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Paragraph Jumbles
These questions will prove to be good exercise for some good practice in para jumblesTry to do the questions without looking at the solutions. The timeallotted is 30 mins.Some useful sources for good para jumbles practice are :
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and send an email with a copy of your receiptattached totestfunda.discount@gmail.com The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced,form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter.Choose the most logical order of sentences among the givenchoices to construct a coherent paragraph.
Question1:A.
The word
 failure,
it seems, is not good for building self-esteemin school children.
B.
Liz Beattie, a 37-year old veteran primary-level instructor, proposed that the word failure
 
should be banned from classrooms and replaced with the moreappealing phrase
deferred success
so as not to discourage studentsfrom continuing efforts to achieve.
C.
Although the motion ultimately experienced its own “deferredsuccess,” it was not without supporters among the 35,000-member teacher’s association.
D.
One Wesley Paxton, a member of the PAT Council, expressedhis enthusiastic agreement, saying: “It’s time we made the word‘fail’ redundant and replaced it with ‘please do a bit more’.”E. In the summer of 2005, a British school teacher proposed arather controversial motion to her union, the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT).(1) ADBCE (2) BACDE (3) EBCDA (4)CEDAB(5) ABCDE
Question 2:A.
In art, essentialism is the idea that certain concepts may beexpressed organically in certain media.
B.
Each medium has its own particular strengths and weaknesses,contingent on its mode of communication.
C.
This idea may be further refined and it may be said that thehaiku is a poor vehicle for describing a lover’s affection asopposed to the more organically correct sonnet.
D.
Essentialism is attractive to artists because it not only delineatesthe role of art and media but also prescribes a method for evaluating art.
E.
A chase scene may be appropriate for motion pictures, but poorly realised in poetry because the essential components of the poetic medium are ill suited to convey the information of a chasescene.
 
(1) DCEBA (2) BDACE (3) DABEC (4) ABEDC (5) ABECD
Question 3:A.
Enter the virtual assistants who are entrepreneurial partners -highly skilled in their profession and able to have an impact on the productivity of those they work with.
B.
But most of the small businesses started today will reach animpasse very quickly - they will be spending so much time onadministrative tasks that they can no longer concentrate ongrowing their business.
C.
On the contrary, some believe that increasing numbers of small businesses will afford administrative support experts withentrepreneurial spirit opportunities that have never before been possible.
D.
Traditionally, the need for assistance has left the small businessowner with several bleak optionshirean expensive “temp” for a band-aid-style solution, take on a greatdeal of expense andresponsibility with a “permanent” employee, or-perhaps worst of all-turn away the work.
E.
Corporate downsizing and the move towards small, home-based businesses could appear to be bad news for the over 3 million people whose expertise lies in the administrative support arena.(1) DCABE (2) ECBDA (3) DBACE (4) EDCBA(5) CDEBA
Question 4:A.
How does the cellular microenvironment regulate cellular functions or vice versa?
B.
This understanding can be used to engineer novel therapeuticfor new drug discovery techniques and for regenerative medicinesusing directed stem cell differentiation
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