DU B Unit Admission Exam (2010-11) – Question Bank & Answers

Read the passage and answer the question: Since a writer's main purpose is to explain things clearly, description is an important aid. To add liveliness to an essay, descriptive details are necessary to create a clear, unified impression of an object or a scene. As a technique in writing, description matches the kinds of details we see in vivid and effective photographs. Good descriptive writers help the reader 'see' objects, scenes and even moods by means of language. "unified impression" means -

Read the passage and answer the question: Since a writer's main purpose is to explain things clearly, description is an important aid. To add liveliness to an essay, descriptive details are necessary to create a clear, unified impression of an object or a scene. As a technique in writing, description matches the kinds of details we see in vivid and effective photographs. Good descriptive writers help the reader 'see' objects, scenes and even moods by means of language. Which mode is adopted by a successful writer?

Read the passage and answer the question: Since a writer's main purpose is to explain things clearly, description is an important aid. To add liveliness to an essay, descriptive details are necessary to create a clear, unified impression of an object or a scene. As a technique in writing, description matches the kinds of details we see in vivid and effective photographs. Good descriptive writers help the reader 'see' objects, scenes and even moods by means of language. The most suitable title for the passage would be -

Read the passage and answer the question: Since a writer's main purpose is to explain things clearly, description is an important aid. To add liveliness to an essay, descriptive details are necessary to create a clear, unified impression of an object or a scene. As a technique in writing, description matches the kinds of details we see in vivid and effective photographs. Good descriptive writers help the reader 'see' objects, scenes and even moods by means of language. What helps a writer to make his writing interesting?

Read the passage and answer the question: Since a writer's main purpose is to explain things clearly, description is an important aid. To add liveliness to an essay, descriptive details are necessary to create a clear, unified impression of an object or a scene. As a technique in writing, description matches the kinds of details we see in vivid and effective photographs. Good descriptive writers help the reader 'see' objects, scenes and even moods by means of language. A writer's main purpose is to -

Read the passage and answer the question: Since a writer's main purpose is to explain things clearly, description is an important aid. To add liveliness to an essay, descriptive details are necessary to create a clear, unified impression of an object or a scene. As a technique in writing, description matches the kinds of details we see in vivid and effective photographs. Good descriptive writers help the reader 'see' objects, scenes and even moods by means of language. "liveliness" in the paragraph stands for ——.

Read the passage and answer the question: Since a writer's main purpose is to explain things clearly, description is an important aid. To add liveliness to an essay, descriptive details are necessary to create a clear, unified impression of an object or a scene. As a technique in writing, description matches the kinds of details we see in vivid and effective photographs. Good descriptive writers help the reader 'see' objects, scenes and even moods by means of language. "description" should be like -

She could have been more discreet, ———

He is ——— punctual ——— efficient.

I —— to meet you ever since I read your first novel.

What part of speech is 'extraordinary?'

In Shelly's "Ozymandias," the words, 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings' are inscribed on -

The driver stopped the car just ——— time to avoid collision.

There is ——— hope of his recovery.

Noise pollution cannot be ——— ———.

Education ——— our mind.

Frequent closures of universities badly ——— academic progress.

How many engineering —— —— there is Bangladesh?

I will not go ——— I am invited.

"Lend me your ears" means -

In "Under the Greenwood Tree" the 'Tree' refers to -

Have you ever —— —— —— Sundarbans?

Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to human beings and daffodils?

Choose the proper translation of 'আমি যদি তোমার জায়গায় হতাম' -

Choose the correct sentence.

'রাত পোহাবার কত দেরি পাঞ্জেরী?' - 'রাত পোহাবার' চরণাংশের ব্যঞ্জনার্থ -

'শবলা' শব্দের অর্থ -

'চত্বারিংশ' শব্দটি কোন সংখ্যাবাচক?

ইংরেজি ভাষা থেকে আগত শব্দগুচ্ছ -

সংলাপনির্ভর রচনা -

'তরুছায়ামসী-মাখা'-কোন রঙের প্রসঙ্গ?

'কড়িকাঠ' কোথায় থাকে?

'বানি' কী?

'তুমি না সেদিন আবৃত্তি করেছিলে?'-এখানে 'না' কোন অর্থে ব্যবহৃত?

স্বগতোক্তিতে কথা বলেন -

'বিনয়ভূষণের তনয় কুকেশিনী নন্দিতা উড়োজাহাজের আবিষ্কারকের নাম পরিষ্কাররূপে বলিতে না পারায় পুরস্কারটি হারাল।'-চলতি রীতির বাক্যটিতে ভুলের সংখ্যা -

'রাত্রির শেষ ভাগ'-এক কথায় -

'অনতিবিলম্বে সম্রাট সৈন্য সমভিব্যাহারে দুর্গম মরুপথে অভিযান করলেন।'- বাক্যটিতে উপসর্গ রয়েছে -

'গদ্যভাষায় রচিত এ গ্রন্থে লেখকের আধুনিক মনোভাব, পরিমিতিবোধ, সৃজনশীল দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি ও শৈল্পিক সচেতনতার পরিচয় পাওয়া যায়।'-বাক্যটিতে বিশেষণ রয়েছে -

'মরো, নইলে বাঁচার মতো বাঁচো।'-বাক্যটি -

'সন্ধি' শব্দটি গঠিত হয়েছে কোন প্রক্রিয়ায়?

'হেলাল' শব্দের সমার্থক -

'মুহুরি হাকিমের দিকে চাহিয়া বলিল, "ধর্মাবতার! সাক্ষী বড় শেরকশ।"'-'শেরকশ' শব্দের অর্থ -

'কূর্ম অবতার' বোঝায় -

বাক্য অসম্পূর্ণ থাকলে বাক্যের শেষে ব্যবহৃত হয় -

কলকাতার সড়ক বা মহল্লা নয় -

সঠিক বিপরীত শব্দযুগল -

'Key-Note'-এর যথার্থ -

He has broken with his friend. -বাক্যটির বাংলা -

'শিং ভেঙে বাছুরের দলে' প্রবাদটির অর্থ -

জাতীয়তাবাদের উপাদান নয় [Not a factor of nationalism]

যে কারণে সম্প্রতি জাতিসংঘ বাংলাদেশকে MDG অর্জনের জন্য পুরস্কৃত করেছে [The reason for which Bangladesh has been recently rewarded by the UN for achieving MDG]

বিচারপতি এ. বি. এম. খায়রুল হক বাংলাদেশে কততম প্রধান বিচারপতি? [Justice A. B. M. Khairul Huq is the Chief Justice of Bangladesh]

বিডিআর হত্যাকাণ্ড সংঘটিত হয় [The BDR killings took place on]

ঘোষিত পরমাণু অস্ত্রধারী দেশ কয়টি? [How many countries are declared as Nuclear-states?]

বাংলাদেশে কোন সালে বিজ্ঞান ও আইসিটি (বিজ্ঞান, তথ্য যোগাযোগ ও প্রযুক্তি) মন্ত্রণালয় স্থাপন করা হয়? [In which year was the Ministry of Science and ICT established in Bangladesh?]

বাংলাদেশের ইতিহাসে নিচের কোন ঘটনাটি প্রথম ঘটেছিল? [In the history of Bangladesh which of the following events happened first?]

দীর্ঘকাল মাটির নিচে অবরুদ্ধ থাকার পর ৩৩ জন খনিশ্রমিককে উদ্ধার করা হয়েছে [33 miners were rescued after being trapped for a long time underneath the earth]

BIMSTEC-এর পূর্ণরূপ [BIMSTEC stands for]

সর্বদলীয় রাষ্ট্রভাষা সংগ্রাম কমিটি কত তারিখে গঠিত হয়? [When was the All-Party Language Movement Comittee formed?]

সেনেগাল যে দেশের উপনিবেশ ছিল [Senegal was the colony of]

সেমুতং গ্যাসক্ষেত্র অবস্থিত [Semutang Gasfield is situated in]

পাটের জীবনরহস্য উদ্ভাবনকারী দলের নেতা [The leader of the discovery group of the life-mystery of jute]

সামাজিক নেটওয়ার্কিং সাইট [The social networking site]

প্রিশতিনা কোন দেশের রাজধানী? [Pristina is the capital of]

বাংলাদেশের পরবর্তী আদমশুমারি অনুষ্ঠিত হবে [The next census of Bangladesh will be held on]

আওয়ামী লীগের ঐতিহাসিক 'ছয় দফা'-র প্রথম দফা [The first point of the historical ‘Six-Point’ of Awami League]

বাংলাদেশের স্থানীয় জনগোষ্ঠী নয় [Not the local population of Bangladesh]

বুলবুল আহমেদ ছিলেন একজন [Bulbul Ahmed was a/an]

নেপালের সর্বশেষ রাজা ছিলেন [Was the last King of Nepal]

'দেশ ভাল হয় যদি দেশের বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়গুলো ভাল হয়'-বলেছিলেন [‘The fame of a country depends on its universities’ was stated by]

ব্যক্তিস্বাতন্ত্র্যবাদের মূল বক্তা [The main proponent of individualism]

বিশ্ব আদিবাসী দিবস পালিত হয়ে থাকে [The World Indigenous Peoples‘ Day in observed on]

'এটাও ইতিহাসের শিক্ষা যে, কেউই ইতিহাস থেকে শিক্ষা নেয় না।' কথাটি বলেছেন [Who said, ‘it is also a lesson of history that nobody takes lesson from history.’]

'টেস্ট টিউব বেবি' পদ্ধতির জনক [The inventor of the ‘test tube baby’ method]

ফরাসি বিপ্লবের মেয়াদকাল [The duration of French Revolution]

নাথান কমিশন যে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় প্রতিষ্ঠার সঙ্গে যুক্ত [Nathan Commission was connected with the establishment of]

২০১০ সালে কোন ভাষার লেখক সাহিত্যে নোবেল পুরস্কার পেয়েছেন? [The writer of which language received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010?]

বাংলাদেশের অর্থনৈতিক নীতি নির্ধারণ এবং উন্নয়ন প্রকল্প অনুমোদন সংক্রান্ত সর্বোচ্চ সংস্থা [The highest economic body concerning the formulation of economic policy and approval of development projects in Bangladesh]

নরওয়ের মুদ্রার নাম [The name of the currecncy of Norway]

‘অ্যানথ্রাক্স’ শব্দটির মূল ভাষা [The origin of the word ‘Anthrax’]

২০১১ সালে সার্ধশত জন্মবার্ষিকী পালিত হবে [The 150th birth anniversary of which writer will be observed in 2011?]

এভারেস্ট-বিজয়ী মূসা ইব্রাহিম জানিয়েছেন, এভারেস্ট শৃঙ্গের দৈর্ঘ্য-প্রস্থ হলো [The Everest conqueror Musa Ibrahim stated that length and breadth of the Everest peak are]

বাংলাদেশে জাতীয় শিশুনীতি অনুযায়ী শিশুর বয়স [The age of child according to National Child Policy]

জাতিসংঘের নারী উন্নয়ন বিষয়ক তহবিলের নাম [The name of UN fund related to women‘s development]

বাংলাদেশের সদ্যঘোষিত নতুন বিভাগ [Recently declared Division of Bangladesh]

মিশ্র অর্থনৈতিক ব্যবস্থা হল [Mixed economic system is]

বাংলাদেশের সংবিধানে বাঙালি জাতীয়তাবাদ বাংলাদেশী জাতীয়তাবাদ দ্বারা প্রতিস্থাপিত হয়েছিল যে সংশোধনীতে [The amendment of Bangladesh Constitution by which the Bangalee nationality was replaced by Bangladeshi nationality]

অর্থ সরবরাহ বেড়ে গেলে [If supply of money increases]

স্বাধীন বাংলাদেশের প্রথম ব্যক্তি হিসেবে যিনি ব্রিটেনের নাইট উপাধি লাভ করেন [The first person of independent Bangladesh who was knighted in Britain]

লোকসাহিত্য সংগ্রহে অবদান রেখেছেন [Contributed to the collection of folk literature]

প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা বাস্তবায়নে যে প্রতিষ্ঠানটি দায়িত্ব পালন করে [The organization which is responsible for implementation of Primary Education]

ইউএনবি কী? [What is UNB?]

বাংলাদেশ যে দেশের কাছে কৃষি জমি ইজারা চেয়েছে [Bangladesh has asked for lease of agricultural land from]

মাইলপোস্ট নাটকটি লিখেছেন [Wrote the play Milepost]

‘বাংলাওয়াশ’ ঘটেছে [‘Banglawash’ occurred on]

প্রবাসে মুক্তিযুদ্ধের দিনগুলি বইটির লেখক [Author of Probashe Muktijuddher Dinguli]

২০১০-২০১১ অর্থবছরের বাজেটে বার্ষিক উন্নয়ন কর্মসূচিতে বরাদ্দ রাখা হয়েছে [The amount of money allocated in Annual Development Programme of the 2010-2011 Fiscal Year]

ব্রিটিশ শাসনের বিরুদ্ধে বাঙালিদের প্রথম বিদ্রোহ [The first revolt of the Bengalees against the British rule]

২০১১-তে দক্ষিণ এশিয়ায় অনুষ্ঠেয় বিশ্বকাপ ক্রিকেট প্রতিযোগিতায় আয়োজক দেশ হিসেবে ভূমিকা পালন করবে না [Will not host the World Cup Cricket Competition to be held in South Asia in the year 2011]

Read the passage carefully and answer the question: The art of asking oneself critical questions that lead either to new answers or to genuine revitalizing of old answers may not be entirely amenable to instruction. But it is a necessary art nonetheless, for any person who wants to be free. It is an art that all philosophers have tried to pursue, and many of them have given direct guidance in how to pursue it. Needless to say, it is an art the pursuit of which is never fully completed. No one thinks for himself or herself very much of the time or in very many subjects. Yet the habitual effort to ask the right critical questions and to apply rigorous test to our hunches is a clearer mark than any other of an educated person. The word 'hunch' means -

Read the passage carefully and answer the question: The art of asking oneself critical questions that lead either to new answers or to genuine revitalizing of old answers may not be entirely amenable to instruction. But it is a necessary art nonetheless, for any person who wants to be free. It is an art that all philosophers have tried to pursue, and many of them have given direct guidance in how to pursue it. Needless to say, it is an art the pursuit of which is never fully completed. No one thinks for himself or herself very much of the time or in very many subjects. Yet the habitual effort to ask the right critical questions and to apply rigorous test to our hunches is a clearer mark than any other of an educated person. According to the passage philosophers are -

Read the passage carefully and answer the question: The art of asking oneself critical questions that lead either to new answers or to genuine revitalizing of old answers may not be entirely amenable to instruction. But it is a necessary art nonetheless, for any person who wants to be free. It is an art that all philosophers have tried to pursue, and many of them have given direct guidance in how to pursue it. Needless to say, it is an art the pursuit of which is never fully completed. No one thinks for himself or herself very much of the time or in very many subjects. Yet the habitual effort to ask the right critical questions and to apply rigorous test to our hunches is a clearer mark than any other of an educated person. In the passage the word 'art' is used to mean -

Read the passage carefully and answer the question: The art of asking oneself critical questions that lead either to new answers or to genuine revitalizing of old answers may not be entirely amenable to instruction. But it is a necessary art nonetheless, for any person who wants to be free. It is an art that all philosophers have tried to pursue, and many of them have given direct guidance in how to pursue it. Needless to say, it is an art the pursuit of which is never fully completed. No one thinks for himself or herself very much of the time or in very many subjects. Yet the habitual effort to ask the right critical questions and to apply rigorous test to our hunches is a clearer mark than any other of an educated person. According to the passage an educated person -

Read the passage carefully and answer the question: The art of asking oneself critical questions that lead either to new answers or to genuine revitalizing of old answers may not be entirely amenable to instruction. But it is a necessary art nonetheless, for any person who wants to be free. It is an art that all philosophers have tried to pursue, and many of them have given direct guidance in how to pursue it. Needless to say, it is an art the pursuit of which is never fully completed. No one thinks for himself or herself very much of the time or in very many subjects. Yet the habitual effort to ask the right critical questions and to apply rigorous test to our hunches is a clearer mark than any other of an educated person. The word 'critical' in the paragraph means -

Read the passage carefully and answer the question: The art of asking oneself critical questions that lead either to new answers or to genuine revitalizing of old answers may not be entirely amenable to instruction. But it is a necessary art nonetheless, for any person who wants to be free. It is an art that all philosophers have tried to pursue, and many of them have given direct guidance in how to pursue it. Needless to say, it is an art the pursuit of which is never fully completed. No one thinks for himself or herself very much of the time or in very many subjects. Yet the habitual effort to ask the right critical questions and to apply rigorous test to our hunches is a clearer mark than any other of an educated person. 'revitalizing' means -

Read the passage carefully and answer the question: The art of asking oneself critical questions that lead either to new answers or to genuine revitalizing of old answers may not be entirely amenable to instruction. But it is a necessary art nonetheless, for any person who wants to be free. It is an art that all philosophers have tried to pursue, and many of them have given direct guidance in how to pursue it. Needless to say, it is an art the pursuit of which is never fully completed. No one thinks for himself or herself very much of the time or in very many subjects. Yet the habitual effort to ask the right critical questions and to apply rigorous test to our hunches is a clearer mark than any other of an educated person. 'amenable to instruction' means -

"To be or not to be- that is the question" occurs in -

War and Peace. was written by -

What does 'note of dissent' mean?

Travellers —— their reservations well in advance if they want to fly during the holidays.

The Canterbury Tales is as alive and —— today as it was nearly 600 years ago.

The antonym of 'indictment' is -

Which one does not fall into the same category.

The synonym of 'equivocation' is -

The boy said, "I —— starve than beg."

The word 'anthropology' is related to -

A 'Canto' is -

A 'Protagonist' is -

"A laconic speech" is -

Readers who have eclectic tastes in literature -

"Raj wasn't the paragon of virtue Rashida had expected" means -

Choose the one which does not fit in -

'impermeable' means -

I saw —— one-eyed man begging for alms.