English Lab with AAA

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Asif Al Azam

49th Special BCS
10.10.2025
01. Choose the synonym for ‘fright’:
(a) placidity
(b) composure
(c) apprehension
(d) equanimity
Ans: (c) apprehension
Explanation: Apprehension means fear or anxiety, which is synonymous with fright.

02. ‘After lunch we went on a leisurely stroll’. Here “Leisure” is a/an:
(a) adverb
(b) adjective
(c) noun
(d) conjunction
Ans: (b) adjective
Explanation: “Leisurely” describes the manner of the stroll — a slow and relaxed walk — so it acts as an adjective, not a noun.

03. Pick the correctly spelt word:
(a) conscintious
(b) Consientious
(c) concientious
d) conscientious
Ans: (d) conscientious
Explanation: Correct spelling meaning careful and responsible.

04. Who wrote ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’?
(a) Claire Clairmont
(b) Mary Wollstonecraft
(c) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
(d) Mary Shelley
Ans: (b) Mary Wollstonecraft
Explanation: She wrote the pioneering feminist work in 1792.

05. Fill in the blanks: ‘Selina knocked it ----- the park...’
(a) outside
(b) out of
(c) inside
d) off
Ans: (b) out of
Explanation: The idiom knock it out of the park means to perform excellently.

06. Which sentence is correct?
(a) The picture was hanged on the wall
(b) The picture was hung on the wall
(c) The picture was hunged on the wall
(d) The picture had hanged on the wall
Ans: (b) The picture was hung on the wall
Explanation: Hung is used for objects; hanged is for people.

07. ‘They talked about going on a vacation.’ Here ‘going’ is a/an:
(a) Participle
(b) infinitive
(c) verbal noun
(d) gerund
Ans: (d) gerund
Explanation: Going acts as a noun, object of about.

08. A person who leaves his/her own country to settle permanently in another is called a/an:
(a) Immigrant
(b) expatriate
(c) emigrant
(d) migrant
Ans: (c) emigrant
Explanation: Emigrant refers to one who leaves their own country.

09. Someone sneezed loudly at the back of the hall: the verb ‘sneezed’ is:
(a) causative
(b) intransitive
(c) transitive
(d) factitive
Ans: (b) intransitive
Explanation: Sneeze doesn’t take an object.

10. The idiom ‘icing on the cake’ means –
(a) a slice of the cake
(b) an attractive but unnecessary addition
(c) an attractive service
(d) an attractive and essential enhancement
Ans: (b) an attractive but unnecessary addition
Explanation: It means something extra that improves a good situation.

11. “We know that the earth is a planet.” The underlined part is:
(a) noun clause
(b) adverbial clause
(c) adjective clause
(d) principal clause
Ans: (a) noun clause
Explanation: It functions as the object of know.

12. ‘Rubaiyat of Khayyam’ is attributed to —
(a) Edward FitzGerald
(b) Scott Fitzgerald
(c) Thomas Fitzgerald
(d) William Fitzgerald
Ans: (a) Edward FitzGerald
Explanation: He translated Omar Khayyam’s verses into English.

13. The play ‘Englishmen for My Money’ was written by —
(a) Christopher Marlowe
(b) Thomas Kyd
c) William Haughton
(d) Ben Johnson
Ans: (c) William Haughton
Explanation: He wrote this Elizabethan comedy in 1598.

14. Select the sentence in which ‘better’ is an adverb:
(a) We’re hoping for better weather tomorrow
(b) Sound travels better in water than in air
(c) It’s hard to decide which one is better
(d) He joined the gym to better his health
Ans: (b) Sound travels better in water than in air
Explanation: Better modifies the verb travels, so it’s an adverb.

15. We work every day except Friday. In this sentence ‘except’ is:
(a) adjective
(b) noun
(c) preposition
(d) pronoun
Ans: (c) preposition
Explanation: It shows exclusion, functioning as a preposition.

16. “…the most pernicious race of little odious vermin…” occurs in:
(a) Robinson Crusoe
(b) A Doll’s House
(c) Vanity Fair
(d) Gulliver’s Travels
Ans: (d) Gulliver’s Travels
Explanation: Said by Gulliver in Swift’s satirical novel.

17. Identify the correct passive form: “People thought that the despot was corrupt.”
(a) The despot had been thought to be corrupt
(b) It was thought that the despot was corrupt
(c) The despot was thought to be corrupt
(d) The despot is thought to be corrupt
Ans: (c) The despot was thought to be corrupt
Explanation: Correct passive form in past tense.

18. Which gender is the noun ‘neighbour’?
(a) Masculine
(b) Feminine
(c) Neuter
(d) Common
Ans: (d) Common
Explanation: It refers to either male or female.

19. Identify the word that can be used as both singular and plural:
(a) light
(b) shot
(c) criterion
(d) cannon
Ans: (d) cannon
Explanation: Cannon has the same form in both singular and plural.

20. The novel ‘Wuthering Heights’ was penned by the author under the penname:
(a) Ellise Bellet
(b) Ellis Belle
(c) Ellis Bell
(d) Una Elis
Ans: (c) Ellis Bell
Explanation: Emily Brontë used the pseudonym Ellis Bell.

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