35TH BCS QUESTION

35TH BCS ENGLISH QUESTION

01.     Cricket enjoys a huge ----- in Bangladesh.

          a. Follow on         b. Follow

          c. Fall out   d. Following

          Ans. d. Following

02.     Who wrote the following lines: “all at once I saw/a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”?

          a. Wrodsworth     b. Shelley

          c. Herrick    d. Keats

          Ans. a. Wrodsworth

03.     What would be the right synonym for “initiative”?

          a. Apathy   b. Indolence

          c. Enterprise         d. Activity

          Ans. c. Enterprise

04.     Which of the following words cab en used as a verb?

          a. Mister     b. Master

          c. Mistress  d. Mastery

          Ans. b. Master

05.     Who among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?

          a. T.S. Eliot          b. Toni Morrison

          c. Grahame Greene        d. William Faulkner

          Ans. c. Grahame Greene

06.     The correct passive form of “You must shut these doors” is—

          a. These must be shut doors    b. Shut the doors you must

          c. Shut must be the doors                 d. These doors must be shut

          Ans. d. These doors must be shut

07.     The film was directed in the director’s usual---- style

          a. Confusion                  b. Idiosyncratic

          c. Personifying     d. Purifying

          Ans. b. Idiosyncratic

08.     Which word is the determiner in the sentence “Will it take much time?”

          a. will          b. take

          c. much       d. time

          Ans. c. much

09.     The play ‘Arms and the Man’ is by—

          a. James Joyce               b. Arthur Miller

          c. Samuel Beckett          d. George Bernard Shaw

          Ans. d. George Bernard Shaw

10.     “He was a rather disagreeable man.” Here the word disagreeable is a/an-

          a. Noun       b. Adjective c. Adverb    d. Preposition

          Ans. b. Adjective

 11.     This could have worked if I ---- been more far-sighted.

          a. had               b. might          c. have        d. would

          Ans. a. had

12.     The “climax” of a plot is what happens—

          a. in the beginning          b. at the end

          c. at the height      d. in the confrontation

          Ans. c. at the height

13.     Choose the pair of words that expresses a relationship similar to that of “Harm: Damage”—

          a. Sweet : Sour     b. Injure : Incapacitate  

c. Stout: Weak      d. Hook : Crook

Ans. b. Injure : Incapacitate

14.     ‘Othello’ is a Shakespeare’s play about—

          a. A jew      b. A Roman          c. A Turk    d. A Moor

          Ans. d. A Moor

15.     In the 18^th Century the Mughal Empire begun to---

          a. discriminate      b. disintegrate       c. differentiate      d. dislocate

          Ans. b. disintegrate

16.     Being fat does not necessarily kill you, but it – the risk that yu will suffer from nasty diseases.

          a. increases b. emphasize        c. encourage         d. involves

          Ans. a. increases

17.     The poem “Isle of Innis free” is written by—

          a. Dylan Thomas  b. Ezra Pound      c. W.H. Auden     d. W.B. Yeats

          Ans. d. W.B. Yeats

18.     ‘Riders to the Sea’ is—

          a. an epic poem    b. a novella

          c. a one-act play   d. a theatrical adaptation of a poem

          Ans. c. a one-act play

19.     “It is time to review the protocol on testing nuclear weapons”. Here the underlined word means—

          a. Record of rules b. Procedures  c. Summary of rules  d. Problems

          Ans. a. Record of rules

20.     ----amazing song hunted me for a long time.

          a. These      b. Those      c. Thus        d. That

          Ans. d. That

21.     Let us begin by looking at the minutes of the meeting. Here the underlined word means—

          a. time record       b. time frame c. written record d. written analysis

          Ans. c. written record

22.     The noise level in Dhaka city has increased exponentially. Here the underlined word means—

          a. amazingly               b. shockingly  c. steadily   d. rapidly

          Ans. d. rapidly

23.     Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?

          a. Cristopher Marlowe   b. Alexander Pope

          c. John Dryden              d. Samuel Beckett

          Ans. a. Cristopher Marlowe

24.     Women are too often --- by family commitments.

          a. confused b. controlled             c. contaminated          d. constrained

          Ans. d. constrained

25.     “To be, or not to be, that is the question”—is a famous dialogue from—

          a. Othello    b. Romeo and Juliet       c. Hamlet    d. Macbeath

          Ans. c. Hamlet

26.     Class relations and societal conflict is the key understanding of—

          a. Feminism          b. Formalism        c. Structuralism    d. Marxism

          Ans. d. Marxism

27.     Societies living in the periphery are always ignored. Here the underlined word means--         

          a. offshore areas  b. marginal areas c. remote place d. backward places

          Ans. b. marginal areas

28.     The idiom “A stitch in time saves nine”- refers the importance of—

          a. saving lives b. timely action c. saving time d. time tailoring

          Ans. b. timely action

29.     Which is the correct sentence?

          a. He insisted on seeing her     b. He insisted for seeing her

          c. He insisted in seeing her      d. He insisted to be seeing

          Ans. a. He insisted on seeing her

30.     The phrase “nouveau riche” means—

          a. Riche rich           b. Well off       c. New high class d. New rich

          Ans. d. New rich

31.     What would be the best antonym of “hibernate”?

          a. dormancy         b. liveliness c. sluggishness      d. democracy

          Ans. b. liveliness

32.     I am in the process of collecting material for my story. The underlined word is a/an—

          a. Verb        b. Adverb   c. Adjective d. Noun

          Ans. d. Noun

33.     Depression is often hereditary. The underlined word is a/an—

          a. Verb        b. Adverb   c. Adjective d. Noun

          Ans. c. Adjective

34.     Find the odd-man-out—

          a. George Eliot     b. Thomas Hardy c. Joseph Conrad d. James Joyce

          Ans. a. George Eliot

35.     Find the odd-man out—

          a. The redst Eye   b. Sula        c. As I Lay Dying d. A Mercy

          Ans. ?