B. Answer the following questions :
- How can you define adolescence?
- Why are the adolescents important?
- What is the condition of adolescent girls in Bangladesh?
- What are the consequences of gender inequality in Bangladesh?
- Which factors influence a girl's marriage?
b) Adolescents are important because they make up a nation's key resource for its growth and development.
c) Adolescent girls in Bangladesh usually face disparity and subjugation. As a consequence, they are marginalized, denied access to health and economic benefits and education. Even, they become victim to sexual assault and violencE-
d) Gender inequality in Bangladesh results in widespread practices of child marriage, marginalization or exclusion from health, education and economic opportunities and vulnerability to sexual abuse and violence
(e) Education and wealth play a significant role in a girl's marriagE- It has been found that educated rich girls tend to marry at a later age whereas uneducated poor girls are married off at an early agE-
- . 'Creativity' means..........
- The best synonym of 'toxic' is-
- A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives :The word 'liveliness' refers to ____
- The best synonym of 'smooth' is-
- Answer the following questions :(a) What does education provide us?(b) How do we become productive members of society?(c) Why is education called progressive and liberal?(d) How will the world become a much happier place?(e) Do you want to make nature your friend, philosopher and guide? Why?
- A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives :Gazi Pir is known to people through -
- Answer the following questions :(a) What is 'apartheid'? How is this term related to Nelson Mandela?(b) Do you think the journey of Mandela with his movement was smooth? Justify your answer.(c) The Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk - when and why?(d) Write on Mandela's achievements in brief.(e) What lesson can we derive from the legacy of Mandela?
- The word 'finitude' means -
- The word 'remonstrate' means,.......
- “There was a place where the grass was high and I lay down in it.” What does the word ‘it’ refer to?
- The phrase ‘aware of’ in the second sentence indicates-
- The word ‘unique’ mentioned in the passage is a/an-
- A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives :The word 'fascinate' means..
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B. Education gives us knowledge and a set of abilities to function meaningfully in life, such as the ability to decide things rationally and make the right choices. As we learn how to read, write and do the basic operations of arithmetic, we gain a degree of self-confidencE- We learn to think for ourselves and articulate our thoughts; we pick up skills to communicate with others and manage our affairs well. Education helps us think independently and make our own opinions. As we know more about the world, we appreciate the good things it offers us but also become critical of the deviations from the values it imparts and the rise of hatred or conflict that follows. The first thing education does is to give us an awareness about ourselves which leads to the development of our personality. As we begin school, we feel the need to belong to the class and make friends. We then expand our sense of belonging to include the school at large, our community and finally our country. Education thus prepares every child to become an active member of the community and work for its welfarE- Education, it is believed, releases our potentials and our inner strengths. It sharpens our intellect and develops our creativity. As we are taught to reason well and find solutions to the problems of life we become productive members of society. Education by definition is progressive and liberal, teaching us to respect human diversity and cultural and religious differences. If all of us practise these values in life, the world becomes a much happier placE-Education also fosters critical thinking and provides us a set of competencies including life skills that enable us to become competitive even in the most challenging of circumstances. Education also teaches us to appreciate beauty and the bounties of naturE- School, however, is not the only place where a child gets education. A Bangla poem tells us that nature can be our best teacher. Here are a couple of lines from the poem in English translation: The sky has taught me to be liberal. The wind has given me the motto to be industrious. If we can make nature our friend, philosopher and guide, we can learn lessons a
- Where is Kuakata located?
- When Tereshkova made her first jump, she was an employee?
- The phrase 'leads to' in the passage refers to?
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.As a child you must have been told to greet your elders and visitors to your home according to your culture and tradition. You must also have been taught to be polite in company and keep quiet while others, especially your elders, spokE- Possibly, you at times grudged such schooling. Possibly, at times you even protested such disciplining. Now, certainly you know that you can't always behave the way you want specially in the presence of others. There are rules of behaviour you have to follow in a company. We are social beings and have to consider the effect of our behaviour on others, even if we are at home and dealing with our family members. We have two terms to describe our social behaviour— 'etiquette' and 'manners'. 'Etiquette' is a French word and it means the rules of correct behaviour in a society. The word 'manners' means the behaviour that is considered to be polite in a particular society or culturE- Manners can be good or bad. For example, it is a bad manner to speak with food in one's mouth. No one likes a bad-mannered person. Remember that etiquette and manners vary from culture to culture and from society to society.
- Creativity' means -
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.Consistent with the psychoanalytic perspective, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams suggests that dreams are a representation of unconscious desires, thoughts and motivations. According to Freud, people are driven by aggressive and sexual instincts that are repressed from conscious awareness. While these thoughts are not consciously expressed, they find their way into our awareness via dreams. In his famous book The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), Freud wrote that dreams are "...disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes." Freud's theory contributed to the popularity of dream interpretation. Following his paths many theorists came up with their own ideas about dreams. The following are just a few of them : # Some researchers suggest that dreams are a subjective interpretation of signals generated by the brain during sleep. Dreams are not meaningless. Instead, during dreams the cognitive elements in our brain produce new ideas.# One theory suggests that dreams are the result of our brains trying to interpret external stimuli during sleep. For example, the sound of the radio may be incorporated into the content of a dream.# Another theory uses a computer metaphor to account for dreams. According to this theory, dreamsserve to 'clean up' clutter from the mind, much like clean-up operations in a computer, refreshing the mind to prepare for the next day.# Yet another model proposes that dreams function as a form of psychotherapy. In this theory, the dreamer is able to make connections between different thoughts and emotions in a safe environment.