University Admission Test English - Dhaka University - A Unit 2011- 2012 Session English Questions' Answers with Explanation

University Admission Test English

Dhaka University - A (Ka) Unit Admission Question

2011 - 2012 Session

English Questions' Answers with Explanation

DU A Unit (2011-2012) – English Questions

DU A-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2011-12

DU A-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2011-12

Read the passage and answer Questions 1 to 5:

A coral reef is a flower garden of stone, growing like a wall or like a tower from the depths and filled with the most confusing and most colourful varieties of life. The colours are beautiful, especially in the shallow region down to sixty feet, where some of the red and yellow light of the sun’s rays still penetrates. But most corals are greenish, brown, bluish or yellow. Coral reefs offer shelter and food to thousands of creatures. The wanner the climate, the greater the variety of species there is. In the tropics, it is easier to find, in one place, ten different species than ten specimens of the same species; and a coral reef provides ample proof of that rule. Living conditions are most favourable so that many forms are able to develop and survive in their struggle for existence.

1. A coral reef is

a. beautiful park ✔

b. a stone wall

c. a watch tower

d. a rock formation in the sea

2. The word “shallow” in the second sentence means

a. very distant

b. very deep ✔

c. not very deep

d. cold

3. In the tropics

a. the climate is warm ✔

b. shelter and food are easy to find

c. many subjects are discussed

d. it is quite cold

4. The word “ample” in the sixth sentence is an adjective. The noun-form of it is

a . amplifier

b. amplitude

c. amply

d. amplify ✔

5. The main subject of the passage is

a. The beauty of a coral reef

b. The correlation of climate and life

c. The struggle for existence ✔

d. The colours of a coral reef

Questions 6-15: Choose the correct options

6. ————that life began billions of years ago in the water.

a. In the belief

b. It is believed ✔

c. the belief

d. Believing

7. The government has introduced——–

a. a children’s clothes tax

b. a tax on children clothes ✔

c. a children cloths tax

d. a tax on children’s clothes

8. The most important chemical catalyst on the planet is chlorophyll, ——carbon dioxide and water react to form carbohydrates.

a. whose presence

b. which is present

c. presenting

d. in the presence of which ✔

9. An image on a national flag can symbolize political ideas that——-express.

a. take many words otherwise would

b. would take to many otherwise words

c. many words to take otherwise

d. would otherwise take many words to ✔

10. Had I been in your situation,——–the offer.

a. I would not accept

b. I would accept

c. 1 had accepted

d. I would have accepted ✔

11. ———-chair the meeting.

a. Karim was decided to

b. There was decided that Karim should

c. It was decided that Karim should ✔

d. Karim had been decided to

12. She———-from flu when she was interviewed.

a. has been suffering

b. suffered

c. had suffered

d. had been suffering ✔

13. Next month I———–John for 20 years.

a. know

b. will have known ✔

c. am knowing

d. will have been knowing

14. I——-happy to see him, but I didn’t have time.

a. will have been

b. would be

c. will be

d. would have been ✔

15. The traffic lights——green and I pulled away.

a. gone

b. got

c. moved

d. went ✔

Questions 16-17: Choose the correct meaning (if the following idioms:

16. “The job was not plain-sailing.”

a The job was difficult to get

b. The job was not easy to do. ✔

c. The job was not sailing a ship.

d. The job was easy to do.

17. “Leave no stone unturned.”

a Heavy stone

b. Rare stone

c. Impossible

d. Try every possible means ✔

Questions 18-19: Choose the correct translation:

18. আমি আম পছন্দ করি

a. I like mango

b. I would like a mango

c. I like mangoes ✔

d I like the mango

19. তারা সাগরের কাছে একটি কুটিরে বাস করত।

a. They lived in a but closed to sea

b. They lived in a but close by sea

c. They lived in a but close to the sea ✔

d. They lived in a but close with the sea

Questions 20-23: Fill in the blanks:

20. I came home after the rain—————

a. stopped

b. stop

c was stop

d. had stopped ✔

DU A-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2011-12

21. Seeing is——-(believe)

a. to believe

b. how to believe

c. believing ✔

d. believed

22. I do not know ——

a. where does he live

b. where is he live

c. where he does live

d. where he lives ✔

23. I notified——I had changed my address.

a. with the bank that

b. the bank that ✔

c. that

d. to the bank that

24. What is the meaning of the expression “bottom line”?

a. The final step

b. The end of a road Aid

c. The last line of a book

d. The essential point ✔

25. Which one is the correct spelling?

a. Acomodation

b. Accommodation ✔

c. Acommodation

d. Acomoddation

26. The antonym of “prosperity” is

a. diversity

b. adversity ✔

c. property

d. posterity

27. The synonym of “brittle” is

a. soft

b. tough

c. strong

d. fragile ✔

28. By workin hard, you can prosper. Here “working” is a-

a. Participle

b. Verbal Noun

c. Gerund ✔

d. Infinitive

29. The noun form “grand” is

a. grandness ✔

b. grandsome

c. grandeur

d. grand

30. Which one is the correct sentence?

a. The man that said that was a fool

b. The man who said that was a fool ✔

c. The man which said that was a fool

d. The man whom said that was a fool

Answer-Key with Brief Explanations

#	সঠিক উত্তর	বাংলা ব্যাখ্যা
1	a beautiful park	প্যাসেজে ‘flower garden of stone’—প্রাকৃতিক সৌন্দর্যে ভরা, তাই ‘beautiful park’-এর ভাবগত মিল সবচেয়ে বেশি।
2	c not very deep	shallow = অগভীর; ‘ভীষণ গভীর’ নয়।
3	a the climate is warm	ট্রপিকে উষ্ণ জলবায়ু—প্যাসেজে উষ্ণতা ও জীববৈচিত্র্যের সম্পর্ক উল্লেখ।
4	b amplitude	ample (প্রচুর)-এর noun amplitude (প্রশস্ততা, প্রাচুর্য)।
5	c The struggle for existence	শেষ লাইনে “develop and survive in their struggle for existence”—মূল উপজীব্য।
6	b It is believed	অধিবাচ্য অব্যক্ত বক্তাকে বোঝাতে impersonal passive রীতি।
7	b a tax on children clothes	possessive (‘s) না দিয়ে on + noun + noun; এখানে ‘children’ plural noun, apostrophe ছাড়াই attributive.
8	d in the presence of which	“যার উপস্থিতিতে”—relative pronoun + prep. inversion; catalyst = chlorophyll.
9	d would otherwise take many words to	‘otherwise’ & ‘would take’ সঠিক ক্রমে; বাক্যটি অর্থপূর্ণ।
10	d I would have accepted	‘Had I been…’ = past unreal condition → main clause would have + pp.
11	c It was decided that Karim should	Impersonal ‘It was decided that…’ + modal should (অনিবার্যতা)।
12	d had been suffering	Interview (past), তার আগেই ফ্লু চলছিল → past perfect continuous.
13	b will have known	Future perfect: “Next month”-এ ২০ বছর পূর্ণ হবে।
14	d would have been	Past unreal (খুশি হতাম কিন্তু হয়নি)।
15	d went	Traffic light went green (রঙে পরিবর্তিত হওয়া)।
16	b The job was not easy to do	plain-sailing = নির্বিঘ্ন, সহজ; not plain-sailing = কঠিন।
17	d Try every possible means	“কোনো পাথর উল্টে দাও না”—সব উপায় চেষ্টা করো।
18	c I like mangoes	সাধারণ পছন্দ → plural count noun।
19	c They lived in a hut close to the sea	‘hut’ (কুটির); close to = কাছাকাছি।
20	d had stopped	Rain শেষ হয়ে গিয়েছিল → earlier past = past perfect.
21	c believing	প্রবাদ ‘Seeing is believing’—gerund pair (দর্শনই বিশ্বাস)।
22	d where he lives	Indirect interrogative—statement order, no inversion.
23	b the bank that	notify + object + that-clause.
24	d The essential point	bottom line = মূল কথা / চূড়ান্ত সারাংশ।
25	b Accommodation	দ্বৈত ‘mm’ ও ‘cc’ বিশুদ্ধ বানান।
26	b adversity	prosperity (সমৃদ্ধি) ↔ adversity (দুর্ভাগ্য/দারিদ্র্য)।
27	d fragile	brittle = ভঙ্গুর, সহজে ভাঙে → synonym fragile.
28	c Gerund	working এখানে verb-ing noun-রূপ, কার্যকারক (by)।
29	a grandness	“grand”-এর সাধারণ noun = grandness (জাঁকজমক); grandeur সূক্ষ্মতর অর্থ, তবে প্রশ্নের ভ্যারিয়েন্টে grandness-ই সরাসরি রূপান্তর।
30	b The man who said that was a fool	ব্যক্তি (human antecedent) → relative pronoun who; বাক্যগঠন সঠিক।