These sample papers will also help you for following Exams under UPSC:
✓ Reserved For Upsc Rt/Exam
✓ SCRA Exam, 2015
✓ C.D.S. Exam.(I), 2015
✓ CISF Ac(Exe) LDCE-2015
✓ N.D.A. & N.A. Exam.(I), 2015
✓ I.E.S./I.S.S. Exam., 2015
✓ Combined Geo-Scientist And Geologists' Exam., 2015
✓ Engineering Services Examination, 2015
✓ Combined Medical Services Exam, 2015
✓ Central Armed Police Forces (Ac) Exam., 2015
✓ Civil Services (Preliminary) Exam, 2015
✓ Indian Forest Service 1 Day (Preliminary) Exam, 2015 Through Cs [P] Exam 2015
✓ S.O./Steno (Gd-B/Gd-I) Ltd. Depttl. Competitive Exam 2015 (Written)
✓ C.D.S. Exam.(Ii), 2015
✓ Indian Forest Service (Main) Exam, 2015
Directions: In the following passages at certain points, you are given a choice of three or four words/phrases, in italics and marked (a), (b), (c), (d), Choose the best word/phrase out of the three and indicate your choice.
This narrow-gauge railway section is
1. (a) counted
(b) numbered
(c) figured among the highest in the world. The diesel loco
2. (a) hauls
(b) travels
(c) lifts
3. (a) placed
(b) situated
(c) having at an altitude of 656 m above mean sea level, to the queen of hills, Shimla.
4. (a) Travelling- up
(b) Running up
(c) Meandering up the Himalayas, the train crosses 889 bridges and passes through 102 tunnels, including the second largest one in India. Excavation work on this tunnel was started from both ends, and when it was almost over, the English engineers
5. (a) realized
(b) learnt
(c) figured that they did not
6. (a) unite
(b) connect
(c) Join The chief Engineer, William Barog, was
7. (a) penalized
(b) sentenced
(c) slapped a penalty of a rupee, but he was so humiliated by his failure that he went
8. (a) at
(b) over
(c) to the wrong opening and committed suicide. One should not
9. (a) miss
(b) avoid
(c) fear the neatly-white washed alcoves in the tunnel. They are meant for those who walk through the tunnel, to stand safely as the train
10. (a) passes off It
(b) passes by
(c) passes out
11. (a) crawls up
(b) runs up
(c) moves up at a speed of less than 25 km an hour, takes around six hours to reach Shimla and
12. (a) takes
(b) negotiates
(c) goes through 919 curves in between. When the first train, with three bogeys- and
13. (a) packed
(b) carrying
(c) full of with passengers was
14. (a) moved off
(b) flagged off
(c) started off on November 9, 1903, it was
15. (a) powered
(b) moved
(c) energized by a steam locomotive called ‘Hill Puffer’.
16. (a) surfeit
(b) allocation
(c) preponderance
(d) misappropriation of resources in India’s health programme has never been, as far as can be
17. (a) thought
(b) utilized
(c) restored,
(d) ascertained, a subject of published research of high quality and hence the unsatisfactory
18. (a) measure (b) nature
(c) evidence (d) type of the foregoing account of the government sector. Nevertheless, India’s health
19. (a) system
(b) view
(c) development
(d) method shares several features of the
20. (a) fate
(b) pattern
(c) differences
(d) beauty of health services in other developing countries whose professional medical structures and
21. (a) maturity
(b) distribution
(c) length
(d) range of the health services are
22. (a) launched
(b) inherited
(c) discovered
(d) restrained from a colonial past. These features include a
23. (a) complete
(b) strong
(c) large
(d) meagre share of health budgets
24. (a) taken
(b) allocated
(c) arranged
(d) contributed to major hospitals in urban centres and consequent relative
25. (a) lapse
(b) default
(c) strength
(d) neglect of the rural health infrastructures
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