CDS General English(2) Questions and answers

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Directions (Q.101-105): Read the following passages and answer the items that follow. Read the following passages and answer the items that follow.

PASSAGE-IV:
 An earthquake comes like a thief in the night, without warning. It was necessary, therefore, to invent instruments that neither slumbered nor slept. Some devices were quite simple. One, for instance, consisted of rods of various lengths and thicknesses which would stand up on end like ninepins.When a shock came it shook the rigid able upon which these stood. If it were gentle, only the more unstable rods tell. If it were severe, they all fell.Thus the rods by falling and by the directions in which they fell, recorded for the slumbering scientist, the strength of a shock that was too weak to waken him and the direction from which it came.

But, instruments far more delicate than that were needed if any really serious advance was to be made. The ideal to be aimed at was to devise an instrument that could record with a pen on paper the movements, of the ground or of the table, as the quake passed by. While I write my pen moves but the paper keeps still. With practice, no doubt, I could, in time, learn to write by holding the pen still while the paper moved. That sounds a silly suggestion, but that was precisely the idea adopted in some of the early instruments (seismometers) for recording earthquake waves. But when table, penholder and paper are all moving how is it possible to write legibly? The key to a solution of that problem lay in an everyday observation. Why does a person standing in a bus or train tend to fall when a sudden starts is made? It is because his feet move on, but his head stays still.
101). The passage says that early instruments for , measuring earthquakes were:
A). faulty in design
B). expensive
C). not sturdy
D). not sensitive enough
102). Why was it necessary to invent instruments to observe an earthquake?
A). Because an earthquake comes like a thief in the night
B). To make people alert about earthquakes during their conscious as well as unconscious hours
C). To prove that we are technically advanced
D). To experiment with the control of man over nature
103). A simple device which consisted of rods that stood up on end like ninepins was replaced by a more sophisticated one because it failed:
A). to measure a gentle earthquake
B). to measure a severe earthquake
C). to record the direction of the earthquake
D). to record the facts with a pen on paper
104). The everyday observation referred to in the passage relates to:
A). a moving bus or train
B). the sudden start of a bus
C). the tendency of a standing person to fall when a bus or train moves suddenly
D). pe0ple standing in a bus or train
105). The early seismometers adopted the idea that in order to record the earthquake, it is:
A). the pen that should move just as it moves when we write on paper
B). the pen that should stay still and the paper should move
C). both pen and paper that should move
D). neither pen nor paper that should move


Directions (Q.106-116): There is a sentence of which some parts have been jumbled up. You are required to rearrange these parts which are labeled P, Q, R and S, to produce the correct sentence. Choose the correct sequence and mark in you answer sheet accordingly.
106). There must be countries now in which peasants /can spend several years in universities (p)/so that(Q)/a lot of young persons(R)/are going without substantial meals(S)/ The proper sequence should be:
A). SRQP
B). PQRS
C). SQRP
D). QPSR
107). Athens /it was also(P)/the first democracy in the world(Q)/was not only(R)/ an almost perfect democracy(S)/
The proper sequence should be:
A). RSPQ
B). PQRS
C). RQPS
D). QPSR
108). The practice of taking performance-boosting drugs among athletes/ but checking it is not going to be easy(P)/is generally conceded to be unfair(Q)/of the detection technology(R)/for the user is generally one jump ahead(S)/
The proper sequence should be:
A). RSPQ
B). QPSR
C). QPRS
D). PQRS
109). All religions are/ to advance the cause of peace(P)/ in a holy partnership(Q)/ justice and freedom(R)/ bound together(S)/
The proper sequence should be:
A). PRQS
B). PQRS
C). SQPR
D). SPQR
110). Seventy two people /reports PTI(P)/were affected by food poisoning(Q)/including several women and children(R)/ of the central part of the city (S)/
The proper sequence should be:
A). SPQR
B). PQRS
C). RSPQ
D). RSQP
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