University Admission Test English - Dhaka University - B Unit 2007- 2008 Session English Questions' Answers with Explanation

University Admission Test English

Dhaka University - B (Kha) Unit Admission Question

2007 - 2008 Session

English Questions' Answers with Explanation

DU B Unit (2007-2008) – English Questions

English

Read the passage and answer questions 1-4: 

Giving a presentation can be a worrying prospect, Nervous about the audience’s importance, some 

speakers read from a prepared text. Such occasions are rarely a success. A reader finds it difficult to engage with an audience in the way that an unscripted speaker can. When you read, your eyes are, much of the time, turned down towards your script and thus away from the audience. You do not make eye contact and cannot be properly aware of the way in which your listeners are responding to your words.

01. Choose a suitable title for the passage.

a. Problems of Presentation 

b. Reading and Talking 

c. Stage fright 

d. Of Talkers and Listeners 

02. ‘engage with an audience’ means

a. to make contact with an audience 

b. to invite an audience 

c. to make an appoint with an audience 

d. to encourage an audience 

03. Who is an unscripted speaker?

a. A speaker whose name is not in the script 

b. An unlished speaker 

c. A speaker withput a written text

d. A speaker with no trust in script

04. “rarely a success”  means 

a. always a success

b. often a success

c. nerver a successs

d. eldom a success

05. The test is going well. We…….. any problems.

a. didn’t have  b. havan’t had

c. might have  d.couldn’t have

06. What is the synonym of “incredible”? 

a. unlikely          b. unthinking 

c. unacceptable d. unbelievable 

07. A fisherman earns his livelihood_____ catching and selling fish.

a. by      b. for

c. at d. in 

08. He dress formally to work but he always ___.

a. Has not to, has 

b. does not have to, does 

c. has got to, would not

d. does not require to, would 

09. The best translation of the sentence- “সমস্যাটি যথাযথভাবে সমাধান করা হয়েছে।”

a. The problem is solved as per direction.

b. The problem is finished properly 

c. The problem has been solved in a befitting manner 

d. The problem is solved in a proper way 

10. It was ___ funny; I ___ stop __.

a. too, cannot, laughing too

b. tpo, had not, to laugh 

c. very, could not, laughing 

d. very, would not, to laugh 

11. “Subterfuge” means-

a. deception   b. smartness

c. very clever d. frank 

12. “Squander” means 

a. improve    b. solve

c. travel d. waste 

13. I am to the town to do some _.

a. coming, working      b. going, shopping 

c. sending, shopping    d. going, buy 

14. They gave me a form and told me to —-

a. fill on       b. fill in it 

c. fill on it    d. fill it in 

15. She tried to be serious, but she couldn’t help-

a. laughing     b. to laugh 

c. laugh          d. that to laugh 

16. You should not take me for______.

a. wanted      b. granted

c. required d. settled 

17. The line’s busy, do you want to ___?

a. hold up       b. hold along

c. hold firm    d. hold on 

18. ‘Epitome’ means

a. very strange 

b. a perfect example of something 

c. beauty 

d. architecture

19. It has been over three centuries __ Shahjahan….. the Tajmahal.

a. ago, build     b. when, has built 

c. since, built   d. years, dreamt 

20. I will write down the phone number ____ I forget

a.if                        b. unless

c. even though d. in case  

21. In the past a large quantity for jute ____ from Bangladesh. 

a. were being exported b. exported

c. was exported                 d. were exported 

22. In ‘I wandered Lonely as a cloud’  The daffodils gave the poet-

a. a great deal of pleasure

b. very pleasure

c. many pleasure

d. much pleasure

23. According to your English text, English is the official or  semiofficial  language in

a. less than 50 countries

b. more than 80 countries

c.  more than 100 countries

d.  more than 60 countries

24. In ‘Ozymandias’ the poet says,  I met a traveler____ an _ land.

a. by, old             b. going, ancient 

c. from, antique d. passing, antique  

25. It is known the Toy Train.

a. popularly, as b. popularly, by

c. popular, at     d. often, from

ANSWERS

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