CDS Model Paper 2 English

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 56-76): In the following passages at certain points you are given a choice of three words in brackets, one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the word which best fits the meaning of the passage and mark the corresponding letter viz (a), (b) or (c) on your Answer Sheet.Sometimes the messages are sent with 56. (a) many/ (b) few/ (c) no accompanying words and we speak in 57. (a) body/ (b) signal/ (c) foreign language alone. But, what gestures make 58. (a) with body (b) up/ (c) into language? Most of us are 59 . (a) easy/(b) familiar/ (c) efficient with the common hand gestures. some 60. (a) students (b) people (c) officers cannot talk without using their hands. 61. (a) we/ (b) Arms/ (c) They reach out as they 62. (a) exacting / (b) shaping/ (c) changing their words,emprehasizing and exaggerating and 63. (a) teaching / (b) holding/ (c) punctuating with their hands. Other people hardly 64. (a) adjust/ (b) use/ (c) wave their hands at all when they 65 . (a) lecture/(b) unite/ (c) talk.
We know that the average depth of the sea is about two and a half miles, but in a few places it is very deep indeed-over six miles. The air presses upon our bodies with a weight of about fifteen pounds to the square inch at 66. (a) sea-water/ (b) sea-level/ (c) sea-bed We are used to this air pressure 67. (a) do/ (b) did/ (c) does not notice it. In the sea this 68. (a) weight/ (b) volume/ (c) pressure is doubled at a depth of thirty-five feet, and it 69. (a) expands/ (b) decreases/ (c) increases at this rate for greater depths. In the great deeps 70. (a) off/ (b) of/ (c) on the Philippine Islands, a man would be squeezed and utterly crushed by a pressure of 71. (a) severe / (b) several/ (c) sheer tons per square inch. The pressure near the ocean floor is 72. (a) such/ (b) not/ (c) so great that if you were to weigh a piece of wood and 73. (a) measure/ (b) follow/ (c) lower it to a great depth and then pull it 74. (a) up/ (b) off/ (c) down again it would no longer float, 75. (a) but/(b) for/ (c) when it would have become waterlogged. All the tiny wood cells and cavities 76. (a) should/ (b) could/ (c) would have burst and become filled with water.