English Language and Grammar: Petrobangla and Energy Sector exam questions

Correct answer: B) only

"Only" fits. The sentence says you have a single choice remaining, and a single forced choice is no real choice, so it is "not an option at all". "Prime", "first" and "best" rank one choice above others, which implies other choices still exist and breaks the logic of the sentence.

Correct answer: D) whose

"Whose" is right. The gap needs a possessive relative pronoun that links "brothers" back to Rashed: two of his brothers. "Them" would create a second main clause without a conjunction, and "which" or "whom" cannot show possession. So the clause reads "two of whose brothers attend primary school".

Correct answer: A) Herman Melville

Herman Melville wrote "Moby Dick", first published in 1851. It follows Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale. Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter", Twain wrote "Huckleberry Finn", and Faulkner wrote "The Sound and the Fury", so none of them fits.

Correct answer: E) No (error)

No error. "Without hard work" is a correct prepositional phrase, "there is" agrees with the singular "chance", and "hardly any" is the right way to say almost none. Since "hardly" already carries the negative, nothing else in the sentence should be negative, and nothing is.

Correct answer: A) বারি

উত্তর বারি, কারণ ‘বারি’ মানে জল, চোখ নয়। চক্ষু, নয়ন, লোচন তিনটিই চোখের প্রতিশব্দ। এ ধরনের প্রশ্নে প্রতিটি বিকল্পের মানে মনে মনে বলে নিলে বেমানান শব্দটি দ্রুত চোখে পড়ে। জলের আরও প্রতিশব্দ: অম্বু, সলিল, নীর, পানি।

Correct answer: C) Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini wrote "A Thousand Splendid Suns" (2007), his second novel after "The Kite Runner". It is set in Afghanistan and follows two women, Mariam and Laila. Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth and Farah Ahmedi are writers too, but not of this book.

Correct answer: A) Witch

"Witch" is the feminine of "wizard" in the traditional gender pairs taught for exams. "Sorceress" pairs with "sorcerer", "magician" is used for any gender, and "treachery" is a noun meaning betrayal, unrelated to the word.

Correct answer: D) P.B. Shelley

P.B. Shelley wrote the line. It closes his "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), where winter stands for hard times and spring for renewal: bad days pass and better ones follow. Blake, Coleridge and Byron were Shelley's contemporaries but did not write this ode.

Correct answer: A) to adjust

"To adjust" is closest. To get along with someone means to live or work with them without friction, which needs adjusting to each other. "Accompany" means to go with someone, and "interest" and "walk" have no link to the idiom.

Correct answer: A) Anniversary

"Anniversary" is the correct spelling: double n, single r, single s. It comes from the Latin "annus" (year), which explains the double n, as in "annual". Each other option breaks one of these: a single n, a doubled s, or a doubled r.