English

1. Universities should never be made ....... mechanical organizations.

a. into

b. of

c. from

d. by

2. .... is considered to be The Father of Artificial Intelligence .

a. George Boole

b. John McCarthy

c. Alan Turing

d. Allen Newell

3. .... is monetary policy instrument.

a. Tax

b. Open market operation

c. savings

d. fiscal deficit

4. Choose the POS category of the bold faced word : Well , I don't think I will be able to finish this today.

a. preposition

b. interjection

c. adverb

d. adjective

5. The best conjunction to link is ... for joining sentence : (i) I will keep continuing this job (ii) You like it or not

a. when

b. sine

c. otherwise

d. whether

6. The word 'Coffee' originally comes from 'Qahwah' which is a/an ... word.

a. Turkish

b. Arabic

c. Persian

d. French

7. Private property, namely cars is often collateral damage during clashes between rioters and the police. The bold faced phrase is an example of -

a. Simile

b. Euphemism

c. Metonymy

d. Hyperbole

8. The misspelled word is -

a. Idiosyncrasy

b. Personnel

c. Exhilarate

d. Chauffuer

9. Choose the correct form : I had spoken to them about my childhood."

a. I had been speaking to them about my childhood

b. I had been speaking about my childhood to them.

c. I spoken to them my childhood.

d. I spoke to them about my childhood

10. Change the form of speech : They said to him, "Sir, please visit our office today'"

a. They asked him to visit their office today.

b. They requested him respectfully to visit their office that day.

c. They addressed him sir and requested him to visit the office today.

d. They told him humble manner to visit their office that day.

11. Change into passive : 'The city planner is making all the arrangements .'

a. The all arrangements have been made by the city planner .

b. All the arrangements are making by the city planner

c. The all arrangements had been making by the city planner .

d. All the arrangements are being made by the city planner .

12. Choose the best translation : তিনি ইংরেজির একজন বিদগ্ধ অধ্যাপক ।

a. He is an erudite professor of English

b. He is a professor with outstanding knowledge in English

c. He is at home in English

d. He is a professor of English with vast understanding .

13. If Augment : Increase then -

a. Cohesion : Coincide

b. Coalesce : Combine

c. Collapse : Collide

d. Conceal : Concur

14. 'Hercules struck off Hydra's heads with his club.' The bold faced means -

a. to connect

b. to remove

c. to throw

d. to take

15. The synonym of 'Stigma' is -

a. stain

b. benefit

c. esteem

d. exaltation

16. Use the right form of verb : She (to form) quite a picture of Bangladesh before she read this travel book.

a. forms

b. is forming

c. had formed

d. was formed

17. Unlike most other diseases, leprosy .... in isolation.

a. avoids

b. results

c. focuses

d. creates

18. ..... the psychoanalytic perspective ,Freud's theory of dreams suggests that dreams are a representation of unconscious desires.

a. In spite of

b. In order to

c. In terms of

d. Consistent with

19. Translate into Bangla : He has no political axe to grind.

a. তাঁর কোনো জোরালো রাজনৈতিক আদর্শ নেই।

b. তিনি কোনো রাজনৈতিক দলের সমর্থক নন।

c. তিনি কোনো অপরাজনীতির সঙ্গে যুক্ত নন।

d. তাঁর রাজনৈতিক বক্তৃতা খুরধার নয়।

20. If you had come earlier, you would........found a good seat.

a. Have

b. Has

c. Had

d. Was

21. It comes as no Surprise that societies have quotes of behaviour, the character of the codes, on the other hand, can often be......

a. Predicable

b. Unexpected

c. Admirable

d. Explicit

22. The author of the book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is-

a. Salman Rushdie

b. Farah Ahamedi

c. Khaled Hosseini

d. Vikram Seth

23. The quote "All that glitters is not gold" is form which play of Shakespeare?

a. Hamlet

b. The Merchant of Venice

c. Othello

d. Remeo and Juliet

24. I have got a week to finish this,....... is just about long enough.

a. what

b. which

c. that

d. who

25. Which sentence is correct?

a. This is his speaking

b. This is himself speaking

c. This is him speaking

d. This is he speaking

26. 'Who will help you.' The passive from is-

a. By whom will you be helped?

b. By whom would you be helped?

c. By whom you would be helped?

d. By whom you will be helped?

27. I am not good...... translation.

a. about

b. of

c. in

d. at

28. 'Bird's eye view' means-

a. see exhaustively

b. eyes of birds

c. a view of the sky

d. a rough idea

29. Which of the following is a simple sentence?

a. He is week but is a hard worker

b. He is weak and hard worker

c. Is spite of being weak, he works hard

d. Though he is weak, he works hard