English 1st paper :SSC Sample questions for 2024 with solution

 

English 1st paper :SSC Sample questions for 2024 with solution

Read the passage then answer the questions no.1 and 2:

The Maldives is famous as a tourist destination because of its enjoyable weather, heavenly beaches and lagoons, luxurious holiday resorts and the peace-loving people. Being an island country, it enjoys a pleasant weather throughout the year. The Maldives has been ranked as the best country brand for beach, rest and relaxation in 2008. In the same year, it was also ranked second as the best country brand for natural beauty.

The Maldives is well known for being the lowest country in the world. Unfortunately, this small country with idyllic natural beauty is under the threat from rising sea levels due to global warming. Most of the country is just 1.5 meters above sea level with a highest point of 2.3 meters! Many predictions have been made with respect to Maldives being swept away by the rising water level in the Indian Ocean. It was even seen during the tsunami of 2004, that many of the island's dry parts were flooded by waters shrinking the island. The government of Maldives has begun to purchase land from nearby countries in case of islands go under water!

In order to highlight the threats of global warming to its low lying islands, the government of Maldives held à cabinet meeting underwater in 2009. That was the first ever cabinet meeting in the world that took place underwater. The meeting took place about 5 meters underwater, in a blue-green lagoon on a small island. While meeting, the cabinet signed a document calling on all nations to cut their carbon emissions.

 

1. Choose the correct answer from the following alternatives.

(a) The tourists have a great — for visiting the Maldives

(i) Devotion

(ii) Attraction

(iii) Destination

(iv) Attention

(b) Which of the following words best describes the weather of the Maldives?

(i) Unpleasant (ii) tropical (iii) warm (iv) enjoyable

(c) The Maldives is well recognized around the world for its -

(i) Smallness as a country    (ii) multi-racial culture

(iii) Lowest land                       (iv) threat of global warming

(d) During the tsunami of 2004, many parts of the country were –

(i) Submerged (ii) dried (iii) uprooted (iv) eroded

(e) The word 'Idyllic in the phrase 'idyllic natural beauty' means –

(i) Ideal

(ii) Very beautiful

(iii) Very peaceful

(iv) Idol shaped

(f) Global warming is a ___ to the Maldives.

(i) Threat (ii) victim (iii) dangerous (iv) warning 

(g) The Maldives is faced with the threat of ___

(i) Tsurrarnt over and over again

(ii) serious water pollution

(iii) disappearing from the map 

(iv) extinction of its aquatic animals

2. Answer the following questions.

(a) Why is the Maldives a remarkable tourist spot?

(b) Why is 2008 a significant year for the Maldives?

(c) What may happen to the Maldives owing to global warming?

(d) What happened to Maldives during the tsunami of 2004?

(e) Do you support the idea of having a cabinet meeting underwater? What could be the reason for holding such a strange meeting?

3. Read the following text and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text:

The pioneer of Bangladeshi modern art Zainul Abedin is widely acclaimed for his Bengal 'Famine Sketches'. Through a series of sketches, Zainul not only documented the harsh famine of 1940 but also showed its sinister face through the skeletal figures of the people destined to die of starvation in a man made plight. Zainul developed a knack for drawing and painting when he was a high school student. After completing high school, he got admission to the Government School of Art, Kolkata. He graduated with the first position in first class in 1938. He was appointed teacher of the Art School while he was still a student there. He also attended the Slade School of Arts, London in 1951-52. Zainul Abedin is considered the founding father of Bangladeshi art. He was an artist of outstanding talent and earned international reputation. For his artistic and visionary qualities, he is referred to as Shilpacharya meaning 'great teacher' of art in Bangladesh. He designed the pages of constitution of Bangladesh. He founded the Folk Art Museum at Sonargaon and also Zainul Abedin Shangrahąshala, a gallery of his own works in Mymensingh in 1975.

Zainul Abedin had (a) — potentiality to become an artist. He is the pioneer of Bangladeshi art. He loved nature and art from his (b) – He showed his artistic and visionary qualities in his student life. Graduating (c) — credit, he served as a teacher for many years. He showed his talent in different sketches. In his different sketches, (d) — sketches were acclaimed both nationally and internationally. He is also famous for designing the pages of constitution and (e) — the Folk Art Museum

Read the passage on rescue of Thai footballer and answer the questions no. 4 and 5:

On 23 June 2018, twelve Thai young footballers along with their coach missed in a cave network in Chiang Rai province in Thailand. From the next day national and international community became worried for them.

Their age was between 11 to 16 and their coach was 20. The football team had been on an exploration to the cave network following a game. The group beach) stranded after monsoon rain caused the cave system to food. The cave system named Them Lang 10 kilometers long. It is a snaking route which has a number of chambers already submerged in water, It took 6 hours to get where footballers were and live hours to come back to cave entrance. Thai rescuers began their expedition to find out after the missing. International rescue team also joined them. On July 3 the footballers were discovered alive by a British diver. Spending nine days in darkness they were suffering from hunger. A

Thai, rescuer died while he was supplying them food and other necessities, Getting weather forecast the rescue team planned to rescue them immediately. Navy divers had to lead the boys along the underway path from the cave. On July 8, four boys, were rescued. Finally all 13 were rescued in next three days.

 

4. Complete the table below with information from the above passage:

Missing of young Thai Footballers
Aim	Rescue the team alive
Who	Activities	When	Where/place
12 Thai Footballers	missed	June 23 , 2018	(i)..........
International community	(ii) .......	June 24 , 2018	around the world
A British Driver	(iii)......	July 3 , 2018	The Lang  Cave, Chiang, Rai,Thailand
A Thai Rescuer	died	(iv)......	The Laung  Cave, Thailand
(iv)........	were rescued	next three days	Chiang, Rai,thailand

 5. Write a summary of the above passage in your own words.

6. Match the parts of sentences in column A, B and to write five complete sentences:

Column A	Column B	Column C
(a) Donation of blood	(i) sound health can donate blood	(i) We donate blood we Invite no harm to us.
(b) In our society , some of us nourish	(ii) enough to save	(ii) after every 3 months without any side effects
(c) As per medical science every man in	(iii) a crystal clear idea that if	(iii)be a very noble deed
(d) We should have	(iv) a misconnect tion about blood donation which conveys	(iv)  the life of a dying person
(e) Sometimes a bag of our blood is	(v) is universally a acknowledged to	(v) a negative message for the others

7. Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of sentences need to be written:

(a) Shamim got a lease of land in his village

(b) Shamim's lot has changed radically.

(c) Poverty forced him to look for work.

(d) He has also been raising hybrid cows for milk as well as to produce manure.

(e) Shamim was an unemployed youth of an impoverished family.

(f) Then he joined the training programme of youth development and received training in vegetable cultivation.

(g) He is now very happy to be a self- sufficient man.

(h) He applied his new and improved knowledge for cultivating vegetables.

Answer:

Answer 1. (a) (ii) attraction (b) (iv) enjoyable (c) (iii) lowest land (d) (i) submerged (e) (iii) very peaceful (f) (i) threat (g) (iii) disappearing from the map

Answer: 2. (a) The Maldives is a remarkable tourist spot because of its enjoyable weather, heavenly beaches and lagoons, luxurious holiday resorts and the peace-loving people.

(b) 2008 is a significant year for the Maldives because in this year the Maldives has been ranked as the best country brand for beach, rest and relaxation.

(c) Owing to global warming, the Maldives may go under water

(d) During the tsunami of 2004, many of the Maldives' dry parts were flooded by waters shrinking the island.

(e) Yes, I support the idea of having a cabinet meeting underwater. The reason for holding such a strange meeting could be that they wanted to send the world a message that due to global warming not only the Maldives but also the whole world may one day go under water. So they urged the people of the world to minimize global warming.  

Answer : 3.(a) a/ the (b) boyhood (c) with (d) some / many (e) establishing / founding.

Answer: 4. (i) Tham Luang cave of Chiang Rai province in Thailand (ii) became worried (iii) discovered the footballers alive (iv) while supplying food and

other necessities (v) The footballers

Answer: 5. Summary : On 23 June, 2018, 12 boys went exploring in Thailand's Chiang Rai province with their football coach - and ended up trapped deep inside a cave named Tham Luang Cave. It had been raining for the last few days and the group became stranded as the rain water caused the cave system to flood. The local rescuers as well as the international rescue team joined to find out the missing team. On July 3, a British diver discovered the footballers alive. It took 6 hours to get where footballer were and 5 hours to come back to cave entrance. A Thai rescuer died during the rescue work. But after much effort all the boys were rescued.

Answer: 6

   (a+v+iii) Donation of blood is universally acknowledged to be a very noble deed.

   (b+iv+v) In our society, some of us nourish a misconception about blood donation which conveys a negative message for the others.

   (c+i+ii) As per medical science every man in sound health can donate blood after every 3 months without any side effect.

   (d+iii+i) We should have a crystal clear idea that if we donate blood, we invite no harm to us.

   (e+ii+iv) Sometimes, a bag of our blood is enough to the life of a dying person.

Answer :7

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