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51. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The recent communal violence in Hyderabad and in Bareilly a month
ago has remained on the sidelines of national attention.
B. In both cities, the present round of violence was preceded by
mobilisations and speeches, primarily by Hindu fundamentalist groups.
C. Fortunately, there was no death in the violence in Bareilly, while
in Hyderabad only three people were killed.
D. Yet, the scale, planning and causes behind the riots indicate a
certain change in the morphology of the typical riot, a change which
needs to be identified and understood if we want to keep religious
sectarianism and violence in check.
E. Communal violence has become so endemic to the polity of India that
it has ceased to attract much attention outside its immediate area of
impact, or unless it crosses very high levels of fatality and
barbarity.
(a) EACDB (b) ABEDC (c) EABCD (d) ABCDE
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52. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. That too was historic.
B. The word that immediately rolled off of every tongue after the
presidential election was "historic"; and rightly so.
C. It would have been unimaginable forty years ago.
D. The fact that the country has become civilized enough to accept
this outcome is a considerable tribute to the activism of the 1960s
and its aftermath.
E. The two candidates in the Democratic primary were a woman and an
African-American.
(a) BCDAE (b) BCDEA (c) BEDAC (d) BEACD
3
53. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The revolution began as an attack on despotism.
B. Already by 1762 Rousseau was implying in his "Social Contract" that
there was no meaningful
difference between the authority of a despot and that of a monarch
C. As usual, regular usage soon diluted the original rigor of the
expression's meaning.
D. Montesquieu has defined its spirit as "The rule of one, according to no law".
E. Obeying no law, authority was arbitrary and its animating spirit was fear.
(a) ABDCE (b) AEDCB (c) ADECB (d) ADEBC
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54. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. Some think the limits of body i.e. surface; line, point, and unit
are substances more so than body or the solid.
B. Substance is thought to belong most obviously to bodies.
C. But whether these alone are substances, or there are also others,
or only some of these, or others as well, or none of these but only
some other things, are substances, must be considered.
D. Even things that are either parts of these or composed of these,
eg. the physical universe and its parts, stars, moon and sun are
considered substances.
E. So we say that not only animals and plants and their parts are
substances, but also natural bodies such as fire and water and earth
and everything of the sort.
(a) BADCE (b) ABEDC (c) BEADC (d) BEDCA
5 55. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. As it expanded, it would have borrowed energy from the
gravitational field, to create matter.
B. The universe expanded and borrowed at an ever-increasing rate.
C. Fortunately, the debt of gravitational energy will not have to be
repaid until the end of the universe.
D. According to the no boundary proposal, the universe would have
expanded in a smooth way from a single point.
E. As any economist could have predicted, the result of all that
borrowing, was inflation.
(a) DAEBC (b)DABCE (c) CDAEB (d) CDABE
6 1. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
one.
A. Capping it all was a row about the legitimacy of holding election
events in government property.
B. Not a problem, the Labour party insisted, for this was a PFI
hospital and thus commercial property.
C. Gordon Brown then set out his manifesto in front of a peculiar
mixture of party supporters and journalists, some of whom were jeered
for asking impertinent questions.
D. The stage seemed set for a typical, if rather embarrassing, New Labour event.
E. In a Birmingham hospital, Soul Man blasted out while the likes of
Pat McFadden and Bob Ainsworth fumbled in choreographed order towards
their seats.
(a) DEACB (b) DECAB (c) EBADC (d) EDCAB
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2. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
one.
A. Far worse than even in some poor African countries.
B. This remains an area of grave concern: opening the cages will not
solve the problems of basic education and health so public private
partnerships may be needed.
C. Literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty and every
other social indicator was always far worse in socialist India than in
Asian miracle economies.
D. So, the socialist cage gave Indians neither economic growth nor
social justice.
E. Vast sums of spent on health and education were wasted; teachers
and health staff had an absenteeism rate of 18 % to 58 % but were
protected from disciplinary action by strong trade unions.
(a) EDCAB (b) BACED (c) CAEDB (d) EDBCA
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3. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
one.
A. Hakim Ali argued against the use of tobacco: "It is not necessary
for us to follow the Europeans, and adopt a custom, which is not
sanctioned by our own wise men without experiment or trial."
B. Here instinct worked better than reason but worked well enough!
C. The fact that fact may not be infallible, especially in the
presence of uncertainty, is well illustrated by an episode regarding
the then newly arrived practice of smoking tobacco.
D. Armed with that argument , Akbar tried smoking, but happily for him
, he took an instant dislike of it and never smoked again.
E. Akbar ignored this argument on the ground that "we must not reject
a thing that has been adopted by the people of the world, merely
because we can't find it in our books; or else how shall we progress."
(a) CEBDA (b) CAEDB (c) CADEB (d) AEBDC
9
18. Four sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C and D. They need
to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
one.
A. The greatest turbulence never destroyed all elements of the old order.
B. Unlike America or Australasia, Europe is an old continent, in the
sense that it has a long and continuous history of some two thousand
years.
C. Even when it suffered severe changes and considerable
disintegration, as during the barbarian invasion of the fifth century,
enough of its past always survived to provide real continuity.
D. Beneath the patchwork suggested by a political map showing the
division of Europe into states, there was a vast substratum of
historical heritage and continuity.
(a) BDCA (b) DABC (c) ABCD (d) BCAD
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39. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. Fortunately, global wealth and technology allow us to better
prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
B. It does not necessarily mean that volcanoes and quakes are getting
worse — but rather that there are more of us living in areas where we
might be affected by a disaster, and we have more to lose.
C. As global populations have grown and people have crowded into risk
zones — like earthquake areas and flood plains — the toll of natural
disasters has grown as well.
D. According to the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters,
the number of catastrophic events has more than doubled since the
1980s.
E. The Red Cross estimates that the economic damage from disasters
rose fivefold, to $629 billion, from 1985 to 2005.
(a) CDBEA (b) BCDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CADEB
11
40. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
. A. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and
suffering, so long our work will not be over.
B. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer.
C. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving
so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one
we shall take today.
D. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and
inequality of opportunity.
E. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe
every tear from every eye.
(a) BDCEA (b) CBDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CEABD
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41. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.
B. Who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds.
C. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better.
D. Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends
himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly,
E. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
(a) EBDAC (b) CEDBA (c) DBAEC (d) CEBDA
13
21. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The species, which are most numerous in individuals, will have the
best chance of producing variations within any given period.
B. Hence any rare species will be less quickly modified or improved
within any given period, and they will be consequently beaten in the
race for life by the modified descendants of the commoner species.
C. From these considerations I think it inevitably follows, that as
new species in the course of time are formed others will become rare
and finally extinct.
D. We have evidence of this in the fact that it is the more common
species that afford the greatest number of varieties, or incipient
species.
E. Extinction or survival, therefore, is a function of a parameter
that is totally beyond the control of the species.
(a) ABCDE (b) ADBCE (c) BCAED (d) EDABC
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30. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The good news is that a major deficiency in rainfall, as had
happened last year, is an extremely remote possibility.
B. Two crucial indicators, the El Nino, caused by difference in sea
surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean Dipole,
are both moving in a direction that is positive for a good monsoon.
C. The first long-range forecast for the rainfall during the
four-month period of July- September indicates rain around the end of
this month.
D. It is still very early days for a monsoon forecast for this season
but at least the available signs as of now are all pointing in the
right direction.
E. Even the persistent & sustained heat is the past few days over most
of central and Northern India is likely to help in good rainfall.
(a) ADBCE (b) DABCE (c) BCDEA (d) DCBEA
15 37. Four sentences are given below, labelled A, B, C and D. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. It is against this background and in this context that we must
begin our understanding of political theory.
B. Students of anthropology and of animal behavior are making it
increasingly clear that in man, most of the other primates, and in
many other animal species as well, social life and organization are
primary biological survival devices.
C. What we call political and social organization— the customs,
practices, and procedures that with varying degrees of firmness hold
men together in interrelated groups— is perhaps the most important
form of human adaptation to environment, both external and internal.
D. Man has no leathery armor like a turtle or spines like a porcupine,
but he does have social life and the capacity to organize it
effectively for survival purposes.
(a) BCAD (b) CBDA (c) BCDA (d) DCBA.
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51. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The recent communal violence in Hyderabad and in Bareilly a month
ago has remained on the sidelines of national attention.
B. In both cities, the present round of violence was preceded by
mobilisations and speeches, primarily by Hindu fundamentalist groups.
C. Fortunately, there was no death in the violence in Bareilly, while
in Hyderabad only three people were killed.
D. Yet, the scale, planning and causes behind the riots indicate a
certain change in the morphology of the typical riot, a change which
needs to be identified and understood if we want to keep religious
sectarianism and violence in check.
E. Communal violence has become so endemic to the polity of India that
it has ceased to attract much attention outside its immediate area of
impact, or unless it crosses very high levels of fatality and
barbarity.
(a) EACDB (b) ABEDC (c) EABCD (d) ABCDE
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52. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. That too was historic.
B. The word that immediately rolled off of every tongue after the
presidential election was "historic"; and rightly so.
C. It would have been unimaginable forty years ago.
D. The fact that the country has become civilized enough to accept
this outcome is a considerable tribute to the activism of the 1960s
and its aftermath.
E. The two candidates in the Democratic primary were a woman and an
African-American.
(a) BCDAE (b) BCDEA (c) BEDAC (d) BEACD
3
53. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The revolution began as an attack on despotism.
B. Already by 1762 Rousseau was implying in his "Social Contract" that
there was no meaningful
difference between the authority of a despot and that of a monarch
C. As usual, regular usage soon diluted the original rigor of the
expression's meaning.
D. Montesquieu has defined its spirit as "The rule of one, according to no law".
E. Obeying no law, authority was arbitrary and its animating spirit was fear.
(a) ABDCE (b) AEDCB (c) ADECB (d) ADEBC
4
54. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. Some think the limits of body i.e. surface; line, point, and unit
are substances more so than body or the solid.
B. Substance is thought to belong most obviously to bodies.
C. But whether these alone are substances, or there are also others,
or only some of these, or others as well, or none of these but only
some other things, are substances, must be considered.
D. Even things that are either parts of these or composed of these,
eg. the physical universe and its parts, stars, moon and sun are
considered substances.
E. So we say that not only animals and plants and their parts are
substances, but also natural bodies such as fire and water and earth
and everything of the sort.
(a) BADCE (b) ABEDC (c) BEADC (d) BEDCA
5 55. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. As it expanded, it would have borrowed energy from the
gravitational field, to create matter.
B. The universe expanded and borrowed at an ever-increasing rate.
C. Fortunately, the debt of gravitational energy will not have to be
repaid until the end of the universe.
D. According to the no boundary proposal, the universe would have
expanded in a smooth way from a single point.
E. As any economist could have predicted, the result of all that
borrowing, was inflation.
(a) DAEBC (b)DABCE (c) CDAEB (d) CDABE
6 1. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
one.
A. Capping it all was a row about the legitimacy of holding election
events in government property.
B. Not a problem, the Labour party insisted, for this was a PFI
hospital and thus commercial property.
C. Gordon Brown then set out his manifesto in front of a peculiar
mixture of party supporters and journalists, some of whom were jeered
for asking impertinent questions.
D. The stage seemed set for a typical, if rather embarrassing, New Labour event.
E. In a Birmingham hospital, Soul Man blasted out while the likes of
Pat McFadden and Bob Ainsworth fumbled in choreographed order towards
their seats.
(a) DEACB (b) DECAB (c) EBADC (d) EDCAB
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2. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
one.
A. Far worse than even in some poor African countries.
B. This remains an area of grave concern: opening the cages will not
solve the problems of basic education and health so public private
partnerships may be needed.
C. Literacy, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty and every
other social indicator was always far worse in socialist India than in
Asian miracle economies.
D. So, the socialist cage gave Indians neither economic growth nor
social justice.
E. Vast sums of spent on health and education were wasted; teachers
and health staff had an absenteeism rate of 18 % to 58 % but were
protected from disciplinary action by strong trade unions.
(a) EDCAB (b) BACED (c) CAEDB (d) EDBCA
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3. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
one.
A. Hakim Ali argued against the use of tobacco: "It is not necessary
for us to follow the Europeans, and adopt a custom, which is not
sanctioned by our own wise men without experiment or trial."
B. Here instinct worked better than reason but worked well enough!
C. The fact that fact may not be infallible, especially in the
presence of uncertainty, is well illustrated by an episode regarding
the then newly arrived practice of smoking tobacco.
D. Armed with that argument , Akbar tried smoking, but happily for him
, he took an instant dislike of it and never smoked again.
E. Akbar ignored this argument on the ground that "we must not reject
a thing that has been adopted by the people of the world, merely
because we can't find it in our books; or else how shall we progress."
(a) CEBDA (b) CAEDB (c) CADEB (d) AEBDC
9
18. Four sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C and D. They need
to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
one.
A. The greatest turbulence never destroyed all elements of the old order.
B. Unlike America or Australasia, Europe is an old continent, in the
sense that it has a long and continuous history of some two thousand
years.
C. Even when it suffered severe changes and considerable
disintegration, as during the barbarian invasion of the fifth century,
enough of its past always survived to provide real continuity.
D. Beneath the patchwork suggested by a political map showing the
division of Europe into states, there was a vast substratum of
historical heritage and continuity.
(a) BDCA (b) DABC (c) ABCD (d) BCAD
10
39. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. Fortunately, global wealth and technology allow us to better
prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
B. It does not necessarily mean that volcanoes and quakes are getting
worse — but rather that there are more of us living in areas where we
might be affected by a disaster, and we have more to lose.
C. As global populations have grown and people have crowded into risk
zones — like earthquake areas and flood plains — the toll of natural
disasters has grown as well.
D. According to the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters,
the number of catastrophic events has more than doubled since the
1980s.
E. The Red Cross estimates that the economic damage from disasters
rose fivefold, to $629 billion, from 1985 to 2005.
(a) CDBEA (b) BCDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CADEB
11
40. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
. A. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and
suffering, so long our work will not be over.
B. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer.
C. That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving
so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one
we shall take today.
D. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and
inequality of opportunity.
E. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe
every tear from every eye.
(a) BDCEA (b) CBDEA (c) CDEBA (d) CEABD
12
41. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.
B. Who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds.
C. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better.
D. Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends
himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly,
E. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
(a) EBDAC (b) CEDBA (c) DBAEC (d) CEBDA
13
21. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The species, which are most numerous in individuals, will have the
best chance of producing variations within any given period.
B. Hence any rare species will be less quickly modified or improved
within any given period, and they will be consequently beaten in the
race for life by the modified descendants of the commoner species.
C. From these considerations I think it inevitably follows, that as
new species in the course of time are formed others will become rare
and finally extinct.
D. We have evidence of this in the fact that it is the more common
species that afford the greatest number of varieties, or incipient
species.
E. Extinction or survival, therefore, is a function of a parameter
that is totally beyond the control of the species.
(a) ABCDE (b) ADBCE (c) BCAED (d) EDABC
14
30. Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. The good news is that a major deficiency in rainfall, as had
happened last year, is an extremely remote possibility.
B. Two crucial indicators, the El Nino, caused by difference in sea
surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Ocean Dipole,
are both moving in a direction that is positive for a good monsoon.
C. The first long-range forecast for the rainfall during the
four-month period of July- September indicates rain around the end of
this month.
D. It is still very early days for a monsoon forecast for this season
but at least the available signs as of now are all pointing in the
right direction.
E. Even the persistent & sustained heat is the past few days over most
of central and Northern India is likely to help in good rainfall.
(a) ADBCE (b) DABCE (c) BCDEA (d) DCBEA
15 37. Four sentences are given below, labelled A, B, C and D. They
need to be arranged in a logical order to form a coherent
paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.
A. It is against this background and in this context that we must
begin our understanding of political theory.
B. Students of anthropology and of animal behavior are making it
increasingly clear that in man, most of the other primates, and in
many other animal species as well, social life and organization are
primary biological survival devices.
C. What we call political and social organization— the customs,
practices, and procedures that with varying degrees of firmness hold
men together in interrelated groups— is perhaps the most important
form of human adaptation to environment, both external and internal.
D. Man has no leathery armor like a turtle or spines like a porcupine,
but he does have social life and the capacity to organize it
effectively for survival purposes.
(a) BCAD (b) CBDA (c) BCDA (d) DCBA.
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