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?

      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

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