Great Women to Remember | সপ্তম শ্রেণি (মাধ্যমিক) এর CQ সমাধান

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Helen Keller was a great humanitarian. She cared deeply for the sick, injured and disabled people. The disabled people have physical or mental problems that limit their activities or senses. Helen devoted her life to help them.

Helen was born in 1880 in Alabama, USA. Her parents were Captain Arthur Keller and Katherine Adams Keller. Her family was not rich. Their main source of income was cotton-plantation.

Helen was bom healthy, but in 1882 she became deaf, dumb and blind after a high fever. Her father heard about Perkins School for the Blind in Boston and contacted the Director there. In 1887 the Director sent one of his best students, Anne Sullivan, to help Helen. Anne worked hard to enable her to communicate.

In 1890 Helen's formal education started at Horace Mann School for the deaf in Boston. In 1892 she went to Wright Humason School for the deaf in New York. Helen improved her communication skills and studied regular academic subjects. She then decided to go to college, and attended Cambridge School for Young Ladies in 1896. Later she studied at Radcliffe College. Here she learnt Braille, which was a new technique for reading. She also learnt how to type. Anne Sullivan was always with Helen. She sat with Helen in class and helped her by interpreting lectures and texts. In 1904 Helen received her BA degree with Honours from Radcliffe College.

Helen spent her life helping disabled people to learn. She died on June 1, 1968.

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Zishan, Julie and their parents Mr and Mrs Arif Khan got into a 1st class compartment at Kamalapur Railway Station. It was the Dewanganj-bound Tista Express. Zishan saw that the departure time on the big time table at the station was 7:30 am, but the train left at 8 o'clock. However, the train was running quite fast. The children sat by the window beside their parents. The compartment was half empty

Yesterday Julie downloaded a beautiful poem on a train journey by Robert Louis Stevenson, and printed out a copy of the poem. She took a printout of the poem. Now while looking out of the windows, she found similarities between the poem and real scenery. She took out the poem and began to read.

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It was Zishan's grandparents' house in the village. The night sky was clear. The full moon was shining brightly. All the family members had a delicious supper and sat in the yard. Zishan's cousins, Jahid and Shima, were very excited. They are the same age. They were also studying at a village school. Their grandparents gladly joined them. They were sitting on a bamboo mat. Everybody felt relaxed. They were talking, laughing and joking. The children's voices were the loudest. Jahid described how he played for his school in the Upazila Inter-School Tournament.

"What sports do you take part in, Zishan?" asked Jahid. Zishan could not answer. There was no playground in his school and around his house. Shima also told them how she won the first prize for 100 metre sprint in her school annual sports. She sang a beautiful Bhawaiya. Everybody clapped their hands in delight.

Julie's aunt Mrs Jahanara Khan told some funny jokes that made them laugh their heads off. The family gathering went on far into the night.

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In 1820, a baby girl was born to a rich couple who were spending their holiday in Florence. The baby was named after the city she was born. Florence was a devoted Christian and when she was only seventeen, she felt that God was calling her to serve the humanity by saying "Serve God." So she decided to nurse the sick. In 1851, she went to Kaiserswerth in Germany to learn nursing. Then in 1853, she was given her first post reorganizing a small hospital in Harvey Street, London which was an institution for caring the sick gentle women in distressed circumstances. As a result of her excellent job of reorganizing the hospital, Sidney Herbert, the secretary of war invited her to go on a mission to soldiers wounded fighting the Russians. She sailed with 38 nurses to Turkey on October 21, 1854. She worked very long hours to bring order and cleanliness to the hospital and became a heroine to British people.

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The great ship Titanic sailed for New York from Southampton on April 10, 1912. She was carrying 1316 passengers and a crew of 891. At that time, however, she was not only the largest ship that had ever been built but also unsinkable for having 16 watertight compartments. The tragic sinking of this great liner will always be remembered for she went down on her maiden voyage with heavy loss of life.

Four days after setting out, while the Titanic was sailing across the icy water of the North Atlantic, a huge iceberg was suddenly spotted by a look out. After the alarm had been given, the great ship turned sharply to avoid a collision. Suddenly, there was a slight trembling sound from below and the captain went down to see what had happened. The noise had been so faint that no one thought that the ship had been damaged below. The captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking rapidly, for five of her 16 watertight compartments had already been flooded.