Lecturer English Past Paper PPSC 2020

1 - Please do not laugh_____________ those beggars.





At

2 - Sound usually associated with letters such as f, s, v, z in which the air passes through a narrow constriction that causes the air to flow turbulently and thus create a noisy sound are called.





Fricatives

3 - Normal phonological deviations that children make when producing sounds and words are referred to as:





Phonological Processes

4 - Choose the correct antonym of “Grotesque:”





Graceful

5 - There was a great hue and cry against Hardy’s novels, Tess and Jude the Obscure because of ______ in them.





Obscenity

6 - Restoration Period saw the rise of :





Heroic Tragedy

7 - Most of the novel of R. K Narayan are set in:





Malgudi

8 - IN the “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” Wordsworth propounded his theory of





Poetic Diction

9 - What is the most common poetic quality of Keats and Tennyson?





Pictorial element

10 - Which of the following terms are assigned to the 13 properties identified by Hocket (1960)?





Linguistic Universals

11 - When the baby is three months old she/he can produce velar sounds /k/, /g/ and vowels /i/ and /u/ , this stage is known as?





Cooing

12 - How many plays did William Shakespeare write?





37

13 - Who was the main contributor to the linguistic period?





Chomsky

14 - “Close Shave” mean:





Narrow escape

15 - Lord Byron belongs to ___________ age.





Romantic

16 - “Marlowe simply prepared the way for the master who was to follow, “Who is the master referred to in this remark?





Shakespeare

17 - Two words with very closely related meanings.





Synonyms

18 - Aurobindo Ghose’s Savitri is an epic of the:





Soul

19 - IN which novel of his Lawrence dealt with the psychological phenomenon known as “Oedipus Complex”?





Sons and Lovers

20 - What is meant by “etymology”?





The study of the origins of words and how they have changed over time

21 - Bacon’s essays are regarded as compendiums of:





Worldly wisdom

22 - The old Wives’ Tale is a novel by:





Arnold Bennett

23 - “His verse is sensuous and passionate and at its best simple, thus according with Milton’s famous definition, “About whom has this been said?





Walt Whitman

24 - IN a list of languages ranked by number of native (L1) speakers where does English comes?





3rd

25 - Who wrote, “Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour”?





Wordsworth

26 - Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled:





Wuthering Height

27 - The Faerie Queene is a/an ________Poem?





Allegorical

28 - George Eliot is the pen name of:





Mary Ann Evans

29 - Intellectually amusing utterance calculated to delight and surprise is called:





Wit

30 - The sound made with air passing through the nose and making the “ng” sound of “sing” is called:





Nasal

31 - Who translated the original Bengali poems of Geetanjali into English?





Rabindranath Tagore

32 - What was the name given to the poets of the Auden Group?





New Signatures

33 - Edgar Allen Poe wrote reviews for a year for the magazine:





South Literary Messenger

34 - What was new system of printing books developed in he 1400s?





Block Style Writing

35 - Deductive method proceeds from:





Generalization to specification

36 - Holy Sonnets was written by:





Donne

37 - Sarojini Naidu’s poem The Queen’s Rival is based on a _________ legend:





Persian

38 - The Word “Novel” is derived from the Italian word:





Novella

39 - The name of the technique employed by James Joyce in his novels is:





Stream of Consciousness

40 - In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?





Everlasting Shame

41 - Who was the leading figure of Christian Humanism?





Erasmus

42 - The Collective name given to some of pre-Shakespearean playwrights, like Marlowe, Kyd, Peele, and Green is?





University Wits

43 - What is the time period from 1300-1650 in Europe called?





The Renaissance

44 - Name of the poet who belongs to the Victorian age, but modern in matters of technique:





Hopkins

45 - Linde in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House provides a sub-plot by her relations with Krogstad and she serves a foil and model to _______ , who recognizes through her that a woman is entitled to her own judgment and independent thought.





Nora

46 - The Glass Menagerie is a play by:





Tennessee Williams

47 - Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names?





Valdes and Cornelius

48 - Which of these terms refer to the study of speech process?





Phonetics

49 - Maya is the central character in Anita Desai’s novel:





Cry, the Peacock

50 - Choose the correct synonym of “Circumvent”





Avoid

51 - Mastropieri and Turkewitz (1999) identified that a newborn could differentiate between what?





Between speech patterns

52 - Bilal has a very advanced sense of what is socially appropriate. He always knows what to say in every social context. He has which kind of linguistic competence.





Pragmatic

53 - Our Sir Teaches Mathematics__________ English.





Besides

54 - What is he Real name of George Orwell?





Eric Blair

55 - The Golden Breath is a __________ by Mulk Raj Anand.





Short Story

56 - Postcolonial Literature addresses_____________.





The new cultural identity of the colonies

57 - The English Romantic poet who was most influenced by spencer, is:





Keats

58 - Choose the correct sentence:





He was shocked when she told him who called her last night.

59 - Cyclone in Pakistan is a poetical work by:





Sunita Nam Joshi

60 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin is written by:





Harrier Beecher Stowe

61 - Who is the creator of the character named Sherlock holmes?





Arthur Conan Doyle

62 - Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant is a novel by:





Anthony Powell

63 - Which of the following was a group that tried to spread Catholic teaching after the Reformation?





The Jesuits

64 - Fielding’s Novels are called.





Comic epic in prose

65 - What is defined as “the study of sentence structure”?





Syntax

66 - Keats died of:





Tuberculosis

67 - “Old Norse” is almost the same as which modern Scandinavian language?





Norwegian

68 - Grammar-Translation Method Stresses on:





Accuracy

69 - Developing phonological awareness means that_______________.





Students slowly become aware of how strong their accents are, which motivates them to practice pronunciation drills more

70 - Speakers learn how to participate in conversation. Conversational exchange can be viewed as____ (describes how people normally behave in conversation)





Co-operative

71 - Who were the original speakers of English?





The Angles, Saxons and Jutes

72 - Arundhati Roy has been awarded the Booker’s Prize on her novel:





The God and Small Things

73 - Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism?





Doctor Johnson

74 - ____________ is the writer of The Spy and is regarded as “the first of the great American novelists.”





James Fennimore Cooper

75 - ______________ are the consonants for which the flow of air is stopped or restricted by lips.





Nasal

76 - TO which language group does English Belong?





Germanic

77 - The Title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance in prose is:





Arcadia

78 - Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in:





The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s

79 - Sarojini Naidu is chiefly a _________ poet.





Lyric

80 - The study of which words occur together, and their frequency of co-occurrence:





Collocation

81 - Newly Released book in 2020, “The Pandemic Century” is written by which author?





Mark Honigsbaum

82 - On 13 August 2018, the ______________ National Assembly of Pakistan took Oath?





15th

83 - All carnivorous plants:





Obtain supplemental nitrogen from animals

84 - Structure of DNA was discovered by





James Watson

85 - Transistor was invented by:





Bardeen

86 - The term “double Fault” is associated with which of the following games?





Tennis

87 - Qantas is an airline of __________.





Australia

88 - The country Panama is situated at:





North America

89 - Between Whom the charter of Medina was concluded?





Muslims and Jews

90 - Which cousin of Holy Prophet (PBUH) was Mufassar-e-Quran?





Abdullah-ibn-e-Abbas

91 - What is the shortcut key to split a table in MS word?





Ctrl + Shift + Enter

92 - In MS Word 2016, “Equation” option are available in _________ menu.





Insert

93 - 4 × 9 / (144)1/2 = ?





3

94 - Rahim bought a shirt for Rs. 350 and sold it Rs. 300. How much loss did he get?





Rs 50

95 - Sedimentary rocks are





Porous

96 - Pampelonne Beach is a beach of





France

97 - Indicate the coldest city of Pakistan:





Ziarat

98 - Brahma Samaj was developed and modified by





None of these

99 - اشقلے چھوڑنا محاورہ ہے ، اس کا مفہوم ہے:





انوکھی یا فتنہ فساد والی بات کرنا

100 - "کافور ہونا" محاورہ ہے۔ اس کا معنی کیا ہے؟





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