DU D-UNIT QUESTION SOLUTION 2014-2015
Read the following passage carefully and then answer Questions (1-5):
A second green revolution is imminent in Asia. It will not be the same as the first one since it will not depend on a few miracle varieties of wheat or rice but on adapting existing seeds to different environmental conditions. This second revolution promises to bring similar benefits though—this time to poor lands and poorer farmers that were not covered by the first green revolution. Such lands are poor because they are prone to floods, Droughts and salinity. New seeds have been developed which can survive flooding and tolerate drought and saline conditions better.
1. The best title for this passage is:
A. Second Green Revolution in Asia ✔
B. Adapting Farming to Environmental Conditions in Asia
C. Agricultural Miracle in Asia
D. New seeds Being Planted in Asia
2. An antonym of “imminent” is:
A. pending
B. distant ✔
C. forthcoming
D. eminent
3. The tone of this passage is:
A. pessimistic
B. suggestive
C. hopeful ✔
D. sceptical
4. To be “prone” is to be “
A. vulnerable ✔
B. ready
C. organized
D. equipped
5. The title suggests that the key to the second green revolution will be to come up with seed varieties that are:
A. adaptable
B. susceptible ✔
C. changeable
D. variable
DU D-UNIT QUESTION SOLUTION 2014-2015
Which of the following sentences is correct? (6-10)
6. Which of the following sentences is correct?
A. The two parties have different views to democracy.
B. The two parties has different views of democracy.
C. The two parties differing on democracy.
D. The two parties have different views of democracy. ✔
7. Which of the following sentences is correct?
A. The country has adopted a new industrial policy. ✔
B. The country has effected the new industrial policy.
C. The country has affected new industrial policy.
D. The country has adapted an new industrial policy.
8. Which of the following sentences is correct?
A. Over a billion people wing Microsoft Windows operating systems.
B. Over a billion people uses Microsoft Windows operating systems.
C. Over a billion people use Microsoft Windows operating systems. ✔
D. Over a billion peoples use Microsoft Windows operating systems.
9. Which of the following sentences is correct?
A. To whom do the book belong?
B. By whom does the book belong?
C. Whom does the book belong?
D. Who does the book belong to? ✔
10. Which of the following sentences is correct?
A. Where have you born?
B. Where are you born?
C. Where were you born? ✔
D. Where had you born?
DU D-UNIT QUESTION SOLUTION 2014-2015
Choose the word that is closest in meaning to the word in italics (11 – 12)
11. The private hospital business is booming in Bangladesh.
A. flourishing ✔
B. bursting
C. improving
D. filling
12. The government has also defied concentrating on improving the quality of health-care.
A. focus ✔
B. conceptualize
C. Strike
D. deliberate
Answer the questions according to the instruction provided (13 -14)
13. The verb form of trauma is:
A. traumatic
B. traumatically
C. traumatized
D. traumatize ✔
14. A radiologist is most often employed in:
A. power plants
B. workshops
C. finances
D. hospitals ✔
Fill in the blanks (15-21)
15. Let’s discuss—– the ways of improving the basic skills of English.
A. about
B. on
C. no preposition needed ✔
D. of
DU D-UNIT QUESTION SOLUTION 2014-2015
16. One-third of the students——present in the class.
A. is
B. are ✔
C. remains
D. do not
17. Each of the students who lied out the admission form——the test.
A. have appeared at
B. has appeared at ✔
C. are appearing at
D. is appearing
18. To discover is—–about something that already exists, but to invent is—–something new.
A. to know, to find
B. to create, to learn
C. to learn, to create ✔
D. to find, to know
19. “Well” is usually an adverb and so describes —–, but when it refers to health it can be an adjective and describe
A. Adjectives, Verbs
B. Nouns. Pronouns
C. Adjectives, Nouns
D. Verbs, Nouns ✔
20. Much as Rome—–roads through Europe in the years of the Roman empire, Britain —– railways and strung telegraph wires in India.
A. had built, built
B. built, built ✔
C. builds, is building
D. had built, was building
DU D-UNIT QUESTION SOLUTION 2014-2015
21. We are moved not by the fall of—–great man but the elevation to the heroism of what we had taken to be ——little man.
A. a, the ✔
B. the, the
C. a, a
D. none of the above
22. What is a proper antonym for ‘waver’?
A. determine ✔
B. away
C. vary
D. develop
23. Choose the correct translation of the following sentence– “মীর মোশাররফ হোসেন ছিলেন বিচিত্র ধর্মী লোক।”
A. Mir Musharraf Hussain was a miscellaneous writer.
B. Mir Musharral Hussain was a versatile writer. ✔
C. Mir Musharraf Hussain wrote descriptively.
D. Mir Musharraf Hussain was a wonderful writer.
24. Choose the correct spelling:
A. mongose
B. monngose
C. Mongoose ✔
D. mongosse
25. What is the synonym of the word ‘tacit”?
A. spoken
B. implicit ✔
C. open
D. written
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