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Total Time: 60 mins Practise Exercise no. 2 Total no. Of Qs: 50
Directions for Questions 1 to 11:Given below are 4
sentences that can be rearranged to form a coherent
paragraph. Choose the option, out of the given alternative,
that defines the correct sequence of the sentences to form
this paragraph.
1.
1. The situations in which violence
occurs and the nature of that
violence tends to be clearly defined
at least in theory, as in the
proverbial Irishman's question: "Is
this a private fight or can anyone
join in?"
2. So the actual risk to outsiders,
though no doubt higher than our
societies, is calculable.
3. Probably the only uncontrolled
applications of force are those of
social superiors to social inferiors
and even here there are probably
some rules.
4. However binding the obligation to
kill, members of feuding families
engaged in mutual massacre will be
genuinely appalled if by some
mischance a bystander or outsider
is killed
a. 4123 b. 1342
c. 3214 d. 4213
2.
1. Then two astronomers—the
German, Johannes Kepler, and the
Italian, Galileo Galilei-started
publicly to support the Copernican
theory, despite the fact that the
orbits it predicted did not quite
match the ones observed.
2. His idea was that the sun was
stationary at the centre and that the
earth and the planets move in
circular orbits around the sun.
3. A Polish priest, Nicholas
Copernicus, proposed a simple
model in 1514.
4. Nearly a century passed before this
idea was taken seriously.
a. 3421 b. 3241
c. 2314 d. 3142
3.
1. By the time he got to Linjeflug four
years later, he had learned many
lessons; in fact, he began his
second stint as top dog by calling
the entire company together in a
hanger and asking for help, a far
cry from his barking out commands
just 48months back.
2. At SAS, he arrived at a time crisis.
3. This book is chock-a-block full of
intrusive stories and practical
advice, describing Carton's
activities at Vingresor (where he
assumed his first presidency at age
32), Linjeflug, and SAS in
particular.
4. He began at Vingresor as an order
giver, not a listener - neither to his
people nor to his customers and
made every mistake in the book.
a. 2143 b. 2134
c. 3214 d. 3412
4.
1. The potential exchanges between
the officials of IBBF and the
Maharashtra Body-Building
Association has all the trappings of
a drama we are accustomed to.
2. In the case of sports persons, there
is room for some sympathy, but the
apathy of the administrators, which
has even led to sanctions from
international bodies, is
unpardonable.
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3. A case in the point is the hefty
penalty of US $10,000 slapped on
the Indian Body-Building
Federation for not fulfilling its
commitment for holding the Asian
Championships in Mumbai in
October.
4. It is a matter of deep regret and
concern that the sports
administrators often cause more
harm to the image of the country
than sportsmen and sportswomen
do through their dismal
performances
a. 3124 b. 4231
c. 4123 d. 3421
5.
1. By the time he got to Linjeflug four
years later, he had learned many
lessons; in fact, he began his
second stint as top dog by calling
the entire company together in a
hanger and asking for help, a far
cry from his barking out commands
just 48months back.
2. At SAS, he arrived at a time crisis.
3. This book is chock-a-block full of
intrusive stories and practical
advice, describing Carton's
activities at Vingresor (where he
assumed his first presidency at age
32), Linjeflug, and SAS in
particular.
4. He began at Vingresor as an order
giver, not a listener - neither to his
people nor to his customers and
made every mistake in the book
a. 2143 b. 2134
c. 3214 d. 3421
6.
1. If you are used to having your
stimulation come in from outside,
your mind never develops its own
habits of thinking and reflecting
2. Marx thought that religion was the
opiate, because it soothed
people's pain and suffering and
prevented them from rising in
rebellion
3. If Karl Marx was alive today, he
would say that television is the
opiate of the people.
4. Television and
similar entertainments are even
more of an opiate because of their
addictive tendencies
a. 2134 b. 1423
c. 2431 d. 3241
7.
1. For example, when the early homo-
sapiens left their homes in search
for food, they would risk death and
injury from dangerous animals.
2. Throughout human history, the
universe has presented an
innumerable amount of dangers to
explorers.
3. Today, many adventure enthusiasts
seek to find the thrills and
adrenaline rush which their
ancestors had experienced in the
wild.
4. The tradition of humans going out
to experience the dangers of
unknown nature still exists
a. 1234 b. 1243
c. 2143 d. 4123
8.
1. doing research is like solving a
puzzle
2. puzzles have rules and
predetermined solutions
3. research involves extrapolating to
newer and unforeseen challenges.
4. A striking feature of doing research
is that the aim is to discover what
is known in advance
a. 4132 b. 4213
c. 1234 d. 4123
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9.
1. First may be necessary for
immediate relief
2. however, to cure the problem form
the root the treatment at the
elemental level is a must
3. therefore, synergy of modern
medical science and ancient Indian
wisdom is in the interest of
humanity.
4. Allopathic treatment is
symptomatic while Ayurveda treats
at an elemental level.
a. 4213 b. 4123
c. 4321 d. 2431
10.
1. It reverberates throughout the
entire Universe. And you are
transmitting that frequency with
your thoughts!
2. The frequency you transmit reaches
beyond cities, beyond countries,
beyond the world.
3. you are human transmission tower,
and you are more powerful than
any television tower created on
earth.
4. Your transmission creates your life
and it creates the world.
a. 4132 b. 4231
c. 3421 d. 1234
11.
1. One has to see if this is just a
bubble and if it will burst
2. Biotech stocks have recently set the
bourses on fire
3. Companies like Indrayani Biotech
have quoted a 200 per cent rise
4. The latest craze for Biotech shares
led to a spurt in their prices
a. 2431 b. 1342
c. 4312 d. 4123
Directions for Questions 11 to 30:Given below
are 5 sentences that can be rearranged to form a
coherent paragraph. Choose the option, out of the
given alternative, that defines the correct
sequence of the sentences to form this paragraph.
12.
a. From what we eat to how much
energy we consume: everything is
trackable, not least because our
gadgets come equipped with clever
sensors.
b. Take the recent obsession with
self-tracking.
c. Smart technologies are not just
disruptive; they can also preserve
the status quo. Revolutionary in
theory, they are often reactionary in
practice.
d. But it won‘t take long for
governments to start exploring self-
tracking as a solution to problems
that could, and probably should, be
tackled differently.
e. Right now, most of such self-
tracking efforts come from the
grass-roots enthusiasts
a. ACBED b. CBAED
c. BACED d. EABCD
13.
A. Some of the worst cancers aren‘t
detected by screening.
B. The only way to be sure is to look at
the results of randomized trials
comparing cancer deaths in screened
and unscreened people.
C. So how can we be confident that
getting a screening test regularly is a
good idea?
D. Even when screening ―works‖ in such
trials, the size of the benefit observed
is surprisingly low: Generally, regular
screening reduces fatalities from
various cancers between 15 percent
and 25 percent.
E. They appear suddenly, between regular
screenings, and are difficult to treat
because they are so aggressive.
a. DBAEC b. AECBD
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c. ADBEC d. ACBED
14.
a. The number of development
studies courses offered by colleges
and universities has grown over the
last 20 years.
b. What are you hoping to get out of
your course?
c. Has your interest been sparked by
other studies, travel, or family
connections?
d. As the new academic year begins
for some people this month, we
would like to hear what is
motivating you to study
development.
e. The content of those courses has
also changed to reflect new
interests and trends in the sector,
with topics covering a range of
subjects, from economics and
politics, to the environment, gender
and anthropology
a. BDAEC b. DCBAE
c. DAEBC d. AEDCB
15.
a. Who can trace to its first
beginnings the love of Damon for
Pythias, of David for Jonathan, of
Swan for Edgar?
b. Similarly with men.
c. There is about great friendships
between man and man a certain
inevitability that can only be
compared with the age-old
association of ham and eggs.
d. One simply feels that it is one of
the things that must be so.
e. No one can say what was the
mutual magnetism that brought the
deathless partnership of these
wholesome and palatable
foodstuffs about.
a. ACBED b. CEDBA
c. ACEBD d. CEABD
16.
a. The wall does not simply divide
Israel from a putative Palestinian
state on the basis of the 1967
borders.
b. A chilling omission from the road
map is the gigantic ‗separation
wall‘ now being built in the West
Bank by Israel.
c. Trenches, electric wire and moats
surround it; there are watchtowers
at regular intervals.
d. It actually takes in new tracts of
Palestinian land, sometimes five or
six kilometer at a stretch.
e. Almost a decade after the end of
South African apartheid, this
ghastly racist wall is going up with
scarcely a peep from Israel‘s
American allies who are going to
pay for most of it
a. EBCAD b. BADCE
c. AEDCB d. ECADB
17.
a. Call it the third wave sweeping the
Indian media.
b. Now, they are starring in a new
role, as suave dealmakers who are
in a hurry to strike alliances and
agreements.
c. Look around and you will find a
host of deals that have been inked
or are ready to be finalized.
d. Then the media barons wrested
back control from their editors, and
turned marketing warriors with the
brand as their missile.
e. The first came with those
magnificent men in their mahogany
chambers who took on the world
with their mighty fountain pens
a. ACBED b. CEBDA
c. CEABD d. AEDBC
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18.
a. Michael Hofman, a poet and
translator, accepts this sorry fact
without approval or complaint.
b. But thanklessness and impossibility
do not daunt him.
c. He acknowledges too "in fact he
returns to the point often " that best
translators of poetry always fail at
some level.
d. Hofman feels passionately about
his work, and this is clear from his
writings.
e. In terms of the gap between worth
and rewards, translators come
somewhere near nurses and street-
cleaners
a. EACDB b. ADEBC
c. EACBD d. DCEAB
19.
a. Passivity is not, of course,
universal.
b. In areas where there are no lords or
laws, or in frontier zones where all
men go armed, the attitude of the
peasantry may well be different.
c. So indeed it may be on the fringe
of the un-submissive.
d. However, for most of the soil-
bound peasants the problem is not
whether to be normally passive or
active, but when to pass from one
state to another.
e. This depends on an assessment of
the political situation.
a. BADAC b. CDABE
c. EDBAC d. ABCDE
20.
a. These children may look normal
but their brain development and
immune systems most Certainly
are not.
b. The media focus on children who
are desperately thin and obviously
wasting away means that chronic
under nutrition – just as deadly –
can be overlooked.
c. In the same regions, about 7%-15%
of children suffer from wasting.
d. Their stunted height is a grisly
marker of multiple deprivations
regarding food intake, care and
play, clean water, good sanitation
and health care.
e. Approximately 40% of all children
under five in south Asia and sub-
Saharan Africa are short fortheir
age.
a. ECBAD b. BAEDC
c. EDBCA d. ECADB
21.
a. Its cargo consisted of 38 sacks of
spices and Magellan himself had
been hacked to pieces on the beach
of Mactan in the Phillipines
b. So contrary to popular belief it was
the crew of the Victoria who were
the first men to have sailed around
the globe
c. In September 1522 Victoria , the
sole survivor of the Armada,
limped into the Spanish port San
Lucar , manned by a skeleton crew
of 15, so weak they could not talk
d. In September 1519 the Armada de
Moluccas of five ships and 250
sailors has set out from San lucar
de Barrameda under the command
of Fernando de Magellan
e. It was to sail to the spice islands of
the Malayan Archipelago where
they were to exchange an
assortment of bells,mirrors , and
scissors for cinnamon and cloves
a. DECAB b. AEDCB
c. CDEAB d. DEABC
22.
a. Many center around practical needs
– getting meat out of fire, speed,
using whatever isaround.
b. There are also many superstitions
attached to them: dropping
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chopsticks is bad luck, sticking
them upright in your rice is taboo
because of the imagery of incense
sticks at funeral altars.
c. Among the favorite customs are
using them to fish cooked bits of
meat and vegetables fromboiling
broth while eating "hot pot" with
friends, and serving choice pieces
to show affectionorrespect.
d. Then there is the long list of
chopsticks don'ts: don't point with
them, don't spear food withthem,
and don‘t use them to tap your
bowl; only beggars do that.
e. There are many stories of the
provenance of chopsticks, which in
some form have beenentrenched in
Chinese history for thousands of
years
a. ECDBA b. AEBCD
c. EABDC d. CDBAE
23.
a. However, Owen Paterson, the
environment secretary, has signaled
he is opposed to a banand appears
to support the position of the
insecticide manufacturers and
farming lobby who argue that
banning such products would harm
food production.
b. A recent poll found that 71% of
Britons would support such a ban.
c. Environmentalists who have long
argued that ―neonics‖ should be
banned would warmly welcome the
move.
d. European officials are set to vote
on a proposal that would see a
group of insecticides known as
neonicotinoids, which have been
implicated in the decline of bees,
largely outlawed across the
continent.
e. The debate raises the wider
question of how valuable bees, and
other pollinators, are to our
agricultural economy
a. DCBAE b. BCADE
c. DECBA d. EDBCA
24.
a. Cleaner nations will become richer
and their economies grow faster
than dirty nations.
b. If Africa were to burn its own coal
reserves, the resultant carbon
emissions would cause trillions of
dollars of damage to the rest of the
world.
c. A global carbon market will create
a new global system of economic
values
d. But if the developed world can't
clean up the globe on its own, it
can create market conditions that
make reduction in carbon
emissions an economic priority for
every nation
e. Of course, the US – and all
developed nations for that matter –
can't solve the emissions problem
alone
a. BEDCA b. CAEBD
c. CBDEA d. EBDCA
25.
a. The celebrations of economic
recovery in Washington may be as
premature as that ―Mission
Accomplished‖ banner hung on the
USS Abraham Lincoln to hail the
end of the Iraq war.
b. Meanwhile, in the real world, the
struggles of families and
communities continue unabated.
c. Washington responded to the
favorable turn in economic news
with enthusiasm.
d. The celebrations and high-fives up
and down Pennsylvania Avenue are
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not to be found beyond the
Beltway.
e. When the third quarter GDP
showed growth of 7.2% and the
monthly unemployment rate dipped
to 6%, euphoria gripped the US
capital.
a. ACEDB b. CEDAB
c. ECABD d. ECBDA
26.
a. A few months ago I went to
Princeton University to see what
the young people who are going to
be running our country in a few
decades are like.
b. I would go to sleep in my hotel
room around midnight each night,
and when I awoke, my mailbox
would be full of replies—sent at
1:15 a.m., 2:59 a.m., 3:23 a.m.
c. One senior told me that she went to
bed around two and woke up each
morning at seven; she could afford
that much rest because she had
learned to supplement her full day
of work by studying in her sleep.
d. Faculty members gave me the
names of a few dozen articulate
students, and I sent them e-mails,
inviting them out to lunch or dinner
in small groups.
e. As she was falling asleep she
would recite a math problem or a
paper topic to herself; she would
then sometimes dream about it, and
when she woke up, the problem
might be solved
a. DABCE b. DACEB
c. ADBCE d. AECBD
27.
a. Surrendered, or captured,
combatants cannot be incarcerated
in razor wire cages; this ‗war‘ has a
dubious legality.
b. How can then one characterize a
conflict to be waged against a
phenomenon as war?
c. The phrase ‗war against terror‘,
which has passed into the common
lexicon, is a huge misnomer.
d. Besides, war has a juridical
meaning in international law,
which has codified the laws of war,
imbuing them with a humanitarian
content.
e. Terror is a phenomenon, not an
entity—either State or non-State
a. ECDBA b. BECDA
c. EBCDA d. CEBDA
28.
a. To avoid this, the QWERTY layout
put the keys most likely to be hit in
rapid succession on opposite sides.
This made the keyboard slow, the
story goes, but that was the idea.
b. A different layout, which had been
patented by August Dvorak in
1936, was shown to be much
faster.
c. The QWERTY design (patented by
Christopher Sholes in 1868 and
sold to Remington in 1873) aimed
to solve amechanical problem of
early typewriters.
d. Yet the Dvorak layout has never
been widely adopted, even though
(with electric typewriters and then
PCs) the anti jamming rationale for
QWERTY has been defunct for
years.
e. When certain combinations of keys
were struck quickly, the type bars
often jammed
a. BDACE b. CEABD
c. BCDEA d. CAEBD
29.
a. Although there are large regional
variations, it is not infrequent to
find a large number of people
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sitting here and there and doing
nothing.
b. Once in office, they receive friends
and relatives who feel free to call
any time without prior
appointment.
c. While working, one is struck by the
slow and clumsy actions and
reactions, indifferent attitudes,
procedure rather than outcome
orientation, and the lack of
consideration for others.
d. Even those who are employed
often come late to the office and
leave early unless they are forced
to be punctual.
e. Work is not intrinsically valued in
India.
f. Quite often people visit ailing
friends and relatives or go out of
their way to help them in their
personal matters even during office
hours
a. ECABDF b. EADCFB
c. EADBFC d. ABFCBE
30.
a. The Supreme Court in various
judgments in the last 25 years has
further emphasized this.
b. The Right to Information is derived
from Article 19 of the Constitution.
c. The RTI Act was passed in May
2005 and came into force in
October 2005.
d. It is intended to give relevant
information about the government
and its institutions.
e. This Act enables citizens to obtain
information without going to court
each time.
a. BDACE b. ABDCE
c. BDECA d. CEBAD
Directions for Questions 31 to 50:Given below
are a set of 6 sentences. Sentence S1 and S2 are
the start and the end lines of a paragraph.
P,Q,R,S are the middle lines but are jumbled. Out
of the given altenatives, choose the one that
defines the most appropriate sequence of these
sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
31.
S1: Satyajit Ray made several films for
children.
P: Later filmmakers have followed
his lead.
Q: Today other nations are making
the children‘s film in a big way.
R: This was at a time when no
director considered children as
potential audience.
S: Ray was, thus, a pioneer in the
field. S6: But today few think of Ray as a maker
of children‘s films.
a. RSPQ b. SQRP
c. PSRQ d. RSQP
32.
S1: On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my
friend and I sat down at a street cafe.
P: At one point, he bent over with a
big smile, showing a single gold
tooth, a dingy fez and me.
Q: soon I felt the presence of
someone standing alongside me.
R: But this one wouldn‘tbudge.
S: We had been cautioned about
beggars and were told to ignore
them. S6: Finally a man walked over to me and
whispered, ―Hey buddy this guy is your
waiter and he wants your order‖
a. QSRP b. SQRP
c. SQPR d. QSPR
33.
S1: Palaeobotany is the study of fossil plants
preserved in rocks dating back in millions of
years.
P: Records of the history of the
world are contained in fossils.
Q: Through the ages, plants have
evolved from simple to more
complex forms.
R: First there were water plants then
land plants appeared during the
Paleozoic era.
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S: But since the fossil remains
appear locked in rock layers, they
are closely related to the geologist
area of investigation.
S6: The fossil plants indicate the age of the
rock, and also point to facts regarding
climate, temperature and topography.
a. PSQR b. SQPR
c. QRPS d. RQPS
34.
S1: For some time in his youth Abraham
Lincoln was manager for a shop.
P: Then a chance Customer would
come.
Q: Young Lincoln way of keeping
shop was entirely unlike anyone
else‘s
R: Lincoln would jump up and
attend to his needs and then revert to
his reading.
S: He used to lie full length on the
counter of the shop eagerly reading a
book.
S6: Never before had Lincoln had so much
time for reading as had then.
a. SQPR b. SRQP
c. QPSR d. QSRP
35. S1: Smoke oozed up between the planks.
P: Passengers were told to be ready
to quit the ship.
Q: The rising gale fanned the
smoldering fire.
R: Everyone now knew there was
fire on board.
S: Flames broke out here and there.
S6: Most people bore the shock bravely
a. SRQP b. QPSR
c. QSRP d. RSQP
36.
S1: Far away in a little street there is a poor
house.
P: Her face is thin and worn and her
hands are coarse, pricked by a
needle, for she is a seam stress.
Q :One of the windows is open and
through it I can see a poor woman.
R: He has a fever and asking for
oranges.
S: In a bed in a corner of the room
her little boy is lying ill. S6:His mother has nothing to give but water,
so he is crying
a. SRQP b. PQSR
c. QPSR d. RSPQ
37.
S1:A noise started above their heads.
P:But people did not take it
seriously.
Q: That was to show everyone that
there was something wrong
R :It was a dangerous thing to do.
S: For, within minutes the ship
began to sink. S6:Nearly 200 lives were lost on the fateful
day
a. PQSR b. PRQS
c. QPRS d. QPSR
38.
S1: American private lies may seem shallow.
P: Students would walk away with
books they had not paid for.
Q: A Chinese journalist commented
on a curious institution: the library
R: Their public morality, however,
impressed visitors.
S: But in general they returned them.
S6: This would not happen in china, he said.
a. PSQR b. QPSR
c. RQPS d. RPSQ
39. S1: The path of Venus lies inside the path of
the Earth.
P: When at its farthest from the
Earth, Venus is 160 million away
Q: With such a wide range between
its greatest and least distances it is
natural that at sometimes Venus
appears much brighter than at others.
R: No other body ever comes so near
the Earth, with the exception of the
Moon and occasional comet or
asteroid.
S: When Venus is at its nearest to the
earth it is only 26 million miles
away.
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S6: When at its brightest, it is easily seen
with the naked eye in broad daylight
a. SRPQ b. SQRP
c. PSQR d. QPRS
40. S1: She said on the phone that she would
report for duty next day.
P: We waited for few days then we
decided to go to her place.
Q: But she did not.
R: we found it locked.
S: Even after that we waited for her
quite a few days.
S6: Eventually we reported to the police
a. PRSQ b. QPSR
c. QPRS d. SQPR
41. S1: he ears are fragile instruments.
P: These impulses travel via the
auditory nerve to the brain, where
they are interpreted as, say, words,
music or an approaching vehicle.
Q: When sound waves enter the ear,
they cause the eardrum to vibrate.
R: These in turn stimulate auditory
nerve fibers, each attuned to a
different frequency.
S: The vibrations are transmitted to
the cochlea, in the inner ear, where
fluid carries them toneatly organized
rows of hair cells.
S2: Damage to this delicate apparatus results
from both volume and length of exposure to
sound
a. QRPS b. SRQP
c. QSRP d. QSPR
42. S1: In the long run, national recognition of
same-sex marriage is inevitable.
P. It is only a matter of time before
all state laws reflect that view.
Q. Prudence counsels that marriage
equality should be allowed to
continue gaining support in the
states, and that a federal resolution
should be left for another day.
R. Same-sex marriage rights, at first
imposed by courts, have now been
recognized by state legislatures and
prevailed in all four states where
they were on the ballot in last year‘s
election.
S. Young people overwhelmingly
support it, and public opinion has
shifted on this issue faster than on
almost any other social issue in
history.
S2. What is more, the court‘s doctrine
dictates just this deferral
a. RSPQ b. PRQS
c. QPRS d. SRQP
43. S1. Water is a renewable natural resource
and public good.
P. However, most rivers, ponds,
lakes and aquifers are common
property.
Q. Hence, excluding others from
using water is not possible and the
results are competition, over-
extraction and conflict.
R. But the ownership right on land
bestows a private character on water.
S. Therefore, water rights are not
clearly defined and the right to using
the resources is not protected.
S2. However, cooperation has a greater role
in achieving social harmony in water
allocation and increasing human welfare.
a. SPRQ b. RPSQ
c. PRSQ d. QRPS
44. S1: The city is almost a slum and stinks
most of time.
P: The slush on the road did not
deter them.
Q: The occasional slips and falls
were considered a small price to pay
for the trip.
R: They were excited, fascinated by
the sight of fresh snow on the roads.
S: Even so, it looked beautiful to
tourists of various categories.
S6: But some visitors came away with the
unforgettable sight of young labors scantily
clad.
a. SPQR b. RSQP
c. RQPS d. QPRS
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S1: In the middle of one side of the square
sits the Chairman of the committee, the most
important person in the room.
P: For a committee is not just a mere
collection of individuals.
Q: On him rests much of the
responsibility for the success or
failure of the committee.
R: While this is happening we have
an opportunity to get the ‗feel‘ of
this committee.
S: As the meeting opens, he runs
briskly through a number of
formalities.
S6: From the moment its members meet, it
begins to have a sort nebulous life of its own
a. SQPR b. RSQP
c. QSPR d. PQRS
46. S1: A gentleman who lived alone always had
two plates placed on the table at dinnertime.
P: One day just as he sat down to
dine, the cat rushed in to the room.
Q: One plate was for himself and
other was for his cat.
R: she drooped a mouse into her own
plate and another into her master
plate.
S: He used to give the cat a piece of
meat from his own plate.
S6: In this way the cat showed her gratitude
to her master.
a. PSRQ b. RPQS
c. QRSP d. QSPR
47. S1: Politeness is not a quality possessed by
only one nation or race.
P :One may observe that a man of
one nation will remove his hat or
fold his hands by way of greetings
when he meets someone he knows.
Q: A man of another country will not
to do so.
R :It is a quality to be found among
all peoples and nations in every
corner of the earth.
S :Obviously, each person follows
the custom of his particular country.
S6:In any case, we should not mock at others
habits.
a. RPQS b. RPSQ
c. PRQS d. QPRS
48. S1: Throughout history man has used energy
from the sun.
P: Today, when we burn wood or use
electric current we are drawing
energy.
Q: However we now have a new
supply of energy.
R: All our ordinary life depends on
sun.
S: This has come from the sun.
S6: This energy comes from inside atoms
a. SQPR b. RQPS
c. QSRP d. PSRQ
49. S1: Thisweather vane often tops a church
spire, tower or high building.
P: They are only wind-vanes.
Q: Neither alone can tell us what the
weather will be.
R: They are designed to point to
direction from which the wind is
coming.
S: Just as the barometer only tells us
the pressure of air, the weather vane
tells us the direction of wind.
S6: The weather-vane can, however give us
some indication of other
a. PQRS b. PSRQ
c. PRSQ d. SPQR
50. S1: But how does a new word get into the
dictionary?
P: When a new dictionary is being
edited, a lexicographer collects all
the alphabetically arranged citation
slips for a particular word.
Q: The dictionary makers notice it
and make a note of it on a citation
slip.
R: The moment new word is coined,
it usually enter the spoken language.
S: The word then passes from the
realm of hearing to the realm of
writing.
S6: He sorts them according to their
grammatical function, and carefully writes a
definition
Para Jumbles (MBA) Practise Exercise 1 (Solutions)1. A 21. A 41. C2. D 22. C 42. A3. A 23. A 43. B4. B 24. D 44. B5. A 25. D 45. D6. D 26. C 46. D7. C 27. D 47. A8. A 28. B 48. D9. C 29. C 49. C10. B 30. A 50. A11. B 31. A12. B 32. A13. B 33. C14. D 34. D15. B 35. A16. B 36. C17. D 37. C18. C 38. B19. D 39. A20. B 40. C
