Read the following text and answer the questions 1-2.
21 February is a
memorable day in our national history. We observe the day every year as
International Mother Language Day. The day is a national holiday.
On
this day, we pay tribute to the martyrs who laid down their lives to establish
Bangla as a state language in undivided Pakistan
The seed of the
Language Movement was sown on 21
March 1948 when Mohammad Ali Zinnah, the then Governor General of Pakistan Dhaka declared that Urdu
would be the only state language of Pakistan
The students of Dhaka University 21 February 1952 . When the
procession reached near Dhaka
Medical College Bangladesh
1. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives. 1´7=7
(a) The climax of something is
tits ¾
(i) final
stage (ii) reward
(iii)
downfall (iv)
punishment
(b) 21 February is-
(i)
Language Movement Day
(ii)
Language Day
(iii)
Mother Language Day
(iv)
International Mother Language Day
(c) We pay respect to the ¾ who sacrificed their lives on 21 February.
(i)
farmers (ii)
students
(iii)
soldiers (iv)
martyrs.
(d) The word 'national' used in
the 2nd live could be replaced by¾.
(i)
country (ii)
nation
(iii)
public (iv)
private
(e) In 1948 the
Governor General of Pakistan
(iii)
Monayem Khan (iv) Mohammad Ali Zinnah
(f) What was the type of protest
procession?
(i)
violent (ii)
aggressive
(iii)
non-peaceful (iv) peaceful
(g) What did the police do?
(i) opened
fire on the students
(ii)
remained inactive
(iii)
joined the procession
(iv)
supported the students
2. Answer the following questions. 2´5=10
(a) Why did the martyrs sacrifice their lives?
(b)
Why do we observe 21 February worldwide?
(c)
What are the names of the people who laid down their lives?
(d)
When was the seed of Language Movement
sown?
(e)
What raised a storm in the eastern part of the then Pakistan
