Model Test SSC-2024

Time: 1.30 Hour;                                                                                                             Full numbers: 60

1. Fill in the blanks with the words from the box. You may need to change the forms of some of the words. You may need to use one word more than once.                                 10×.05= 05

Natural calamity means (a) _______ disaster which is caused (b) _______ nature. Every year Bangladesh falls victim (c) _______ various natural calamities. They are flood, earthquakes and many other natural calamities. The effects of (d) _______natural calamities beggar description. The affected people and animals suffer (e) _______  sufferings. They cause (f) _______damage to our life and properties. Thousands of people and other animals remain (g) _______ food for many days. The after effect of some natural calamities are more serious. Famine breaks (h) _______. Many people and animals die for want of food. The prices of all (i) _______ things go (j) _______.

2. Fill in the blanks with suitable words.                                                                                  10×.05= 05

A bus stand is a place where service buses stop and start (a) _________ . After a fixed time (b) _________  good number of up and down buses touch at a bus stand at different hours of the day and night. In cities there are sheds for passengers at a bus stand. It is a (c) _________   shelter (d) _________ passengers.  pssengers wait for sometime to get (e) _________ a bus. In some bus stands there are counters for ticket. Passengers stand (f) _________ a line for buying tickets. Sometimes there is exchange (g) _________ hot words if anybody breaks the line. A bus stand is a busy place. One bus comes and the another starts (h) _________ . The passengers coming here have no time to talk or to look at (i) _________. A bus stand is always (j) _________ .

3. Make five sentences using parts of sentences from each column of the table below. 5×1= 05

4. Complete the following text with right forms of the verbs given in the box.    10×.05= 05

A few days ago, I (a) _______an interesting football match. It was Friday. It (b) _______            between the top two teams of our country- Abahani and Mohammedan. The match (c) _______ me much joy. On the day of the match I (d) _______   to the Dhaka stadium quite early. I (e) _______in the line for a long time and (f)  _______ a ticket. The game was timed to begin at 4.30. The referees and the players (g) _______ the field in time. The spectators (h) _______ the players from all corners of the field. The captains of the two teams came up, shook hands and tossed coin. Soon the referee (i)  off his whistle and the game started. Both the teams (j) _______ equally strong.

5. Change the narrative style of the following text.                                                                05

Zaman said to me, "Have you finished reading the book I gave you yesterday?" "Yes, I have finished reading the book,". I replied. "What an interesting book it is! I wish I would borrow the book earlier!" I said. "Will you return the book to me today?" he asked.

6. Change the sentences according to directions.                                                        10×1= 10

a)      Bangladesh is a very beautiful country. (exclamatory)

b)      Very few countries in the world are as populous as Bangladesh. (superlative)

c)      Most of the people of Bangladesh are farmers. (interrogative)

d)     Different types of crops are grown by them. (active)

e)      Our land is very fertile. (negative)

f)       Dhaka is the biggest city in Bangladesh. (comparative)

g)      Doesn't it stand on the Buriganga? (assertive)

h)      Traffic jam is greater than any other problems in Dhaka. (superlative)

i)        Rajshahi produces mango, lichi and rice at a lot. (passive)

j)        Since there are many haors in Sylhet, fishes are available there. (simple)

7. Complete the sentences.                                                                                                            1x5=5

a)      It is true that____________________________ .

b)      He can achieve what ____________________________            .

c)      It is a wrong idea that ____________________________          .

d)     It is not fate but ____________________________       .

e)      There may ups and downs but ____________________________         .

8.  Complete the text adding suffixes,  prefixes or the both with the root words given in the parenthesis.                                                                                                                          10×.05= 05

Travelling has been popular with man from time (a) memorial. It is the romance of seeing the (b) seen, knowing the (c) known and (d) veiling the shrouds of mystery. A man never knows his own native land (e) complete till he has gone out of it to some other country. Only a rational comparison with other countries can specify (f) vivid the true character, the merits and (g) merits of our own motherland. An (h) aware of our defects inspires us to work hard and improve the (i) happy condition of our country. We, the people of the East, have learnt from travelling in the Western countries how they enjoy their liberties and (j) charge their responsibilities.

9. Make tag questions of these statements.                                                                  5×1= 05

He went to his village home on last Friday. The miserable conditions of the rural people pained him much. He brooded over their miseries and talked to himself.

: Most of the rural people are poverty stricken, __________?

: They don't have any sense of sanitation, ____________?

: Everybody works hard ____________?

But they do not get due return of their labour. They don't need privileges.
: They need opportunities, ____________ ?

: Government should take steps for the development of the villages. _________?

10. Complete the passage using suitable connectors.                                                 5×1= 05

A nuclear family is calm and quiet (a)_______ there are only a few members, (b) _______   one can enjoy peace and happiness in a nuclear family, (c) _______ one enjoys much time to do a lot of work. In a nuclear family one has got less duties and responsibilities than in an extended family, (d) _______ one can remain free from anxiety, (e) _______ in a nuclear family a student gets enough time to concentrate himself or herself more on study.

11. Use capitals and punctuation marks where necessary in the following text.                         05

the scientist shouted that he had done it addressing the scientist as sir the assistant congratulated him on what he had done the scientist replied that he had done something new