Thursday, 21 July 2016

VARC CLASSROOM PARAJUMBLES SESSION

1 31. 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


2 38. 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


3 46. 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.


4 44. 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


5 45. 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


6 46. 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


7 47. 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


8 48. 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


9 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.
From the given options, choose the most appropriate one.

A. Was it evidence that science and religion are inevitably locked in
ideological and institutional combat?

B. Unsurprisingly, there was more to it than that.

C. On all sides of the case there was agreement that it was proper and
rational both to seek accurate knowledge of the world through
observation of nature and also to base one's beliefs on the Bible.

D. When Galileo recanted his Copernicanism in 1633, what did that signify?

E. Was it a victory for religious obscurantism and a defeat for free
scientific inquiry?

(a) DEABC (b) CDEBA (c) CBDAE (d) DEACB


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
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


11 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


12 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.


13 DIRECTIONS : The sentences given in the question, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a
letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

86. (A) Anthurium hybrids are tropical shade loving plants.
(B) It grows well between 1828 degree Celsius with 7080% relative humidity.
(C) Light intensity is very critical for the crop.
(D) It should be grown under 70 to 75% shade net/cloth.

(1) ABCD (2) CBDA
(3) ADCB (4) ABDC


14 DIRECTIONS : The sentences given in the question, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a
letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

87. (A) Children instinctively resist foods forced on them.
(B) When it comes to leading them to what they need, children are like horses.
(C) You should never resort to bribery or threats.
(D) You can choose what foods to offer, but it is your child who
decides what and how much to eat.

(1) abcd (2) ACDB
(3) BADC (4) BACD


15 DIRECTIONS : The sentences given in the question, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a
letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.


88. (A) They find traditions going awry.
(B) As they make their way into the mainstream of life, the changes are obvious.
(C) But, change has upset the balance as far as all the tribes are concerned.
(D) Todas, for ages, have been aware of the consequences of tampering
with nature.

(1) DABC (2) abcd
(3) dbac (4) DCBA


16 DIRECTIONS : The sentences given in the question, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a
letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

89. 1. It is inconceivable to think of the modern world without advertising.

(A) The propaganda mills of the different political and religious
establishments in the world are subjecting their target population to
a form of insidious advertising.
(B) Advertising is one of the constitutive elements of modern living
and in terms of costs, it involves astronomical figures.
(C) Advertising should not be confined to the narrow field of business
and trade, though it is the most important one.
(D) Some of the TV ads in America cost anything from fifty thousand to
several million dollars.
6. The basic philosophy behind all the three of them is aggressive
publicity whose main props are money, power and control of media.
(1) DBCA (2) BDAC
(3) BCDA (4) BDCA


17 DIRECTIONS : The sentences given in the question, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a
letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

90. 1. Human nervous systems also contain certain characteristics
which influence personalities.

(A) This inherited temperament makes some people react more quickly
and intensely than others.
(B) Psychologists call this "temperament".
(C) The temperamental characteristics are built into the nervous system.
(D) These are biological forces that affect sensitivity to stimuli,
general level of energy and tendency to certain moods like depression
and aggressiveness.
6. This does not mean that they cannot be affected, modified and
changed by life experiences.

(1) BCAD (2) BDAC
(3) BCDA (4) BADC


18 Directions for Questions 58 to 60: In the following question, there
are five sentences. The sentences need to be arranged in a logical
order to form a coherent paragraph. All the paragraphs when linked
together create a small passage by themselves. From the given options,
choose the most appropriate option.

58.
(A) Then you haven't studied hypnosis.
(B) You'd think that such a question as that would make trouble?
(C) Point out a hundred reasons for saying that a hippopotamus is not a table.
(D) According to our general acceptance, it would be impossible to
demonstrate such a thing.
(E) You have never tried to demonstrate to a hypnotic that a table is
not a hippopotamus.
(1) DBEAC (2) BADCE
(3) BAEDC (4) DEABC


19 Directions for Questions 58 to 60: In the following question, there
are five sentences. The sentences need to be arranged in a logical
order to form a coherent paragraph. All the paragraphs when linked
together create a small passage by themselves. From the given options,
choose the most appropriate option.

59.
(A) It only seems to be a table.
(B) So how can you prove that something is not something else?
(C) Well, that's what a hippopotamus seems to be.
(D) You'll have to end up agreeing that neither is a table, a table.
(E) When neither is something else some other thing?
(1) BECDA (2) DACBE
(3) BCDEA (4) DAECB


20 Directions for Questions 58 to 60: In the following question, there
are five sentences. The sentences need to be arranged in a logical
order to form a coherent paragraph. All the paragraphs when linked
together create a small passage by themselves. From the given options,
choose the most appropriate option.

60.
(A) This is one of the profundities that we advertised in advance.
(B) We divide all intellection: the obviously preposterous and the established.
(C) But Science is an established preposterousness.
(D) You can oppose an absurdity only with some other absurdity.
(E) There's nothing to prove.
(1) DCBAE (2) EDCBA
(3) ABCDE (4) EADCB


21 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/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate
option.

A. Teams focus on controlling pain, nausea and other side effects;
they also address patients' worries and make sure they have help with
making meals, dressing and bathing when not hospitalized.
B. Palliative care typically begins with a long conversation about
what the patient with a terminal diagnosis wants out of his remaining
life.
C. Hospice care is intensive palliative care including home nursing,
but insurers usually cover it only if the patient abandons medical
treatment.
D. It includes the options any oncologist addresses: surgery,
chemotherapy and radiation and their side effects.
E. But it also includes how much suffering a patient wishes to bear,
effects on the family, and legal, insurance and religious issues.

(a) BDEAC (b) CDEAB (c) BCDEA (d) ADEBC


22 58. 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. From the moment he arrived there its citizens resented him and his
Martians and his youth and his talent.
B. Hollywood claimed Welles never would make the grade.
C. At announcements that his first two productions had been called
off, the town nodded knowingly.
D. He was just a big bag of publicity.
E. When he grew a beard for his first film, a sporty press agent sent
him a bearded ham for Christmas; columnists dubbed him with nicknames
like "Little Orson Annie."

(a) BDAEC (b) CBEAD (c) EABDC (d) BAECD


23 59. 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's something Al Hirschfeld did so beautifully, especially as
his artwork changed during different phases.
B. The more spare it was, I found, the more moved I was.
C. I fight when people ask me to put color in a picture.
D. A line with a hand at the end of it can give you just enough to
envision an arm.
E. I love color, but I'm more intrigued by the relationship between
black and white and space.

(a) CEDBA (b) CEABD (c) ABCDE (d) DCEBA


24 60. 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 best way to undermine the traffickers is to tackle demand for
their product.
B. There has been no significant increase in drug use, while take-up
of treatments has increased and health has improved.
C. Portugal, where drug use was decriminalised nearly 10 years ago, is
showing the way.
D. Its evidence suggests the most persuasive argument against changing
policy – that it would increase the numbers abusing drugs – is
baseless.
E. And as part of holistic policy that has to tackle well-being more
widely, decriminalising individual drug use would be a good start
.
(a) ECDBA (b) ADCEB (c) AECDB (d) CDBAE


25 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


26 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


27 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


28 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


29 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


30 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


31 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

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