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The document discusses Nelson Mandela's significant role in ending apartheid in South Africa and his journey towards establishing a multi-racial democracy. It highlights his imprisonment, determination to avoid civil war, and his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, shared with F.W. de Klerk. The text also includes various questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises related to Mandela's life and contributions.

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The document discusses Nelson Mandela's significant role in ending apartheid in South Africa and his journey towards establishing a multi-racial democracy. It highlights his imprisonment, determination to avoid civil war, and his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, shared with F.W. de Klerk. The text also includes various questions and fill-in-the-blank exercises related to Mandela's life and contributions.

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Special Model Test: 01

1. Read the passage and answer the questions A and B. [Unit—1; Lesson—2(B)]
Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to a multi-racial democracy,
as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice around the
world.
Imprisoned for nearly three decades for his fight against white minority rule, Mandela never lost
his resolve to fight for his people’s emancipation. He was determined to bring down apartheid
while avoiding a civil war. His prestige and charisma helped him win the support of the world.
“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during
my life; I will fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days,” Mandela said in his acceptance
speech on becoming South Africa’s first black president in 1994, ... “The time for the healing of
the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.”
“We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation.”
In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he shared with F.W de Klerk, the
white South African leader who had freed him from prison three years earlier and negotiated the
end of apartheid.
A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives. .510= 5
(a) The phrase 'shackles of apartheid' refers to ——.
(i) a sense of emancipation due to apartheid
(ii) a sense of confinement due to apartheid
(iii) a sense of flexibility in apartheid system
(iv) a sense of concord in apartheid system
(b) How many years did Mandela spend in prison?
(i) 30 years (ii) 13 years (iii) 27 years (iv) 23 years
(c) What do you understand by the term 'apartheid'?
(i) socialization (ii) separation (iii) purification (iv) distraction
(d) "I hate race discrimination ——". Here, the word 'race' functions as ——.
(i) a verb (ii) an adverb (iii) a noun (iv) an adjective
(e) "He was determined to bring down apartheid while avoiding a civil war". This
statement implies ——.
(i) Mandela was peace loving
(ii) Mandela wanted no publicity
(iii) Mandela helped the black people by excluding the white people
(iv) Mandela wanted to avoid war among countries
(f) The word 'reconciliation' is similar to the word ——.
(i) harmonizing (ii) incompatibility (iii) distressing (iv) purification
(g) "F.W. de Klerk, the white South African leader —— had freed him from prison
three years earlier and negotiated the end of apartheid". From here we get
that ——.
(i) F.W. de Klerk did not feel for the white
(ii) He was a supporter of racism
(iii) He was Mandela's best friend
(iv) He was a participant in the struggle against apartheid
(h) The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Nelson Mandela and F.W. de
Klerk. This fact shows ——.
(i) their mutual efforts to end racial segregation
(ii) their thoughts regarding the importance of apartheid
(iii) their contrasting thoughts
(iv) their power against the white minority
(i) What does 'multi-racial democracy' mean?
(i) a political system ensuring equality among people of different nationalities and
cultures
(ii) a form of democracy directed by a single ruler
(iii) a form of government involving a dominating monarch
(iv) a political system barely securing the equality of all the people
(j) Nelson Mandela wanted ——.
(i) to find out a cure for AIDS (ii) to eliminate disparity
(iii) to uphold apartheid (iv) to enhance the challenges
B. Answer the following questions. 35=15
(a) Who was Nelson Mandela? What did he do for the blacks of South Africa?
(b) For how many years, according to the text, was Mandela imprisoned? What did he fight
for?
(c) What did Mandela abominate and how?
(d) Why was Mandela awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? With whom was the prize shared?
(e) Why was Mandela resolved? How did he win the support of the world?

# Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. 2x5=10

1. eloquent darkness awareness learn attain enlighten


choice intellectual purpose human sensibility parochialism
Education is the process by which our mind develops through formal (a) —at an institution. It is mental and
(b)—training. It provides opportunities of growth and helps to (c) — challenges. Moreover, the purpose of
education is to (d) —an individual. The aim of education is also to train individuals to make right (e)—. It
ennobles our mind and refines our (f) —. It broadens our outlook and removes (g)—. It helps us to be(h)—
of our rights and responsibilities. Education furnishes us with an (i)— in expressing truth. Therefore, it is
compared to light high dispels the (j) — of ignorance.[J. B. 2019; C. B. 2017]
2. communicate be different convey message through
based same distribute form contrary direct
Electronic mail or 'email' is the communication of textual messages via electronic means. Another mode of
electronic(a)—is telex. Telex communication(b)—terminal to terminal. 'Email'(c)—from telex as it (d)—
messages user to user (e)—using the computer. Destined (f)—are sent to the (g)—terminal where an operator
(h)—it in a printed(i)—in telex. On the(j)—, 'email' delivers its messages directly in an individual's electronic
mail boxes based in computer.

# Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box.


2x10=20
1. We know that all species are (a) —for maintaining ecological balance. If one is (b)—the whole natural
environment (c)—. In order to (d)—the environment from being spoilt, we should therefore protect (e) —
wildlife. The good news is that many countries are now (f)— action to protect their (g) —wildlife. We
should (h) — the earth's wild (i) —to save ourselves. To be (j) — to animals is to be kind to mankind.
2. Rabindranath Tagore was a man of (a) —genius. He was (b)—a poet and novelist (c)—a playwright, a
composer, a painter and a philosopher. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for (d)—Gitanjali into English.
Those translations earned him a great (e) — in the West. As a humanist, Tagore accused the British (f) —
and pleaded for the (g) —of India from Britain. Tagore was highly influential in (h)—the best of Indian
culture to the West and vice-versa. He (i)—himself to literature at a very early age. After coming back
from England, he began to write (j)—in all branches of literature.

# Rearrange the following sentences into correct order:


2x10=20
1. (i) He showed extraordinary credit in every examination of the school.
(ii) He has made great contribution to the scientific research of Bangladesh.
(iii) Dr. Md. Qudrat-i-Khuda was born on 8 May at village Margram in the district of BirbhuminWest
Bengal in 1900 AD.
(iv) In1924, getting star marks he passed MSc in Chemistry from Kolkata Presidency College.
(v) He died on 3 November in 1977.
(vi) His father Hazrat Shah Abdul Mukit was a pious man.
(vii) In1929, he passed DSc from Imperial College in England.
(viii) At the age of six, he was admitted into a Furkania Madrasa and then he was admitted into an English
school.
(ix) He made a great plan to give the new structure of education system.
(x) In 1952, he was appointed Chairman of Secondary Education Board.
2. (i) He died on August 29, 1976 and was buried on the compound of Dhaka University.
(ii) He wrote a lot of poems, songs, gazals, short stories, novels, etc.
(iii) He lost his father at the age of eight and at the age of eleven, he showed his poetic genius.
(iv) At the age of nineteen, he joined the Army as an ordinary soldier to fight in the First World War.
(v) On his return from the battlefield, he gave up the sword for the pen.
(vi) It was tragic that he had been suffering from a cruel disease since1942 and remained paralyzed for
the rest of his life.
(vii) In1924, he married Promila in Kolkata.
(viii) Bangladesh became independent in 1971 and he was brought to Bangladesh from Kolkata in 1972.
(ix) Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in 1899 in the district of Burdwan in West Bengal.
(x) Then he was declared our national poet by the Government of Bangladesh.

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