CDS ANSWER KEY

19-9-2010 CDS 2 answer key and solution for English paper
Sentence improvement:
1. a. are at cross purposes
2. c. That you are not cheated
3. D. where has he gone. No improvement.
4. c. No sooner did I hear the shot than
5. d. hardly he had entered. No improvement
6. a. shall we.
7. a. What was the matter.
Antonyms.
8. Probity
Ans: dishonesty.
9. Contest
Ans: Accept
10. Sporadic
Ans: Persistent
11. Implication
Ans: Exoneration
12. Apposite
inappropriate
13. Gregarious
Ans: unsociable
14. Chivalry
Ans: discourtesy
15. Dismal
Ans: Bright
16. Sanguine Temper
Ans: Despairing nature
17. Meagre
Ans: Abundant
18. Imperial
Ans: Create
19. Ostensibly
Ans: Vaguely
20. Consolidated
Ans: Broken
21. Chronic
Ans: Temporary
22. Diligent
Ans: Carless
23. Callous
Ans: Generous
24. Vituperative
Ans: CONGRATULATORY
25. Awkward
Ans: Graceful
26. Smug
Ans: Dissatisfied
27. Oppressive
Ans: Gentle
28. Obscure
Ans: clear
29. Clinch
Ans: Lose
30. Enervate
Ans: strengthen
31. To put up with
Ans: to move along with
Synonyms
32. Crass
Ans: coarse
33. Accomplish
Ans: Achieve
34. cursory
Ans: quick
35. Envisaged
Ans: contemplated
36. Fickle
Ans: Inconsistent
37. Resentment
Ans: anger
38. Obdurate
ans: adamant
39. Obscure
ans: unknown
40. Reluctant
Ans: averse
41. Revelation
Ans: disclosure
42. ostracise
Ans: Banish
43. Appalled
Ans: alarmed
44. Imbecility
Ans: stupidity,
45. Collusion
Ans: A secret agreement
46. Hesitant
Ans: Undecided
47. Deceptive
Ans: misleading
48. Palpable
ans: obvious
49. Laid-back
Ans: easy-going
50. Sauntering
Ans: strolling
51. Pompous
ans: grandiose
Passage 1:
Ono day we were becalmed among a group of small islands...
52. The Captain sent the boat to the shore to:
Ans: fetch some water
53. The savage brandished their spears in order to
Ans: frighten the crew
54. The inhabitants of the islands were
ans: primitive tribes.
Passage II:
Nelson Mandela was appointed..
55. The purpose of Mandela's talk was to help people
Ans: b. Oppose oppression
56. It is clear from the passage that the black Africans
Ans: has an unfovourable government
Passage III
One day an army won a land battle against the enemy.
57. The commander went round the camp at midnight because
he
ans: wished to check if his soldiers has obeyed his order
58. The commander entered his son's tent because
Ans: had to punish any soldier who disobeyed his order.
59. The son was writing a letter because her
ans: was eager to tell his mother about his own deeds
Passage IV
60.
61.
62
63.
64.
Passage V
On day a tea contractor , Mr. Sharma...
65. when did Mr. Sharma's friend go to see what was wrong
Ans: D. When he heard something unusual
66. When Mr. Sharma saw the tiger he was
Ans: A. surprised
67. Mr. Sharma stayed on to fight the tigress for
Ans: A. He wanted to try to protect his wife and daughter.
Ordering of sentences:
68. S1 When he joined the college, he was an adolescent
and immature.
Ans: C. RPSQ
69. S1 There is still another important characteristic of living thinsg
Ans: B. RQPS
70. S1 Your resources like money are limited
Ans: C. PRQS
71. S1 In ancient India the city of Ujjain was quite famous
Ans: B. SPRQ
72. One of the odd-looking birds of the ocean is the
penguin
ans: B. QPRS
73. Clothes should fit well.
Ans: d. SQPR
74. Get hold of the catalogues of the colleges in the
United States.
Ans: C. RQPS
75. If we dump sewage into a stream, on a small scale,
the stream dissolves it and purifies it.
Ans: A. QSPR.
76. She was born into a poor family of labourers and died
because poverty could not let her live.
Ans: A. QPRS
77. We were so evenly matched that for a time the end
was difficult to tell.
Ans: D. RSQP
78. William Cowper was born in 1731 at the rectory of
Berkhametead
Ans: D. QPRS
79. Jubo Young, the astronaut, piloted the 75-ton space
shuttle, Columbia.
Ans: D. QSRP
80.Rutherford was the son of a Scot's emigrant to New Zealand
ans: QSPR.
81. Issac possessed a wonderful faculty of acquiring knowledge
by the simplest means.
Ans: C. RQPS
82. Life is a gift of God to man
Ans: b. prqs
83. The Common man has a vote in parliament.
Ans: D. SPRQ
ORDERING OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE
84. It is foolish..
Ans: b. QSRP
85. The distressing face is that..
Ans: RQSP
86. I once had
Ans: b. QSRP
87. People know.
Ans: D. QSPR
88. He has hardly...
Ans: QPSR
89. Mr. Sexana was a profound scholar who..
Ans: A. PQRS
90. The government wants that
Ans: c. RQSP
91. The general line about television..
Ans: C. PRQS
92. The second test of good government is that
Ans: C. RPSQ
93. The teacher warned that
Ans: A. PQRS
94. Towards the end of eighteenth century, quite a number of
economists..
Ans: b. RQSP
95. The best way of understanding our won civilization..
Ans: C. PSRQ
96. What greater thing is there..
Ans: D. PRSQ
97. Fame..
Ans: B. SPRQ
98. When he was a child..
Ans: A. QSPR
Spotting Error:
99. a. Nowadays.
1oo. b. Was not upto the mark.
101.C. my old parents returned to India.
102. B. On the reasons for the fall in educational standards
103. b. it is a wonder that people
104. a. It would be much better
105. b. I was the one to whom