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BCS MCQ on English Grammar and Literature
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1.ভারতপক্ষী ও সমীরণের কবি(Poet of Skylark and Winds) নামে পরিচিত কে?
a. Lord Byron
b. John Keats
c. W. Wordsworth
d. P.B. Shelley
Answer: d
2.John Keats কোন শ্রেণীর কবি ?
a. Romantic
b. Modern
c. Classical
d. Ancient
Answer: a
3.'Cowards die many times before their death' - occurs in Shakespeare's.
a. Julius Caesar
b. Hamlet
c. Macbeth
d. Othello
Answer: a
4.Shakespeare কোন সালে জন্মগ্রহন করেন ?
a. ১৫৬৪ সালে
b. ১৭৭৩ সালে
c. ১৮০৯ সালে
d. ১৯২৩ সালে
Answer: a
5.Which of the following is a 'Comedy' written by Shakespeare ?
a. As You Like it
b. King Lear
c. Macbeth
d. Hamlet
Answer: a
6.Which period is known as 'The golden age of English literature'?
a. the Victorian age
b. the Elizabeth age
c. the Restoration age
d. the Eighteenth century
Answer: b
7.Who is called the 'poet of beauty'?
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Keats
C. P. B. Shelley
D. William Wordsworth
Ans:b
8.Shakespeare wrote brilliant--
a. poems
b. essays
c. novels
d. dramas
Answer: d
9.Who wrote Ode to a Nightingale ?
a. Pope
b. Shelley
c. Wordsworth
d. Keats
Answer: d
10.কোন ইংরেজ কবি যক্ষ্মা রোগে মৃত্যুবরণ করেন ?
a. P.B. Shelley
b. Robert Burns
c. S.T. Colerdge
d. John Keats
Answer: d
11.Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth is beauty' ?
a. Shakespeare
b. Wordsworth
c. Keats
d. Eliot
Answer: c
12.'The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. ' These lines are from the poem -
a. The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
b. Ode to a Nightingle by John Keats
c. To a lady with a guitar by P.B. Shelley
d. Elegy written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray
Answer: b
13."Ode to the West Wind" is by -
a. Keats
b. Shelley
c. Coleridge
d. Wordsworth
Answer: b
14.One of the following was a Romantic Poet:
a. Tennyson
b. Arnold
c. Shelley
d. Browning
Answer: c
15.Calliban is a character in -
a. King Lear
b. Tempest
c. Man and Superman
d. Othello
Answer: b
16.Poet of sensuousness ---?
a. P.B. Shelley
b. Wordsworth
c. John Keats
d. Byron
Answer: c
17. "poets are unacknowledged legislators of the word" - Who told it ?
a. Browing
b. Shelley
c. Tennyson
d. Byron
Answer: b
18.In 'Under the Greenwood Tree' the poet -
a. does not speak about any enemy
b. mentions two enemies
c. speaks of one enemy
d. speaks about the life of comfort and happiness
Answer: b
19.Who wrote poem about Lucy ?
a. S.T. Coleridge
b. P.B. Shelly
c. William Wordsworth
d. Lord Byron
Answer: c
20. 'Frailty, Thy name is woman'- in which of the following novels you find this?
a. Macbeth
b. Romeo & Juliet
c. Hamlet
d. Tempest
Answer: c
21. 'Comedy of Errors' is written by:
a. Ben Johnson
b. G.B. Shaw
c. William Shakespeare
d. T.S. Elliot
Answer: c
22.Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare's -
a. successor
b. predecessor
c. contemporary
d. mentor
Answer: c
23.Christopher Marlowe lived during:
A. The Eighteenth Century
B. The Thirteenth and fourteenth Centuries
C. The sixteenth century
D. The Fifteenth century
Ans:C
24. ''Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts'' - question from Shelley's -
a. The Revolt of Islam
b. The Cloud
c. Ode to the West Wind
d. To Skylark
Answer: d
25. It is believed that Marlowe worked for the:
A. Government as a spy
B. Theology advisor
C. Engineer
D. Sign painter
Ans:A
26. Marlowe originally went to London to work as a(n):
A. Playwright
B. Actor
C. Director
D. Producer
Ans:A
27. Marlowe’s first play was:
A. The Jew of Malta
B. Dido queen of carthage
C. Tamburlaine, Part I
D. Doctor Faustus
Ans:C
28. Marlowe died:
A. In bed
B. Under suspicious circumstances
C. A natural death
D. Both under suspicious circumstances and violently
Ans:D
29. After his death, accusations surfaced the t Marlowe was:
A. A catholic
B. A misogynist
C. An atheist
D. An Irishman
Ans:C
30. Marlowe was rumored to be:
A. An atheist
B. Violent and cruel
C. Homosexual
D. An Irishman
Ans:D
31. The name Marlowe uses for the ruler of hell is:
A. Mephistopheles
B. Lucifer
C. Satan
D. Beelzebub
Ans:B
32. What does Mephistopheles refuse to tell Faustus?
A. If Faustus will be demanded
B. How many planets there are
C. Where hell is located
D. Who make the world
Ans:D
33. Where, according to Mephistopheles, is hell?
A. Everywhere that heaven is not
B. Deep below the earth’s surface
C. Inside Faustus soul
D. Directly beneath heaven
Ans:A
34.Which one of the following plays is a comedy?
a. All's well that Ends well
b. Hamlet
c. Timon of Athens
d. Antony and Cleopatra
Answer: a
35.Romeo and Juliet is a -
a. comedy
b. tragedy
c. romance
d. morality play
Answer: b
36.Shylok যে নাটকের চরিত্র, সে নাটকটির নাম--
a. Doctor Faustus
b. The Merchant of Vevice
c. The Way of the World
d. Arms and the Man
Answer: b
37.Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our ends' ?
a. In King Lear
b. In Hamlet
c. In the Tempest
d. In Merry wives of windsor
Answer: b
38.When did John Keats die?
A.11 May 1838
B.12 March 1833
C.23 February 1821
D.19 August 1825
Ans:C
39.Which university expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley?
a) Cambridge
b) Oxford
c) Paris
d) Berlin
Ans:b
40.Where was Percy Bysshe Shelley born?
a) Connaught Place
b) Field Place
c) Ashoka Place
d) Nehru Place
Ans:b
প্রশ্নোত্তর পর্ব ২
1. 'But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep' -was written by -
a. T.S. Eliot
b. W.B. Yeats
c. Robert Frost
d. Ted Huges
Answer: c
2. Which one does not relate to literature?
a. Epilogue
b. Monologue
c. Demagogue
d. Prologue
Answer: c
3.'Novel' means something new and is derived from -
a. French
b. Arabic
c. Latin
d. Greek
Answer: c
4. What is Limerick ?
a. A form of light verse
b. A form of one -act play
c. A kind of short narrative poem
d. A kind of love poem
Answer: a
5. 'England expects every man to do this duty.'- who told it.
a. Nelson
b. Wilson
c. Churchil
d. Thatcher
Answer: a
6.What is an epic ?
a. a prose composition
b. a romance
c. a noval
d. a long poem
Answer: d
7.''Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains'' quotation of -
a. Votaire
b. Vector Hugo
c. Rousseau
d. Shakespeare
Answer: c
8. ''Ballad'' is -
a. a kind of short narrative poem
b. a kind of short condoling poem
c. a kind of short love poem
d. a rhymic verse
Answer: a
9. A Funny poem of five lines called
a. haiku
b. pentameter
c. elegy
d. limerick
ans : d
10.''Renaissance'' means-
a. regain
b. re-arrange
c. reborn
d. rebirth
Answer: d
11. ''Blank verse'' is a kind of verse---
a. having no rhyming end
b. having blanks in the verse
c. having no significance
d. having no rhythmic flow
Answer: a
12.Most important feature of romantic poetry -
a. Beauty
b. Nature
c. Subjectivity
d. Imagination
Answer: c
13. One of the important feature of renaissance is
a. Free thinking
b. Revenge
c. Subjectivity
d. Beauty
Ans: Free thinking
14.''Alice in the Wonderland'' belongs to -
a. detective literature
b. satirical literature
c. juvenile literature
d. religious literature
Answer: c
15.A Machiavellian character is--
a. An honest person
b. A selfish person
c. A courageous person
d. A judicious person
Answer: b
16.''Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts'' - question from Shelley's -
a. The Revolt of Islam
b. The Cloud
c. Ode to the West Wind
d. To Skylark
Answer: d
17.''Canto'' বলতে কী বুঝা যায় ?
a. দীর্ঘ কবিতার একটি স্তবক
b. নাটকের অঙ্ক
c. মহাকাব্যের বিভাগ
d. অমিত্রাক্ষর ছন্দে রচিত কবিতা
Answer: a
18. A fantasty is --- ?
a.an imaginary story
b.a funny film
c.a history record
d.a real-life event
Answer: a
19. ''The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.'' These lines are from the poem -
a. "The Solitary Reaper" by Wordsworth
b. Ode to a Nightingle by John Keats
c. To a lady with a guitar by P.B. Shelley
d. Elegy written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray
Answer: a
20. ''Protagonist'' indicates--
a. the villain in a play
b. the leadidng character of actor in a play
c. the cloen in a play
d. the stage-director of a play
Answer: b
21.In "I wandered Lonely as a cloud" the daffodils gave the poet.
a. a great deal of pleasure
b. very pleasure
c. many pleasure
d. much pleasure
Answer: a
22.Frailty, Thy name is woman'- in which of the following novels you find this?
a.Macbeth
b.Romeo & Juliet
c.Hamlet
d.Tempest
Answer: c
23."Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence'’- This is taken from the poem of
a. P.B. Shelley
b. Lord Byron
c. John Keats
d. Edmund Spenser
Ans:b
24.'Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink ' occurs in -
a.The Ancient Mariner
b.To Skylark
c.The Paradise Lost
d.The Cloud
Answer: a
25.'Child is father of man' is taken from the writing of --
a.P.B. Shelley
b.S.T. Coleridge
c.W. Wordsworth
d.A.C. Swinburne
Answer: c
26."Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the word" - Who told it ?
a. Browing
b. Shelley
c. Tennyson
d. Byron
Answer: b
27. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of our philosophy"- উক্তিটি Shakespeare- এর কোন নাটক থেকে উদ্ধৃত হয়েছে?
a. Hamlet
b. King Lear
c. Macbeth
d. Othello
Answer: a
28.The ''Poet Laureate'' is --- ?
a. the best poet of the country
b. a winner of the nobel prize in poetry
c. the court poet of England
d. a classical poet
Answer: c
29.Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man ; writing an exact man' -- Who said this ?
a. Shakespear
b. Bacon
c. Keats
d. Kyd
Answer: b
30. ''The old order changeth yielding place to new'’- This line is extracted from Tenneson’s poem
A. The Lotos-Eaters
B. Tithonus
C. Locksley Hall
D. Morte d'Arthur
ans:D
31.Who wrote "some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" ?
a. Joseph Addison
b. Frances Becon
c. Dr. Johnson
d. Charles Lamb
Answer: b
32The appropriate meaning of the word 'monologue' is -
a. a long speech in a play spoken by one actor especially when alone
b. conversation in a play
c. a speech in a play in which a character, who is alone on the stage, speaks his thoughts aloud
d. a dialogue between the two actors or actresses in a drama
Answer: c
33.Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our ends?
a. In king lear
b. In Hamlet
c. In the Tempest
d. In Merry Wives of Windsor
ans : b
34.The novelist has a hold of ---- in writing.
ক. style
খ. tradition
গ. history
ঘ. manner
Ans:a
35. "It is impossible to love and be wise" is a famous qoute of
a. William blake
b. Franchis Bacon
c. John keats
d. John milton
Ans: Franchis Bacon
36.'Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud; I fall upon the thorns of life ! bleed.' This quotation is from P.B. Shelley's -
a. The Cloud
b. To a Skylark
c. Ode to the West Wind
d. Adonias
Answer: c
37.The sentence, "Death, thou shalt not die". is an example of - --
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. irony
d. paradox
Answer:d
38.Who is not Poet Laureate?
(a) Alfred Tennyson
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) Robert Browning
(d) Edmund Spenser
Ans. c
39.Who has written ? 'He prayeth best, who loveth best, All things great and small.'
a. John Keats
b. Lord Byron
c. P.B. Shelley
d. S.T. Coleridge
Answer: d
40.What is Catastrophy?
a. The comical end of dramatic events
b. The tragic end of dramatic events
c. The comic and tragic end of the play
d. None of the above
Answer: b
41.What is the salient feature of all literature ?
a. Artistic quality
b. Sensuous quality
c. Reflective quality
d. Joyous quality
Answer: a
42.The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as:
A. personification
B. onomatopoeia
C. alliteration
D. rhyme
Ans:c
43. I wondered lonely as a cloud is an example of
a. Symbol
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Metonymy
Ans: simile
44.'Mist and mellow fruitfulness' -- Which of the following figures of speech is used in this sentence ?
a. Alliteration
b. Metaphor
c. Onomatopoeia
d. Personification
Answer: a
45.Who said 'An unexamined life is not worth living' ?
a. Socrates
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
d. Zeno
Answer: a
46.'Who wrote the famous poetic line 'To err is human, to forgive is divine'?
(a) Pope
(b) Shelley
(c) Keats
(d) Dryden
Ans. a
47.'Ten thousand saw at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.' What is the poet William Wordsworth referring to ?
a. birds
b. daffodils
c. leaves
d. bees
Answer: b
48. Elizabeth Tragedy is centred on --- ?
a. revenge
b. nature
c. love
d. war
Answer: a
49.'Cowards die many times before their death' বাক্যটি শেক্সপিয়ারের কোন নাটক হতে উদ্ধৃত হয়েছে?
a. Macbeth
b. Julius Ceaser
c. Hamlet
d. Othello
Answer: b
50. Who introduced 'Dramatic Monologue'?
a. Browning
b. Tennyson
c. Eliot
d. John Donne
ans : a
প্রশ্নোত্তর পর্ব ৩
1.Restoration period in English Literature refers to
a. 1798
b. 1832
c. 1558
d. 1660
ans : d
2.Jacobean Period' is English Literature refers to______
a) 1558-1603
b) 1625-1649
c) 1603-1625
d) 1649-1660
Ans: c
3.Who is famous for the theory of ‘Objective Co-relative’?
a) E.M. Forster
b) Somerset Maugham
c) Woolf
d) T.S. Eliot
Ans: d
4.Which is The Elizabethan Period ?
a.1500-1660
b. 1558-1603
c. 1603-1625
d. 1660 -1798
Ans: b
5.Famous Irish poet and dramatist is--
a) W.B. Yeats
b) A. Pope
c) L. Tolstoy
d) H.G. Wells
Ans: a
6.Which of the following ages in literary history is the latest?
a. The Anglo Saxon Age
b. The Renaissance Age
c. The Romantic Age
d. The Victorian Age
Answer: d
7.Who is called "Father of English Tragedy"?
a. Geoffrey Chaucer
b. Shakespeare
c. Christopher Marlowe
d. Edmund Spenser
ans: c
8.According to most of the critics who is not a romantic poet?
a. John Keats
b. Rabindranath Tagore
c. T.S. Eliot
d. William Wordsworth
ans: c
9.Who of the following writers was not a novelist?
a. Charles Dickens
b. James Joyce
c. W.B. Yeats
d. Jane Austen
ans: c
10.Who translated the Bible into English for the first time ?
a. Nicolus Udall
b. Thomas Norton
c. John Wycliff
d. Edmund Spenser
Answer: c
11. Which of the following writters belongs to the romantic period in English literature?
a. Alfred Tennyson
b. Alexander Pope
c. John Dryden
d. S.T. Coleridge
Answer: d
12.Who was the famous mock-heroic poet in English Literature?
a. Lord Byron
b. John Milton
c. Alexander Pope
d. Lord Tennyson
Answer: c
13.Pioneer /s of Romanticism is /are ------
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Both a&b
d. none
ans: c
14.Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan Period?
a. Christopher Marlowe
b. Alexander pope
c. John Dryden
d. Samuel Becket
ans: a
15.Who is considered to be the father of English Poem ?
a.William Langland
b.Thomas More
c.Roger Bacon
d.Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: d
16.Who introduced 'Dramatic Monologue'?
a. Browning
b. Tennyson
c. Eliot
d. John Donne
ans : a
17.Who did write first English dictonary ?
a. Boswell
b. Ben Jonson
c. Samuel Johnson
d. Milton
Answer: c
18.: Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
a. Keats
b. Donne
c. Blake
d. Spenser
Answer: c
19.'Renaissance' means -
a.the revival of learning
b.the revival of hard task
c.the revival of life
d.the revival of new country
Answer: a
20. 1798-1832 সাল পর্যন্ত সময়কে ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের কোন কাল বলা হয় ?
a. The Renaissance Period
b. The Elizabeth age
c. The Restoration Period
d. The Romantic Age
Answer: d
21.Symbolism and Sensuosness is the Ideal of Which period ?
a. Romantic Period
b. Victorian Period
c. Modern Period
d. Restorian period
ans : b
22.which of the following writers belongs to the Romantic period in English literature.
a. A.Tennyson
b. Alexander pope
c. John Dryden
d. S.T. Coleridge
ans: d
23..The Romantic age in English literature began with the publication of-----
a. preface to shakespeare
b. preface of lyrical Ballads
c. preface to Ancient Mariners
d. preface to Dr.Johnson
ans: b
24.One of the four mentioned below is not poet of Romantic age-
(a) William Blake
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) P.B. Shelley
(d) John Keats
Ans. a
25.Who was the famous mock -heroic poet in English Literature ?
a. Lord Byron
b. John Milton
c. Alexander Pope
d. Lord Tennyson
ans : c
26.Poet of sensusousness
a. P. B Shelly
b. Wordsworth
c. John Keats
d. Byron
ans : c
27.. Who is considered to be the Rebel Poet in English Literature ?
a. Walter Scot
b. Lord Byron
c. John Keats
d. John Austin
ans : b
28.Who is considered to be the father of English Prose ?
a. William Langland
b. Thomas More
c. Francis Bacon
d. Geoffrey Chaucer
ans : c
29.The first English novel 'Pamela' has been written by
a. Daniel Defoe
b. Henry Fielding
c. Samuel Richardson
d. Sir Walter Scott
ans : c
30.On of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Victorian age ---
a. Charles Dickens
b. Treasure Eliot
c. James Joyce
d. Thomas Austin
Answer: c
31. The period from AD 1066 to 1500 is known as-
a.The Old English Period
b.The Middle English Period
c.The Anglo Saxon Period
d.The Victorian Period
Answer: b
32.Which called 'The Golden age of English Literature'?
a. Renaissance period
b. Elizabethan Period
c. jacobean period
d. Commonwealth period
ans : b
33. Find out the odd man .
a. Shakespeare
b. Christopher Marlowe
c. Edmond Spenser
d. John Done
ans : d
34.. Who is called love poet / Metaphysical poet ?
a. Wordsworth
b. S. T Coleridge
c. W. B Yeats
d. John Done
ans: d
35.. 'Art of humanity's sake' was a ideal of
a. Restorian period
b. Neo-classical period
c. Common Wealth period
d. Elizabethan period
ans : b
36. Which called Golden age of Lyrical poetry?
a. Elizabethan
b. Restorian
c. Romantic
d. Victorian
ans : c
37.. নিচের কে Victorian যুগের এর লেখক নয় ?
a. Charles Darwin
b. Robert Browning
c. Gorge Eliot
d. John Keats
ans : d
38. নিচের কে Romantic যুগের এর লেখক নয় ?
a. Wordsworth
b. S. T Coleridge
c. W. B Yeats
d. Jane Austen
ans : c
39. নিচের কে Mordern যুগের এর লেখক নয় ?
a. D. H. Lawrence
b. Gorge Orwell
c. G.B Shaw
d. T. S Eliot
ans : d
40. নিচের কে post Mordern যুগের এর লেখক নয় ?
a. T. S Eliot
b. Ezra Pound
c. E. M Forster
d. Virjinia Wolf
ans : d
প্রশ্নোত্তর পর্ব ৪
1) Choose the correctly spelt word.
a) Puerille
b) Puerrile
c) Puerile
d) Purrile
Answer:c
2) AFTER:BEFORE::
A. first:second
B. present:past
C. contemporary:historic
D. successor:predecessor
Answer:D
3) Choose the correctly spelt word.
a) Refrigerator
b) Refriderater
c) Refridgerator
d) Referigerator
Answer:a
4) Choose the correctly spelt word.
a) Exemple
b) Exampel
c) Example
d) Exampal
Answer: c
5) Find the correct spelt word from the alternatives given?
A.Tresspass
B.Trespass
C.Tresspas
D.Trespas
Ans:b
6) SYMPHONY:COMPOSER::
A. Leonardo:music
B. Fresco:painter
C. colours:pallet
D. art:appreciation
Answer: B
7) Find the correct spelt word from the alternatives given?
A.Scriptur
B.Skripture
C.Scripture
D.Scripcher
Answer:c
8)DISTANCE:MILE::
A. liquid:litre
B. bushel:corn
C. weight:scale
D. fame:television
Ans:A
9. Choose the correctly spelt word.
A. Acquiescence
B. Acquisence
C. Aquicence
D. Acquissence
Ans:A
10. Choose the correctly spelt word.
A. Guerila
B. Gorila
C. Gurilla
D. Gorilla
Ans:d
11. Choose the correctly spelt word.
A. Translucent
B. Transluscent
C. Translusent
D. Tranclucent
Ans:A
12.Choose the correctly spelt word.
A. Greivance
B. Griveance
C. Grievance
D. Grieveance
Ans:c
13. Choose the mis-spelt word.
A. Nuptial
B. Nephew
C. Nickers
D. Nuisance
Ans:c
14. Choose the mis-spelt word.
A. Monotonous
B. Monitor
C. Monastry
D. Moraine
Ans:c(Monastery)
15. Choose the mis-spelt word.
A. Spurious
B. Subsidary
C. Studious
D. Sensible
Ans:b(Subsidiary)
16.Choose the mis-spelt word.
A. Perpendicular
B. Exaggerate
C. Boundry
D. Flourish
Ans:c(Boundary)
17.Choose the mis-spelt word.
A. Knack
B. kneed
C. Knee
D. kneel
Ans: b(Knead)
18.Antonym of 'Harmony' is -
a. Admiration
b. Co-operation
c. Discord
d. Co-ordination
Answer: c
19.The term 'en route' means -
a. Through the route
b. Through the way
c. On the way
d. In the way
Answer: c
20.Give the meaning of the word. The painter decided to 'Exhibit' his work in a gallery.
a. Paint
b. Show publicly
c. Sell
d. Present
Answer: b
21. 'Notation' has relevance to -
a. Legal affairs
b. Music
c. Sports
d. Insurance
Answer: b
22.Scanty' এর বিপরিতার্থক শব্দ কোনটি ?
a. Limited
b. Unlimited
c. Inflation
d. Bounded
Answer: b
23.'Tranquil' is opposite to -
a. Impatient
b. Agitated
c. Vociferous
d. Noisy
Answer: b
24.The noise level in Dhaka city has increased (exponentially).Here the bracket close word means--
a. amagingly
b. shockingly
c. steadily.
d. rapidly
Ans:d
25.A Machivellian character is -
a. An honest person
b. A selfish person
c. A courageous person
d. A judicious person
Answer: b
26.Choose the correct meaning of the phrase 'Cul-de-sac' -
a. Selection
b. Dead end
c. Error
d. Buble
Answer: b
27. "Nostalgic" is the synonym of -
a. Soothing
b. Homesick
c. Diseased
d. Indolent
Answer: b
28.What is the antonym of 'Apostate' ?
a. Loyalist
b. Cancellation
c. Poverty
d. Believe
Answer: a
29.The antonym of "Hazardous" is -
a. Certain
b. Clear
c. Safe
d. Dangerious
Answer: c
30.Find the antonym of the capital letter : ASSERT
a. affirm
b. declare
c. insist
d. deny
Ans:d
31.Choose the one that best express the opposite meaning of the given word: Optimist
a. Romantic
b. Idealistic
c. Pessimist
d. None of the above
Answer: c
32.The similar meaning of 'CHASTE' is--
a. Loyal
b. Timid
c. Curt
d. Pure
Ans:d
33.Sellect the opposite meaning of the word INADVERTENT---
a. Unintentional
b. Unintended
c. Accidental
d. Intentional
Ans:d
34.Choose the opposite of the given words: Ruthless
a. Mindful
b. Compassionate
c. Hostility
d. Merciful
Answer: d
35.The opposite of 'hamper' is--
a. obstruct
b. interfere
c. prohibit
d. facilitate
Answer: d
36.Architect : Building :: Sculptor : ?
A. Museum
B. Stone
C. Chisel
D. Statue
Answer:D
37.The antonym of 'Sagacity' is--
a. incredulity
b. belligerence
c. stupidity
d. tolerance
Ans:c
38.The antonym of 'Inimical' is---
a. hostile
b. friendly
c. indifferent
d. angry
Answer: b
39.The synonym of 'Antagonist' is--
a. quarrelsome
b. opponent
c. hyperactive
d. belligerent
Answer: b
40.Sellect the opposite meaning of the word GLORIOUS---
a. Superb
b. Splendid
c. Disgraceful
d. Wonderful
Ans:c
41.The word 'plethora' means--
a. despair
b. excess
c. forlorn
d. scarcity
Answer: b
42.The synonym of 'Congenial' is--
a. meticulous
b. friendly
c. solitary
d. easy
Answer: b
43.What is the correct antonym of 'Panic'?
a. sit
b. laugh
c. dance
d. relax
Answer: d
44.The antonym of ''Harbinger'' is--
a. leader
b. educator
c. messenger
d. follower
Answer: d
45.The synonym of ''Parsimony'' is--
a. pathetic
b. miserable
c. miserliness
d. lavish
Answer: c
46.The opposite of the word ''untenable'' is---
a. verifiable
b. precise
c. defensible
d. hypothetical
Answer:c
47.''To replicate'' means--
a. To understand
b. To enunciate
c. To be serious
d. To copy
Answer: d
48.The word ''disregard'' means:
a. ignore
b. evade
c. admit
d. improve
Ans:a
49.Choose the opposite of the given words: "Endorse"
a. Provoke criticism
b. Receive payment
c. Submit unwillingly
d. Oppose publicly
Ans:d
50.'Taciturn' is most nearly opposite in meaning to—
a. Spoken
b. Talkative
c. Leisurely
d. Placatory
Answer: b
প্রশ্নোত্তর পর্ব ৫
1.A man who has not remarried after his wife's death is called-
a. window
b. wifeless
c. divorced
d. widower
Answer:d
2.One who knows everything is---
a. omnipotent
b. omnivorous
c. omniscient
d. omnipresent
Answer: c
3.A person claiming to be superior in culture and intellect to others
A) worldly
B)highbrow
C) provincial
D) refined
Answer:B
4.A short journey for pleasure
A) tour
B)wanderlust
C) jaunt
D) itinerary
Answer:C
5.An animal story with a moral
A) fable
B)tale
C) anecdote
D) parable
Answer:A
6.One who is honourably discharged from the service
A) eligible
B)emeritus
C) emissary
D) erudite
Answer:B
7.A person who is fond of fighting
A) gregarious
B)cynic
C) bellicose
D) hypochondriac
Answer:C
8.A place where pigs are kept
A) shed
B)hovel
C) sty
D) kiln
Answer:C
9.The study of ancient civilisations
A) history
B)anthropology
C) ethnology
D) archeology
Answer: D
10.One who eats human flesh
A) carnivore
B)herbivore
C) glutton
D) cannibal
Ans:d
11.One who hates women
A) philanthropist
B)ascetic
C) misogamist
D) misogynist
Answer: D
12.A specialist who tests eyesight
A) optician
B)opthalmologist
C) ichthyologist
D) neurologist
Answe: B
13.A Government run by a dictator is termed as
A. Autocracy
B. Democracy
C. Oligracy
D. Theocracy
Ans:a
14.An office for which no salary is paid
A. Hospitable
B. Free
C. Honorary
D. Gratis
Ans:c
15.One who goes to settle in another country
a.immigrant
b.alien
c.citizen
d.emigrant
Ans:d
16.The yearly return of a date:
A. Birthday
B. Recurrence
C. Anniversary
D. Ceremony
Ans:c
17.The killing of one man by another man
A. Suicide
B. Homicide
C. Fillicide
D. Insecticide
ans:b
18.Place where birds are kept
A. Zoo
B. Apiary
C. Armoury
D. Aviary
Ans:d
19.One who travels from place to place
A. Itinerant
B. Mendicant
C. Journeyman
D. Tramp
Ans:a
20.One who cannot be changed or reformed
A. Invulnerable
B. Hardened
C. Incurable
D. Incorrigible
Ans:d
21."To be one's , wit's end" means -
a. To become mad
b. To come to the end of a journey
c. Not to know what to do
d. To finish a job
Answer: c
22.Choose the best end for the sentence. He copied my eassy --?
a. word to word
b. word for word
c. word in word
d. to the last word
Answer: b
23.The price of daily necessaries increases by ----- ?
a. hook or by crook
b. fits and starts
c. the by
d. leaps and bounds
Answer: d
24.'অরন্যে রোদন' বাগধারাটির ইংরেজি অনুবাদ কী?
a. weep at forest
b. wild crics
c. wild forest
d. cry in the wilderness
Answer: d
25.'Pros and cons'means -
a. Merits and demerits
b. Advantages and disadvantages
c. Good and bad
d. All
Answer: d
26.'Riding for a fall' means-
a. Pleasure trip
b. To act recklessly
c. Horse race
d. Riding fast
Answer: b
27.Ambition is ---- of his life .
a. pros and cons
b. part and parcel
c. odds and ends
d. off and on
Answer: b
28.The expression 'rarely' can replaced by the idiom.
a. catching some one red handed
b. with flying colours
c. in the red
d. once in a blue moon
Answer: d
29.''Loaves and fishes'' phrase টির অর্থ হলো -
a. Personal gains
b. Personal loss
c. Bread with fishes
d. None
Answer: a
30.'At daggers drawn' means -
a. in disorderly
b. at a standstill
c. on embracing point
d. on the point of fighting
Answer: d
31. 'Cry wolf ' means -
a. give a false alarm
b. bare one's teeth
c. clear the road
d. show anger
Answer: a
32. A fall guy is -
a. silly person
b. one who has been betrayed
c. a scapegoat
d. an irresponsible person
Answer: c
33. Point out the correct meaning of the phrase ' fits and starts'.
a. at irregular intervals
b. at regular intervals
c. suddenly
d. at high speed
Answer: a
34. 'Hard and fast' - phrase টির অর্থ কি ?
a. Difficult
b. Fixed
c. Easy matter
d. Loose
Answer: b
35.'To nurse a grudge' means
a. to bear ill will
b. to look after carefully
c. to be feverish
d. to be ready to cure
Answer: a
36.'He could not believe his ears' means he was-
a. incredulous
b. deaf
c. guilty
d. hurt
Answer: a
37.The manager 'looked into' the matter.
a. Take decision
b. Investigate
c. Neglect
d. Taking care
Answer: b
38. 'Apple of one's eye ' means -
a. Apple like eye
b. Big eye
c. Apple coloured eye
d. Extremely favourite
Answer: d
39.'Today he is in high spirits'. - 'in high spirits' idiom টির অর্থ কি ?
a. Joyful
b. Angry
c. Intoxicated
d. Emotional
Answer: a
40."Bon voyage"বাগধারাটির অর্থ কী?
a. Have a sound sleep
b. Devil's advocate
c. A handsome fellow
d. Wish you a good trip
Answer: d
41.‘Ad libitum’ word is originated from
(a) Italian
(b) Latin
(c) Russian
(d) Greek
Ans:b
42.‘Cara sposa’ বিদেশি বাগধারাটির অর্থ কী?
(a) husband
(b) Dear wife
(c) Daughter
(d) son
Ans: c
43.'vis-a-vis' বিদেশি বাগধারাটির অর্থ কী?
(a) similar
(b) face to face
(c) contrary to the fact
(d) in good faith
Ans:b
44. "Modus operandi" means
(a) successful operation/Economical
(b) Manner/ Method of working
(c) good or bad of doing a thing
(d) a clandestine operation
Ans:b
45. "Aide" phase এর অর্থ কী?
(a) father
(b) teacher
(c) helper
(d) friend
Ans:.b
46.'Locus standi' means
(a) a place for dancing
(b) an exit
(c) centre of an office
(d) a place for standing
Ans:a
47. "Mala fide" is
(a) in good faith
(b) in bad faith
(c) in remembrance
(d) after death
Ans:b
48. "Viamedia" phase এর অর্থ কী?
(a) extreme course
(b) right course
(c) left course
(d) middle course
Ans:d
49.'Prima facie' means
(a) without any evidence
(b) unceremoniously
(c) on the face of it
(d) deliberately
Ans:d
50. "Beau Jour" means
(a) good times
(b) bad times
(c) A.and B.
(d) None of these
Ans:b
প্রশ্নোত্তর পর্ব ৬
1.His health has --- because of hard labour.
a.broken down
b.broken up
c.broken out
d.broken into
Answer: a
2. My hair needs___
A. to comb
B. to be comb
C.comb
D. combing
Answer: d
3. He died --- his country. বাক্যের শূন্যস্থানে সঠিক শব্দ বসবে -
a.in
b.on
c.to
d.for
Answer: d
4.'Pass away' means -
a.disappear
b.die
c.erase
d.fall
Answer: b
5. My uncle considered _______ his business ,when it was running really low.
a. Sell
b. Selling
c.To sell
d. To be selling
Answer: b
6.Put up অর্থ -
a.উপস্থাপন করা
b.নিভিয়ে দেয়া
c.টেনে তোলা
d.কোনটিই নয়
Answer: a
7.Choose the correct preposition : The police is looking ---- the case.
a.after
b.on
c.up
d.into
Answer: d
8.The man was run ---- by a car.
a.over
b.into
c.through
d.upon
Answer: a
9.He died ---- over exercise.
a.of
b.by
c.from
d.for
Answer: c
10.Inspite of my requests , he did not --- ?
a.give in
b.fall in
c.get off
d.give forth
Answer: a
11.The team is ---- eleven players.
a.made of
b.made up of
c.made up
d.made
Answer: b
12.He has given --- smoking.
a.by
b.away
c.aganist
d.up
Answer: d
13. My birthday is ----- February.
a.in
b.on
c.at
d.by
Answer: a
14.He is blind ----- his son's faults.
a.of
b.to
c.for
d.with
Answer: b
15. Death does not distinguish ----- the rich and the poor.
a.from
b.by
c.for
d.between
Answer: d
16.A friend ---- need is a friend indeed.
a.to
b.at
c.of
d.in
Answer: d
17.Bangladesh abounds ---- rivers.
a.with
b.by
c.in
d.on
Answer: a
18.He is not ashamed ------ his mistake.
a.of
b.on
c.for
d.in
Answer: a
19.I congratulate him ----- his success.
a.for
b.on
c.to
d.ate.
Answer:b
20.Smoking is detrimental ---- health.
a.for
b.to
c.after
d.from
Answer: b
21.What is the time ----- your watch.
a.by
b.in
c.at
d.with
Answer: a
22.He was ---- in the prime of life.
a. cut out
b. cut down
c. cut off
d. cut up
Answer: c
23.The lights have been blown --- by the strong wind.
a. out
b. away
c. up
d. off
Answer: a
24.If the rain continues we shall have to call off the game. Here 'call off' means -
a. Enjoy
b. Watch
c. Postpone or Cancell
d. Continue
Answer: c
25.The meaning of 'turn down' is -
a. refuse to consider
b. through away
c. deny
d. expel
Answer: a
26.Happiness consists --- self-contenment . Which one of the following is the appropriate preposition for the gap.
a. of
b. to
c. on
d. in
Answer: d
27. A bodyguard provides one --- protection.
a.with
b.for
c.of
d.to
Answer: a
28. He insisted__there
a.on my going
b.over going
c.is to go
d. to go
Answer: a
29. They started for Chittagong. Here 'started' means -
a. set about
b. set forth
c. set out
d. set in
Answer: c
30. .My situation was like out of the frying pan _____the fire.
a.in
b.into
c.on
d.off
Answer: b
31. When Kanon became ill, her colleagues had to manage without her. The correct verbal idiom for the above underlined words is -
a. get by
b. get through
c. get along
d. get across
Answer: c
32. As this is his first job he will have to 'put up with' the inconvenicence
a.endure
b.adapt
c.overcome
d.avoid
Answer: a
33. The rich should not look down --- the poor
a.at
b. under
c.towards
d.upon
Answer: d
34. The winter has set ---- very early this year
a. out
b. off
c. up
d. in
Answer: d
35. Some writers sink------oblivion in course of time.
a.on
b.from
C.under
d. Into
Answer: d
36.Lamia has a great apathy ____ her students.
a. for
b. towards
c. to
d. with
ans:c
37. I can give you no assurance _____ help.
a. regarding
b. of
c. to
d. for
ans: b
38. He succeeded ___ passing the examination.
a. at
b. with
c. in
d. to
ans: c
39. Now a days many villages are lit ___ electricity.
a. by
b. to
c. with
d.for
ans: c
40. Mina is absent ____ the class.
a. in
b. from
c. to
d. of
ans:b
41. We were at a disadvantage......... that we did not have a very good knowledge of the language the others were using.
(a)by
(b)in
(c)with
(d)for
Ans: b
42. He has no good cause........... complaint. Darkness was the cause.......... his losing way.
(a)about......in
(b)at.......about
(c)for........of
(d)of.........with
Ans: c
43. .He was killed........ the robber.........a hatchet.
(a)by......with
(b)with........and
(c)with.......in
(d)by........in
Ans: a
44. I was alarmed.......... the news of my brothers illness.
(a)in
(b)at
(c)of
(d)on
Ans:b
45. This evidence................. With what one already knows.
(a)ties in
(b)sets in
(c)gives in
(d)goes down
Ans: a
46. Technology has developed............ Great speed.
(a)on
(b)at
(c)in
(d)by
Ans:b
47. He succeeded by dint........... his hard labour.
(a)of
(b)try
(c)for
(d)because
Ans: a
48. A gentlemen should be true..... his word.
(a)from
(b)to
(c)in
(d)on
Ans: b
49. A defect can be caused..........negligence by one of the members of a team.
(a)to
(b)by
(c)at
(d)in
Ans: b
50. I hope that the rain will.......... for our picnic tomorrow.
(a)set back
(b)put off
(c)stay back
(d)keep off
Ans: d
প্রশ্নোত্তর পর্ব ৭
1.Change the following into comparative sentence.I am as brave as he.
a. He is braver than me
b. He is not braver than me
c. I am not braver than him
d. He is not braver than I
Answer: d
2.Nobody likes a liar . The affirmative from of this sentence is -
a. Everybody dislikes lying
b. All people dislike a liar
c. Everybody hates a liar
d. Everybody likes the truth
Answer: c
3.What a nice bird it is ! change the above sentence into assertive sentence.
a. A nice bird it is
b. It is a nice bird
c. It is very nice bird
d. It is a very nice bird
Answer: d
4.'No one can do it'. The interrogative is -
a. Cannot anyone do it
b. Can anybody do it
c. Can anyone do it
d. Can no one do it
Answer: c
5.There is only a high school at satkhira (Negative) .
a. Not more than a high school is at Satkhira
b. There is not more than a high school at Satkhira .
c. There is a few swchool at Satkhira
d. There is nothing but a school at satkhira
Answer: b
6.Which one of the following is an affirmative sentence of the Sentence given. "I can never forget you"
a. I cannot ever forget you
b. Can i never foget you ?
c. I can remember you.
d. Can I ever forget you?
Answer: d
7.He has only a few books.(Negative )
a. He does not but a few books.
b. He is nothing through a few books.
c. He has nothing but a few books.
d. He does not possess a few books.
Answer: c
8.Choose the comparative degree of ' he is one of the best players in the team'.
a. He is better than the other players in the team.
b. other players in the team are not better than he.
c. No other players in the team is not better than he.
d. He is better than most other players in the team.
Answer:d
9.I know you . (complex)
a. I know what you are
b. I know who you are
c. I know who are you
d. I know what are you
Answer: b
10.What is the positive degree of 'the cow is the most useful animal'?
a. Very few animals are as useful as the cow .
b. No other animal is so useful as the cow .
c. No other animal is more useful as the cow .
d. Every animal is not useful like the cow .
Answer: b
11.He confessed his guilt.(Complex)
a. He confessed when he became guilty
b. He confessed that he was guilty
c. He confessed because he was guilty
d. He confessed through he was not guilty
Answer: b
12.The negative of 'everybody hates a liar' is---
a. Everybody does not hate a liar
b. Everybody does not like to hate a liar
c. Nobody does not like a liar
d. Nobody likes a liar
Answer: d
13.Choose the correct tense--
a. Javed was so exhausted that he lain down for a sleep
b. Javed was so exhausted that he had laid down for a sleep
c. Javed was so exhausted that he was lying down for a sleep
d. Javed was so exhausted that he will lay down for a sleep
Answer: c
14.Akhi missed the train (Negative)
a. Akhi did not catch the train
b. Akhi did not get the train
c. Akhi did not get into the train
d. Akhi does get on the train
Answer: a
15.I had done the work and went home.( Simple )
a. Having done the work , I went home
b. Being done the work , I went home
c. Because of being done the work , I went home
d. As I had done the work , I went home
Answer: a
16.which one of the following sentewnce is simple sentence ?
a. I know that he is rich
b. He is very weak, so he can not walk
c. In spite of his poverty he is happy
d. How soon he has come
Answer: c
17.Find out the incorrect sentence.
a. The climate of Rajshahi is better than Dhaka
b. Going by bus is easier than going by rickshaw
c. It is better to go than stay.
d. He is more strong than bold
Answer: a
18.Move and die. (simple)
a. If you move, you will die.
b. By moving you will die .
c. without moving you will die.
d. If you do not move , you will do
Answer: b
19.Javed is a boy who is good. (Simple )
a. Javed is being a good boy
b. Javed is not an ugly boy
c. Javed has been a good boy
d. Javed is a good boy
Answer: d
20.Change the following into Comparative form .He is the Wisest man in our locality.
a. He is wiser man in our locality
b. He is wiser than any other in our locality
c. He is wiser than all other man in our locality
d. He is the wiser man in our locality
Answer: b
21. Which of the following sentences is correct ?
a. He is very good with mathematics
b. He is very good for mathematics
c. He is very good at mathematics
d. He is very good in mathematics
Answer: c
22.নিচের কোন বাক্যটি শুদ্ধ ?
a. I will go after a month
b. He absented from the school
c. One of the passers-by rescued
d. One of the passer-by rescued her
Answer: c
23.The sentence with correct punctuations --- ?
a. Maria,my student, is on leave today
b. Maria my student, is on leave today
c. Maria my student is on leave today
d. Maria,my student is, on leave today
Answer: a
24.Which one of the following sentence is correct ?
a. Let us go out for a walk.
b. Let us go out for walk.
c. Let us go out for a walking.
d. Let us go out for walking
Answer: a
25.কোন বাক্যটি শুদ্ধ ?
a. You are a pride of Bangladesh
b. You are pride of Bangladesh
c. You are a pride of the Bangladesh
d. You are the pride of Bangladesh
Answer: a
26.Find out the correct sentence ?
a. The train is running in time.
b. The train is running on time.
c. The train is running with time.
d. The train is running at time.
Answer: b
27.কোন বাক্যটি শুদ্ধ ?
a. He speaks English like English
b. My brother is an M.A
c. Look up the word in the dictionary book
d. I feel out of sort today
Answer: b
28.Which is the correct sentence ?
a. Credit it to my account
b. Credit it in my account
c. Credit it at my account
d. Credit it with my account
Answer: a
29.Which one of the following sentence is correct ?
a. Each boy and each girl have pens.
b. Each boy and each girl have a pen.
c. Each boy and each girl has a pen.
d. Each boy and each girl has had a pen.
Answer: c
30.Which one of the following sentence is correct ?
a. Each boy and each girl have pens.
b. Each boy and each girl have a pen.
c. Each boy and each girl has a pen.
d. Each boy and each girl has had a pen.
Answer: c
31.কোন বাক্যটি শুদ্ধ ?
a. I saw his pulse
b. I felt his pulse
c. I found his pulse
d. I examined his pulse
Answer: b
32.Choose the correct sentence ?
a. I, you and he are present
b. You, he and I are present
c. You, he and I am present
d. He, you and I are present
Answer: c
33.কোন বাক্যটি অশুদ্ধ?
ক. The sky is blue.
খ. A sky is blue.
গ. The moon shines by night.
ঘ. The earth is round.
উত্তরঃ খ
34.Which sentence is incorrect ?
a. I feel unwell
b. He prefers tea than coffee
c. Open at page 30
d. I have a headache
Answer: b
35.Choose the right sentence ?
a. He came lately today
b. He came in late today
c. He came late today
d. He came by late today
Answer: c
36. Choose the correct sentence ?
a. He had been hunged for murder
b. He has been hunged for murder
c. He was hanged for murder
d. He was hunged for murder
Answer: c
37.কোনটি শুদ্ধ বাক্য ?
a. Seen the word in the dictionary
b. Find out the word in
c. Pick up the word in the dictionary
d. Look up the word in the dictionary
Answer: d
38.Correct one is ----?
a. Ten miles are a long distance
b. Ten miles are more long distance
c. Ten miles make a long distance
d. Ten miles is a long distance
Answer: d
39.Which one is incorrect sentence ?
a. He came this morning
b. Asad is sick
c. Anis told me a liar
d. Put your sign here
Answer: a
40.নিচের কোন বাক্যটি শুদ্ধ ?
a. I feel unwell
b. I took a bath
c. I am somewhat sure
d. I sold my funiture's
Answer: b
প্রশ্নোত্তর পর্ব ৮
1."Had I been" at the scene of the accident, I could have administered first aid to the victims.
a. had been I
b. If I were
c. If I was
d. I should been
Answer: a
2.If I had known you were coming --------
a. I would go to
b. I had gone to the station
c. I would have gone to the station
d. I would be going to the station
Answer: c
3. Which alternative best represents the quoted portion of the sentence: Municipal taxes are based on "an estimate of the value" of one's property.
a. an appraisal
b. a forecast
c. a prediction
d. an outline
Answer: a
4.If you make delay, you ----- the train.
a. would miss
b. will miss
c. shall miss
d. should miss
Answer: b
5.He ---- to see us if he had been able to.
a. would come
b. would have come
c. my have come
d. may come
Answer: b
6. Shaheen would never have taken the job if ----- what great demand it would make on his time.
a. he knew
b. he had been knowing
c. he had known
d. he was knowing
Answer: c
7. While going to office , take your umbrella ---- it rains.
a) in case
b) if
c) if not
d) perhaps
ans: a
8. If there had been a concert today--
a. I would certainly go
b. I have certainly gone
c. I would certainly have gone
d. I will certainly go
Answer: c
9.It we had a boat, we ---- the river.
a. would cross
b. will cross
c. will be crossing
d. would make crossed
Answer: a
10.If I ----- the trick with my own eyes I would never have believed it possible.
a. have not seen seeing
b. hadn't seen
c. didn't see
d. wouldn't have seen
Answer: b
11.If teaching ---- more, fewer teachers would leave the profession.
a. pays
b. is paying
c. paid
d. is paid
Answer: c
12. If cigarettes were banned , life ----
a) will be healthier
b) becomes healthier
c) should become healthy
d) would become healthy
ans: d
13.Water boils ---- you heat it to 100° Centigrade.
a. unless
b. until
c. if
d. although
Answer: c
14.If there was a concert today----
a. I would go
b. I would be gone
c. I would have gone
d. I would be going
Answer: a
15.If I had known you were coming --------
a. I would have gone to the station
b. I would go to the station
c. I will go to the station
d. I would be going to the station
Answer: a
16.Which alternative best represents the quoted portion of the sentence: Do not get upset about trivial matters.
a. unexpected
b. unimportant
c. unusual
d. uncertain
Answer: b
17.Had I know in advance, I ----- enough money.
a. would take
b. took
c. will take
d. would have taken
Answer: d
18."If the parent would have shown more interest", the daughter would have been in college today.
a. If the parent would have shown more interest
b. If the parent had shown more interest
c. If the parent would have showed more interest
d. Should the parent would have shown more interest
Answer: b
19. If I go there, The authority __________this project
a. approve
b. is approving
c. will be approving
d.would approve
e. would've approved
Ans : a
20.If you went away now, your friends ------ you.
a. would have missed
b. will miss
c. would miss
d. missed
Answer: c
21.Which of the following sentence is correct?
a. I wish I was as tall as my brother
b. I wish I was as tall as my brother was
c. I wish I were as tall as my brother
d. I wish I am as tall as my brother
Answer: c
22. I made her ---
a. to cry
b. crying
c. cry
d. to crying
Answer: c
23.What "are you doing"? I work in a book shop.
a. do you do
b. are you do
c. do you
d. are you doing
Answer: a
24. By 2020, I ---- for this firm 15 years.
a. will be working
b. will work
c. have worked
d. will have worked
Answer: d
25.Let's go to the movie when you get through "to study".
a. to study
b. to have studied
c. studying
d. study
Answer: c
26.which of the following is correct?
a. Did you finish the work yet?
b. Did you finished the work yet?
c. Have you finish the work yet?
d. Have you finished the work yet?
Answer: d
27.You will soon get used ----- in such an environment.
a. to work
b. to working
c. working
d. worked
Answer: b
28.The accused was ---- for murder.
a. hung
b. hunged
c. hanged
d. hang
Answer: c
29.The boy promised ---- the girl.
a. to marry
b. marrying
c. married
d. to be married
Answer: a
30.It's time ----- your mistakes.
a. you realized
b. that you realize
c. you would realize
d. you have realized
Answer: a
31. I went to the market with a view to --- a book.
a. bought
b. buy
c. buying
d. being bought
Answer: c
32.Just now he -- his dinner but he says he'll see you when he's finished.
a. is having
b. has had
c. was having
d. had
Answer: b
33.My father insists on ---- quality materials for the construction of our new house.
a. use
b. to use
c. the use
d. using
Answer: d
34.They treated me --- I were a child.
a. when
b. like
c. as
d. as if
Answer: d
35.I ---- TV when the telephone rang.
a. watched
b. was watching
c. are watching
d. have watched
Answer: b
36.He is considering not "to go".
a. to go
b. going
c. to have gone
d. having gone
Answer: b
37. We should.......... for a rainy day.
(a)put down
(b)put into
(c)put something by
(d)put things off
Answer: c
38. Those customers are _____the most demanding we've ever seen.
(a)so far
(b)by far
(c)since far
(d)too far
Answer: b
39. He was killed........ the robber.........a hatchet.
(a)by......with
(b)with........and
(c)with.......in
(d)by........in
Answer: a
40. Unfortunately, their house.......while they were at the restaurant celebrating their anniversary.
(a)got burgled
b)went burgled
(c)burgled
(d)had burgled
Answer: a
41. They as well as he ----- wrong .
a) is
b)be
c)will
d) not
ans: a
42. Three-fourths of the work ---- finished .
a) have been
b) has been
c) had
d) were
ans: b
43) The Headmaster and Secretary ---- present at last meeting.
a) is
b) was
c) have
d) were
ans: b
44) Four and four --- eight.
a)makes
b) make
c) made
d) are
ans: a
45. The mob ---- dispersed .
a) is
b) have
c) has
d) are
ans: a
46) The father with his three sons --- left the place.
a) have
b) were
c) has
d) will
ans: c
47) Every one should respect --- teacher.
a) his
b) one’s
c) own
d) their
ans: a
48) The Committee decided to defer ---- meeting for a month.
a) their
b) its
c) them
d) his
ans: b
49) Many a ------ tried to complete the work
a) men has
b) men have
c) man have
d) man has
ans: d
50) A Writer of stories ----- need of imagination.
a) does
b) have
c) is
d) has
ans: d