SSC English 2nd Paper Board Questions: Dinajpur Board 2023

Dinajpur Board

Secondary School Certificate Examination 2023

ENGLISH

SECOND PAPER

[According to the Syllabus of 2024]

Subject Code: 108

Time - 3 hours

Full Marks - 100

[N.B. The figure in the right margin indicates full marks.]

Part A: Grammar (60 marks)

1. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions or articles. Some of the blanks may not require a preposition or an article. Put a cross (×) in those blanks: 0.5x10=5

There is no doubt that youth is (a) — best time of (b) — life. This is the time when it is (c) — most important (d) — one to remember (e) — maxim, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” One must sow (f) — seeds (g) — industry, truthfulness and other virtues (h) — this season (i) — reap the harvest of prosperity and happiness. Whatever takes root in a man (j) — this time lasts throughout the rest of his life and moulds his future.

2. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box. You may need to change the forms of some of the words. 0.5x10=5

All we know that mobile phone is the most (a) — invention of modern science. Nowadays, it is very (b) — for us. At (c) —, it is very small and light. (d) — changes have been brought about in (e) — communication by mobile phone. The whole (f) — has now become smaller and (g) — unbelievably in respect of communicating information. But it is (h) — to say that mobile phone has some (i) — too. Overall, it is a great (j) — for mankind.

3. Make six sentences using the parts of sentences from each column of the table below. 1x6=6

4. Complete the following text with right forms of the verbs given in the box. 1x10=10

There are various types of fever. Dengue is one of them. It (a) — by biting of mosquito (b) — ‘Aedes’. It (c) — serious health hazard. Vomiting, high temperature, blood platelets etc. make the patient tormented. Many patients (d) — if blood platelets (e) — below 50. Much care and proper treatment (f) — to save dengue affected patients. In order to (g) — ourselves free from dengue, we (h) — our environment clean. Living place of Aedes larva should (i) — with a view to (j) — ourselves aloof from mosquito bite the use of curtain is essential.

5. Change the sentences according to directions. 1x10=10

(a) Honesty can open a door of peace before a person. (Make it negative)

(b) He accepted the invitation. (Make it passive)

(c) Reading books is nobler than any other habit. (Make it superlative)

(d) Loving country is a very essential virtue. (Make it exclamatory)

(e) We don’t measure our life by months or years. (Make it active)

(f) Industry is the most important thing for success. (Make it comparative)

(g) How attentive she was to her study! (Make it assertive)

(h) Terrorism is one of the most corrosive problems of the modern world. (Make it positive)

(i) We should do good deeds as our responsibility. (Make it imperative)

(j) Everybody is fond of glittering things. (Make it negative)

6. Complete the following sentences. 1x5=5

(a) If the sky is cloudy, _____.

(b) _____ which should be given up.

(c) Man is curious _____.

(d) If I had seen him, _____.

(e) I saw a bird _____.

7. Complete the text adding suffixes, prefixes or the both to the root words given in the parenthesis. 0.5x14=7

The purpose of (a) — (educate) is to make a man fully (b) — (equip) to be (c) — (use) to himself and to society. A (d) — (true) educated person should be self-reliant with regard to his (e) — (person) needs. He should be well-mannered, (f) — (thought), sympathetic and (g) — (operative). He should be (h) — (truth), honest, punctual and (i) — (duty). (j) —  (punctual) is a virtue that makes a nation (k) — (prosper). An educated person tries to (l) — (move) the (m) — (suffer) of his countrymen. He also helps others in attaining (n) — (self-reliant).

8. Make tag questions of these statements: 1x7=7 

(a) What he said was true, —?

(b) Don’t forget me, —?

(c) How exciting the game is, —?

(d) Let’s try to make him understand the importance of literacy, —?

(e) You, he and I did the work, —?

(f) Deforestation is not good for us, —?

(g) Books never leave us alone in danger, —?

9. Use punctuation marks where necessary in the following text. 0.5x10=5

Mainul Islam is a qualified farmer in Naogaon He lives in his village with his two brothers When he was asked What makes you decide to stay here in this village He replied Look its true that we could leave this village for a city life But it didnt attract us

Part B: Composition (40 marks)

10. Mind that you are Ratul/Ratna. You have passed HSC and taken 6 months computer course on database programme. Recently, you have seen a vacancy advertisement for the post of ‘A Receptionist’ in R.K Medical Centre Hospital, Kushtia. Now, write a CV with a cover letter for the post. Your CV should not exceed one page. 15

11. Imagine, you are Kamrul/Kanta, a student of class X reading in Rajnagor High School, Dhaka. There is a canteen in your school but the facilities of the canteen are not enough. Now, write a complaint letter to your Headmaster, on behalf of the students, about the insufficient facilities of the canteen. 10

12. Write a paragraph on ‘A Winter Morning’. 15