35th BCS Preliminary Exam

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?
      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

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