List of top English Language Comprehension Questions asked in Banaras Hindu University Postgraduate Entrance Test

Choose the word nearest in meaning to the underlined part:
Any business company requires dashing salesman.

Choose the word nearest in meaning to the underlined part:
She is very much sanguine about her business prospects.

Choose the word nearest in meaning to the underlined part:
Your unruly behaviour disappoints your parents.

Choose the word nearest in meaning to the underlined part:
Decrepit animals evoke pity in us.

In the following sentence, select the word which is opposite in meaning to the underlined word:
The house remains intact even after 150 years.

In the following sentence, select the word which is opposite in meaning to the underlined word:
This system perpetuated itself for several centuries.

In the following sentence, select the word which is opposite in meaning to the underlined word:
If food containing fat is rancid, it tastes unpleasant.

In the following sentence, select the word which is opposite in meaning to the underlined word:
The disease can cause sterility in men and women.

Choose the option which best expresses the given sentence into indirect speech:
I said to you, "She will give you my pen tomorrow."

Choose the option that catches the spirit of the idiom given:
The demon drink:

Choose the option that catches the spirit of the idiom given:
Get through:

Choose the option that best expresses the given sentence into the passive voice:
Do your work honestly.

Select the most appropriate one to fill in the blank in the following sentence:
............ he was ill, he couldn't appear at the examination.

Which of the following words is a verb?

Which of the following words is not a noun?

Choose the option that catches the spirit of the idiom given:
Put off:

Select the most appropriate one to fill in the blank in the following sentence:
Mohan is .......... friend of mine.

Select the most appropriate one to fill in the blank in the following sentence:
I am a student, ...............

Identify the part having an error:
You, I and he (1) / are (2) / good (3) / singers (4)

Choose the best option to fill in the blank in the given sentence:
She .......... the examination in 2005.