Founded 1991 by Md.

Alimullah Miyan
4 Embankment Drive Road (Off Dhaka-Ashulia Road), Sector 10, Uttara Model Town, Dhaka 1230, Bangladesh
Phone: 892 3471, 892 3469-70, 896 3523-27, 01714 014933, Fax: 892 2625, miyan@iubat.edu www.iubat.edu

English Language Competency Test (ELCT)

Summer 2020
Instructions:
1. You must submit a PDF of your answer script. All answers must be hand-written.
2. For converting images into PDF, you can use 'cam scanner' mobile app.
3. You are suggested to rename the PDF file with your ID No. and course code (Example:
11206030_ELCT_Summer_2020
4. Students must write page numbers on each page of the answer script (like: 1/10, 2/10,…10/10,
where total pages are 10) with full signature and ID on all pages.
5. In the subject box of the E-mail, write ELCT Spring-2020 your name and ID
6. Write your mobile number
7. Engineering Students (Civil, Computer, Electrical & Mechanical) must send the answer script to the
e-mail address: elctsum20@iubat.edu and Non-Engineering Students (MBA, BATHM, BBA,
BAEcon, BSAg, BSN) must send the answer script to the e-mail address: elct2@iubat.edu.

Full Marks: 100 Time: 2 Hours

[Please read the questions carefully and answer all of them according to question types. You are required to
write your answers of Section A and Section B in the answer script.]

SECTION A (Reading Comprehension) 30 marks

Section-A: Comprehension Skills

The United Nation’s Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) has recognized the disproportionate
impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on poor and densely populated urban areas, and particularly on informal
settlements and slums. Bangladesh recorded its first case of Covid-19 in March, and the rate of infection has
rapidly increased since then. The Bangladesh government has responded to the pandemic by raising a
national-level alert and implementing a wide range of public health measures. However, when considering
the high-density nature of informal settlements and slums, preventing the spread of the virus through social
distancing and self-isolation measures becomes hugely difficult, if not impossible.
These issues arise in the context of intensifying rural to urban migration patterns due to displacement caused
by climate change, which has increased the density of informal settlements and placed extreme pressure on
urban infrastructure. Although Dhaka has been the destination of choice for many new climate migrants,
many migrants pass through secondary cities and regional centers along the way. These cities have the
potential to become major population centers; however, pull factors such as employment opportunities
make Dhaka the primary city of choice for many new climate change migrants. To reduce the strain placed on
Dhaka and ensure that all citizens have access to the essential services they require, secondary cities will play
an important role in adopting new climate change migrants by creating competing pull factors against Dhaka.

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 Founded 1991 by Md. Alimullah Miyan
4 Embankment Drive Road (Off Dhaka-Ashulia Road), Sector 10, Uttara Model Town, Dhaka 1230, Bangladesh
Phone: 892 3471, 892 3469-70, 896 3523-27, 01714 014933, Fax: 892 2625, miyan@iubat.edu www.iubat.edu

The government will play an important role in facilitating and supporting an array of public policies which
have an overarching objective of creating sustainable, secondary cities. Such policies ought to be in the
forefront of the minds of policymakers and government officials alike, particularly within the present climate.
Focusing on equipping secondary cities with the resources necessary to accommodate climate migrants will
be a vital strategy, not only serving as a long-term solution to ensure that climate migrants have access to the
resources and infrastructure they require, but also in responding to the challenges posed by the Covid-19
pandemic which has seen many climate migrants leave Dhaka to return to rural villages. As has been
observed, the realities of the way many citizens have to live makes following the current health guidelines
very challenging. This is particularly acute with respect to climate migrants who, as marginalized populations,
require recognition of their lived experiences and the challenges they face, within the laws and policies that
are designed to assist them.

(Covid-19 and the indefensible position of internally displaced people in Bangladesh, Dr Shawkat Alam,
Professor of Law and Director of Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.)

1) Match the table given below: 10

Column A Column B
a) disproportionate 1) having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future.
b) context 2) dominating or embracing all else
c) infrastructure 3) relegated to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or
group
d) overarching 4) the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs
e) marginalized 5) a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in
harvesting
6) having or showing a difference that is not fair, reasonable, or
expected
7) the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as
transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools

2) Answer all the short questions given below: (4x5) =20

a) Who are described as ‘climate migrants’ in this passage?
b) What measures have been taken by the authorities to deal with the pandemic?
c) Why is it difficult to prevent the spread of the virus in the urban areas?
d) How does ‘Covid-19 pandemic’ marginalize segments of the population in Bangladesh?
e) According to you, what measures should be taken to help the climate migrants?

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 Founded 1991 by Md. Alimullah Miyan
4 Embankment Drive Road (Off Dhaka-Ashulia Road), Sector 10, Uttara Model Town, Dhaka 1230, Bangladesh
Phone: 892 3471, 892 3469-70, 896 3523-27, 01714 014933, Fax: 892 2625, miyan@iubat.edu www.iubat.edu

Section B (Writing) 70 Marks

You are required to answer all the questions:

3) Some people think that online education is ineffective while others believe that there is no
alternative to it during this pandemic.

Which viewpoint do you support? Write an essay in around 300 words to discuss and evaluate both
points of view. Give an appropriate title to the essay. 30

4) Write a paragraph on “Wisdom is Mightier than a Sword” in around 150 words. 15

5) Imagine that your mobile phone has been lost. You want to make a complaint to the local police
station. Write a dialog between you and the police officer in charge. 15

6) Write a cover letter for the post of “Management Trainee Officer” at Modhumoti Bank Limited. The
post was advertised in The Daily Star on 20 September 2020. 10

GOOD LUCK