Students and Teachers Forum
The youth are been lead by .....
You are ordered to get out of my .....
4. Choose the correct answers.
A cat couldn't get enough food to eat for many days. He ___________ (grows, was growing, is growing) thin day by day and was very much worried for his condition .One day, he came to know that one of the birds of the neighbouring tree _____ (was, were, are) sick and the bird were looking _____ (for, in, on) a doctor. ____ (A, An, The) hungry cat devised a way to manage his hunger. He made someone ____________ (borrow, to borrow, borrowed) doctor's gown and wore it. He put on a pair of spectacles above his nose and with a doctor's bag, he went to the sick bird's house. The doctor cat gently _________ (knocked, was knocked, had been knocked) at the door. The birds peeped out of the whole and enquired about the reason for his visit. Mr. Cat said in a very kind and humble tone, "I'm your neighbouring doctor. I heard that you ______(are, were, will be) not keeping well and ______ (so, since, because) I have come to treat you. As you know, a doctor's duty towards his patient is above everything _____ (isn't that, isn't it, don't you)?" The birds were far smarter than the cat. They smiled cleverly and replied, "thank you for your kind gesture." Had you not been a cat, all your utterances ______________ (would be, would have been, will be) absolutely right. And for now, we can expect our well being only when you are out of our sight."
A cat couldn't get enough food to eat for many days. He ___________ (grows, was growing, is growing) thin day by day and was very much worried for his condition .One day, he came to know that one of the birds of the neighbouring tree _____ (was, .....
False evidence shouldn’t be .....
a. The girl gives a dance performance.
b. He said, ‘I like this song.’
c. into
d. Improve your handwriting.
e. Sanjaya has not cooked lunch, either.
f. isn’t .....
Let him not write a .....
You must yield to your .....
No mother hates her .....
a. We go to our hometown once in a blue moon. (sometimes)
b. When pigs fly, terrorism comes to an end. (something that never happens)
c. As an English teacher, an English test is a piece of cake. (easy to do)
d. Oh my god! I let the cat out of the .....
i. He is poor despite being a princess.
ii. In spite of his illness, he plays football.
iii. We will help them although they are our enemies.
iv. Though it is a distant village, we have to go there for relief materials.
v. We .....
During the holidays, I visited my grandparents, who live in a village – woke up early in the morning – decided to go for a stroll by the riverside – the cool river breeze was refreshing – the sky overheard was like a gentle .....
20. Read the following text and do the activities that follow.
The ultimate aim of all English teaching is for students is for students to ‘know English’, or at least know enough English for whatever purpose they have in learning the language. In this text we shall consider what knowing English entails – in other words, what are the aspects of the language that need to be learnt?
The question appears to be fairly straightforward. Clearly, students need to develop skills, e.g. speaking, listening, reading and writing; how much attention is paid to each skill will depend on the students’ need and interests. Within the productive skills (speaking and writing), we can say that students need to learn words and phrases to express meanings in English; they also need be able to produce basis structures correctly. In speaking, this will involve learning the sound system and stress and intonation patterns; in writing, it will involve learning features of the writing system, such as spelling and punctuation. Since we don’t speak or write in isolated sentences, they will also need to learn ways of joining sentences together in connected speech or writing.
Within the receptive skills (listening and reading), we can say that students need to understand words and structures in their spoken and written forms, and also understand the connecting devices that link them together. (All of this says nothing, of course, about how students learn, and does not necessarily mean that all these items need to be individually taught.)
A. Give short answers to these questions.
a. What is the final objective of all English teaching?
b. What skills of English need to be developed by students?
c. What skills are categorized as productive skills?
d. Give two examples of learning features of the writing systems.
e. What skills are categorized as receptive skills?
B. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements.
a. Knowing English enough for is a main aim of all English teaching.
b. Paying attention to skills depends on the students’ needs and interests.
c. In speaking stress and intonation are not significant.
d. In listening and reading skills, we cannot say that students need to know words and structures in their spoken and written forms.
e. Students will also need to learn ways of joining sentences together in connected speech or writing.
A
a. The final objective of all English teaching is to at least know enough English for whatever purpose they have in learning the language.
b. Speaking, listening, reading and writing need to be improved by students.
c. .....
There is no man who has no weak .....
22. Read the texts below and do the activities that follow.
One autumn, my sister and I made a blunder. She was ten and I was sixteen. We planned to really enjoy our holiday because we were together but away from home. Our excitement lasted till the end of our journey and taught us an important lesson.
We felt very excited and grown up as we were on the way to the hometown of our grandparents in a cart. Fresh and cool breeze touched our body and our soul. When we reached the lodge, we were disappointed. Although it was expensive, It was not clean and well furnished. It had a tin roof. The room where we were going to spend our night was small. I did not find it cozy. In spite of a small window that was facing towards the North, the room was not as airy as we expected. Both of us disliked it. We asked our granny ‘Is there any hotel? We like to stay somewhere else, but not here.” When we asked about another option, our grandfather replied, ‘No, there is not any guest house or hotel nearby.” Their reply annoyed us but we could not make any further request further. After we unpacked our suitcases, our grandmother warned us not to go outside till their return. “We won’t,” my sister promised, but I knew that she was telling a lie. We had already decided to go out.
A. Answer the following questions.
a. Where did the two sisters go to spend their vacation?
b. What touched them?
c. How was the hotel?
d. What annoyed them?
e. What did they decide to do in the absence of their grandparents?
B. Choose the best alternative.
a. The weather was ________________ while they were travelling.
i. pleasant ii. cold iii. gloomy iv hot
b. The sister was looking for another hotel because it was ________________.
i. airy ii. cozy iii. spacious iv. dirty
c. Their hotel had a _________________ room.
i. rectangular ii. big iii. small iv. spacious
d. After their grandparents’ reply, they could not make any further ______________.
i. inquiry ii. investigation iii. request iv. interrogation
C. From the text above, find the words that are similar in meaning to the following words.
i. exhilaration ii. saddened iii. preference
A.
a. The two sisters went to their grandparents’ hometown to spend their vacation.
b. Fresh and cool breeze touched them.
c. The hotel was expensive, dirty, poorly furnished, small, and had a tin roof and a .....
27. Choose and copy the best answers of the numbered blanks below. ( Rewriting is not compulsory.)
A certain farmer had four sons. ____ (A, An, The) farmer had no dearth of materials riches. Yet his life was not happy and peaceful. The reason was his unwise sons _____ (who, whose, whom) were always quarrelling with each other. The poor farmer's words of wisdom fell __ (in, to, on) the deaf ears of his sons. One day a striking idea popped up in his mind of the worried father. A few later, when his young sons fought ever some trivial issue and their fight took a severe turn, the farmer ______ (called, had called, is calling) all of them. He pushed a bundle of four sticks towards his eldest son and asked him to give a try to break it. The eldest son tried to do so with all his might, but failed. Each of his sons ___ (are, was, were) given the opportunity to break the bundle but all of them failed. The farmer took the bundle in his own hand, untied it and gave one stick to each of his sons. Then he asked his sons to break their respective sticks. All the sticks _______(broke, were broken, are broken) with ease. The farmer asked his sons ____________ (did they realize, if they realized, if they had realized) how strong these strong thin sticks had proved themselves when they had been tied altogether and how weak they had been when left alone. The father further said, "My dear children, if you brothers keep in fighting like this, then ever the smallest enemy _________ (can harm, could harm, could have harmed) you. And if you are untied nobody will harm you, ______ (won't they, will they, won't it)?" In this way the father _____ (got, had, made) his sons not to quarrel again for ever.
A certain farmer had four sons. ____ (A, An, The) farmer had no dearth of materials riches. Yet his life was not happy and peaceful. The reason was his unwise sons _____ (who, whose, whom) were always quarrelling with each other. The poor .....
I shall not drive a .....
Doesn't the sun set in the .....
You cannot help caring .....
31. Choose and copy the best answers of the numbered blanks below. ( Rewriting is not compulsory.)
Did you _______ (hear, heard, hearing) about Sera? She got a small part in a film recently, ________ (did, didn't, doesn't) she? She had to ride her bike to ___ (a, an, the) top of a steep hill and then go downhill without stopping. Unfortunately, while she _________ (had gone, was going, goes), she fell ______ (from, of, off) her bike into some bushes. The accident got her right arm ______ (break, broke, broken) and got cuts and bruises all over. She said with himself, "________ (he was, she was, I am) lucky I didn't break my neck!" of course the director was sorry ______ (and, but, because) he didn't want this scene in the film. It __________ (excluded, was being excluded, was excluded) when it was finally edited. Sera cannot go to see herself at the cinema if she _______ (knows, knew, had known) it earlier.
Did you _______ (hear, heard, hearing) about Sera? She got a small part in a film recently, ________ (did, didn't, doesn't) she? She had to ride her bike to ___ (a, an, the) top of a steep hill and then go downhill without stopping. .....
a. He is sad, for he has failed an exam.
b. I work hard now so that I can get a better future.
c. We need to be good to others in order to get respect.
d. The purpose of dancing was to draw others’ attention.
e. Ram is lazy, .....
a. Pemba’s neighbor got angry because of the noisy party.
b. Krishna started training at beauty centre in order to become a beautician.
c. I visit the zoo so that I can observe activities of wild animals.
d. A sharpener is .....
34. Read the texts below and do the activities that follow.
Human traffic is one of the cross-cutting issues. It is a worldwide serious concern. Human trafficking is an illegal trade of human beings for sexual exploitation, forced labour, extraction of organs or tissues and so on. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), human trafficking is the recruitment or transportation of persons by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of abduction, fraud or deception, or for the purpose of exploitation. It knows no gender, age, race and boundaries.
Victims are trafficked within a country or transnational. They are smuggled because they are forced to work as prostitutes, domestic servants, beggars, factory workers, mine workers, circus performers and child soldiers. It is like another form of slavery. The majority of trafficking victims are women and children because of their marginalization in many societies and their limited economic resources. Besides them, other key target groups include people from low income households, ethnic minorities, illiterate or people with low level of education, refugees, illegal migrants, children running away from home, and other. Members of split families are also prone to it. Women of forced marriage and early marriage, deserted wife, widows and discriminated daughters are easily victimized.
A. Answer the following questions.
a. What do you mean by human trafficking?
b. Who are prone to trafficking?
c. Give a reason why human trafficking is another way of slavery?
d. Why are majority of trafficking victims women and children?
e. Give a suitable title to the text above?
B. Read the text above again and write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false statements.
a. Traffickers’ target is only girls and women.
b. Human trafficking is a burning issue.
c. Victims get a better job and earn better when they are recruited.
d. Victims are trafficked only from one country to another.
C. From the text above, find the words that are opposite in meaning to the following words.
a. kidnapping b. whores c. international
A.
a. Human trafficking is an illegal trade of human beings for sexual exploitation, forced labour, extraction of
organs or tissues, etc.
b. Women, children, ethnic minorities, refugees, .....
36. Read the following news report and do the activities that follow:
40,000 cancer patients in Nepal: Report
Bhaktapur,
Dec. 15 (RSS):
One per cent of the total population of the world has developed cancer, and in Nepal around 40,000 people are
found to be cancer positive, according to a WHO report. Every year another 15,000 cases are added and around
6,000 people die of the disease.
Disclosing this, a press meet organized by Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital also said most cancer patients can be
cured if diagnosed on time and treatment provided promptly. Have you developed symptoms such as difficulty in
swallowing, sores that do not heal for a long time, changes in your voice, excessive bleeding from the nose,
change in the colour and size of moles or constipation? If so it could indicate cancer.
Medical director of the hospital and senior cancer specialist Dr Madan Kumar Piya says that people are not
sufficiently cautious about cancer, the second most dangerous disease after HIV AIDS. Most cases are rushed to
hospital when it is too late for them to be saved even with full range of treatment. Cancer in Nepal mostly
develops through smoking, irregular food habits and pollution. The patient is treated in three different ways
including radio therapy, chemotherapy and surgery.
A. Choose the best option to complete the sentence.
a. 15,000 cancer patients ___________ every year in Nepal. (i. die ii. increase iii. decrease)
b. Dr Piya claims that people go to hospital when they think ______________. (i. they can't live without treatment ii. they get cancer symptoms iii. their neighbours tell them to go)
c. 'Radio Therapy' is a ___________ of cancer. (i. cause ii. treating method iii. symptom)
d. Every year 6000 people die in ___________. (i. the world ii. Nepal iii. Kathmandu)
B. Answer the following questions.
a. In which situation can cancer patients be cured?
b. Write three symptoms of cancer?
c. When do they generally go to hospital?
d. What are the causes of cancer?
C. Write 'T' for true and 'F' for false statements.
a. The patients should go to hospital in the early period of symptoms.
b. Cancer is believed to the second most dangerous disease.
c. Cancer patients are saved if they are rushed to hospital even in the last phase of cancer.
A.
a. 15,000 cancer patients ______ every year in Nepal. (increase)
b. Dr Piya claims that people go to hospital when they think __________. (they can't live without treatment)
c. 'Radio Therapy' is a _________ of cancer. .....
a. The girl was giving a dance performance.
b. Pallavi said that she had seen Tara playing alone the day before.
c. with
d. Many diseases are carried by flies.
e. Anita did not tell me any poems.
f. mustn’t .....
38. Choose the correct answers.
One morning ___ (in, on, at) early April, I ______ (woke, wake, awake) up to see my friend Govinda standing by my beside. I blinked at him in surprise. " ____________________ (I was sorry to wake you up, I am sorry to wake you up, I have been sorry to wake you up), Ramesh", he said, ________ (but, because, and) we have a client waiting in the sitting room. She is a young lady. It seems she ____ (has, have, had) something very urgent to communicate. You would be interested in hearing. What she has to say, "_________ (won't you, wouldn't you, didn't you)?" "Of course, I would, my dear fellow", I said. I dressed quickly and left for the sitting room. ___ (A, An, The) client was a young lady dressed in black. She looked pale and frightened. "You must not be afraid", said Govinda soothingly. "Things_______(will be put, is put, are put) right by us. I assure you. Please tell us everything about your problem madam", said Govinda. If you _________ (don't tell, didn't, hadn't told) us your problem clearly, It will be difficult for us to solve your case." Mr. Govinda ______ (had, got, gets) her tell everything and she did the same.
One morning ___ (in, on, at) early April, I ______ (woke, wake, awake) up to see my friend Govinda standing by my beside. I blinked at him in surprise. " ____________________ (I was sorry to wake you up, I am sorry to wake you up, I have been .....
39. Read the following passage and do the activities that follow.
All students are afraid of examinations as they are a stressful experience. But the examinations that I sat for last week were quite different. A week ago, I finished my Master’s first year examinations which were very terrible. The exam environment made me feel as if I was doing class work in my classroom. The exam centre was in one of the old and well reputed campuses in Kathmandu. Most of the examinees were mature people, and everyone carried their books, guides, solution papers, chits and mobiles into the exam hall. Moreover, no examinee was seated according to the assigned seating plan.
The exam results show that those who labour hard get lower marks and those who cram for the exams by making use of guess papers, solution papers, and guide books have been scoring higher marks. This practice has to be eliminated otherwise it will be a hindrance to educational progress.
I urge the concerned people to conduct examinations in a strict manner so that only hardworking and qualified candidates pass them. Otherwise, the overall education system of Nepal will worsen, and the number of students applying for higher studies abroad will swell rapidly. Many Nepali students do not want to earn a degree from Nepal’s universities. Unfortunately, our educationists and concerned authorities have been turning a blind eye to the malaise in the exam system. For instance, a couple of years ago there was an assessment system, so the maximum number of students got first division in the Master’s level. After the system was removed, very few students got first division.
There is injustice between two generations. There is tough competition for jobs. First division certificate holders have a high possibility of getting jobs in comparison to second division holders. Our market is certificate oriented, not quality based. Employers look at the percentage. They lay emphasis on the percentage scored in the Master’s level, but they never consider how the employees have obtained the marks. There are many students who have been victimised by such a system of conducting examinations. Unless and until the examination system is made more stringent, qualified manpower cannot be produced.
A. Give short answers to these questions.
a. How do students cram for their examinations?
b. How should exams be conducted according to the writer?
c. Why did only few students pass in the Master’s level?
d. Who are likely to get jobs easily?
e. What is focused on by the employers?
B. Complete the following sentences with an appropriate word from the passage in each space.
a. Only hardworking students can ______ exams if the conduction of the exam is changed.
b. Most of the students don’t want to graduate from Nepal’s ______________.
c. There is a fierce competition for __________
d. __________ prevails between two generations.
C. Write the antonyms of these words from the passage.
i. finished ii. improve iii. diminish iv. phased in v. problem vi. low
A
a. Students cram for their examinations by reading guess papers, guide books, solutions papers, etc.
b. Exams should be conducted strictly.
c. Only few students passed in the Master’s level due to an assessment system.
d. Those .....
40. Read the texts below and do the activities that follow.
Rampant pesticide use risks health
Published: July 19, 2009
KATHMANDU
Most of the commercially produced vegetables available in the market are found to be unsafe for consumption, thanks to an excessive use of chemicals during their cultivation. ‘We are consuming poison along with vegetables, “scientist Ram Babu Paneru at Nepal Agricultural Research Council told this daily. “The farmers have been using pesticides and insecticides excessively in the farms, posing a threat to human health. Paneru said he recently visited vegetable farms in Charaudi and Mahadevsthan villages of Dhading, Empaphant and Baradi of Tanahun and Tutunga village of Kaski district. “Unprescribed use of chemicals is harmful to both the farmers and consumers,” he said. ‘It spoils the taste of vegetables and has environmental hazards.”
Climate Change is going to make inequality even worse than it already is
By Chelsea Harvey December 8, 2015
In a paper published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists demonstrate the full ramifications of a widely accepted theory about climate change: that it will almost certainly have a disproportionate impact on the poor. Acknowledging this fact in models they find can drastically change estimates of how climate change will affect the economy, and leads to a deeply troubling conclusion – climate change won’t just hit the poor hardest, but it will exacerbate existing inequality within societies. The lacking description of subregional/national inequality is one of the most glaring lacunae in these models,” said lead author Francis Denning, an assistant professor of economics at Yale – NUS College in Singapore, in an email to The Post.
Answer the following questions.
a. Who composed this poem?
b. What did the students do in the absence of their teacher?
c. What did the angel reveal to the students?
d. From whose point of view is the poem written?
e. Why does the angel interfere?
B. Find the words that are similar in the meaning to the words.
i. miniature ii. bent iii. contemplate iv. value
C. Write ‘T’ for True and ‘F’ for False statements.
a. When the teacher was absent, students helped each other.
b. There was good relationship between students and teachers.
c. Enlightenment is gained in the classroom.
A.
a. Tom Wayman composed this poem.
b. In the absence of their teachers, students sat with their hands folded on their desks in silence for the full two hours.
c. The angel revealed to the students that their regular presence in the classroom .....
a. If you love me, meet me at the Garden of Dreams after half an hour.
b. If Mukesh goes on a picnic, I will not go.
c. If you beat a baby, she will cry.
d. If you call me, I will come.
e. If you forget to call me, I will remind you.
f. If you .....
a. If I don’t pay the phone bill today, you are charged a fine. (according to law).
b. If Manju joins the team, the team can win the tournament.
c. If it rains, we will not go out.
d. If you don’t practice hard, you won’t get .....
a. I was reading a letter
b. Sunil asked me if I wanted to dance
c. from
d. America was discovered by Columbus.
e. This house is not an expensive one.
f. doesn’t .....
44. Read the following and do the activities that follow.
In most countries, an exchange of business cards is essential for all introductions. You should include your
company name and your positions in a business card. If you are going to a country where your language is not
widely spoken, you can get the reverse side of your card printed in the local language. In Japan, you must present
your card with both hands, with the writing facing the person you are giving it to.
In many countries, business hours are from 9 or 10 am to 5 to 6 pm. However, in some countries, such as Greece,
Italy, and Spain, some businesses close in the early afternoon for a couple of hours then remain open until the
evening.
Japanese business-people consider it their professional duty to go out after work with colleagues to restaurants,
bars, or nightclubs. If you are invited, you should not refuse, even if you do not feel like staying out late.
A. Write 'True' for the true statements and 'False' for the false ones.
a. Exchanges of business cards are rare in the world.
b. Either company name or position must be mentioned in the card.
c. In general business hours are between 9 to 5 pm.
d. Japanese business persons don‟t want to spend time after office.
B. Answer the following questions.
a. How many languages must be used in a business card?
b. How is a business card presented to anyone in Japan?
c. Where do some businesses close in the early afternoon for two hours?
C. From the text above, find the words that are similar in meaning to the following.
a. opposite b. crucial c. pair d. co-workers e. discos
A.
a. Exchanges of business cards are rare in the world. F
b. Either company name or position must be mentioned in the card. F
c. In general business hours are between 9 to 5 pm. T
d. Japanese business persons don‟t want to spend time after .....
Answers are highlighted in bold.
As I_____ was leaving/have left/had left) my previous job in _____ (a/an/the private bank, the directors told me about life, status and wealth: The things _____ (will never forget/ will never be .....
a. meet
b. will not go
c. beat a baby
d. will
e. forget
f. .....
a. We could not get our point over.
b. I had to get away from the party.
c. He got back his investment with lots of interest.
d. He got down the train.
e. I got in at 6 pm last night.
f. I got up at 7 .....
a. Have you not been here before?
b. Dilip has some problems.
c doesn’t he?
d. Improve your handwriting
e. the
f. A song is sung by .....
49. Read the following passage and do the activities that follow:
About 2500 years ago in Egypt, the wise men of the country had a problem that they were unable to solve. They
wanted to know the height of a great pyramid. One man suggested that someone should climb the pyramid and
measure it. Somebody should climb the pyramid and measure it. Someone tried to do so, but the pyramid was tall
and sloping slides were slippery. While these wise men were trying to figure out how to climb the structure,
somebody brought up other problems.
“We still won‟t know the actual height”, he said. “All that, the workman could measure, would be the length of the
slope.” Then somebody suggested consulting Thales, a Greek scientist, who was living in Egypt at the time.
“Here is the way to measure the height of the pyramid, he told them. “One of you must stand beside the pyramid in
the midafternoon and watch your own shadow. When your shadow is the same length as the height of your body,
then the length of the shadow of the pyramid will also be of the same height as the pyramid. Just measure the
shadow.
A. Write 'T' for true and 'F' for false statements.
a. The suggestions given by others were not convincing.
b. Thales told to measure the height any time when there was the sun shining.
c. He suggested measuring the shadow only when the person‟s shadow was equal to his shadow.
B. Answer the given questions.
a. What was the problem which the Egyptians could not solve?
b. What was the objection against someone climbing the pyramid and measuring its height?
c. Who was Thales?
d. How old is the story?
e. What was Thales‟ idea to measure the height of the pyramid?
C. Complete the following sentences using the ideas from the text.
a. The _______________ of Egypt were unable to solve a problem.
b. The workman could measure only __________.
A.
a. The suggestions given by others were not convincing. True
b. Thales told to measure the height any time when there was the sun shining. False
c. He suggested measuring the shadow only when the person‟s shadow was equal to his shadow. .....
a. If I don’t pay the phone bill today, you are charged a fine.
b. If Manju joins the team, the team can win the tournament.
c. If it rains,we will not go out.
d. If you don’t practice hard,you won’t get good marks in the .....