SOLVED PAPER 2022 (CDS) (I) (English)

Total Questions: 120

31. (Questions 31-40) Each of the 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 sentence are four sequences, namely (a), (b), (c) and (d). You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) as soon as
(Q) the government was pressed to do
(R) something for the poor
(S) the session commenced

Correct Answer: (c) PSQR
Solution:The correct sequence is PSQR.

32. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) they do not come within my subject
(Q) lightly esteemed by me
(R) if I don't speak to them, it's because
(S) and not because they are

Correct Answer: (d) RPSQ
Solution:The correct sequence is RPSQ.

33. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) no magnanimous victor
(Q) the fortune of war had
(R) put in his power so cruelly
(S) would treat those whom

Correct Answer: (b) PSQR
Solution:The correct sequence is PSQR.

34. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) call in question
(Q) whatever else one may say of him
(R) no one dare
(S) his honesty of purpose

 

Correct Answer: (c) QRPS
Solution:The correct sequence is QRPS.

35. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) has become
(Q) ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began,
(R) a fixture of everyday life
(S) calibrating disease-related risk

Correct Answer: (a) QSPR
Solution:The correct sequence is QSPR.

36. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) late sixties
(Q) he still enjoys vigorous
(R) he is in his
(S) health; although

Correct Answer: (c) QSRP
Solution:The correct sequence is QSRP.

37. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) inviting as the retort of abuse
(Q) nothing is so easy and
(R) and sarcasm but it is a paltry
(S) and an unprofitable contest

Correct Answer: (d) QPRS
Solution:The correct sequence is QPRS.

38. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) introduces antithetical ideas
(Q) an epigram is a brief and
(R) pointed saying that frequently
(S) that cause one to think afresh

Correct Answer: (b) QRPS
Solution:The correct sequence is QRPS.

39. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) of antithesis whereby two
(Q) predicted at once
(R) oxymoron is a special form
(S) contradictory qualities are

Correct Answer: (c) RPSQ
Solution:The correct sequence is RPSQ

40. You are required to re-arrange the jumbled parts of the sentence and mark your response accordingly.

(P) and marble; they thus mock him
(Q) people talk of memorials to
(R) him in statues of bronze
(S) and belie his message

Correct Answer: (c) QRPS
Solution:The correct sequence is QRPS.