Read the passage and answer the questions B. [Unit-8; Lesson-3(C)] At daylight I was half wakened by the sound of chopping. Again, it was so even in texture that I went back to sleep. When I left my bed in the cool morning, the boy had come and gone, and a stack of kindling was neat against the cabin wall. He came after school in the afternoon and worked until time to return to the orphanage. His name was Jerry... he had been at the orphanage since he was four. I could picture him at four, with the same grave gray-blue eyes and the same independence? No, the word that comes to me is "integrity" [গণিত] It is bedded on courage, but it is more than brave. It is honest, but it is more than honesty. The ax handle broke one day. Jerry said the woodshop at the orphanage would repair it. I brought money to pay for the job and he refused it. "I'll pay for it," he said. "I broke it. I brought the ax down careless." "But no one hits accurately every time," I told him. "The fault was in the wood of the handle. I'll see the man from whom I bought it." It was only then that he would take the money. He was standing back of his own carelessness. He was a free-will agent and he chose to do careful work, and if he failed, he took the responsibility without subterfuge. And he did for me the unnecessary thing, the gracious thing, that we find done only by the great of heart. Things no training can teach, for they are done on the instant, with no predicated experience. He found a cubbyhole beside the fireplace that I had not noticed. There, of his own accord, he put kindling and "medium" wood, so that I might always have dry fire material ready in case of sudden wet weather. A stone was loose in the rough walk to the cabin. He dug a deeper hole and steadied it, aithough he came, himself, by a shortcut over the bank. I found that when I tried to return his thoughtfulness with such things as candy and apples, he was wordless. "Thank you" was, perhaps, an expression for which he had had no use, for his courtesy was instinctive. He only looked at the gift and at me, and a curtain lifted, so that I saw deep into the clear well of his eyes, and gratitude was there, and affection, soft over the firm granite of his character... B. Answer the following questions. (a) Who was Jerry? (b) Why did Jerry do unnecessary jobs for the writer? (c) What is integrity? Explain. (d) "He only looked at the gift and at me". Why? (e) Write about the bonding between the writer and Jerry.
উত্তর: (a) (b) (c) Integrity means the quality of being honest and having a strong moral character. Jerry's Integrity, as defined by the writer, is bedded on courage, but it is more than bravery; it is honest, but it is more than honesty. (d) Jerry was an orphan boy living in an orphanage. He was deprived of motherly care and fatherly affection. He did not think that someone could give him any gift. So, when the writer offered him candy or apples in exchange for his voluntary services, he was speechless and looked at the gift and the writer. (e) Jerry was an orphan who lived in an orphanage. As a wood chopper, he came in contact with the writer. But Jerry had many extraordinary qualities which enabled him to win the heart of the writer. He being a motherless boy, loved the writer like his mother, while the mother in the writer got roused by his helplessness and extraordinary qualities. Thus, they developed a mother-son-like relationship between them.
HSC English 1st Paper CQ — Prosthuti প্রশ্নব্যাংক
HSC · English 1st Paper · সৃজনশীল
Read the passage and answer the questions B. [Unit-8; Lesson-3(C)] At daylight I was half wakened by the sound of chopping. Again, it was so even in texture that I went back to sleep. When I left my bed in the cool morning, the boy had come and gone, and a stack of kindling was neat against the cabin wall. He came after school in the afternoon and worked until time to return to the orphanage. His name was Jerry... he had been at the orphanage since he was four. I could picture him at four, with the same grave gray-blue eyes and the same independence? No, the word that comes to me is "integrity" courage, but it is more than brave. It is honest, but it is more than honesty. The ax handle broke one day. Jerry said the woodshop at the orphanage would repair it. I brought money to pay for the job and he refused it. "I'll pay for it," he said. "I broke it. I brought the ax down careless." "But no one hits accurately every time," I told him. "The fault was in the wood of the handle. I'll see the man from whom I bought it." It was only then that he would take the money. He was standing back of his own carelessness. He was a free-will agent and he chose to do careful work, and if he failed, he took the responsibility without subterfuge. And he did for me the unnecessary thing, the gracious thing, that we find done only by the great of heart. Things no training can teach, for they are done on the instant, with no predicated experience. He found a cubbyhole beside the fireplace that I had not noticed. There, of his own accord, he put kindling and "medium" wood, so that I might always have dry fire material ready in case of sudden wet weather. A stone was loose in the rough walk to the cabin. He dug a deeper hole and steadied it, aithough he came, himself, by a shortcut over the bank. I found that when I tried to return his thoughtfulness with such things as candy and apples, he was wordless. "Thank you" was, perhaps, an expression for which he had had no use, for his courtesy was instinctive. He only looked at the gift and at me, and a curtain lifted, so that I saw deep into the clear well of his eyes, and gratitude was there, and affection, soft over the firm granite of his character... B. Answer the following questions. (a) Who was Jerry? (b) Why did Jerry do unnecessary jobs for the writer? (c) What is integrity? Explain. (d) "He only looked at the gift and at me". Why? (e) Write about the bonding between the writer and Jerry.
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