SPSC English Lecturer Paper 2020

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

1. Nasals
2. Uvula
3. Velum
4. Bilabial

There was a great hue and cry against Hardy`s novels, Tess and Jude the Obscure because of _______ in them.

1. Obscenity
2. violence
3. Abnormality
4. All of the above

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

1. Oblique narrative
2. stream of consciousness
3. first person narrative
4. noval

The Glass Menagerie is a play by:

1. Eugene o Nell
2. Tennessee Williams
3. Arthur Miller
4. Tenny Son

The Golden Breath is a ___________ by Mulk Raj Anand.

1. Novel
2. Short story
3. play
4. None of the above

The collective name given to some of pre-Shakespearean playwrights, like Marlowe, Kyd, Peele, and Greene is:

1. Romantic playwrights
2. university wits
3. Elizathan dramatists
4. court playwrights

Sounds usually associated with letters such as f, s, v, z, in which the air passes through a narrow contraction that causes the air to flow turbulently and thus create a noisy sound are called:

1. Plosives
2. Fricatives
3. Articulations
4. Allophonic

Shortcut key to split a table in MS Word is _________?

1. Ctrl + Alt + Enter
2. Ctrl + Shift + Enter
3. Alt + Shift + Enter
4. Alt + space + Enter

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

1. 30
2. 40
3. 50
4. 150

Please do not laugh ____ those beggars.

1. For
2. Against
3. At
4. From