35th BCS Preliminary English (Model)

1. I don’t mind___ with the cooking but I am 10. ‘These apples are at a speed of 50 miles per
not going to wash the dishes. hour’. Here the underlined word is a/an
a. to help a. Noun
b. help b. Adverb
c. helping c. Preposition
d. for helping d. Adjective
2. Who wrote the following lines: 11. If I __ you, I would not have done this.
“But I have promises to keep a. was
And miles to go before I sleep”? b. were
a. T. S. Eliot c. am
b. Emily Dickinson d. are
c. Alfred Tennyson 12. The ‘denouement’ of a play is what
d. Robert Frost happens___
3. What would be the right synonym for a. In the beginning
“pensive”? b. At the height
a. Costly c. At the end
b. Thoughtful d. In the confrontation
c. Spoiled 13. Choose the pair of words that expresses a
d. Sporadic relationship similar to that of “distort :
4. Which of the following words can be used twist”
as a verb? a. Straighten : bend
a. Sever b. Deform : reform
b. Severe c. Harmonize : balance
c. Several d. Observe : blur
d. None of them 14. Things Fall Apart is a Achebe’s novel
5. Who among the following writers is a Noble about__
laureate? a. African black
a. Grahame Greene b. American black
b. R.K. Narayan c. African white
c. William Faulkner d. none
d. Arundhuti Roy 15. Overindulgence ___ character as well as
6. The correct active form of “I was made to physical stamina.
laugh” is__ a. strengthens
a) They made me laughing b. stimulates
b) They made me laugh c. debilitates
c) They made me to laugh d. maintains
d) None of them 16. The poetry of Jibananda Das is not clear and
7. The traffic had to be diverted as a result of a easily accessible but rather____.
result of a serious accident. a. Opaque
a. sent by another route b. Lucid
b. slowed down c. Redundant
c. stopped completely d. Hasty
d. searched by policemen 17. The poem ‘Ozymandias’ is written by___
8. Which word is the determiner in the a. Shelley
sentence “I have a big house”? b. Keats
a. a c. Blake
b. big d. Byron
c. both 18. The Tempest is a__
d. none a. One act play
9. The play Measure for Measure is by b. Three acts play
a. James Joyce c. Act less
b. Shakespeare d. Five acts play
c. Samuel Becket
d. G. B. Shaw
19. He was in the doldrums after the quarrel he had 27. Which is the correct sentence?
with his brother. Here the underlined phrase a. I insisted him to go there
means___ b. Rabindranath wrote many poetry
a. He was jubilant c. Computer is a wonderful discovery
b. He was in low spirits d. None
c. He was in a financial difficulty 28. The phrase “nota bene” means
d. He left the house a. For example
20. Notwithstanding some major financial b. Not sure
problems, the school has had a successful year.
Here the underlined word means___
c. Next page
a. In spite of d. Mark well
b. Rather 29. What would be the best antonym of
c. Though “affluent”__
d. Because of a. Rich
21. Which of the following writers belong to the b. Solvent
Elizabeth Period? c. Haves
a. Sir Philip Sidney d. Poverty–stricken
b. John Donne 30. What is that noise? Here the underlined
c. Thomas Hardy word is ___
d. Robert Browning a. Adverb
22. In comparison to the history of the world, b. Adjective
human life is very evanescent. c. Noun
a. Meaningless d. Verb
b. Poignant 31. I love my mother out and out. Here the
c. Short-lived underlined word is ___
d. Arbitrary a. Adjective
23. Male domination is the key understanding of b. Adverb
__ c. Noun
a. Hamlet d. Verb
b. The West Land 32. Find the odd man out___
c. My Last Duchess a. Charles Dickens
d. Ode on a Melancholy b. Christopher Marlowe
24. Life’s meaningfulness is the key c. Henry Fielding
understanding of ___ d. R. K. Narayan
a. Feminism 33. Find the odd writing out__
b. Marxism a. Adonais
c. Colonialism b. The Waste Land
d. Existentialism c. In Memorium
25. His craven behavior makes him an object of d. A Tale of Two Cities
mockery. 34. Find the odd man out__
a. Indecent a. Emily Dickinson
b. Cowardly b. Emily Bronte
c. Mean c. Charlotte Bronte
d. Silly d. T. S. Eliot
26. The Idiom “having one’s head in the sand” 35. We must look pleased or else he’ll be ___
means__ a. dissatisfied
a. Going to bury one’s head in the sand. b. cross
a. Day dreaming c. happy
b. Imagining the death d. delighted
c. None