CDS English Exam Paper – 14 February 2016

61. A. neither of these two documents
B. support your claim
C. on the property
D. no error

62. A. he is school teacher
B. but all his sons
C. are doctors
D. no error

63. A. his grandfather
B. had told him to smoke
C. was a bad habit
D. no error

64. A. my book which
B. i gave it to you yesterday
C. is very interesting
D. no error

65. A. i am entirely agreeing with you
B. but i regret
C. i can’t help you
D. no error

Ordering of Sentences

Directions – for the following 10 (ten) items :
In the following items each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. the middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S.you are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the answer sheet.

66. S1 : once upon a time there was a king who had a wonderfully nice garden.

S6 : in the trees lived a nightingale that sang so sweetly that all who passed by stood still and listened.
P : in the middle of the garden there was a lovely forest with tall trees and deep lakes.
Q :in this garden were to be seen the most wonderful flowers with silver bells tied of them
R : the garden was so large that even the gardener himself did not know where it began and where it ended.
S : these bells always sounded so that nobody should pass by without noticing the flowers.
The proper sequence should be-
A. Q P R S
B. S P Q R
C. Q S R P
D. Q P S R

67. S1 : one of the first things the learning of a new language teaches you is that language comes from the region of the unconscious.
S6 : the test of how much you know is : how much can you say without having to think how you are going to say it ?
P : what is often meant by “thinking in a language” is really the ability to use it without thinking about it.
Q :we grown-up people have to filter it through our minds – a much more laborious process.
R : that is why children learn a new language so effortlessly : it comes straight from their instincts.
S : but we cannot say that we know a language, or know what we have studied or it, until we can use it instinctively.
The proper sequence should be-
A. S Q R P
B. R P S Q
C. P Q S R
D. R Q S P

68. S1 : for seventeen years she led a sheltered life in the convent.
S6 : two years later she left the loreto convent where she had spent many happy had useful years.
P : her heart went out to the people living there.
Q : in 1946 she asked for permission to work in the slums.
R : then one day, while she was returning from an errand, she saw the slums of calcutta.
S : she felt she had found her second vocation, her real calling.
The proper sequence should be-
A. P R S Q
B. R P S Q
C. R P Q S
D. Q R P S

69. S1 : good memory is so common that we regard a man who does not possess it as eccentric.
S6 : she wheeled away the perambulator, picturing to herself his terror when he would come out and find the baby gone.
P : i have heard of a father who, having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to pause on his journey and slip into a public house for a glass of beer.
Q : a little later, his wife had to do some shopping which took her past the public house where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby.
R : leaving the perambulator outside, he disappeared into the drink shop.
S : indignant at her husband’s behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson.
The proper sequence should be-
A. P Q R S
B. P R Q S
C. P S Q R
D. P Q S R

70. S1 : human ways of life have steadily changed.
S6 : even if we try to do nothing, we cannot prevent change.
P : ancient egypt – greece – the roman empire – the dark ages and the middle ages – the renaissance – the age of modern science and of modern nations one has succeeded the other; the history has never stood still.
Q : about ten thousand years ago, man lived entirely by hunting.
R : a settled civilized life only began when agriculture was discovered.
S : from that time to this, civilization has always been changing.
The proper sequence should be-
A. Q R S P
B. Q P S R
C. Q S R P
D. P R S Q

71. S1 : in our youth we are apt to think that applause and publicity constitute success.
S6 : so let us be initiated into the mysteries of maturity and be taught how to resist and spurn the lure of hollow shows.
P : the man who values the applause more than his own effort has not outgrown his youth.
Q : it is our achievement or work which wins lasting rewards.
R : but these are only the trappings, the ephemeral illusions.
S : one should cocentrate on one’s work knowing that applause will come unsought.
The proper sequence should be-
A. S R Q P
B. P S R Q
C. Q P S R
D. R Q P S

72. S1 : my office sent an urgent email asking me to return.
S6 : it was evening before i could sit and write to my parents that i would be joining them soon.
P : i immediately replied requesting a few days of grace as i had to book the return passage, pack and attend sundry matters before winding up my establishment here.
Q : on the way, i went to the laundry and made sure i would get my clothes in time.
R : then i rushed to the blank, collected all my money and made reservations for my return journey.
S : from the shop next to it, i bought a couple of trunks to dump my books and other odd articles so that i could send them away in advance.
The proper sequence should be-
A. P Q R S
B. P R Q S
C. P R S Q
D. P S R Q

73. S1 : wordsworth knew the behaviour of owls in the night better then most of us know the ways of black birds in day time.
S6 : hisgreat poetry owes much to the night.
P : out of school there were no restrictions on the hours he kept.
Q : no poet ever had happier school days.
R : he would skate by the light of the stars, snare woodcocks at dead of night, watch the sunrise after a long ramble.
S : throughout life he was an inveterate walker by night.
The proper sequence should be-
A. Q P R S
B. P S Q R
C. Q R P S
D. S Q P R

74. S1 : science has already conferred an immense boon on mankind by the growth of the medicine.
S6 : the general death rate in 1948 (10-8) was the lowest ever recorded up to that date.
P : it has continued ever since and is still continuing.
Q : I the eighteenth country people expected most of the their children to die before they were grown up.
R : in 1920 the infant mortality rate in England and wales was 80 per thousand; in 1948 it was 34 per thousand.
S : improvement began at the start of the nineteenth century, chiefly owing to vaccination.
The proper sequence should be-
A. R P Q S
B. Q S P R
C. S Q R P
D. P Q S R

75. S1 : the young traveller gazed out into the dismal country with a face of mingled repulsion and interest.
S6 : he quickly restored it to his secret pocket.
P : at intervals he drew from his pocket a bulky letter to which he referred, and on the margins of which he scribbled some notes.
Q : it was a navy revolver of the largest size.
R : from the back of his waist he produced something which one would hardly have expected to find in the possession of so mild-mannered a man.
S : as the turned it slantwise to the light, the glint upon the rims of the copper shells within the drum showed that it was fully loaded.
The proper sequence should be-
A. P Q R S
B. R P Q S
C. Q P R S
D. P R Q S

Fill i the Blank

Directions – for the following 10 (ten) items :
Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space and four words are given after each sentence. Select whichever word you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the answer sheet accordingly.

76. The mounting pressure was so over-whelming that he ultimately…………to her wish.
A. yielded in
B. gave in
C. cowed in
D. agreed in

77. Authority………….when it is not supported by the moral purity of its user.
A. prevails
B. entails
C. crumbles
D. waits

78. In a developing country like india some industries will have to be brought within public………..and control, for otherwise rapid growth of the economy may be impossible.
A. perspective
B. hegemony
C. observation
D. ownership

79. Gandhiji conceived of the idea of channelizing the powerful currents of the united mass movement so as to give the utmost impetus to the national ………….for independence.
A. struggle
B. conflict
C. onslaught
D. march

80. Because of his…………habits, he could not save much money.
A. extravagant
B. frugal
C. unsavoury
D. bad

81. Socrates was…………of spreading discontent among young men of athens and of trying to destroy their faith in the old gods.
A. rebuked
B. disparaged
C. accused
D. demonised

82. The robbers fell ……………amongst themselves over the sharing of the loot.
A. out
B. through
C. off
D. across

83. A really sophisticated person would never be ……………enough to think that he is always right.
A. reverent
B. naive
C. articulate
D. humble

84. Speeding and blocking are traffic offences which lead to ……….accidents.
A. troublesome
B. final
C. great
D. gruesome

85. Creative people are often ………..with their own uniqueness.
A. obsessed
B. deranged
C. unbalanced
D. dissatisfied

Sentence Improvement

Directions – for the following 20 (twenty) items :
Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible subsitutions for the underlined for the underlined part. If one of them (A), (B) or (C) id better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the answer sheet against the corresponding letter (A), (B) or (C). if none of the subsitutions improves the sentence, indicate (D) as your reponse on the answer sheet.thus a “no improvement” reponse will be signified by the letter (D).

86. The police accused him for theft.
A. with
B. in
C. of
D. no improvement

87. He wanted that i left immediately.
A. i may leave
B. me to leave
C. i leave
D. no improvement

88. This to certify that I know Mr. J. Mathews since 1970.
A. am knowing
B. had known
C. have known
D. no improvement

89. They took away everything that belonged to him.
A. that had been belonging
B. the belong
C. that has been belonging
D. no improvement

90. It was the mother of the girl of whose voice i had recognized
A. whose voice

B. the voice of who
C. voice whose
D. no improvement

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