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AFCAT 2 2014 QUESTION PAPER
(Based on Memory)

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. 1-6) : Select the most appropriate word from DIRECTIONS (Qs. 10-13) : Choose the word which is nearest in
the options against each number. meaning to the given word.
Science has made an _1_ contribution to the relief of human 10. 'LIBERALISE'
suffering and humanity _2_ a deep _3_ of gratitude to scientists (a) Resist (b) Change
whose _4_ and sacrifices have led to many _5_ discoveries and (c) Function (d) Malfunction
inventions which have done so much to _6_ human pain and 11. 'PRAGMATIC'
misery. (a) Theoretical (b) Suitable
1. (a) excessive (b) enormous (c) Realistic (d) Productive
(c) intensive (d) active 12. 'PRISTINE'
2. (a) feels (b) offers (a) Fresh (b) Old
(c) owes (d) acknowledges (c) Preserve (d) Dirty
3. (a) amount (b) fund 13. 'INTREPID'
(c) loan (d) debt (a) Middle (b) Tolerant
4. (a) labours (b) discoveries (c) Rude (d) Fearless
(c) achievements (d) successes DIRECTIONS (Qs. 14-17) : Choose the word which is nearly
5. (a) strange (b) useful opposite in meaning to the given word.
(c) advantageous (d) profitable 14. 'ANGELICAL'
6. (a) decrease (b) disappears (a) Magnanimous (b) Benlvolent
Diabolical
(d) Critical
(c)
(c) alleviate (d) belittle 15. 'HAUGHTINESS'
DIRECTIONS (Qs. 7-9) : Read the following passage carefully (a) Affability (b) Unskilled
and answer the questions given below it. (c) Adduce (d) Abject
Language is often used for one of the following three purposes, 16. 'Bellow'
namely, to inform, to convince and to persuade. The first requiring (a) Tout (b) Whisper
talent of telling what we know, is a matter of little difficulty. The (c) Stupour (d) Down
second demands reasoning. The third, besides reasoning,
demands all the aid that we can obtain from the use of figures of 17. 'INEQUITY'
speech or figures of rhetoric, which means the power of persuasion. (a) Law (b) Illegal
7. Rhetoric is the (c) Slander (d) Libel
(a) art of reasoning DIRECTIONS (Qs. 18-21) : Choose the word that best defines
the given phrase.
(b) use of figure of speech 18. Tickled pink
(c) power of persuasion (a) Greatly pleased (b) Coloured
(d) means of communicating information (c) Deeply upset (d) Embarrassed
8. The art of persuasion requires the use of 19. Split one's side
(a) information and talent feels (a) Intense pain (b) To laugh a lot
(b) reasoning and information (c) To be hurt (d) None of the above
(c) figure of speech 20. Building castles in the air
(d) reasoning and figure of speech (a) Making impossible plans
9. The above passage is (b) Making tall promises
(a) informative (b) persuasive (c) Building skyscrapers
(c) convincing (d) rhetorical (d) Structures without strong foundation