VARC CLASSROOM PARAJUMBLES

3

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. From the given options, choose the
most appropriate one.

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.

(a) AEDBC (b) BDCAE (c) DBCAE (d) AEBDC

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. 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

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. 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

6


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.


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. 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


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. 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

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/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


10

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