RU রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় এ ইউনিট ভর্তি পরীক্ষা ২০২১-২০২২ (ইংরেজি বিভাগ)

Write a composition on any ONE of the following:

(2.1) Good Old Days

(2.2) Your Idea of Being Modern

Read the following passage and answer the questions below it:My father's attitude was that this was but an inevitable phase of my growing up and he affected to take it lightly. But beneath his jocular, boys-together air, he was at a loss, he was frightened. Perhaps he had supposed that my growing up would bring us closer together whereas, now that he was trying to find out something about me, I was in full Night from him. I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me. And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitably undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him. And the very harshness of this judgment, which broke my heart, revealed, though I could not have said it then, how much I had loved him, how that love, along with my innocence, was dying.My poor father was baffled and afraid. He was unable to believe that there could be anything seriously wrong between us. And this was not only because he would not then have known what to do about it, it was mainly because he would then have had to face the knowledge that he had left something, somewhere. undone, something of the utmost importance. And since neither of us had any idea of what this so significant omission could have been, we took refuge in being hearty with each other.We were not like father and son. my father sometimes proudly said, we were like buddies. I think my father sometimes actually believed this. I never did. I did notwant to be his buddy; I wanted to be his son. What passed between us as masculine candor exhausted and appalled me.He thought we were alike. I did not want to think so. I did not want to think that my life would be like his, or that my mind would ever grow so pale, so without hard places and sharp, sheer drops. He wanted no distance between us; he wanted me to look on him as a man like myself. But I wanted the merciful distance of father and son, which would have permitted me to love him.

(1.1) How do the narrator and his father differ in their attitude to their father-son relationship?

(1.2) Describe the psychological turmoil the narrator had to undergo during his adolescence.

(1.3) How is the father portrayed here?

(1.4) Give meanings, in English, of the expressions in bold.

(1.5) Translate the underlined section of the passage into Bangla.