CDS English Exam Paper – 9 February 2014

Selecting Words

Directions-(Q. 91-110) in the following passages at certain points you are given a choice of three words in brackets, one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the word which best fits the meaning of the passage and mark the corresponding letter viz., (A), (B) or (C) on your answer sheet. Examples Y and Z have been solved for you.
Y. (A) Boy was in the school in shimla.
(B) Horse
(C) Dog
Z. (A) She was homesick.
(B) It
(C) He
Explanation– out of the list given in item Y. only boy is the correct answer because usually a boy. and not a horse or a dog, attends school. So (A) is to be marked on the answer sheet for item Y. A boy is usually referred to as ‘he’, so for item Z, the letter (C) is correct answer. Notice that to solve this kind of items you have to read the preceding or succeeding sentences of the given passage.

Passage-I

91. One of the most interesting new books published recently is “Spaceship” by prof. E.C. walker. Ourearth he says
A. is / B. have been / C. will be

92. Like a spaceship, and all the 400 million people
A. over / B. on / C. upon

93. Earth are passengers on it. And we are heading
A. about / B. to / C. towards

94. A disaster.the levels of atmospheric pollution
A. increasing / B. arriving / C. coming

95. In the cities and industrial areas of the world could in time change the weather patterns of the earth, raising the temperature
A. in / B. of / C. for

96. The whole planet. If this rose a few
A. degrees / B. steps / C. miles

97. The deserts of the world would expand to double their size. The polar ice caps would start melting. If the polarice caps melted, the
A. water / B. ice / C. sea

98. Level all over the world would rise
A. in / B. by / C. to

99. About 60 meters. Prof. walker’s
A. idea / B. thought / C. book

100. Is not at all about gloom and doom. He admits that the
A. ideas / B. solutions / C. changes

PASSAGE-II

101. Sometimes the messages are sent with
A. many /B. Few / C. no

102. Accompanying words and we speak in
A. body / B. signal / C. foreign

103. Language alone. But what gestures make
A. with body / B. up / C. into

104. Language ? most of us are
A. easy / B. familiar / C. efficient

105. With the common hand gestures. some
A. students / B. people / C. oficers

106. Cannot talk without using their hands
A. we / B. arms / C. they

107. Reach out as they explain almost
A. exacting / B. shaping / C. changing

108. Their words, emphasizing and exaggerating and
A. teaching / B. holding / C. punctuating

109. Their hands. Other people hardly
A. adjust / B. use / C. wave

110. Their hands at all when they
A. lecture. / B. unite. / C. talk.

Ordering of Sentences

Directions-(Q. 111-120) in the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. the middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and indicate your answer accordingly on the answer sheet.

111. S1 : the lions used to be widely distributed in africa and asia.
S6 : no hunting is permitted in such reserved areas.
P : there are special forest zones set aside for wildlife in various countries.
Q : indiscriminate killing by hunters has been the cause of this drastic fall in their numbers.
R : today they are a relatively rare species.
S : if the species survives at all, it will be only in national parks.
The proper sequence should be :
A. RSQP
B. SQRP
C. RQSP
D. SRPQ

112. S1 : the woman who lives a normal life is able to check the swelling conceit and egotism of her menfolk simply because her outlook is so different.
S6 : and both ranges of interest make her what only fools deny her to be, namely essentially practical; her eye is steadily fixed on the concrete thing, and she mistrusts that chasing of the wild goose which is one of the chief pastimes and delights of man.
P : she is primarily concerned with little ordinary things, the minutiae of talk and behaviour for example, on the one hand, and with very big ones, the colossal elementary facts of life, such as birth, mating and death on the other.
Q : the first are personal and particular; whereas the second, those enormous facts about life which women are never allowed to lose sight of, are, of course, universal, meaning just as much in the fiji islands as they do here.
R : her interests are at once narrower and wider than those of men.
S : it is more personal and yet more impersonal.
The proper sequence should be :
A. PQSR
B. PRSQ
C. SPQR
D. SRPQ

113. S1 : what soda-water is composed of you may see for yourself if you watch your glass as it stands on the table after you have slaked your first thirst.
S6 : ‘Carbonic acid’ is the old name for it, but it is more correct to name it, when it is out of the water, ‘Carbon dioxide’.
P : the liquid is plain water, as you will find out if you are too slow about drinking.
Q : you will see that it is separating into two different things, a liquid and a gas.
R : the gas is so heavy that you can fairly drink it from the glass, and it has, as you know, a tingle-tangle taste.
S : the other is a heavy, sour and invisible gas that slips up through the water in little bubbles and collects in the empty half of the glass.
The proper sequence should be :
A. QRSP
B. PRQS
C. QPSR
D. RSPQ

114. S1 : what martin luther king, the peaceful warrior and his followers suffered, it is very difficult to describe.
S6 : for they had taken an oath to ‘refrain from the violence of the fist, tongue or heart’.
P : the police used fire hoses and ferocious dogs to rout them.
Q : the law courts sent them to solitary confinement where not a ray of the sun entered.
R : they were abused and stoned by the mob, slapped and kicked by the police.
S : they suffered and tolerated all this without ever lifting a hand in self defence.
The proper sequence should be :
A. SRPQ
B. RPQS
C. PRSQ
D. QRSP

115. S1 : there are, i think, several factors that contribute to wisdom.
S6 : you have not time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine.
P : this has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the specialized knowledge required of various kinds of technicians.
Q : of these i should put first a sense of proportion : the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight.
R : the work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your intellectual energy.
S : suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine.
The proper sequence should be :
A. QPSR
B. QRPS
C. QSPR
D. QSRP

116. S1 : there were no finger prints anywhere.
S6 : these conclusions made the detectives think that it was fake theft.
P : first of all it was impossible even for a child to enter through the hole in the roof.
Q : when the investigators tried to reconstruct the crime, they came up against facts.
R : moreover, when the detectives tried to push a silver vase, it was found to be double the size of the hole.
S : again, the size of the hole was examined by the experts who said that nothing had been passed through it.
The proper sequence should be :
A. PQRS
B. QPRS
C. SQRP
D. QRSP

117. S1 : If you want to film a scene in slow motion you run the camera twice as fast as usual, which sounds ridiculous but isn’t.
S6 : on the screen, everything appears at half the speed at which the camera recorded it when it was filmed.
P : if you are filming in slow motion, however, the camera runs at twice the normal speed, yet, in spite of this, the projector which shows the film will be run at the normal speed, and this means that the projector will show the film at half the speed at which it was photographed.

Q : this is because the camera which took the pictures and the projector which shows them run at the same speed.
R : when a film camera is running at normal speed, it takes twenty-four pictures a second.
S : when the film is run through the film-projector in the camera twenty-four pictures a second appear on the screen.
The proper sequence should be :
A. PSRQ
B. PSQR
C. SRQP
D. RSQP

118. S1 : great quantities of animal oil come from whales.
S6 : a few other creatures also yield oil.
P : it produces a great quantity of oil which can be made into food for human consumption.
Q : these enormous creatures of the sea are the largest remaining animals in the world.
R : when the whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down.
S : to protect the whales from the cold of the arctic seas, nature has provided it with a thick covering of fat called blubber.
The proper sequence should be :
A. PSRQ
B. QSRP
C. PRQS
D. RPQS

119. S1 : the distance between theatre and reality has stretched so far that when we come across a truly contemporary play, it is a cause for rejoicing.
S6 : but the question is, have we forgotten his legacy in modern india ?
P : it searches our collective psyche like an unrelenting laser beam.
Q : most importantly, the play question whether religion and politics can fuse together in modern india.
The proper sequence should be :
A. SRPQ
B. RSPQ
C. SPQR
D. RQPS

120. S1 : We who live in the present day world are proud to call ourselves civilized.
S6 : in fact science has added to out worries.
P : but let us search our hearts and ask ourselves, ‘has science solved our problem ?”
Q : is it because we live and dress better than our forefathers ?
R : frankly speaking, the answer is ‘No’.
S : of course, we have the advantages of the invention of science which our ancestors had never known.
The proper sequence should be :
A. PQRS
B. QSPR
C. PRSQ
D. SPRQ

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