Unit-8 Lesson-4
Question No. 1 (A)
1. Read the passage and answer question A.
My name is Amerigo. I am 13 years old and I live on the street, alone. My mother, who is separated from my father, doesn’t want me. She told me to go away. Now she is married to another man. My father lives very far away. I want to go to him, but he won’t take me either. I begged him to send me some money so that I could buy a bus ticket. I am still waiting. He hasn’t answered. The streets are now my home. Sometimes I find work. I used to collect trash and sell it to a vendor. I stopped 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 was quite heavy when it was full. I had to walk for hours, offering my ice cream to whoever wanted to buy. There were days when I could not even sell one ice cream. In a way, I am lucky because I am alive. My friends who work sorting rubbish in dumps often suffer from serious diseases. One of them was recently killed after he fell into a hole that opened up in the pile of trash. Many of us work for 10 to 12 hours and get so little in return that we can’t even buy food.
A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives.
(a) Amerigo is --- of his parents love and care.
i. sure ii. proud iii. deprived iv. certain
Ans: iii. deprived.
(b) His parents are not --- with each other.
i. compatible ii. incompatible
iii. reciprocal iv. ferocious
Ans: i.compatible.
আরো পড়ুন : Unit-১২, Lesson-১-এর ১০টি প্রশ্নোত্তর, ১ম পর্ব, এইচএসসি ইংরেজি ১ম পত্র
(c) His mother did not --- Amerigo to stay with her.
i. let ii. allow iii. order iv. tolerate
Ans: ii. allow.
(d) Amerigo requested his father to send him some money, but his father did not comply --- his request.
i. as ii. for iii. to iv. with
Ans: iv. with.
(e) Amerigo stopped collecting trash because he --- seriously infected.
i. turned ii. got iii. was iv. came
Ans: ii. got.
(f) The owner of the ice cream shop was not very ---.
i. cruel ii. miserly iii. kind iv. frugal
Ans: iii. kind.
(g) Amerigo was --- to carry a heavy ice cream box for hours.
i. bound ii. requested
iii. satisfied iv. allowed
Ans: i. bound.
(h) Serious diseases are --- to children who sort rubbish in dumps.
i. prone ii. common
iii. positive iv. available
Ans: ii. common.
(i) Street children face death --- as their life is risky.
i. scarcely ii. rarely iii. never iv. frequently
Ans: iv. frequently.
(j) Street children are deprived of their right --- even working for more than 12 hours.
i. fares ii. money iii. wages iv. fees
Ans: iii. wages.
লেখক : সহযোগী অধ্যাপক, ইংরেজি বিভাগ
ঢাকা কমার্স কলেজ, ঢাকা
কবীর
