Comprehension Exercise 4

An Exceptional Way to Success

Shantanu Biswas (ENG 048 06608)

Ram Gour had a tea stall where he worked day and night and led his life. In this way he passed ten years.  A month later he discovered various colored tea. He started to make colored tea in his stall. At first nobody understood his outstanding work. The name of the place was Sreemangal, where he dwelt with his family. Sreemangal is a tourist area. For this reason he set his canteen up in the B.D.R. school campus.  His life was turned into a new world.  Day by day his unique quality was spread everywhere of Sreemangal.

Soon reporters of many daily newspapers, saw his amazing quality of making tea, and published and highlighted his work. At one stage many famous restaurants of Dhaka city offered him to join their restaurant as a tea maker. But he rejected their offer. He made a restaurant in his own area. Nobody can make tea like him in Bangladesh. He teaches only his sons how to make this kind of tea. Everyday visitors gather around his tea stall. He can make seven color tea and for each cup of tea he takes ten taka. Per cup contains seven colors of tea in layers. The most interesting thing is that if any one shakes the cup heavily, the colors and the layers remain the same. In this way he has become popular to all. The name of his tea stall is ‘Nil Kantha Tea Stall’.  Everyday his restaurant remains open from 4 pm to 10 pm. 

For this reason some days later this area’s name has been changed into Nil Kantha Tea Garden, because his restaurant is surrounded by tea garden. His sincerity and hard work has brought him great success. People stand in a queue to have tea every day. Now he has four restaurants in his area.

In this way he has got success in his life. Now he is a successful man, not an ordinary tea maker. He has achieved success by his exceptional work. Not only in this business but also in his way of life he is completely successful. He is a very popular man in his own city and he is the pride of Bangladesh.

Questions

1. What is the appropriate synonym of the word ‘shake’?

a) Vibrate

b) Tremble

c) Jiggle

d) Take

2. Why did Ram Gour reject the offers of working in the famous restaurants?

  a)He wanted to be a well-known tea maker.

  b)Because of his pride.

  c)He wanted to get success by himself.

  d)Because of the limitations of his personal life.

3. Seven color tea contains……….

a) Seven layers

b) Seven different layers

c) Seven different layers with seven different tastes

d) Seven different tastes

4. Where was Nil Kantha Tea Stall situated?

a) In Sreemangal

b) In B.D.R. school

c) Upon the hill

d) In Nil Kantha Tea Garden

5. How did Ram Gour get success?

6. Is Ram Gour an ordinary tea maker? Why or why not?

7. Why can Ram Gour be considered as a pride of Bangladesh?

Question set prepared by Arup Ratan Acharya (ENG 043 06219)

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