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44th BCS English Questions

Grammar Part

1. Select the appropriate preposition:  Are you doing’ anything special–the weekend?

a. in

b. for

c. on

d. at

2. What is the plural form of sheep’? 

a. Sheeps

b. Sheep

c. Sheeps

d. Shepeses

3. What is the verb form of the word ‘ability? – enable

a. Capable

b. Inability

c. Enable

d. Unable

4. The word ‘equivocation’ refers to –

a. Starting like an author

b. Two contradictory things in the same statement

c. Free expressions of opinion

d. A true statement

5. Which of the following words is spelt correctly? – authoritative

a. Authoratative

b. Autheratative

c. Authoritative

d. Authoratative

6. Find out the active form of the sentence:

‘By whom can our country be saved?”

a. Who can save our country?

b. Our country can be saved by who?

c. Who saved our country?

d. Who will save our country?

7. Identify the correct passive form: “Do not close the door.”

a. Let not the door be close.

b. Let not the door closed.

c. Let not the door be closed.

d. Let not the door close.

8. Sitting happily, the chicken laid eggs. The underlined part is —

a. Noun clause

b. Subordinate clause

c. Independent clause

d. Coordinate clause

9. What kind of noun is river?

a. Material

b. Collective

c. Proper

d. Common

10. Identify the right tense: ‘My father----before I came’. – had left

a. would be leaving

b. had left

c. will leave

d. had been leaving 

11. Which of the following words is spelt incorrectly?

a. Reminescence

b. Glycerin

c. Idiosyncrasy

d. Lexicography

12. The controlling sentence of a paragraph is known as –

a. Content modulator

b. Thesis statement

c. Topic sentence

d. Terminator

13. Choose the correct comparative form of the sentence: Very few boys are as industrious as Zaman.

a. Zaman is one of most industrious boys.

b. Zaman is more industrious than most other boys.

c. Zaman is really industrious like boys.

d. Zaman is as industrious as other boys.

14. Identify the appropriate preposition: Your opinion is identical---mine.

a. For

b. With

c. In

d. By

15. The word “vital” is

a. Noun

b. Adverb

c. Adjective

d. Verb

16. To get along with means.

a. To adjust

b. To interest

c. To accompany

d. To walk 

17. The synonym of panoramic.

a. Scenic

b. Narrow

c. Quarrelsome

d. Limited

18. The Antonym of the word Slothful

a. Playful

b. Sluggish

c. Quarrelsome

d. Energetic

19. By and large means.

a. Everywhere

b. Mostly

c. Very large

d. Far away

20. He could not win but learned a lot.

a. An adverb

b. A verb

c. An adjective

d. A conjunction

Literature Part

21. Sweet are the uses of adversity. Is quoted from Shakespeare.

a. Julius Caesar

b. Comedy of Error

c. Macbeth

d. As you like it

22.”Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more;” These memorable lines in Shakespearean tragedy are spoken by- 

a. Lady Macbeth

b. Duncan

c. Banquo

d. Macbeth

23.”All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.” This extract is taken from W. B. Yeats’ poem titled.

a. No Second troy

b. Easter 1916

c. The second coming

d. The wild swans at coole

24. The poetic drama ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was written.

a. Harold printer

b. GB Shaw

c. TS Eliot

d. Samuel Becket

25. All for Love’ is a drama written by-

a. John Dryden

b. William Congreve

c. John Bunyan

d. Francis Bacon

26. Caliban is an important character from Shakespeare’s – 

a. The tempest

b. Hamlet

c. Othello

d. Macbeth

27. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is –.

a. A tragedy by Shakespeare

b. A poem by lord Byron

c. A Play by G. B Shaw

d . A novel by S.T Coleridge

28. Who wrote the picaresque novel titled “Tom Jones”?

a. Samuel Richardson

b. Horache Walpole

c. Henry Fielding

d. Laurence Sterne

29. The story of ‘Moby Dick’ centers on-

a mermaid

a. A mermaid

b. A whale

c. A crocodile

d. A shark

30. ‘He prayeth best, who loveth best.-Who said it?

a. John Milton

b. John Donne

c. Lord Byron

d. S. T Coleridge

31. Paradise lost attempted to---

a. Justify the ways of man to God.

b. Show that satan and Gid have equal power.

c. Justify the ways of God to Man.

d. Explain why God and Satan are necessary.

32. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed The extract is taken from P. B Shelly's Poem.

a. The cloud

b. To a Skylark

c. Ode to the west wind

d. Adonais

33. Who wrote the short story “The Ant and the Grasshopper.”

a. Guy De Maupassant

b. William Somerset Maugham

c. JK Rawling

d. O Henry

34. Alexander Pope “Essay on man” is--

a. Novel

b. Short story

c. Treatise

d. Poem

35. Francis Bacon is an illustrious.

a. Essayist

b. Novelist

c. Journalist

d. Dramatist

44th BCS English Questions and Answers

Grammar Part

1. Select the appropriate preposition:  Are you doing’ anything special–the weekend?

a. in

b. for

c. on

d. at✓

2. What is the plural form of sheep’? 

a. Sheeps

b. Sheep✓

c. Sheeps

d. Shepeses

3. What is the verb form of the word ‘ability? – enable

a. Capable

b. Inability

c. Enable✓

d. Unable

4. The word ‘equivocation’ refers to –

a. Starting like an author

b. Two contradictory things in the same statement✓

c. Free expressions of opinion

d. A true statement

5. Which of the following words is spelt correctly? – authoritative

a. Authoratative

b. Autheratative

c. Authoritative✓

d. Authoratative

6. Find out the active form of the sentence:

‘By whom can our country be saved?”

a. Who can save our country?✓

b. Our country can be saved by who?

c. Who saved our country?

d. Who will save our country?

7. Identify the correct passive form: “Do not close the door.”

a. Let not the door be close.

b. Let not the door closed.

c. Let not the door be closed.✓

d. Let not the door close.

8. Sitting happily, the chicken laid eggs. The underlined part is —

a. Noun clause

b. Subordinate clause✓

c. Independent clause

d. Coordinate clause

9. What kind of noun is river?

a. Material

b. Collective

c. Proper

d. Common✓

10. Identify the right tense: ‘My father----before I came’. – had left

a. would be leaving

b. had left✓

c. will leave

d. had been leaving 

11. Which of the following words is spelt incorrectly?

a. Reminescence✓

b. Glycerin

c. Idiosyncrasy

d. Lexicography

12. The controlling sentence of a paragraph is known as –

a. Content modulator

b. Thesis statement

c. Topic sentence✓

d. Terminator

13. Choose the correct comparative form of the sentence: Very few boys are as industrious as Zaman.

a. Zaman is one of most industrious boys.✓

b. Zaman is more industrious than most other boys.

c. Zaman is really industrious like boys.

d. Zaman is as industrious as other boys.

14. Identify the appropriate preposition: Your opinion is identical---mine.

a. For

b. With✓

c. In

d. By

15. The word “vital” is

a. Noun

b. Adverb

c. Adjective✓

d. Verb

16. To get along with means.

a. To adjust✓

b. To interest

c. To accompany

d. To walk 

17. The synonym of panoramic.

a. Scenic✓

b. Narrow

c. Quarrelsome

d. Limited

18. The Antonym of the word Slothful

a. Playful

b. Sluggish

c. Quarrelsome

d. Energetic✓

19. By and large means.

a. Everywhere

b. Mostly✓

c. Very large

d. Far away

20. He could not win but learned a lot.

a. An adverb

b. A verb

c. An adjective

d. A conjunction✓

Literature Part

21. Sweet are the uses of adversity. Is quoted from Shakespeare.

a. Julius Caesar

b. Comedy of Error

c. Macbeth

d. As you like it✓

22.”Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more;” These memorable lines in Shakespearean tragedy are spoken by- 

a. Lady Macbeth

b. Duncan

c. Banquo

d. Macbeth✓

23.”All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.” This extract is taken from W. B. Yeats’ poem titled.

a. No Second troy

b. Easter 1916✓

c. The second coming

d. The wild swans at coole

24. The poetic drama ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was written.

a. Harold printer

b. GB Shaw

c. TS Eliot✓

d. Samuel Becket

25. All for Love’ is a drama written by-

a. John Dryden✓

b. William Congreve

c. John Bunyan

d. Francis Bacon

26. Caliban is an important character from Shakespeare’s – 

a. The tempest✓

b. Hamlet

c. Othello

d. Macbeth

27. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is –.

a. A tragedy by Shakespeare

b. A poem by lord Byron

c. A Play by G. B Shaw✓

d . A novel by S.T Coleridge

28. Who wrote the picaresque novel titled “Tom Jones”?

a. Samuel Richardson

b. Horache Walpole

c. Henry Fielding✓

d. Laurence Sterne

29. The story of ‘Moby Dick’ centers on-

a mermaid

a. A mermaid

b. A whale✓

c. A crocodile

d. A shark

30. ‘He prayeth best, who loveth best.-Who said it?

a. John Milton

b. John Donne

c. Lord Byron

d. S. T Coleridge✓

31. Paradise lost attempted to---

a. Justify the ways of man to God.✓

b. Show that satan and Gid have equal power.

c. Justify the ways of God to Man.

d. Explain why God and Satan are necessary.

32. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed The extract is taken from P. B Shelly's Poem.

a. The cloud

b. To a Skylark

c. Ode to the west wind✓

d. Adonais

33. Who wrote the short story “The Ant and the Grasshopper.”

a. Guy De Maupassant

b. William Somerset Maugham✓

c. JK Rawling

d. O Henry

34. Alexander Pope “Essay on man” is--

a. Novel

b. Short story

c. Treatise

d. Poem✓

35. Francis Bacon is an illustrious.

a. Essayist✓

b. Novelist

c. Journalist

d. Dramatist

44th BCS English Questions and Answers with Explanation

প্রশ্ন নং	সঠিক উত্তর	ব্যাখ্যা
1	d) at	‘at the weekend’ হলো সঠিক প্রিপজিশন, কারণ এটি একটি নির্দিষ্ট সময়ের কথা বোঝায়, যেমন ‘at night’, ‘at noon’।
2	b) Sheep	‘Sheep’ একটি irregular noun যার একবচন ও বহুবচন একই রকম থাকে। যেমন: one sheep, many sheep।
3	c) Enable	‘Ability’ থেকে verb তৈরি হলে সেটা হয় ‘enable’, যার অর্থ কাউকে কিছু করার ক্ষমতা দেওয়া।
4	b) Two contradictory things in the same statement	‘Equivocation’ মানে হলো এমন কথা বলা যা দ্ব্যর্থক বা একই সঙ্গে দুই ধরনের বিপরীত অর্থ বোঝায়।
5	c) Authoritative	‘Authoritative’ শব্দটি সঠিক বানান, যার মানে ক্ষমতাশালী বা কর্তৃত্বপূর্ণ। অন্য অপশনগুলো ভুল বানান।
6	a) Who can save our country?	Passive: ‘By whom can our country be saved?’ → Active: ‘Who can save our country?’
7	c) Let not the door be closed.	Imperative sentence এর passive রূপে ‘let + object + be + past participle’ হয়।
8	b) Subordinate clause	‘Sitting happily’ হলো একটি subordinate clause যা প্রধান clause কে support করে।
9	d) Common	‘River’ হলো সাধারণ কোনো নদীর নাম বোঝাতে ব্যবহৃত সাধারণ (common) noun।
10	b) had left	‘Before I came’ মানে অতীতে কোনো সময়, তাই earlier past tense ‘had left’ হবে।
11	a) Reminescence	সঠিক বানান হবে ‘reminiscence’। বাকিগুলোর বানান ঠিক আছে।
12	c) Topic sentence	একটি paragraph-এর মূল বক্তব্য বা controlling idea কে বলা হয় topic sentence।
13	a) Zaman is one of most industrious boys.	‘Very few boys are as industrious as Zaman’ → Comparative: Zaman is one of the most industrious boys.
14	b) With	‘Identical’ শব্দটির সাথে সাধারণত ‘with’ প্রিপজিশন ব্যবহৃত হয়।
15	c) Adjective	‘Vital’ একটি adjective, যার মানে অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ।
16	a) To adjust	‘Get along with’ মানে কারো সাথে মিল রেখে চলা বা মানিয়ে চলা।
17	a) Scenic	‘Panoramic’ মানে চমৎকার দৃশ্যপট; ‘scenic’ তার উপযুক্ত প্রতিশব্দ।
18	d) Energetic	‘Slothful’ মানে অলস; এর বিপরীত শব্দ ‘energetic’।
19	b) Mostly	‘By and large’ একটি idiom, যার মানে প্রধানত বা বেশিরভাগ ক্ষেত্রে।
20	d) A conjunction	‘But’ এখানে দুটি clause কে যুক্ত করছে, তাই এটি conjunction।
21	d) As you like it	‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ উক্তিটি Shakespeare-এর ‘As You Like It’ নাটক থেকে নেওয়া।
22	d) Macbeth	এই বিখ্যাত লাইনটি Shakespeare-এর ‘Macbeth’ নাটকে Macbeth চরিত্র বলেছে।
23	b) Easter 1916	এই লাইনটি W. B. Yeats-এর কবিতা ‘Easter 1916’ থেকে নেওয়া হয়েছে।
24	c) TS Eliot	‘Murder in the Cathedral’ নাটকটি TS Eliot রচনা করেছেন।
25	a) John Dryden	‘All for Love’ একটি নাটক যা John Dryden লিখেছেন।
26	a) The tempest	Caliban হলো Shakespeare-এর নাটক ‘The Tempest’-এর একটি চরিত্র।
27	c) A Play by G. B Shaw	‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ নাটকটি G. B. Shaw রচিত।
28	c) Henry Fielding	‘Tom Jones’ একটি picaresque novel, লেখক Henry Fielding।
29	b) A whale	‘Moby Dick’ গল্পটি একটি বিশাল তিমি (whale)-কে ঘিরে আবর্তিত।
30	d) S. T Coleridge	‘He prayeth best...’ লাইনটি Coleridge-এর ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ থেকে নেওয়া।
31	c) Justify the ways of God to Man.	Milton-এর ‘Paradise Lost’ মূলত ঈশ্বরের কাজকে মানুষের কাছে যুক্তিসঙ্গত প্রমাণ করার চেষ্টা।
32	c) Ode to the west wind	এই বিখ্যাত পংক্তিটি P. B. Shelley-এর কবিতা ‘Ode to the West Wind’ থেকে।
33	b) William Somerset Maugham	‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’ গল্পটি Maugham লিখেছেন।
34	d) Poem	Alexander Pope-এর ‘Essay on Man’ হলো একটি কবিতা।
35	a) Essayist	Francis Bacon মূলত একজন প্রখ্যাত প্রবন্ধকার (essayist)।