UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) conducted the CDS (Combined Defence Services) I Exam – 2023. CDS I 2021 Paper held on 03 September, 2023. This paper is General Knowledge Section. UPSC CDS (2) 2023 General Knowledge Paper Answer Key available here.
Exam – UPSC CDS (2) 2023
Organized by – UPSC
Subject – General Knowledge
Date of Exam – 03 September, 2023
Number of Question – 120
PART – 05
CLOZE COMPOSITION
Directions : Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider the most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the answer sheet accordingly.
Objectives, ideology, programmes, leadership, and organisation are important ______________81.
- (a) constituent
- (b) components
- (c) pieces
- (d) ingredient
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of social movements. they are interdependent, _____________82.
- (a) opposing
- (b) effecting
- (c) familiarising
- (d) influencing
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each other. The objectives of the movement change from__________ 83.
- (a) wide
- (b) scanty
- (c) narrow
- (d) confine
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articular local issues to broad aims___________84.
- (a) for
- (b) by
- (c) with
- (d) and
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social transformation. Sometimes a movement which begins with broad objectives may in the process get __________ 85.
- (a) turns into
- (b) turn out
- (c) bogged down
- (d) bogged out
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with one or two particular issues. Ideology also_________86.
- (a) went
- (b) proceeds
- (c) precedes
- (d) undergoes
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change. It provides direction for evolving strategies and programmes; and also keeps the participants together by developing feelings of ‘we-ness’. Various strategies and programmes are evolved to _________87.
- (a) mobilised
- (b) mobilise
- (c) make
- (d) matured
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the people. They _______________88.
- (a) threaten
- (b) bluster
- (c) blow
- (d) sustain
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the movement for a long period. Leadership__________89.
- (a) where
- (b) which
- (c) how
- (d) more
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initiates or emerges in the course of the growth of the movement plays a crucial role in _______90.
- (a) supersedes
- (b) assumption
- (c) articulating
- (d) supposition
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ideology and objectives, evolving strategies and programmes and maintaining the spirit of the participant.
PREPOSITIONS
Directions : In this section, each of the following sentences has a blank space followed by four options. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
91. He persevered_________difficulties.
- (a) despite of
- (b) because of
- (c) although
- (d) in spite of
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92. He walked slowly __________his bandaged leg.
- (a) though
- (b) because of
- (c) although
- (d) in spite of
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93. He accepted the car__________his claim for ₹50,000.
- (a) in spite of
- (b) in lieu of
- (c) despite of
- (d) in front of
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94. I’ll phone you sometime ________the afternoon.
- (a) on
- (b) at
- (c) in
- (d) into
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95. He raised several questions________the future of the organisation.
- (a) concern to
- (b) concerned for
- (c) concerning
- (d) concerned with
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96. He is the gentleman whose name is written _________the board.
- (a) that
- (b) with
- (c) in
- (d) on
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97. _________his negligence the company suffered a heavy loss.
- (a) In accordance with
- (b) Instead of
- (c) On account of
- (d) in front of
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98. _____________the resistance offered by the culprit, he was arrested by the police.
- (a) Regarding
- (b) Respecting
- (c) Notwithstanding
- (d) Considering
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99. _________his illness, he could not fiinish the work on time.
- (a) Subsequent for
- (b) As a consequence of
- (c) In consequence to
- (d) On account
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100. ___________rope ladders they scaled the the wall.
- (a) By means of
- (b) Throughout the
- (c) For the sake of
- (d) By way
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