University of Rajshahi রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় এ ইউনিট ভর্তি পরীক্ষা ২০১৮-২০১৯ (ইংরেজি বিভাগ)

Write an essay on any one of the following:

(2.1) The experience of overcoming a phobia

(2.2) First impressions: To value or not to value?

(2.3) You after 30 years from now

Read the following passage and answer the questions below it:Before the invention of reading and writing, people lived in an environment in which they struggled to survive against natural forces, animals and other humans. To survive, preliterate people developed skills that grew into cultural and educational patterns. For a particular group's culture to continue into the future, people had to transmit it, or pass it on, from adults to children. The earliest educational processes involved sharing information about gathering food and providing shelter, making weapons and other tools, learning language and acquiring the values, behaviour and religious rites or practices of a given culture.Through direct informal education, parents and elders taught children the skills and roles they would need as adults. These lessons eventually formed the moral codes that governed behaviour. Since they lived before the invention of writing, preliterate people used an oral tradition or storytelling to pass on their culture and history from one generation to the next. By using language, people learned to create and use symbols, words or signs to express their ideas. When these symbols grew into pictographs and letters, human beings created a written language and made a great cultural leap to literacy.

(1.1) What does the passage say about the role of education?

(1.2) How did environment determine the objects of educational processes?

(1.3) How did an oral tradition lead to the development of a written language?

(1.4) Translate the first two sentences of the second paragraph into Bangla,

(1.5) Give the meanings (in English) of the underlined words and make a sentence of your own with each of them.