ORDERING OF SENTENCES
Directions: In this section each item consists of six
sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the
beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up
and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the
four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.
1. S1 : First and foremost, there are order and safety in our civilization.
1. S1 : First and foremost, there are order and safety in our civilization.
S6: Nobody may come and break into my house and steal my
goods.
P : Thus in disputes between man and man, right has taken
the place of might.
Q : If today I have a quarrel with another man, I do not get
beaten merely because I am physically weaker.
R : I go to law, and the law will decide fairly between the
two of us.
S : Moreover, the law protects me from robbery and
violence.
The correct sequence should be
(a)R Q P S
(b)S R Q P
(c) Q R P S
(d) P R S Q
2. S1 : In democratic countries, men are equal before the law.
S6: And they live like this not for fun, but because they
are too poor to afford another room.
P : While some few people live in luxury, many have not
enough to eat, drink and wear.
Q : There are many families of five or six persons who live
in a single room.
R : But the sharing-out of money - which means the
sharing-out of food and clothing and houses - is still very unfair.
S : In this room they sleep and dress and wash and eat, and
in this same room they die.
The correct sequence should be
(a) R P Q S
(b) P R S Q
(c) Q S P R
(d) S P R Q
3. S1 : Tomorrow it will be a year since we lost our
great leader.
S6: Though he is no more with us, the qualities he possessed
and the ideals he cherished remain with us.
P ; To these he added a feminine sensitiveness to
atmosphere.
Q : He was involved in the major events of his
time.
R : He participated in them all while maintaining the
highest standards of public conduct.
S : He was incomparably the greatest figure in our history -
a man of dynamic force, intellectual power and profound vision.
The correct sequence should be
(a) P S R Q
(b) R Q P S
(c) R P Q S
(d) S P Q R
4. S1 : It would be possible to adduce many examples
showing what could be done with the limited means' at our ancestor’s disposal
in the way of making life comfortable.
S6: I hope, in this essay, to make that connection
manifest.
P : What have comfort and cleanliness to do with politics,
morals, and religion ?
Q : But look more closely and you will discover that there
exists the closest connection between the recent growth of comfort and the
recent history of ideas.
R : They show that if they lived in filth and discomfort, it
was because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles, political,
moral and religious.
S : At a first glance one would say that there could be no
causal connection between arm chairs and democracies, sofas and the family
system, hot baths and religious orthodoxy.
The correct sequence should be
(a) P R Q S
(b) R P S Q
(c) Q S R P
(d) Q S P R
5. S1 : To most people, the term technology conjures up
images of mills or machines.
S6: It includes ways to make chemical reactions occur, ways
to breed fish, plant forests or teach history.
P : The classic symbol of technology is still the assembly
line created by Henry Ford half a century ago.
Q : The invention of the horse collar in the Middle Ages led
to changes in agricultural methods and was as such a technological
advance.
R : Moreover, technology includes techniques, as well as the
machines that may or may not be necessary to apply them.
S : This symbol, however, has always been inadequate, for
technology has always been more than factories and machines.
The correct sequence should be
(a) S P R Q
(b) P S Q R
(c) R S P Q
(d) Q S R P
6. S1 : I was the secretary of the Philo sophical Society
of the Patna College.
6: I have been to Kolkata many times since, but never has
it been more pleasant than that first visit.
P : It was my first visit to the city and its impression on
my mind was indelible.
Q : In that capacity, I once led a trip
to Kolkata.
R : I felt I had landed in the midst of beautiful dream
world of a fairy land.
S : I saw the roads, the trams, the skyscrapers and the
magnificent shops at the Chowranghee lane.
The correct sequence should be
(a) Q P S R
(b) P S Q R
(c) S R P Q
(d) S Q R P
7. S1 : Union finance ministry announced a series of
concessions to trade and industry last month.
S6: Manufacturers "feel that prices of certain
components may not be brought down because of the imposition of a 30 per cent
duty where there was none earlier.
P : Together, these will result in a loss of revenue of Rs.
100 crore to the exchequer.
Q : EarHer, these were attracting customs duty varying fi-om
zero to 100 per cent.
R : The chunk of the relief of Rs. 60 crore has gone to the
electronics industry.
S : Raw materials and piece parts now carry customs duty of
30 per cent and 40 per cent ad valorem respec tively.
The correct sequence should be
(a) R S Q P
(b) P R S Q
(c) S Q P R
(d) S Q P R
8. S1 : At four O’clock this morning, Hitler attacked and
invaded Russia.
S6 : Under its cloak of false confidence, the German armies
drew up in immense strength along a line which stretches fi-om the White Sea to
the Black Sea.
P : No complaint had been made by Germany of its
non-fulfilment.
Q : All his usual formalities of perfidy were observed with
scrupulous technique.
R : No one could have expected that Hitler would do
it.
S : A non-aggression treaty had been solemnly signed and was
in force between the two countries.
The correct sequence should be
(a) R Q S P
(b) R S Q P
(c) P S Q R
(d) Q P S R
9. S1 : Roderick Usher has always been a quiet person who
talked little of himself
S6 : In the part of the country where he lived, the “House
of Usher” had come to mean both the family and its ancestral mansion.
P : Many of his ancestors had been famous for their artistic
and musical abilities.
Q : Others were known for their exceptional generosity and
charity.
R : Yet I did know that his family was an old
one.
S : So I did not know too much about him.
(a) P Q R S
(b) S R Q S
(c) S P R Q
(d) S R P Q
10. S1 : Mass production has increased the tendency to view
things as useful rather than delightful.
S6 : Indeed a lowering of quality usually results when mass
production is substituted for more primitive methods.
P : These various things share nothing with the buttons
except money value.
Q : All the rest you wish to exchange for food, shelter, and
many other things.
R : Suppose you are a manufacturer of buttons : however
excellent your buttons may be, you do not want more than a few for your own
use.
S : And it is not even the money value of the buttons that
is important to you : what is important is profit which may be increased by
lowering their quality.
The correct sequence should be
(a) P Q R S
(b) R Q P S
(c) S P Q R
(d) Q
R P S
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