UPSC CDS 2 Exam – 04 Sep 2022 (English) (Answer Key)

UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) conducted the CDS (Combined Defence Services) II Exam – 2022. CDS II 2022 Paper held on 4 September, 2022. This paper is English Section. UPSC CDS (II) 2022 English Paper Answer Key available here.

Exam  – UPSC CDS (II) 2022
Organized by – UPSC
Subject – English
Date of Exam – 4^th September, 2022
SET – D
Number of Question  – 120

UPSC CDS (II) 2022 Exam Paper (Answer Key)
Subject – English

SPOTTING ERRORS

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).

1.
(a) It would be nice to have
(b) a good evening stroll
(c) after five hours of office.
(b) No error

2.
(a) Arun likes
(b) Geography more than
(c) he likes History.
(d) No error

3.
(a) While the solar energy has grabbed the spotlight,
(b) wind power too has been made steady progress
(c) across the world and in India.
(d) No error

4.
(a) Pride brings a
(b) great dealing of vanity,
(c) an egotistic inflation.
(d) No error

5.
(a) Persuasion happens only
(b) when someone takes a stand
(c) from which he has unwilling to move.
(d) No error

6.
(a) The food consumed
(b) is converted on
(c) the body into glucose.
(d) No error

7.
(a) This testing method requires
(b) one to fast overnight after which
(c) the fasting blood sugar level is measured.
(d) No error

8.
(a) Multiple research studies
(b) have laid emphasis on the importance
(c) of walking to improved glucose control.
(d) No error

9.
(a) This also allows
(b) individual writers
(c) to play his strengths.
(d) No error

10.
(a) As a screen writer,
(b) there are, broadly speaking,
(c) two kind of jobs in the film world.
(d) No error

PARTS OF SPEECH

Directions: Each of the following sentences has a word or phrase underlined. Read the sentences carefully and find which part of speech the underlined word belongs to. Indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

11. He headed the Indian freedom struggle which paved the way for non-violent struggle for other countries in the 20^th century:
(a) Relative pronoun
(b) Adjective
(c) Interrogative
(d) Assertive

12. Where there is peace for some time, there will be prosperity.
(a) Interrogative
(b) Adverb
(c) Adjective
(d) Relative pronoun

13. Alas! We have been defeated is
(a) Adjective
(b) Connector
(c) Interjection
(d) Interrogative

14. A zero is a zero always.
(a) Noun
(b) Compound noun
(c) Pronoun
(d) Adjective

15. May you be blessed with all good things of life.
(a) Verb
(b) Adverb
(c) Noun
(d) Pronoun

16. The lake is one of the more beautiful ones in the country.
(a) Adjective
(b) Adverb
(c) Quantifier
(d) Noun

17. Honesty is the best policy.
(a) Countable noun
(b) Pronoun
(c) Common noun
(d) Uncountable noun

18. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
(a) Preposition
(b) Adverb
(c) Connector
(d) Conjunction

19. Ravi and Megha reached first, but Guha and Saavi finished third.
(a) Interjection
(b) Conjunction
(c) Connector
(d) Pronoun

20. He is the most sought after teacher in the school.
(a) Determiner
(b) Adverb
(c) Adjective
(d) Interjection