PPSC Superintendent BS-17 Past Paper 2026 Solved Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: Blessing

A benediction is a formal utterance of a blessing, especially at the end of a religious service.

Correct Answer: Illegal

Unlawful means contrary to or forbidden by law, which is synonymous with illegal.

Correct Answer: Rare

Infrequent means not occurring often, which is synonymous with rare.

Correct Answer: She asked me to write it down for her

The phrase 'Could you...' is a polite request; in indirect speech, it is best expressed using an infinitive structure (asked me to).

Correct Answer: He says that he worked as a manager

Because the reporting verb 'says' is in the present tense, the tense inside the quotation marks does not need to backshift.

Correct Answer: Extremely happy

The idiom 'on cloud nine' describes a state of perfect happiness or euphoria.

Correct Answer: To be exactly right

The idiom means to describe exactly what is causing a situation or problem.

Correct Answer: Reveal secret unintentionally

To 'let the cat out of the bag' means to disclose a secret by mistake.

Correct Answer: Compassionate

A ruthless person lacks pity or compassion, making 'compassionate' the logical antonym.

Correct Answer: Were the clothes ironed by her?

The sentence is in the past simple tense. To change it to passive voice, we use 'Were' + past participle.

Correct Answer: A mistake seems to have been made by you

In passive construction for 'seem to have made', the verb structure shifts to 'seem to have been made'.

Correct Answer: To

The verb 'stick' in the context of maintaining beliefs or principles is followed by the preposition 'to'.

Correct Answer: From

The verb 'refrain' is conventionally followed by the preposition 'from' when indicating stopping oneself from an action.

Correct Answer: The horse is a faithful animal

Using 'The' with a singular noun in this context makes it a representative of the whole species, followed by 'a' for the singular noun 'animal'.

Correct Answer: The teachers' loud voices startled the five-year-old child. What a scene!

Possessive 'teachers'' requires an apostrophe, compound modifiers like 'five-year-old' require hyphens, and the sentence requires proper terminal punctuation.

Correct Answer: Cut

The function of a microscope is to magnify, and the primary function of a knife is to cut.

Correct Answer: Money

While specific currency units (coins, dollars, notes) are countable, 'money' is treated as an uncountable mass noun in English.

Correct Answer: Arrested

The context implies a simple completed action, making the past tense 'arrested' the most suitable choice.

Correct Answer: Hear

The verb 'hear' is a verb of perception and is typically not used in the continuous tense; 'I hear' is the grammatically correct form.

Correct Answer: Remain peaceful

Based on the context of speaking to an audience, 'remain peaceful' is the standard idiomatic instruction.