JUN 14 TITA

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.

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.

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.

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.



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. 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.


4


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.

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."

5

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.

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."


6

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.

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.


7
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.


8

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.