UPSC CDS 2 2019 English Paper

Directions : Each of the following passages in this section has some blank spaces with four words or groups of words given. Select which ever word or group of words you consider most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. The founders of the Indian Republic ____ 18. (a) had (b) has (c) has had (d) were ___ the farsightedness and the courage to commit ____ 19.(a) them (b) themselves (c) the people (d) the course ______ to two major innovations of historical significance in nation-building and social engineering : first, to ____ 20 (a) build (b) building (c) constructing (d) built ____. a democratic and civil ____ 21(a) libertarian (b) liberation (c) liberating (d) liberty___. society among illiterate people and, second, to undertake economic development _____ 22 (a) with a (b) within a (c) for the (d) without a ____. democratic political structure. Hitherto, in all societies in which an economic take off or an early industrial and agricultural ____ 23 (a) breakthrough (b) breakout (c) breaking (d) investment____. had occurred, effective democracy, especially from the working people, had been extremely limited. On the other hand, ____ 24.(a) with (b) from (c) within (d) for_____ the beginning, India was committed to ____ 25.(a) few (b) some (c) a (d) an _____democratic and civil libertarian political order and a representative system of government ____ 26. (a) basing (b) basis of (c) based (d) function _____on free and fair elections to be conducted on the basis of universal adult franchise.