Model Questions

1. Completing the passage with suitable verbs from the list. Put them in the correct tenses. Use negatives where necessary. Go Design Know Learn Modify need Communicative competence in English is urgently --------- in our country. The present world ------------ fast and developing by leaps and bounds. In order to keep pace with the present world, we cannot help -----------English but the present system of teaching and learning English is not up to the mark. The textbooks -----------for the classes IX-X have to ………….. and made updated. 2. Put in suitable prepositions in the blanks. Everyone desires ----------- wealth. But a few attain it. Some people hanker after -----------riches. Some are content-------------what they have. True happiness lies --------------- contentment. It is high time we gave --------------the habit of covetousness. 3. Use articles where necessary. Put a cross where an article is not needed. ----------- 16th December is ------red letter day in the history of Bangladesh. On this day we achieved victory at ----------cost of -------------bloody battle. Bangladesh came into being as ---------independent country. It occupied a place the world ----------map. Every year we observe -------day with due solemnity. We remember--------supreme sacrifice of our heroic sons. The day is ---------public holiday. The day begins with gunshot. The national flag is hoisted on ---------top of the each house. 4. Complete the following sentences with the phrases or idioms from the list. On the spur of the moment Bone of contention Fight shy of Epoch-making In black and white A slow coach Nip in the bud (a) Don’t try to ……………me. (b) The piece of land is the ----------between two brothers. (c) Landing on the moon is an ------------event. (d) He gave his consent ------------------------- (e) -------------- like you can never prosper in life. 5. Rewrite the following passage in the reported speech. “What’s your program me after the examination?” asked Salam. Kamal said, “I’ve not yet decided. Can you suggest any?” “Let us go on a picnic” said Salam. “What an excellent idea! I shall certainly join you,” said Kamal. 6. Read the passage and transform the underlined sentences as directed in the brackets. A flower is a glowing gift of nature. (a) Who does not like flowers? (Affirmative). They are the symbol of love and beauty. (b) Flowers are used on different occasions. (Active) (C) We need flowers to decorate a place.(Complex) (d) The rose is the best of all flowers. (Positive) . It is also called the queen of flowers. (e) As the demand for flowers is increasing day by day, we should cultivate flowers on commercial basis. (Simple) It has both charm and commercial value too. 7. Add tag questions to the following sentences. (a) Summon and not his brothers got the prizes, ------------------? (b) (b)He has little idea about it, ----------------? (c) My friends and I hardly go there, -------------? (d) Look, here he comes ------------? (e) Let you and me go for a walk, ----------------? 8. Complete the following sentences. (a) Had I studied hard ……………………… (b) If you lent me some money…………………….. (c) Hardly had I reached school------------------- (d) --------------------than the thief ran away. (e) Nobody knows what -----------------------