I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of 'interposition' and 'nullification', that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."
This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day......
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So, let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania...
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
(a) (i) optimism
(b) (iii) strife
(c) (ii) elevated
(d) (iii) gigantic
(e) (iii) Scorching
(f) (iii) Uneven
(g) (iii) Freedom should be achieved
(h) (iii) peaceful
(i) (iii) ruthless
(j) (iii) frustration
(a) The speaker dreams that one day the children of former slaves and the children of former slave owners of Georgia will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
(b) The Blacks were treated with injustice and oppression. They were crippled by the chains of discrimination.
(c) The state of Mississippi will be transformed from a desert of injustice and oppression into an oasis of freedom and justice.
(d) By the sentence the speaker expresses his dream that one day inequality and injustice will give way to equality and freedom. And all people will be able to enjoy the taste of freedom.
(e) The speaker dreams that his four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
In Bangladesh, the legal age of marriage for girls is 18. However, 33% of our girls get married before they are 15 and 60% of them become mothers by the time they reach 19.
When an adolescent girl gets married, she usually drops out of school and thus loses her mobility. She gets confined to full-time work in her in-law's household. She loses social status and all the opportunities of economic independence. In her in-law's house, she gets marginalized. She becomes vulnerable to all sorts of abuse, including dowry-related violence. In our country, it is still a common practice for the bride’s family to pay dowry. Dowry demands can continue even after marriage. An adolescent bride, even if her in-laws are supportive, faces enormous health risk during pregnancy and childbirth.
Majority of our people are uninformed or insufficiently informed about contraception and reproductive health.
This leads to increased mortality rates among adolescent brides during childbirth.
| Box | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 | Getting married early |
| 2 | Dropping out of school |
| 3 | Losing their mobility |
| 4 | Losing social status |
| 5 | Becoming marginalized |
| 6 | Becoming vulnerable to abuses |
(a) interrelated
(b) known
(c) ecosystem
(d) links
(e) hang
(f) balance
(g) altering
(h) example
(i) ecological
(j) responsibility
| Order | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sentence | e | j | c | h | b | f | a | d | g | i |
The data show the result of a survey conducted on the supporters of different games in Bangladesh.
Here we see that 50% of the people like cricket and as such cricket occupies the first position in order of preference by the people. 20% of the people like football which occupies the second position in this respect. 15% of the people like hockey. Thus, hockey occupies the third position in order of preference of the people. Tennis and golf have little appeal to people. Only 10% of people like tennis and 5% of the people like golf. Tennis tennis and golf occupy the fourth and the fifth position respectively in order of preference by the people.
Thus, it is clear that cricket has the largest share of supporters in the survey.
Graciousness of a College Student
One day, I was on the way to my college. It was raining and I took shelter under a shed adjacent to our college. I found an old man groaning. I looked around and noticed a crowd by the roadside. I approached there, but to my utter surprise, I found all the people assembling there to leave the old man all alone. I went to him and found him bleeding. I at once called a van and took him to a nearby hospital. The doctors on duty first felt his pulse and told me that it was alright. But the man was unconscious. The doctors and attending nurses took every care and within a short time, he regained consciousness. The old man opened his eyes but was taken aback for his present situation. He gave me a mobile number and requested me to inform the members of his family of the incident. I instantly rang up and his son, an engineer, received the call. Within twenty minutes, the members of his family rushed to the hospital and thanked us all for the help we extended for the old man. I went to the house of my residence with a feeling of satisfaction.
Tongi, Gazipur
24 June, 2025
My dear Ashraf,
I am so glad to receive the Parker pen you have sent to me as a birthday gift. It was very nice of you to have remembered me on my birthday, and still nicer to present me with a wonderful gift with which I am writing this letter. Every time I write something my heart always thanks you. Indeed it was a great surprise—a golden gift from a close friend like you. I am overwhelmed by your great affection towards me and I only hope your kind present would bring me luck.
We all missed you badly at the party. Everybody was enquiring about you. Hope we shall meet soon. Please accept my love.
Yours ever,
Himel