Read the following comprehensive passage and answer the questions below:
Socrates believed that an angry man was more of a beast than human being. He had a wife who used to lose her temper on the slightest excuse and tried her utmost to irritate Socrates. One day the woman became more furious than ever and began to insult Socrates. He went out and sat on the door step of his house looking out on the public street. The wife finding that he was not paying the least heed to her, went up to him and poured much water over him. The passers-by in the street were much amused at the incident and Socrates joined with them in their laughter and quietly remarked, "I was expecting this ; after hundred comes rain."
a. What was the habit of Socrates' wife?
b. What did his wife do one day?
c. What did Socrates do then?
d. What was the result?
e. What was the remark passed by Socrates?

- Salim asked a question. It was curious of him. He came out on to street. He saw a strange beggar.
- 'Sarcasm' is-
- The appropriate preposition in the gap of the sentence. I never thought_____playing cards.
- (b) French leave (d) Sine die
- The best word for the gap in the sentence."The audience_____ to his lecture."
- পূর্বে ছাত্ররা শিক্ষকদের সম্মান করিত।যেখানে শৃংখলা নেই সেখানে উন্নতির আশা করা যায় না।শিক্ষা প্রতিষ্ঠানকে সন্ত্রাসমুক্ত করা অতি জরুরী।(b) Translate the following sentences into Bengali.Fallow lands can be brought under the scheme of afforestation it Bangladesh.Perhaps you do not read newspaper, do you?
- a) Naney told me that she (go) to Egypt the next day.c.If you had told me earlier, I (help) you.e.English (speak) all over the world.
- Which of the following phrases is most suitable that completes the sentence. " I am afraid that my success as an engineer was just a........ "
- ____means to make fun of someone in a good humoured way.
- (a) In the teacher's attitude he was very impartial.(c) He was given an honorable degree.
- The death of a queen in a good plot will be treated
- "You've carried me a long way, how much pay you?". I said to the rickshaw puller."Anything is all right."
- Which is not the meaning of 'catalyst' ?
- শুদ্ধ বানানসহ নিচের অনুচ্ছেদটি উত্তরপত্রের নির্দিষ্ট স্থানে বাংলায় অনুবাদ কর:
- The intermittent rain soaked the garden many different times during the day.
- He comes __ a noble family . My guest went __ with her conversation. He prides himself ___ for his son's success.
- Middle East news agency belongs to:
- Now look at the opposition between pen and the sword from another point of view. The sword can only destroy; ideas also can destroy- the ideas of Bolshevism destroyed Czarism; the ideasof voltare and Rousseau destroyed the French, aristocracy. But ideas can also build, whereas the sword can only destroy. It is in fact the power of ideas which has brought us out of barbarism intosuch civilization as we have been above to achieve. "In what" asked Aristotle, "does man differ from the animal?" And answered, "It is by virtue of reason". The greatness of man consists in his thinking. The universe is vast, and man is tiny, but man has one advantage over the universe. He knows it is vast and he is tiny, but the universe does not. In this savage, the sense that it is to ideasand not to violence, to the pen and not to the sword, that man owes whatever had distinguished him from animals, whatever has enabled him to rise above purely savage condition. For the pen isthe vehicle of thought, and it is by thought that man is enabled to voyge through the infinite philosophy, to unlock the secrets of the universe, to create beauty and to commune with God.(b)In what according to Aristotle , does man differ form animals?
- If I........... I would have delivered the package myself.
- The Brothers Karamazov is Written by-
- a) was anybody hurt in the accidentc) I got admitted into the collegee)He is bad at English
- a) I can not bear such an insult.c) Drought destroys our crops.
- The streets are my home. I used to collect trash and sell it to a vendor. I stoppped doing that after I had a serious infection and a doctor told me to stay away from the trash dump. Once I worked for an ice cream shop owner and sold ice cream on the beach. But I got no money in return. The owner of the shop gave me something to eat and let me sleep in his hut at night. The work was difficult and painful. The ice cream box is quite heavy when it is full.I had to work for hours, offering my ice cream to whoever wanted to buy. There were days when I could not even sell one ice cream.
- He was unable to catch the _______ to the play in my speech
- Passengers must exit airplanes rapidly after accidents because gases released following accidents are toxic to humans and often explode soon after being released. In order to prevent passenger deaths from gas inhalation, safety officials recommend that passengers be provided with smoke hoods that prevent inhalation of the gases. Which of the following, if true, constitutes the strongest reason to require implementation of the safety officials' recommendation?
- beingproductivelycountingquestioned adjustedEducation can be as the transmission of values and knowledge from one generation to another in society. One purpose of education is to make people what it is to be a human . It also aims to teach a person to live morally, creatively, and in a democratic society.
- (b)This chair is much more comfortable than the other(d)The old lady dresses as if it is winter even in the summer.
- Choose the correct spelling.
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- (a)Allay (b)Brittle (c)Gluttony (d)Obliterate (e)Slump
- I ___ on ______ it until you come.
- (b) He replied to my letter without any delay. (Re-write the sentence using an Adverb in place of the underlined phrase)(d) What is the Past Participle form of the verb 'Stink"?
- Which spelling is incorrect ?
- Choose the correct sentence
- (a) vulnerable (synonym)(c) emit (noun)
- a) I like my tea with the milk.c)The sun will not rise before an hour.e) I shall compensate the loss to you.
- Oh that I were young again! ( Assertive)No Sooner did he see me then he began to weep.(Affirmative)He was in bad health, and so he could not work (simple)
- A "white elephant" refers to a/an ______ .