BCS 15th Preliminary Question Bank Quiz and Solution English 1993

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Question 1

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The speaker failed to make the audience--to him patiently.--Which of the following is the best form of pronoun in the above sentence?

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	listening
	to listen
	listen
	listened

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Question 2

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What is the synonym of ‘incredible’?

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	Unlikely
	Unthinking
	Unthinkable
	Unbelievable

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Question 3

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People always remember patriots--Which of the following is the best passive form of the above sentence?

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	People are always remembered by the patriots
	The patriots will always be remembered by people
	The patriots are always remembered by the people
	The patriots are always being remembered

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Question 4

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Which of the following school of litarary writings is connected with a medical theory?

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	Comedy of Humours
	Heroic Tragedy
	Theater of the Absurd
	Comedy of manners

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Question 5

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What is the meaning of the expression ‘bottom line’?

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	The end of a road
	The last line of a book
	The essential point
	The final step

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Question 6

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Which of the following ages in literary history is the latest?

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	The Victorian Age
	The Augustan Age
	The Restoriation Age
	The Georgian Age

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Question 7

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plebiscite is a term related to--

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	Technology
	medicine
	Politics
	Law

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Question 8

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Many islands make up-

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	continent
	an isles
	a peninsula
	an archipelago

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Question 9

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The first English Dictionary was completed by-

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	Samuel Johnson
	Samuel Butler
	Izaak Walton
	Sir Thomas Browne

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Question 10

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My uncle has three sons,--work in the same office.--which of the following is the best form of pronoun in the above sentence?

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	they all
	all of them
	who all
	all of whom

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Question 11

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Are you doing anything special the week-end?

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	on
	for
	at
	in

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Question 12

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Which of the following is a correct sentence?

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	He was so clever to miss the point
	He was too clever to grasp the point
	He was too clever to miss the point
	He was too clever not to miss the point

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Question 13

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The word ‘plurality’ means-

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	Men and women
	Chaos and confusion
	The letter ‘S’
	The holding of more than one office at a time

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Question 14

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Who of the following was both a poet and painter?

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	Donne
	Keats
	Blake
	Spenser

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Question 15

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The ‘poet laureate’ is-

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	the best poet of the country
	the Court poet of England
	a winner of the Nobel prize in poetry
	a classical poet

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Question 16

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Who wrote ‘Beauty is truth,truth is beauty’?

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	Eliot
	Keats
	Wordsworth
	Shakespeare

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Question 17

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`Boot leg’ means to-

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	smuggle
	import
	export
	distribute

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Question 18

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‘Predict’ relates to the treatment of-

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	women
	adults
	old people
	children

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Question 19

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What is the meaning of the word ‘intrepid’?

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	questioning
	belligerent
	fearless
	arrogant

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Question 20

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What is the antonym of ‘famous’?

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	Obscure
	Opaque
	Immature
	Illiterate

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