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d) Why is Nakshikantha being produced commercially now?
Ans : Nowadays, Nakshi kantha is being produced commercially to meet up to its great demand due to its colourful patterns and designs embroidered on it.
3. Read the following text and fill in the gaps with appropriate words.
There is a small village (a) called Bhabanipur in Jhenaidah. It is a (b) typical Bangladeshi village. People here (c) spend their day to day life mostly working in the fields and doing (d) household work. In this ordinary village, there lives an (e) extraordinary woman named Shamima Akter Maya.   
Read the text and answer the question no.1 and 2.
The plane landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 4:55 p.m. The name ‘Suvarnabhumi’ is pronounced as “su- wan-na- poom”. The mame is derived from Sanskrit, which means golden land. The name was chosen by king Bhumibol Adulyadie. The airport is located in Racha Thewa in the Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province, 30 kilometers east of Bangkok. The airport has two parallel runways. Both of them are 60 meters wide. One of the runways is 4,000 meters long and the other is 3,700 meters. It can handle 76 flight operations per hour. It can handle 45 million passengers and 3 millions tones of cargo per year.
The airport passenger terminal is 563,000 square meters, that is, 6,060,000 square feet. It is the fourth biggest passenger terminal building in the world. The airport is going through phase2. It will raise its capacity to handle 65 million passengers per year. The airport has two 5-storey car park buildings. The buildings can house  5,000 cars.
1. Choose the correct answer to each question from the alternatives given.
a) The plane landed at _.
i) 5:55pm  ii) 5:55 am  iii) 4:55 am  iv) 4:55pm
Ans : iv) 4:55pm
b) Samut Prakan is the name of _.
i) district  ii) province  iii) thana  iv) upzilla
Ans : ii) province
c) The airport has _ parallel runways.
i) four   ii) three  iii) two  iv) five
Ans : iii) two
d) One of the runways is _ meters long.
i) 5000  ii) 2000  iii) 8000  iv)  4000
Ans : iv) 4000
e)  The airport can handle 45 million passengers per_.
i) year  ii) month  iii) week  iv) day
Ans : i) year
f) The airport will be able to handle _ passengers every year. 
i) 65 million  ii) 60 million  iii) 65 billion  iv) 56 million
Ans : i) 65 million
g) The building can accommodate _ cars.
i) 6000  ii) 6 million  iii) 5000  iv) 5 million
Ans : iii) 5000
2. Answer the following question from your reading of the above text.
a) Where did the plane land?
Ans : The plane landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.
b) How is the word ‘Suvarnabhumi’ pronounced?
Ans : The word ‘Suvarnabhumi’ is pronounced as “Su- wan-na- poom”.
c) What is the meaning of the word ‘Suvarnabhumi’?
Ans : The meaning of the word ‘Suvarnabhumi’ is golden land.
d) How  much are the parallel runways wide?
Ans : The parallel runways  are 60 meters wide.
3. Read the following text and fill in the gaps with appropriate words.
Kartik Poramanik is a barber by (a) profession but a lover of nature. He is (b) eager to plant saplings. He started planting trees (c) at an early age. He realized the (d) sufferings of people. He also believes that by (e) planting trees, he will earn the blessings of God. 
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