40th BCS questions solution

40th BCS English questions solution

1. Please write to me at the above address. The word 'above' in this sentence is a/an-
A. Noun
B. Adjective
C. Pronoun
D. Adverb

Ans: B

2. In which sentence is the word ‘past’ used as preposition?
A. Writing letters is a thing of the past.
B. I look back on the past without regret.
C. I called out to him as he ran past.
D. Tania was a wonderful singer, but she's past her prime.

Ans: D

3. The word ‘sibling’ means-
A. a brother
B. a sister
C. A brother or sister
D. An infant

Ans: C

4. As she was talking, he suddenly broke- saying, That's a lie!
A. Off
B. In
C. Down
D. Into
Ans: B

5. You may go for a walk if you feel- it.
A. About
B. On
C. Like
D. For
Ans: C

6. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly:
A. Consciencious
B. Perseverance
C. Convalescence
D. Maintenance

Ans: A

7. ‘You look terrific in that dress’
The word ‘terrific’ in the above sentence means-
A. excellent
B. funny
C. very ugly
D. horrible

Ans: A

8. Someone who is capricious is-
A. easily irritated
B. wise and willing to cooperate
C. exceedingly conceited and arrogant
D. know for sudden changes in attitude or behaviour

Ans: D

9. Which one of the following words is masculine?
A. mare
B. Lad
C. Pillow
D. Pony

Ans: B

10. A man whose wife has died is called a -
A. Window
B. Widower
C. Spinster
D. Bachelor

Ans: B

11. Which word is similar to ‘ appal’?
A. deceive
B. confuse
C. dismay
D. solicit

Ans: C

12. Which Word means the opposite of ‘ dearth’?
A. lack
B. abundance
C. poverty
D. shortage

Ans: B

13. Identify the word which remains the same in its plural form:
A. aircraft
B. intention
C. mouse
D. thesis

Ans: A


14. Identify the determiner in the following sentence:
‘I have no news for you.'
A. have
B. news
C. no
D. for

Ans: C

15. A lost opportunity never returns. Here lost is a -
A. gerund
B. verbal noun
C. gerund infinitive
D. participle

Ans: D

16. The saying‘ enough is enough’ is used when you want-
A. something to continue
B. something to stop
C. something to continue until it's enough
D. to tell instructions are clear

Ans: B

17. ‘He ran with great speed’. The underlined part of the sentence is a-
A. noun phrase
B. adverb phrase
C. adjective phrase
D. participle phrase
Ans: B

18. We must not be late, else we will miss the train. This is a-
A. compound sentence
B. complex sentence
C. simple sentence
D. interrogative sentence

Ans: A

19. Change the voice: Who is calling me?
A. By whom an I called?
B. By whom I am called?
C. By whom am I being called?
D. Whom am I called?
Ans: C

20. An extra message added at the end of a letter after it is signed is called-
A. corrigendum
B. postscript
C. NB
D. RSVP

Ans: B

21. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is a/an -
A. epic
B. ballad
C. mock-heroic poem
D. elegy

Ans: C

22. Which of the following is not an American poet?
A. Robert Frost
B. W.B  Yeats
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Langston Hughes

Ans: B

23. William Shakespeare was born in-
A. 1616
B. 1664
C. 1564
D. 1493

Ans: C

24. Tennyson ‘In Memoriam’ is an elegy on the death of -
A. John Milton
B. John Keats
C. Arthur Henry Hallam
D. Sydney Smith

Ans: C

25. ‘Sweet Helen’ make me immortal with a kiss.' The sentence has been taken from the play-
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. Caesar and Cleopatra
C. Doctor Faustus
D. Antony and Cleopatra

Ans: C

26. ‘What's in name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet’_
A. Juliet
B. Romeo
C. Portia
D. Rosalind

Ans: A

27. ‘Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, Tis women's whole existence.'_ This is taken from the poem of_
A. P.B. Shelley
B. Lord Byron
C. John Keats
D. Edmund Spenser

Ans: B

28. Who translated the ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into English?
A. Thomas Carlyle
B. Edward Fitzgerald
C. D.G. Rossetti
D. William Thackeray

Ans: B

29. ‘Ulysses’ is a novel written by_
A. Joseph Conrad
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles Dickens
D. James Joyce

Ans: D

30. The short story ‘The Diamond Necklace’ was written by_
A. Guy Dr Maupassant
B. O Henry
C. Somerset Maugham
D. George Orwell

Ans: A

31. ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’_Who said this?
A. Macbeth
B. Lady Macbeth
C. Lady Macduff
D. Macduff

Ans: B

32. ‘Where are the songs of spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.’_ Who wrote this?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Robert Browning
C. John Keats
D. Samuel Coleridge

Ans: C

33. Who is the central character of ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte?
A. Mr. Earnshaw
B. Catherine
C. Heathcliff
D. Hindley Earnshaw

Ans: C

34. ‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new.’_ This line is extracted from Tennyson's poem_
A. The Lotos-Eaters
B. Tithonus
C. Locksley Hall
D. Morte d' Arthur
Ans: D

35. Who wrote the poem ‘The Good-Morrow’?
A. George Herbert
B. Andrew Marvell
C. John Donne
D. Henry Vaughan

Ans: C