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CDS || English || Miscellaneous || 23-12-2018
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Question 1
Direction: GIven below is a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read the passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.
On a Saturday morning in a hall in north London, two young children put on a spirited production of a scene from Stanislaw Wyspianski’s “The Wedding”, a tragic satire about national liberation. Fifty or so more, most below the age of ten, watch attentively. It is the first weekend back at school, and the festivities are part of Poland’s national reading day. The performance over, the children stream out into the sunlight, ready for their time off to begin
For young Poles in Britain, Saturday school is an increasingly common experience. Founded in the late 1940s by refugees, the number and size of such schools has grown fast over the past decade or so. In 2002 there were 45 registered with the Polish Educational Society. There are now 130, with around 20 more unregistered ones and another ten being set up. As one parent explains, “There is a nice kind of pressure to attend. If you don’t, other parents will ask why not.”
On a Saturday morning in a hall in north London, two young children put on a spirited production of a scene from Stanislaw Wyspianski’s “The Wedding”, a tragic satire about national liberation. Fifty or so more, most below the age of ten, watch attentively. It is the first weekend back at school, and the festivities are part of Poland’s national reading day. The performance over, the children stream out into the sunlight, ready for their time off to begin
For young Poles in Britain, Saturday school is an increasingly common experience. Founded in the late 1940s by refugees, the number and size of such schools has grown fast over the past decade or so. In 2002 there were 45 registered with the Polish Educational Society. There are now 130, with around 20 more unregistered ones and another ten being set up. As one parent explains, “There is a nice kind of pressure to attend. If you don’t, other parents will ask why not.”
The young children were performing an act to celebrate which of the following day?
Question 2
Direction: GIven below is a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read the passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.
On a Saturday morning in a hall in north London, two young children put on a spirited production of a scene from Stanislaw Wyspianski’s “The Wedding”, a tragic satire about national liberation. Fifty or so more, most below the age of ten, watch attentively. It is the first weekend back at school, and the festivities are part of Poland’s national reading day. The performance over, the children stream out into the sunlight, ready for their time off to begin
For young Poles in Britain, Saturday school is an increasingly common experience. Founded in the late 1940s by refugees, the number and size of such schools has grown fast over the past decade or so. In 2002 there were 45 registered with the Polish Educational Society. There are now 130, with around 20 more unregistered ones and another ten being set up. As one parent explains, “There is a nice kind of pressure to attend. If you don’t, other parents will ask why not.”
On a Saturday morning in a hall in north London, two young children put on a spirited production of a scene from Stanislaw Wyspianski’s “The Wedding”, a tragic satire about national liberation. Fifty or so more, most below the age of ten, watch attentively. It is the first weekend back at school, and the festivities are part of Poland’s national reading day. The performance over, the children stream out into the sunlight, ready for their time off to begin
For young Poles in Britain, Saturday school is an increasingly common experience. Founded in the late 1940s by refugees, the number and size of such schools has grown fast over the past decade or so. In 2002 there were 45 registered with the Polish Educational Society. There are now 130, with around 20 more unregistered ones and another ten being set up. As one parent explains, “There is a nice kind of pressure to attend. If you don’t, other parents will ask why not.”
What can be said about ‘the Wedding’?
Question 3
Direction: GIven below is a short passage. After the passage, you will find some items based on the passage. First, read the passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.
On a Saturday morning in a hall in north London, two young children put on a spirited production of a scene from Stanislaw Wyspianski’s “The Wedding”, a tragic satire about national liberation. Fifty or so more, most below the age of ten, watch attentively. It is the first weekend back at school, and the festivities are part of Poland’s national reading day. The performance over, the children stream out into the sunlight, ready for their time off to begin
For young Poles in Britain, Saturday school is an increasingly common experience. Founded in the late 1940s by refugees, the number and size of such schools has grown fast over the past decade or so. In 2002 there were 45 registered with the Polish Educational Society. There are now 130, with around 20 more unregistered ones and another ten being set up. As one parent explains, “There is a nice kind of pressure to attend. If you don’t, other parents will ask why not.”
On a Saturday morning in a hall in north London, two young children put on a spirited production of a scene from Stanislaw Wyspianski’s “The Wedding”, a tragic satire about national liberation. Fifty or so more, most below the age of ten, watch attentively. It is the first weekend back at school, and the festivities are part of Poland’s national reading day. The performance over, the children stream out into the sunlight, ready for their time off to begin
For young Poles in Britain, Saturday school is an increasingly common experience. Founded in the late 1940s by refugees, the number and size of such schools has grown fast over the past decade or so. In 2002 there were 45 registered with the Polish Educational Society. There are now 130, with around 20 more unregistered ones and another ten being set up. As one parent explains, “There is a nice kind of pressure to attend. If you don’t, other parents will ask why not.”
How do parents react to Saturday Schools?
Question 4
Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of word. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
He was going at such speeds that avoiding collision was almost impossible.
Question 5
Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of word. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
The player was sidelined from the game due to a heavy injury.
Question 6
Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of word. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
He was certain that his team would win the match irrespective of the weather conditions.
Question 7
Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of word. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
Section 144 was imposed in Ayodhya after 25,000 sena workers moved in.
Question 8
Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
Of all the motorcycles available there, he chose the one with yellow stripes on the back.
Question 9
Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
Right away, she took up a position to fire at the attackers and began calling for reinforcements.
Question 10
Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/group of words. Select the option that is opposite in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.
Rebel officials denied the allegations and said their forces did not possess chemical weapons.
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