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1
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). Decide on the proper order for the sentences
and key in the correct sequence of five numbers as your answer
1. It consists of a single cell – and a bacterial cell, to boot; but
because it is a bacterium, this simplest possible eye is also an entire
organism.
2. And now what is probably the simplest eye imaginable has been
described.
3. Sceptics of evolution often point to the human eye and ask how
such a complex object could have evolved when the imperfection of any part
of it would cause the whole thing to be useless.
4. Simpler eyes than a human's can work perfectly well, even if they
do not produce such sophisticated images.
5. It is a silly argument, confusing imperfection with simplicity.
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Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as
your answer and key it in.
1. And just because something is bad for modern humans does not
necessarily mean that it was bad for their hunting-and-gathering ancestors.
2. For most of Homo sapiens's 200000-year history, it shared the
planet with several cousins.
3. Unless creatures such as yeti and Big-foot turn out to be real, the
only kind of human in the modern world is Homo sapiens.
4. The most famous were the Neanderthals, who were larger and
heavier and who lived in Europe and Central Asia.
5. But that is only recently true.
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The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). Decide on the proper order for the sentences
and key in the correct sequence of five numbers as your answer
1. British troops possessed only a handful of bullets each, and
volunteers – trained with broom handles as rifles – were in short supply.
2. Great Britain's most trying time, its darkest hour, occurred in the
days following retreat of the British army across the English Channel at
Dunkirk during World War II.
3. Only prime minister Winston Churchill knew the full extent of his
nation's peril, and his private agony took a heavy emotional toll as he grew
judgmental of well-intentioned ideas offered to help save the day.
4. Germany torpedoed a British ship with over 3000 lives lost, an
incident not disclosed to the British people until after the war.
5. France lay defeated at Germany's hands, and England stood
alone against Hitler, nearly defenseless to invasion.
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Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as
your answer and key it in.
1. Till then, there will be a high velocity of change, of future shock,
which can be traced to population growth, urbanization, the shifting
proportions of young and old and other factors.
2. One powerful strategy in the battle to prevent mass future shock,
therefore, involves the conscious regulation of technological advance.
3. No matter how individuals try to pace their lives, no matter what
psychic crutches we offer them, no matter how we alter education, the
society as a whole will still be caught on a runaway treadmill until we capture
control of the accelerated thrust itself
4. Yet, technological advance is clearly a critical node in the
network of causes; indeed, it may be the node that activates the entire net.
5. Given that a majority of men still figuratively live in the twelfth
century, who are we even to contemplate throwing away the key to
economic advance?
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Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are given in the following question. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one out. Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the
sequence of four numbers as your answer,
.
1. The chairperson of the European Council, who addressed the
gathering, captured this feeling as he concluded his speech saying, “I felt as
if someone very close to me left our home, I also felt how dear and precious
this home was to me.”
2. In the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, his fellow leaders
commiserated with Britain's prime minister David Cameron over his failure to
keep his country in the EU.
3. To fashion a Europe that they want to vote for is not an easy task.
4. Fractious as the marriage with Britain has sometimes been, there
was resigned sorrow and regret at the decision to end it.
5. It was a gathering unlike any the European family had ever seen.
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Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are given in the following question. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one out. Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the sequence of four numbers as your answer, even as you omit the contextually unrelated sentence.
1. It might surprise dictionary-owners to know that most
lexicographers do not think of their subject in this way at all.
2. Or those which share a root: only such a tool can tell you that the
Oxford English Dictionary knows of 1011 words ending in -ology against 508
with -ography.
3. Its natural home is one that allows the reader to consult it in any
way that makes sense.
4. A dictionary is really a database; it has fields for headword,
pronunciation, etymology, definition, and in the case of historical dictionaries
like the Oxford English Dictionary, citations of past usage.
5. Look up a single word or look up all the citations by a single
author.
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Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
are given in the following question. Four of them can be put together to form
a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one
out. Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the
sequence of four numbers as your answer, even as you omit the contextually
unrelated sentence.
1. Intricate pink structures stand out amid contortions of vegetablegreen
ones; dark- striped fish flit among them and turtles hover above.
2. The waters off the Hawaiian island of Oahu are visited each
winter by migrating marine mammals such as the humpback whale.
3. These colours lure snorkelling and scuba-driving tourists and are
produced by single-celled algae that grow symbiotically in corals' tissues.
4. All year round they are home to much smaller animals that form
vast reefs: corals.
5. In the past half-century, this delicate balance and these beautiful,
biodiverse structures have been put under pressure by human activity.
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Five sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
are given in the following question. Four of them can be put together to form
a meaningful and coherent short paragraph and one sentence is the odd one
out. Decide on the proper logical order for the sentences and key in the
sequence of four numbers as your answer, even as you omit the contextually
unrelated sentence.
1. Till then, there will be a high velocity of change, of future shock,
which can be traced to population growth, urbanization, the shifting
proportions of young and old and other factors.
2. One powerful strategy in the battle to prevent mass future shock,
therefore, involves the conscious regulation of technological advance.
3. No matter how individuals try to pace their lives, no matter what
psychic crutches we offer them, no matter how we alter education, the
society as a whole will still be caught on a runaway treadmill until we capture
control of the accelerated thrust itself.
4. Yet, technological advance is clearly a critical node in the
network of causes; indeed, it may be the node that activates the entire net.
5. Given that a majority of men still figuratively live in the twelfth
century, who are we even to contemplate throwing away the key to
economic advance?
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Four alternative summaries are
given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of
the text and enter its number in the input box given below the question.
The great good news about America - the American gospel, if you will - is
that religion shapes the life of the nation without strangling it. Belief in God is
central to the country's experience, yet for the broad center, faith is a matter
of choice, not coercion, and the legacy of the founding is that the sensible
center holds. It does so because the Founders believed themselves at work
in the service of both God and man, not just one or the other. Driven by a
sense of providence and an acute appreciation of the fallibility of humankind,
the Founders made a nation in which faith should not be singled out for
special help or particular harm. The balance between the promise of the
Declaration of Independence, with its evocation of divine origins and destiny,
and the practicalities of the Constitution, with its checks on extremism,
remain the most brilliant of American successes.
1. The Founders of America encourage other friendly nations to
adopt the American approach towards religion.
2. The Founders of America believed in God but according to them
faith is a matter of choice and religion should be banished from public life.
The American declaration of Independence praises God and the Constitution
keeps a tight grip on extremism.
3. The Founders of America advocate that people should be on the
frontlines of defending religious pluralism and keeping extremism in check.
4. The Founders of America advocate discriminating between
people on the basis of success achieved by them and not on the basis of
religious difference.
5. The Founders of America envisioned a liberal American society
and considered themselves to be at the service of both God and man.
America has tried to maintain a balance between religion and independence,
and keep a check on extremism.
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Five sentences related to a topic are
given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and
coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as
your answer and key it in.
1. He is a specialist on slow clay surfaces, but ahead of his arrival in
New York he had won fewer than half of his matches on hard courts
2. Mr Schwartzman, nicknamed “El Peque” (“the small one”), had
only once before reached the third round of a major.
3. The bad news for El Peque is that being at the smaller end of the
spectrum seems to be even more of a shortcoming.
4. Now that the men’s field is down to the final eight, one name is
particularly surprising: Diego Schwartzman, a 25-year-old Argentine who is
just five feet and seven inches tall.
5. With former champions Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Stan
Wawrinka all missing from this year’s US Open, a throng of less-familiar
names are headed to Flushing with a chance to make a name for
themselves.
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The following question has a paragraph
from which a sentence has been left incomplete. From the given options,
choose the one that completes the blank in the paragraph in the most
appropriate way. Enter the number alongside the correct answer choice in
the input box given below the question.
Precision instruments such as motorcycles are designed to achieve an idea,
dimensional precision, whose perfection is impossible. There is no perfectly
shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as
close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go
flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it
were not so completely rational in every way. It's the understanding of this
rational intellectual idea that's fundamental. John looks at the motorcycle
and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these
steel shapes and turns off the whole thing. I look at the shapes of the steel
now and I see ideas. _________________
1. I was talking about these concepts yesterday when I said that a
motorcycle can be divided according to its components and according to its
functions.
2. In a motorcycle this precision isn't maintained for any romantic or
perfectionist reasons.
3. I swing over to the street side of the machine and start on the
other cylinder.
4. He thinks I'm working on concepts; I say that we need to talk
about the system.
5. He thinks I'm working on parts; I'm working on concepts.
12
The sentences given below, when
properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled
with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). Decide on the proper order for the sentences
and key in the correct sequence of five numbers as your answer
1. But volcanic eruptions formed barriers of lava that isolated it from
the ocean.
2. There are a few places where what a geologist would call the
ocean floor is actually dry land.
3. One such is the Danakil depression, which was covered millions
of years ago by the Red Sea.
4. These are mined, and the resulting slabs of salt exported by
camel, by nomadic Afars who are the nearest thing the depression has to
permanent inhabitants.
5. What water remained evaporated in the intense heat, leaving
brine lakes and saline flats.
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Five sentences related to a topic are
given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and
coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as
your answer and key it in.
1. Not for the first time, some energy firms fooled themselves into
believing that newfangled technologies and funding mechanisms could let
them defy laws of financial gravity.
2. This year, new solar installations in America are expected to more
than double.
3. Last year, for the first time, the world invested more in
photovoltaic cells than in coal-and gas-fired power generation combined.
4. In some respects this is a bumper era for solar energy.
5. China, which has more solar capacity than any other country,
plans to triple it by the end of the decade.
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The sentences given below, when
properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled
with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). Decide on the proper order for the sentences
and key in the correct sequence of five numbers as your answer
1. The device monitors their driving and adjusts the rate they pay
accordingly.
2. For those who drive relatively little, Metromile, an insurer based in
San Francisco, simply charges by the mile.
3. They can either supply a few bits of information about
themselves and receive a quote based on the behaviour of similar people, or
they can install a small gadget in their car.
4. Drivers buying insurance from Progressive, an American insurer,
get a choice.
5. Those who refrain from braking sharply and stay off the roads at
night can earn a discount of as much as 30% on the generic premium.
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Five sentences related to a topic are
given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and
coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as
your answer and key it in.
1. But beyond mere ostentation, the city-state has more substantial
achievements to its credit.
2. It has the world's tallest building (the Burj Khalifa), the largest
shopping centre (the Dubai Mall) and the longest handmade gold chain (5.52
km), to name but three.
3. The question is whether such grand projects make economic
sense when oil prices are collapsing and stock markets are declining across
the region.
4. This year Dubai airport overtook Heathrow in London to become
the world's busiest international hub, with some 68.9 m passengers using it
yearly.
5. Dubai likes to set records.
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The following question has a paragraph
from which a sentence has been left incomplete. From the given options,
choose the one that completes the blank in the paragraph in the most
appropriate way. Enter the number alongside the correct answer choice in
the input box given below the question.
President John F. Kennedy set a goal in 1961 for the nation to land a man on
the Moon by 1970. His successor, Lyndon Johnson, who as Vice President
had helped establish NASA, resolved to achieve Kennedy's goal. As
Johnson's presidency progressed, he faced growing political pressures
stemming from his handling of the Vietnam war. With his reelection in real
jeopardy, Johnson quietly passed the word to NASA to move quickly on the
Apollo moon-landing program. _________________
1. Quality thinking has always required courage, honesty and
determination.
2. The administration and the nation, he reasoned, needed a
triumph to counterbalance the ongoing tragedy of Vietnam.
3. Johnson's strategy, coupled with competition from Russian
space successes, drove Apollo's managers and engineers to think and work
at breakneck speed but quality eroded.
4. Diverting public attention has always been a useful political
stratagem.
5. A man on the moon was, possibly, going to be easier and would
yield greater political benefit than a victory in Vietnam.
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The sentences given below, when
properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled
with a number (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). Decide on the proper order for the sentences
and key in the correct sequence of five numbers as your answer
1. Finding the best possible solution requires still more imagination
of the sort Tom used when his plans for a glorious summer day of swimming
collided with Aunt Polly's orders to whitewash ninety feet of board fence
standing nine feet high.
2. Thinking beyond the bounds of conventional wisdom produces
unconventional answers.
3. His day of play having turned into weary work, Tom ransacked
his mind for some way out.
4. Dipping his brush and sloshing a white streak on the woodplanked
surface, Tom felt overwhelmed by the huge task ahead and plopped
down dejectedly on a bench.
5. But it does not guarantee any one solution will lead to success.
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Five sentences related to a topic are
given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and
coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as
your answer and key it in.
1. How the tables have turned.
2. Aleppo may determine what happens in Syria, the region and
beyond.
3. Not only were Bashar's battalions pushed back from the city; the
rebels then turned west and routed them from Idlib too.
4. In February 2015, Bashar al-Assad's forces launched an
offensive to take back Aleppo, once Syria's most populous city but divided
between the regime and rebel fighters since 2012.
5. Two years on, Mr. Assad is attacking Aleppo again and, this time,
he is succeeding.
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