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Junior Officer #11701

Opulent

A: hard-working
B: rich
C: obscure
D: comfortable
Junior Officer #11702

A person interested in reading books and nothing else .

A: book-keeper
B: bookworm
C: scholar
D: student
Officer (Cash) #11703

Canal are (A) artificial waterways, often constructed (B) either to transport heavy loads or to (C) delivering water (D) to cities and farms .

A: The
B: grow
C: throughout
D: is
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11704

Which one of the following words is masculine?

A: mare
B: lad
C: pillow
D: pony
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Junior Officer #11705

Recapitulation

A: introduction
B: recall
C: withdrawal
D: capture
Junior Officer #11706

Transform

A: transfer
B: change
C: continue
D: transact
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11707

A man whose wife has died is called a -

A: widow
B: widower
C: spinster
D: bachelor
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11708

Which word is similar to 'appal'?

A: deceive
B: confuse
C: dismay
D: solicit
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Junior Officer #11709

Complacent

A: recommend
B: satisfied
C: witty
D: confuse
Officer (Cash) #11710

(A) The pineapple, a fruit (B) grow in tropical climates (C) throughout the word , (D) is native to parts of South America.

A: The
B: grow
C: throughout
D: is
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Junior Officer #11711

Visceral

A: cloudy
B: heavenly
C: bodily
D: intelligent
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11712

Tennyson's " In Memoriam ' is an elegy on the death of -

A: John Milton
B: John Keats
C: Arthur Henry Hallam
D: Sydney Smith
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Officer (Cash) #11713

A large (A) number of automobile (B) part are now (C) made of plastic (D) instead of steel.

A: number
B: part
C: made
D: instead
Officer (Cash) #11714

Although a Kangaroo (A) normally uses (B) its large feet and strong legs (C) for hopping , (D) but it can also swim.

A: normally
B: its large feet
C: for hopping
D: bu it can
Officer (Cash) #11715

Many modern medicine are derived ---- plants and animals .

A: from
B: on
C: for
D: in
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11716

Which word means the opposite of 'dearth ' ?

A: lack
B: abundance
C: poverty
D: shortage
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11717

'You look terrific in that dree! ' The word 'terrific' in the above sentence means -

A: excellent
B: funny
C: very ugly
D: horrible
Officer (Cash) #11718

AIDS is not disease that can be ---- through the air or by insects .

A: circulated
B: transferred
C: transmitted
D: disseminated
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11719

Someone who is capricious is -

A: easily irritated
B: wise and willing to cooperate
C: exceedingly conceited and arrogant
D: known for sudden changes in attitude or behavior
Officer (Cash) #11720

I shall ring you up as soon as -

A: I will arrive
B: I arrive
C: I shall arrive
D: I shall be arriving
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11721

Identify the word which remains the same in its plural form :

A: aircraft
B: intention
C: mouse
D: thesis
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Officer (Cash) #11722

It's not easy to change people's --- toward a certain problem .

A: idea
B: opinion
C: attitude
D: thinking
Junior Officer #11723

I ___ him on this point.

A: admitted to
B: agreed with
C: agree to
D: agreeing with
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11724

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

A: have
B: news
C: no
D: for
Junior Officer #11725

The specialist __ you want to meet is available only on Thursday .

A: whose
B: who
C: whom
D: which
Junior Officer #11726

They___ living here since 2000.

A: are
B: have been
C: are still
D: will be
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11727

'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
Dhaka Bank Ltd #11728

The word 'substantiate' is -

A: Verb
B: Adverb
C: Adjective
D: Noun
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11729

A lost opportunity never returns . 'here' lost' is a -

A: gerund
B: verbal noun
C: gerundial infinitive
D: participle
Dhaka Bank Ltd #11730

Being the tallest in the class --

A: the teacher asked her to sit at the back .
B: the teacher had asked her to sit at the back .
C: she was asked to sit at the back .
D: she was being asked to sit at the back .
Junior Officer #11731

Do not look ___ on women.

A: right
B: left
C: up
D: down
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11732

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
Junior Officer #11733

The stranger ___ in through the window last night .

A: creeping
B: crept
C: creeps
D: creep
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11734

Change the voice : 'Who is calling me?"

A: By whom am I called ?
B: By whom I am called ?
C: By whom am I being called?
D: Whom am I called by ?
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40th BCS Preliminary Test #11735

'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
Dhaka Bank Ltd #11736

The antonym for 'INGENIOUS' is -

A: Crafty
B: Inane
C: Incompetent
D: Skillful
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Dhaka Bank Ltd #11737

The government requires ____ before the end of the financial year.

A: that these forms should be submitted
B: that these forms be submitted
C: for these forms to be submitted
D: these forms submission
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11738

An extra message added at the end of a letter after it is signed is called -

A: corrigendum
B: postscript
C: NB
D: RSVP
Dhaka Bank Ltd #11739

Feminine gender of 'Wizard' is :

A: Wizadess
B: Witch
C: Female -wizard
D: Acrobat
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40th BCS Preliminary Test #11740

'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet' Who said this?

A: Juliet
B: Romeo
C: Portia
D: Rosalind
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40th BCS Preliminary Test #11741

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
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11742

'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart , 'Tis woman's whole existence .' - This is taken from the poem of -

A: P.B. Shelley
B: Lord Byron
C: John Keats
D: Edmund Spenser
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PTTI Instructor #11743

Which of the following has the correct spelling ?

A: joandice
B: johnice
C: jondice
D: jaundice
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11744

The short story 'The Diamond Necklace' was written by -

A: Guy de Maupassant
B: O Henry
C: Somerset Maugham
D: George Orwell
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40th BCS Preliminary Test #11745

Who translated the ' Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ' into English?

A: Thomas Carlyle
B: Edward Fitzgerald
C: D.G. Rossetti
D: William Thackeray
Administrative officers of various Ministries #11746

He is ___ sweet .

A: very
B: too much
C: much too
D: excessive
PTTI Instructor #11747

The synonym of the word s'lunatic' is -

A: lazy
B: hypnotized
C: wise
D: mad
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40th BCS Preliminary Test #11748

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

A: Macbeth
B: Lady Macbeth
C: Lady Macduff
D: Macduff
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40th BCS Preliminary Test #11749

'Ulysses' is a novel written by -

A: Joseph Conrad
B: Thomas Hardy
C: Charles Dickens
D: James Joyce
40th BCS Preliminary Test #11750

'Where are the songs of spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too - . Who worte this?

A: William Wordsworth
B: Robert Browning
C: John Keats
D: Samuel Coleridge
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