BCS English

1. Cricket enjoys a huge ------ in Bangladesh.
a) follow on
b) fall at
c) follow
d) following                                                   Ans: d


2. Who wrote the lines:'all at once/I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodil'?
a) Wordsworth.
b) Herrick
c) Shelley
d) Keats                                                        Ans: a


3. What would be the right synonym for "initiative"?
a) apathy
b) indolence
c) enterprise
d) activity                                                     Ans: c


4. Which of the following words can be used as a verb?
a) Mister
b) Master
c) Mistress
d) Mastery                                                   Ans: b


5. Who among the following writers is not a Noble Laurate?
a) T.S. Eliot
b) Toni Morrison
c) Grahame Greene
d) William Faulkner                                    Ans: c


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) The doors must be shut                            Ans: d


7. The film was directed in the director`s usual--------style.
a) confusion
b) idiosyncratic
c) personifying
d) purifying                                                   Ans: b


8. Which words is the determiner in the sentence "Will take much time"
a) will
b) take
c) much
d) time                                                        Ans: c


9. The play Arms and the Man is by----
a) James Joyce
b) Arthur Miller
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Gerorge Bernard Shaw                        Ans: d


10. `He was a rather disagreeable man' Here underlined word is a/an----
a) Nun
b) Adjective
c) Adverb
d) Preposition                                         Ans: d


11. This could have worked if I ------been more far-sighted.
a) had
b) have
c) might
d) would                                                Ans: a


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                        Ans: c


13. Choose the pai of words that expresses a relationship similar to that o "Harm : Damage"
a) Sweet: sour
b) Stout: Weak
c) Injure: Incapacitate
d) Fook: Crook                                   Ans: b


14. Othelo s Shakespeare`s play about------
a) A Jew
b) A Roman
c) A Turk
d) A Moor                                          Ans: d


15. In the 18th Century the Mughal Empire begun to------
a) discriminate
b) disintegrate
c) differentiate
d) dislocate                                       Ans: b