<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Writing Test</strong></p> <p><strong>1. Fill in the gaps with a/an/the and put a cross(x) where no article is needed.   0.5×8=4 </strong></p> <p>The ant is (a) _____ industrious insect. No other insect is as industrious as an ant. If we open (b)  _____ pages of history we shall see that (c) _____ men who have become great were (d) _____ industrious.(e) _____ industrious are like by all. We all should follow (f) _____ footprint of the industrious man, so that we can be (g) _____ successful man. Otherwise we have to (h) _____  suffer.  </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>2. Choose the correct preposition from the box and fill in the gap.    0.5×8=4 </strong></p> <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" style="width:500px"> <tbody> <tr> <td>to</td> <td>in</td> <td>from</td> <td>to×3</td> <td>by</td> <td>for</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>An honest man is true (a) _____ his word. He does not deviate (b) _____ the path of honesty. He knows that peach consist (c) _____ honesty. So he does not fall a victim (d) _____ any greed. He has no ambition (e) _____ worldly things. He is loved (f) _____ all. He is not only respectable (g) _____ everybody but also (h) _____ Allah.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>3. Complete the text using the words in the box as needed.    0.5×10=5 </strong></p> <table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" style="width:500px"> <tbody> <tr> <td>robbery</td> <td>some</td> <td>bundle</td> <td>deed</td> <td>robbers</td> </tr> <tr> <td>robbers</td> <td>books</td> <td>everything</td> <td>them</td> <td>use</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Once Hazrat Abdul Quader Zilani was going to Baghdad with (a) _____ rich merchants. He took a (b) _____ of books and some money with him. On the thirteen day some robbers attacked (c) _____ and took away (d) _____  from them. He also gave them the bundle of (e)  _____ and money. He told the (f) _____ to make a good (g) _____ of those books. Them he would learn from them that (h) _____ is a sin. This changed all the (i) _____ and so they left this evil (j) _____ .</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>4. Make four sentences from the following substitution table. 1×4=4</strong></p> <table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width:500px"> <tbody> <tr> <td>Time</td> <td> </td> <td>not possible to regain the lost time.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The proper use of time</td> <td>brings</td> <td>sufferings in life.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Again the miss use of time</td> <td>be</td> <td>valuable in human life.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>It</td> <td>success in life</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p><strong>5. Change the following sentences as directed in the brackets.  5×1=5 </strong></p> <p>(a) Early rising is good for health. (Interrogative)</p> <p>(b) A number of benefits are given to us by it. (Active)</p> <p>(c) It is not easy to rise early. (Negative)</p> <p>(d) How wonderful the weather is in the morning! (Make a statement sentence)</p> <p>(e) Early rising is healthy, wealthy and wise. (Passive)</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>6. Fill in the gaps with right form of verbs given in the brackets.                0.5×8=4 </strong></p> <p>The night was over. The mother (a) _____  (open in the past form) her eyes. She (b) _____ (see) her son (c) _____ (stand) by her bed with the glass of water. She (d) _____ (become in the past form) astonished. At first she not (e) _____ (understand) anything. After a while, she (f) _____ (remember) what (g) _____ (happen) at night. She said, ‘My dear son! Have you (h) _____ (spent) the whole night standing with the glass of water?’ The boy replied ‘Yes’, mother.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>7. Use appropriate punctuation and capital letters where necessary.     4</strong></p> <p>haven’t you heard the name of the poet kazi nazrul islam very few poets in bengali literature are as famous as nazrul islam.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Answer Sheet </strong></p> <p>1. a) an b) the c) the d) × e) the f) the g) a h) ×</p> <p>2. a) to b) from c) in d) to e) for f) by g) to h) to</p> <p>3. a) some b) bundle c) them d) everything e) books f) robbers g) use h) robbery i) robbers j) deeds</p> <p>4. (i) Time is valuable in human life.</p> <p>(ii) The proper use of time brings success in life.</p> <p>(iii) Again the misuse of time brings sufferings in life.</p> <p>(iv) He was a very learned man.</p> <p>(v) It is not possible to regain the lost time.</p> <p>5. a) Isn’t early rising good for health?</p> <p>b) It gives us a number of benefits.</p> <p>c) It is difficult to rise early.</p> <p>d) The weather is very wonderful in the morning.</p> <p>e) We are made healthy, wealthy and wise by early rising.</p> <p>6. a) Opened b) Saw c) Standing d) Became e) Did not understand f) Remembered g) Had happened h) Spent</p> <p>7.‘Haven’t you heard the name of the poet Kazi Nazrul Islam? Very few poets in Bengali literature are as famous as Nazrul Islam.’</p>