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Cloze Test — CDS English PYQs

206 questions from this chapter, asked in 9 CDS exams between 2016–2025.

206questions
9CDS exams
2016–2025years covered

Questions asked per year

Practice questions first 10 of 206 — free

Q1MCQ2025

(111) by the charm of Nature around him, man has expressed his appreciation of it in works of art produced by him. This goes back to a time (112) he was still a primitive being. Art (113) a softening influence on him. The earliest paintings of the prehistoric age in the caves all over the world give us magnificent examples of the (114) eye and the trained hand in man's savage state. The colours chosen, the movement (115) and the expressions the pictures are (116) with really make us marvel, even if all of them are not of the (117) of the paintings at Altamira. The prehistoric cave paintings in India give us a picture of life in those (118) days of the early man in India. It is a great and true experience that Kalidasa expresses, when he feels that (119) the happiest man feels (120) when he sees beautiful things or hears melodious notes.

(A)Moved
(B)Moving
(C)Having moved
(D)Moves
Q4MCQ2025
(A)observing
(B)observance
(C)observant
(D)observation
Q5MCQ2025
(A)portraying
(B)portray
(C)portrayed
(D)portrayal
Q6MCQ2025
(A)suffixed
(B)suffused
(C)suffusing
(D)surfaced
Q7MCQ2025
(A)standard
(B)standardised
(C)standards
(D)stand
Q8MCQ2025
(A)far-off
(B)far
(C)far-out
(D)far-fetched
Q10MCQ2025
(A)elates
(B)elating
(C)elated
(D)excite

Why practise Cloze Test PYQs?

Cloze Test has appeared in 9 CDS English exams we track between 2016–2025. UPSC examiners consistently reuse concepts and question patterns from this topic — practising its previous year questions is the most reliable way to know exactly what to expect in your exam.

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