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ORDERING OF SENTENCES MCQs

Shuffling Of Sentences Part

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Question 1031. S1: The exact cause of migraine is still not known.
P: Several factors like digestive disorders and psychological disturbances, have been said to be causative factors.
Q: Certain foods like cheese, chocolate or red wine have also been found to trigger off an attack.
R: The causative factors are numerous : psychologically, anxiety and frustration play an important part.
S: It seems to be hereditary and a majority of sufferers are women.
S6: On the other hand physical overexertion, fatigue, irregularities in dietary habits, prolonged eye strain are common precipitating factors.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    QPRS
  2.    RQPS
  3.    SPQR
  4.    SQPR
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> SPQR
It seems to be hereditary and a majority of sufferers are women. Several factors like digestive disorders and psychological disturbances, have been said to be causative factors. Certain foods like cheese, chocolate or red wine have also been found to trigger off an attack. The causative factors are numerous : psychologically, anxiety and frustration play an important part.
Question 1032. S1: The future beckons to us.
P: In fact we have hard work ahead.
Q: Where do we go and what shall be our endeavour?
R: We shall also have to fight and end poverty, ignorance and disease.
S: It will be to bring freedom and opportunity to the common man.
S6: There is no resting for anyone of us till we redeem our pledge in full.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSRQ
  2.    QPSR
  3.    QSRP
  4.    SRPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> QSRP
Where do we go and what shall be our endeavour? It will be to bring freedom and opportunity to the common man. We shall also have to fight and end poverty, ignorance and disease. In fact we have hard work ahead.
Question 1033. S1: The real cause for the rise and fall of the sea level was not known to men for a long time.
P: They found out that the Moon is a satellite and it travels a regular path around the Earth.
Q: As time passed and knowledge increased, men began to learn more about the heaven and the stars and the planets.
R: They noticed that the Moon rose each day about an hour later than it rose the day before and the peak of the high tide also comes about an hour later each day.
S: Some imagined that the Earth itself was alive and the rising and falling of the tide was caused by the breathing of the Earth's big body.
S6: So they concluded that the Moon and the tide are connected in some way.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PRQS
  2.    QPRS
  3.    SQPR
  4.    SRQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> SQPR
Some imagined that the Earth itself was alive and the rising and falling of the tide was caused by the breathing of the Earth's big body. As time passed and knowledge increased, men began to learn more about the heaven and the stars and the planets. They found out that the Moon is a satellite and it travels a regular path around the Earth. They noticed that the Moon rose each day about an hour later than it rose the day before and the peak of the high tide also comes about an hour later each day.
Question 1034. S1: It is regrettable that there is widespread corruption in the country at all levels.
P: So there is hardly anything that the government can do about it.
Q: And there are graft and other malpractices too.
R: The impression that corruption is a universal phenomenon persists and the people do not cooperate in checking this evil.
S: Recently several offenders were brought to book, but they were not given deterrent punishment.
S6: This is indeed a tragedy of great magnitude.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQSR
  2.    QSRP
  3.    RSQP
  4.    SQRP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QSRP
And there are graft and other malpractices too. Recently several offenders were brought to book, but they were not given deterrent punishment. The impression that corruption is a universal phenomenon persists and the people do not cooperate in checking this evil. So there is hardly anything that the government can do about it.
Question 1035. S1: Several sub-cities have been planned around the capital.
P: Dwarka is the first among them.
Q: They are expected to alleviate the problem of housing.
R: It is coming up in the south-west of the capital.
S: It will cater to one million people when completed.
S6: Hopefully the housing problem will not be as cute as at present after these sub-cities are built.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    PRSQ
  3.    QPRS
  4.    QRSP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> QPRS
They are expected to alleviate the problem of housing. Dwarka is the first among them. It is coming up in the south-west of the capital. It will cater to one million people when completed.
Question 1036. S1: The press enables us to know about the world and happenings around us.
P: It governs the current ideas in the country and controls the course of events.
Q: There is no doubt that the newspaper is the only teacher of the common man.
R: It is indeed the mouthpiece of the people.
S: It is feared that in the absence of the press, government would be less responsible, the judge less honest and civil servant lees efficient.
S6: While moulding it mends and mending it moulds the public opinion.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    QPSR
  3.    RSQP
  4.    SRPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> PQRS
It governs the current ideas in the country and controls the course of events. There is no doubt that the newspaper is the only teacher of the common man. It is indeed the mouthpiece of the people. It is feared that in the absence of the press, government would be less responsible, the judge less honest and civil servant lees efficient.
Question 1037. S1: Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation, and the world perhaps from their writings.
P: Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn.
Q: Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree.
R: But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university.
S: A place of learning without this could scarcely be called university.
S6: There classes of persons, then, go to compose a university as we know it - the scholar, the scholar who is also a teacher, and those who come to be taught, the undergraduate.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    QPSR
  2.    RQSP
  3.    SPRQ
  4.    SRPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> QPSR
Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree. Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn. A place of learning without this could scarcely be called university. But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university.
Question 1038. S1: India's non-alignment has not been an attitude of negative neutrality.
P: In other words, it is not an aloofness from or indifference to other nations.
Q: Instead, it has been an attitude of constructive neutrality.
R: On the contrary, India has been taking a keen interest in all international developments.
S: India wants the goodwill of all nations and is hostile towards none.
S6: This policy has been accepted, if not actually appreciated by the leading powers of the world.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSRQ
  2.    QPRS
  3.    QRPS
  4.    SQRP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QPRS
Instead, it has been an attitude of constructive neutrality. In other words, it is not an aloofness from or indifference to other nations. On the contrary, India has been taking a keen interest in all international developments. India wants the goodwill of all nations and is hostile towards none.
Question 1039. S1: Even the newsmen and spectators were not spared.
P: A home guard in the gallery was hit on the face.
Q: They went only inches over the heads of newsmen in the press gallery.
R: Three bludgeons which are hurled missed their mark.
S: This made the scribes run helter skelter.
S6: He fell down,his bleeding eye bulging.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSRQ
  2.    QRPS
  3.    RQSP
  4.    SRQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> SRQP
This made the scribes run helter skelter. Three bludgeons which are hurled missed their mark. They went only inches over the heads of newsmen in the press gallery. A home guard in the gallery was hit on the face.
Question 1040. S1: Instantly the full load yanked Gordy towards the side of the bridge.
P: But the pull of the cable was too much.
Q: He could hardly feel the cable, slipping through his fingers, ripping off his gloves, and streaking over the railing like an escaping snake.
R: It smashed his hands hard against the top of the railing, causing a split - second feeling of fierce pain followed by numbness.
S: He held on to the cable; it had been hard work lifting it, and he did not want to have to start over again.
S6: Feeling a sharp burning sensation where the cable was speeding between his things, Gordy rose on tiptoe and as he did, the slithering coil of cable tightened around his left foot and yanked him over the railing.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PRQS
  2.    QSRP
  3.    RPQS
  4.    SPRQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> RPQS
It smashed his hands hard against the top of the railing, causing a split - second feeling of fierce pain followed by numbness. But the pull of the cable was too much. He could hardly feel the cable, slipping through his fingers, ripping off his gloves, and streaking over the railing like an escaping snake. He held on to the cable; it had been hard work lifting it, and he did not want to have to start over again.

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