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The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are two (a) _____ awards given by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), (b) _____ one living author an one living illustrator for their "lasting (c) ______ to children's literature", The writing award was first (d) ______ in 1956, the illustration award in 1966. The former is sometimes called the "Nobel Prize for children's literature". The awards are (e) ______ after Hans Christian Andersen, the $19^{\text {th }}$-century Danish (f) _______ of fairy tales, and each winner receives the Hans Christian Andersen Medaille (a gold medal with the bust of Andersen) and a diploma. Andersen's fairy tales, (g) ______ of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily (h) _____ to children but presenting lessons of (i) ______ and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His mot famous fairy tales (j) _____ "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", and "Thumbelina". His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live. action films.

Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable word from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary:

Man's dignity depends upon his works. Man is a (a) — being on earth. He is to (b) — for others. He should not be (c) — if he is of (d) — blood. He should be (e) — to help any (f) — of man. The man whom he is helping may be (g) — to him by (h) —. But after all, he is a man. He has the (i) — blood and flesh as the above (j) — man.

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(a) ————-blind people cannot (b) ———, their sense of (c) ————becomes far more (d) —————than that of most sighted people. This ability was put to use by a brilliant man (e) ———Louis Braille. In the early 19th century, he invented a (f) ————-of writing which (g) ————his name. The Braille system reproduces the letters of the alphabet by a series (h) ————-in certain positions which are raised on the paper. The blind person runs the (i) ————of his fingers across the pages of the Braille book and can work out the letters and numbers (j) ————-there.

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To encourage female education, the government has taken some (a) —— steps such as giving stipends to girl students, (b) —— more female teachers, etc. (c) —— girls cannot receive the full benefit of education mainly because of the following reasons. (d) —— misinterpretation and social structures (e) —— girls from going to schools. Even in urban schools, girls are not (f) —— by many parents to live in hostels for their daughters' (g) ——. Early marriage and childbirth make women (h) —— to home with no (i) —— of going back to school. Any expenditure for sending girls to school is considered a (j) —— by many parents whereas it is regarded as an investment in case of boys.

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Hakaluki Haor has both economic and non-economic (a) —. It (b) — a wide range of (c) — to the local people. People (d) — here can produce fish and rice, rear (e) —, buffalo and duck. They can also (f) — reeds (g) — grass in the haor. This haor (h) — also provides (i) — place for the (j) — birds.