CDS English Exam Paper – 15 February 2015

31. A. tagore was
B. one of the greatest poet
C. that ever lived
D. no error

32. A. you may please
B. apply for an advance of salary
C. to cover costs of transport
D. no error

33. A. the taxi that will take the family to haridwar
B. had to be ready
C. at six the next morning
D. no error

34. A. employees are expected to
B. adhere the rules
C. laid down by the management
D. no error

35. A. the owner of the horse
B. greedily ask
C. to high a price
D. no error

36. A. i convinced
B. him to
C. see the play
D. no error

37. A. some man
B. are born
C. great
D. no error

38. A. we must sympathise
B. for others
C. in their troubles
D. no error

39. A. my detailed statement
B. is respectively
C. submitted
D. no error

40. A. i am waiting
B. for my friend
C. since this morning
D. no error

41. A. the representing
B. my constituency
C. for the last five years
D. no error

42. A. if he hears
B. of your conduct
C. he is to be unhappy
D. no error

43. A. no sooner he appeared
B. on the stage than the people
C. began to cheer loudly
D. no error

Ordering of Sentences

Directions – in this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. the middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the answer sheet.

44. S1 : while teaching in the class-room, our teacher suddenly fainted.
S6 : the headmaster at once sanctioned his leave.
P : the headmaster soon joined us and spoke to them in soft voice.
Q : he was told that the patient needed complete rest for a month.
R : he was at once taken to the hospital.
S : the doctors examined him with serious faces.
The proper sequence should be –
A. P Q R S
B. S P Q R
C. Q P S R
D. R S P Q

45. S1 : the colonial powers had a very simple technique to rule the world.
S6 : partition was the culmination.
P : they lumped tribes and people together, played one against the other.
Q : india’s provinces were more elaborately designed to play the game of divide and rule.
R : africa was divided, believe it or not, in the basis of the lines of longitude and latitude.
S : they also purchased the loyalties of those locals who were needed as supports for the colonial presence.
The proper sequence should be –
A. P R S Q
B. P S R Q
C. S P Q R
D. R P S Q

46. S1 : the bank opened at 10-00 a.m.
S6 : the safe was empty.
P : the peon opened the safe and returned the keys to the manager.
Q : the manager and the peon went to the safe in the vault.
R : the manager and the peon looked into the safe.
S : they are shocked at what they saw there.
The proper sequence should be –
A. Q R P S
B. Q P R S
C. S Q R P
D. Q R S P

47. S1 : the crowd swelled round the thief.
S6 : they were followed by the crowd which left the thief alone
P : suddenly he whipped out a knife from under his shirt.
Q : the thief stood quiet, his head hung in sharne.
R : the two young men holding him were scared by the sight of the shining knife.
S : they took to their heels.
The proper sequence should be –
A. Q P R S
B. S Q P R
C. S P Q R
D. R Q S P

48. S1 : the old man wanted to cross the road.
S6 : holding him by hand the driver helped him to cross the road.
P : the driver got off and came to him.
Q : he was fed up and was about to return.
R : then a car stopped in front of him.
S : he waited for a long time.
The proper sequence should be –
A. S Q R P
B. S P R Q
C. Q R S P
D. P S R Q

49. S1 : the first thing you have to do is to speak with a strong foreign accent and speak broken english.
S6 : half a dozen people will immediately overwhelm you with directions.
P : he will be interested in you because you are a foreigner and he will be pleased that he could figure out what you said.
Q : he will not expect you to be polite and use eleborate grammatical phrases.
R : then every english person to whom you speak will at once know that you are a foreigner and try to understand you and be ready to help you.
S : if you shout, “please ! Charing cross ! Which say ?” You will have no difficulty.
The proper sequence should be –
A. S R Q P
B. S R P Q
C. R Q P S
D. R S P Q

50. S1 : when a lamb is born it’s mother may die.
S6 : it a means of overcoming this natural tendency is found, the lives of million of lambs can be saved.
P : thus, there will nearly always be both motherless lambs and sheep without lambs.
Q : however a sheep which has lost its own lamb will not feed or look after a motherless lamb.
R : at the same time some new born lambs are too weak to live.
S : this happens in large flocks where many sheep give birth to lambs at the same time.
The proper sequence should be –
A. P Q S R
B. R P Q S
C. S R Q P
D. S R P Q

51. S1 : people very seldom have everything they want.
S6 : our decisions indicate our scale of preferences and therefore our priorities
P : usually we have to decide carefully how to spend our income.
Q : they may all seem important, but their true importance can be measured by deciding which we are prepared to live without.
R : when we exercise our choice, we do so according to our personal scale of preferences.
S : in this scale of preference essential commodities come first, then the kind of luxuries which help us to be comfortable, and finally those non-essentials which give us personal pleasure.
The proper sequence should be –
A. P S Q R
B. P R S Q
C. Q P S R
D. R P Q S

52. S1 : on 5th october 1818, when young lincoln was approaching his tenth year, his mother nancy died of fever.
S6 : his total education at school comprised only about a year during which he, however managed to master reading, writing, spelling and some arithmetic.
P : she was illiterate, but she brought with her several books, among which were pilgrim’s progress, sindbad the sailor, robinson crusoe and aesop’s fables.
Q : lincoln always acknowledged this moral and intellectual debt to his step mother.
R : the following year, his father married sarah bush johnson, a widow with three children.
S : these books provided lincoln with a mass of knowledge.
The proper sequence should be –
A. R P Q S
B. P S R Q
C. R P S Q
D. P S Q R

53. S1 : crude oil obtained from the field is taken to a refinery for treatment.
S6 : lubricating oils of various grades are obtained last of all.
P : the gas that comes off later is condensed into paraffin.
Q : this allows substances with different boiling points to be separated.
R : the first vapours to rise when cooled provide the finest petrol.
S : the commonest form of treatment is heating.
The proper sequence should be –
A. S Q R P
B. R S P Q
C. S R P Q
D. R P Q S

Sentence Improvement

Directions – look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them is better than the underlined part, mark accordingly in the answer sheet. If none of the substitution improve the sentence, mark (D) on your answer sheet.

54. We need honest workers, not people of redoubtable integrity.
A. doubting
B. doubtful
C. doubtless
D. no improvement

55. I expect player here to be conversant at the rules of game.
A. on
B. about
C. with
D. no improvement

56. There is no alternate, so we must leave now.
A. altering
B. alternative
C. alternation
D. no improvement

57. If i were you, i would do it at once.
A. was
B. am
C. would be

D. no improvement

58. They set a strong guard, lest any one could escape.
A. would
B. might
C. should
D. no improvement

59. The matter called up an explanation of his conduct.

A. out
B. in
C. for
D. no improvement

60. The accused refused having murdered anybody.
A. disagreed
B. denied
C. declaimed
D. no improvement

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