37th BCS Preliminary MCQ Question solution

English

1. Which of the following Word in singular form? – Radius
2. Choose the Correct sentence – All of it depends on you.
3. A rolling stone gathers no moss’ the complex form of the sentence is: – A stone that rolls gathers no moss.
4. A chart was appended to the report. Here appended means – joined
5. The mother sat vigilantly beside the sick baby. Here vigilantly is: – adverb
6. The new offer of job was alluring. Here alluring means – tempting
7. ‘Who planted this tree here?’ The correct passive voice of this sentence is – By whom the tree was planted here?
8. Frailty the name is women. Here Frailty is: – a noun
9. Education is enlightening. Here enlightening is: – a participle
10. Choose the appropriate prepositions in the blank of the following sentence: The family doesn’t feel __________ going outing this season. —– like
11. Fill in the blank with appropriate use of tense: I couldn’t mend the computer myself, so I _________ at a shop. — had it mended

12. Use the appropriate article, I saw ______________ one eyed man when I was walking on the road – a
    13. The word ‘Omnivorous’ means – eating all types of food
    14. Complete the following sentence choosing the appropriate option: it’s raining cats and dogs, so ——-make sure you take an umbrella
    15. The phrase ‘Achilles’ heel means – a weak point
    16. He worked with all sincerity. The underlined phrase is: – an adverbial phrase
    17. This is the book I lost. Here ‘I lost’ is – an adjective clause
    18. Which do you think is the nearest in meaning to ‘proviso’ – sanction
    19. Cassandra is a night owl, so she doesn’t usually get up until about: -11a.m
    20. Select the word that is the most closely opposite in meaning to the capitalized word: DELETERIOUS – harmless
    21. ‘Gerontion’ is poem by- T. S Eliot
    22. Fill in the blank. ‘_’is Shakespeare’s last play. – The Tempest
    23. Who has written the poem ‘Elegy Written in a country Churchyard’? – Thomas Gray
    24. Who has written the play Volpone? – Ben Jonson
    25. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse? Iambic pentameter
    26. The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as: – Alliteration
    27. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition? – The Occult
    28. What is a funny poem of five lines called? – Limerick
    29. who wrote the” Biographia Literaria”? – S. T. Coleridge
    30. Robert Browning was a _________ poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word. – Victorian Poet
    31. Othello gave Desdemona _______ as a token of love – a Handkerchief
    32. P.B. Shelley’s ‘Adonais’ is an elegy on the death of– John Keats
    33. The comparison of unlike things using the words like on as is known to be – simile
    34. ‘Restoration period’ in English literature refers to – 1660
    35. ‘The sun also rises’; is a novel written by -Earnest Hemingway