Read the text and answer the questions 1, 2, 3 and 4 :

What sound does a frog make? Croak, croak! It isn’t a beautiful sound. But, a long time ago, frogs had beautiful voices. They could sing more beautifully than the birds. This all changed because of one frog named Bluster.

One morning, Moxie the rabbit and Pluck the lizard talked to the fox and the rat. “Bluster has such a big, beautiful voice. Surely, he can share it with us,” said Moxie. They agreed. Bluster should share his voice with each animal.

The animals talked and talked late into the afternoon. They made a plan to take Bluster’s voice. They tell them! The birds were sitting in the tree and they heard the animals’ plan.

At midnight, Pluck and Moxie quietly went to Bluster’s home. Bluster was sleeping I his bed, and without making a sound, they took his voice! They put it into a glass jar.

Pluck and Moxie took the glass jar outside. The other animals were waiting. “Oh, give me my piece!” said the rat. Suddenly, the jar fell to the ground and it broke. Bluster’s voice and the jar were now  in a hundred little pieces.

“Oh, no!” cried Moxie. The animals searched, but they couldn’t find any of the pieces. It was too dark and the pieces were too small. “What are we going to do?” asked pluck. “We will come back in the morning,” said Moxie. And, all the animals went home without a piece of Bluster’s beautiful voice. They were all very tired from looking for the voice, so they went to sleep.  

In the morning, as the sun came up, the birds went out to have their breakfast. With their good eyes, the birds saw little pieces of the beautiful voice on the ground. They carefully picked up the pieces. They didn’t leave one piece of the beautiful voice behind.

That afternoon, the animals finally woke up. They ran to get the pieces of Bluster’s voice, but all they found there was broken glass. They searched and searched, but there were no pieces of the voice. Then, suddenly, they heard a beautiful song coming from trees. They looked up and saw the birds singing!

And to this day, the birds sing with Bluster’s beautiful voice, and Bluster, and all the other frogs, can only say croak ———- croak.

1.         Write the answer on the answer paper.            1x10=10

      a. Bluster’s had the most beautiful voice of all the ——-.

     i. alligators              ii. reptiles

            ii. beasts           iv. crocodiles

     b. Moxie was the name of a —

            i. rabbit            ii. cat

            iii. dog             iv. lizard

     (c) Pluck was the name of a —

            i. dog   ii. crocodile 

            iii. parrot          iv. lizard

     d. The animals made a plan to take Bluster’s———-.

            i. eye    ii. nose 

            iii. voices         iv. leg

            e. The animals decided not to tell the birds about their …… 

            i. plans ii. food        

            iii. water           iv. beauty

            f. The base form of ‘held’ is —

    i. helding      ii. hold 

            iii. held            iv.  holde

            g. “They carefully picked up the pieces”  The  underlined word is a/a….

            i. verb              ii. adverb  

            iii. adjective     iv. noun

h.         The animals searched but they couldn’t find any of the pieces.”  The underlined word is a/an @  .

            i. conjunction  ii.  preposition 

            iii. verb            iv. adverb  

i.          Which one of the following is an example of passive voice?

            i. We reached there in time.       

            ii. They drank milk.

     iii. She did the task successfully         iv. The glass a was taken outsides by pluck and Moxie.

j.          Which one of the following is an interrogative sentence?

      i. Don’t be impatient.

            ii. We are happy to meet you.

            iii. What sound does a frog make?

            iv. Let us do the task together.

2. Match the words of the column A with their meanings that are mentioned in the text in the column B (there are two extras).                                     1x5=5

 Or, Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

            a. To make sound is —- for all of us.

            b. Once upon a time, frogs —beautiful voices.

            c. All the animals —— and talked late into the afternoon.

            d. Bluster, it is said, had the most——voice of all the animals.

            e. After his singing, all over animals ———- to hear him

3.         Answer the following questions in sentence(s).                                 2x 5 =10

      a. What did birds carefully pick up?

      b. How did the glassjar break?

            c. Why did animal become tired?

            d. What didn’t Bluster want to share with other animal?

            e. Why did the birds find the little pieces of the beautiful voice?

4.         Write a short composition about ‘Birds of Bangladesh’ answering the following questions:    10    

            a. Are there any birds in Bangladesh?       b. What is the most common bird?

     c. How many kinds of birds are there?

            d. When do you see them?      

            e. What is their usefulness?

Read the text and answer the questions 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

There goes a proverb. “Man is the maker of his own fortune”. If we are afraid of work, we can’t prosper in life. Some people think that success in life depends on luck or chance. Scientists have toiled day and night in their laboratories to invent radio.

[To be continued]