HSC English 1st paper । Jessore Board 2025 । Questions with Answer
HSC English 1st paper । Jessore Board 2025 । Questions with Answer
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Read the following text and answer the questions in A
A Plate of hot French fries and a huge burger with hot cheese oozing out of it, with a carbonated drink; looks like a treat! This calorie-rich junk food does look mouth-watering but is known to be nutritionally poor. Junk food or fast food has become an increasingly popular food choice. Ideally, junk foods are defined as processed foods with negligible nutrient value and are often high in salt, sugar and fat. But we often confuse fast foods with junk foods. How are they different? Or what is junk food really?
Junk foods are processed foods consisting of high colories, but that is considered only as a broad umbrella. These foods are prepared in a way that they look appealing and are enjoyable so you are chemically programmed to ask for more. According to Dr. Sunali Sharma, a dietician and nutritionist, "Commercial products including salted snack foods, chewing gum, candy, sugary desserts, fried fast food and sweetened carbonated beverages that have little or no nutritional value but are high in calories, salt and fats may be considered junk foods. Though not all fast foods are junk foods, a great number of them are. For instance, a salad may be fast food, but is definitely not junk food. Some foods like burgers, pizzas and tacos may alternate between junk and healthy categories depending on the ingredients, calories and process of manufacturing."
Fragment consumption of junk food increases the intake of excess fat, simple carbohydrates and processed sugar which may lead to a higher risk of obesity and cardiovascular diseases among other chronic health problems. The resulting obesity may begin clogging up the arteries and lay the basis of an impending heart attack. It has also been suggested that eating junk food affects the brain in the same way as consuming addictive drugs. An addiction to junk food may even result in the rejection of healthier food options like fruits, vegetables, salads etc, leading to further lack of nourishment.
A. Choose the correct answer from the following alternatives.
Read the passage and make a flow chart showing the functions of education. (No. 1 has been done for you) :
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 as 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.
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Summarize the following text:
Relationships are of different kinds. Some are familial and intimate, formed by blood and by marriage, some are social like the ones we have with friends and some are made in school where we form close bonds with classmates and teachers. Relationships can also be fostered in workplace, which may quickly uickly change from professional to social. There are relationships also betwe human beings and animals, between children and their toys that they cannot part with.
All these relationships keep us close to each other and provide us all kinds of support, love and affection. A person who has no family feels the pains of loneliness and isolation. There is no one to laugh or cry with him/her. When we share our joy with someone, it simply redoubles, and when we suffer a loss and someone shares our sorrow, it lessens. Relationships are thus needed for our emotional health.
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Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary:
warmth
cut
rise
anticipation
habitats
increase
reckless
severe
imperative
extinct
catastrophe
raise
The destruction of forests and other (a) _____ is causing the (b) _____ of various plants and animals everyday. In the last 25 years alone the world has lost one-third of its natural wealth. Forests are being (c) ______ down. Moreover, they are being burnt (d) _____ resulting in an (e) _____ in carbon dioxide and ultimately the water level (f) ______ as a consequence of global (g) _______ . It is (h) ______ that the new century will face an over whelming environmental (i) _______ . It is therefore (j) _____ to check the reckless pollution of the environment.
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Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable word in each gap :
From the moment we are born, we cannot (a) ____alone. We are always in (b) _____ of assistance of (c) ______ others around us. We need clothes, which others (d) _______ houses, which others (e) _______ and food, which others (f) _____ . We have to earn our livelihood by (g) _______ for others, while they get their livelihood by working for us. As children, we need our parents to be our comforters, and take (h) _____ of us in body and (i) _____ . As we grow up, we need the care of others, we cannot exist a day (j) _______ our fellowmen.
(6)The following sentences are jumbled. Rearrange them in proper sequence:
(i) And that person was his loving mother.
(ii) His father got angry for this kind of activity.
(iii) Because he always asked, "Why, why, why."
(iv) The boy often undertook some risky adventures.
(v) He was Thomas Alva Edison.
(vi) But there was only one person who did never feel annoyed with the boy.
(vii) For example, once the boy set his father's barn of fire only to see how it could burn.
(viii) Do you know who this boy was?
(ix) Sometimes it was difficult to satisfy him with answer.
(x) A young boy of six or seven became the subject of talk in a village.
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(7)The graph below shows an increase in the number of overseas students at the universities which usually takes place over a period of time. Describe the graph in 150 wrods.
(8)The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words:
Shimul was a schoolgirl, whose parents were landless. They were unable to bear her educational expenses. But Shimul was determined ………………………………. .
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Suppose, you are Zaman living in Dhaka. You have a penfriend who lives in Australia. Now, write a letter to your friend describing the foods and food habits in Bangladesh.
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