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AFCAT 1 2016 QUESTION PAPER

INSTRUCTIONS: TIME LIMIT : 2 HOURS
1. Total No. of Questions–100. Each Question is of three marks.
2. One mark will be deducted for every wrong answer.
3. Do not write or mark on the Question Paper.
4. Question Paper to be returned before leaving the Exam Hall.

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 1-4) : Choose the word/words that best defines 12. (a) Hindrance (b) Hinderance
the given phrases : (c) Hindrence (d) Hinderence
1. Beats me 13. (a) Perjery (b) Perjury
(a) To hit someone (b) To quarrel with a person (c) Purjury (d) Perjary
(c) To not understand (d) To be silent 14. (a) Reminiscene (b) Reminiscence
2. Cloak and dagger (c) Reminicence (d) Remeniscence
(a) To fight to a finish DIRECTIONS (Qs. 15-17) : Read the following passage carefully
(b) To get into unexpected trouble and answer the questions given below it
(c) To end the hostility Recently, a newspaper article mourned the total disappearance of
(d) Like a spy the common house sparrow.
3. To be at the end of one's tether This was a comment on the city's perceptible move towards edging
(a) To feel offended out the flora and fauna of the city. In the rapid urbanization, multi-
(b) To draw moral attention storied apartments grew and large scale felling of trees became
(c) To have no resources left necessary. Last week, however, seven pairs of these sparrows
(d) To think deeply were spotted in a suburb. Possibly the greenery of this place has
4. I Don't Buy it created a new habitat for these birds which like their proximity to
(a) To refuse to purchase something human beings, and have made a comeback. A systematic
(b) To give up development of trees and shrubs all over the city could woo the
(c) To decline an offer absentee house sparrow to our midst.
(d) To not be convinced
DIRECTIONS (Qs. 5-10) : Select the most appropriate word 15. In the passage the term "urbanisation" has been used to
from the options against each number: refer to
the destruction of the greenery in the city
(a)
Life is an (5) series of challenges and opportunities to be seized.
You have to plan for exercising the right career choices and (6) the (b) construction of concrete structures on a large scale
right opportunities. Planned (7) rather than a hasty decision is (8) (c) a change over from the rural life to the city life
as far as your career is concerned. You need to (9) what (d) the movement of people from villages to cities
occupational groups, (10) and type of organizations are suitable 16. The phrase "absentee house sparrow" refers to
for you. (a) the sparrow that makes infrequent visits
5. (a) enticing (b) exciting (b) the sparrow that has forgotten its habitat
(c) encharming (d) enhancing (c) the sparrow that has gone away from the urban areas
6. (a) catching (b) offsetting (d) the sparrow that has become extinct
(c) grabbing (d) conceiving 17. According to the passage, the birds have made a comeback
7. (a) delay (b) hindrance to the suburb because they
(c) application (d) execution (a) have been hunted down by the village people
8. (a) desirable (b) deciphered (b) Love to be amidst human beings
(c) inevitable (d) acceptable (c) get food only where human beings live
9. (a) check (b) classify (d) they have been deliberately brought back by
(c) divide (d) analyse biologists
10. (a) specifications (b) limitations DIRECTIONS (Qs. 18-21): Choose the word which is nearest in
(c) qualifications (d) identification meaning to the given word:-
DIRECTIONS (Qs. 11-14): Choose the correct spelt word: 18. Abdicate
11. (a) Omminous (b) Omineous (a) Join (b) Search
(c) Ominous (d) Omenous (c) Advance (d) Renounce