Read text and answer
questions 1 and 2.
At the farthest corner of
Bangladesh there is a village called Tarapur. In this village there lives a man
named Kartik Poramanik. He is a hair dresser by profession, but a nature lover
at heart. His passion is to plant saplings, which grow into gigantic trees. He
started planting trees when he was only 10 years old. He remembers what his
father once told him, ‘My son, you can earn the blessings of God by planting
trees.’ He has never forgotten what his father told him. At present he is 63
years old. He has planted hundreds of trees in his village. Many of the trees
are now 35-40 years old.
Once there were hardly any trees in
this village. Kartik used to go to different houses for his job. At times he
would get fired in the scorching sun, but there were no trees under which he
could sit and rest for a while. Thinking how people suffer in the heat, Kartik
began his tree planting mission.
Kartik would wake up early in the
morning. take one or two labourers with him and set out to plant trees. He
would walk long distances to plant trees, carrying with him some dry food and
water. He would pay all the expenses from his own pocket. Kartik has planted
trees beside the roads, in and around the bazar, schools and colleges, open
fields and many other places.
At times it so happened that Kartik
would go to water his plants at 10 or 11 pm. People asked him, ‘Kartik, are you
mad? What are you doing so late at night?’ Kartik would smile and say, ‘What to
do, sir. I have to work hard the whole day to earn money for my family. I don’t
get time during the day. But my trees would die if I don’t water them. So I
come late at night to look after them.’ Even today this old man continues
planting trees as many as he can.
A man, who can hardly sign his
name, is leaving his signature all around in nature.
1.
Choose the correct answer to each question from the alternatives given and
write the corresponding number of the answers in your answer script. 1×7=7
a.
The
word ‘gigantic’ means----.
(i) pigmy (ii) guardian (iii) tiny
(iv) huge
b.
The
word ‘scorching’ means-----.
(i) hot (ii) sever e (iii)
serious (iv) burning
c.
Kartik
Promanik was a ----- by profession.
(i) barber (ii) cultivator (iii) tree planter (iv) day labourer
d.
In
the passage ‘water’ is used as/an-----.
(i) adjective (ii) noun (iii) noun and verb
(iv) noun and adjective
e.
According
to the text how many years ago did Kartik Pramanik begin to plant trees?
(i) 35 (ii) 10 (iii) 53 (iv) 63
f.
Kartik
would go to water his plants-----.
(i) at 10 or 11 pm (ii) at 11 or 2 pm (iii)
at 9 or 10 pm (iv) at 8 pm
g.
The
similar meaning of the phrase ‘set out’ is-----.
(i) awarded (ii) planting trees (iii)
went (iv) wanted
2. Answer the
following questions. 2×4=8
a)
Why
did Kartik plant trees?
b)
Why
did he not get to take care of the trees during the day?
c)
Was
Kartik influenced by his father’s advice? If yes, how?
d)
How
do you understand that Kartik is a nature lover?
3. Read the following
text and fill in the gaps with appropriate words to make it a meaningful one. 1×5=5
Bangladeshi
cuisine is rich and varied with the use of (a)---- spices. We have delicious
and appetizing food, snacks and sweets. Boiled rice is our (b)---- food. It is
served with a (c)---- of vegetables, curry, lentil soup, fish and meat. Fish is
the main (d)---- of protein. Fishes are now (e)---- in ponds.
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