PARA JUMBLE:TEST-8

Question 1
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph 1. Although there are large regional variations, it is not
infrequent to find a large number of people sitting here together and doing nothing. 2. Once in office, they
receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior appointment. 3. 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. 4. Even those who are employed often
come late to the office and leave early unless they are forced to be punctual. 5. Work is not intrinsically
valued in India. 6. 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
531426
B
514362
C
514263
D
126325
Question 2
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph 1. But in the industrial era destroying the enemys
productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities. 2. So in the agrarian era,
if you need to destroy the enemys productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if youre
really vicious, salt them. 3. Now in the information era, destroying the enemys productive capacity means
destroying the information infrastructure. 4. How do you do battle with your enemy? 5. The idea is to
destroy the enemys productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive
capacity is different in each case. 6. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the
nation and be prepared to do battle With its enemy.
A
645213
B
631254
C
452136
D
465213
Question 3
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph 1. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this
sorry fact without approval or complaint. 2. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him. 3. He
acknowledges too -- in fact he returns to the point often -- that best translators of poetry always fail at
Home level. 4. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings 5. In terms of
the gap between worth and reward, translators come somewhere near nurses and street - cleaners.
A
51342
B
14523
C
51324
D
43512
Question 4
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph 1. Passivity is not, of course, universal. 2. 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. 3. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive. 4. 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. 5. This depends on an assessment of the political situation.
A
25413
B
34125
C
54213
D
12345
Question 5
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 Irishmans 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 or 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
Question 6
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. To much of the Labour movement, it symbolizes the
brutality of the upper classes. 2. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolizes
the governments weakness. 3. To foxhuntings supporters, Labours 1991 manifesto commitment to ban
it symbolizes the partys metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside. 4. Small issues sometimes
have large symbolic power. 5. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after
foxes, foxhunting symbolizes the ancient roots of rural lives.
A
45132
B
53421
C
35142
D
42153
Question 7
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. In the case of King Merolchazzars courtship of the
Princess of the Outer Isles, there occurs a regrettable hitch. 2. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word
of a meeting date follows. 3. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighboring princess; dispatches
messengers with gifts to her court, beseeching an interview. 4. The princess names a date, and a formal
meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along pretty smoothly. 5. Royal love affairs in olden
were conducted on the correspondence method.
A
13245
B
12345
C
53412
D
53214
Question 8
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. Who can trace to its first beginnings the love of
Damon for Pythias, of David for Jonathan, of Swan for Edgar? 2. Similarly with men. 3. There is about
great friendships between man and man a certain inevitability that can only compared with the age old
association of ham and eggs. 4. One simply feels that it is one of the things that must be so. 5. No one
can say what was the mutual magnetism that brought the deathless partnership of these wholesome and
palatable foodstuffs about.
A
13254
B
35421
C
13524
D
35124
Question 9
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. Events intervened, an in the late 1930s and 1940s,
Germany suffered from over-branding. 2. The British used to be fascinated by the home of
Romanticism. 3. But reunification and the federal governments move to Berlin have prompted Germany
to think again about its image. 4. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by
Thomas Cook in1855. 5. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself
abroad.
A
13524
B
45312
C
24153
D
42153
Question 10
Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph.
Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the
given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative
Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders. 2. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic
separation wall now being built in the West bank by Israel. 3. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire
and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals. 4. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land,
sometimes five or six kilometers at a stretch. 5. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid,
this ghastly racist wall is going up with scarcely a peep from Israels American allies who are going to pay
for most of it
A
23145
B
21435
C
15432
D
53142
Question 1 Explanation:
Out of the given options, the first sentence seems to be 5 and 51 forms a mandatory pair as it moves
from the general 'India' to specific 'regional variations' . 42 is the second mandatory pair with 'office' being
mentioned in 4 and then 2 starting with the 'office'. Hence, option C is the right choice
Question 3 Explanation:
Here, statement 5 is the opening sentence. 2 with 'but' is the point of inflexion and 4 ends the paragraph
on an optimistic note.
Question 4 Explanation:
Between the options, the best option for the opening sentence seems to be 1 and 2. Again the option with
2 as the first sentence does not flow logically. 1-2 is a better sequence as it moves from general to
specific. This makes choice D as the right answer.
Question 5 Explanation:
Here, 23 is a mandatory pair with 'calculable' and 'only controlled applications'. Option A is the right
choice
Question 6 Explanation:
4 is the general sentence. 5 and 1 form a mandatory pair because the 'it' mentioned in sentence 1 talks
about the 'fox hunting' mentioned in sentence 5. Option A is the right choice
Question 7 Explanation:
Here, 32 is a mandatory pair. However, looking closely reveals that the 'she' of 2 and the princess of 4 are
two different entities. The monarch and the princess of 3 are general. Then, 'she' of 2 is the princess of 1.
Therefore, 53, 34 and 41 are mandatory pairs. Option C is the right choice
Question 8 Explanation:
35 is a mandatory pair as can be seen by the line 'these.....food stuffs' of 5. however, this still leaves us
with three answer choices. 2 should follow 5as can be seen by the word 'similarly'. Hence, option C is the
right choice
Question 10 Explanation:
Here, 14 is clearly a mandatory pair as 4 talks about the extra closures. Also 'this....,wall' of 5 should
follow from 1,4 and 3. Option B is the right choice
Q2 ANS 4
Q9 ANS 2