Lutufur is eight years
old and lives in Dhaka. He comes
from Tongi. He has a brother who
works as a tempo helper. He came with his father , mother, brother and
grandmother to Dhaka in search of
a living. His father works as a rickshaw puller and mother as a domestic
worker. Lutufur collects polythene bags, scrap paper and other materials from
the Motijheel area and sells them at a shop for Tk. 5 to 10 a bag. He earns Tk.
20 to 50 a day, which he gives to his mother. Lutufur and his family live in a
slum near to Kamlapur railway station.Their home is a tiny shelter with a sheet
of polythene for a roof. They sleep on the dirty floor. Lutufur has a bath in a
creek near their home. He usually has his meals at home but sometimes begs for
food at restaurents. Once he got diarrhoea and had to stay at home for a few
days. He could not afford to go to a doctor or buy medicine for himself. He
once went to a free school near his home at Tongi but did not continue. He was
in the school for about a year and now he wants to go back to school and start
his studies again.
1. Choose the best answer from the
alternatives:
1 
5 = 5
5 = 5
a. Lutufur comes to Dhaka
------------.
i) to collect different things from
thegarbage ii) to see
the capital
iii) to beg for food at the
restaurants
iv) for his livelihood
b. Lutufur earns about Tk.------- perday.
i) 5
ii) 5 to
10
iii) 20
iv) 20 to 50
c. Lutufur has come from----------.
i) Kamlapur railway station ii) Tongi
iii)
d. Lutufur wants to go back to----------.
i) his village
ii) Tongi
iii) Kamlapur iv)
School
e. Lutufur’s life is----------.
i) very difficult
ii) very sad
iii) full of struggle iv) very difficult,
sad and full of struggle
2. Write whether the statements are true or
false.If false, give the correct
answer:
1 5 = 5
5 = 5
a. Everybody in Lutufur’s family work for
livelihood.
b. Lutufur’s father drives a tempo.
c.
Lutufur’s mother works in a house.
d. Lutufur
works as a tempo helper.
e. Once
Lutufur got diarrhoea .
3.
Fill in each gap in the following passage with a suitable word from the
box.
There are more word than necessary
: 
|
mother
|
struggle
|
became
|
suffer
|
school
|
coming
|
|
migrate
|
grandmother
|
decided
|
work
|
starving
|
started
|
Lutufur’s life is full of hardship and
(a)---------. At his early age he should have been in (b)---------- but because
of economic reasons the whole family (c)---------- to Dhaka
from Tongi. There was almost no
(d)---------- in Tongi and they were (e)----------. So one day his father (f)---------- to come to Dhaka
to look
for work. After(g)---------- to Dhaka his father (h)---------- to work as a rickshaw
puller, his (i)---------- got a job in house and his brother
(j)--------- a tempo helper.
4. Read the passage again. Now, Write in about 70-80
words about
Lutufur’s
life.
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5. Answer the following
questions :
1 5 = 5
5 = 5
a. Why
has Lutufur’s family moved to Dhaka ?
b. What does Lutufur do
?
c. What
sort of house does he have ?
d. How
did Lutufur get dirrhoea ?
e. What
does lutufur want to do again ?
6. Fill in each gap with a suitable word
from the text :
Lutufur’s
days are of (a)------- and struggling. Every morning he goes out of the (b)----
and starts looking for polythene bags, scrap
papers, bottles and (c)------- materials. He goes through the garbage (d)-------- for
these. At first he did not like (e)------- he does but graduallay he has got
(f)------- to it. The pungent and stinkly (g)------- of the garbage no more
bother him. He becomes (h)------, when he finds something good or interesting
among the (i)--------. What he earns is not (j)--------.
7. Read the passage again. Imagine you’re
Lutufur. Now write in about about
70-80 words
about your life history. Why you have come to Dhaka
? Where you live, your past life, dream
etc.
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8. Read the passage again and write the main idea of
the passage in not more
than five sentences.
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