Honours 2nd Year English Compulsory (PDF)
Honours 2nd Year; Exam-2023
Subject: English (Compulsory) Non-Credit
Subject Code: 221109
1. Read the passage and answer the questions that follows:
Music can be compared to language in some respects. It combines itself easily with actual language. lt also speaks a language of its own. It is called universal language. Music has its organizing factors of rhythm, melody, harmony, colour. and form. Language also has those elements. Music has its own alphabet of several letters. Language has also alphabet, consisting of some letters.
In case of English, there are twenty- six letters of the alphabet. for example each of these letters represents a note, as in language certain letter are complete words in themselves, Several words of a language form a phrase and several phrases make a complete sentence. The same thing is true of music. Measured music corresponds to poetry and the old unmeasured song might be compared to prose.
A note of music generally implies a certain harmony. In modern music, the notes take the form of actual chords. So, a chord in music. it may be said, is similar to a Word in language. The relationship of modern music to free verse is quite apparent. Modern concepts of impressionism; expressionism, cubism and futurism are found in language. They are also found in music, language and music are analogues.
a. Write answers of the following questions:
i. Why is music called universal language?
ii. What does the alphabet of music consist of?
iii. How can a chord be compared to a word?
b. What is the main idea and what are the supporting ideas in the given passage?
Or, What is the writer’s purpose of writing the passage.
c. Write down the meanings of the following words in English and make your own sentences with them (any five):
actual, form, elements, alphabet, complete, modern, futurism
d. Write a summary of the passage
2. Correct the folowing sentences (any five):
a. No less than five boys were present.
b. Shuddho walked fastly to the station.
c. Do you know when will he come?
d. You had better left the place now.
e. could not help go there when he heard the news.
f. Two third of the student was present.
g. The student absented from the school.
3. Design a poster creating awareness about deforestation.
4. Write a paragraph on any one of the following by writing topics:
a. Happiness
b. Your homeland
C. Dowry System
5. Write an application to the Principal of your college for arranging sound systems for the classrooms.
6. Write an essay on any one of the following:
a. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Father of the Nation
b. Quality Education
C. Vision 2012
7. Rearrange the words to make sensible sentences:
a. worked he for years had more thirty than.
b. oppose some may me friends my of.
C. a mistake could not we help making.
d. today a is problem great drain brain.
e. man company book for is best the a.
f. for inhaling we few can air never without live minutes.
g. known of popular Shakespeare world is most as the dramatist.
8. Frame Wh-questions from the following sentences (any five):
a. Alice will go there by bus.
b. I met him on my way to college.
c. They seem to be tired.
d. I am looking for my bag.
e. The train runs 60 miles per hour.
f. My father is a farner.
g. It will take 20 minutes tO reach there.
9. Use articles in the following passage:
A University plays a. —unique role in shaping b.— man’s life. It gives c.— man not only a good career but also d.—enlightened mind. In fact, e.—educated should have a noble mind.
10. Use of the right form of verbs in the following sentences (any five):
a. Upama is used to (swim) in the river.
b. I got the work (finish)—
c. The meeting (hold)— yet,
d. Walking three miles in two hours (be)— not
not difficult at all.
e. It is three year since he (leave)— his village.
f. If I were a magician, I (solve)— everything.
g. I found him (hide)— behind the wall.
11. Punctuate and capitalise the following passage:
a westerly system now exists above meghaloya, arunachal and assam in india and is expected to come down to Bangladesh in the next few days resulting in a northwester and rainfall.
12. Change the following words as directed and make sentences with the changed words (any five): a. friend (adjective); b. drive (noun); c. examine (noun); d. satisfy (adverb); e. hungry (noun): f reproduction (adjective); g. courage (verb).
13. Give the synonym of the following words and make your own sentences with the synonyms (any five): a. abhor; b. prompt; c. loyalty; d. capable; e. stop;f. comparable: g. beauty.
14. Translate into English:
দেশপ্রেম মানুষের মহৎ গুণগুলোর একটি । একজন দেশপ্রেমিক জন্মভূমিকে মায়ের মতাে ভালোবাসেন। তিনি তার দেশকে এতােই ভালােবাসেন যে দেশের জন্য শেষ রক্তবিন্দু উৎস্বর্গ করতেও তিনি প্রস্তুত থাকেন। তিনি দেশকে ভালোবেসে দেশর মানুষের জন্য কাজ করেন। তিনি বিশ্বাস করেন-সৎ, যোগ্য ও পরিশ্রমী মানুষ দেশের সম্পদ ।
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