Sample Question 2012

Sample Question, October, 12

Faculty of Business Studies
University of Dhaka
MBA (Evening) Program
Admission Test
October 5, 2012

Set C

Section -1 English and Current Affairs: Questions 01 - 40

Read the following passage and answer (Questions 01 - 05):
Once upon a time, a businessman named Ray Kroc discovered a restaurant owned by two brothers. The restaurant served just four things: hamburgers, French fries, milk shakes and coca cola. But it was clean and inexpensive, and the service was quick. Mr Kroc liked it so much that he paid the brothers so that he could use their idea and their name: Mc Donald's.

Beef, big business and fast service were the ingredients when Mr. Kroc opened his first Mc Donald's in 1955. Four years later, there were 100 of them. Kroc knew Americans liked success. So he put signs saying how many millions of Mc Donald's hamburgers people had bought. In just four years, the number was one hundred million. Now, there are more than 13,000 Mc Donald's restaurants from Dallas to Paris and from Moscow to Beijing.

Anyone who wants to open a Mc Donald's must first work in one for a week. Then, they do a nine-month training programme, in the restaurants and at 'Mc Donald's University' in Chicago. There they learn the Mc Donald's philosophy: quality control, service, cleanliness and cheap prices. Mc Donald's has strict rules, Hamburgers must be served before they are ten minutes old, and French fries, seven.

Mc Donald's has never stopped looking for new methods to attract customers, from drive-in windows to birthday parties. Chicken, fish, salad and, in some places, pizza are now on the menu. Mc Donald's in Holland even sells a vegetarian burger. Their international popularity shows they have found the recipe for success.

01. What was the main purpose of Mr. Kroc in putting up signs saying how many millions of McDonald's hamburgers people had bought?

A) to show how the business was flourishing
B) to show the rapid growth of the business
C) to reaffirm that Americans like success
D) to show how many hamburgers were sold
E) to gain international publicity for himself.

02. What was done by Ray Kroc to start McDonald's?

A) He purchased the restaurant owned by the two brothers
B) Fie paid for the recipe of the restaurant owned by the two brothers for success
C) He paid for the formula of the restaurant followed by the two brothers for success
D) He purchased the franchise of the restaurant owned by the two brothers
E) He purchased the business of the two brothers

03. When was the first McDonald's built?

A) about twenty years ago
B) about forty years ago
C) about fifty years ago
D) about a decade ago
E) in the middle of the last century

04. Who can open a McDonald's?

A) Anyone who can purchase the franchise
B) Anyone who has undergone a nine-month training program in the restaurants
C) Anyone who has undergone a nine-month training program "Me Donald's University
D) Anyone who has work experience in McDonald's
E) Anyone who has worked for a week in McDonald's and undergone a nine-month training program in the restaurants and at "McDonald's University.

05. Who is Ray Kroc?

A) the founder of McDonald's
B) the brother of the man who built the first McDonald's
C) one of McDonald's 1000,000 customers
D) the name of one of the two brother Mr. Kroc had met
E) the surname of the two brothers

Select the correct sentence from the following (Question 06-11):

06.

A) 10 years passed since his father died

B)10 years have passed since his father died

C)10 years had passed since his father died

D)10 years has passed since his father died

E)10 years were passed since his father died

07.

A) He was hung for murder      

B) He hanged for murder  

C) He was hanged for murder

D) He hunged for murder  

E) He hung for murder

08.

A) He abstained to attend the meeting    

B) He abstained to attending the meeting

C) He abstained from attending the meeting       

D) He abstained from attend the meeting

E) He abstained in attending the meeting

09.

A) Hybrids have one more corns per plant than the other varieties

B) Hybrids have one more ear of corn per plant than the other varieties

C) Hybrids have one more corn ears per plant than the other varieties

D) Hybrids have one more corn's ears per plant than the other varieties

E) Hybrids have one more corn ear per plant than the other varieties

10.

A) They prevented him to go there           

B) They prevented him from going there

C) They prevented him on going there   

D) They had prevented him on going there

E) They have been prevented him of going there

11.

A) Men usually want to have their own ways

B) Men usually want to have their own way

C) Men usually wants to have their own way

D) Man usually does want to have their own way

E) Man usually want to have his own ways

Fill-in the blanks (Questions 12 - 17):

12. He felt no __________ about borrowing money from friends

    A) pain                   B) grief                   C) qualms             D) quiver               £) hesitance

13. The teacher ________ the students has come to meet the acting principal.

    A) as soon as                        B) as well as       C) and                      D) or       E) with

14. I don’t care _______ the expense. I want the party to be a real success.

A) about                                B) with                   C) of                       D) out of                                E) over

15. I left the milk heating for a long time and it all boiled _________.

    A) over                   B) off                     C) with                   D) down                 E) through

16. While going to office, take your umbrella _______ it rains

    A) in case         B)if              C) if not                 D) perhaps            E) or else

17. The sky is overcast _______ clouds.

    A) for     B) with                   C) on                      D) at                       E) under

 Current Affairs (Questions 18 - 27)

 18. The name of the space shuttle NASA recently sent to Mars is:

    A) Victory             B) Speed                C) Curiosity          D) Mars puzzle     E) Phoenix

19. The name of world's fastest man is:

    A) Michael Jordan    B) John McEnroe   C) Jonathon Moore D) Usain Bolt   E) Ben Johnson

20. In which city will the next Olympic be held?

    A) Rio de Janeiro         B) Sochi                         C) Belgrade           D) Budapest         E) Vancouver

21. Which is the smallest country in the world?

    A) Luxemburg                      B) Mali                  C) Chile                D) Vatican City                    E) Peru

22. The name of the Central Bank of USA is:

A) Bank of America           B) Federal Reserve System                C) Central Bank of USA

D) The First Security Bank                E) State Bank of America

23. Which is the most populous district in Bangladesh?

    A) Barisal              B) Pabna               C) Comilla            D) Dhaka              E) Mymensingh

24. US Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, has died at the age of:

    A) 78      B) 80      C) 82        D) 84        E) 86

25. Who among the following was appointed as the new president of the World Bank on 16^th April 2012?

A) Jim Yong Kim B) Ban Ki-moon                  C) Robert Zoellick

D) Ngozi Okonjo-lweala     E) Lumen Darcy

26. A powerful earthquake hit Aceh Province of Indonesia on 11 April 2012, sparking a short-lived tsunami alert for much of the Indian Ocean. What was the magnitude of the quake as recorded on the Richter scale?

    A) 7.6                     B)7.l                       C)8.3                      D) 8.7                     E) 8.0

27. Who won the grand slam title of the men's Australian Open 2012?

A) Roger Federer                 B) Andy Murray                  C) Novak Djokovic

D) Rafael Nadal                  E) Juan Martin del Potro