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ORDERING OF SENTENCES MCQs

Shuffling Of Sentences Part

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Question 1011. S1: There was a time Egypt faced economic crisis.
P: Cotton is the chief export commodity of Egypt.
Q: Foreign trades depend on cultivation of cotton on large scale.
R: It became necessary for Egypt to boost cotton crops.
S: Only by means of increasing foreign trade Egypt could survive.
S6: Egypt was able to sustain itself by its cotton produce.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    QRPS
  3.    RPSQ
  4.    SRQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> SRQP
Only by means of increasing foreign trade Egypt could survive. It became necessary for Egypt to boost cotton crops. Foreign trades depend on cultivation of cotton on large scale. Cotton is the chief export commodity of Egypt.
Question 1012. S1: We must never allow ourselves to lapse into the evil habit of borrowing money from others.
P: We must work hard and earn money, enough for our wants.
Q: Even if we are fortunate enough to possess surplus wealth, we should take care not to lend out money indiscriminately.
R: If borrowing is bad , lending is worse.
S: Borrowing of a habitual nature prevents us from being industrious.
S6: We must not confuse money lending with generosity.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSQR
  2.    QSRP
  3.    RSQP
  4.    SPRQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> SPRQ
Borrowing of a habitual nature prevents us from being industrious. We must work hard and earn money, enough for our wants. If borrowing is bad , lending is worse. Even if we are fortunate enough to possess surplus wealth, we should take care not to lend out money indiscriminately.
Question 1013. S1: There was once a Persian king called Shahryar who had a beautiful wife.
P: When the King discovered this he killed her.
Q: He gave orders that he was to be provided with a new wife every day.
R: He loved her very much, but she was a wicked woman.
S: He decided that all women were wicked and that he would punish them.
S6: After one day's marriage he would cut off her head and marry again.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    QSPR
  3.    RPSQ
  4.    SPRQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> RPSQ
He loved her very much, but she was a wicked woman. When the King discovered this he killed her. He decided that all women were wicked and that he would punish them. He gave orders that he was to be provided with a new wife every day.
Question 1014. S1: In other words, grammar grows and changes, and there is no such thing as correct use of English for the past, the present and the future.
P: "The door is broke."
Q: Yet this would have been correct in Shakespeare's time.
R: Today, only an uneducated person would say,"My arm is broke."
S: For example, in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, there is the line.
S6: All the words that man has invented are divided into eight classes, which are called parts of speech.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSQR
  2.    QPSR
  3.    RSPQ
  4.    SPRQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> SPRQ
For example, in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, there is the line. "The door is broke." Today, only an uneducated person would say,"My arm is broke." Yet this would have been correct in Shakespeare's time.
Question 1015. S1: During the middle ages the manufacture of cloth was divided amongst a number of associations of skilled workers who performed different operations required in its production.
P: But the association of skilled workers lacked capital to buy it.
Q: Consequently, he began to assume the role of the employer.
R: With the mechanisation of these operations, complicated apparatus became necessary for economic production.
S: The banker, therefore, stepped in to finance the industrialisation of these operations.
S6: This was one of the reasons why the industry flourished in such rich countries as Flanders, Italy and Britain.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PRQS
  2.    PRSQ
  3.    RPQS
  4.    RPSQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> RPSQ
With the mechanisation of these operations, complicated apparatus became necessary for economic production. But the association of skilled workers lacked capital to buy it. The banker, therefore, stepped in to finance the industrialisation of these operations. Consequently, he began to assume the role of the employer.
Question 1016. S1: I put the phone down and shook my head in bewilderment.
P: Then I am taken in tow by some moonlighting hare-brain with a passion for veteran aircraft, flying his own Mosquito through the night who happens to spot me.
Q: What a night, what an incredible night!
R: Then I get lost and short of fuel.
S: First I lose my radio and all my instruments.
S6: And finally a half-drunk ground-duty officer has the sense to put his runaway lights on in time to save me.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    QPSR
  2.    QSRP
  3.    SPRQ
  4.    SRPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QSRP
What a night, what an incredible night! First I lose my radio and all my instruments. Then I get lost and short of fuel. Then I am taken in tow by some moonlighting hare-brain with a passion for veteran aircraft, flying his own Mosquito through the night who happens to spot me.
Question 1017. S1: Silence is unnatural to man.
P: Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence.
Q: In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world.
R: There are few things of which he stand in more fear than of the absence of noise.
S: He begins with a cry and ends it in stillness.
S6: He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a wax-work figure.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    PRQS
  3.    QPRS
  4.    SQRP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> SQRP
He begins with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world. There are few things of which he stand in more fear than of the absence of noise. Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence.
Question 1018. S1: The Bhagavadgita recognises the nature of man and the needs of man.
P: All these three aspects constitute the nature of man.
Q: It shows how the human being is a rational one, an ethical one and a spiritual one.
R: More than all, it must be a spiritual experience.
S: Nothing can give him fulfilment unless it satisfies his reason, his ethical conscience.
S6: A man who does not harmonise them, is not truly human.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSQR
  2.    PSRQ
  3.    QPSR
  4.    RSPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> RSPQ
More than all, it must be a spiritual experience. Nothing can give him fulfilment unless it satisfies his reason, his ethical conscience. All these three aspects constitute the nature of man. It shows how the human being is a rational one, an ethical one and a spiritual one.
Question 1019. S1: Evolution is not progress.
P: And yet, for all their differences, it is not wholly wrong to identify evolution with progress.
Q: As a noted scientist had said,"the tapeworm in its inglorious lot in man's intestine is an outcome of evolution as well as the lark at heaven's gate."
R: Three hundred million years after the first land creatures crawled out of the sea, the one-called amoeba is man himself.
S: The physical facts of evolution betray such advance.
S6: For, like progress, evolution does, over the long run, imply betterment.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    QPSR
  2.    RPSQ
  3.    SPQR
  4.    SRQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> SPQR
The physical facts of evolution betray such advance. And yet, for all their differences, it is not wholly wrong to identify evolution with progress. As a noted scientist had said,"the tapeworm in its inglorious lot in man's intestine is an outcome of evolution as well as the lark at heaven's gate." Three hundred million years after the first land creatures crawled out of the sea, the one-called amoeba is man himself.
Question 1020. S1: As I say, I was born and brought up in an atmosphere of the confluence of three movements, all of which were revolutionary.
P: I was born in a family which had to live its own life, which led me from my young days to seek guidance for my own self-expression in my own inner standard of judgement.
Q: No poet should borrow his medium ready-made from some shop of respectability.
R: But the language which belonged to the people had to be modulated according to the urging which I as an individual had.
S: The medium of expression, doubtless, was my mother tongue.
S6: He should not only have his own seeds but prepare his own soil.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    PQSR
  3.    PSRQ
  4.    QSRP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> PSRQ
I was born in a family which had to live its own life, which led me from my young days to seek guidance for my own self-expression in my own inner standard of judgement. The medium of expression, doubtless, was my mother tongue. But the language which belonged to the people had to be modulated according to the urging which I as an individual had. No poet should borrow his medium ready-made from some shop of respectability.

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