PPSC lecturer English 2017 for preparation.
Who is the current Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan?
A) Ashraf Wathra
B) Tariq Bajwa
C) Ehatsham Ashai
D) None of these
Which of the following bodies of the UN deals with Refugee issues?
A) UNHCR
B) OHCHR
C) UNESCO
D) UNITAR
Name of the Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)?
A) Lt. Gen. Aslam Bajwa
B) Maj. Gen. Sohail Khan
C) Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor
D) None of these
Quaid-e-Azam resigned from membership of Congress in?
A) 1913
B) 1916
C) 1920
D) 1922
Which country is the largest producer of Shale Gas?
A) Qatar
B) Russia
C) Iran
D) USA
Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Nadine Gordimer, belonged to the?
A) Australia
B) UK
C) Brazil
D) South Africa
Which of the following poet belongs to ‘Lake School’?
A) Wordsworth
B) Coleridge
C) Southey
D) All of these
Who is the Minister for Overseas Pakistanis in the Government?
A) Hussain Shah Rashidi
B) Pir Sadruddin Rashidi
C) Birjees Tahir
D) None of these
Plants primarily get their Nitrogen from …….?
A) Soil
B) Atmosphere
C) Rain
D) None of these
If a metal can be drawn into wires relatively easily, it is called ……?
A) Malleable
B) Ductile
C) Extractive
D) Tackle
Complete the Idiom: “To cast ……. before swine”?
A) Diamonds
B) Pearls
C) Gold
D) Shadow
Fill in the blank(s): The cupboard was …….. big ……. fit through the door”?
A) too/to
B) more/than
C) so/that
D) as/to
Fill in the blank: I …… upon his privacy?
A) Intruded
B) Approached
C) Violated
D) Counted
Convert to Passive Voice “People speak English all over the world”?
A) English is spoken by people all over the world
B) English was spoken by people all over the world
C) English was spoke by people all over the world
D) English is spoken by people
Complete the number series 4, 9, 13, 22, 35, ……?
A) 57
B) 70
C) 63
D) 75Solution
The cost of a shirt after a 15 percent discount is Rs. 102. What is the cost of the Shirt before the discount?
A) 117
B) 120
C) 116
D) 121
In MS Word 2007 which shortcut key is used to increase left indent?
A) Ctrl+L
B) Ctrl+M
C) Ctr1+I
D) F10
“The Metaphysical Poets” is a critical essay by?
A) Arnold
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Shelley
D) None of these
“Proper study of Mankind is man” ……. who has said these words?
A) Pope
B) Swift
C) Shelley
D) None of these
The only play by Shakespeare which conforms to the classical unities is?
A) Hamlet
B) Twelfth Night
C) Roman and Juliet
D) None of these
The first eight lines of a sonnet are called?
A) Octave
B) Sestet
C) Refrain
D) None of these
“She dwells with beauty-beauty that must die” is a line from?
A) Ode to Nightingale
B) Ode on Indolence
C) Ode to Melancholy
D) None of these
“My Fair Lady” is a Cinematic Version of?
A) Pygmalion
B) Candida
C) Setting Married
D) None of these
Who belongs to the Theatre of Absurd?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Beckett
C) Ibsen
D) None of these
The “Tragic Flaw” is also called?
A) Catharsis
B) Catastrophe
C) Hamartia
D) None of these
‘The Crown of Wild Olive’ was written by?
A) Huxley
B) Ben Johnson
C) Ruskin
D) None of these
Mathew Arnold said An ineffectual angel beating in the void the luminous wings in vain”, about?
A) Keats
B) Byron
C) Shelley
D) Blake
All the following constitute security risks and possible violations of privacy except?
A) Identity theft
B) Viruses
C) Hackers
D) Spam
Rhymed decasyllables nearly always in Iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are called?
A) Heroic Couplet
B) Blank verse
C) Terza Rima
D) Spenserian stanza
A figure of speech that contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called?
A) Overtone
B) Rhetoric
C) Extended metaphor
D) Hyperbole
Placing Phrases or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called?
A) Parallelism
B) Alliteration
C) Para Rhyme
D) Rhetoric
“Stream of Consciousness” is the phrase first used by?
A) James Joyce
B) William James
C) Virginia Woolf
D) William Faulkner
“Lyrical Ballads’ were published by?
A) Coleridge
B) Wordsworth
C) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
D) None of these
Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’?
A) Mr Darcy
B) Miss Elizabeth
C) Miss Jane
D) None of these
‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by?
A) Tennyson
B) Browning
C) Keats
D) T.S. Eliot
Renaissance first came to the?
A) France
B) Italy
C) England
D) Rome
Who said this ‘Poetry is the Criticism of life’?
A) Wordsworth
B) Byron
C) T S Eliot
D) Arnold