প্রীতিলতা ১৯১১ সালের ৫ মে চট্টগ্রামে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। ছবি- সংগৃহীত
Unit-3, Lesson-3 (B)
Read the following text and fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.
Pritilata was born in Chattogram on 5 May 1911. She was a meritorious student at Dr Khastagir Government Girls School is Chattogram and Eden College, Dhaka. She finally graduated in philosophy with distinction from Bethune College in Kolkata. In her college days, Pritilata was an activist in the anti-British movement. All through her life, she dreamt of two things: a society without gender discrimination and her motherland without British colonial rule. So, she received combat training to fight against the British rule. She involved herself in Surya Sen’s armed resistance movement. In 1932, Surya Sen planned an attack on the Pahartali European Club. Surya Sen assigned Pritilata to lead a team of 10-12 men to attack the club. The raid was successful but Pritilata dressed as a man failed to get out of the club. She committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide to avoid arrest. She proved that women can work like men. She also proved that women too needed to be prepared to sacrifice their lives for the freedom from the British colonial rule. Her dream came true. The British rule came to an end though she couldn’t see it during her life time.
Question-1: Pritilata is an (a) --- for all women. (b) --- she did is really great. Her (c) --- in Surya Sen's armed resistance movement was a demand at that time. But it was matter of (d) --- that she was not (e) --- to enjoy the freedom.
Unseen Passage
Read the following text carefully and answer the question no. 2
Salman Khan (born on October 11, 1976) is an American educator and entrepreneur. He was born in Metairie, Louisiana, United States, to a Bengali family. His father was from Barishal, Bangladesh, and his mother was from Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. Khan attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Course 6 (electrical engineering and computer science) and another bachelor's degree in Course 18 (mathematics), in 1998. He was class president in his senior year. Khan also holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Salman Khan founded Khan Academy, a free online education platform and an organization with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a brick-and-mortar school associated with Khan Academy. The story behind Mr. Khan's joining YouTube is that in late 2003, Khan began tutoring his cousin. Nadia, in Mathematics over the internet using Yahoo!s Google notepad. When other relatives and friends sought his tutoring, he moved his tutorials to YouTube where he created an account on November 16, 2006. As of September 2018, the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has more than 4.2 million subscribers and the Khan Academy videos have been viewed more than one and half billion times. In 2012, Time named Salman Khan in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Forbes magazine featured Khan on its cover, with the story "$1 Trillion Opportunity".
2. Complete the table below with information from the passage.
3. Write a summary of the above passage in your own words.
4. Put the following parts of the story in correct order to make the whole story. Only the corresponding numbers of the sentences need to be written.
(a) Thus he saved his life.
(b) He came with a large army.
(c) The prince heard the news.
(d) Taimur was one of the greatest conquerors of the world.
(e) Taimur's soldiers were killed.
(f) Taimur disguised himself as a poor traveller.
(g) His soldiers surrounded the village on all sides and a terrible battle took place.
(h) Once he attacked the province of a powerful prince.
Answer: 1. (a) idol/icon, (b) What, (c) contribution/ participation, (d) regret/ sorrow, (e) alive/there.
2. (i) Metairie, Louisiana, USA, (ii) was from, (iii) to give teaching in public, (iv) Time, (v) one of the 100 most influential person in the world.
3. Salman Khan, a rare talent has brought about a revolutionary change in the sphere of e-learning. He is a highly qualified American entrepreneur having post-graduation degrees from MIT and Harvard. He is the founder of Khan Academy, a free online education platform and an organization with which he has produced over 6500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects. At present, his channel on YouTube has more than 4.2 million subscribers. His videos have been viewed more than one and a half billion times. He is an American by birth but a Bangladeshi by blood and oration.
4.
Taimur was one of the greatest conquerors of the world. Once he attacked the province of a powerful prince. The prince heard the news. He came with a large army. His soldiers surrounded the village on all sides and a terrible battle took place. Taimur's soldiers were killed. Taimur disguised himself as a poor traveller. Thus, he saved his life.
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