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৪০ তম বিসিএস প্রিলিমিনারি টেস্ট (03-05-2019)

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1.

A man whose wife has died is called a -
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widow
widower
spinster
bachelor
2.

Which word is similar to 'appal'?
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deceive
confuse
dismay
Solicit
3.

Which word means the opposite of 'dearth ' ?
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Lack
Abundance
poverty
shortage
4.

Tennyson's " In Memoriam ' is an elegy on the death of -
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John Milton
John Keats
Arthur Henry Hallam
Sydney Smith
5.

Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly :
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conscientious

perseverance

convalescence

maintenace
6.

'You look terrific in that dree! ' The word 'terrific' in the above sentence means -
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excellent
funny
very ugly
Horrible
7.

Someone who is capricious is -
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easily irritated
wise and willing to cooperate
exceedingly conceited and arrogant
known for sudden changes in attitude or behavior
8.

Identify the word which remains the same in its plural form :
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Aircraft
intention
mouse
Thesis
9.

Identify the determiner in the following sentence : ' I have no news for you."
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Have
News
NO
for
10.

A lost opportunity never returns . 'here' lost' is a -
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Gerund
verbal noun
gerundial infinitive
participle
11.

The saying ' enough is enough' is used when you want-
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something to continue
something to stop
something to continue until it's enough
to tell instructions are clear
12.

'He ran with great speed.' The underlined part of the sentence is a-
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Noun phrase
adverb phrase
Adjective phrase
Participle phrase
13.

'We must not be late, else we will miss the train' This is a -
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Compound sentence
complex sentence
Simple sentence
Interrogative sentence
14.

Change the voice : 'Who is calling me?"
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By whom am I called ?
By whom I am called ?
By whom am I being called?
Whom am I called by ?
15.

An extra message added at the end of a letter after it is signed is called -
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Corrigendum
Postscript
nb
RSVP
16.

Sweet Helen' make me immortal with a kiss. ' The sentence has been taken from the play -
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Romeo and Juliet
Caesar and Cleopatra
Doctor Faustus
Antony and Cleopatra
17.

'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet' Who said this?
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Juliet
Romeo
Portia
Rosalind
18.

'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart , 'Tis woman's whole existence .' - This is taken from the poem of -
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P.B. Shelley
Lord Byron
John Keats
Edmund Spenser
19.

Who translated the ' Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ' into English?
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Thomas Carlyle
Edward Fitzgerald
D.G. Rossetti
William Thackeray
20.

The short story 'The Diamond Necklace' was written by -
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Guy de Maupassant
O Henry
Somerset Maugham
George Orwell
21.

'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand . ' - Who said this?
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Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macduff
Macduff
22.

'Where are the songs of spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too - . Who worte this?
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William Wordsworth
Robert Browning
John Keats
Samuel Coleridge
23.

Who is the central character of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte?
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Mr. Earnshaw
Catherine
Heathcliff
Hindley Earnshaw
24.

'The old order changeth, yielding place to new. ' This line is extracted from Tennyson's poem -
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The Lotos- Eaters
Tighouns
Locksley Hall
Morte d' Arthur
25.

WHo wrote the peom' The Good - Morrow?
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George Herbert
Andrew Marvell
John Donne
Henry Vaughan
26.

'Please write to me at the above address. ' The word 'above' in this sentence is a/an -
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noun
adjective
pronoun
adverb
27.

In which sentence is the word 'Past' used as a preposition?
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Writing letters is a thing of the past .
I look back on the past without regret .
I called out to him as he ran past .
Tania was a wonderful singer , but she's past her prime
28.

The word 'sibling' means-
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a brother
A sister
a brother or sister
An Infant
29.

Fill in the blank : As she was talking , he suddenly broke ----- saying ; 'That's a lie! '
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off
in
down
into
30.

Fill in the blank : You may go for a walk if you feel ---- it .
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about
on
like
for
31.

'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope is a/an -
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Epic
ballad
mock-heroic poem
elegy
32.

Which of the following is not an American poet ?
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Robert Frost
W.B. Yeats
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
33.

William Shakespeare was born in-
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1616
1664
1564
1496
34.

Which one of the following words is masculine?
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Mare
Lad
Pillow
Pony
35.

'Ulysses' is a novel written by -
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Joseph Conrad
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
James Joyce

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