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ORDERING OF SENTENCES MCQs

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Question 1001. S1: Ingratitude stings strongest where relationship is closest.
P: Expectation turns innocent relationship into commerce.
Q: Human relationship is adulterated with sly commerce.
R: In commerce, of course, give and take is understood.
S: Most relationships are founded on mutual expectations.
S6: From any warm and healthy human relationship expectation of returns has to be weeded out.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    QSPR
  3.    RPSQ
  4.    SRQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> RPSQ
In commerce, of course, give and take is understood. Expectation turns innocent relationship into commerce. Most relationships are founded on mutual expectations. Human relationship is adulterated with sly commerce.
Question 1002. S1: When a body grows into a young man, he finds himself in a new and strange world.
P: The relationship remains but its nature changes.
Q: The emotional ties that he had with them are now loosened.
R: The old pattern of his life in which his parents were the nucleus around which his life revolved now undergoes a change.
S: He finds in himself an emotional void which he must somehow fill.
S6: At this stage of his life he is like a body without a soul, an eye without light or a flower without fragrance.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PRQS
  2.    RQPS
  3.    RSQP
  4.    SRPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> RQPS
The old pattern of his life in which his parents were the nucleus around which his life revolved now undergoes a change. The emotional ties that he had with them are now loosened. The relationship remains but its nature changes. He finds in himself an emotional void which he must somehow fill.
Question 1003. S1: If you want to do well in your examinations you need to be able to think for yourself which means not just following the guide-books but write what you think yourself.
P: That will not help much.
Q: Few if any students do this.
R: By discussing things with other students, with your teachers, and with any intelligent people you meet you will find you can pick up a lot of new ideas but it is not good first accepting these ideas, swallowing them undigested and then repeating them in the examination.
S: At first you will find it difficult but if you go on trying you will find clear independent thought becomes easier.
S6: If however you turn these ideas over in our mind accepting those which you agree with and fitting them into your stock of knowledge and rejecting the others you may get somewhere.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSQR
  2.    QSRP
  3.    RSQP
  4.    SRQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QSRP
Few if any students do this. At first you will find it difficult but if you go on trying you will find clear independent thought becomes easier. By discussing things with other students, with your teachers, and with any intelligent people you meet you will find you can pick up a lot of new ideas but it is not good first accepting these ideas, swallowing them undigested and then repeating them in the examination. That will not help much.
Question 1004. S1: Gandhi's first political fast was made soon after his return from Africa.
P: He had also received help from this man's sister.
Q: This was when the poor labourers of the cotton mills of Ahmedabad were on strike.
R: He was a friend of the largest mill-owner.
S: Gandhi had made the strikers promise to remain on strike until the owners agreed to accept the decision of an arbitrator.
S6: He did not fast against the mill owners, but in order to strengthen the determination of the strikers.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQSR
  2.    QSRP
  3.    RPQS
  4.    SRPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QSRP
This was when the poor labourers of the cotton mills of Ahmedabad were on strike. Gandhi had made the strikers promise to remain on strike until the owners agreed to accept the decision of an arbitrator. He was a friend of the largest mill-owner. He had also received help from this man's sister.
Question 1005. S1: Kabir knew that Ramananda got up very Early in the morning and went down on the steps of the 'ghat' to the bathe in the waters of the sacred Ganges.
P: As Ramananda came down the steps before daybreak for his usual bath, he trod on the sleeping man.
Q: Kabir at once jumped up and threw himself at the feet of the preacher.
R: "Ram, Ram" he exclaimed in astonishment.
S: One dark night, Kabir went to the 'ghat' and lay down on one of the river steps.
S6: He said, "You have given me the mantra, 'Ram, Ram,' I have become our disciple".
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQSR
  2.    PRQS
  3.    RQPS
  4.    SPRQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> SPRQ
One dark night, Kabir went to the 'ghat' and lay down on one of the river steps. As Ramananda came down the steps before daybreak for his usual bath, he trod on the sleeping man. "Ram, Ram" he exclaimed in astonishment. Kabir at once jumped up and threw himself at the feet of the preacher.
Question 1006. S1: The houses in the Indus Valley were built of baked bricks.
P: This staircase sometimes continued upwards on to the roof.
Q: Access to the upstairs rooms was by a narrow stone staircase at the back of the house.
R: The drains were incorporated in the walls.
S: The houses had bathrooms and water closets, rubbish chutes and excellent drainage systems.
S6: They led outside into covered sewers which ran down the side of the streets.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSQR
  2.    QPSR
  3.    QRPS
  4.    SPQR
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QPSR
Access to the upstairs rooms was by a narrow stone staircase at the back of the house. This staircase sometimes continued upwards on to the roof. The houses had bathrooms and water closets, rubbish chutes and excellent drainage systems. The drains were incorporated in the walls.
Question 1007. S1: Most of the perishable foods are shipped by refrigerator ships.
P: They are placed in the refrigerated hold of the ship.
Q: Some foods, such as bananas, are shipped before they get ripe.
R: As the green bananas are loaded, a man watches closely the signs of yellow on them.
S: The cool temperature keep the bananas from getting ripe during the trip.
S6: Ripe bananas are poor travellers and even one ripe banana at the start of the trip can spoil a whole ship load of fruit.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    PSQR
  3.    QPSR
  4.    SRPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> PQRS
They are placed in the refrigerated hold of the ship. Some foods, such as bananas, are shipped before they get ripe. As the green bananas are loaded, a man watches closely the signs of yellow on them. The cool temperature keep the bananas from getting ripe during the trip.
Question 1008. S1: We must also understand that the fruits of labour are sweeter than the gifts of fortune.
P: Moreover, too much of thinking is also a disease.
Q: Indeed, thought and action can be separately analysed but can never be separated from each other.
R: Hence, thought to be complete demands action and action without thought also has no value.
S: It keeps us depressed and gloomy.
S6: The best life, therefore, is lived both in thought and deed.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSRQ
  2.    QRSP
  3.    RQPS
  4.    SPQR
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QRSP
Indeed, thought and action can be separately analysed but can never be separated from each other. Hence, thought to be complete demands action and action without thought also has no value. It keeps us depressed and gloomy. Moreover, too much of thinking is also a disease.
Question 1009. S1: A transformation of consciousness is now beginning to express itself in the field of theoretical architecture.
P: In the still theoretical structure an attempt is being made to create a house that is "a domestication of an ecosystem."
Q: What is happening in the architecture is a shift from the international style of the post industrial era to a symbolic structure.
R: Since architecture is the collective unconscious made visible, the architect does not himself always understand the full cultural implications of his own work.
S: The new form is not a celebration of power over new materials, but a celebration of cooperation with ecosystem.
S6: The relationship between culture and nature is changed, for the architect grows a house like a garden.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PRSQ
  2.    QPSR
  3.    RQSP
  4.    SQRP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QPSR
What is happening in the architecture is a shift from the international style of the post industrial era to a symbolic structure. In the still theoretical structure an attempt is being made to create a house that is "a domestication of an ecosystem." The new form is not a celebration of power over new materials, but a celebration of cooperation with ecosystem. Since architecture is the collective unconscious made visible, the architect does not himself always understand the full cultural implications of his own work.
Question 1010. S1: While on a fishing trip, last summer, I watched an elderly man fishing off the edge of a dock.
P: "Why didn't you keep the other big ones?" I asked.
Q: He caught an enormous trout, but apparently not satisfied with its size, he threw it back into the war.
R: He finally caught a small pike, threw it into his pail, and, smiling happily, prepared to live.
S: Amazed, I watched him repeat this performance.
S6: Cheerfully, the old man replied, "Small frying pan."
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSQR
  2.    QSRP
  3.    RPQS
  4.    SQRP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QSRP
He caught an enormous trout, but apparently not satisfied with its size, he threw it back into the war. Amazed, I watched him repeat this performance. He finally caught a small pike, threw it into his pail, and, smiling happily, prepared to live. "Why didn't you keep the other big ones?" I asked.

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