Question 1 :
<div>The following are the sentences of a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are in order but the remaining sentences (P, Q, R, and S) may or may not be in the correct order. Find the right order of the sentences. <br/></div><div><span><br/></span></div>1 :<span> Much of our adult behavior and our attitudes are determined by our upbringing.</span><br/>P :<span> But the process does not stop there.</span><br/>Q :<span> In particular, we are affected by that small part of society which we call our family.</span><br/>R :<span> As we grow, we are constantly affected by new forces such as the social pressure of our friends and the larger world of society.</span><br/>S :<span> Family and early life have a profound effect on our later life.</span><br/>6 :<span> Physiologists have studied these forces in depth. </span><div></div>
Question 2 :
<div><span>The following six sentences form a paragraph. The last sentence is already given. Choose the order in which the five sentences (P, Q, R, S,T) should appear to complete the paragraph.</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>The next moment the butterfly rose in the air and was soon out of sight of the ant.<br/><br/>P. The next morning as the ant passed by the same plant it saw a butterfly with gorgeous wings near the remnants of the chrysalis.<br/>Q. 'Poor creature! You can just about move your tail <span>while I can run here and there', it mocked the chrysalis.<br/>R."Look at me, Ant! Can you fly from one place to another in a short time? It said as it dried its wings.<br/>S. The chrysalis heard all this but kept quiet.<br/></span><div><span>T. One day, a beautiful butterfly sneered at a chrysalis</span></div>
Question 3 :
The following question has the second sentence missing. Choose the appropriate sentence from the given options to complete it.<br/>A. If you want to know all about bread and bread-making, you must visit the Bread Museum in Ulm, Germany.<br/>B. ______________________________________________________________<br/>C. There are exhibitions on the cultivation of seeds, milling techniques, techniques of bread-making, equipment, the sale of bread - virtually everything you want to know about bread.
Question 4 :
<div>The following are the sentences of a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are in order but the remaining sentences (P, Q, R, and S) may or may not be in the correct order. Find the right order of the sentences. </div><div><span><br/></span></div>1 : Chanakya, by his foresight and strength of character, built up the Mauryan Empire.<br/>P : They were men of iron.<br/>Q : Therefore, they were impervious to criticism and had implicit confidence in themselves.<br/>R : Both these men were guided by stern realism and would tolerate no deviations from the objectives which they pursued relentlessly.<br/>S : Similarly, Patel refashioned a compact India out of the fragments left by the British.<br/>6 : It is just a myth that Sardar Patel was not particular about the means as long as he achieved his end.
Question 5 :
<span>The first and the sixth sentence of the passage are given in the beginning as SI and S6. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. Choose the correct order of the sentences.</span><div><br/></div><div>SI : The machines that drive modem civilisation derive their power from coal and oil. <br/>S6: Nuclear energy may also be effectively used in this respect. <br/>P : But they are not inexhaustible. <br/>Q : These sources may not be exhausted very soon. <br/>R: A time may come when some other sources have to be tapped and utilised. <br/>S: Power may, of course, be obtained in future from forests, water, wind and withered vegetables. <br/>The proper sequence should be </div>
Question 6 :
<span>Arrange the different parts in the correct sequence to form a meaningful sentence/paragraph. </span><br/><br/>P : Michael Hofman, a poet, and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval.<br/>Q : But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.<br/>R : He acknowledges too - in fact, he returns to the point often - the best translators of poetry always fail at some level.<br/>S : Hofman feels passionate about his work and this is clear from his writings.<br/>T : In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street cleaners.<br/><br/>
Question 7 :
<span>In the following sentence, some part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, you will find four ways of phrasing the underlined part. Choose the most appropriate option to revise the underlined part.</span>.<br/><br/><u>Plausible though it sounds, the weakness of the hypothesis</u> is that it does not incorporate all relevant facts.
Question 8 :
<div><span>The following six sentences come from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are given. Choose the order in which the four sentences (PQRS) should appear to complete the paragraph.</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>S1: Many things about Konark seem shrouded in mystery. <br/>S6: King Narasimha probably had it built as much as a memorial to himself as he did in honour of the Sun God. <br/>P: It is, of course, a religious shrine. <br/>Q: But there also seems to be a great emphasis on purely human grandeur. <br/>R: Why was it built? <br/>S: Long before the temple was built, sometime in the 13th century, Konarak was one of the five holiest places in Orissa.<div><br/>The proper sequence should be:</div>
Question 9 :
<span>Arrange the different parts in the correct sequence to form a meaningful sentence/paragraph. </span><br/><br/>P : Businesses often feel that since they have a lot of market muscle and such a dominant position, maintenance will be enough.<br/>Q : IBM has also suffered from lower-priced clones when the mystique of computers was off and there was no longer a need for reassurance from the solidity of Big Blue.<br/>R : IBM fell behind on the concept of "connectivity" and has suffered as a result.<br/>S : In recent years, however, even mighty IBM found that market domination was not enough if you fall behind on concept.<br/>
Question 10 :
<div>Fill in the blank with a relevant option:<br/></div>1. Anne Frank began to keep a diary on her thirteenth birthday - June 12, 1942, three weeks before she went into hiding with her family and friends in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father's office building in Amsterdam.<br/>2. __________________________________<br/>3. They were, however, betrayed in August 1944 and were deported to the Nazi concentration camp.
Question 11 :
<div><span>For the following question, arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence with sentence 1 and sentence 6 as the starting sentence and the concluding sentence respectively:</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>(1) Philosophy, outside of the formal academic environment, can be considered a discipline, not a profession.<br/>(A) On the other hand, engineering, no matter the specialty, is firmly set in the ways of a profession, from the highly structured undergraduate training to the lifetime of professional requirements.<br/>(B) Although philosophy represents a body of knowledge, it does not beget an occupation built on that specialized body of knowledge.<br/>(C) This status does not devalue the discipline of philosophy, but rather permeates society with people grounded in the discipline's fundamentals.<br/>(D) Philosophy degree holders move on to a myriad of job opportunities from law to business, from writing to political office, but there are no job openings on Monster.com for 'Philosopher.'<br/>(6) <span>The geosciences are potentially at a crossroads - the field can either continue to be a profession or slowly evolve into a discipline. </span>
Question 12 :
<div><span>For the following question, arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D between sentences 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence with sentence 1 and sentence 6 as the starting sentence and the concluding sentence respectively:</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>(1) Valentina Tereshkova was born to a peasant family in the Yaroslavl region of the former USSR in 1937.<br/>(A) Later, at the age of 24, she applied to become a cosmonaut.<br/>(B) Soon after starting work in a textile mill at the age of 18, Valentina joined an amateur parachuting club.<br/>(C) Earlier that year, in 1961, the Soviet space program began to consider sending women into space.<br/>(D) Yaroslavl is now a part of Russia.<br/>(6) <span>The Soviets were looking for another 'first' with which to beat the United States. </span>
Question 13 :
<div><span>Given below is a sequence of sentences, with 1 and 6 as the starting and concluding sentences of a paragraph, respectively. Arrange the rest of the sentences P, Q, R, and S between 1 and 6 to form a logical sequence:</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>(1) While Gore made the 2000 election his theme, he laced his remarks with genuine humor.<br/>(P) From a strategic perspective, this probably made sense.<br/>(Q) Given that Gore has been so vocal in his opposition to the Iraq invasion, it's intriguing he wasn't the speaker who hammered most on the issue.<br/>(R) That role fell to former President Jimmy Carter.<br/>(S) Carter, an 80-year-old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has engendered much goodwill around the globe over the past two decades, acting as a peace negotiator and monitor for democratic elections in developing countries.<br/>(6) <span>His eminence as a statesman gives him an almost non-ideological air.</span>
Question 14 :
<div><span>For the following question, arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D to form a logical sequence.</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>(A) Average pay rises are now running behind the level of inflation for the first time in a year, a report said.<br/>(B) While the UK pay increases have stayed at 2.9% for the past three months, headline inflation is now 3%.<br/>(C) Employees are now certain to seek higher wage rises to bring them back into line with increasing prices.<br/><span>(D) And this will put further pressure on companies who are already battling a stagnant economic scenario for the past few years. </span>
Question 15 :
<div><span>For the following question, arrange the sentences A, B, C, and D to form a logical sequence.</span><br/></div><div><br/></div>(A) Your doctor will never send you to the drugstore for a pack of cigarettes but she might recommend 'the patch'-the same remedy smokers use to wean themselves off cigarettes.<br/>(B) Worn on the skin, the patch releases enough nicotine into the bloodstream to curb colitis woes like severe diarrhea.<br/>(C) Not even nicotine is all bad.<br/><span>(D) It may soothe symptoms of ulcerative colitis, a digestive disease, according to a study. </span>