1. Identify appropriate words for the blank in the sentence---- 'We supposed the principal---

a. a gentleman
b. as a gentleman
c. to be a gentleman
d. is a gentleman

2. The passive form of the sentences 'Fortune favors the brave' is---

a. The brave is favored by fortune
b. The brave were favored by fortune
c. The brave are favored by fortue
d. The brave was favored by fortune

3. what is the most appropriate word for the blank in the following sentence: 'One who creates fear as a weapon for power is a----

a. terrorist
b. militant
c. extremist
d. anarchist

4. In which of following sentences ' with' has been correctly used?

a. I am cross with you
b. He was trembling with anxiety
c. He was angry with me
d. He was affectionate with me

5. Choose the opposite in meaning of the word 'arrogant'

a. insolent
b. proud
c. rude
d. meek

6. Noun of the word 'brief' is---

a. Shortness
b. briefly
c. brevity
d. none of these

7. which one is the correct sentence?

a. let him and you be witnesses
b. Let you and him be witnesses
c. Let you and he be witnesses
d. Let he and you be wit senses

8. what is the meaning of the word ' Intrepid'--

a. Belligerent
b. Questioning
c. Fearless
d. Arrogant

9. The expression 'out and out' means---

a. not at all
b. whole heartedly
c. thoroughly
d. consists of

10. Choose the appropriate expression for the blank in the following sentence: 'A cricket team --- eleven players'

a. made of
b. includes
c. contains
d. consists of

11. Identify the plural word in the following sentence: 'The report on the issue contain data from a secondary source'

a. report
b. issue
c. data
d. source

12. Which sentence is correct ?

a. He is as good as mine
b. He is as good as me
c. He is as good as myself
d. He is as good as I

13. veni, vidi, vici' this quotation is from Shakespeare's---

a. Hamlet
b. Othello
c. Merchant of Venice
d. Julius Caesar

14. what is the correct preposition to be used in the following sentence is 'The ambassador called ----------- the president '.

a. at
b. in
c. on
d. none of them

15. .Instead of ' continue' which word may be used?

a. carry out
b. carry on
c. carry of
d. carry away

16. verb of the word 'false' is ---

a. falsify
b. falsehood
c. falsity
d. none of them

17. Adjective of the word ' joy' is---

a. joyous
b. enjoy
c. jolly
d. joyful

18. 'To take somebody for a cruising' means--

a. to provide entertainment
b. to provide or humiliate a person
c. to keep company
d. to exploit a person

19. What is the correct preposition in the sentence ' The case is--- trail'

a. on
b. at
c. under
d. for

20. Antonym of 'inimical' is--

a. angry
b. hostile
c. friendly
d. indifferent

21. what is the meaning of the word'refract'?

a. repeat
b. to bend
c. split
d. reduce

22. what is the meaning of the word ' putsch'?

a. baby bear
b. sweet biscuit
c. spoiled food
d. a political overthrow

23. The opposite word of ' dismay'---

a. anguish
b. understanding
c. joy
d. satisfaction

24. Find out the correct indirect form of the following direct sentence: Karim said , " I must go home"

a. Karim said that he will have to go home
b. Karim said that he shall have to go home
c. Karim said that he shall have to go home
d. Karim said that he must go home

25. which of the following sentence is correct ?

a. Samad was hanged for murder
b. Samas has been hanged for murder
c. Samad had been hanged for murder
d. Samad is hanged for murder

26. Fill in the blank with the correct phrase: '----- your shoes before entering the mosque'.

a. put off
b. put away
c. put out
d. put aside

27. choose the correct preposition to fill in the blank: 'The tree has been blown ------ by the storm'.

a. away
b. off
c. out
d. up

28. what is the verb of the word 'shortly' ?

a. shorter
b. shortly
c. shorten
d. shortness

29. 'To kick the bucket' means to---

a. quarrel
b. die
c. neglect
d. begin

30. what is the correct synonym of 'isolation'?

a. seperation
b. depression
c. loneliness
d. aloofness

31. which of the following is correct?

a. Do you know where does he lives?
b. Do you know where he lives?
c. Do you know where he has been living?
d. Do you know where he is living?

32. 'Frequency' is---

a. adjective
b. noun
c. adverb
d. verb

33. which of the following words is misspelt?

a. belief
b. deciet
c. preview
d. receive

34. 'Dog days' means--

a. a period of being care-free
b. hot weather
c. a period of misfortune
d. a time when dogs roam the street

35. ' Boot leg' means--

a. Import
b. Export
c. Distribution
d. Smuggle

36. The antonym of 'atheist' is--

a. agnostic
b. idealist
c. believer
d. non-believer

37. A fact is said to be not ---- when it is neither proved nor disproved.

a. false
b. existing
c. proved
d. true

38. The Sunderbans is a---

a. social forest
b. rain forest
c. mangrove forest
d. tropical forest

39. What is the meaning of the phrase 'to make good'?

a. to help others
b. to do good works
c. to compensate
d. to gain something

40. point out the synonym of the word 'abolish'

a. perform
b. create
c. cancel
d. generate

41. Which one is the incorrect sentence?

a. The thief robbed me of my money
b. He behaved in a cowardly manner
c. He resembles to his father
d. Look up the word in the dictionary

42. 'Betting' on a cricket match is a---

a. wagering contract
b. contingent cntract
c. voidable contract
d. lawful contract

43. Which one is always used as singular?

a. staff
b. horse
c. bread
d. custom

44. which one is the simple sentence ?

a. I know the place where he lives
b. It is the place where he lives
c. I know the place of his living
d. I know this place as he lives here.

45. judge found him guilty---- murder.

a. for
b. with
c. of
d. against

46. what is the plural form of 'wolf'?

a. wolfs
b. wolfes
c. wolves
d. none

47. penny wise pound---

a. poor
b. rich
c. callous
d. foolish

48. 'He is out and out corrupt' means---

a. he is out of corruption
b. he is outwardly corrupt
c. he is corrupt to the backbone
d. he is tolerably corrupt

49. Sonia has been sick ----- two months.

a. from
b. for
c. since
d. about

50. 'Value judgement' means--

a. valuable judgement
b. judgement about price
c. famous judgement
d. judgement based on personal views

51. Father put --- some amount of money for the education of his daughter.

a. up
b. aside
c. into
d. on

52. 'Heterogeneous' means---

a. equally generous
b. not generous
c. dissimilar
d. similar

53. what is the verb of the word 'ability'?

a. capable
b. inability
c. unable
d. enable

54. What is the meaning of the phrase 'to make good'?

a. to help others
b. to do good works
c. to compensate
d. to gain something

55. point out the synonym of the word 'abolish'

a. perform
b. create
c. cancel
d. generate

56. Which one is the incorrect sentence?

a. The thief robbed me of my money
b. He behaved in a cowardly manner
c. He resembles to his father
d. Look up the word in the dictionary

57. 'Betting' on a cricket match is a---

a. wagering contract
b. contingent cntract
c. voidable contract
d. lawful contract

58. which one is the simple sentence ?

a. I know the place where he lives
b. It is the place where he lives
c. I know the place of his living
d. I know this place as he lives here.

59. judge found him guilty---- murder.

a. for
b. with
c. of
d. against

60. what is the plural form of 'wolf'?

a. wolfs
b. wolfes
c. wolves
d. none

61. penny wise pound---

a. poor
b. rich
c. callous
d. foolish

62. Father put --- some amount of money for the education of his daughter.

a. up
b. aside
c. into
d. on

63. 'Heterogeneous' means---

a. equally generous
b. not generous
c. dissimilar
d. similar

64. what is the verb of the word 'ability'?

a. capable
b. inability
c. unable
d. enable

65. The word 'anathema' means--

a. detested person of thing
b. poison
c. imprisonment
d. short musical composition

66. The meaning of the word 'antiquated' is--

a. very old
b. ridiculous
c. out of date
d. absurd

67. Try to fill --- the cracks first.

a. up
b. in
c. against
d. about

68. She has great fondness----- classical music.

a. of
b. for
c. in
d. with

69. Over-work will tell --- your health.

a. upon
b. about
c. across
d. off

70. It is difficult to part--- a long - held belief.

a. from
b. for
c. up
d. with

71. 'Allegation' means--

a. accusation
b. rebuke
c. disapproval
d. statement made without proof

72. The synonym for 'corrective' is---

a. righteous
b. preventive
c. prohibitive
d. remedial

73. 'Circumvent' means--

a. prevent
b. limit
c. find a way of overcoming or avoiding
d. oppose

74. A fall guy is--

a. a silly person
b. one who has been betrayed
c. a scapegoat
d. an irresponsible person

75. 'proscribe' means--

a. advise
b. seize
c. take into custody
d. prohibit

76. 'At one go ' means--

a. at once
b. in one single attempt
c. losing no more time
d. extremely fast

77. 'Cataclysm' means--

a. disorder
b. anarchy
c. violence
d. sudden violent change of disaster

78. 'Look over' means--

a. ignore
b. examine closely
c. neglect
d. choose

79. "Cupboard love' is--

a. flattery
b. open love
c. show of affection
d. feckless love

80. 'Cry wolf' means---

a. give a false alarm
b. bare one's teeth
c. clear the road
d. show anger

81. 'pass for' means---

a. appear to be
b. allow
c. brush aside
d. qualify

82. 'Run counter to' means--

a. disobey
b. rebel
c. remove
d. contradict

83. The word 'inept' means the same as--

a. unlucky
b. careless
c. disorganized
d. incompetent

84. The word mar is--

a. an adjective
b. a noun
c. a verb
d. an adverb

85. choose the best option to complete the sentence: If you lose your credit card........

a. you had to ring the bank
b. you have to ring the bank
c. you must to ring the bank
d. you should be ring the bank

86. Choose the best option to complete the sentence: Rony was listening to music.....

a. as sitting in a traffic jam
b. when sitting in a traffic jam
c. by sitting in a traffic jam
d. while sitting in a traffic jam

87. what is the correct preposition ? Don't lean --- the wall.

a. over
b. into
c. of
d. against

88. what is the correct preposition ? He refused to be a party --- any violence.

a. to
b. for
c. of
d. at

89. `The die is cast means--

a. the death news is boadcast
b. somebody escaped his death
c. the decision that can be changed
d. the decision that can not be changed

90. Live and let live means--

a. to become friendly to other people
b. to accept other people's opinions
c. to unite and stand together
d. to struggle for survival and peace

91. Which sentence is incorrect?

a. How a good man he is!
b. How good man is he!
c. What a good man is he!
d. What a good man he is!

92. A greenhorn is a person who has---

a. much experience
b. best experience
c. no experience
d. little experienous

93. Which word is spelt correctly?

a. jepardy
b. jeopardy
c. geopardy
d. jepaddy

94. Give the antonym of impromptu---

a. extempore
b. spontaneous
c. rehearsed
d. natural

95. The synonym of misappropriate is--

a. inappropriate
b. embezzle
c. miscalculate
d. misgiving

96. ২০১২ সালে আন্তর্জাতিক শান্তি দিবসের প্রতিপাদ্য কি?

a. Sustainable Development Sustainable Peace.
b. Sustainable Development for Sustainable Future.
c. Sustainable peace for a Sustainable Future.
d. None Of the above.

97. Choose the best option to complete the sentence : I look forward to -----

a. meet you soon
b. meeting you soon
c. have met you soon
d. be meeting you soon

98. Choose the best option to complete the sentence : Telling lies--- a great sin.

a. is
b. are
c. have
d. highly

99. What are the correct prepositions? He had a need -----and an interest -----athletics.

a. of, for
b. to, at
c. for, in
d. with, for

100. Double Jeopardy means------

a. Judicating twice
b. Duplicate issue
c. Double zero
d. Double Standard

101. Mens Legis means-----

a. Mens rea
b. Legal status of the men
c. Purpose of a law
d. Preamble of a law

102. Plural number of ultimatum is -----

a. ultimate
b. ultimata
c. ultimator
d. ultimates

103. The phrase functus officio means -----

a. officiating
b. functional office
c. functional authority
d. having no further authority

104. Change the narration of the sentence : What do you want?

a. What is wanted by you?
b. Let what be wanted by you.
c. What has been wanted by you?
d. What was being wanted by you?

105. He started early. Here early is ----

a. adjective
b. adverb
c. noun
d. pronoun

106. All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players; Poet of the poem is :

a. John Keats
b. William Shakespeare
c. John Milton
d. William Wordsworth

107. Convert the sentence into a simple one : He said that he was innocent.

a. He published his innocence.
b. He expressed his innocence .
c. He told his innocence.
d. He declared his innocence.

108. What is the synonym of the word relax----

a. deluxe
b. swindle
c. unwind
d. freewind

109. What is the antonym of the word baggy-----

a. foggy
b. load
c. loose
d. tight

110. Which 'up' is adverb?

a. Our system should be up by the noon.
b. They live up in the mountains.
c. The up train will come soon.
d. We had our ups and downs of fortune

111. Phrase 'amicus curiae' means -----

a. an americus dream
b. a senior Advocate
c. a friend of the Court
d. an arbitrator

112. She dreams ---running her own business. Choose the right word to fill in the gap :

a. in
b. by
c. to
d. of

113. Opposite gender of 'lady' is ----

a. baroness
b. lord
c. duchess
d. laddie

114. 'Tajmahal ' is a ---

a. monument
b. castle
c. tower
d. mansion

115. 'Justice delayed is justice denied.' was stated by ----

a. Disrael
b. Emerson
c. Gladstone
d. Shakespeare

116. A person who writes and edits dictionaries is called a -----

a. lexicographer
b. laryngographer
c. lithographer
d. topographer

117. 'Frailty, the name is woman!' is a quotation from---

a. Shakespeare
b. Bacon
c. Fielding
d. Jane Austen

118. O. Henry is famous for ----

a. novel
b. poem
c. drama
d. short story

119. 'azure' means ----

a. red
b. blue
c. yellow
d. black

120. What is the verb of the word 'guest'?

a. guestify
b. entertain
c. hospitality
d. hospitalize

121. The correct passive form of 'People always remember the patriots.' is ----

a. The patriots are always remembered.
b. The patriots are always being remembered.
c. People are always remembered by the patriots.
d. The patriots will always be remembered by people.

122. Pick up the antonym of the word 'jovial'.

a. jolly
b. cheery
c. gloomy
d. friendly

123. 'Do or die.' is a ---

a. simple sentence
b. compound sentence
c. complex sentence
d. phrase

124. What is the meaning of the phrase "sine die"?

a. for a certain period
b. for an uncertain period
c. for a short time
d. None of the above

125. How do you do? is --

a. an enquiry about somebody's health
b. merely a formal greeting
c. a formal question when one meets one's friend
d. used to know the professional of a person

126. Who quoted "Justice is truth in action"?

a. William Penn
b. Benjamin Disraeli
c. Confucius
d. Burke

127. "Excuse me, gentlemen!"--"Excuse me" is used to --

a. apologise
b. draw attention
c. beg pardon
d. express disgust

128. Which one of the following has the correct spelling?

a. Encyclopadia
b. Encyclopaedia
c. Encyclopideia
d. Encyclopeydia

129. Behave (as a gentleman behaves). The bracket part is -

a. an adverb clause
b. an adjective clause
c. a noun clause
d. a principal clause

130. The correct spelling of the noun of "maintain" is -

a. maintainance
b. maintenance
c. maintinance
d. maintenence

131. Othello gave Desdemona --- as a token of love.

a. Ring
b. Handkerchief
c. Pendant
d. Bengals

132. The word "ostensible owner" refers to-

a. Owner of property by the decree of the court
b. Owner of property by one person actually purchased by another member of the family
c. Owner of the property being unborn person
d. Ownership by way of feeding the grant by estoppel

133. "res ipsa loquitur" means ---

a. The things speaks for itself.
b. The man speaks for itself.
c. The property speaks for itself.
d. The circumstance speaks for itself.

134. ”Paradise lost" is

a. Short story
b. Epic poem
c. Play
d. Lyrical poem

135. Who wrote this famous line, 'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought"?

a. P.B.Shelley
b. Shakespeare
c. Jonn Keats
d. Robert Frost

136. Wordsworth's 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' is about__

a. Roses
b. Cherries
c. Maples
d. Daffodils

137. Identify the correct passive form of 'fortune favours the brave'

a. The brave is favoured by fortune.
b. The brave was favoured by fortune .
c. The brave were favoured by fortune.
d. The brave are favoured by fortune.

138. The saying ' Enough is enough ' is used to mean _

a. something to stop
b. something to continue
c. to stop behaving badly
d. instructions are clear

139. A cock crews but a crow _

a. coos
b. caws
c. lows
d. bleats

140. Making a good result in the exam needs a lot of hard work. Here 'making ' is a __

a. present participle
b. pronoun
c. adjective
d. gerund

141. Times have changed and so __

a. I have
b. I had
c. Had I
d. Have I

142. The expression 'Voir Dire' means _

a. telling the truth
b. lying in the court
c. evidence of the witness
d. speaking lies

143. We want to take legal action against the hoodlum. Here in this sentence 'to' is a/an__

a. Adverb
b. Infinitive maker
c. Preposition
d. Conjunction

144. 'Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be believed' - who said this?

a. Martin Luther King
b. Seamus Heancy
c. J. B. Morton
d. James Mathew

145. Who said. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever?

a. John Keats
b. P. B. Shelley
c. Robert Frost
d. Auden

146. 'Animal Farm' was written by-

a. George Eliot
b. George Orwell
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Thomas Hardy

147. was debarred from.........examination.

a. taking
b. appearing
c. sitting
d. giving

148. What does this Latin Expression 'ie.' stand for?

a. ideal energy
b. inner edge
c. id est
d. it east

149. Working in the morning is good for health. Here 'working' is a/an -

a. pronoun
b. present participle
c. gerund
d. adjective

150. It is time to go home. Here 'home' is a/an.

a. noun
b. adverb
c. adjective
d. pronoun

151. 'Known secret' is an example of -

a. open secret
b. oxymoron
c. romanticism
d. Nazism

152. The phrasal verb 'write off' means-

a. ending a letter
b. cancelling a debt
c. reducing rates
d. ending of writing

153. Who says, 'If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers'?

a. Benjamin Franklin
b. Charles Dickens
c. Theodore Roosevelt
d. Stephen Breyer

154. ‘To err is human to forgive , divine’ who says_

a. Alexander Pope
b. Shakespeare
c. Wordsworth
d. Shelley

155. Who is the writer of the play 'Waiting for Godot ?

a. F. Bacon
b. T. Hardy
c. A. Pope
d. S. Beckett

156. Who quoted ‘’It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer''?

a. William Blackstone
b. Cesare Beccaria
c. John Selden
d. T.H. White

157. The movement of the Rohingya people in Bangladesh away from Myanmar is_

a. diatonic
b. ethnic cleansing
c. diaspora
d. diatribe

158. ‘To have a screw loose’ means_

a. be slightly eccentric
b. be lightly tied
c. be slightly lose
d. be a bit wrong

159. The Lawmakers had to be escorted to safety by the police. Here the second ‘to’ is a/an_

a. noun
b. preposition
c. adverb
d. infinitive maker

160. The word ‘nuptial’ is related to_

a. Mars
b. Earth
c. wedding
d. Lunatic

161. What does the Latin expression ‘et alia’ mean?

a. you are
b. and others
c. warrant
d. yours faithfully

162. Choose the world which means ‘the killing of ones wife’

a. uxoricide
b. parricide
c. herbicide
d. homicide

163. Which is the best example of 'palindrome' in the following ?

a. Nurses run
b. You go
c. Players play
d. 12225

164. ‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.’ - This quote is taken from Shakespearean play titled_

a. Hamlet
b. Macbeth
c. M King Lear
d. Othello

165. ‘Revenge is a Kind of wild justice’. who said this ?

a. William Gladstone
b. William Shakespeare
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Francis Bacon

166. 'he prayeth best, who Lobeth best-all things both great and small; … this extract is quoted from the poem of-

a. William Wordsworth
b. L P. B. Shelley
c. M S . T. Coleridge
d. N Lord Byron

167. ‘Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law’. The speaker of this quote is-

a. Oliver goldsmith
b. William Gladstone
c. Aristotle
d. Socrates

168. ‘Nausea’ is written by -

a. Jean-Paul Sartre
b. Samuel Beckett
c. Franz Kafka
d. Albert Camus

169. ‘To strive, to seek, to find , and not to yield’ What is the suitable antonym of ‘yield’ in this context?

a. surrender
b. resist
c. disobey
d. succumb

170. We pine… what is not.

a. of
b. at
c. for
d. with

171. He works his work, I mine. Here ‘mine’ is a -

a. relative pronoun
b. possessive pronoun
c. possessive adjective
d. none of them

172. ‘She’s very sprightly for her age.' The word ‘sprightly’ is a/an-

a. adjective
b. adverb
c. verb
d. noun

173. ‘To err is human. ’Change the above sentence into negative without changing meaning .

a. To err is not human
b. To err is beyond humanity
c. No man is free from error
d. No man is not free from error

174. Fill in the blank by identifying the correct option: “How did you get ___ at the interview?”

a. over
b. on
c. into
d. with

175. In Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", Hamlet was the prince of ____

a. Norway
b. Denmark
c. France
d. Britain

176. “Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are ______.”

a. very sweet
b. sweeter
c. sweetening
d. the sweetest

177. cannot part ___ my pen.

a. from
b. without
c. with
d. out

178. He is so dishonest that he cannot speak the truth'. Identify the correct simple form of the sentence from the following options.

a. He is very dishonest to speak the truth
b. He is too dishonest that he cannot speak the truth
c. He is too dishonest to be spoken the truth
d. He is too dishonest to speak the truth

179. Let justice (to do) though the heavens fall. Choose the correct word/words for the bracket in the sentence.

a. to do
b. have done
c. be done
d. do

180. ‘Frailty, thy name is woman’. Here 'thy' is a/an-

a. reflexive pronoun
b. possessive pronoun
c. possessive adjective
d. adverb

181.


'I shall help you provided you obey me'. Here provided is a/an

a. verb
b. adjective
c. adverb
d. conjunction

182. "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy," lago said to Othello. Choose the correct indirect speech of the above sentence:

a. Iago addressed Othello respectfully as his lord and told him to beware of jealousy.
b. Iago advised Othello that he was beware of jealousy.
c. Iago said to Othello to beware of jealousy.
d. Addressing Othello as his lord, Iago proposed that they should beware of jealousy.

183. Which is the first Harry Potter book?

a. Harry Potter and the God of Small Things
b. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret
c. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
d. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

184. The antonym of 'dearth' is ______

a. poverty
b. dear
c. abundance
d. lack

185. What is the meaning of the word 'euphemism'?

a. inoffensive expression
b. wise saying
c. verbal play
d. vague idea

186. I need to find out whose pen this is. Here 'whose' is a/an-

a. Possessive pronoun
b. Relative pronoun
c. Adjective pronoun
d. Possessive adjective

187. Find out the noun that has the identical singular and plural form-

a. dice
b. memento
c. bacterium
d. alumnus

188. "The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine;" -Locate the quote-

a. The Rape of the Lock
b. An Essay on Criticism
c. Essay on Man
d. The Dunciad

189. "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. "-Who said this?

a. Blaise Pascal.
b. Mahatma Gandhi.
c. Winston Churchill
d. Benjamin Disraeli

190. Who is the writer of the book 'Robinson Crusoe'?

a. John Keats
b. Charles Dickens
c. John Milton
d. Daniel Defoe