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56. 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. From the given options, choose the
most appropriate one.
A. To house this event a huge temporary exhibition hall (Joseph
Paxton's steel and glass 'Crystal
Palace') was built on Hyde Park in central London.
B. Although the birth of dinosaurs was relatively inauspicious (first
appearing as an afterthought in
the published report of the 11th meeting of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science),
they were soon to become the centre of worldwide attention.
C. At the time of Owen's review, he was working on a surprisingly
meagre collection of fossil bones
and teeth that had been discovered up to that time and were scattered
around the British Isles.
D. To celebrate such influence and achievement, the Great Exhibition
of 1851 was devised.
E. The reason for this was simple. Owen worked in London, at the
Museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons, at a time when the British Empire was probably at its greatest extent.
(a) CBEDA (b) BDACE (c) BDAEC (d) ECBDA


57. 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. From the given options, choose the
most appropriate one.
A. Like other ephemera of past times, bestsellers (even Orwell's
despised Deeping) offer the charm
of antiquarian quaintness.
B. Any study of bestsellers confronts the same question as does the
decaf, no-fat latte drinker in
Starbucks: 'Why bother?'
C. And, so short is their lifespan, that today's bestsellers become
yesterday's fiction almost as
soon as one has read them.
D. One justification, and the easiest demonstrated, is their (that is,
bestsellers') interesting peculiarity.
E. Where else would one encounter a line such as: 'I say, you are a
sport, pater' ['Son' addressing
'Sorrell', on having been given a tenner 'tip' in Deeping's Sorrell and Son].
(a) ACBDE (b) BDAEC (c) BEADC (d) BDEAC