UPSC CDS I Exam Paper 16 April 2023 (English) (Answer Key)

संघ लोक सेवा आयोग UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) द्वारा आयोजित CDS – (Combined Defence Services) Exam (I) – 2023 की परीक्षा दिनांक 16 अप्रैल, 2023 को सम्पन्न हुई। इस परीक्षा का अंग्रेजी (English) का प्रश्नपत्र  उत्तर कुंजी (Exam Paper With Answer Key) सहित यहाँ पर उपलब्ध है।

UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) conducted the CDS (Combined Defence Services) I Exam – 2023. CDS I 2023 Paper held on 16 April, 2023. This paper is English Section. UPSC CDS (I) 2023 English Paper Answer Key available here.

UPSC CDS (I) 2023 Exam Paper (Answer Key)
Subject – English

WORD CLASSES

Directions: Each of the following sentences has word/words underlined. Read the sentence carefully and find which word class the underlined word/words belongs/belong to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

1. I like that boy.
(a) Noun
(b) Demonstrative Pronoun
(c) Participle
(d) Conjunction

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2. Without health there is no happiness.
(a) Noun
(b) Pronoun
(c) Adjective
(d) Adverb

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3. You have no sense.
(a) Noun
(b) Determiner
(c) Adverb
(d) Preposition

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4. None of these cars is in use.
(a) Reflexive Pronoun
(b) Demonstrative Pronoun
(c) Distributive Pronoun
(d) Indefinite Pronoun

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5. We shall now begin to work.
(a) Adverb
(b) Adjective
(c) Conjunction
(d) Pronoun

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6. Owing to his ill health, he retired from business.
(a) Conjunction
(b) Preposition
(c) Participle
(d) Determiner

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7. My sister is just sixteen and therefore not eligible to vote.
(a) Gerund
(b) Adverb
(c) Adjective
(a) Conjunction

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8. They tried to find fault with us.
(a) Participle
(b) Verb
(c) Infinitive
(d) Gerund

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9. Which way shall we go?
(a) Noun
(b) Gerund
(c) Conjunction
(d) Adjective

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10. Alas! He is dead.
(a) Determiner
(b) Conjunction
(c) Preposition
(d) Interjection

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FILL IN THE BLANKS

Directions : Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space and is followed by four choices. Select the most appropriate choice to fill in the blank space.

11. He was ________ speaker that I had ever heard.
(a) the most eloquent
(b) the more eloquent
(c) very eloquent
(d) eloquent

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12. What was the name of the person to ________ you spoke on the phone?
(a) who
(b) whom
(c) whose
(d) which

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13. Have you seen Mohan ________ ?
(a) lately
(b) yesterday
(c) lastly
(d) late

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14. We live in ________ an old house.
(a) rather
(b) fairly
(c) quite
(d) pretty

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15. I’m playing tennis tomorrow unless ________.
(a) it rains
(b) it doesn’t rain.
(c) it rained
(d) it may rain

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16. The ________ of the car is unknown.
(a) make up
(b) making
(c) made up
(d) make

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17. He paid his debts ________ to the last penny.
(a) down
(b) over
(c) full
(d) fully

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18. Developing ________ in a diverse country requires detailed planning.
(a) growth
(b) scarcity
(c) poverty
(d) infrastructure

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19. ________ provisions have been made to support agriculture.
(a) Procurement
(b) Subsidized
(c) Adequate
(d) Capital

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20. The ________ growth in the Indian financial markets can be attributed to a number of reforms.
(a) efficiency
(b) phenomenal
(c) catastrophe
(d) meteor

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