Read the passage and then write the antonym or synonym of the words as directed below:

 (a) usually (synonym) (b) illegal (antonym) (c) demand (synonym) (d) majority (antonym) (e) maternal (antonym) (f) mortality (antonym) (g) mobility (antonym) (h) curtail (antonym) (i) unemployed (antonym) (j) expose (antonym).

Fill in the blanks with appropriate word in each gap:

  In recent years there have been many alarming reports that world's climate is undergoing a significant change. All these reports provide (a)--- evidence (b)--- world's temperatures are increasing day by day. This increase in global (c)--- is caused (d)--- increased amounts of carbon dioxide (e)--- the earth. Most climatologists (f)---- that greenhouse effect is the likely (g)--- of this global warming. It may harm human (h)--- seriously.

The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in a proper sequence: 

(i) He wrote a lot of poems, songs-gazals, short stories, poems, novels, etc. 

(ii) He lost his father at the age of eight and at the age of eleven he showed his poetic genius.

(iii) At the age of nineteen, he joined the Army as an ordinary soldier to the fight in the First World War. 

(Iv) On his return from the battlefield, he gave up the sword for the pen. 

(v) It was tragic that he had been suffering from a fatal disease since 1942 and remained paralysed for the rest of his life.

(vi) In 1924 he married Promila in Kolkata, 

(vii) Bangladesh became independent in 1971 and he was brought to Bangladesh from Kolkata in 1972.

(viii) Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1899 in the district of Burdwan in West Bengal.

Write a paragraph on 'The Victory Day' based on the answers to the following questions: 

(a) When is our Victory Day? 

(b) Why is it called so? 

(c) What is the brief history behind it? 

(d) How do we observe the day? 

(e) What is the significance of the day?

The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words: 

  Once a golden necklace was lost from a rich man's house. A few servants worked in that house. Naturally, it was suspected that any one of the servants had stolen the necklace----.

Summarize the following text:

My brothers,

I stand before you today with a heart overflowing with grief. You are fully aware of the events that are going on and understand their import. We have been trying to do our best to cope with the situation. And yet, unfortunately, the streets of Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur are awash with the blood of our brothers. The people of Bengal now want to be free, the people of Bengal now want to live, and the people of Bengal now want their rights. What have we done that was wrong? After the elections, the people of Bangladesh voted as one for me, for the Awami League. We were to sit in the National Assembly, draft a constitution for ourselves there, and build our country: the people of this land would thereby get economic, political and cultural freedom. But it is with regret that I have to report to you today that we have passed through twenty-three tragic years; Bengal's history of those years is full of stories of torture inflicted on our people, of blood shed by them repeatedly. Twenty-three years of a history of men and women in agony!