38th BCS Preliminary Question with Answers | English
This is 38th BCS Preliminary MCQ Question of English. Test yourself answering the questions and match the answer to know your competence. 1. The is the plural form of the word “louse”? a) louses b)…
This is 38th BCS Preliminary MCQ Question of English. Test yourself answering the questions and match the answer to know your competence.
1. The is the plural form of the word “louse”?
a) louses
b) lice
c) lices
d) licess
2. Choose the correct sentence?
a) He refrained to take any drastic action
b) He refrained to taking any drastic action
c) He refrained i taking any drastic actions
d) He refrained from taking any drastic action
3. Which word is closest in meaning to “Franchise”?
a) ttility
b) frankness
c) privilege
d) superficial
4. “Once in a blue moon” means —
a) always
b) very rarely
c) nearly
d) Hourly
5. “Jecobean Period” of English Literature refers to —
a) 1558-1603
b) 1625-1649
c) 1603-1625
d) 1649-1660
6. A retired officer lives next door. Here “retired” word is used as a/an :
a) Gerund
b) adverb
c) preposition
d) participle
7. Choose the appropriate preposition in the blank of the following sentence : Eight men
were concerned — the plot.
a) at
b) with
c) in
d) for
8. Fill in the gap with the right tense: When water — it turns into ice.
a) will freeze
b) freezes
c) would freeze
d) froze
9. Which one is the correct antonym of “frugal”?
a) Extraordinary
b) spendthrift
c) economical
d) Authentic
10. Choose the meaning of the idiom — “Take the bull by the horns.”
a) To challenge the enemy with courage
b) Force the enemy to submit
c) Out of one’s wit
d) Surrender before the enemy
11. Fill in the blank with the correct quantifier. I still have — money.
a) a few
b) quite a few
c) many
d) a little
12. Select the right compound structure of the sentence: “Though he is poor, he is honest”
a) He is poor and honest
b) As he is poor, he is honest
c) He is poor but honest
d) Since he is poor, he is honest
13. Where do the following lines occur in? “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide,k
wide sea ……”
a) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
b) Kubla Khan
c) The Nightingle
The Dungeon
14. “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.” This line is written by —
a) Emily Dickinson
b) T.S Eliot
c) Mathew Arnold
d) John Donne
15. Fill in the blank : Tourists — their reservations well in advance if they want to fly to Cox’s Bazar.
a) better to had get
b) had better to get
c) had better got
had better get
16. The sun went down. The “down” word is used here as a/an :
a) preposition
b) adverb
c) noun
d) conjunction
17. Identify the right passive voice of “It is impossible to do this”.
a) Doing this is impossible
b) This is impossible to be done
c) This is must be done
d) This can’t be done
18. Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?
a) John Milton
b) Jane Mansfield
c) William Cowper
d) William Shakespeare
19. The literary term “euphemism” means—
a) vague idea
b) inoffensive expression
c) a sonnet
d) wise saying
20. “Mutton” is a/an
a) Common noun
b) Abstract noun
c) Materiel noun
d) Proper noun
21. Reading is an excellent habit, Here, the “Reading” word is a —–
a) Verbal noun
b) Participle
c) Verb
d) Gerund
22. Which one of the following words is an example of a distributive pronoun?
a) such
b) either
c) that
d) any
23. Who is not a Victorian poet?
a) Mathew Arnold
b) Alexander Pope
c) Robert Browning
d) Alfred Tennyson
24. A speech of too many words is called—
a) A big speech
b) Maiden speech
c) An unimportant speech
d) A verbose speech
25. “Strike while the iron is hot” is an example of —
a) Noun clause
b) Adjective clause
c) Adverbial clause
d) Subordinate clause
26. The play “The Spanish Tragedy” is written by—
a) Thomas Kyd
b) Christopher Marlowe
c) Shakespeare
d) Ben Jonson
27. Who among the following Indian English writers is a famous novelist?
a) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
b) R.K. Narayan
c) Nissim Ezekiel
d) Kamala Das
28. The word “Panegyric” means
a) Criticism
b) elaborate prasie
c) curse
d) high sound
29. Select the correctly spelt word :
a) heterogeneous
b) hetarogeneous
c) hetrogeneous
d) Hetroganeous
30. Which period is known as “The golden age of English literature?
a) The Victorian age
b)The Elizabethen age
c)The Restoration age
d) The Eighteenth Century
31. Which one in the correct indirect narration? “Why have you beaten my dog”? he said to me.
a) He demanded me why had I beaten his dog
b) He asked me why I have had beaten his dog
c) He enquired me why had I had beaten his dog
d) He demanded of me why I had beaten his dog
32. Who is the author of “Man and Superman”?
a) G.B. Shaw
b) Thomas Hardy
c) Ernest hemingway
d) Charles Dickens
33. The most famous satirist in English literature is —
a) Jonathan Swift
b) Alexander Popy
c) Joseph Addison
d) Richard Steel
34. “Among” is a preposition that is used when —– people are involved.
a) two
b) more than two
c) two or more than two
d) four only
35. The novelist has a hold of —- in writing.
a) Style
b) manner
c) history
d) Tradition
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