English Defence Exam | Revision Quiz 2020 for CDS & Defence Exams

Question 1

Directions : In this section, there are four short passages. After each passage, you will find a few questions, each on what is stated or implied in the passage. First read a passage and then answer the questions following the passage.
PASSAGE
Even in the most primitive societies the great majority of people satisfy a large part of their material needs by exchanging goods and services. Very few people indeed can make for themselves everything they need-all their food, their clothes, their housing, their tools. Ever since men started living in communities, they have been satisfying their needs by means of specialization and exchange; increasingly each individual has concentrated on what he can do best, and has produced more of the special goods or services in which he has concentrated, than he can consume himself. The surplus he has exchanged with other members of the community, acquiring, in exchange the things he needs that other have produced.

Very few people can satisfy their needs today by

Question 2

Directions : In this section, there are four short passages. After each passage, you will find a few questions, each on what is stated or implied in the passage. First read a passage and then answer the questions following the passage.
PASSAGE
Even in the most primitive societies the great majority of people satisfy a large part of their material needs by exchanging goods and services. Very few people indeed can make for themselves everything they need-all their food, their clothes, their housing, their tools. Ever since men started living in communities, they have been satisfying their needs by means of specialization and exchange; increasingly each individual has concentrated on what he can do best, and has produced more of the special goods or services in which he has concentrated, than he can consume himself. The surplus he has exchanged with other members of the community, acquiring, in exchange the things he needs that other have produced.

Exchange of goods becomes possible only when

Question 3

Directions : In this section, there are four short passages. After each passage, you will find a few questions, each on what is stated or implied in the passage. First read a passage and then answer the questions following the passage.
PASSAGE
Even in the most primitive societies the great majority of people satisfy a large part of their material needs by exchanging goods and services. Very few people indeed can make for themselves everything they need-all their food, their clothes, their housing, their tools. Ever since men started living in communities, they have been satisfying their needs by means of specialization and exchange; increasingly each individual has concentrated on what he can do best, and has produced more of the special goods or services in which he has concentrated, than he can consume himself. The surplus he has exchanged with other members of the community, acquiring, in exchange the things he needs that other have produced.

Specialization and exchang began when men started

Question 4

Directions : In this section, there are four short passages. After each passage, you will find a few questions, each on what is stated or implied in the passage. First read a passage and then answer the questions following the passage.
PASSAGE
Even in the most primitive societies the great majority of people satisfy a large part of their material needs by exchanging goods and services. Very few people indeed can make for themselves everything they need-all their food, their clothes, their housing, their tools. Ever since men started living in communities, they have been satisfying their needs by means of specialization and exchange; increasingly each individual has concentrated on what he can do best, and has produced more of the special goods or services in which he has concentrated, than he can consume himself. The surplus he has exchanged with other members of the community, acquiring, in exchange the things he needs that other have produced.

Exchange of goods and services becomes necessary because

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 to the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Hitesh explained why the work wasn't ready, but his story doesn't _______.

Question 6

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 to the Answer Sheet accordingly.

Anjali spotted Rahul on the other side of the room and ______________ him.

Question 7

In the following question, a sentence is given with a blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

You were going to apply for the job, and then you decided not to. So what _________?

Question 8

Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

Question 9

Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

French research scientists reported (a)/ that they discovered vaccine which (b)/ was extremely effective in curing dengue fever.(c)/ No Error (d)/

Question 10

Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

The depletion of ozone in the atmosphere is a reminder to all of us (a)/ both in the developed and developing world that they cannot (b)/ continue to use contraptions which give out noxious gases.(c)/ No Error (d)/