He (Jerry) sat by the fire with me.... and told me of their two days together. The dog lay close to him and found a comfort there that I did not have for him.... "He stayed right with me," he told me, "except when he ran in the laurel.... There was a place where the grass was high and I lay down in it and hid. I could hear Pat hunting for me.... When he found me he acted crazy, and he ran around and around me, in circles." We watched the flames. "That's an apple log," he said. "It burns the prettiest of any wood." We were very close. He was suddenly impelled to speak. "You look a little bit like my mother," he said. "Especially in the dark, by the fire." "But you were only four, Jerry, when you came here. You have remembered how she looked, all these years?" "My mother lives in Mannville," he said. For a moment, finding that he had a mother shocked me... I did not know why it disturbed me. Then I understood my distress. I was filled with a passionate resentment that any woman should go away and leave her son. ... A son like this one - The orphanage was a wholesome place, the food was more than adequate, the boys were healthy.... Granted, perhaps, that the boy felt no lack, what blood fed the bowels of a woman who did not yearn over this child's lean body that had come in parturition out of her own? ... "Have you seen her, Jerry - lately?" I asked. "I see her every summer. She sends for me." I wanted to cry out. "Why are you not with her? How can she let you go away again?" He said, "She comes up here from Mannville whenever she can. She doesn't have a job now." His face shone in the firelight. "She wanted to give me a puppy, but they can't let any one boy keep a puppy. You remember the suit I had on last Sunday?" He was plainly proud. "She sent me that for Christmas. The Christmas before that" - he drew a long breath, savoring the memory - "she sent me a pair of skates.... I let the other boys use them, but they're careful of them."

১.

Choose the best answer from alternatives.

(a) The word 'comfort' means-
(i) distress (ii) solace (iii) anguish (iv) anguish

(b) "The dog lay close to him and found a comfort there that I did not have for him." Here what does the word 'that' refer to?
(i) a dog (ii) time (iii) comfort (iv) friendliness

(c) "It burns the prettiest of any wood." Who said this?
(i) The authoress (ii) The clerk (iii) Jerry (iv) Jerry's mother

(d) "He stayed right with me." Here the word 'He' refers to?
(i) the authoress (ii) the manager of the orphanage (iii) a boy of the orphanage (iv) the authoress' dog

(e) "There was a place where the grass was high and I lay down in it." What does the word 'it' refer to?
(i) the dog (ii) the laurel (iii) the place where the grass was high (iv) the ground

(f) "The orphanage was a wholesome place." The sentence means-
(i) the whole orphanage was beautiful (ii) the orphanage was a place of beauty (iii) the location of the orphanage was a healthy place (iv) the orphanage was an unhealthy place

(g) "She sends for me." Who does the word 'she' refer to?
(i) the authoress (ii) the clerk (iii) Jerry's mother (iv) the dog

(h) "She wanted to give me a puppy, but they can't let any boy keep a puppy." Here the word 'they' refers to?
(i) the authoress (ii) Jerry's mother (iii) the clerk (iv) the authority of the orphanage

(i) Jerry's mother sent him a suit at ______.
(i) birthday (ii) Christmas (iii) new year (iv) Halloween

(j) The authoress felt passionate-
(i) attraction (ii) interest (iii) love (iv) resentment

উত্তর

(a) (ii) solace

(b) (iii) comfort

(c) (iii) Jerry

(d) (iv) the authoress' dog

(e) (iii) the place where the grass was high

(f) (iii) the location of the orphanage was a healthy place

(g) (iii) Jerry's mother

(h) (iv) the authority of the orphanage

(i) (ii) Christmas

(j) (iv) resentment

He (Jerry) sat by the fire with me.... and told me of their two days together. The dog lay close to him and found a comfort there that I did not have for him.... "He stayed right with me," he told me, "except when he ran in the laurel.... There was a place where the grass was high and I lay down in it and hid. I could hear Pat hunting for me.... When he found me he acted crazy, and he ran around and around me, in circles." We watched the flames. "That's an apple log," he said. "It burns the prettiest of any wood." We were very close. He was suddenly impelled to speak. "You look a little bit like my mother," he said. "Especially in the dark, by the fire." "But you were only four, Jerry, when you came here. You have remembered how she looked, all these years?" "My mother lives in Mannville," he said. For a moment, finding that he had a mother shocked me... I did not know why it disturbed me. Then I understood my distress. I was filled with a passionate resentment that any woman should go away and leave her son. ... A son like this one - The orphanage was a wholesome place, the food was more than adequate, the boys were healthy.... Granted, perhaps, that the boy felt no lack, what blood fed the bowels of a woman who did not yearn over this child's lean body that had come in parturition out of her own? ... "Have you seen her, Jerry - lately?" I asked. "I see her every summer. She sends for me." I wanted to cry out. "Why are you not with her? How can she let you go away again?" He said, "She comes up here from Mannville whenever she can. She doesn't have a job now." His face shone in the firelight. "She wanted to give me a puppy, but they can't let any one boy keep a puppy. You remember the suit I had on last Sunday?" He was plainly proud. "She sent me that for Christmas. The Christmas before that" - he drew a long breath, savoring the memory - "she sent me a pair of skates.... I let the other boys use them, but they're careful of them."

২.

Answer the following questions.

(a) How was Jerry's relationship with Pat?

**(b)**Describe Jerry's mother according to his description.

**(c)**Why did the information of Jerry's having a mother shock the narrator?

(d) What was the writer's 'distress'?

(e) Why did Jerry tell an imaginary story about his having a mother?

উত্তর

(a) Jerry and Pat were close companions. They played together, and Pat searched for him when he hid in the grass.

(b) According to Jerry, his mother lived in Mannville, was currently unemployed, visited when she could and sent him gifts. These are his reported claims in this excerpt.

(c) The narrator was upset by the thought that a mother might leave a child such as Jerry in an orphanage.

(d) Her distress was resentment at what she interpreted as a lack of maternal affection, despite the orphanage's adequate care.

(e) His story may suggest a longing for maternal affection, but this excerpt alone does not establish that it was imaginary or prove his motive.

In Bangladesh, cyber bullying is not just an act to be scorned at but is an offence punishable under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act 2006. The Act, inter alia, provides that a person who deliberately publishes, in a website or in electronic form, any material which is fake and obscene or has the effect of corrupting persons who are likely to read, see or hear the material or causes to prejudice the image of a person or may hurt religious belief or instigate against any person, then the person publishing the material will be guilty of an offence under the Act. The punishment for such an offence is imprisonment and/or fine. Victims of cyber crimes (including cyber bullying) can lodge a complaint to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) by calling at +880-29611111 or by emailing at [email protected]. BTRC is supposed to take necessary actions within 24 hours and the perpetrators will be brought to justice within 3 days after the complaint is filed. The government has also launched a cyber-crime helpline. Victims can call at +8801766678888 to submit their complaints.

৩.

Read the following text and make a flow chart showing cyber bullying according to the ICT ACT 2006 and actions taken by BTRC regarding this in Bangladesh. (No. 1 has been done for you)

Spreading fake and obscene material → 2. ______ → 3. ______ → 4. ______ → 5. ______ → 6. ______

উত্তর

Spreading fake and obscene material → 2. Publishing material said to corrupt readers → 3. Prejudicing a person's image → 4. Hurting religious belief or instigating against someone → 5. BTRC taking action after complaints → 6. Imprisonment or fine described as possible punishment

Once upon a time, there was a strange man who was highly bothered to see others' happiness. In fact, he hated the courteous and polite people around him and thus he hated a few expressions like please, thank you, don't mention it, etc. It troubled him a lot when people around were smiling to use these expressions.

The man considered all these expressions extravagant. So, he took a mission to invent a device that would steal these polite words. He calculated two benefits from his efforts. One, people won't use these words and thus he would be relieved of his apathy to people's polite behavior and the second one was earning money by selling the words stolen by the machine to somebody else. After a few months' hard work, he succeeded in inventing the machine he desired for a long long time.

The machine started working and it gave the man complete satisfaction. People from their long practice would try to say thank you, so kind of you, my pleasure, don't mention it, etc. as to appreciate others or express gratitude. But their tongue could not produce these words. The machine caught them. It resulted in a huge change in people's behavior and attitudes. Gradually people became rough and tough, they lost their mental cool, and they blamed each other or fought with each other. They became so selfish that they started refusing to help others without having a return for their service.

The man was terribly happy with his success, but he didn't count on two little girls with special needs. They had speech difficulties so they used to communicate using sign language. Since the machine couldn't steal gestures, these girls continued their previous practices of being kind and polite. Soon they realized the difference between them and other people, which led them to investigate the reason. After much toil, they discovered the wicked man, who was in a hideout on the top of a hill next to the sea with his enormous machine busy in capturing people's polite words and separating them into letters. The girls found the man taking a nap when they crept up to the machine and rewound it so that people could get back to their normal behavior. As a result, the machine exploded, scattering all the letters it had gathered into the sky. After some moments, the letters started coming down, like rain and ended up in the sea. After that, everyone became polite and respectful to each other again. The anger and the arguments stopped, proving that good manners are very useful for keeping people together in a spirit of happiness.

৪. Write a summary of the following text.

উত্তর

A man who hated polite expressions invented a machine to steal them, causing people to become rude and unhelpful. Two girls who communicated through sign language remained kind because the machine could not capture gestures. They investigated, found the machine and reversed it. The machine exploded, releasing the stolen letters, and people became polite again. The story presents good manners as a force that helps people live together happily.

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