সরকারি বিজ্ঞান কলেজ, ঢাকা ২০২৫

Complete the text with suitable prepositions or adverbs.

The writer was (a) ______ a tiny steel cage attached (b) ______ a motorcycle. (c) ______ the last ten minutes, he had moved three feet (d) ______. He saw the pedestrians climbing (e) ______ pickup trucks and poor people in the rickshaws breathing (f) ______ the exhaust. He was working (g) ______ human rights (h) ______ that time (i) ______ Dhaka. He has the first-hand experience of traffic congestion sitting (j) ______ the back of a CNG.

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

(a) Rafi has become busy. He is seen ______.

(b) Boxing is a combat sport. When I first tried this game, I could barely get through the first round ______, get a chance to throw punches.

(c) He is the new king and has to see the needs of his people. This is the life he ______ for.

(d) I need your help to get my luggage. Please, deliver my luggage to my hotel ______ you can.

(e) I have read about sports cars. ______ it ______?

(f) Your decision about the matter seems confusing. Well, do what you like, but you ______ think it over.

(g) I ______ you returned my book tonight.

(h) Don't let your enemy know about your ______.

(i) ______ your new teacher ______?

(j) ______ had never been any doubt in my mind that she was fortunate. Her parents were very caring to her.

Complete the sentences using suitable clauses/phrases.

(a) Earthquake may occur in Dhaka city at any time. We have to be alert lest ______.

(b) We are living in the age of globalization. It needs skill and competence ______.

(c) The drivers who ______. Many people die on roads owing to road accidents.

(d) The sky is overcast with clouds and there is darkness all around. The nor-wester ______.

(e) He is by far ______. He answered all the questions correctly.

(f) Greenhouse gases are chiefly responsible for the rise in global temperature. It is time people ______.

(g) ______ you returned my book tonight.

(h) That English ______ is beyond doubt. Therefore, we should learn English well.

(i) If it rains heavily in Dhaka city, ______.

(j) People in our country are used to ______. Strict laws should be introduced to prevent traffic jam.

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

Universities should never (a) ______ (make) into mechanical organizations for collecting and (b) ______ (distribute) knowledge. Through them, the people (c) ______ (offer) their intellectual hospitality, the wealth of mind to others, and (d) ______ (earn) their proud right in (e) ______ (return) for (f) ______ (receive) gifts from the rest of the world. But in the whole length and breadth of India, there is not a single university (g) ______ (establish) in the modern time where a foreign or an Indian student properly (h) ______ (acquaint) with the best products of the Indian mind, for that we have to cross the sea and knock at the door of France and Germany. Educational institutions in our country (i) ______ (be) India's alms bowl of knowledge; they lower our intellectual self-respect; they encourage us to make a foolish display of decorations (j) ______ (compose) of borrowed feathers. In the Bangla language, there is a modern maxim which (k) ______ (translate), 'He who (l) ______ (learn) to read and write (m) ______ (ride) in a carriage and pair.'In English, there is a similar proverb, 'Knowledge is power.'It is an offer of a prospective bribe to the student, a promise of an ulterior reward which (n) ______ (be) more important than knowledge itself.