সিলেট বোর্ড ২০২৩

Complete the text with suitable prepositions.

Corruption is a curse (a) ______ a nation. It is a great hindrance (b) ______ the development. (c) ______ corrupted people, a nation will surely suffer (d) ______ the long run. Corrupted people are hated (e) ______ all. The common mass have no good feeling (f) ______ them. They are devoid (g) ______ honesty and purity. They don’t abide (h) ______ the social rules. Morality doesn’t have any impact (i) ______these criminals. They bring no sweet fruit for their land and so it is high time we stood (j) ______ them unitedly.

Complete the sentences with suitable phrase/words given in the box.

a. Anika can’t afford a bus ticket ______ air ticket.

b. It may rain today, you ______ reach home earlier.

c. ______ is many years since we first met. How time does fly!

d. As his brother met an accident, he needs to go to hospital ______ possible.

e. We ______ develop our view about hartal and strike. Let's change our destructive culture.

f. ______ have been remarkable changes in the behaviour of our young generation.

g. Maria Manda is a promising footballer of our country. She ______ in a remote village, Kalshindur.

h. ______ having integrity in one's character? It is the best quality of a man.

i. He is very poor but honest. He ______ starve than cheat anybody.

j. ______ a squirrel ______?

Complete the sentences using suitable clauses/phrases.

(a) Most of the rivers are getting polluted day by day. It is high time ______.
(b) Milk is rich in food values. We should take milk everyday so that ______.
(c) Mr. John is very interested in tourism. He wants to visit Bangladesh with a view to ______.
(d) I like to play cricket in my leisure time. When I get a chance, ______.
(e) No nation can develop without education. So, it is rightly said that ______.
(f) Mina really sings well. If she gets opportunity, ______.
(g) He was a petty clerk. But he behaved as though ______.
(h) The weather of that night was very rough. I would have met you provided ______.
(i) Bangladesh is a small country. Though it has a small area, ______.
(j) English is an international language. There is not a country in the world where ______.

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs as per subject and context.

It is natural that a man cannot (a) ______ (live) alone. He always (b) ______ (need) a company. He has to (c) ______ (express) his thought and ideas, (d) ______ (think) others while the others (e) ______ (be) of the same needs. He (f) ______ (have) also the need of others for (g) ______ (ensure) their safety and comfort. So, he is bound (h) ______ (live) with others (i) ______ (make) an institution and it (j) ______ (call) society. Society (k) ______ (be) the first organization which (l) ______ (make) by our primitive ancestors. They (m) ______ (be) the first to contribute to (n) ______ (develop) the civilization.