- These tests are a check for your learning and are meant to serve as tools for assessment.
- The test is designed to check your current understanding of the language and whether you are able to logically co-relate different parts of a paragraph.
- Directions for individual questions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
Ordering of Sentences: Test-25
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Question 1 |
1. Freedom is first of all a personal matter. P. A man who will not submit to the discipline of his chosen occupation is not free to be a great surgeon; or engineer, or golfer, or executive.
Q. Life imposes a drastic discipline on all living things, including human beings.
R. We are free to eat poison or jump off a tall building, but not to escape the consequences.
S. We are bound by the laws of cause and effect.
6. Nature, morever, binds the arbitrary limits of mind and body; we are not free to do, by whatever effort, what is beyond our capacity.
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Question 1 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is S, followed by R and Q, and the last sentence out of the given options is P.
Question 2 |
1. There was a lamp hanging on the wall
P. Then he picked a/lot of jewels off the trees in the garden
Q. He put the lamp inside his shirt
R. He put them in his pockets
S. All add in climbed a ladder and took down the lamp
6. Then he put more jewels inside his shirt on top of the lamp.
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Question 2 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is S, followed by Q and P, and the last sentence out of the given options is R.
Question 3 |
1. Venice is a strange and beautiful city in the north of Italy.
P. There are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the islands of Venice.
Q. In this city there are no motor cars, no horses and no buses.
R. These small islands are near one another.
S. It is not one island but a hundred and seventeen islands. This is because Venice has no streets.
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Question 3 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is S, followed by R and P, and the last sentence out of the given options is Q.
Question 4 |
1. Love is one of the earliest of human passions.
P. It is also one of the sweetest.
Q. Love should be directed towards a worthy object. .
R. But, like all strong passions it may, if not well regulated and controlled, lead us into, misery.
S. Or it will prove in the end a source of bitterness.
6. Love, moreover, looks forward to reciprocation.
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Question 4 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is P, followed by R and Q, and the last sentence out of the given options is S.
Question 5 |
1. The camel has tough leathery lips
P. that will not sink in the sand
Q. and a reserve of food supply
R. broadened feet
S. capable of consuming the coarsest vegetation
6. in its humps.
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Question 5 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is R, followed by P and Q, and the last sentence out of the given options is S.
Question 6 |
1. Jeff is a very good dancer,
P. who always tries new dance steps
Q. while the rest of the class is struggling
R. which are demonstrated,
S. and masters them quickly
6. he shows off.
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Question 6 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is P, followed by R and S, and the last sentence out of the given options is Q.
Question 7 |
1. Efforts should be made to stimulate exports.
P. We have another source of foreign exchange.
Q. But people are reluctant to part with it.
R. I mean the huge quantities of hoarded gold.
S. It is necessary to increase our foreign exchange reserves.
6. If they are willing, gold can be sold abroad.
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Question 7 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is S, followed by P and R, and the last sentence out of the given options is Q.
Question 8 |
1. Snakes are the most feared of all reptiles.
P. Superstition and ignorance prevents proper treatment.
Q. It is also beneficial to man.
R. Snake is not a source of fear and harm.
S. Many people are killed by snakes in India and all over the world.
6. Medicines are made from its poison.
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Question 8 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is S, followed by P and R, and the last sentence out of the given options is Q.
Question 9 |
1. As my jogging-enthusiast sister
(P) was often bothered by neighbourhood dogs
(Q) with a stick in hand.
(R) her husband started to accompany her on a bicycle.
(S) on her daily run.
(6) to ward off any attackers.
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Question 9 Explanation:
The first sentence out of the given options is P), followed by S) and R), and the last sentence is Q).
Question 10 |
1.When Galileo went home, he began to experiment with the pendulum.
P. When he showed it to his teachers, they were delighted.
Q. It was not long before physicians were all using the instrument to count the heart-beats of their patients.
R. Soon he had invented an instrument which marked the rate of pulse-beats.
S. Then the clock makers began to use the pendulum to keep time.
6. Today it has many other uses.
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