CSIR Executive Assistant model question paper based on new syllabus

CSIR MODEL QUESTIONS_English







Language Ability











Direction: Every sentence given in this exercise has been divided into three parts marked A, B, C, and D.The error lays in the one of the parts. Read the sentence carefully and mark the incorrect part.However, if you feel the sentence contains no error mark part D



1. I am quite sorry / to hear of / your failure.

2. Please wait for me / until I do not / come back.

3. I, you and he / should be able / to manage our affairs.

4. You, He and I / should / beat him.

5. Somanathan / and Bussan’s books / are worth praising.

6. This house is built of / bricks / and not of stone.

7. I do not remember / the date of him /leaving India.

8. He office received order /to enforce discipline /among his subordinates.

9. Neither of the three tables / is /worth purchasing.

10. The Arabian nights / are an / interesting novel.



Directions: Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each question out of the five given choices, mentioned at the end of each question.





The British first regarded the congress as a kind of safety valve for the ventilation of the people’s grievances and for restraing those from taking an agitation form. But soon they realized that even the moderate leadership of the congress was going too far. Then they tried to crush the congress. It was this policy of the repression adopted by the British which gave rise to a new and extremist leadership in the country. They openly challenged the British policies and asked the people to organize themselves against it. Extremist leaders were arrested and deported indiscriminately.Tilak was sentenced to six years imprisonment and deported to Burma. Slowly there was emerged a mass awakening in india.Gandiji come to the scene and became the leader of Indian national congress. He started his famous non co-operation movement. This political element in the congress organized in themselves into the swaraj party and decided to enter the legislature.Simultaneously, Gandhi concentrated his efforts on the basis of which a larger struggle could be launched against the British. In 1929, congress declared complete independence as its goal.Gandhiji was requested to launch a programme of civil disobedience. By this time, the communal forces were also becoming very powerful in the countery.Muslim league demanded a separate home land for Muslims.



11. The British first regarded the congress as:

(a) A party of weak leaders

(B) A party of confused leaders

(C) A safety valve for the ventilation of people’s grievances

(D) A party of ignorant leaders

(E) A tool in their hands



12. What happened when the British tried to crush the congress?

(A) The congress become weak

(B) The congress offered to compromise with the British

(C) Extremist leadership emerged

(D) Leaders began to quarrel among themselves

(E) The leaders left the congress



13. What was done to extremist leaders?

(A) They were tempted to leave the congress

(B) They were arrested and deported

(C) They were killed

(D) They were called to negotiate with the Britain

(E) They were harassed



14. What did the swarj party decided to do

(A) Bring about an armed rebellion

(B) Enter the legislature

(C) Boycott the British administration

(D) Lie low for some time

(E) Instigate the people



Directions: The following passage has got some numbered gaps. For each numbered gap choices are given at the end of the passage. Read the passage carefully and tickmark, out of the given chances, the word that you think is correct to fill each numbered gap.



Modern economics, on the other hand, considers (15) to be the sole end and purpose of all economic (16).However the life spectrum, it is a (17) of several activities which include production, consumption, saving, investment and so on. For production an (18) needs to collect a variety of means.



15. (A) accumulation (B) accommodation (C) Consumption (D) locomotion (E) Nutrition



16. (A) Base (B) Activity (C) Norm (D) valve (E) long



17. (A) True (B) Long (C) New (D) Short (E) obsolete



18. (A) full (B) vessels (C) matrix (D) combination (E) culmination





__________________________________________________________________

Answers

1.A 2.B 3.A 4.A 5.A 6.B 7.B 8.A 9.A 10.B

11.C 12.C 13.B 14.B 15.C 16.B 17.A 18.A

kerala psc