upsc.gov.in Combined Defense Services I Exam English Question Paper : Union Public Service Commission
Organization : Union Public Service Commission
Exam : Combined Defence Services Exam
Subject : English
Document Type : Previous Question Papers
Location : India
Website : upsc.gov.in
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English Question Paper :
Time Allowed : Two Hours
Marks : 100
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INSTRUCTIONS :
1. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF .THE EXAMINATION, YOU SHOULD CHECK THAT THIS-TEST BOOKLET DOES‘ NOT HAVE ANY UNPRINTED OR TORN OR MISSING PAGES 011- ITEMS, ETC. IF so, GET IT REPLACED BY A COMPLETE
2. ENCODE CLEARLY THE TEST BOOKLET SERIES A, B, C, OR D AS THE CASE. MAY I BE IN THE APPROPRIATE PLACE IN THE ANSWER SHEET.
3. You have’ to enter your Roll Number-on the Test Booklet in the Box provided alongside. DO NOT write anything else on the Test Booklet;
4. This Test Booklet contains ‘120 items (questions). Each item comprises four responses In (answers). You will select the response which you want to mark on the Answer Sheet. In ease you feel that there is more than one correct response, mark the= response which you consider the ‘best. In‘an’y case, choose ONLY ONE response for each item;
5. You have to mark all your responses ONLY on the separate Answer Sheet provided. See directions in the Answer Sheet.
6. All items carry equal marks.
7. BefOre you proceed to mark in the Answer Sheet’the response to various items in the Test Booklet, you have to ?ll in some particulars in the Answer Sheet as-per instructions sent to you .with your Admission Certi?cate.
8. After you have completed ?lling in all your responses on the Answer Sheet and the examination has concluded, you should hand over to “the Invigilator only the Answer Sheet. You are permitted to take away with you the Test Booklet.
9. Sheets for rough work are appended in the Test Booklet at the end.
10. Penalty for wrong answers-z
THERE WILL BE PENALTY ‘FOR WRONG ANSWERS MARKED BY A CANDIDATE IN THE OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTION PAPERS.
(1) There are ‘four alternatives for the answer to every question. For each question’for which a wrong ansWer has been given by the candidate, one-third (0’33) of the marks assigned to that question i will be deducted as penalty.
(ii) If a candidate gives more than “one answer, -it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be cOrrect and there will be same penalty as above to that question.
(iii) If a question is left blank, ile., no answer is given’by the candidate,- there will be no penalty for that question.
DO NOT OPEN THIS TEST BOOKLET UNTIL YOUARE ASKED TO DO so
COMPREHENSION :
Directions (For the following 21 items) :
In this section there are six short passages. Each passage is followed by items’based-on the’ passage. Read each passage and answer the items that follow.
Passage I :
Our voyage was very prosperous, but I shall not trouble the reader with a journal of it. The captain called in at one or two ports and sent in his long-boat for provisions and fresh water, but I never went out of the ship till we came into the Downs, which was on the 3rd’day of June, 1706, about nine months after my escape. I offered to leave my goods in security for payment of my freight, but the captain protested he would not receive one farthing. We took kind leave of each other, and I made him promise that he would come to see me at my house in Redri?‘. I hired a house and a guide for ?ve shillings which I borrowed from the captain.
1. When the writer uses the word “prosperous” to describe the voyage, he means that
(a) it made him rich.
(b) it made him healthy.
(c) it was very pleasant.
(d) it was uneventful.
2. On the voyage, the author
(a) left the ship at intervals.
(b) was not able to leave the ship because it did not stop.
(c) never left the sh