English Unseen Model Questions for PEC Examination 2015

“Competency Based Questions”

Read the text and answer the questions 5,6,7,8 and 9

Once there was an old farmer who had three sons. They always quarreled with one another. One day the old farmer called his sons to bring some sticks. He tied the sticks in a bundle. He told them to break the bundle. They tried but could not break the bundle of the sticks. Then he told them to untie the bundle and gave a stick to sons and asked them to break it. Then all of them broke the stick easily. The farmer told them that if they would remain separate and quarrel with one another, the enemy would easily defeat them. But if they remained united like the bundle, they would be stronger and the enemy could not do any harm to them. At this the three sons learnt a great lesson and began to live untidily and happily.

5. Choose the best answer:
a) How many sons did the farmer have?
i. three ii. four iii. five iv. Six

b) What did the famer call his sons to bring?
i. plough ii. leveler iii. sticks iv. Rope

c) What did he first do with the sticks?
i. tied in a bundle ii. gave a stick each iii. break them iv. beat his sons with them

d) He told them to — the bundle.
i. tie ii. untie iii. break iv. Sell

e) The old farmer told sons to be —.
i. helpful ii. separated iii. hard working iv. United

f) How did the three sons break the sticks?
i. easily ii. slowly iii. fast iv. at once

g) When couldn’t the enemy do any harm to them? If they —.
i. remain separated ii. quarrel each other iii. remain united iv. work together

h) What is the passage about?
i. importance of unity ii. honesty iii. importance of working hard iv. how to tie a bundle of sticks

i) Three sons could not break the sticks at first. Because the sticks were —.
i. very hard ii. very heavy iii. very long iv. tied in a bundle

j) If they remained united like the bundle, they would be —.
i. happier ii. stronger iii. poorer iv. Richer

6. Fill in the blanks of the following sentences with the clues given in the box. There are extra words than necessary.

able—defeat—had—happily—failed—sadly—quarrel

a. The old farmer — three quarrelling sons.
b. They tried to break the bundle but —.
c. The enemy would easily — them.
d. They began to live — and happily.
e. At last the old farmer was — to teach his sons a good lesson.

7. Answer the following questions.
a. Who quarreled with one another?
b. Why did the farmer call his sons?
c. When could the three sons break the sticks?
d. What did the three sons learn?
e. What is the moral of the passage?

8. Write a short composition in 5 sentences about the effect of quarreling.

9. Suppose you are Altaf. You live in Shashibushion, Charfession, Bhola. Your friend, Hossain lives in Dhaka. He sometimes becomes hot-headed. He then quarrels with others. Write a letter to your friend Hossain advising him not to quarrel.