CDS II English II Miscellaneous II 24-02-2019 for CDS & Defence Exams

Question 1

Choose the most appropriate option to change the narration (direct/indirect) of the given sentence.

"Have you come from Japan?" said the shopkeeper to the tourist.

Question 2

Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four options. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response accordingly.

Most of the political leaders tend to make distorting facts in their speeches.

Question 3

Directions: Each item in the section contains a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on your Answer Sheet accordingly.

My grandmother is very apprehensive.

Question 4

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 nearest in meaning to the underlined word/words and mark your response in your Answer Sheet accordingly.

The newspaper made a gloomy forecast about the country’s economy.

Question 5

Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space and four words or group of words are given after the sentence. Select the most appropriate word or group of words for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

The country owes a deep debt of________ for the freedom fighters.

Question 6

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

You must go to the station now, your brother_______ go just yet as his train leaves after three hours.

Question 7

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Send him to Coventry

Question 8

In the following question, four alternatives are given for the idiom/phrase printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

When they immigrated to a new country, it is safe to say they did it for loaves and fishes.

Question 9

Direction: Look at the underlined part of each sentence. 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).

I could scarcely believe that she has once kill someone.

Question 10

Direction: Look at the underlined part of each sentence. 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).

After Don told me this, then he spoke of his mother.