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Shuffling Of Sentences Part

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Question 121. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.
P: An individual human existence should be like a river-small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.
Q: In the young there is a justification for this feeling.
R: Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best thing that life has to offer.
S: But in the old man who has known human joys and sorrows, the fear of death is somewhat object and ignoble, and the best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal.
S6: Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea and painlessly lose their individual being.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQSR
  2.    QPSR
  3.    QRSP
  4.    RSQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> QRSP
Question 122. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: The distinction between state or sovereign and government is developed by Rousseau with utmost exactness and accuracy.
P: While 'state' denotes the community as a whole, created by social pact and manifesting itself in supreme general will, 'government' denotes merely the individual or groups of individuals that is designated by the community to carry into effect the sovereign will.
Q: Government, to Rousseau, means executive power.
R: The individuals, to whom this power is assigned are the officers or the agents of the sovereign.
S: The government is created not by any contract but by a decree of the sovereign, and its function is in no sense to make but only to administer law.
S6: Collectively, they may be called 'prence' or 'magistracy'.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSQR
  2.    QSPR
  3.    RPQS
  4.    SQRP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> QSPR
Question 123. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: It was early 1943 and the war in the East was going disastrously.
P: How this unlikely bunch of middle aged civilians accomplished their missions makes fascinating reading.
Q: To stop the sinkings a spy ring had to be broken, a German ship assaulted, and a secret radio transmitter silenced.
R: U-boats were torpedoing Allied ships in the Indian ocean faster than they could be replaced.
S: And the only people who could do the job were a handful of British businessmen in Calcutta-all men not called out for active service.
S6: Boarding party, James Leasor's latest best-seller is a record of this tale of heroics tinged with irony and humour.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PRSQ
  2.    QSRP
  3.    RQSP
  4.    SQPR
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> RQSP
Question 124. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: We and all other animals breathe in and breathe out air all the time.
P: If we stop breathing, we die.
Q: It is because of this fact that we are able to live.
R: It is called the atmosphere.
S: All parts of the earth are surrounded by air.
S6: It is a part of the earth.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    PRQS
  3.    QPSR
  4.    SRQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> QPSR
Question 125. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: Primitive man was helpless and weak.
P: He conceived of some divinity behind this.
Q: As ages passed, he began to think and to investigate nature's mysteries.
R: He bowed down before natural phenomena.
S: The flash of lightning, the clap of thunder struck him with awe.
S6: Today the knowledge gained from science has armed him with superhuman strength.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PSQR
  2.    RPSQ
  3.    RSPQ
  4.    RSQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> RPSQ
Question 126. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: Trucks, trains planes and refrigerator ships are new ways of carrying food.
P: In many countries, women carry food to market on their heads.
Q: High in the Andes Mountains long lines of Illamas, each with a heavy bag of grain, pick their way along rocky trails.
R: But a great deal of food is still carried on the heads of women and the backs of animals.
S: Over the desert sands, camels carry loads of salt, dates and cheese from one oasis to another.
S6: And in a lonely bay, a fisherman still rows home with the day's catch.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    RPQS
  3.    RPSQ
  4.    RSQP
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> RPSQ
Question 127. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: This is the story of a tram that woke up at dead of night and went off on a trip all by itself to end in a disaster.
P: In the early morning of 19 January it suddenly started backing out of the depot on its own.
Q: Tramways sources explained that power supply to the overhead wires at the siding had been switched off for some repair work.
R: It went up a quarter mile away, crashed into state bus which caught fire went it smashed into an electric feeder box and a water tap.
S: There was presumably, some defect in the reversal handle of the tram and its main switch had not been put off.
S6: As a result, when the power supply was restored in the early morning the tram began to move.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    PRQS
  3.    RPSQ
  4.    RSPQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> PRQS
Question 128. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: But Mr. Ford was by no means the inventor of mass production.
P: It is difficult, indeed, to say who was.
Q: Brilliant men perfected cotton gins and looms.
R: The invention of the steam-engine gave manufacturers the cheap power they needed.
S: When the first large mills for the manufacture of cloth were built, mass production began.
S6: When one huge machine began to perform rapidly due operations previously done slowly by hand, the age of mass production was born.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    PQRS
  2.    PSQR
  3.    PSRQ
  4.    SPQR
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> PSRQ
Question 129. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: Growing up means not only getting larger, but also using our senses and our brains to become more aware of the things around us.
P: Not only does he have a memory but he is able to think and reason.
Q: In this, man differs from all other animals.
R: Before we spray our roadside plants or turn sewage into our rivers, we should pause to think what the results of our actions are likely to be.
S: That is to say, he is able to plan what he is going to do in the light of his experience before he does it.
S6: In other words, we must develop and use our ability to reason, because the destruction or the preservation of the places in which we live depends on us.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    QPSR
  2.    QRSP
  3.    SPQR
  4.    SPRQ
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> QPSR
Question 130. In each question, the first and the last sentences of the passage are numbered S1 and S6 respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts. These four sentences are jumbled. Read the sentences and identify their correct and logical order.
S1: Obesity is a curse of modern times.
P: As a result, what is lost is the natural goodness of roughage and important nutrients.
Q: Invariably, fat and sugar which cause obesity are added to make food more palatable.
R: In these days, food gets more refined and cooking methods are more intricate.
S: Therefore, there are more obese people today than ever before.
S6: This is because today's changed life styles often mean less physical exertion and an over indulgence in unhealthy food.
The Proper sequence should be:
  1.    QPRS
  2.    RPQS
  3.    RPSQ
  4.    RQPS
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> RQPS

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