CDS General Knowledge Solved Paper (I) : 2007

Directions: The following 4 (Four) items consist of two statements: one labelled as the ‘Assertion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (R)’. You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items using the codes given below.

Codes:

(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true

1. Assertion (A): The number of the Members of the Union Public Service Commission is prescrined in the Constitution of India.
Reason (R): The Union Public Service Commission was constituted under the provisions in the Constitution of India.

2. Assertion (A): Per capita income of India does not give a complete picture of the economic growth of the country.
Reason (R): Per capita income of a country i s not independent of the size of its population.

3. Assertion (A): An elevator is going up at constant velocity. If a person in the lift drops a coin in the elevator, then the coin will fall with uniform velocity.
Reason (R): The elevator is not moving with any acceleration or retardation.

4. Assertion (A): In winter, although many lakes and rivers are frozen, the marine fish still survives.
Reason (R): The density of water is maximum at 4°C. Hence, water below the frozen outer surface is maintained at 4°C.

5. Container Corporation ,of India Limited (CONCOR), a Public Sector Undertaking is under the administrative control of which of the following Ministries ?
(a) Heavy Industry
(b) Small Scale
(c) Railway
(d) Shipping, road transport and highways

6.Which one of the following is the deepest point in the ocean floor ?
(a) Challenger Deep
(b) Milwaukee Deep
(c) Java Trench
(d) Philippine Trench

7. The Asteroid Belt is found between which of the following?
(a) Mars and Jupiter
(b) Earth and Mars
(c) Jupiter and Saturn
(d) Saturn and Uranus

8.What is the convergence of north east and south east trade winds near equator known as ?
(a) Doldrums (b) Jet stream
(c) Inter-tropical convergence zone (d) Upper air monsoon

9. The Sarkaria Commission Report deal with which one of the following ?
(a) Corruption in India
(b) Centre-state relations
(c) Local governance
(d) Inter-river dispute

10. Consider the following :
1. Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
2. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
3. Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
4. Indira Awas Yojana
Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the above Yojanas ?
(a) 2 - 3 - 4 - 1 (b) 4 - 1 - 2 - 3
(c) 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 (d) 4 - 3 - 1 - 2

11.Who was the President of India at the time of proclamation of emergency in the year 1976 ?
(a) VV Giri (b) Giani Zail Singh
(c) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad (d) Shankar Dayal Sharma

12.Which one of the following statements in not correct ?
(a) The Vice President of India holds office for a period of five years
(b) The Vice President of India can be removed by a simple majority of votes passed in the Rajya Sabha only
(c) The Vice President of India continues to be in office even after the expiry of his term till his successor takes over
(d) The Supreme Court of India has to look into al l disputes with regard to the election of the Vice-President of India

13. Consider the following statements:
1. A Money Bill cannot be introduced in the Council of States.
2. The Council of States cannot reject a Money Bill nor amend it.
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct ?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2

14.Whi ch of the fol low ing i s not a Parliamentary Committee?
(a) Demands for Grants Committee
(b) Committee on Public Accounts
(c) Committee on Public Undertakings
(d) Committee on Estimates

15.Who propounded the Saptanga Theory ?
(a) Manu (b) Charaka
(c) Kautilya (d) Tulsidas

16. Consider the following statements about National Security Guard (NSG)
1. NSG was set up in the year 1984.
2. Hostage rescue missions and counterhi jack operations are its primary tasks.
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct ?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2

17. The office of Lokpal and Lokayukta in India is based on which one of the following ?
(a) Parliamentary Commissioner of UK
(b) Ombudsman in Scandinavia
(c) Procurator General of Russia
(d) Council of State in France

18. The development of which of the following administrative concepts could be attributed to German Sociologist Max Weber ?
(a) Democracy (b) Bureaucracy
(c) Pluralism (d) Corporatism

19.Where is the Wanderers Test Cricket ground located ?
(a) Colombo (b) Melbourne
(c) Auckland (d) Johannesburg

20. Under which Article of the Constitution of India can the President of India be impeached ?
(a) Article 61 (b) Article 75
(c) Article 76 (d) Article 356

21. PERT is a technique used for which one of the following?
(a) Electric Power transmission
(b) Project management
(c) Railway safety
(d) Internet

22.Who among the following was not a noble under Alauddin Khilji ?
(a) Ain-ul-Mulk Multani
(b) Zafar Khan
(c) Nusrat Khan
(d) Munim Khan

 23.Who among the fol low ing leader s dominated the Lucknow Pact in December, 1916 ?
(a) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Moti Lal Nehru
(d) Madan Mohan Malviya

24.Which region of India was ruled by Sultan Zain-ul Abidin ?
(a) Assam (b) Delhi
(c) Kashmir (d) Orissa

25.Which one among the following religions was patronized by Rashtrakutas ?
(a) Jainism (b) Buddhism
(c) Shaivism (d) Vaishnavism

26. The Santhal rebellion of 1855-56 resulted in the creation of a separate geographical entity known as Santhal Parganas for the tribals. Who were the leaders associated with the rebellion ?
(a) Sidhu and Chakara (b) Chakara and Bogra
(c) Sidhu and Kanhu (d)Dora and Chakara

27.Who wrote the famous drama Neel Darpan, which depicted the agony of the indigo cultivators and brutality of the planters ?
(a) Harish Chandra Mukherjee
(b) Dinabandhu Mitra
(c) Sisir Kumar Ghose
(d) Ram Gopal Ghose

28.Which Rock Edict of Asoka provideds a description of the horrors of Kalinga War ?
(a) 13th Rock Edict
(b) Kalinga Edict at Dhauli
(c) The Edict at Jaugada
(d) 10th rock Edict

CDS General English Solved Paper (I) : 2007
(SPOTTING ERRORS)

Directions (For the 15 items which follows): In the section a number of sentences are given. The sentences are underlined in three separate parts and each one is labelled (a), (b) and (c) . Read each sentence to find out whether there is an error in any underlined part. No sentence has more than one error. When you find an error in any one of the underlined parts (a), (b) or (c), indicate your response on the separate Answer Sheet at the appropriate space. You may feel that there is no error in a sentence. In that case letter (d) will signify a ‘No error’ response.You are to indicate only oneresponse for each item in your Answer Sheet. (If you indicate more than one response, your answer  will be considered wrong.) Errors may be in grammar, word usage or idioms. There may be a word missing or there may be a word which should be removed. You are not required to correct the  error. You are required only to indicate your response on the Answer Sheet.

Examples ‘P’ and ‘Q’ have been solved for you.

 P. The young child singed a very sweet song.
         (a)                     (b)                     (c)
No error.
    (d)
Q. We worked very hard throughout the season.
            (a)                (b)                     (c)
No error.
    (d)

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CDS General English Solved Paper (I) : 2007
(ORDERING OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE)

Directions (For the 17 itmes which follow): In the following items, some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. You are required to re-arrange these parts which are labelled P, Q, R and S toproduce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence and mark in your Answer Sheet accordingly. Example ‘Z’ has been solved for you.

Z. It is well-known that the effect is very bad                    (P)                 (Q)
on children of cinema
        (R)         (S)
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) P - S - R - Q (b) S - P - Q - R
(c) S - R - P - Q (d) Q - S - R - P

Explanation:
The proper way of writing the sentence is “It is well-known that the effect of cinema on children is very bad”. This is indicated by the sequence P - S - R - Q and so  (a) is the correct answer.

1. Compared to
was an occasion of stately pageantry
                    (P)
the birth of the Republic
            (Q)
accompanied by partition riots
                (R)
the dawn of independence
                    (S)
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) S - Q - R - P (b) P - R - Q - S
(c) S - R - Q - P (d) P - Q - R - S

2. It is giant strides in development
                        (P)
so that we make
        (Q)
more and more rational like western countries
                            (R)
high time we become
            (S)
Which one of the following is the correct sequence ?
(a) R - S - P - Q (b) S - R - Q - P
(c) R - S - Q - P (d) S - R - P - Q

3. From the days of the