CDS Model Paper 1 English

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 56-75) : In the following three passages, at certain points you are given a choice of three words in a bracket, one of which fits the meaning of the passage. Choose the best word from each bracket. Mark the letter, viz, (a), (b) or (c), relating to this word on your Answer Sheet.
A young man riding a motor-cycle approached a policeman in a market place and sought his assistance in reaching a particular locality. The policeman gave him some 56. (a) instructions/ (b) directions/ (c) advice and the motor-cyclistleft. He 57. (a)reached / (b) come / (c) went back after some time and 58. (a) asked/ (b) convinced/(c) told the policeman that he could not 59. (a) find/ (b) hit/ (c) see the place. The policeman got the 60. (a) idea/ (b) inclination/ (c) urgeto help him and agreedto 61. (a) start/ (b) go/ (c) proceed with the motor-cyclist. On reaching the 62. (a) station/ (b) destination / (c) spot the motor-cyclist left in a hurry leaving the policeman on the road. The policeman was surprised and returnedto his spot. A little latter, senior police office reached the place and took the policeman to task for dereliction of duty.
Picasso is considered by many as the greatest painter of the modern age. There are stories and legends about him. Once, on a beach in Southern France, a little boy, obviously. sent by his parents, approached Picasso 63. (a) with/ (b) by/ (c) on a sheet of paper and begged for a small autographed drawing. Picasso 64. (a) painted/ (b) thought/ (c) stood for a moment, then tore up the paper, took 65. (a) back/(b) some/ (c) aside colour crayons, drew designs on the boy's chest 66. (a) near/(b) and/ (c) to neck and signed his 'work' and sent the youngster 67. (a) after/ (b) again/ (c) back to his parents.
One of the most interesting new books published recently is "Spaceship" by prof. E.C. Walker. Our earth he says (a) is like a spaceship, and all the68. (a) is / (b) have been/ (c) will be is like a spaceship, and all the 400 million people (a) over earth are passengers on it. And we are heading 69. (a) over / (b) on (c) upon earth are passengers on it. And we are heading 70. (a) about/ (b) to (c) towards a disaster. The levels of atmospheric pollution 71. (a) increasing (b) arriving/ (c) coming/ in the cities and industrial areas of the world could in time change the weather patterns of the earth, raising the temperature 72. (a) in / (b) of/ (c) for/ the whole planet. If this rose a few 73. (a) degrees/ (b) steps/ (c) miles the deserts of the world would expand to double their size. The polar ice caps would start melting. If the polar ice caps melted the 74. (a) water/ (b) ice/ (c) sea/ level all over would rise 75. (a) in/ (b) by/ (c) to in about 60 meters.