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34th BCS Preliminary Test #401

Meiden speech means-----

A: First speech
B: Middle speech
C: Maid servant's speech
D: Final speech
34th BCS Preliminary Test #402

N.B. stands for-----

A: Note before
B: No bar
C: Non bearing
D: Nota bene
29th BCS Preliminary Test #403

The bad news struck him like a bolt from the -----

A: sky
B: heavens
C: firmament
D: blue
34th BCS Preliminary Test #404

Fill in the blank of the following sentence with the right form of verb. If I -----a king!

A: am
B: was
C: were
D: shall be
30th BCS Preliminary Test #405

In each of the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence:- A song embodying religious and sacred emotions -----

A: Lyric
B: Ode
C: Hymn
D: Ballad
34th BCS Preliminary Test #406

Tiger : Zoology : : Mars :-----

A: Astrology
B: Cryptology
C: Astronomy
D: Telescope
30th BCS Preliminary Test #407

Rishan walks as if he --- lame.

A: is
B: had been
C: has
D: were
Upazila Rural Development Officer of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BARD) #408

Choose the synonym of "Rudimentary"

A: Elementary
B: Ordinary
C: Insincere
D: Controlled
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30th BCS Preliminary Test #409

Time after twilight and before night----

A: Evening
B: Dawn
C: Dusk
D: Eclipse
30th BCS Preliminary Test #410

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence by selecting the most appropriate alternative from among the four choices given:- Parliamentary democracy demands discipline and -----to the rules.

A: adherence
B: respectful
C: knowledge
D: awareness
35th BCS Preliminary Test #411

Who wrote the following lines : "all at once I saw/a crowd, a host of golden daffodils"?

A: Wordsworth
B: Herrick
C: Shelley
D: Keats
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30th BCS Preliminary Test #412

Reason is the highest faculty ---- on human by their creator.

A: entrusted
B: endowed
C: bestowed
D: conferred
34th BCS Preliminary Test #413

What is the masculine gender of "mare"?

A: Mermaid
B: Bear
C: Stallion
D: Dog
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30th BCS Preliminary Test #414

To put the cart before the horse-----

A: to offer a person what he cannot eat
B: to force a person to do something
C: to raise obstacle
D: to reverse the natural order of things
35th BCS Preliminary Test #415

Cricket enjoys a huge ---- in Bangladesh.

A: follow on
B: fall out
C: follow
D: following
30th BCS Preliminary Test #416

To read between the lines------

A: to concentrate
B: to suspect
C: to read carefully
D: to grasp the hidden meaning
30th BCS Preliminary Test #417

One of the four sentences given in each question is grammatically wrong. That alternative is your answer:

A: He has no desire for fame
B: I intend to go to Rajshahi
C: He is too miserly to part with his money
D: He has invited me for dinnner
35th BCS Preliminary Test #418

The correct passive form of "You must shut these doors" is------

A: These must be shut doors
B: Shut the doors you must
C: Shut must be the doors
D: These doors must be shut
34th BCS Preliminary Test #419

Botany is to plants as Zoology is to ----

A: Flowers
B: Rivers
C: Mountains
D: Animals
30th BCS Preliminary Test #420

what is antonym of ''HATE''

A: Admire
B: Abhor
C: Concern
D: Loathe
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #421

Who among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?

A: T. S. Eliot
B: Toni Morrison
C: Grahame Greene
D: William Faulkner
35th BCS Preliminary Test #422

Which of the following words can be used as a verb ?

A: Mister
B: Master
C: Mistress
D: Mastery
35th BCS Preliminary Test #423

This could have worked if I ----been more far-sighted.

A: had
B: have
C: might
D: would
35th BCS Preliminary Test #424

'He was a rather "disagreeable" man'. Here the quotation word is a/an-----

A: Noun
B: Adjective
C: Adverb
D: Preposition
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #425

Which word is the determiner in the sentence "Will it take much time"?

A: will
B: take
C: much
D: time
36th BCS Preliminary Test #426

'David Copperfield' is a/an----novel.

A: Victorian
B: Eligabethan
C: Romantic
D: Modern
30th BCS Preliminary Test #427

Of the four alternatives given under each sentence, find the one that best fits into the blank space :- The horror movie scared them out of their----

A: wits
B: seats
C: lives
D: funds
30th BCS Preliminary Test #428

A lion may be helped even by a little mouse.

A: A little mouse may even help a lion.
B: Even a little mouse may help a lion.
C: A little mouse can even help a lion.
D: Even a little mouse ought to help a lion.
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36th BCS Preliminary Test #429

Professor Razzak was a scholar---- repute. (Fill in the gap)

A: in
B: of
C: after
D: by
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #430

What would be the right synonym for "initiative"?

A: apathe
B: indolence
C: enterprise
D: activity
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30th BCS Preliminary Test #431

In each of the following questions, a sentence has been given in Active (or Passive) voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive (or Active) voice :- I know him.

A: He is known by me.
B: He was known to me.
C: He has been known by me.
D: He is known to me.
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36th BCS Preliminary Test #432

'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is written by -----

A: William Wordaworth
B: Thomas Gray
C: John Keats
D: W. B. Yeats
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30th BCS Preliminary Test #433

Each of the following idioms is followed by some alternative. Choose the one which best expresses its meaning :-

A: to save oneself
B: to be self respectful
C: to keep calm
D: None of these
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30th BCS Preliminary Test #434

Choose the correctly spelt word:-

A: Liesure
B: Leisure
C: Leasure
D: Lesiure
36th BCS Preliminary Test #435

John Smith is good------Mathematics. (Fill in the gap)

A: at
B: in
C: of
D: after
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30th BCS Preliminary Test #436

The people who carry a coffin a funeral are called-----

A: undertakers
B: supporters
C: pallbearers
D: mourners
26th (Special) BCS Preliminary Test (Education) #437

Fill in the blank with right option. I am looking forward----you.

A: to seeing
B: seeing
C: to see
D: to have seen
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36th BCS Preliminary Test #438

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
35th BCS Preliminary Test #439

The film was directed in the director's usual ----style.

A: confusion
B: idiosyncratic
C: personifying
D: purifying
26th (Special) BCS Preliminary Test (Education) #440

Choose the correct preposition. My brother has no interest----music.

A: for
B: in
C: with
D: at
26th (Special) BCS Preliminary Test (Education) #441

Select the right word. He ran fast lest he ----- miss the train.

A: can
B: should
C: could
D: has
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36th BCS Preliminary Test #442

Teacher said, 'The earth--round the sun'.

A: moves
B: moved
C: has moved
D: will be moving
26th (Special) BCS Preliminary Test (Education) #443

Choose the correct form (passive) of --- 'Who will do the work?'

A: Who will be done the work ?
B: Who will done the work ?
C: By Whom will the work be done ?
D: Whom will the work be done ?
36th BCS Preliminary Test #444

He insisted-----there. (Fill in the gap)

A: on my going
B: is to go
C: over going
D: to go
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36th BCS Preliminary Test #445

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
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #446

The play Arms and the man is by-----

A: James Joyce
B: Arthur Miller
C: Samuel Beckett
D: George Bernard Shaw
36th BCS Preliminary Test #447

'Frailty the name is woman'--is a famous dialogue from.

A: Christopher Marlowe
B: John Webstar
C: W. Shakespeare
D: T. S. Eliot
26th (Special) BCS Preliminary Test (Education) #448

Choose the correct preposition. The police is looking----the case.

A: after
B: on
C: up
D: into
26th (Special) BCS Preliminary Test (Education) #449

The Arabian Nights-----still a great favourite.

A: has
B: are
C: is
D: were
36th BCS Preliminary Test #450

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
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