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Fill in the Blanks and Cloze PYQs (previous year questions) for CDS: Fill in the Blanks and Cloze (English) had 549 questions across the 66 official CDS papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 22 of them. Asked in 11 of 11 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Cloze Test, Fill in the Blanks, Prepositions and Determiners.
Year-wise question count
Asked in 11 of 11 years, with 2 papers each year.
| Year | Questions |
|---|---|
| CDS 2026 | 20 |
| CDS 2025 | 40 |
| CDS 2024 | 45 |
| CDS 2023 | 60 |
| CDS 2022 | 80 |
| CDS 2021 | 80 |
| CDS 2020 | 40 |
| CDS 2019 | 44 |
| CDS 2018 | 50 |
| CDS 2017 | 30 |
| CDS 2016 | 60 |
Most-asked concepts
Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.
| Concept | Questions | Papers | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloze Test | 224 | 16 | 2025, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| Fill in the Blanks | 93 | 10 | 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| Prepositions and Determiners | 77 | 9 | 2026, 2025, 2023, 2022, 2021 |
| Phrasal Verbs | 23 | 7 | 2026, 2024, 2020, 2019, 2018 |
| Prepositions | 29 | 5 | 2024, 2023, 2019, 2018 |
| Sentence Completion | 40 | 4 | 2022, 2021 |
| Vocabulary in Context | 13 | 4 | 2026, 2020, 2019 |
| Conditionals | 4 | 3 | 2020, 2018 |
| Proverbs | 3 | 3 | 2020, 2018 |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | 3 | 3 | 2024, 2018 |
| Discourse Markers | 10 | 2 | 2025 |
| Word Usage | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tenses | 3 | 2 | 2024, 2018 |
| Adjectives | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Conjunctions | 2 | 2 | 2026, 2019 |
| Word Forms | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Articles | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Determiners | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adverbs | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Relative Pronouns | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Affect vs Effect | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conditional Clauses | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fewer vs Less | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Idioms | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Modal Verbs | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Modals | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Reported Questions | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
How to practise Fill in the Blanks and Cloze PYQs
- Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
- Solve one year’s Fill in the Blanks and Cloze questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
- Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
- Once a concept is clean in two papers, move to the next. Then sit a full paper from the year pages.
Questions by year
Each line gives the question number and paper, type, concept, our one-line summary and the official answer, with a link to the official PDF.
CDS2026
- Q.71 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the preposition for information available on the Internet PDF
- Q.72 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the determiner before 'more vegetables' PDF
- Q.73 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the word linking another sport with hockey PDF
- Q.74 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the determiner for repeated unanswered calls PDF
- Q.75 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the determiner for parking on a side of the street PDF
- Q.76 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Choose the particle completing 'fallen ___ with him' PDF
- Q.77 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose between few, a few, little, a little for time PDF
- Q.78 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Conjunctions: Choose the connector for reporting on war despite danger PDF
- Q.79 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the determiner for any student knowing the library PDF
- Q.80 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the preposition after 'entered' an agreement PDF
- Q.71 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the preposition for Switzerland's position among neighbours PDF
- Q.72 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the preposition for paying with a credit card PDF
- Q.73 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the preposition for information on the Internet PDF
- Q.74 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the determiner in a question about borrowed books PDF
- Q.75 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the quantifier for sparing leftover milk PDF
- Q.76 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose between aside, beside, besides for sitting by someone PDF
- Q.77 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the preposition after 'talk me ___ your plans' PDF
- Q.78 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose fewer or less for people baking bread PDF
- Q.79 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Choose the adjective for a restored historical building's state PDF
- Q.80 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Choose the preposition after 'stared' PDF
CDS2025
- Q.21 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: determiner before claims PDF
- Q.22 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: preposition for crossing a river PDF
- Q.23 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: conjunction for not resting until PDF
- Q.24 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: preposition with choice of location PDF
- Q.25 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: phrasal verb fall back on PDF
- Q.86 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence PDF
- Q.87 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence PDF
- Q.88 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence PDF
- Q.89 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence PDF
- Q.90 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence PDF
- Q.111 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 1 PDF
- Q.112 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 2 PDF
- Q.113 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 3 PDF
- Q.114 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 4 PDF
- Q.115 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 5 PDF
- Q.116 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 6 PDF
- Q.117 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 7 PDF
- Q.118 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 8 PDF
- Q.119 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 9 PDF
- Q.120 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on man's appreciation of nature in art: blank 10 PDF
- Q.21 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: determiner before metal (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.22 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: determiner for repeated reminders (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.23 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: preposition for working with co-workers (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.24 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: determiner for choosing a shirt (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.25 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Fill the blank: determiner for choosing between courses (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.86 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.87 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.88 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.89 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.90 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Discourse Markers: Choose the discourse marker that completes a sentence (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.111 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 1 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.112 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 2 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.113 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 3 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.114 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 4 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.115 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 5 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.116 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 6 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.117 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 7 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.118 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 8 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.119 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 9 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.120 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on inequality in education: blank 10 (official answer: D) PDF
CDS2024
- Q.6 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Conditional Clauses: Correct conditional form after 'I shall not be going to the theatre' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.7 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fewer vs Less: Comparative quantifier for number of passengers killed (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.8 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Subject-Verb Agreement: Verb form after 'Each of these paintings' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.9 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Adverbs: Adverb that fits 'an area of ___ dense population' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.10 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Affect vs Effect: Correct verb form for speech disorders and reading ability (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.11 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Adjectives: Adjective describing difficulty in arranging funds (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.12 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Adverbs: Adverb that fits 'school building is ___ dilapidated' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.13 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Word Forms: Correct form of 'scene' to describe Ranikhet (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.14 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Word Usage: Verb meaning to escape capture by police (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.15 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Word Usage: Verb that fits 'I am ___ on the ambitious project' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.61 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition before 'night' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.62 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition to fill a blank in a short sentence (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.63 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for a mark on the wall (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.64 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for travelling to work by bus (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.65 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition after 'polite' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.66 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition after 'fed up' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.67 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition after 'discussion' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.68 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition after 'capable' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.69 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition after 'translated' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.70 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for meeting a family during an event (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.111 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for returning to form in a tournament (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.112 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for moving along the road after goodbye (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.113 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for examining a contract closely (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.114 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for a crowd continuing merry-making in rain (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.115 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for goons attacking victims in an alley (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.6 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Word Usage: Verb linking working in dim light to eye issues like glaucoma PDF
- Q.7 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Word Usage: Adjective for the lifestyle of someone owning many sports cars PDF
- Q.8 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Relative Pronouns: Relative pronoun after 'Those medicines' withdrawn from market PDF
- Q.9 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Word Forms: Correct form of 'excess' before 'intake of sugar' PDF
- Q.10 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Adjectives: Adjective describing pain from a leg injury PDF
- Q.11 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Subject-Verb Agreement: Verb form after 'The country's politics' PDF
- Q.12 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Modal Verbs: Verb form for experience stipulated in a job advertisement PDF
- Q.13 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Tenses: Verb form for expected damage from coastal flooding PDF
- Q.14 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Relative Pronouns: Correct phrase for armed robbers in a bank robbery PDF
- Q.15 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Tenses: Tense for economic changes over the past two decades PDF
- Q.61 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for seeing someone waiting for a bus PDF
- Q.62 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for using a sauce before a month PDF
- Q.63 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for working on a report till a time PDF
- Q.64 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Determiners: Determiner for energy left to finish work PDF
- Q.65 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Determiners: Determiner for trouble finding a house PDF
- Q.66 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Determiners: Determiner for well-trained officers PDF
- Q.67 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Articles: Article before 'dentist' PDF
- Q.68 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for placing the elephant on an endangered list PDF
- Q.69 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Articles: Article before 'travel industry' PDF
- Q.70 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Articles: Article before 'MP from Rajasthan' PDF
CDS2023
- Q.11 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Superlative adjective for the most eloquent speaker heard (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.12 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Relative pronoun after 'to' in a question about a caller (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.13 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adverb for having seen someone recently (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.14 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adverb of degree describing an old house (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.15 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Clause completing a sentence with 'unless' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.16 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word for the manufacturer identity of a car (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.17 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Particle completing a phrase on paying debts in full (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.18 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Noun completing development needs in a diverse country (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.19 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word completing measures made to support agriculture (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.20 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adjective for remarkable growth in financial markets (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.81 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 81 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.82 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 82 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.83 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 83 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.84 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 84 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.85 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 85 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.86 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 86 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.87 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 87 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.88 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 88 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.89 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 89 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.90 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on the evils of war: blank 90 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.91 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for being away till Monday (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.92 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition before 'Friday morning' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.93 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for writing at the top of a page (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.94 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition in a sentence about Sohan studying (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.95 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'indebted' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.96 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'held responsible' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.97 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for hanging out at the pier (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.98 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Article before 'sugar' in a request (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.99 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Article before 'platform number 5' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.100 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Determiner in a sentence about children learning (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.11 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word for the banning of a play by the Government (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.12 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adjective for a severe flood Ravi remembers (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.13 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb choice: whether to stay at a forest guest house after dark (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.14 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb form for how responsible people behave (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.15 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word completing 'taken long ...' in criminal law context (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.16 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Noun for wrongs against women that laws address (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.17 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word for the scope of an act excluding commercial buyers (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.18 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word for the basis of a sovereign nation on equality (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.19 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb form for a literary work that builds patriotism (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.20 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word linking women's autobiographies to literary interest (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.81 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 81 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.82 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 82 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.83 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 83 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.84 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 84 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.85 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 85 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.86 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 86 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.87 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 87 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.88 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 88 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.89 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 89 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.90 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on social movements, blank 90 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.91 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Phrase completing 'He persevered ... difficulties' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.92 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Phrase linking slow walking to a bandaged leg (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.93 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Phrase for accepting a car in lieu of a claim (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.94 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for a time in the afternoon (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.95 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Word for raising questions about the future (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.96 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for a name written on a board (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.97 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Phrase linking negligence to a company's loss (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.98 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Phrase for an arrest despite resistance (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.99 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Phrase linking illness to unfinished work (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.100 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Phrase for scaling a wall using rope ladders (official answer: A) PDF
CDS2022
- Q.11 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Preposition for leaving a career fifteen years earlier (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.12 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb form for a government agreement with a trust (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.13 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct verb form in a sentence on events happening (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.14 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct pronoun for 'road we take, we shall be late' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.15 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct adverb before 'good to be true' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.16 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Comparative form in 'nothing ... than a busy life' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.17 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Subjunctive verb after 'I wish I' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.18 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Preposition in 'make up ... lost time' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.19 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct auxiliary in a sentence on an unsuccessful attempt (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.20 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb agreement for the cost of twelve dozen items (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.71 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 1 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.72 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 2 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.73 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 3 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.74 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 4 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.75 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 5 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.76 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 6 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.77 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 7 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.78 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 8 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.79 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 9 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.80 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on bad habits, tobacco and alcohol: blank 10 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.81 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence beginning 'I stopped seeing her' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.82 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about leading a caravan (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.83 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a conditional beginning 'Unless you work harder' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.84 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a hypothetical about having a bird's wings (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.85 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence beginning 'He would be happier' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.86 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a 'No sooner' sentence about arriving at the airport (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.87 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about not being angry with someone (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.88 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence beginning 'He knows only' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.89 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete the proverb starting 'As you have made your bed' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.90 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a comparison about a younger man's money (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.91 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition in 'succeeded ... dint of perseverance' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.92 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition or determiner in a given sentence (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.93 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Word linking 'good rules' and the verb that follows (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.94 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'averse' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.95 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'connives' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.96 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for travelling in someone's car (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.97 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition in a sentence about coming home (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.98 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Word after 'Few things are impossible' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.99 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'aspire' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.100 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'liable' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.21 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about not avoiding decisions (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.22 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a conditional about being in someone's position (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.23 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about a writer of many novels (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.24 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about many career options (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.25 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a past conditional about preparing well (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.26 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete the proverb beginning 'Where there is a will' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.27 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence beginning 'It is getting dark' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.28 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about meeting a traveller from an ancient place (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.29 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence beginning 'Man is the greatest truth' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.30 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about a life circumscribed by habits (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.41 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 1 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.42 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 2 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.43 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 3 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.44 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 4 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.45 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 5 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.46 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 6 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.47 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 7 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.48 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 8 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.49 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 9 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.50 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banking and financial inclusion: blank 10 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.51 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for receiving dues by now (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.52 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for students coming with someone (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.53 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition in an idiom about being unrivalled (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.54 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Article in an idiom about being caught on the horns (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.55 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Determiner before 'few incidents of violence' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.56 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Article before 'university' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.57 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Article before 'education' in a definition (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.58 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'entry' to a building (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.59 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition or determiner in a sentence about a leader (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.60 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for demonstrating a system over a drop zone (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.81 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb form for waiting since morning (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.82 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb form in a hypothetical about a time machine (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.83 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word in 'What you propose is ...' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.84 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word for the state of a campaign (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.85 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Phrasal verb for life disrupted by weather (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.86 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb form after 'Had he told me the news' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.87 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word about feeling unfairly treated (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.88 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word about the touch of a maestro (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.89 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Superlative form in 'one of the ... in the country' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.90 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Comparative construction on populations of cities (official answer: B) PDF
CDS2021
- Q.51 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct verb form for losing money in the stock market (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.52 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word in a sentence about national team selection (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.53 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct verb for meeting a friend after two decades (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.54 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word about what a portrait conveys (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.55 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word in a definition of biography (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.56 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct tense for completing a degree by 2023 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.57 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct relative pronoun in a question about a marriage (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.58 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable connector in a sentence on rich and poor (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.59 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct conditional verb form after 'Had I been informed' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.60 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Correct verb in a sentence on greed and unhappiness (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.71 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 1 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.72 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 2 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.73 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 3 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.74 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 4 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.75 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 5 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.76 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 6 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.77 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 7 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.78 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 8 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.79 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 9 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.80 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on peace education: blank 10 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.101 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about being at the receiving end (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.102 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about having no other option (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.103 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a concessive sentence about an acquittal (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.104 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a conditional sentence on essential qualifications (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.105 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence on a rejected contract bid (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.106 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence beginning 'I could not sleep' (official answer: dropped in the final key) PDF
- Q.107 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence beginning 'She married him' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.108 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about coming to meet someone (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.109 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a conditional sentence on planning work well (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.110 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence permitting use of a computer (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.111 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition in an idiom about going against the wind (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.112 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Article before 'honest contestant' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.113 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Prepositions in an idiom about reading the lines (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.114 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Determiner before 'scenic beauty' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.115 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'blame everyone' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.116 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Article before 'unique system' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.117 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'take care' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.118 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Article before 'nightingale of the college' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.119 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Particle after 'turn the light' in a dark room (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.120 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Particle after 'keep' when someone walks too fast (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.1 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about asking two people the way to the station (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.2 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about a very warm room (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.3 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about leaving today or tomorrow (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.4 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete the reason two people could not get into a house (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.5 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about choosing among good hotels (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.6 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence on a frequent bus service (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.7 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about living near a busy airport (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.8 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about a quiet person who said nothing (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.9 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence about disliking certain stories (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.10 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Completion: Complete a sentence beginning 'Not everything' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.61 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable verb form for honesty shown on a face (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.62 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word about how someone lives (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.63 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word completing the idiom about much water and the bridge (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.64 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Phrasal verb for a gun firing loudly (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.65 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable phrase about fighting the army to the last man (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.66 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word completing the idiom about keeping someone at a distance (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.67 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable word after 'He succeeded' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.68 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Gerund for attempting to climb a coconut tree (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.69 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable phrase for a man of means (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.70 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Suitable verb form after 'He dislikes' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.101 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 1 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.102 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 2 (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.103 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 3 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.104 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 4 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.105 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 5 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.106 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 6 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.107 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 7 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.108 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 8 (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.109 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 9 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.110 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze passage on banning polythene bags: blank 10 (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.111 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition in 'succeeded ... dint of perseverance' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.112 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for not finishing work on schedule (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.113 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'no meaning' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.114 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Word linking 'good rules' and 'live by' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.115 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'looking' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.116 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for loitering on the street (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.117 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for sitting next to someone (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.118 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition after 'shy' with entry-level jobs (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.119 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for making a coalition work for people (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.120 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions and Determiners: Preposition for travelling in someone's car (official answer: C) PDF
CDS2020
- Q.51 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for a minister's visit to a social worker (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.52 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for extinguishing a fire (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.53 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Verb phrase for keeping a promise (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.54 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Verb for avoiding politics in class (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.55 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for years of service given (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.56 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Phrase for a group running short of time (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.57 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Conditionals: Verb form in a hypothetical 'if I ___ an angel' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.58 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Proverbs: Word completing 'where there is a ___' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.59 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for how an accident happened (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.60 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for meeting an old friend by chance (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.51 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Conditionals: Verb form in a past conditional about marriage (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.52 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Phrase for a lady named among top ten of a community (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.53 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Verb for finding water bodies intact (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.54 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Word for someone who lost all investments (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.55 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Reporting verb for a question about a certificate (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.56 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Verb used with 'farewell' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.57 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Adjective for surviving early Vedic texts (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.58 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Adjective describing a speech to an audience (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.59 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Proverbs: Word completing the proverb about gold (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.60 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Noun for a politician past his prime (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.91 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form after 'about' in a passage on habits (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.92 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form for what people want (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.93 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Determiner for habit patterns (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.94 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Modal for what scientists must have found (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.95 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form in 'if only it ___ that easy' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.96 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Conjunction in 'it's not ___ formulas don't exist' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.97 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Gerund for changing habits (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.98 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adverb for how different individuals are (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.99 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun completing 'person to ___' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.100 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition after 'different' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.101 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Relative pronoun in a list of differences (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.102 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Participle for what drives habits (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.103 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form for the book's contents (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.104 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Word introducing how habits work (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.105 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Modal for how habits change (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.106 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adverb before 'complex and obstinate' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.107 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective for a never-ending process (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.108 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form after 'does not' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.109 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Participle for the framework in this section (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.110 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adverb in 'in a ___ basic way' (official answer: A) PDF
CDS2019
- Q.1 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Verb for how we deal with ageing (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.2 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Verb for the risk profile of complementary medicine (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.3 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Vocabulary in Context: Verb for the effect of stress on fertility (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.4 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for a match stopped due to weather (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.5 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for someone proved right in the end (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.6 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb asking how someone is doing in a new job (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.7 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Preposition for living in a tower block (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.8 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for being discouraged from applying for a job (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.9 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Conjunctions: Conjunction for going out in the rain without a raincoat (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.10 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for escaping a penalty for wrong parking (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.91 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition after 'forcing itself' in a passage on war (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.92 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective for the author's position on war (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.93 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for the Tolstoyan view of war (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.94 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for what opinions on war come from (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.95 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Connector joining views on war in general and in particular (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.96 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for how convictions can be known (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.97 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun in 'all ethical ___' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.98 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for the article's aim of clarifying feelings (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.99 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Word for how the rights of a war are viewed (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.100 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Final noun of the war passage (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.101 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for the power celebrated by the chemistry Nobel (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.102 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Word for where the laureates used evolution (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.103 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for what directed evolution did to enzymes (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.104 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for making biofuels and drugs with enzymes (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.105 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for antibodies acting against diseases (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.18 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb phrase for the founders' vision in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.19 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Pronoun after 'commit' in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.20 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form for building a democratic society in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.21 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective for the kind of society in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.22 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition linking development and democracy in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.23 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for an early economic advance in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.24 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Phrase for India's start in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.25 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Determiner before 'democratic order' in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.26 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form for basing government on elections in a passage on the Indian Republic (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.27 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for what ecology studies in an ecology passage (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.28 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition linking organisms in an ecology passage (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.29 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Possessive before 'physical environment' in an ecology passage (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.30 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Conjunction opening a sentence on Haeckel in an ecology passage (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.31 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form for earlier proposed terms in an ecology passage (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.32 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition for relationships in an ecology passage (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.33 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Phrase introducing Hilaire's term in an ecology passage (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.34 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Word before 'organisms within the family' in an ecology passage (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.35 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Phrase in Mivart's definition in an ecology passage (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.36 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for light that suits creatures in an ecology passage (official answer: A) PDF
CDS2018
- Q.21 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb meaning to clear someone of a crime (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.22 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for rain holding back for a picnic (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.23 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrase for being exhausted after a marathon (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.24 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Tenses: Verb form after 'Scarcely' in an inversion (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.25 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for recovering from a shock (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.26 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Proverbs: Complete the proverb about crying over something (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.27 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Modals: Modal verb for lack of necessity (brother's train) (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.28 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adjective for a rash driver as a would-be killer (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.29 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Noun completing 'owes a deep debt of' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.30 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Idioms: Phrase for the one unenthusiastic person in a group (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.91 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: what her singing brought (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.92 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: preposition before 'all parts' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.93 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: which countries (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.94 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: preposition before October 1966 (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.95 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: invited to do what in New York (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.96 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: how many foreign countries (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.97 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: how people listened (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.98 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: greatest ___ given (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.99 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: duration of the spell (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.100 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on M.S. Subbulakshmi: who was spellbound (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.101 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Anglo-Maratha War: what was shattered (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.102 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Anglo-Maratha War: what rankled in their hearts (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.103 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Anglo-Maratha War: kind of last attempt (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.104 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Anglo-Maratha War: what they wished to regain (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.105 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Anglo-Maratha War: the Resident's control (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.1 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Correct phrase with 'annoyed' for a teacher and late students (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.2 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Correct preposition after 'shouted' from a rooftop (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.3 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Correct form of 'complain' with a headache (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.4 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Prepositions: Correct form of 'insist' about going with a brother (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.5 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for relating well with classmates (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.6 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Phrasal Verbs: Phrasal verb for a diplomat visiting the Prime Minister (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.7 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Conditionals: Inverted conditional opening about being sincere (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.8 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Subject-Verb Agreement: Verb with 'ten years' as a period of time (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.9 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Conditionals: Verb forms in 'If I ___ you, I ___ love to accept' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.10 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reported Questions: Reported form of a sister's question about studying abroad (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.49 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Manga: verb form for origin in Japan (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.50 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Manga: tense for existing since the 12th century (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.51 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Manga: noun for first appearance of the art (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.52 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Manga: determiner before 'art form' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.53 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Manga: word opening the sentence on translations (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.54 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Manga: effect on purists of flipped pictures (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.55 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on Manga: article before 'right to left format' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.56 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on education: noun opening the passage (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.57 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on education: verb form for children being educated (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.58 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on education: 'as quickly as possible' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.59 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on education: phrase after 'superman' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.60 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on education: word before 'routine automatons' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.61 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on education: preposition after 'smiling' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.62 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on education: phrase before 'a monstrous revolution' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.63 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Cloze on education: tense of 'learnt the trick' (official answer: C) PDF
CDS2017
- Q.111 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Noun for a rule on merit scholarships (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.112 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Preposition after 'pay' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.113 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb form in 'in case he comes' (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.114 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adjective for someone not to be trusted with secrets (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.115 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for administering the oath (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.116 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for students being reprimanded (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.117 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for consequences sinking to lowest level (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.118 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Infinitive after 'knew' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.119 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for stressing the organisation's role (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.120 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for having neglected citizenship training (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.21 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word for progress toward price stability (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.22 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for calming an angry man (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.23 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for telling good from bad (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.24 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb tense in a past conditional (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.25 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Preposition for dividing property (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.26 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Noun in 'lowered him in the ___ of everyone' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.27 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Particle with 'clear' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.28 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for accepting a headmaster's ways (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.29 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Connector expressing concession (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.30 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb in 'nature has ___ them with' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.97 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for how things in a bank affect the writer (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.98 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Phrase for the sight of the manager (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.99 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb in 'makes me want to run' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.100 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Phrase 'as fast as I can' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.101 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for entering through the door (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.102 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Connector after losing one's head (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.103 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for work done at a bank (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.104 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun after 'cannot explain' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.105 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adverb in 'how it has always been' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.106 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Closing word of the bank passage (official answer: B) PDF
CDS2016
- Q.46 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Phrasal verb for giving way to pressure (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.47 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for authority without moral purity (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.48 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Word for public ownership of industries (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.49 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Noun for the national struggle for independence (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.50 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adjective for habits that prevent saving (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.51 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Verb for the charge against Socrates (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.52 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Phrasal verb for robbers quarrelling (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.53 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adjective for thinking oneself always right (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.54 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adjective for accidents caused by speeding (official answer: D) PDF
- Q.55 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Fill in the Blanks: Adjective for creative people and uniqueness (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.56 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun pairing with thought in a passage on action (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.57 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Word for action without thought (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.58 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adverb in 'we act on some impulse' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.59 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective for an impulse or urge (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.60 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Article before 'brick' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.61 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for the part that goes up (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.62 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for guarding oneself (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.63 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective for an automatic action (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.64 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition in 'result of deliberate thought' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.65 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for how living is shaped (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.66 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for automatic responses through the day (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.67 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Clause in 'anything we do' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.68 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun in 'common range of actions' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.69 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Confusable proceeded and preceded (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.70 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Comparative opener 'the more' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.71 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Participle for thought and action combined (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.72 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Pronoun for action and thought (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.73 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb for how happy you become (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.74 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for clash between wish and action (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.75 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for being unable to act (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.51 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Connector in a passage on science being old (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.52 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun agreement for 'man' using science (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.53 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Article before 'very long time' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.54 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form 'has had' a greater effect (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.55 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Conjunction in 'the last 25 or 30 years' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.56 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition 'since' the invention of the plough (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.57 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective for the gifts of science (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.58 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective describing modern life (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.59 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Phrase 'at the same time' (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.60 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective for a growing problem (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.61 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Pronoun 'that of' in a sentence on technology (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.62 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form for the world becoming small (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.63 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form 'leave' in a conditional (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.64 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Modal for eating breakfast in flight (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.65 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition for a stop at Kabul (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.66 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Connector in a passage on metals (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.67 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Modal for metals being shaped (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.68 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Phrase 'by means of' machines (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.69 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Article before 'piece of metal' (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.70 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adverb for how metal is heated (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.71 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb phrase for heat needed to melt metal (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.72 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Noun for the liquid state of metal (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.73 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Preposition for pouring metal into a mould (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.74 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adverb for specially prepared sand (official answer: C) PDF
- Q.75 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Connector for when moulds are broken (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.76 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Tense for the metal having cooled (official answer: A) PDF
- Q.77 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Adjective for cooled metal shapes (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.78 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Demonstrative to begin 'process is called casting' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.79 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Verb form 'have been fashioned' (official answer: B) PDF
- Q.80 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Cloze Test: Pronoun for metals being mixed into an alloy (official answer: B) PDF
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FAQ
How many Fill in the Blanks and Cloze questions come in CDS?
In the official papers we tagged: 20 in 2026, 40 in 2025, 45 in 2024, 60 in 2023, 80 in 2022, 80 in 2021, 40 in 2020, 44 in 2019, 50 in 2018, 30 in 2017 and 60 in 2016 (2 papers each year). That is 549 questions in all, about 21% of English.
Which Fill in the Blanks and Cloze topics repeat in CDS?
Asked in the most papers: Cloze Test, Fill in the Blanks, Prepositions and Determiners. The concept table lists every one with its count.
Are these official CDS questions?
Yes. Every question is from an official CDS paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.