ইংরেজি – সেট 2 : ABTA HS টেস্ট পেপার সমাধান 2023-2024

ইংরেজি – সেট 2 : ABTA HS টেস্ট পেপার সমাধান 2023-2024 (English Set-2 ABTA HS Test Paper Solution 2023-2024)

ইংরেজি – সেট 2 : ABTA HS টেস্ট পেপার সমাধান 2023-2024

II (Page No. 47)

ABTA HIGHER SECONDARY TEST PAPERS 2023-24

ENGLISH (Group-B)

MCQ

1. Complete each of the sentences, choosing the correct option from the alternatives provided : 1 × 12 = 12

PROSE

(i) The train drew to the station – 

• (a) slowly 
• (b) rhythmically 
• (c) silently 
• (d) quietly

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (a) slowly [/expand]

(ii) APJ Abdul Kalam was by birth a – 

• (a) Telugu 
• (b) Tamil 
• (c) Kannad 
• (d) Malayali 

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (b) Tamil [/expand]

(iii) The Word ‘proclaimed’ means – 

• (a) decided 
• (b) evaded 
• (c) thought 
• (d) announced 

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (d) announced [/expand]

(iv) The woman shook the boy until his teeth – 

• (a) fell 
• (b) ached 
• (c) rattled 
• (d) broke

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (c) rattled [/expand]

POETRY

(v) ‘Leprous hide’ is the tree’s – 

• (a) root 
• (b) bark 
• (c) leaves 
• (d) flowers 

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (b) bark [/expand]

(vi) In the expression “they fill the hollow….”, ‘hollow’ means the: 

• (a) hills 
• (b) glade 
• (c) stream 
• (d) valley

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (d) valley [/expand]

(vii) “But thy eternal summer….” The word opposite in meaning to ‘eternal’ is – 

• (a) universal 
• (b) momentary 
• (c) temporal 
• (d) decayed

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (c) temporal [/expand]

(viii) According to Keats, the music of earth ceases – 

• (a) in summer 
• (b) in winter 
• (c) at no point of time 
• (d) in autumn

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (c) at no point of time [/expand]

DRAMA

(ix) “Why talk rot?” – The speaker is – 

• (a) Lomov 
• (b) Natalya 
• (c) Chubukov 
• (d) Mironov. 

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (b) Natalya [/expand]

(x) Chubukov had the bad habit of adding to every word, the phrase – 

• (a) etcetra 
• (b) that is 
• (c) so glad 
• (d) so on

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (d) so on [/expand]

(xi) The word ‘pettifogger’ is used for – 

• (a) Mironov 
• (b) Chubukov 
• (c) Lomov 
• (d) Guess 

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (c) Lomov [/expand]

(xii) Chubukov comments that Lomov’s family has had a history of – 

• (a) autocracy 
• (b) hypocrisy 
• (c) democracy 
• (d) lunacy

Ans : [expand title=”Show” swaptitle=”Hide”] (d) lunacy [/expand]

SAQ

2. Answer any four questions from Prose and four questions form Poetry of the following questions, each in a complete sentence. 1 × 8 = 8 

PROSE

(i) What was the girl tired of? 

Ans : The girl in Ruskin Bond’s Short Story ‘The Eyes Have It’ was tired of hearing people who used to tell her that she had a pretty face.

(ii) Who stammered an apology? 

Ans : The new co-traveller of the narrator of Ruskin Bond’s short story ‘The Eyes Have It’ stammered an apology at the door-way.

(iii) Who was Dr. Kalam’s father’s ideal helpmate? 

Ans : Dr. Kalam’s father Jainutab deen Kalam found an ideal helpmate in his mother Ashiamma.

(iv) What disadvantages did Dr. Kalam’s father possess? 

Ans : Dr. Kalam’s father had neither much formal education nor much wealth. These were the disadvantages which Kalam’s father had.

(v) What was the second question that occured to the Tsar? 

Ans : The second question that occured to the Tsar was about the most important person whom should be paid more attention than the rest.

(vi) Why did the Tsar decide to consult the hermit? 

Ans : As all the answers given by the invited learned men were different and unsatisfactory to the Tsar, he decided to consult with the wise hermit in quest of the correct answers.

(vii) What did Mrs. Jones talk about while eating together? 

Ans : When Mrs. Jones was having her dinner with Roger, she was talking about her job at the hotel beauty shop that stayed open late at night and what the work was like and about different types of women who came there.

(viii) Why did the boy want to go to the store?

Ans : The boy, in Langoton Hughes’ short story ‘Thank You Ma’am wanted to go to the store to fetch some milk or something else if necessary.

POETRY

(ix) What is the meaning of ‘anchoring earth’? 

Ans : The metaphorical expression ‘anchoring earth’ culled from Gieve Patel’s poem ‘On Killing a Tree’ denotes the activity of the root which clings firmly with the earth and saves the tree from uprootment.

(x) How does the sun facilitate the killing of a tree? 

Ans : The bright sun ray facilitates the killing of a tree by helping us in the execution of the process of scorching, choking, browning, hardening, twisting and withering.

(xi) How is the smile of the young soldier? 

Ans : The young soldier has a gentle smile on his face. His smile is like the smile of an innocent infant.

(xii) What does the slow stream leave on the bright grass? 

Ans : The slow stream leaves silvery strand on the bright grass.

(xiii) Why does “every fair from fair sometime declines”? 

Ans : According to Shakespeare, the great Elizabethan poet every fair from fair declines by chance or by the untrimmed changing course of nature.

(xiv) What is the number of the sonnet ‘Shall I compare thee …..’? 

Ans : Shakespeare’s sonnet ‘Shall I Compare Thee’ is the 18th sonnet of his sonnet sequence of 154 sonnets.

(xv) What tires out the grasshopper? 

Ans : In Course of singing on hot summer days the grasshopper gets tired out of fun.

(xvi) What makes the birds faint in summer?

Ans : The scorching heat of the bright sun makes the song birds of summer faint and make them hide in the cooling trees.