BCS English question and answer (Part I)
The 44st Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary examination will be held on 27 May 2022. The test will be held simultaneously in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Barishal, Khulna, Sylhet, Chattogram and Mymensingh centers, according to a press release of Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) issued today.
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44th BCS English questions and answers
Grammar Part
1. Select the appropriate preposition: Are you doing’ anything special–the weekend?
a. in
b. for
c. on
d. at✓
2. What is the plural form of sheep’?
a. Sheeps
b. Sheep✓
c. Sheeps
d. Shepeses
3. What is the verb form of the word ‘ability? – enable
a. Capable
b. Inability
c. Enable✓
d. Unable
4. The word ‘equivocation’ refers to –
a. Starting like an author
b. Two contradictory things in the same statement✓
c. Free expressions of opinion
d. A true statement
5. Which of the following words is spelt correctly? – authoritative
a. Authoratative
b. Autheratative
c. Authoritative✓
d. Authoratative
6. Find out the active form of the sentence:
‘By whom can our country be saved?”
a. Who can save our country?✓
b. Our country can be saved by who?
c. Who saved our country?
d. Who will save our country?
7. Identify the correct passive form: “Do not close the door.”
a. Let not the door be close.
b. Let not the door closed.
c. Let not the door be closed.✓
d. Let not the door close.
8. Sitting happily, the chicken laid eggs. The underlined part is —
a. Noun clause
b. Subordinate clause✓
c. Independent clause
d. Coordinate clause
9. What kind of noun is river?
a. Material
b. Collective
c. Proper
d. Common✓
10. Identify the right tense: ‘My father----before I came’. – had left
a. would be leaving
b. had left✓
c. will leave
d. had been leaving
11. Which of the following words is spelt incorrectly?
a. Reminescence✓
b. Glycerin
c. Idiosyncrasy
d. Lexicography
12. The controlling sentence of a paragraph is known as –
a. Content modulator
b. Thesis statement
c. Topic sentence✓
d. Terminator
13. Choose the correct comparative form of the sentence: Very few boys are as industrious as Zaman.
a. Zaman is one of most industrious boys.✓
b. Zaman is more industrious than most other boys.
c. Zaman is really industrious like boys.
d. Zaman is as industrious as other boys.
14. Identify the appropriate preposition: Your opinion is identical---mine.
a. For
b. With✓
c. In
d. By
15. The word “vital” is
a. Noun
b. Adverb
c. Adjective✓
d. Verb
16. To get along with means.
a. To adjust✓
b. To interest
c. To accompany
d. To walk
17. The synonym of panoramic.
a. Scenic✓
b. Narrow
c. Quarrelsome
d. Limited
18. The Antonym of the word Slothful
a. Playful
b. Sluggish
c. Quarrelsome
d. Energetic✓
19. By and large means.
a. Everywhere
b. Mostly✓
c. Very large
d. Far away
20. He could not win but learned a lot.
a. An adverb
b. A verb
c. An adjective
d. A conjunction✓
Literature Part
21. Sweet are the uses of adversity. Is quoted from Shakespeare.
a. Julius Caesar
b. Comedy of Error
c. Macbeth
d. As you like it✓
22.”Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more;” These memorable lines in Shakespearean tragedy are spoken by-
a. Lady Macbeth
b. Duncan
c. Banquo
d. Macbeth✓
23.”All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.” This extract is taken from W. B. Yeats’ poem titled.
a. No Second troy
b. Easter 1916✓
c. The second coming
d. The wild swans at coole
24. The poetic drama ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was written.
a. Harold printer
b. GB Shaw
c. TS Eliot✓
d. Samuel Becket
25. All for Love’ is a drama written by-
a. John Dryden✓
b. William Congreve
c. John Bunyan
d. Francis Bacon
26. Caliban is an important character from Shakespeare’s –
a. The tempest✓
b. Hamlet
c. Othello
d. Macbeth
27. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is –.
a. A tragedy by Shakespeare
b. A poem by lord Byron
c. A Play by G. B Shaw✓
d . A novel by S.T Coleridge
28. Who wrote the picaresque novel titled “Tom Jones”?
a. Samuel Richardson
b. Horache Walpole
c. Henry Fielding✓
d. Laurence Sterne
29. The story of ‘Moby Dick’ centers on-
a mermaid
a. A mermaid
b. A whale✓
c. A crocodile
d. A shark
30. ‘He prayeth best, who loveth best.-Who said it?
a. John Milton
b. John Donne
c. Lord Byron
d. S. T Coleridge✓
31. Paradise lost attempted to---
a. Justify the ways of man to God.✓
b. Show that satan and Gid have equal power.
c. Justify the ways of God to Man.
d. Explain why God and Satan are necessary.
32. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed The extract is taken from P. B Shelly's Poem.
a. The cloud
b. To a Skylark
c. Ode to the west wind✓
d. Adonais
33. Who wrote the short story “The Ant and the Grasshopper.”
a. Guy De Maupassant
b. William Somerset Maugham✓
c. JK Rawling
d. O Henry
34. Alexander Pope “Essay on man” is--
a. Novel
b. Short story
c. Treatise
d. Poem✓
35. Francis Bacon is an illustrious.
a. Essayist✓
b. Novelist
c. Journalist
d. Dramatist
43th BCS English questions and answer
1. Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer?
A. A Passage to India
B. Sons and Lovers
C. One Hundred Years of Solitude✓
D. Pride and Prejudice
Explanation: One Hundred Years of Solitude Novel by Gabriel García Márquez.
Language: Spanish
Original title: Cien años de soledad
2. Who wrote the play “The Way of the World?”
A. William Shakespeare
B. William Congreve✓
C. Ben Johnson
D. Oscar Wilde
3. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.” Who wrote this?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. John Milton✓
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. P. B. Shelley
4. Who is not a modern poet?
A. W. B. Yeats
B. John Keats✓
C. W. H. Auden
D. T. S. Eliot
5. O' Henry was from-
A. Canada
B. America✓
C. England
D. Ireland
6. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
A. England
B. France
C. Italy
D. Denmark✓
7. No Second Troy is a-
A. short story
B. poem✓
C. novel
D. drama
8. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things?”
A. Thomas Hardy
B. R. K. Narayan
C. Jhumpa lahiri
D. Arundhati Roy✓
9. “Moby Dick”, a novel, was written by-
A. Herman Melville✓
B. Mark Twain
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. William Faulkner
10. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” - Who wrote this?
A. William Blake
B. Lord Byron
C. S. T. Coleridge
D. P. B. Shelley ✓
11. Who is the poet of the poem “Ozymandias”?
A. P. B. Shelley✓
B. S. T. Coleridge
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats
12. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-
A. John Dryden
B. William Wordsworth✓
C. T.S. Eliot
D. Alexander Pope
13. --- was both a poet and a painter.
A. John Keats
B. Spenser
C. William Blake✓
D. John Donne
14. What kind of play is “Julius Ceasar”?
A. romantic
B. anti-romantic
C. comedy
D. historical✓
15. Who is not an Irish writer?
A. James Joyce
B. D. H. Lawrence✓
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Jonathan Swift
16. Who is the author of ‘Jane Eyre’?
A. Charlotte Brontë✓
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Brontë
D. Mary Shelley
17. A speech full of too many words is-
A. a big speech
B. maiden speech
C. a verbose speech✓
D. unimportant speech
18. Change the voice: “Nobody trusts a traitor.”
A. A traitor is trusted.
B. A traitor should not be trusted.
C. Everybody hates a traitor.
D. A traitor is not by anybody.✓
19. “A herd of cattle is passing” The underlined word is a/an-
A. adverb
B. adjective
C. collective noun✓
D. abstract noun
20. What is the antonym for the word “deformation?”
A. distortion
B. contortion
C. wholeness✓
D. disfigurement
21. Words inscribed on a tomb is an-
A. epitome
B. episode
C. epithet
D. epitaph✓
22. What is the adjective form of the word ‘people’?
A. populous✓
B. popularity
C. popular
D. popularize
23. He contemplated marrying his cousin.' Here.“marrying” is a/an-
A. present participle
B. verb
C. gerund✓
D. infinitive
24. The word “to genuflect” means-
A. to be genuine
B. to reflect
C. to bend the knee✓
D. to be flexible
25. Fill in the blank: “She went to New Market---”
A. on feet
B. by walking
C. by foot
D. on foot✓
26. Fill in the gap: Birds fly--- in the sky.
A. at large✓
B. are long
C. at a stitch
D. are long
27. Identify the correct synonym for the word 'magnanimous'.
A. unkind
B. generous✓
C. revengeful
D. friendly
28. Choose the right form of verb: It is high time we (act) on the matter.
A. are acting
B. have acted
C. acted✓
D. could act
29. Identify the correct sentence:
A. The girl burst out tears.
B. The girl burst into tears.✓
C. The girl burst with tears.
D. The girl bursted out tears.
30. The phrase “sine die” means-
A. half-heartedly
B. fixed
C. doubtfully
D. uncertain✓
31. The phrase 'dog days' means-
A. hot weather✓
B. rain-soaked streets
C. cold shower
D. ice storm
32. Which gender is the word ‘orphan’?
A. neuter
B. feminine
C. masculine
D. common✓
33. What is the noun form of the word “laugh”?
A. laughing
B. laughter✓
C. laughingly
D. laughable
34. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly:
A. fluctuation
B. remission
C. ocassion✓
D. decision
35. Do you have any money --- you?
Fill in the blank with appropriate preposition:
A. to
B. over
C. in
D. on✓
42th BCS English Questions Solutions
1. What is the correct indirect form of: He said, “You had better see a doctor”.
A. He advised him to see a doctor.✓
B. He advised that he should see a doctor.
C. He suggested that he had seen a doctor.
D. He proposed to see a doctor.
2. Identify the word that remains same in plural form:
A. Deer✓
B. Horse
C. Elephant
D. Tiger
3. Which word is correct?
A. Furnitures
B. Informations
C. Sceneries
D. Proceeds✓
4. যদি ICE: COLDNESS হয়, তবে EARTH:?
A. Weight
B. Jungle
C. Sea
D. Gravity✓
5. To doctor an animal means:
A. To treat it
B. To sterilize it✓
C. To poison it
D. To cure it
6. The word flying in the sentence ‘Look at the flying bird’ is a:
A. Gerund
B. Participle✓
C. Verbal noun
D. Gerundal infinitive
7. Identify the determiner in the sentence ‘Bring me that book’
A. Bring
B. Me
C. That✓
D. Book
8. What is the meaning of musk?
A. A form of drama
B. A face cover
C. A substance used in making perfume✓
D. A disguise
9. Identify the correct spelled one:
A. Caesarean✓
B. caeserean
C. Ciserian
D. Scissorian
10. What is the function of a topic sentence?
A. To introduce the topic
B. To analyse the topic
C. To present the main Idea✓
D. To expand the Idea
11. Who wrote Dr. Zivago?
A. Maxim Gorky
B. Boris Pastornak✓
C. Fyodor Dostoevsky
D. Leo Tolstoy
12. Would you please find out Bangladesh--- the map.
A. In
B. On✓
C. Over
D. At
13. Hasan has read most of the --- of Shakespeare:
A. Poem
B. Play
C. Drama
D. Works✓
14. Complete the sentence: If I were you, I --- take the money:
A. Shall
B. Will
C. Would✓
D. May
15. Go and catch the falling star. Here the falling is:
A. An adverb
B. A preposition
C. An adjective✓
D. A verb
16. Film in the gap with the correct form of verb:
The police --- informed yesterday.
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were✓
17. Giving someone the cold shoulder means:
A. To torture somebody
B. To harm someone
C. To appreciate someone
D. To ignore somebody✓
18. September on Jessore Road is written by:
A. Madhusudan Dutt
B. Allen Ginsberg✓
C. Kaiser Huq
D. Vikram Seth
19. Liza had given me two:
A. Pair of jean
B. pairs of jean
C. Pair of jeans
D. Pairs of jeans✓
20. অনুকম্প শব্দের ইংরেজি কোনটি?
A. Clemency✓
B. Enthral
C. Erudition
D. Fathom
41th BCS English Questions solutions
1. ‘Shylock’ is a character in the play-
A. Twelfth Night
B. The Merchant of Venice✓
C.Romeo and Juliet
D. Measure for Measure
2. ‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel written by-
A. D. H. Lawrence
B. William Makepeace Thackeray✓
C. Joseph Conrad
D. Virginia Woolf
3. ‘Pip’ is the protagonist in Charles Dickens’ novel-
A. A Christmas Carol
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Oliver Twist
D. Great Expectations✓
4. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was written by the author of –
A. Lord Jim
B. The Rainbow✓
C. Ulysses
D. A Passage to India
5. The poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is written by-
A. W. B. Yeats
B. T. S. Eliot✓
C. Walter Scott
D. Robert Browning
6. The play The Birthday Party is written by-
A. Samuel Beckett
B. Henry Livings
C. Harold Pinter✓
D. Arthur Miller
7. Who is the author of the first scientific romance The Time Machine?
A. H. G. Wells✓
B. Samuel Butler
C. Henry James
D. George Moore
8.‘Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it s ’. This extract is taken from the drama –
A. King Lear
B. Macbeth
C. As You Like It
D. Hamlet✓
9. “Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive to seek, to find, and not to yield” is taken from the poem written by –
A. Robert Browning
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Alfred Tennyson✓
D. Lord Byron
10. Who is not a romantic poet?
A. P. B. Shelley
B. S.T. Coleridge
C. John Keats
D. T. S. Eliot✓
11. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet was prince of –
A. Norway
B. Britain
C. Denmark✓
D. France
12. Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore are characters from the novel –
A. David Copperfield
B. The Return of the Native
C. A Passage to India✓
D. Adam Bede
13. Time held me green and dying, Though I sang in my chains like the sea. These lines have been quoted from Dylan Thomas’ poem –
A. The Flower
B. Fern Hill✓
C. By Fire
D. After the Funeral
14. Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships. And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Who speaks the famous lines?
A. Caesar
B. Antony
C.Faustus✓
D. Romeo
15. The Character ‘Alfred Doolittle’ is taken from Shaw’s play titled-
A. Pygmalion✓
B. Man and Superman
C. The Doctor’s Dilemma
D. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
16. Identify the word that can be used as both singular and plural:
A. wood
B. issue
C. fish✓
D. light
17. Find out the correct passive form of the sentence ‘Who taught you French?
A. By whom you were taught French?
B. By whom French was taught you?
C. French was taught you by whom?
D. By whom were you taught French?✓
18. The old man was tired of walking.’ Here ‘walking is a/an-
A. present participle
B. adjective
C. common noun
D. gerund✓
19. Which one is a correct sentence?
A. The doctor found my pulse.
B. The doctor took my pulse.✓
C. The doctor examined my pulse.
D. The doctor saw my pulse.
20. ‘I will not let you go.’ In this sentence ‘go’ is a/an-
A. infinitive✓
B. gerund
C. participle
D. verbal noun
21. When Ushashi entered --- the room everybody stopped talking.
A. into
B. in
C. to
D. no preposition required✓
22. Call me if you have any problems regarding your work. Here ‘regarding’ is a/an-
A. gerund
B. apposition
C. preposition✓
D. conjunction
23. Select the correct comparative form of the sentence- “A string of pearls was not so bright as her teeth”.
A. Her teeth was more brighter than a string of pearls.
B. Her teeth were brighter than a string of pearls.✓
C. A string of pearls was brighter than her teeth.
D. A string of pearls were very bright than her teeth.
24. Come on, it’s time to go home. Here ‘home’ is a/an-
A. noun
B. verb
C. adjective
D. adverb✓
25. ‘Huffing and puffing, we arrived at the classroom door with only seven seconds to spare. In this sentence the verb ‘arrived’ is-
A. intransitive✓
B. transitive
C. causative
D. defective
26. Which one of the following is a common gender?
A. king
B. sovereign✓
C. emperor
D. queen
27. To win a prize is my ambition. The underlined part of the Sentence is a/an-
A. adjective phrase
B. noun phrase✓
C. adverb phrase
D. conjunctional phrase
28. Choose the word opposite in meaning to terse:
A. concise
B. detailed✓
C. expressive
D. descriptive
29. Who’s that? In this sentence that is a/an-
A. pronoun✓
B. conjunction
C. adjective
D. adverb
30. What is the noun form of the word ‘know’?
A. knowing
B. knowledge✓
C. knowledgeable
D. known
31. Give somebody a piece of your mind means to-
A. tell someone that you are very angry with them.✓
B. say exactly what you feel or think.
C. return or to help somebody return to a normal situation.
D. give somebody mental peace.
32. I shall help you provided you obey me. Here the underlined word is a/an-
A. adverb
B.adjective
C. conjunction✓
D. verb
33. Identify the correct spelling:
A. questionaire
B. questionoir
C. questionnaire✓
D. questionair
34. Which ‘but’ is a preposition?
A. It is but right to admit our faults.
B. What can we do but sit and wait?✓
C. We tried hard, but did not succeed.
D. There is no one but likes him.
35. One whose attitude is ‘eat, drink and be merry is-
A. materialistic
B. epicurean✓
C. cynic
D. stoic
40th BCS English questions and answer
1. Please write to me at the above address. The word 'above' in this sentence is a/an-A. Noun
B. Adjective✓
C. Pronoun
D. Adverb
2. In which sentence is the word ‘past’ used as preposition?
A. Writing letters is a thing of the past.
B. I look back on the past without regret.
C. I called out to him as he ran past.
D. Tania was a wonderful singer, but she's past her prime.✓
3. The word ‘sibling’ means-
A. a brother
B. a sister
C. A brother or sister✓
D. An infant
4. As she was talking, he suddenly broke- saying, That's a lie!
A. Off
B. In✓
C. Down
D. Into
5. You may go for a walk if you feel- it.
A. About
B. On
C. Like✓
D. For
6. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly:
A. Consciencious✓
B. Perseverance
C. Convalescence
D. Maintenance
7. ‘You look terrific in that dress’
The word ‘terrific’ in the above sentence means-
A. excellent✓
B. funny
C. very ugly
D. horrible
8. Someone who is capricious is-
A. easily irritated
B. wise and willing to cooperate
C. exceedingly conceited and arrogant
D. know for sudden changes in attitude or behaviour✓
9. Which one of the following words is masculine?
A. mare
B. Lad✓
C. Pillow
D. Pony
10. A man whose wife has died is called a -
A. Window
B. Widower✓
C. Spinster
D. Bachelor
11. Which word is similar to ‘ appal’?
A. deceive
B. confuse
C. dismay✓
D. solicit
12. Which Word means the opposite of ‘ dearth’?
A. lack
B. abundance✓
C. poverty
D. shortage
13. Identify the word which remains the same in its plural form:
A. aircraft✓
B. intention
C. mouse
D. thesis
14. Identify the determiner in the following sentence:
‘I have no news for you.'
A. have
B. news
C. no✓
D. for
15. A lost opportunity never returns. Here lost is a -
A. gerund
B. verbal noun
C. gerund infinitive
D. participle✓
16. The saying‘ enough is enough’ is used when you want-
A. something to continue
B. something to stop✓
C. something to continue until it's enough
D. to tell instructions are clear
17. ‘He ran with great speed’. The underlined part of the sentence is a-
A. noun phrase
B. adverb phrase✓
C. adjective phrase
D. participle phrase
18. We must not be late, else we will miss the train. This is a-
A. compound sentence✓
B. complex sentence
C. simple sentence
D. interrogative sentence
19. Change the voice: Who is calling me?
A. By whom an I called?
B. By whom I am called?
C. By whom am I being called?✓
D. Whom am I called?
20. An extra message added at the end of a letter after it is signed is called-
A. corrigendum
B. postscript✓
C. NB
D. RSVP
21. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is a/an -
A. epic
B. ballad
C. mock-heroic poem✓
D. elegy
22. Which of the following is not an American poet?
A. Robert Frost
B. W.B Yeats✓
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Langston Hughes
23. William Shakespeare was born in-
A. 1616
B. 1664
C. 1564✓
D. 1493
24. Tennyson ‘In Memoriam’ is an elegy on the death of -
A. John Milton
B. John Keats
C. Arthur Henry Hallam✓
D. Sydney Smith
25. ‘Sweet Helen’ make me immortal with a kiss.' The sentence has been taken from the play-
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. Caesar and Cleopatra
C. Doctor Faustus✓
D. Antony and Cleopatra
26. ‘What's in name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet’_
A. Juliet✓
B. Romeo
C. Portia
D. Rosalind
27. ‘Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, Tis women's whole existence.'_ This is taken from the poem of_
A. P.B. Shelley
B. Lord Byron✓
C. John Keats
D. Edmund Spenser
28. Who translated the ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into English?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Edward Fitzgerald✓
C. D.G. Rossetti
D. William Thackeray
29. ‘Ulysses’ is a novel written by_
A. Joseph Conrad
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles Dickens
D. James Joyce✓
30. The short story ‘The Diamond Necklace’ was written by_
A. Guy Dr Maupassant✓
B. O Henry
C. Somerset Maugham
D. George Orwell
31. ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’_Who said this?
A. Macbeth
B. Lady Macbeth✓
C. Lady Macduff
D. Macduff
32. ‘Where are the songs of spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.’_ Who wrote this?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Robert Browning
C. John Keats✓
D. Samuel Coleridge
33. Who is the central character of ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte?
A. Mr. Earnshaw
B. Catherine
C. Heathcliff✓
D. Hindley Earnshaw
34. ‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new.’_ This line is extracted from Tennyson's poem_
A. The Lotos-Eaters
B. Tithonus
C. Locksley Hall
D. Morte d' Arthur✓
35. Who wrote the poem ‘The Good-Morrow’?
A. George Herbert
B. Andrew Marvell
C. John Donne✓
D. Henry Vaughan
B. Andrew Marvell
C. John Donne✓
D. Henry Vaughan
39th BCS English questions solution
1. A person who believes that law and governments are not necessary is known as –A. a militant
B. an anarchist✓
C. a terrorist
D. an extremist
2. He went to —-hospital because he had……heart attack.
A. no article, an
B. the, no article
C. a, an
D. no article, a✓
3. Complete the sentence- Had I known you were waiting outside, I…..
A. had invited you to come in
B. would invite you to come in
C. would be inviting you to come in
D. would have invited you to come in✓
4. Cricket is a kind of game and also a name of –
A. insect✓
B. food
C. bird
D. flower
5. When we want to mean a government by richest class we use the term–
A. Oligarchy
B. Plutocracy✓
C. Cryptocracy
D. Aristocracy
6. Hospitals …. the sick.
A. Operate
B. treat✓
C. admit
D. nurse
7. The Warning of the authority falls on deaf ears – Here Warning does the function of_
A. adverb
B. adjective
C. verb
D. Noun✓
8. The word ‘Culinary’ is related to–
A. printing
B. cooking✓
C. dress
D. musical instruments
9. Identify the correct Passive voice of the sentence below: Do you know them?
A. Are they known by you?
B. Would they be known by you?
C. Are they known with you?
D. Are they known to you?✓
10. Panacea means –
A. cure all✓
B. pancreatic
C. widespread
D. gland
11. What is the plural number of ‘ovum’?
A. ovams
B. ovumes
C. ovumes
D. ova✓
12. কোন শব্দযুগলটি ভিন্ন?
A. False, True
B. Sharp, Blunt
C. Love, Affection✓
D. Abundance, Scarcity
13. ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a _ by Charles Dickens.
A. Ballad
B. Sketch story
C. Historical novel
D. Short novel✓
14. ‘There was a small reception following the wedding’. The word ‘following’ in the sentence above is a/an –
A. Preposition✓
B. adjective
C. Adverb
D. Noun
15. Which of the following words has been formed with a prefix?
A. Amoral✓
B. authentic
C. amnesia
D. aspersions
A. Operate
B. treat✓
C. admit
D. nurse
7. The Warning of the authority falls on deaf ears – Here Warning does the function of_
A. adverb
B. adjective
C. verb
D. Noun✓
8. The word ‘Culinary’ is related to–
A. printing
B. cooking✓
C. dress
D. musical instruments
9. Identify the correct Passive voice of the sentence below: Do you know them?
A. Are they known by you?
B. Would they be known by you?
C. Are they known with you?
D. Are they known to you?✓
10. Panacea means –
A. cure all✓
B. pancreatic
C. widespread
D. gland
11. What is the plural number of ‘ovum’?
A. ovams
B. ovumes
C. ovumes
D. ova✓
12. কোন শব্দযুগলটি ভিন্ন?
A. False, True
B. Sharp, Blunt
C. Love, Affection✓
D. Abundance, Scarcity
13. ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a _ by Charles Dickens.
A. Ballad
B. Sketch story
C. Historical novel
D. Short novel✓
14. ‘There was a small reception following the wedding’. The word ‘following’ in the sentence above is a/an –
A. Preposition✓
B. adjective
C. Adverb
D. Noun
15. Which of the following words has been formed with a prefix?
A. Amoral✓
B. authentic
C. amnesia
D. aspersions
Explain: Amoral- lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something]
16. লেফটেন্যান্ট এর সঠিক বানান কোনটি?
A. Lieaftenant
B. Lieaftenant
C. Leiftenant
D. Lieutenant✓
17. ‘To be, or not to be that is the quotation’_ is a famous soliloquy from_
A. Macbeth
B. King Lear
C. Othello
D. Hamlet✓
18. ‘Geriatrics’ is the branch of medicine concerned with the diseases and care of –
A. Newly-weds
B. Old women
C. Newborn babies
D. Old People✓
19. নিচের উপমা টি পূর্ণকারী কোনটি? Finger: Hand: Leaf:
A. Flower
B. Twig✓
C. Tree
D. Branch
20. Love for the whole world is called –
A. Philanthropy✓
B. Misogyny
C. benevolence
D. Misanthropy
21. Select the word with right spelling –
A. Schizophrenia✓
B. Seizophrania
C. Scizophrenia
D. Schizophrania
22. A soporific speech is likely to –
A. be incomprehensible
B. appeal primarily to emotions
C. Put one to sleep✓
D. stimulation action
23. The word ‘Florid’ indicates.
A. flour
B. foliage
C. floor
D. flower✓
16. লেফটেন্যান্ট এর সঠিক বানান কোনটি?
A. Lieaftenant
B. Lieaftenant
C. Leiftenant
D. Lieutenant✓
17. ‘To be, or not to be that is the quotation’_ is a famous soliloquy from_
A. Macbeth
B. King Lear
C. Othello
D. Hamlet✓
18. ‘Geriatrics’ is the branch of medicine concerned with the diseases and care of –
A. Newly-weds
B. Old women
C. Newborn babies
D. Old People✓
19. নিচের উপমা টি পূর্ণকারী কোনটি? Finger: Hand: Leaf:
A. Flower
B. Twig✓
C. Tree
D. Branch
20. Love for the whole world is called –
A. Philanthropy✓
B. Misogyny
C. benevolence
D. Misanthropy
21. Select the word with right spelling –
A. Schizophrenia✓
B. Seizophrania
C. Scizophrenia
D. Schizophrania
22. A soporific speech is likely to –
A. be incomprehensible
B. appeal primarily to emotions
C. Put one to sleep✓
D. stimulation action
23. The word ‘Florid’ indicates.
A. flour
B. foliage
C. floor
D. flower✓
38th BCS English questions solution
1. Who is not a Victorian poet?
A. Mathew Arnold
B. Alexander Pope✓
C. Robert Browning
D. Alfred Tennyson
B. Alexander Pope✓
C. Robert Browning
D. Alfred Tennyson
2. The play “The Spanish Tragedy” is written by—
A. Thomas Kyd✓
B. Christopher Marlowe
C Shakespeare
D. Ben Jonson
B. Christopher Marlowe
C Shakespeare
D. Ben Jonson
3. 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
B. R.K. Narayan✓
C. Nissim Ezekiel
D. Kamala Das
4. Which period is known as “The golden age of English literature ?
A.The Victorian age
B. The Elizabethan age✓
C. The Restoration age
D. The Eighteenth Century
B. The Elizabethan age✓
C. The Restoration age
D. The Eighteenth Century
5. Who is the author of “Man and Superman”?
A. G.B. Shaw✓
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Ernest Hemingway
D Charles Dickens
6. The most famous satirist in English literature is —
A. Jonathan Swift✓
B. Alexander Pope
C. Joseph Addison
D. Richard Steel
B. Alexander Pope
C. Joseph Addison
D. Richard Steel
7. Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?
A. John Milton✓
B. Jane Mansfield
C. William Cowper
D. William Shakespeare
B. Jane Mansfield
C. William Cowper
D. William Shakespeare
8. “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✓
B. T.S Eliot
C. Mathew Arnold
D. John Donne✓
9. Where do the following lines occur in? “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea--”
A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner✓
B. Kubla Khan
C. The Nightingale
D. The Dungeon
B. Kubla Khan
C. The Nightingale
D. The Dungeon
10. “Jecobean Period” of English Literature refers to —
A. 1558-1603
B. 1625-1649
C. 1603-1625✓
D. 1649-1660
B. 1625-1649
C. 1603-1625✓
D. 1649-1660
11. The is the plural form of the word “louse”?
A. louses
B. lice✓
C. lices
D. licess
B. lice✓
C. lices
D. licess
12. Choose the correct sentence?
A. He refrained to take any drastic action
B. He refrained to taking any drastic action
C. He refrained in taking any drastic actions
D. He refrained from taking any drastic action✓
B. He refrained to taking any drastic action
C. He refrained in taking any drastic actions
D. He refrained from taking any drastic action✓
13. Which word is closest in meaning to “Franchise”?
A. utility
B. frankness
C. privilege✓
D. superficial
B. frankness
C. privilege✓
D. superficial
14. “Once in a blue moon” means —
A. always
B. very rarely✓
C. nearly
D. hourly
B. very rarely✓
C. nearly
D. hourly
15. A retired officer lives next door. Here “retired” word is used as a/an :
A. Gerund
B. adverb
C. preposition
D. participle✓
B. adverb
C. preposition
D. participle✓
16. 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✓
B. with
C. in
D. for✓
17. Fill in the gap with the right tense : When water — it turns into ice.
A. will freeze
B. freezes✓
C. would freeze
D. froze
B. freezes✓
C. would freeze
D. froze
18. Which one is the correct antonym of “frugal”?
A. Extraordinary
B. spendthrift
C. economical✓
D. authentic
B. spendthrift
C. economical✓
D. authentic
19. 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
B. Force the enemy to submit
C. Out of one’s wit
D. Surrender before the enemy
20. Fill in the blank with the correct quantifier. I still have — money.
A. a few
B. quite a few
C. many
D. a little✓
B. quite a few
C. many
D. a little✓
21. Select the right compound structure of the sentence: “Though
he is poor, he is honest”
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
B. As he is poor, he is honest
C. He is poor but honest✓
D. Since he is poor, he is honest
22. 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
D. had better get✓
B. had better to get
C. had better got
D. had better get✓
23. The sun went down. The “down” word is used here as a/an:
A. preposition
B. adverb✓
C. noun
D. conjuction
B. adverb✓
C. noun
D. conjuction
24. 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
B. This is impossible to be done✓
C. This is must be done
D. This can’t be done
25. The literary term “euphemism” means—
A. vague idea
B. in offensive expression✓
C. a sonnet
D. wise saying
B. in offensive expression✓
C. a sonnet
D. wise saying
26. “Mutton” is a/an
A. Common noun
B. Abstract noun
C. Materiel noun✓
D. Proper noun
B. Abstract noun
C. Materiel noun✓
D. Proper noun
27. Reading is an excellent habit, Here, the “Reading” word is a —–
A. Verbal noun
B. Participle
C. Verb
D. Gerund✓
B. Participle
C. Verb
D. Gerund✓
28. Which one of the following words is an example of a distributive pronoun?
A. such
B. either✓
C. that
D. any
B. either✓
C. that
D. any
29. “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
B. more than two✓
C. two or more than two
D. four only
30. The novelist has a hold of — in writing.
A. Style✓
B. manner
C. history
D. tradition
B. manner
C. history
D. tradition
31. The word “Panegyric” means.
A. Criticism
B. elaborate praise✓
C. curse
D. high sound
B. elaborate praise✓
C. curse
D. high sound
32. Select the correctly spelt word :
A. heterogeneous✓
B. hetarogeneous
C. hetrogeneous
D. hetroganeous
A. heterogeneous✓
B. hetarogeneous
C. hetrogeneous
D. hetroganeous
33. 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✓
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✓
34. A speech of too many words is called—
A. A big speech
B. Maiden speech
C. An unimportant speech
D. A verbose speech✓
B. Maiden speech
C. An unimportant speech
D. A verbose speech✓
35. “Strike while the iron is hot” is an example of-
A. Noun clause
B. Adjective clause
C. Adverbial clause✓
D. Subordinate clause
B. Adjective clause
C. Adverbial clause✓
D. Subordinate clause
36. Which one of the following words is in singular form?
A. agenda
B. oases
C. radius✓
D. formulae
B. oases
C. radius✓
D. formulae
38th BCS English questions solution
Literature
1. Who is not a Victorian poet?
A. Mathew Arnold
B. Alexander Pope✓
C. Robert Browning
D. Alfred Tennyson
B. Alexander Pope✓
C. Robert Browning
D. Alfred Tennyson
2. The play “The Spanish Tragedy” is written by—
A. Thomas Kyd✓
B. Christopher Marlowe
C Shakespeare
D. Ben Jonson
B. Christopher Marlowe
C Shakespeare
D. Ben Jonson
3. 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
B. R.K. Narayan✓
C. Nissim Ezekiel
D. Kamala Das
4. Which period is known as “The golden age of English literature ?
A.The Victorian age
B. The Elizabethan age✓
C. The Restoration age
D. The Eighteenth Century
B. The Elizabethan age✓
C. The Restoration age
D. The Eighteenth Century
5. Who is the author of “Man and Superman”?
A. G.B. Shaw✓
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Ernest Hemingway
D Charles Dickens
6. The most famous satirist in English literature is —
A. Jonathan Swift✓
B. Alexander Pope
C. Joseph Addison
D. Richard Steel
B. Alexander Pope
C. Joseph Addison
D. Richard Steel
7. Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?
A. John Milton✓
B. Jane Mansfield
C. William Cowper
D. William Shakespeare
B. Jane Mansfield
C. William Cowper
D. William Shakespeare
8. “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✓
B. T.S Eliot
C. Mathew Arnold
D. John Donne✓
9. Where do the following lines occur in? “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea ……”
A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
B. Kubla Khan✓
C. The Nightingale
D. The Dungeon
B. Kubla Khan✓
C. The Nightingale
D. The Dungeon
10. “Jacobean Period” of English Literature refers to —
A. 1558-1603
B. 1625-1649
C. 1603-1625✓
D. 1649-1660
B. 1625-1649
C. 1603-1625✓
D. 1649-1660
Grammar
11. The is the plural form of the word “louse”?
A. louses
B. lice✓
C. lices
D. licess
B. lice✓
C. lices
D. licess
12. Choose the correct sentence?
A. He refrained to take any drastic action
B. He refrained to taking any drastic action
C. He refrained in taking any drastic actions
D. He refrained from taking any drastic action✓
B. He refrained to taking any drastic action
C. He refrained in taking any drastic actions
D. He refrained from taking any drastic action✓
13. Which word is closest in meaning to “Franchise”?
A. utility
B. frankness
C. privilege✓
D. superficial
B. frankness
C. privilege✓
D. superficial
14. “Once in a blue moon” means —
A. always
B. very rarely✓
C. nearly
D. hourly
B. very rarely✓
C. nearly
D. hourly
15. A retired officer lives next door. Here “retired” word is used as a/an :
A. Gerund
B. adverb
C. preposition
D. participle✓
B. adverb
C. preposition
D. participle✓
16. 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✓
B. with
C. in
D. for✓
17. Fill in the gap with the right tense : When water — it turns into ice.
A. will freeze
B. freezes✓
C. would freeze
D. froze
B. freezes✓
C. would freeze
D. froze
18. Which one is the correct antonym of “frugal”?
A. Extraordinary
B. spendthrift
C. economical✓
D. authentic
B. spendthrift
C. economical✓
D. authentic
19. 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
B. Force the enemy to submit
C. Out of one’s wit
D. Surrender before the enemy
20. Fill in the blank with the correct quantifier. I still have — money.
A. a few
B. quite a few
C. many
D. a little✓
B. quite a few
C. many
D. a little✓
21. 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.
B. As he is poor, he is honest.
C. He is poor but honest.✓
D. Since he is poor, he is honest.
22. 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
D. had better get✓
B. had better to get
C. had better got
D. had better get✓
23. The sun went down. The “down” word is used here as a/an :
A. preposition
B. adverb✓
C. noun
D. conjunction
B. adverb✓
C. noun
D. conjunction
24. 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
B. This is impossible to be done✓
C. This is must be done
D. This can’t be done
25. The literary term “euphemism” means—
A. vague idea
B. in offensive expression✓
C. a sonnet
D. wise saying
B. in offensive expression✓
C. a sonnet
D. wise saying
26. “Mutton” is a/an
A. Common noun
B. Abstract noun
C. Materiel noun✓
D. Proper noun
B. Abstract noun
C. Materiel noun✓
D. Proper noun
27. Reading is an excellent habit, Here, the “Reading” word is a —–
A. Verbal noun
B. Participle
C. Verb
D. Gerund✓
B. Participle
C. Verb
D. Gerund✓
28. Which one of the following words is an example of a distributive pronoun?
A. such
B. either✓
C. that
D. any
B. either✓
C. that
D. any
29. “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
B. more than two✓
C. two or more than two
D. four only
30. The novelist has a hold of —- in writing.
A. Style✓
B. manner
C. history
D. tradition
B. manner
C. history
D. tradition
31. The word “Panegyric” means.
A. Criticism
B. elaborate praise✓
C. curse
D. high sound
B. elaborate praise✓
C. curse
D. high sound
32. Select the correctly spelt word:
A. heterogeneous✓
B. hetarogeneous
C. hetrogeneous
D. hetroganeous
A. heterogeneous✓
B. hetarogeneous
C. hetrogeneous
D. hetroganeous
33. 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.✓
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.✓
34. A speech of too many words is called—
A. A big speech
B. Maiden speech
C. An unimportant speech
D. A verbose speech✓
B. Maiden speech
C. An unimportant speech
D. A verbose speech✓
35. “Strike while the iron is hot” is an example of —-
A. Noun clause
B. Adjective clause
C. Adverbial clause✓
D. Subordinate clause
B. Adjective clause
C. Adverbial clause✓
D. Subordinate clause
36. Which one of the following words is in singular form?
A. agenda
B. oases
C. radius✓
D. formulae
B. oases
C. radius✓
D. formulae
37th BCS English questions with answers
Literature
1. Fill in the blank.”—” is Shakespeare’s last play.
A. As You Life It
B. Macbeth
C. Tempest✓
D. Othello
2. “Gerontion” is a poem by —-
A. T. S. Eliot✓
B. W. B. Yeats
C. Mathew Arnold
D. Robert Browning
3. Who has written the poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?
A. Thomas Gray✓
B. P. B Shelley
C. Robert Frost
D. Y. B. Yeats
4. Who has written the play ‘Volpone’?
A. John Webster
B. Ben Jonson✓
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. William Shakespeare
5. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
A. Alliterative
B. Sonnet
C. Iambic pentameter✓
D. Dactylic Hexameter
6. The repetition of beginning consonant sound is know as——
A. personification
B. onomatopoeia
C. alliteration✓
D. rhyme
7. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
A. The Epic
B. The Comic✓
C. The Occult
D. the Tragic
8. What is a funny poem of five lines called?
A. Quartet
B. Limerick✓
C. Sixtet
D. Haiku
9. Who wrote “Biographia Literaria”?
A. Lord Byron
B. P. B. Shelley
C. S. T. Coleridge✓
D. Charles Lamb
10. Robert Browning was a —-poet. fill in the gap with appropriate word.
A. Romantic
B. Victorian✓
C. Modern
D. Elizathan
11. Othello gave Desdemona—-as a token of love :
A. Ring
B. Handkerchief✓
C. Pendant
D. Bangles
Ans: B
12. P.B. Shelley’s Adonis's’ is an elegy on the death of——
A. John Milton
B. A. T. Coleridge
C. John Keats✓
D. Lord Byron
Ans:C
13. The comparison of unlike things using the words like on as is known to be—–
A. metaphor
B. simile✓
C. alliteration
D. personification
Ans: B
14. ‘Restoration period’ in English literature refers to —–
A. 1560
B. 1660✓
C. 1760
D. 1866
Ans: B
15. ‘The Sun Also Rises’ is a novel written by—–
A. Charles Dickens
B. Hermanne Melville
C. Earnest Hemingway✓
D. Thomas Hardy
Ans: C
16. Cassandra is a night owl, so she doesn’t usually get up until about :
A. 11 a.m✓
B. 11 p.m
C. 7 a.m
D. 7 p.m
Ans: A
Grammar
17. Telephone : Cable : : Radio : ?
A. Microphone
B. Wireless✓
C. Electricity
D. Wire
Ans: B
18. Find out the correct synonym of ‘TENUOUS’—-
A. Vital
B. Thin✓
C. Careful
D. Dangerous
Ans: B
19. If LOYAL is coded as ‘JOWAJ’, then PRONE is coded as —-
A. QRPNF
B. NRMND
C. ORNMG
D. NRMNC✓
Ans: D
20. Which of the following words is in singular form?
A. formulae
B. agenda
C. oases
D. radius✓
Ans: D
21. Choose the correct sentence:
A. All of it depend on you.
B. All of it are depending on you.
C. All of it depends on you.✓
D. All of it are depended on you.
Ans: C
22. “A rolling stone gathers no moss” The complex form of the sentence is —
A. Since a stone is rolling, it gathers no moss.
B. Though a stone rolls, it gathers no moss.
C. A stone what rolls gathers no moss.
D. A stone that rolls gathers no moss.✓
Ans: D
23. A chart was “appended” to the report. Here ‘appended’ means—-
A. changed
B. removed
C. joined✓
D. shortened
Ans: C
24. The mother sat “vigilantly” beside the sick baby. Here ‘vigilantly’ is——
A. a noun
B. an adverb✓
C. an adjective
D. none of these
Ans: B
25. The new offer of job was “alluring”. Here ‘alluring’ means—–
A. unexpected
B. tempting✓
C. disappointing
D. ordinary
Ans: B
26. “Who planted this tree here”? The correct passive voice of this sentence is—
A. By whom the tree planted here?
B. Who the tree had been planted hereby?
C. The tree was planted here by whom?
D. By whom had the tree been planted here?
Note: By whom was this tree planted here?
27. Fraility the name is women. Here “Frailty”is :
A. A noun
B. An adjective
C. An adverb
D. A verb
Note: No word found Fraility. If word is frailty answer is Noun.
28. Education is “enlightening”. Here ‘enlightening’ is —-:
A. A gerund✓
B. A participle
C. An infinitive
D. A finite verb
29. Choose the appropriate preposition in the blank of the following sentence: The family doesn’t fell—-going outing this season.
A. in
B. on
C. like✓
D. of
30. Fill in the blank with appropriate use of tense: I couldn’t mend the computer my self, so I—-at a shop.
A. had it mended✓
B. had it mend
C. did it mend
D. had mended
31. Use the appropriate article— I saw—one-eyed man when I was walking on the road.
A. a✓
B. an
C. the
D. no article is needed
32. The word ‘omnivorous’ means :
A. eating all types of food✓
B. eating only fruits
C. eating only meat
D. eating grass and plants only
33. Complete the following sentence choosing the appropriate option: It’s raining cats and dogs, so—-
A. Watch out for falling animals.
B. Make sure you take an umbrella.✓
C. Keep your pets inside.
D. Keep the windows open.
34. The phrase ‘Achilles’ heel’ means:
A. A strong point
B. A weak point✓
C. A permanent solution
D. A serious idea
35. He worked “with all sincerity”. the underlined phrase is —-
A. A noun phrase
B. An adjective phrase
C. An infinitive phrase
D. An adverbial phrase✓
36. This is the book “I lost”. Here ‘I lost’ is—-
A. A noun clause
B. An adverbial clause
C. An adjective clause✓
D. None of the three
37. Which do you think is the nearest in meaning to ‘proviso’:
A. sanction
B. substitute
C. stipulation✓
D. directive
38. Select the word that is the most closely opposite in meaning to the capitalized word : DELETERIOUS
A. toxic
B. spurious
C. harmless✓
D. lethal
39. Which one is correct spelling?
A. Achievment
B. Acheivment
C. Achievement✓
D. Acheivement
36th BCS English questions and answers
Literature1. Who of the following writers was not a novelist?
A. Charles Dickens
B. W. B. Yeats✓
C. James Joyce
D. Jane Austen
2. ‘Gitanjali’ of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by—–
A. W. B. Yeats✓
B. Robert Frost
C. John Keats
D. Rudyard Kipling
3. Who is known as ‘the poet of nature ‘ in English literature?
A. Lord Tennyson
B. John Milton
C. William Wordsworth✓
D. John Keats
4. “A Passage to India” is written by—
A. E. M. Forster✓
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. Galls Worthy
D. A. H. Auden
5. ‘Man is a political animal’—who said this?
A. Dante
B. Plato
C. Aristotle✓
D. Socrates
6. ‘Child is the father of man’ is taken from the poem of—–
A. W. Wordsworth✓
B. S. T. Coleridge
C. P. B. Shelley
D. A. C. Swinburne
7. London town is found a living being in the works of—
A. Thomas Hardy
B. Charles Dickens✓
C. W. Congreve
D. D. H. Lawrence
8. The Climax of a plot is what happens—
A. in the beginning
B. at the height✓
C. at the end
D. in the confrontation
9. The play ‘Candida’ is by—–
A. James Joyce
B. Shakespeare
C. G. B. Shaw✓
D. Arthur Miller
10. Which of the following writers belongs to the romantic period in English literature?
A. Tennyson
B. Alexander Pope
C. John Dryden
D. S. T. Coleridge✓
11. ‘Frailty the name is woman’–is a famous dialogue from.
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Webster
C. W. Shakespeare✓
D. T. S. Eliot
12. The poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’ is written by —
A. W. H. Auden
B. W. Wordsworth✓
C. W. B. Yeats
D. Ezra Pound
13. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a Shakespearean play about—
A. a Jew✓
B. a Moor
C. a Roman
D. a Turk
14. Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy ?
A. Vanity Fair
B. The Return of the Native✓
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Oliver Twist
15. ‘David Copperfield’ is a/an—-novel.
A. Victorian✓
B. Eligabethan
C. Romantic
D. Modern
16. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ is written by —
A. William Wordsworth
B. Thomas Gray✓
C. John Keats
D. W. B. Yeats
17. Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is a successful—–
A. tragedy
B. comedy✓
C. tragi-comedy
D. melodrama
Note: William Shakespeare others comedy are Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream etc.
18. The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of —
A. Preface to Shakespeare
B. Preface to Lyrical Ballads✓
C. Preface to Ancient Mariners
D. Preface to Dr. Johnson
Grammar
19. Professor Razzak was a scholar—- refute. (Fill in the gap)
A. in
B. of
C. after
D. by
Note: Refute word verb বলে এর পূর্বে preposition বসে না। If the word repute answer is of.
20. John Smith is good——Mathematics. (Fill in the gap)
A. at✓
B. in
C. of
D. after
21. Teacher said, ‘The earth–round the sun’.
A. moves✓
B. moved
C. has moved
D. will be moving
22. In English grammar,——– deals with formation of sentences.
A. Morphology
B..Etymology
C. Syntax✓
D. Semantics
Answer : C
23. He insisted—there. (Fill in the gap)
A. on my going✓
B. is to go
C. over going
D. to go
24. The idiom ‘A stitch in time saves nine’—refers to the importance of—
A. saving lives
B. timely action✓
C. saving time
D. time tailoring
25. What would be the right antonym for ‘initiative’?
A. apathy✓
B. indolence
C. enterprise
D. activity
26. This could have worked if I —-been more cautious.
A. had✓
B. have
C. might
D. would
27. I have been living in Dhaka—2000.
A. since✓
B. from
C. after
D. till
28. Give the antonym of the word ‘transitory’.
A. temporary
B. permanent✓
C. transparent
D. short-lived
29. Verb of ‘Number’ is—
A. number✓
B. enumerate
C. numbering
D. numerical
30. Slow and steady—– the race. (Fill in the gap)
A. win
B. wins✓
C. has won
D. won
31. Identify the correct sentence?
A. Yesterday, he has gone home.
B. Yesterday, he did gone home.
C. Yesterday, he had gone home.
D. Yesterday, he went home.✓
32. ‘Venerate’ Means—-
A. defame
B. abuse✓
C. respect
D. accuse
33. Credit tk 5000—- my account.
A. in
B. with
C. against
D. to✓
34. ‘To do away with’ means—-
A. to repeat
B. to start
C. to get rid of✓
D. to drive off
35. Which one is a correct sentences?
A. paper is made of wood.
B. paper is made from wood.✓
C. paper is made by wood.
D. paper is made on wood.
