RU রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় এ ইউনিট ভর্তি পরীক্ষা ২০১৯-২০২০ (ইংরেজি বিভাগ)

Write an essay on any one of the following:

(2.1) Pleasures of Backbiting

(2.2) Effects of Weather on Your Feelings

Read the following passage and answer the questions below it (avoid copying sentences from the passage).Great books do not spring from something accidental in the great men who write them. They are the effluence of their very core, the expression of the life itself of the authors. And literature cannot be said to have served its true purpose until it has been translated into the actual life of one who reads it. It does not succeed until it becomes the vehicle of the vital. Progress is the gradual result of the unending battle between human reason and human instinet, in which the former slowly but surely wins. The most powerful engine in this battle is literature. It is the vast reservoir of true ideas and high emotions, and life is constituted of ideas and emotions. In a world devoid of literature, the intellectual and emotional activities of all but a few exceptionally gifted men would quickly sink and retreat to a narrow circle. The broad, the noble, the generous would tend to disappear for want of accessible storage. And life would be correspondingly degraded, because the fallacious idea and the petty emotion would never feel the upward pull of the ideas and emotions of the genius. Only by conceiving a society without literature can it be clearly realised that the function of literature is to raise the plain towards the top level of the peaks. Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely, ten thousand may afterwards live finely. It is a means of life, it concerns the living essence.

(1.1) How does literature influence the life of the reader?

(1.2) Why should reason win over instinct?

(1.3) 'Literature is a means of life'. Explain this statement in three sentences,

(1.4) Translate the first two sentences of the passage into Bangla.

(1.5) Make a sentence of your own with each of the underlined words in the passage.