38TH BCS QUESTION
38th BCS English Question
01. Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman?
a. G.B. Shaw b. Thomas Hardy
c. Ernest Hamingway d. Charles Dcikens
Ans.
a. G.B. Shaw
02. The most famous Satanist in English
literature is—
a. Jonathan Swift b. Alexander Pope
c. Joseph Addison d. Richard Stell
Ans.
a. Jonathan Swift
03. What is the plural form of the word
‘louse’?
a. louses b. lice
c. lices d. licess
Ans.
b. lice
04. Choose the correct sentence:
a. He refrained to take any drastic
action
b. He refrained on taking any drastic
action
c. He refrained in taking any drastic
action
d. He refrained from taking any
drastic action
Ans.
d. He refrained from taking any drastic action
05. Which word is closest in meaning to
‘Franchise’?
a. utility b. frankness
c. privilege d. superficial
Ans.
c. privilege
06. ‘Once in a blue moon’ means—
a. always b. very rarely
c. nearly d. hourly
Ans.
b. very rarely
07. ‘Jacobean Period’ of English Literature refers
to—
a. 1558-1603 b. 1625-1649
c. 1603-1625 d. 1649-1660
Ans.
c. 1603-1625
08. A retired officer lives next door.
Here, the underlined word in used as a/an:
a. Gerund b. adverb
c. preposition d. participle
Ans.
d. participle
09. Choose the appropriate preposition in the
blank of the following sentence:
Eight men were concerned--- the plot.
a. at b.
with
c. in d.
for
Ans.
d. for
10. Fill in the gap with the right tense:
When water—it turns into ice.
a. will freeze b.
freezes
c. would freeze d. froze
Ans.
b. freezes
11. Which one is the correct antonym of
‘frugal’?
a. Extraordinary b. spendthrift
c. economical d. authentic
Ans.
b. spendthrift
12. Choose the meaning of the idiom—
‘Take the bull by the horns’
a. To challenge the enemy with courage
b. Force the enemy to submit
c. Out of one’s wit
d. Surrender before the enemy
Ans. a.
To challenge the enemy with courage
13. Fill in the blank with the correct
quantifier.
I still have—money.
a. a few b.
quite a few
c. many d.
a little
Ans. d.
a little
14. Select the right compound structure of the
sentence:
‘Though he is poor, he is honest’.
a. He is poor and honest b. As he is poor, he is honest
c. He is poor but honest d. Sine he is poor, he is honest.
Ans.
c. He is poor but honest
15. Where do the following lines occur in?
‘Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea.---`
a. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner b. Kubla Khan
c. The Nightingale d. The dungeon
Ans.
a. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
16. ‘For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let
me love.’
This line is written by—
a. Emily Dickinson b.
T.S. Eliot
c. Mathew Arnold d.
John Donne
Ans. d.
John Donne
17. Fill in the blanks:
Tourists – their reservations well in advance if
they want to fly to Cox’s Bazar.
a. better to had get b. had better to get
c. had better got d. had better get
Ans.
d. had better get
18. The sun went down. The underlined
word is used here as a/an:
a. preposition b. adverb
c. noun d. conjunction
Ans:
b. adverb
19. Which one of the following words is in
singular form?
a. agenda b. oases
c. radius d. formulae
Ans.
c. radius
20. Identify the right passive voice of ‘it is
impossible to do this’.
a. Doing this is impossible b. This is impossible to be done
c. This is must be done d. This can’t be done
Ans.
b. This is impossible to be done
21. Of the following authors, who wrote an
epic?
a. John Milton b. Jane Mansfield
c. William Cowper d. William Shakespeare
Ans.
a. John Milton
22. The literary term ‘euphemism’ means—
a. vague idea b. inoffensive expression
c. a sonnet d. wise saying
Ans.
b. inoffensive expression
23. ‘Mutton’ is a/an
a. Common noun b. Abstract noun
c. Material noun d. Proper noun
Ans.
c. Material noun
24. Reading is an excellent habit. Here,
the underlined word is a—
a. Verbal noun b. Participle
c. Verb d. Gerund
Ans.
d. Gerund
25. Which one of the following words is an
example of a distributive pronoun?
a. such b. either
c. that d. any
Ans.
b. either
26. Who is not a Victorian poet?
a. Mathew Arnold b. Alexander Pope
c. Robert Browning d. Alfred Tennyson
Ans.
b. Alexander Pope
27. A speech of too many word is called—
a. A big speech b. Maiden speech
c. An unimportant speech d. A verbose speech
Ans.
d. A verbose speech
28. ‘Strike while the iron is hot’ is an example of—
a. Noun Clause b. Adjective clause
c. Adverbial clause d. Subordinate clause
Ans.
c. Adverbial clause
29. The play ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ is written
by—
a. Thomas Kyd b. Christopher Marlowe
c. Shakespeare d. Ben Jonson
Ans.
a. Thomas Kyd
30. Who among the following Indian English
writers is a famous novelist?
a. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak b. R.K. Narayan
c. Nissim Ezekiel d. Kamala Das
Ans.
b. R.K. Narayan
31. The word ‘Panegyric’ means
a. Criticism b. elaborate praise
c. curse d. high sound
Ans.
b. elaborate praise
32. Select the correctly spelt word:
a. heterogeneous b. heterogeneous
c. hetrogeneous d. hetroganeous
Ans.
b. heterogeneous
33. ‘Among’ is a preposition that is used
when--- people are involved.
a. two b.
more than two
c. two or more than two d. four only
Ans.
b. more than two
34. Which period is known as ‘The golden age of
English literature’?
a. The Victorian age b. The Elizabeth I age
c. The Restoration age d. The eighteenth Century
Ans.
b. The Elizabeth I age
35. Which one in the correct indirect
narration?
‘Why have you beaten my dog? he said
to me.
a. He demanded
me why had I beaten his dog.
b. He asked
me why I have had beaten his dog.
c. He
enquired my why had I had beaten his dog.
d. He
demanded of me why I had beaten his dog.
Ans. d. He
demanded of me why I had beaten his dog.
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