University Admission Test English - Dhaka University - B Unit 2004- 2005 Session English Questions' Answers with Explanation

University Admission Test English

Dhaka University - B (Kha) Unit Admission Question

2004 - 2005 Session

English Questions' Answers with Explanation

DU B Unit (2004-2005) – English Questions

English

Read the following passage and answer questions 1-5:

A rain forest, as the term suggests, is a kind of wooded area, subject to unusually heavy and frequent rains. Found only in the tropical or subtropical regions of the Caribbean, Brazil, Africa. and Asia, rain forests contain a great variety of trees including bamboo, palm, cedar ebony, calabash, and whitewood. Many of these trees grow to a height of more than a hundred feet, with dense canopies or crowns characteristically forming three distinguishable stores. Although ground flora is sparse, climbers of all kinds abound and often exotic flowers appear inconspicuously in the thick foliage.

01. Choose a suitable title for the passage. 

a. Trees and rain forest b. A Dream region

c. The Rain Forests       d. Forestry 

02. ‘Wooded area’ means

a. area full of woods b. area that looks wooden

c. forest area              d. forest wood 

03. “dense canopies or crowns” means ___.

a. thick branches of trees

b. crown-like top of trees 

c. coarse leaves in crown form 

d. rough branches of trees 

04. The word ‘climbers’ means 

a. ladders                     b. mountaineers 

c. those who climb      d. creepers 

05. ‘inconspicuously’ stands for 

a. not easily noticeable

b. impossible to find 

c. unusually 

d. naturally  

06. What does  ‘wander’ means?

a. surprise b. miracle 

c. tread           d. walk aimlessly

07.Choose the appropriate preposition to fill in the blank. This is a difficult question ____ answer.

a. for        b. to 

c. with     d. in 

08.Choose the synonym of ‘serene’

a. severe b. dark 

c. calm       d. serious 

09.The frown on the man’s face showed that he was displaced. In the sentence ‘frown’ can be replaced by

a. A look fear        b. look of anger 

c. look of delight d. look of surprise 

10.Fill in the gap with the proper option. 

Muslin was a fabric ___ by the famed weavers of Bangladesh.

a. woven        b. weave 

c. wove          d. had weaved 

11.His appeal ____ mercy was rejected. 

a. to b. for 

c. on          d. with 

12.Fill in the blank with suitable preposition. She has dealt ___ the problem nicely.

a. with        b. in

c. to d. on 

13. My father will discipline me for my actions. Here ‘discipline’  means 

a. reward        b. reproach 

c. raprove d. punish 

14.My father does not like terrorism and ___.

a. neither I do b. neither do I 

c. I do                    d. I do either 

15.Choose the best option to fill in the blank: ‘Teachers dislike _ the examination routine as much as students do.

a. changing b. change 

c. having change    d. to be changed 

16.Choose the suitable option to fill in the gap: The tiny print on the poster is ___ small to be read easily.

a.  so b. much

c. very d. too 

17.select the right option for the blank space. If forests are destroyed, wild animals __ their natural habitation 

a. loses           b. will have los

c. will lose     d. lost 

18. Choose the correct translation of the sentence “আমি ১৯৮৫ সালের ১ জানুয়ারি জন্মগ্রহণ করেছি।”

a.I have been born in January 01, 1985

b. I was born on January 01 ,1985

c. I born on January 01 ,1985

d. I was born in January 01 ,1985

19.Choose the correct spelling. 

a. repition b. repeatation 

c. repeatton d. repetiton 

20.Complete the sentence, He bought a new car because his old one _ own.

a. broke            b. had broken 

c. has broken d. was broken 

21.Choose the correct sentence. 

a. I need a few furniture

b. I do not need many furniture

c. I do not need some furniture

d. I need some furniture 

22.Verb of the word justification is –

a. justice b. justify 

c. justifiable    d. justifiably 

23.Select the best option to fill in the blank – if I had seen it, I __ you about it.

a. will tell          b. had told

c. would tell d. would have told 

24.What is the major attraction of life as expressed in “under the greenwood tree”?

a. no people b. rich nature

c. no enemy     d. singing birds 

25. “Jocund company”  in Wordsworth “I wandered lonely”  as a cloud refers to-

a. a friend b. a group of men who stood by 

c. waves         d. daffodils 

ANSWERS

01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13
c	a	b	c	a	d	b	c	b	a	b	a	d
14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
b	a	d	c	b	b	d	d	b	d	c	d