Directions (1-15): The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options, given. Select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
Q1. P: But the only danger he had really been in war in the last half-hour of his imprisonment.
Q: In after-years he liked to think that he had been in very Great Danger during the Terrible Flood.
R: When owl, who had just flown up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him and told him a very long story about an aunt.
S: Who had once laid a seagull’s egg by mistake, and the story went on and on.
(a) RSQP
(b) QRSP
(c) SQPR
(d) QPRS
Q2. P: And with each passing moment he felt an urgent need to run and hide as though the bell were sounding a warning.
Q: And heavy that he could scarcely hold onto it and he wanted to know what was in the package and he stopped near an alley corner and unwrapped in.
R: It sounded suddenly directly above his head and when he looked it was not there but went on tolling.
S: And he stood on a street corner in a red glare of light like that which came from the furnace and he had a big package in his arms so wet and slippery.
(a) RPSQ
(b) RSPQ
(c) RQPS
(d) PSRQ
Q3. P: I thought that today I would go back to the underground food store at the supermarket.
Q: We can get supplies for a week or two, I’m coming with you and we’ll ask one or two of the others to come along as well.
R: The one I went to on the first day, if nobody else has found it.
S: The next day, while still in bed, the doctor’s wife said to her husband, we have little food left, we’ll have to go out again.
(a) SRPQ
(b) PRSQ
(c) QRPS
(d) SPRQ
Q4. P: Leonardo Da Vinci was a man of.
Q: Powerful intellect, driven.
R: By An insatiable curiosity and haunted.
S: By a vision of artistic expression.
(a) PQSR
(b) QSRP
(c) PQRS
(d) QRPS
Q5. P: During the first half of the 20th century, many scientific computing needs were met by increasingly sophisticated analog computers, which used a direct.
Q: These were not programmable and generally lacked the versatility and.
R: Mechanical or electrical model of the problem as a basis for computation, however.
S: Accuracy of modern digital computers.
(a) PSRQ
(b) PRQS
(c) RQPS
(d) RSPQ
Q6. P: Corruption allegations involving government officials, including the 2G spectrum case and the Indian coal allocation scam.
Q: Poor economic conditions in the country, and growing discontent over a series of.
R: Lost much of its popular support, mainly because of several years of.
S: By the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the party had.
(a) QPSR
(b) PRSQ
(c) SRQP
(d) QSRP
Q7. P: Within the next few years, Congress' demands became more radical in the face of constant opposition.
Q: which Congress could be a major party.
R: It would allow a new political system in.
S: From the British government, and the party decided to advocate in favor of the independence movement because.
(a) PRSQ
(b) PSRQ
(c) RQSP
(d) PQRS
Q8. P: Molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than.
Q: A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because.
R: They scatter red light, when we look towards the sun at sunset.
S: We see red and orange colors because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.
(a) SPQR
(b) QRSP
(c) SQRP
(d) QPRS
Q9. P: And slowly, you reach the pinnacle of self-awareness, experiencing a unity with all life.
Q: If you transform your energy positively, it naturally becomes compassion and love.
R: Once you experientially are a part of everything then nobody needs to teach you morality.
S: Then you can do something to improve the situation, but without anger.
(a) PQRS
(b) QPRS
(c) RQPS
(d) RSPQ
Q10. P: It would be better to speak of uniformities of nature.
Q: Law of nature are not commands but statements of facts.
R: This would do away with elementary fallacy that a law implies a law given.
S: The use of the word law in this context is rather unfortunate.
(a) QSRP
(b) SQRP
(c) QSPR
(d) SQPR
Q11. P: When the game of life is finally over there is no second chance to correct our errors.
Q: Time is the greater equalizer of all mankind.
R: Time offers opportunity but demands a sense of regard.
S: It has taken away the best and the worst of us without regard of either.
(a) QSRP
(b) RSQP
(c) PQRS
(d) RSPQ
Q12. P: The magnitude of the interdependence depends on the technique of production causing the shifts in the food supply curve.
Q: Interdependence of food and labor market is important for the development process.
R: Similarly, an upward shift in the food supply curve shifts up the food demand curve.
S: An upward shift in the food supply curve would simultaneously result in an upward shift in the labor demand curve.
(a) QSPR
(b) QPRS
(c) PSRQ
(d) SPQR
Q13. P: While the Soviet Government bought grain and other foreign consumer goods to be sold in domestic markets at heavily subsidized rates, Russia rejected socialism.
Q: The oil industry was the prime target of a sweeping privatization drive launched after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
R: The Russian government has failed to do for its people even a fraction of what the Soviet Union, with twice the population, did with the revenue generated from oil.
S: However, not all Russian have been rolling in oil wealth.
(a) QSRP
(b) PRQS
(c) RQSP
(d) RSPQ
Q14. P: Yet making loans to poor people is hardly a Poverty cure.
Q: Segmenting the industry, might be worth while if it allows more of the poor to get access to credit.
R: Multinational corporations could take the top microfinance institutions to the next level, and the remainder could take the responsibility of development groups and regional banks.
S: Property rights and the role of law matter too.
(a) PRQS
(b) QRPS
(c) SPQR
(d) RSPQ
Q15. P: But the scenario has quite changed now-a-days by allocating a special budget of funds for security.
Q: In the last ten years, budget towards the development of military forces is higher when compared to others.
R: India earlier days gave more importance to the development of industry and less importance to other departments.
S: This is because of the frightening increase in terrorism all around the world especially emerging after the 9/11 terror attack in U.S.
(a) PRQS
(b) SPQR
(c) QSPR
(d) RPSQ
SOLUTIONS
1.D
2.A
3.D
4.C
5.B
6.C
7.B
8.D
9.B
10.C
11.A
12.A
13.A
14.B
15.D
