Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo

Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo

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Part A Reading (Marks-30)

Read the passage below and answer the following questions:

Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo

Valentina Tereshkova was born in the village Maslennikovo, Tutayevsky District, in Central Russia. Tereshkova's father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. Tereshkova began school in 1945 at the age of eight, but left school in 1953 and continued her education through distance learning.

She became interested in parachuting from a young age, and trained in skydiving at the local Aeroclub, making her first jump at the age 22 on 21 May 1959. At that time she was employed as a textile worker in a local factory. It was her expertise in skydiving After the flight of Yuri Gagarin (the first human being to travel to outer space in 1961), the Soviet Union decided to send a woman in space.

On 16 February 1962, "proletaria" Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from that led to her selection as a cosmonaut. among more than four hundred applicants. Tereshkova had to undergo a series of training that included weightless flights, isolation tests, centrifuge tests, rocket theory, spacecraft engineering, 120 parachute jumps and pilot training in MiG-15UTI jet fighters.

Since the successful launch of the spacecraft Vostok-5 on 14 June 1963, Tereshkova began preparing for her own flight. On the morning of 16 June 1963, Tereshkova and her back-up cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in space suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by a bus. After completing her communication and life support checks, she was sealed inside Vostok 6. Finishing a two-hour countdown, Vostok-6 launched faultlessly.

Although Tereshkova experienced nausea and physical discomfort for much of the flight, she orbited the earth 48 times and spent almost three days in space. With a single flight, she logged more flight time than the combined times of all American astronauts who had flown before that date. Tereshkova also maintained a flight log and took photographs of the horizon, which were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere.

Vostok-6 was the final Vostok flight and was launched two days after Vostok-5, which carried Valary Bykovsky into a similar orbit for five days, landing three hours after Tereshkova. The two vessels approached each other within 5 kilometers at one point, and from space Tereshkova communicated with Bykovsky and the Soviet leader Khrushchev by radio.

Much later, in 1977 Tereshkova earned a doctorate in Engineering from Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. Afterwards she turned to politics. During the Soviet regime she became one of the presidium members of the Supreme Soviet. Now this living legend is a member in the lower house of the Russian legislature. On her 70th birthday when she was invited by the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, she expressed her desire to fly to Mars, even if for a one-way trip.

1. Choose the best answer from the alternatives:
(a) What is the closest meaning of legislature?
(i) House
(ii) Respected
(iii) Politician to
(iv) Assembly

(b) What does the phrase expertise in skydiving mean?

(i) Expertness in skydiving
(ii) Expert skydiver
(iii) Skydiving trainer
(iv) All the above statements

(c) What is the meaning of regime?
(i) Authority
(ii) Command
(iii) System
(iv) Appropriately

(d) What could be the closest meaning for parachuting in the fourth line?

(i) to jump from a plane
(ii) to drive down from a helicopter
(iii) to descend by means of a parachuting
(iv) to fall down with the help of a big cloth

(e) She studied in school for -
(i) 7 years
(ii) 8 years
(iii) 9 years
(iv) 6 years

(f) After the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet Union to send a woman in space.
(i) came up with the idea
(ii) marched
(iii) finalized
(iv) fixed

(g) How many applicants were there for the project?
(i) three hundred
(ii) more than four hundred
(iii) four hundred and fifty
(iv) five hundred

(h) Tereskhova was when she made her first flight to space-
(i) 26 years old
(ii) upset
(iii) sick
(iv) 20 years old

(i) Vostok-6 was launched on-
(i) 16 June 1963
(ii) 15 June 1963
(iii) 14 June 1963
(iv) 16 June 1964

(j) Tereskhova left school when she was-
(i) 15 years old
(ii) 16 years old
(iii) 17 years old
(iv) 9 years old

Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions (2 & 3):

When a girl gets married, she usually drops out of school

When a girl gets married, she usually drops out of school and begins full-time work in her in-laws' household. In the in-laws' house, she is marginalized. She becomes vulnerable to all forms of abuse, including dowry-related violence. In Bangladesh, it is still common for a bride's family to pay dowry, despite the practice being illegal. Dowry demands can also continue after the wedding. For an adolescent bride, even if her in-laws are supportive, there are greater health risks in terms of pregnancy and child birth. The majority of adolescent brides and their families are uninformed or insufficiently informed about reproductive health and contraception.

The maternal mortality rate for adolescents is double the national rate. When adolescent girls are pulled out of school, either for marriage or work, they often lose their mobility, their friends and social status. The lack of mobility among adolescent girls also curtails their economic and non-formal educational opportunities. Moreover, they lack information about health issues. According to a study, only about three in five adolescents have even heard of HIV. It is also reported that more than 50 percent of adolescent girls are undernourished and suffer from anemia.

Adolescent fertility is also high in Bangladesh. The contribution of the adolescent fertility rate to the total fertility rate increased from 20.3% in 1993 to 24.4% in 2007. Moreover, neonatal mortality is another concern for younger mothers. While the situation for adolescent boys is somewhat better, many are vulnerable and lack the power to make decisions about their own lives. Many boys who are unable to go to school, or are unemployed, remain unaware of social or health issues. They are at considerable risk of being drawn into criminal activities. They are also more likely to get exposed to drugs and alcohol.

2. Answer the following questions:

(a) Why are adolescent girls the worst sufferers?
(b) What happens to a girl when she loses mobility?
(c) Who, do you think, are more vulnerable to adolescent health problems-boys or girls? Why?
(d) What major problems do boys face during adolescence?

3. Read the above passage again and then write the antonym/synonym- of the following words as directed within brackets:

(a) vulnerable (antonym);
(b) violence (synonym);
(c) adolescent (antonym);
(d) support (synonym):
(e) majority (antonym);
(f) reproductive (synonym);
(g) mobility (antonym);
(h) economic (synonym);
(i) contribution (synonym);
(j) considerable (antonym)

4. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

Rivers are very important sources which provide the protein need of our food. The rivers are the (a)---------- place of a huge quantity of fishes. We export it after (b)---------- our need. By exporting it we (c) ---------- a huge foreign exchange every year. But the (d)---------- of fish is decreasing day by day. As water has been polluted in various ways, the living places of fishes are (e) ---------- People (f)---------- fishes to eat. As fish is the (g)---------- wealth of our country, we should be (h)---------- about this asset. Otherwise Bangladesh will have to (i) ---------- a great difficulty of the (j)---------- of food in future.

5. Re-arrange the following sentences to make a coherent order :

(a) At first Hercules tried to fight the lion with his club and arrows but this took him nowhere.

(b) The valley of Nemea was being disturbed by a terrible lion.

(c) Hercules was the son of Jupiter and Alcmena.

(d) Eurystheus ordered Hercules to slay the beast and bring him his skin.

(e) He decided to use his hands.

(f) Burystheus, the king of Mycenae and his cousin made him undergo some difficult task.

(g) Then he attempted different tactic.

(h) He first involved a fight with a lion.

Part B Writing -(Marks-20)

6. Write a paragraph on 'Drug Addiction' in about 200 words based on the answers to the questions:

(a) What is drug addiction?
(b) Why do people get addicted to drugs?
(c) What are the consequences of drug addiction?
(d) What should be done to remove the curse of drug addiction from society?
(e) How can you play a role in the fight against drug addiction?

7. The following is the beginning of a story. Complete it in your own words. Give a title to it:

There lived two friends in a certain village. They were very fond of travelling. They liked to enjoy the natures, to see green trees, blue seas and to hear the sweet songs of birds. One day they went to a forest for travelling. They were walking along with the path of the forest. One time they entered the deep forest...

8. Write the summary of the following text.

In Bangladesh, the legal age of marriage is 18 for girls and 21 for boys

In Bangladesh, the legal age of marriage is 18 for girls and 21 for boys. However, 33 per cent of adolescent girls are married before the age of 15 and 60 per cent become mothers by the age of 19. Research finds that adolescents with higher level of education and from more affluent families tend to marry at a later age. Boys, however, become ready for marriage only after several years of adolescence and young adulthood.

When a girl gets married, she usually drops out of school and begins full-time work in her in- laws' household. In the in-laws' house, she is marginalized. She becomes vulnerable to all forms of abuse, including dowry related violence. In Bangladesh, it is still common for a bride's family to pay dowry, despite the practice being illegal. Dowry demands can also continue after the wedding.

For an adolescent bride, even if her in-laws are supportive, there are greater health risks in-terms of pregnancy and child birth. The majority of adolescent brides and their families are uninformed or insufficiently informed about reproductive health and contraception. The maternal mortality rate for adolescents is double the national rate.