12th BCS English Questions & Answers with Explanation / English for BCS Examination / BCS Examination Previous Questions and Answers

12th BCS English Questions

1. What is the noun of the word 'Waste'?

a) Wasting

b) Waste

c) Wasteful

d) Wastage

2. What is the adjective of the word 'Heart'?

a) Hearten

b) Heartening

c) Heartful

d) Heart

3. What is the verb of the word 'Shortly'?

a) Shorter

b) Short

c) Shortness

d) Shorten

4. Who, which, what are:

a) Relative pronoun

b) Demonstrative pronoun

c) Indefinite pronoun

d) Reflexive pronoun

5. Who is the greatest modern English Dramatist?

a) George Bernard Shaw

b) Virginia Woolf

c) S. T. Coleridge

d) P. B. Shelley

6. Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?

a) Dr. Kissinger

b) Bertrand Russell

c) Lenin

d) James Baker

7. Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?

a) John Milton

b) T. S. Eliot

c) Ernest Hemingway

d) Plato

8. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?

a) Jonathan Swift

b) William Wordsworth

c) Butler

d) Alexander Pope

9. "Caesar and Cleopatra" is:

a) A novel by S.T. Coleridge

b) A tragedy by Shakespeare

c) A play by G. B. Shaw

d) A poem by Lord Byron

10. What is the synonym of 'Delude'?

a) Permit

b) Aggravate

c) Deceive

d) Demand

11. What is the antonym of 'Queer'?

a) Orderly

b) Abnormal

c) Odd

d) Integrated

12. It is too difficult to tolerate bad temper for long. Which of the following phrases does best replace 'tolerate' in the above sentence?

a) put up with

b) stand up for

c) pull on with

d) cope up with

13. Fill in the blanks: "What is the time ___ your watch?"

a) with

b) by

c) in

d) at

14. Fill in the blanks: "Give my ___ to him".

a) Heartiest compliment

b) Warm compliment

c) Compliments

d) Best compliment

15. Choose the correct sentence:

a) Let you and him be witnesses

b) Let you and he be witnesses

c) Let you and he be witness

d) Let he and you be witnesses

16. Choose the correct sentence:

a) The matter has informed to the police

b) The police was informed of the matter

c) The police were informed of the matter

d) The matter was informed to the police

17. Choose the correct one:

a) Misspell

b) Mispell

c) Misspel

d) Mispel

12th BCS English Questions

1. What is the noun of the word 'Waste'?

a) Wasting

b) Waste

c) Wasteful

d) Wastage

Correct answer: d) Wastage

2. What is the adjective of the word 'Heart'?

a) Hearten

b) Heartening

c) Heartful

d) Heart

Correct answer: b) Heartening

3. What is the verb of the word 'Shortly'?

a) Shorter

b) Short

c) Shortness

d) Shorten

Correct answer: d) Shorten

4. Who, which, what are:

a) Relative pronoun

b) Demonstrative pronoun

c) Indefinite pronoun

d) Reflexive pronoun

Correct answer: a) Relative pronoun

5. Who is the greatest modern English Dramatist?

a) George Bernard Shaw

b) Virginia Woolf

c) S. T. Coleridge

d) P. B. Shelley

Correct answer: a) George Bernard Shaw

6. Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?

a) Dr. Kissinger

b) Bertrand Russell

c) Lenin

d) James Baker

Correct answer: b) Bertrand Russell

7. Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?

a) John Milton

b) T. S. Eliot

c) Ernest Hemingway

d) Plato

Correct answer: c) Ernest Hemingway

8. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?

a) Jonathan Swift

b) William Wordsworth

c) Butler

d) Alexander Pope

Correct answer: a) Jonathan Swift

9. "Caesar and Cleopatra" is:

a) A novel by S.T. Coleridge

b) A tragedy by Shakespeare

c) A play by G. B. Shaw

d) A poem by Lord Byron

Correct answer: c) A play by G. B. Shaw

10. What is the synonym of 'Delude'?

a) Permit

b) Aggravate

c) Deceive

d) Demand

Correct answer: c) Deceive

11. What is the antonym of 'Queer'?

a) Orderly

b) Abnormal

c) Odd

d) Integrated

Correct answer: a) Orderly

12. It is too difficult to tolerate bad temper for long. Which of the following phrases does best replace 'tolerate' in the above sentence?

a) put up with

b) stand up for

c) pull on with

d) cope up with

Correct answer: a) put up with

13. Fill in the blanks: "What is the time ___ your watch?"

a) with

b) by

c) in

d) at

Correct answer: b) by

14. Fill in the blanks: "Give my ___ to him".

a) Heartiest compliment

b) Warm compliment

c) Compliments

d) Best compliment

Correct answer: c) Compliments

15. Choose the correct sentence:

a) Let you and him be witnesses

b) Let you and he be witnesses

c) Let you and he be witness

d) Let he and you be witnesses

Correct answer: a) Let you and him be witnesses

16. Choose the correct sentence:

a) The matter has informed to the police

b) The police was informed of the matter

c) The police were informed of the matter

d) The matter was informed to the police

Correct answer: c) The police were informed of the matter

17. Choose the correct one:

a) Misspell

b) Mispell

c) Misspel

d) Mispel

Correct answer: a) Misspell