TITA PJ plus OMO

1

OMO
Four sentences are given below labeled a, b, c and d. Of these, three
sentences need to be
arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From
the given options, choose
the one that does not fit the sequence.
(a) Nor is the history of art a parade of geniuses.
(b) There are many ways of understanding modern art and one's time.
(c) Art in a minor key has its place, and we shouldn't underestimate
it, and where it leads.
(d) Not all artists need or even benefit from larger retrospectives.

2

OMO
Four sentences are given below labeled a, b, c and d. Of these, three
sentences need to be
arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From
the given options, choose
the one that does not fit the sequence.
(a) "Wall Street got drunk" was George W Bush's typically incisive
take on the main cause of the
emerging financial crisis in July 2008.
(b) Politicians on the campaign trail have been forced to watch their
every word since the 2006
congressional elections.
(c) But perhaps the wrong intoxicant was being blamed.
(d) Two years later, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King,
explained in his Mansion
House speech that "the role of a central bank in monetary policy is to
take the punch bowl away
just as the party gets going." (something that he admitted had not occurred)

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.
A. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for
whose exercise there was
no necessity in their own lives.
B. Had he gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord
Goodbody there, and the
whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and
the necessity for model
lodging-houses.
C. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle
grown eloquent over the dignity of
labour.
D. He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon
that he had missed by
staying so long with his friend.
E. It was charming to have escaped all that!

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.
A. There was something in his face that made one trust him at once.
B. All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth's passionate purity.
C. No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.
D. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.
E. Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved
scarlet lips, his frank blue
eyes, and his crisp gold hair.

5

Four sentences are given below labeled a, b, c and d. Of these, three
sentences need to be
arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From
the given options, choose
the one that does not fit the sequence.

OMO

(a) Nor is the history of art a parade of geniuses.
(b) There are many ways of understanding modern art and one's time.
(c) Art in a minor key has its place, and we shouldn't underestimate
it, and where it leads.
(d) Not all artists need or even benefit from larger retrospectives.

6

OMO

Four sentences are given below labeled a, b, c and d. Of these, three
sentences need to be
arranged in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From
the given options, choose
the one that does not fit the sequence.
(a) "Wall Street got drunk" was George W Bush's typically incisive
take on the main cause of the
emerging financial crisis in July 2008.
(b) Politicians on the campaign trail have been forced to watch their
every word since the 2006
congressional elections.
(c) But perhaps the wrong intoxicant was being blamed.
(d) Two years later, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King,
explained in his Mansion
House speech that "the role of a central bank in monetary policy is to
take the punch bowl away
just as the party gets going." (something that he admitted had not occurred)

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.

A. But within weeks, none of us was writing like anyone else.
B. Like a fingerprint, our script expresses us uniquely, and in a way
that lasts.
C. It is odd that it should, when school writing lessons were meant to
make everyone write alike.
D. Only the French, with goodness-knows-what writing drills on their
small-squared paper, seem
still to impose a rounded, open, characterless national hand.
E. The more metaphysically minded might say that it transmits the soul to paper.


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.

A. South Africa is heading in the opposite direction.
B. Most of all, South Africa needs political competition.
C. The best hope for the country in the years to come is a real split
in the ANC between the populist
left and the fat-cat right to offer a genuine choice for voters.
D. Its neighbours to the north are moving away from the one-party
systems that dragged them to
corruption and stagnation for decades.
E. Until that happens, South Africa is doomed to go down as the rest
of Africa goes up.

9

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.

A. He leads me through a door in a wall to a windowless, white-tiled
office reminiscent of an
Eastern-bloc interrogation centre.
B. The depot turns out to be a tarmac yard tucked between Shaftesbury
Avenue and Charing Cross
Road.
C. Men in luminous overalls smoke and exchange genial insults.
D. I'm approached by the only person in a suit: the night-shift
manager, Lawrence.
E. Carts and street-sweepers are parked up, as well as Madvacs, the
powered sweepers that
wheel along pavements between cursing pedestrians.


10

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.

A. The recent cabinet approvals may have consequences similar to the
RBI Amendment Act of
2006, which established the RBI as a regulator of the bond market and
the currency market.
B. In all the OECD countries but one, a single government agency — the
securities regulator or the
unified financial regulator — deals with all aspects of organised
financial trading.
C. Apart from this, the OECD practice involves a single agency that
regulates all organised financial
trading, with a unified treatment of equities, commodity futures,
interest rate, currencies, corporate
bonds and derivatives.
D. In the US, the treatment of organised financial trading is split
between the CFTC, which deals
with all derivatives, and the SEC, which deals with the spot market.
E. This was a step in the wrong direction, given India's reform agenda
on the regulation and supervision
of securities markets.