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প্রীতি ও শুভেচ্ছা জানবে। আজ আমরা ইংরেজি প্রথমপত্র Reading Test নিয়ে আলোচনা করছি।

READING TEST

1.Read the following text and answer the question A and B.

The persona of a traffic police man has always been a curious one. It has often found important space and close treatment in literature and other arts. Besides the many poems about this fascinating character there is at least one movie where the central character is a traffic police man. In 1963,Greek film maker FilipposFylaktos made this film named ‘My brother’ the traffic police man. It featured a slightly manic traffic police man. Antonius Pikrocholos, who is utterly devoted to service and duty, and applies the traffic code with unyielding severity. Tickets rain down upon law- breakers in particular taxi-drivers and especially Lampreys, who happens to be in love with Pikrocholos’ sister, Fofo. In his tu, the traffic police man is in love with a business man’s daughter, Kiki, who is afraid to reveal her feelings to her father. Besides, Antonishas given lots of traffic tickets to father’s company. For all these reasons, the road to marriage for both couples is long and strewn with obstacles, but the outcome is a happy one for everyone involved.

A. Choose the correct answer from the alteatives.

(a) What does the word persona in the passage refer to?

(i) icon     (ii) symbol (iii) image (iv) myth

(b) How has this character been treated in literature?

(i) With little importance

(ii) has been maltreated

(iii) Presented with indignity

(iv) duly valued

(c)  What does the word important in the passage refer to?

(i) central                 (ii) significant

(iii) vocal               (iv) focal.

(d) What does the word treatment in the passage refer to?

(i) discourse            (ii) focus                  (iii) converse           (iv) coverage.

(e) What does the word feature in the passage refer to?

(i) discourse             (ii) talk

(iii) converse           (iv) highlight.

Answer: (a) image (b) duly valued

(c) significant (d) coverage      (e) highlight.

B.  Answer the following questions.

(a) Can you name the maker of the film my brother, the Traffic Police man? When was it made? (b) Why does AntonisPikrocholos issue a lot of tickets to low-breakers in particular taxi- drivers and

especially Lam pros? (c) Is the traffic police man in love with any one? If yes, who is she? (d) Who is the central character of Filippos Fylaktos’ film “my brother, the traffic policeman’’? (e) What do you know about Kiki? What is she afraid of?

Answer:

(a) The name of the maker of the film my brother, the Traffic policeman was Filippos Fylaktos, a Greek

film maker. The film was made in1963.

(b) AntonisPikrocholosissuses a lot of tickets to law-breakers in particular taxi- drivers and especially Lam pros because the man is in love with Pikrocholos’ sister, Fofo. (c)Yes, the traffic policeman is in love with a girl. Her name is Kiki. She is the daughter of a businessman.

(d) AntonisPikrocholos, a slightly manic traffic policeman, is the central character of FitipposFyloktos’  film “My brother, the Traffic policeman”.

(e) Kiki is a businessman’s daughter. Antonis Pikrocholos is in love with her. She is afraid of revealing her feeling to her father.