45th BCS Preliminary

[Exam date: May 19, 2023]

1. She insisted on _ leaving the house.

(A) he
(B) him
(C) himself
(D) his

2. The phrase ‘Achilles heel’ means—

(A) a strong point
(B) a strong solution
(C) a weak point
(D) a permanent solution

3. He does not adhere __ any principle.

(A) by
(B) in
(C) at
(D) to

4. Millennium is a period of—

(A) 100 year
(B) 1000 year
(C) 1 million year
(D) 1 billion year

5. Identify the passive form of the following sentence: “Who has broken this Jug?”

(A) By whom has this Jug been broken?
(B) By whom has this Jug broken?
(C) By whom this Jug has been broken?
(D) Whom has this Jug been broken?

6. Who is not a Victorian Poet?

(A) Alfred Tennyson
(B) Robert Browning
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) Matthew Arnold

7. Which of the following novels was written by George Orwell?

(A) 1984
(B) Brave New World
(C) A Clockwork Orange
(D) For Whom the Bell Tolls

8. Identify the correct sentence:

(A) She speaks English like English
(B) She speaks the English like English
(C) She speaks the English like the English
(D) She speaks English like the English

9. When one makes a promise, one must not go ________ on it.

(A) forward
(B) back
(C) by
(D) around

10. I can’t put up with him anymore. Here, “put up with” means:

(A) To protect
(B) To terminate
(C) To tolerate
(D) To prevent

11. The poem “To His Coy Mistress” was written by—

(A) Andrew Marvell
(B) John Donne
(C) George Herbert
(D) Henry Vaughan

12. The synonym of ‘altitude’ is—

(A) height
(B) width
(C) length
(D) depth

13. The character, Elizabeth Bennet, appears in the novel—

(A) Pride and Prejudice
(B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Jane Eyre

14. This could have worked if I _ been more far-sighted.

(A) have
(B) had
(C) might
(D) would

15. What may be considered courteous in one culture may be arrogant in another. Here the word “arrogant” means—

(A) rude
(B) gracious
(C) coarse
(D) pretentious

16. Don Juan was composed by—

(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) E. B. Browning
(C) George Gordon Byron
(D) Alexander Pope

17. Identify the imperative sentence:

(A) Shut up!
(B) Shahin is playing football.
(C) I shall cook dinner now.
(D) What is your name?

18. “Black Death” is the name of a—

(A) fever
(B) black fever
(C) plague pandemic
(D) death of black people

19. ‘Ulysses’ is a poem written by—

(A) Robert Browning
(B) Wordsworth
(C) S. T. Coleridge
(D) Alfred Tennyson

20. Who wrote the poem ‘Ozymandias’?

(A) Thomas Hardy
(B) Robert Frost
(C) P. B. Shelley
(D) Edmund Spenser

21. Clym Yeobright is the protagonist of the novel—

(A) David Copperfield
(B) Adam Bede
(C) A Passage to India
(D) The Return of the Native

22. The train is running __ forty miles an hour.

(A) on
(B) to
(C) at
(D) for

23. He divided the money __ the two children.

(A) between
(B) over
(C) among
(D) in between

24. No one can ______ that he is clever.

(A) defy
(B) deny
(C) admire
(D) denounce

25. Choose the right form of verb: The boy (to lie) on the floor yesterday.

(A) lies
(B) lied
(C) lay
(D) layed

26. She played on the flute. Passive form is—

(A) The flute was played by her.
(B) The flute was played on by her.
(C) The flute was played to her.
(D) The flute was being played by her.

27. Antonym for Adieu—

(A) Farewell
(B) Good bye
(C) Hello
(D) Valediction

28. ‘Walk fast lest you should miss the train’. This is a—

(A) Simple sentence
(B) Compound sentence
(C) Complex sentence
(D) Interrogative sentence

29. A number of singers in a church is called—

(A) Choir
(B) Cast
(C) Claque
(D) Clump

30. Put the right word in the blank: “He reached the _________ of his literary career.”

(A) abattoir
(B) acme
(C) admonish
(D) abdicate

31. Anger may be compared ______ fire.

(A) to
(B) within
(C) against
(D) into

32. Choose the correct sentence:

(A) He discussed the matter.
(B) He discussed about the matter.
(C) He discussed on the matter.
(D) None of the above

33. Identify the correctly spelt word.

(A) Horroscope
(B) Pneumonia
(C) Occassion
(D) Embarass

34. Desdemona is a character in the following Shakespearean play:

(A) Macbeth
(B) Othello
(C) Hamlet
(D) King Lear

35. Meteorology is related to—

(A) concrete slabs
(B) motor vehicles
(C) weather forecasting
(D) motor neuron disease

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