment on the use of imagery used in the poem.
14.Explain the last two lines of the poem.
Writing-III(Marks-10x3=30)

Attempt any three of the following:-


15.Amplify: “The old order changeth yielding place to new.”
16.Write a paragraph on Uses and Abuses of Facebook.
17.Write a report on the cultural week observed a few days ago at Govt. Chandpur College.
18.Suppose, you are the Chairman of the department of English of Sonapur Govt. College. Now write a notice informing
the students of 2nd Year Honours about their second In-course exam.
19.Suppose you are a student of a government college in Rangpur. Now write an application to the Principal requesting
him not to allow the use of cell phone in the classroom.

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