1.   Cricket
enjoys a huge — in Bangladesh.
       A follow on                                             B fall out
       C follow             
                     
              d following
2.   Who
wrote the following lines : "All at once I saw/a crowd, a host of golden
daffodils"?
 
     a Wordsworth                                        B Herrick         
       C Shelley                                                D Keats
3.   What
would be the right synonym for "initiative"?
       A apathy                                                 B indolence       
 
     c enterprise                                            D activity
4.   Which
of the following words can be used as a verb?
      A Mister                                                  b Master          
       C Mistress                                              D Mastery
5.   Who
among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?
       A T.S. Eliot                                             B Toni Morrison
 
     c Grahame
Greene                                 D William Faulkner
6.   The
correct passive form of "You must shut these doors" is—
       A These must be shut
doors                     B Shut must be the doors
       C Shut the doors you
must                       d These
doors must be shut
7.   The
film was directed in the director's usual— style.
       A Confusion           
                     
          b idiosyncratic  
       C personifying                                         D purifying
8.   Which
word is the determiner in the sentence "Will it take much time?"
       A will                                                      B take            
 
     c much                                                   D time
9.   The
play Arms and the Man is by—
       A James
Joyce                                         B Arthur Miller
       C Samuel
Beckett                     
              d George Bernard Shaw
10.   'He
was a rather disagreeable man.' Here the underlined word is
a/an—
       A Noun               
                     
             b Adjective       
       C Adverb                                                D Preposition
11.   This
could have worked if I — been more far-sighted.
 
     a had                                                      B have             
       C might                                                   D would
12.   The
'climax' of a plot is what happens—
       A in the
beginning                                     B at the height
 
     c at
the
end                                             D in the confrontation
13.   Choose
the pair of words that expresses a relationship similar to that of "Harm :
Damage"—
       A Sweet :
Sour          
                 
            b Stout
: Weak
       C Injure :
Incapacitate                              D Hook : Crook
14.   Othello is
a Shakespeare's play about—
       A A Jew                                                  B A Roman       
       C A
Turk              
                     
            d A
Moor
15.   In
the 18th Century the Mughal Empire begun to—
       A discriminate                                          b disintegrate   
       C differentiate                                         D dislocate
16.   Being
fat does not necessarily kill you, but it— the risk that you will suffer from
nasty diseases
       A increases                                              B emphasizes    
       C encourages         
                     
           d involves
17.   The
poem "Isle of Innisfree" is written by—
       A Dylan
Thomas                                      B Ezra Pound   
       C W.H.Auden           
                     
       d W.B.Yeats
18.   Riders
to the Sea is—
       A an epic
poem                                       B a one-act play
 
     c a
novella                                             D a theatrical adaptation of a poem
19.   "It
is time to review the protocol on testing nuclear
weapons". Here the underlined word means—
 
     a Record
of
rules                                   B Summary of rules
       C Procedures                                         D Problems
20.   —
amazing song haunted me for a long time.
       A These                                                 B Those
       C Thus               
                     
            d That
21.   Let
us beging 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
22.   The
noise level in Dhaka city has increased exponentially. Here
the underlined word mean—
       A amazingly                                            B shockingly     
       C steadily                                               d rapidly
23.   Which
of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?
 
     a Christopher
Marlowe                           B John Dryden
       C Alexander
Pope                                  D Samuel Beckett
24.   Women
are too often — by family commitments.
       A confused                                             B controlled      
       C contaminated                                       d constrained
25.   "To
be, or not be, that is the question"— is a famous dialogue from—
       A Othello                                                B Romeo and Juliet
 
     c Hamlet                                                D Macbeth
26.   Class
relations and societal conflict is the key understanding of—
       A Feminism                                              B Formalism     
       C Structuralism            
                     
     d Marxism
27.   Societies
living in the periphery are always ignored. Here the
underlined word means —
       A offshore areas           
                     
   b marginal
areas
       C remote places                                      D backward regions
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
29.   Which
is the correct sentence?
 
     a He
insisted on seeing her                    B He insisted in seeing her
       C He insisted for seeing
her                   D He insisted to be seeing her
30.   The
phrase "nouveau riche" means —
       A Riche rich                                          B Well off  
       
       C New high class                                  d New
rich
31.   What
would be the best antonym of "hibernate"?
       A dormancy                                          b liveliness        
       C sluggishness                                      D democracy
32.   I
am in the process of collecting material for my story. The
underlined word is a/an —
       A Verb                                                 B Adjective
       C Adverb                                             d Noun
33.   Depression
is often hereditary. The underlined word is a/an —
       A Adverb                                             b Adjective       
       C Noun                                                D Verb
34.   Find
the odd-man-out —
 
     a George
Eliot                                      B Thomas Hardy
       C Joseph
Conrad                                  D James Joyce
35.   Find
the odd-man-out—
       A The Bluest
Eye                                B Sula              
 
    c As
I Lay
Dying                                 D A Mercy