6 Most Important CDS 2 2017 English Exam Problems

In this article we will see some CDSE  important english questions from previous years CDSE papers.

6 Most Important CDS 2 2017 English Exam Problems

1) SPOTTING ERRORS :
In this section, a number of sentences are given. These sentences are in three separate parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is an error in any part. No sentence has more than one error. When you find an error in any one of the parts (a), (b) or (c), indicate your response. You may feel that there is no error in a sentence. In that case, letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.

You are to indicate only one response for each item. (If you indicate more than one response, your answer will be considered wrong.) Errors may be in grammar, word usage or idioms. There may be a word missing or there may be a word which should be removed.

You are not required to correct the error. You are required only to indicate your response.

• There are a number of reasons (a)/ I do not like him, (b)/ but his selfishness is intolerable. (c)/ No error. (d)
  a. a
  b. b
  c. c
  d. d
  Answer. a
• I have read an interesting book yesterday (a)/ and underlined the new words (b)/ which are simple but effective. (c)/ No error. (d)
  a. a
  b. b
  c. c
  d. d
  Answer. a
• He cannot be trusted (a)/ with important secret informations; (b)/ otherwise I would have made him my assistant. (c)/ No error. (d)
  a. a
  b. b
  c. c
  d. d
  Answer. b

2) SENTENCE CORRECTION :
Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response against the corresponding letter (a), (b) or (c). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response. Thus a ‘No improvement’ response will be signified by the letter (d).

• More he gets, more he wants.
  a. The more he gets, the more
  b. The more he gets, more
  c. More gets, the more
  d. No improvement
  Answer. a
• We had a grand party and we enjoyed very much.
  a. Enjoyed very much
  b. We enjoyed ourselves very much
  c. Enjoyed much
  d. No improvement
  Answer. b
• All this has been done with a view to improve the living conditions of the poor.
  a. To improving
  b. Of improving
  c. For improving
  d. No improvement
  Answer. a

3) Synonyms Directions :
Given sentence consists of an underlined word followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most similar in meaning to the underlined word.

• He could rise to this stature because of his invincible courage.
  a. Inviolable
  b. Unmanageable
  c. Unbeatable
  d. Immeasurable
  Answer. c
• Though he is a teacher, his speech lacks distinctness.
  a. Clarity
  b. Precision
  c. Distinction
  d. Fluency
  Answer. a
• The judge was both a judicious and impartial man.
  a. Judicial
  b. Wise
  c. Intelligent
  d. Kind
  Answer. b

4) ANTONYMS DIRECTIONS :
Each question consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words or group of words. Select the word or group of words that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

• The professor had to share a hotel room with a garrulous tax collector.
  a. Dumb
  b. Speechless
  c. Tongue-tied
  d. Silent
  Answer. c
• It was fortuitous that I met her in that party.
  a. Unlucky
  b. Bad
  c. Distressing
  d. Abominable
  Answer. a
• He is zealous only in the initial stages of a project.
  a. Absent-minded
  b. Distraught
  c. Inattentive
  d. Indifferent
  Answer. d

5) FILL IN THE BLANKS DIRECTIONS :
The following sentence has a blank space and four words are given below it. Select the word you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your choiçe

• The fertility of the land is barely sufficient to _________ twelve people to the acre.
  a. Revive
  b. Raise
  c. Sustain
  d. Help
  Answer. c
• Beggars are unable to__________ their power of choice as they are denied any alternative.
  a. Exercise
  b. Select
  c. Declare
  d. Prove
  Answer. a
• Poetry is the ___________ of deep and intense feelings of human heart.
  a. Spurt
  b. Outcome
  c. Flow
  d. Outpouring
  Answer. d

6) Reading Comprehension

Light is made up of electromagnetic waves. These vary in length and it is these differences that we perceive as different colours. White light has all the wavelengths of the light spectrum mixed up together. An object looks coloured because light falls on it and it reflects only certain parts of the spectrum. The rest of the spectrum is absorbed by the object. An object that looks white reflects all the light that falls on it. An object that looks red reflects the red part of the spectrum and absorbs the rest. Our eyes detect these different reflected waves and we see them as different colours.

a. Without colours we would consider the world a dull and less beautiful place.

• True
• False
• Cannot tell

b. White light is an amalgam of all the wave lengths of light.

• True
• False
• Cannot tell

c. The passage states that an object that looks blue absorbs all but the blue wavelengths of light.

• True
• False
• Cannot tell