Sample Question
English Second Paper for JSC Examination
Full Marks: 50
Time: 2 hours
[Answer all the questions. Figures in the margin indicate full marks]
Section A: Grammar
1. Fill in the gaps of the following text with appropriate articles. Put a cross for zero article.
0.5×6 = 03
Yesterday while I was going to Comilla by (a) __________ bus, I saw (b) __________ elderly lady
carrying (c) __________ huge bag and (d) __________ umbrella struggling to get onto (e) __________
bus. She would not let anyone carry her bag. I invited her to take (f) __________ seat next to
mine. She took the seat and thanked me.
2. Fill in the blanks of the following text with prepositions. 0.5×6 = 03
Moni: When did you last visit Tania?
Sima: Oh, dear, I haven’t seen her (a) ______ ages. Does she still live (b) ______ Uttara?
Moni: No, she has moved (c) ______ Uttara.
Sima: Where has she moved (d) ______?
Moni: Lalmatia. Let’s visit her one day. Tania would be very happy.
Sima: Yes, I know, but I work (e) ______ about 10 pm most nights. When I get back home, I am
very tired. Okay, let’s see… Tomorrow I won’t be much busy. So, we can make it tomorrow.
Moni: That’s fine. I will pick you (f) ______ from your office, is that okay?
Sima: Of course, that’d be very nice.
3. Make four sentences from the substitution table: 1×4 = 4
My mother has to/have to do the cooking
My parents do the washing
My father do the shopping
4. Change the following passage into indirect speech. 1×4 = 4
The patient said to the doctor, "Last month my blood pressure was too high. Since then I
have changed my food habits." The doctor asked, "How?" — "I'm having less sugar and salt
now."
5. Change the following sentences as directed in the brackets: 1×5 = 5
(a) Rana is one of the meritorious boys in our class. (Make it a positive sentence)
(b) He is always attentive in the class. (Make it a negative sentence)
(c) He is never disobedient to his teachers. (Make it an affirmative sentence)
(d) No other boy in our class is so popular as Rana. (Make it a superlative sentence)
(e) A boy like him is always loved by all. (Make it an interrogative sentence)
6. Rewrite the following passage using capitalization and punctuation. 0.5×6 = 03
yesterday we all went to visit one of our uncles’ house at shafipur we spent the day eating
delicious food and roaming around it took us about five hours to come back due to heavy
traffic.
7. Fill in the gaps used in the following text by adding suffix, prefix, or both with the root
words underlined in the text. 0.5×8 = 4
Ernest Hemingway, one of the famous American writers had a great (a) _______ (attract) to
war. He had wanted to become a soldier but (b) _______ (fortune) he couldn’t because of his
poor eyesight. Later, he covered a severe war (c) _______ (respond) to the Spanish Civil War
and World War I. His novel A Farewell to Arms, is about war. His most (d) _______ (succeed)
novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is about the Spanish War. Another novel, A _______ (e) hollow
of war. This book is also (f) _______ (fame) like his writing. His personal life was full of
misery. One of the reasons was his physical (g) _______ (sick), for which he couldn’t even
receive the Nobel Prize he was awarded in person.
8. Complete the following text with suitable verbs in the box with their right form. 0.5×8 =
04
Verb box: take, be, surprise, wish, know, see, go, become
Paul (a) ______ when he met Sue at the party. He thought that she (b) ______ away from their
locality. The last time he saw her while she (c) ______ her driving test. Paul came to (d) ______
that she (e) ______ sick for the last two months. She (f) ______ very thin. Anyway, (g) ______ her
back again, Paul was happy and (h) ______ her good health.
Section B: Composition
9. You want to participate in an Essay Writing Competition organized by a national daily.
Write an email to the Editor requesting him/her for sending you the guidelines and other
detail of that Competition. Word limit: 150 Words 08
10. Write a composition on the following topic in 250 words:
A school excursion you have recently been to a nearby town 12
