DU D-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2012-13

DU D-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2012-13

Read the following passage carefully and Answer: questions 1 to 6:
Various research centres are studying identical twins in order to discover the “heritability” of behavioural characteristics — that is the degree to which a trait is due to genes (“nature”) instead of the environment/. They have reached some startling conclusions. One study found, for example, that optimism and pessimism are both very much influenced by genes. But only optimism is affected by environment as well. According to another study, genes influence our coffee consumption, but not the consumption of tea. Anxiety seems to be 40 to 50 percent heritable. Another study tells us that happiness does not depend much on money or love or professional success: instead, It is 80 percent heritable! Among the traits that appear to be largely heritable are shyness, attraction to danger (thrill-seeking), choice of career and religious belief.

1. What is the main topic of the paragraph?
A. Research centres and study of genes
B. Optimism and pessimism as behavioural traits
C. Hereditariness of behavioural characteristics ✔
D. The happiness of human beings and heredity

2. Which of the f011owing has been found to be free from the influence of genes?
A. consumption of coffee
B. happiness
C. consumption of tear ✔
D. choice of career

3. Which of the following competes with nature in influencing humans?
A. behaviour
B. environment ✔
C. genes
D. characteristics

4. Which of the following is true?
A. Anxiety is more heritable than happiness
B. Anxiety is as heritable as happiness
C. Anxiety is less heritable than happiness ✔
D. Happiness is less heritable than anxiety

5. In line 5, anxiety is nearest in meaning to-
A. thrill
B. enthusiasm
C. foreboding ✔
D. fellow-feeling

6. In line 3, startling is nearest in meaning to
A. upsetting ✔
B. beginning
C. dampening
D. enchanting

DU D-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2012-13

Fill in the blanks (7-11)

7. Please——pay your monthly dues regularly.
A. remember too
B. remember to ✔
C. remember you too
D. remind

8. Before you entered the classroom, you——the teacher’s permission
A. should seek
B. seek
C. would have sought
D. should have sought ✔

9. I’ll go shopping in the afternoon——-buy some new clothes.
A. so that
C. in order to ✔
C. so as
D. such that

10. If you lose, your card, please——us immediately by calling our 24-hour Contact Centre.
A. note
B. notify ✔
C. notification
D. notice

DU D-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2012-13

11. The Bangladesh cricket team——with a victory against England.
A. bounced up
B. turned up
C. bounced hack ✔
D. sprang up

Select the underlined word or phrase that is incorrect.

12. When our vacation, we plan to spend three days scuba diving
A. When ✔
B. plan
C. days
D. diving

13. Do you know the student who books were stolen?
A. Do
B. know
C. who ✔
D. were

14. The majority to the news is about violence or scandal.
A. the
B. to ✔
C. news
D. violence

15. Kabita intends to starting her own software business in a few years.
A. intends
B. starting ✔
C. software
D. few

DU D-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2012-13

16. I had a enjoyable time at the party last night.
A. a✔
B. time
C. at
D. last

Correct spelling of the word in capital letters.

17. DESICCATE
A. dessicate
B. desiccate ✔
C. desiccatae
D. dessicete

18. MILLENIUM
A. milennium
B. millenium
C. millennium ✔
D. millennium

19. INOCCULATE
A. inoculaite
B. inocualate
C. inoculate ✔
D. innockulate

20. QUESTIONAIRE
A. questionnaire ✔
B. questionnare
C. questionaire
D. questionnaire

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21. PARSEVERANCE
A. perseverence
B. perseverance ✔
C. persivarence
D. parseverance

Select the alternative that best replaces the underlined portion of the sentence.

22. When one eats in this restaurant, you often find that the prices are high.
A.When one eats in this restaurant, you often find
B.When you eat in this restaurant, one often finds
C. When you eat in this restaurant, you often find ✔
D. If you eat in this restaurant, you often find

23. Neither Mr Karim nor his friend are invited to speak at the seminar.
A. is invited to speak at the seminar ✔
B. are invited to speak at the seminar
C. is to speak at the seminar
D. are speaking at the seminar

24. Your courage is —–in defending your country.
A. as great as any other person
B. as great as any other persons
C. great like another person
D. as great as that of any other person ✔

25. The best translation of “আরজ আলী মাতুব্বর বাংলাদেশের একজন বিস্ময়কর ব্যাক্তিত্ব”
A. Aroj Ali Matubbor is a surpassing personality of Bangladesh
B. Aroj Ali Matubbor is an amazing personality of Bangladesh ✔
C. Aroj Ali Matubbor is Bangladesh’s startling person
D. Aroj Ali Matubbor is a weird Bangladeshi person

DU D-UNIT ENGLISH QUESTION SOLUTION 2012-13