Read the passage and answer the questions $A$ and $B$ : Adolescents constitute a nation's core resource for national renewal and growth. Adolescence is a period in life when transition from childhood $\to adulthood takes place and behaviours and life styles are$ shaped. According $\to the World Health Organization (WHO), adolescence is the period which shapes the future of girls^{\prime} and boys^{\prime}$ lives. There are 28 million adolescents in Bangladesh; 13.7 million of them are girls and 14.3 million boys. The situation of adolescent girls in Bangladesh is characterised by inequality and subordination within the family and society. This inequality leads $\to widespread practice of child$ marriage, marginalisation or exclusion from health, education and economic opportunities and vulnerability $\to violence and sexual$ abuse. In Bangladesh, the legal age of marriage is 18 for girls and 21 for boys. However, 33 percent of adolescent girls are married before the age of 15 and 60 percent 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, höwever, become ready for marriage only after several years of adolescence and young adulthood. A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives : Which of the following is the correct meaning of '$affluent^{\prime} used in this$ passage?

1.What is the meaning of the word '$launch^{\prime}$?

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2.The word '$parachuting^{\prime} in the passage refers \to$

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3.What is the closest meaning of '$plant^{\prime}$?

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4.Mig-15 UTI is a/an

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5.The word '$isolation^{\prime} can be best explained$

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6.What does the word '$communicate^{\prime} in the passage refer \to$?

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7.Tereshkova logged more flight time than the combined $\times of all American astronauts who had flown before that$ date. Identify the clause----

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8.It was her expertise in skydiving that led her selection as cosmonaut. The word '$skydiving^{\prime} stands$ for-

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9.What is the meaning of 'under $go^{\prime}$?

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10.Read the following text and answer the questions of 10 mcq Valentina Tereshkova was born in a village, in central Russia on 6 March 1937. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. At the age of eight, she began her schooling but did not enjoy it much. She \left the school within a few years. Afterwards she completed 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 age 22 on 21 May 1959. It was her expertise in skydiving that led $\to her selection as a$ cosmonaut. After the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human being $\to travel \to outer space in April 1961, the Soviet Union decided \to send a woman in$ space. On 16 February 1962, "Proletaria" Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from 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 communication and life support checks, she was seated inside Vostok-6. and taken $\to the space shuttle launch pad by a$ bus., After completing her Finishing a two-hour countdown, Vostok-6 launched faultlessly. the flight, she orbited the earth 48 $\times and spent almost three days in$ space. Although Tereshkova experienced nausea and physical discomfort for much of 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 with 5 kilometers at one point, and from space Tereshkova communicated with Bykovsky and the Soviet leader Khrushchev by radio. Q.What is the best antonym of the word '$Faultlessly^{\prime}$?

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11.The word '$refuse^{\prime} mentioned in the passage$ means-

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12.The word '$gracious^{\prime} in the passage is closest in meaning \to-$

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