English Questions for CDS & CAPF 2019: 29th June

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Direction (1-10): In the following items, each passage consists of three sentences. These are labelled P, Q and R. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and indicate your answer accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

Q1. Gone are the days
P-about foreign trade and payments
Q-and not really worried
R-when we could think of ourselves as a closed economy
(a) QRP
(b) RQP
(c) PRQ
(d) PQR

Q2. A saint or a satyagrahi
P-freezing her acts of goodness
Q-is often put on a pedestal
R-in time
(a) PQR
(b) PRQ
(c) QPR
(d) RQP

Q3. Gandhi often
P-was unnecessary violence
Q-withdrew from an act of Satyagraha if he
R-felt there
(a) PRQ
(b) PQR
(c) RQP
(d) QRP

Q4. The first clue
P-to the nature of this agenda
Q-lies in the origin of
R-the smart city idea itself
(a) RPQ
(b) QPR
(c) QRP
(d) PQR

Q5. One year after its official launch,
P-while Expectations
Q-has largely escaped political scrutiny
R-have been scaled down, the rhetoric
(a) QPR
(b) RPQ
(c) PRQ
(d) PQR

Q6. An engineer building a bridge
P-find easy to comprehend
Q-picks the best plan
R-and not the one that motorists
(a) RQP
(b) RPQ
(c) PRQ
(d) QRP

Q7. To begin with,
P-is not that they are 'unsmart'
Q-the problem with Indian cities
R-but that they are dysfunctional
(a) RPQ
(b) QRP
(c) QPR
(d) PRQ

Q8. There was a second part
P-are ambivalent about
Q-many people
R-of her decision which
(a) QRP
(b) QPR
(c) PRQ
(d) RQP

Q9. He would often
P-Brahmacharya if his protests were not functioning the way
Q-he expected
R-critique his own life of
(a) RQP
(b) PQR
(c) RPQ
(d) QRP

Q10. Aggregate levels of under nutrition in India
P-remain shockingly high, despite the impressive
Q-stunting in the last decade
R-reduction in
(a) PRQ
(b) QPR
(c) RPQ
(d) QRP

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. Option B is the correct sequence.

S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct sequence.

S3. Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct sequence.

S4. Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct sequence.

S5. Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct sequence.

S6. Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct sequence.

S7. Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct sequence.

S8. Ans.(d)
Sol. Option D is the correct sequence.

S9. Ans.(c)
Sol. Option C is the correct sequence.

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. Option A is the correct sequence.