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

COMPLETION OF SENTENCES

Directions : The following items have one part of a sentence followed by four alternatives. Complete the sentence by choosing the correct alternative and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.

61. It is not that I do not take a decision,
(a) I decide not to take a decision.
(b) I do not decide a decision.
(c) I had not taken a decision.
(d) I decide I would not have taken a decision.

62. If I were in your position,
(a) I had been accepting this compensation.
(b) I would not accept this compensation.
(c) I would not have been accepting this compensation.
(d) should I not accept the compensation.

63. Having written many novels and short stories,
(a) she cannot be feeling about life.
(b) she is to feel life too big to understand.
(c) she should not have being feeling for life.
(d) she feels life is too vast to understand.

64. There are many career options,
(a) you can choose any of them.
(b) you can choose many of them.
(c) you should choose none of them.
(d) you would choose one of them.

65. If you had prepared well,
(a) you would have been fared well.
(b) you will have fared well.
(c) you must have to fare well.
(d) you would have fared well.

66. Where there is a will,
(a) there should be way.
(b) there is a way.
(c) there would have been a way.
(d) there may have been a way.

67. “It is getting dark,
(a) must I turn on the lights ?”
(b) should I be turning the lights ?”
(c) may I be turning on the lights ?”
(d) can I turn on the lights ?”

68. Once I met a traveller
(a) who said he had been to an ancient place.
(b) he said he had been to an ancient place.
(c) who can be said he had been to an ancient place.
(d) he said an ancient place had been to him.

69. Man is the greatest truth of all,
(a) nothing can be with him.
(b) there is nothing beyond him.
(c) there cannot be nothing to him.
(d) there is nothing truth about him.

70. If your life is circumscribed by habits alone,
(a) you were merely an imitating machine.
(b) you are merely an imitative machine.
(c) you were merely an imitative machine.
(d) you can be living in an imitative world,

ORDERING OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE

Directions : Each of the following items in this section consists of a sentence, part following items in this section consists of a sentence, parts of which have been jumbled. These parts have been labelled as P, Q, R and S. Given below each Steinem namely (a), (b), (c) and (d). You are required to rearrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

71.
P. in the filaments of
Q. rubidium is used
R. which convert light energy into electrical energy
S. photoelectric cells
(a) QPSR
(b) QSRP
(c) SRQP
(d) RSQP

72.
P. he urged so many to get involved
Q. who has left his mark
R. this is the final word of an educational philosopher
S. on a world in which
(a) RSPQ
(b) SPQR
(c) QPRS
(d) RQSP

73.
P. or the opposite
Q. where you say one thing
R. irony is a figure of speech
S. while you mean another
(a) RSQP
(b) QSPR
(c) RQSP
(d) PSQR

74.
P. across the world
Q. in the Middle East has changed
R. the discovery of petroleum
S. the lifestyle of the people
(a) RSPQ
(b) QPRS
(c) SRQPY
(d) RQSP

75.
P. as a source of energy
Q. the camel uses fat
R. in the desert
S. during its long journey
(a) QPSR
(b) QRSP
(c) RSPQ
(d) SPRQ

76.
P. must support the main part
Q. the beginning and the concluding lines
R. described in the story
S. or the events
(a) QSRP
(b) QPSR
(c) RSQP
(d) SRQP

77.
P. is being systematically damaged
Q. our beautiful riverine ecosystem
R. by industrial pollution
S. channelled into rivers
(a) RSPQ
(b) PQRS
(c) QPRS
(d) SRQP

78.
P. the film industry due to
Q. nearness to the viewers
R. its ready availability and
S. the television screen is challenging.
(a) QRPS
(b) SPRQ
(c) SQRP
(d) RSPQ

79.
P. they built an Artificial Intelligence system
Q. researchers say that
R. makes ethical judgments
S. that like humans
(a) QPSR
(b) PSRQ
(c) QRSP
(d) PRSQ

80.
P. he is a fool, it is that
Q. others think intelligently
R. it is not that
S. he does not think
(a) PSQR
(b) RPSQ
(c) QRSP
(d) SRPQ