CDS Exam (I)- 2016 - English Defence Question Paper

The bird-catcher
P: by means of snares
Q: knew all the birds of the forest
R: by the hundred
S: and was accustomed to capturing the winged creatures
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Man is
P: a biological being
Q: his physical and material needs
R: confined to
S: not merely
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A gang of robbers
P: while they were fast asleep
Q: entered the village
R: and stole the property of the villagers
S: at night
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The opposition members
P: the ruling of the Speaker
Q: to protest against
R: of the Parliament
S: walked out
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When
P: a boy saved her
Q: by a speeding car
R: at the risk of his life
S: a little girl was about to be run over
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ORDERING OF SENTENCES
Directions (Next 10 Questions): 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.

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 to 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.
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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 of it, until we can use it instinctively.
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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 and 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.
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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.
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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.
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