Subject English
2901. Choose the meaning of the idiom-
’Take the bull by the horns’:
(a) To challenge the enemy with courage
(b) Force the enemy to submit
(c) out of one’s wit
(d) Surrender before the enemy
Ans. a
2902. Fill in the blank with the correct quantifier.
I still have ___ money.
(a) a few
(b) quite a few
(c) many
(d) a little
Ans. d
2903. Select the right compound structure of the sentence:
”Though he is poor, he is honest”.
(a) He is poor and honest
(b) As he is poor, he is honest
(c) He is poor but honest
(d) Since he is poor, he is honest.
Ans. c
2904. Where do the following lines occur in?
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea ………..”
(a) The Rime of the Ancient Manner
(b) Kubla Khan
(c) The Nightingle
(d) The Dungeon
Ans. a
2905. “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”
This line is written by -
(a) Emily Dicknson
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) John Donne
Ans. d
2906. Fill in the blank:
Tourists ___ their reservations well in advance if they want to fly Cox’s Bazar.
(a) better to had get
(b) had better to get
(c) had better got
(d) had better get
Ans. d
2907. The sun went down. The underlined word is used here as a/an:
(a) preposition
(b) adverb
(c) noun
(d) conjunction
Ans. b
2908. Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’?
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Emest Hamingway
(d) Charles Dickens
Ans. a
2909. The most famous satirist in English literature is-
(a) Jonathan Swift
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Joseph Addison
(d) Richard steel
Ans. a
2910. What is the plural form of the word ‘louse’?
(a) leuses
(b) lice
(c) lices
(d) licess
Ans. b
2911. Which one of the following words is in singular form?
(a) agenda
(b) oases
(c) radius
(d) formulae
Ans. c
2912. Identify the right passive voice of ‘It is impossible to do this’.
(a) Doing this impossible
(b) This is impossible to be done.
(c) This is must be done
(d) This can’t be done
Ans. b
2913. Of the following authors, who wrote as epic?
(a) John Milton
(b) Jane Mansfield
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) William Cowper
Ans. a
2914. The literary term ‘euphemism’ means -
(a) vague idea
(b) in offensive expression
(c) a sonnet
(d) wise saying
Ans. d
2915. ‘Mutton’ is an/an
(a) Common noun
(b) Abstract noun
(c) Material noun
(d) Proper noun
Ans. c
2916. Reading is an excellent habit. Here, the underlined was is a -
(a) Verbal noun
(b) Participle
(c) Verb
(d) Gerund
Ans. d
2917. Which one of the following word is an example of a distributive pronoun?
(a) such
(b) either
(c) that
(d) any
Ans. b
2918. Who is not a Victorian poet?
(a) Mathew Amold
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Rober Browining
(d) Alfred Tennyson
Ans. b
2919. A speech of too many word is called-
(a) A big speech
(b) Maiden speech
(c) An unimportant speech
(d) A verbose speech
Ans. d
2920. ‘Strike while the iron is hot’ is an example of -
(a) Noun clause
(b) Adjective clause
(c) Adverbial clause
(d) Subordinate clause
Ans. c
2921. The play ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ is written by-
(a) Thomas Kyd
(b) Christopher Marlowe
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Ben Johson
Ans. a
2922. Who among the following Indian English writers is a famous novelist?
(a) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(b) R.K. Narayan
(c) Nissim Ezekiel
(d) Kamala Das
Ans. b
2923. The word ‘Panegyric’ means
(a) Criticism
(b) elaborate praise
(c) curse
(d) high sound
Ans. b
2924. Select the correctly spelt word:
(a) heterogeneous
(b) hetarogeneous
(c) hetrogeneous
(d) hetroganeous
Ans. a
2925. ‘Among’ is a preposition that is used when ___ people are involved.
(a) two
(b) more than two
(c) two or more than two
(d) four only
Ans. b