ইংরেজি – সেট 1 : ABTA HS টেস্ট পেপার সমাধান 2023-2024 (English Set-1 ABTA HS Test Paper Solution 2023-2024)
ইংরেজি – সেট 1 : ABTA HS টেস্ট পেপার সমাধান 2023-2024
I (Page No. 26)
ABTA HIGHER SECONDARY TEST PAPERS 2023-24
ENGLISH (Group-B)
MCQ
1. (a) Complete each of the sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided : 1 × 12 = 12
PROSE
(i) The girl could not bear to sit in a train for more than –
- (a) two or three hours
- (b) three or four hours
- (c) four or five hours
- (d) five or six hours
Ans : Show
(a) two or three hours
(ii) The number of people who ate everyday at Dr. Kalam’s house were –
- (a) very few outsiders
- (b) only the members of the family
- (c) more outsiders than all the members of the family put together
- (d) no outsiders but the villagers
Ans : Show
(c) more outsiders than all the members of the family put together
(iii) The woman shook the boy until his teeth –
- (a) fell
- (b) ached
- (c) rattled
- (d) broke
Ans : Show
(c) rattled
(iv) Seeing the Tsar, the hermit –
- (a) greeted him with a smile
- (b) offered him water
- (c) offered him food and shelter
- (d) greeted him and went on digging
Ans : Show
(d) greeted him and went on digging
POETRY
(v) “And then it is done.” – The word ‘it’ refers to –
- (a) hacking
- (b) chopping
- (c) twisting
- (d) killing
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(d) killing
(vi) In the expression “they fill the hollow full of light,” ‘hollow’ suggests –
- (a) the stream
- (b) the glade
- (c) the valley
- (d) the hills
Ans : Show
(c) the valley
(vii) The rhyme scheme of the first quatrain of ‘Shall I compare thee’ is –
- (a) abab
- (b) abba
- (c) aabb
- (d) abcd
Ans : Show
(a) abab
(viii) The birds faint because of –
- (a) summer luxury
- (b) the hot sun
- (c) the warmth of the stove
- (d) the frost
Ans : Show
(b) the hot sun
DRAMA
(ix) “I don’t want the Meadows, but I am acting on principle” – The speaker is –
- (a) Lomov
- (b) Chubukov
- (c) Natalya
- (d) Mironov
Ans : Show
(a) Lomov
(x) “She’s willing!” According to Chubukov, Natalya is willing to –
- (a) give away the Oxen Meadows
- (b) accept that Guess is better
- (c) end the argument
- (d) get married to Lomov
Ans : Show
(d) get married to Lomov
(xi) Natalya claims that Chubukov had paid roubles for Squeezer –
- (a) 85
- (b) 25
- (c) 125
- (d) 185
Ans : Show
(c) 125
(xii) Natalya says that she will prove her right over the Meadows by –
- (a) going to court
- (b) Showing the documents
- (c) sending her mowers out to the Meadows that very day.
- (d) making Lomov a present of the Meadows
Ans : Show
(c) sending her mowers out to the Meadows that very day
SAQ
2. (a) Answer any four questions from Prose and four questions form Poems) of the following questions, each in a complete sentence. 1 × 8 = 8
PROSE
(i) What did the Tsar say, when the bearded man begged for mercy?
Ans : The Tsar in Leo Tolstoy’s short story ‘Three Questions’ said to the bearded man that there was nothing to forgive him as he did not know him.
(ii) Describe the purse that Mrs. Bates carried,
Ans : Mrs. Bates carried a large purse containing almost everything in it but hammers and nails. It had a long strap slung across her shoulder.
(iii) What did Dr. Kalam see when he came out of the mosque after the evening prayers with his father?
Ans : After coming out of the mosque Dr. Kalam saw people of different religions were waiting with bowls of water in their hands for his father.
(iv) What made the narrator wish to raise his hand and touch the girl’s hair?
Ans : The perfume of the girl’s hair was so tantalising that it made the narrator raise his hand to touch her hair.
(v) How did the narrator initiate the conversation with the girl?
Ans : The narrator in Ruskin Bond’s short story The Eyes Have initiated the conversation by asking the girl about her destination – “Are you going all the way to Dehra?”
(vi) Who was bestowed the title of ‘Bahadur’ in ‘Strong Roots’?
Ans : One of the Forebears of Dr. Kalam’s mother was bestowed with the title of Bahadvi by the British.
(vii) Describe the appearance of Roger when Mrs. Bates caught him.
Ans : When Mrs. Bates Caught Roger, he looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail, and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans.
(viii) What did the Tsar do, when the sun began to sink behind the trees?
Ans : When the sun began to sink behind the trees, the Tsar struck this spade into the ground and requested the wise hermit to answer his question if he could.
POEMS
(ix) What is the meaning of ‘anchoring earth’?
Ans : The metaphorical expression ‘anchoring earth’ suggests the role of the root that clings firmly to the earth and saves the tree from uprootment. It works like the anchor of a boat or ship.
(x) “He may catch cold.” – Why does the poet fear so?
Ans : Arthur Rimbaud, the poet of the anti-war poem ‘Asleep In the Valley’ knows well that the young soldier has become an unfortunate victim to the brutality of war. The war has snatched away his life. Though he is lying in the sun, this body may catch cold by the law of science.
(xi) How is the ‘gold complexion’ of the sun dimmed?
Ans : The gold completion of the sun gets dimmed by the patches of cloud that occasionally appears in the sky of Summer.
(xii) What does the cricket’s song seem to ‘one in drowsiness half lost’?
Ans : The Cricket’s song in Keats’ poem ‘The Poetry of Earth’ seems to be the song of a grasshopper singing from a hilly area, to a man who is half- lost in drowsiness.
(xiii) Which season does the sestet of the sonnet, ‘The Poetry of Earth’ portray?
Ans : John Keats has depicted a beautiful picture of a winter-evening in the sestet part of this romantic sonnet ‘The Poetry of Earth’.
(xiv) Mention two adjectives Shakespeare uses to describe the beauty of his friend.
Ans : Shakespeare has brilliantly used two adjectives- lovely and temperate to draw the comparison between the beauty of a summer day and that of his friend.
(xv) “…. from the mountain top stream the Sun’s Rays,” – Mention the figure of speech used here.
Ans : In the above quoted visionary poetic expression Arthur Rimbaud has used a metaphor to make an implicit comparison between a stream and Sun rays.
(xvi) Why is the root called ‘white’ and ‘wet’?
Ans : In purpose of describing the root of the tree Gieve Patel has used two simple adjectives – white and Wet. In his estimation the root is white because it cannot come in contact with the sunlight and it is wet because of its being in close contact with the dampness under the earth.
