Five or four sentences are given below.

Out of these four or three sentences can be arranged to form a coherent

paragraph, but one of them doesn’t fit into the sequence. Pick the sentence that does not fit into the sequence.

1.
A. But his partial autobiography, which ends in the nineteen-twenties, is strong evidence in his favor, all the more
because it covers what he would have called the unregenerate part of his life and reminds one that inside the
saint, or near-saint, there was a very shrewd, able person who could, if he had chosen, have been a brilliant
success as a lawyer, an administrator or perhaps even a businessman.
B. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to
them are not, of course, the same in all cases.
C. To give a definite answer one would have to study Gandhi's acts and writing in immense detail, for his whole life
was a sort of pilgrimage in which every act was significant.
D. In Gandhi's case the questions on feels inclined to ask are: to what extent was Gandhi moved by vanity--by the
consciousness of himself as a humble, naked old man, sitting on a praying mat and shaking empires by sheer
spiritual power--and to what extent did he compromise his own principles by entering politics, which of their
nature are inseparable from coercion and fraud?
E. It was also apparent that the British were making use of him, or thought they were making use of him.

2.
A. The Jewish population is almost entirely concentrated in half a dozen big towns and is mostly employed in the
food, clothing and furniture trades.
B. The Jews seem, on the contrary, to have failed to keep up with the modern tendency towards big
amalgamations and to have remained fixed in those trades which are necessarily carried out on a small scale and
by old-fashioned methods.
C. There are about 400,000 known Jews in Britain, and in addition some thousands or, at most, scores of thousands
of Jewish refugees who have entered the country from 1934 onwards.
D. A few of the big monopolies, such as the ICI, one or two leading newspapers and at least one big chain of
department stores are Jewish-owned or partly Jewish-owned, but it would be very far from the truth to say that
British business life is dominated by Jews.
E. It so happens that the war has encouraged the growth of antisemitism and even, in the eyes of many ordinary
people, given some justification for it.

3.
A. People who study children’s language spend a lot of time watching how babies react to the speech they hear
around them.
B. They make films of adults and babies interacting, and examine them very carefully to see whether the babies
show any signs of understanding what the adults say.
C. They believe that babies begin to react to language from the very moment they are born.
D. Sometimes the signs are very subtle – slight movements of the baby’s eyes or the head or the hands.
E. You’d never notice them if you were just sitting with the child, but by watching a recording over and over, you
can spot them.
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A. Although we are born with the gift of language, research shows that we are surprisingly unskilled when it comes
to communicating with others.
B. We must carefully orchestrate our speech if we want to achieve our goals and bring our dreams to fruition.
C. We often choose our words without thought, oblivious of the emotional effects they can have on others.
D. We talk more than we need to, ignoring the effect we are having on those listening to us.
E. We listen poorly, without realizing it, and we often fail to pay attention to the subtle meanings conveyed by
facial expressions, body gestures, and the tone and cadence of our voice.

5.
A. Over the past fortnight, one of its finest champions managed to pull off a similar impression.
B. Wimbledon's greatest illusion is the sense of timelessness it evokes.
C. At 35 years and 342 days, Roger Federer became the oldest man to win the singles title in the Open Era — a full
14 years after he first claimed the title as a scruffy, pony-tailed upstart.
D. Once he had survived the opening week, the second week witnessed the range of a rested Federer's genius.
E. Given that his method isn't reliant on explosive athleticism or muscular ball-striking, both vulnerable to decay,
there is cause to believe that Federer will continue to enchant for a while longer.

6.
A. Those geometric symbols and aerodynamic swooshes are more than just skin deep.
B. The Commonwealth Bank logo — a yellow diamond, with a black chunk sliced out in one corner — is so
recognizable that the bank doesn't even use its full name in its advertising.
C. It's not just logos with hidden shapes; sometimes brands will have meanings or stories within them that are
deliberately vague or lost in time, urging you to delve deeper to solve the riddle.
D. Graphic designers embed cryptic references because it adds a story to the brand; they want people to spend
more time with a brand and have that idea that they are an insider if they can understand the hidden message.
E. But the CommBank logo has more to it than meets the eye, as squirrelled away in that diamond is the Southern
Cross constellation.

7.
A. Chronic pain is difficult to treat; even the most effective medications provide only modest relief to a minority of
patients.
B. Pain is ubiquitous in life. Inextricably bound to consciousness, it is an experience that all living creatures with
advanced nervous systems share.
C. For our ancestors, whose lives were fraught with danger, pain conferred an evolutionary advantage, signaling
the need to separate oneself from its immediate source.
D. For example, the best way to relieve back and neck pain is often to exercise, while treating underlying
contributing factors like obesity.
E. But evolution has failed to keep pace with biomedical and technological advances, allowing chronic pain (pain
that persists beyond an acute injury or condition) to become a disease in itself.
8.
A. When such a government goes in for usually destroying, the whole race is in danger.
B. In this universe of ours nobody has ever succeeded in getting anything for nothing.
C. The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total
efficiency
D. Human interests are best served when society is tolerably well organized and industry moderately advanced;
Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the
products of a highly developed technology.

9.
A. For several decades Salim Ali’s was the only Indian name that figured in the world of ornithologists or in general
knowledge books for schoolchildren.
B. Interestingly, the number of bird species sighted is only increasing, helped no doubt by the vast range of
habitats available in the subcontinent.
C. Dividing his time between Delhi, Dehradun and the Sunderbans, he has never shied away from doing the hard
yards when it comes to birdwatching.
D. BikramGrewal is one such avid birdwatcher who has quietly but persuasively kept his lens focused on the birds
of the subcontinent.
E. Today, inspired by Salim Ali, thousands of people have taken to bird study, birdwatching and bird photography.

10.
A. The Government of India became a party to the protocol schedule in June 1992, entrusting the responsibility of
implementation to the ministry of environment, forest and climate change.
B. Further scaling up the fight against emissions, Montreal Protocol signatories decided to move on from focusing
on ozone depletion to tackling global warming in 2016.
C. It played a crucial role in phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs)
such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), carbon tetrachloride (CTC) and halons.
D. This means an urgent need to find efficient and environment-friendly alternatives to these refrigerants.
E. Implementation of the Montreal Protocol has had a significant impact on protecting the ozone layer for three
decades.

11.
A. Every cell that is “you” carries a molecular ID card made of a protein marker.
B. Our body is a nation of trillions of cells working together under a system.
C. To ensure equitable distribution of common facilities only to the “self” and not to hostile or parasitic aliens,
human body is armed with a highly specialized UID system.
D. The only agenda they serve is towards their self-gain and growth.
E. This system ensures that each body cell receives common facilities like oxygen, nutrients, protection from attack
etc. in exchange for serving in the specific role it is assigned.
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a. Displacement in Bengal is thus not very significant in view of its magnitude.

b. A factor of displacement in Bengal is the shifting course of the Ganges leading to erosion of river banks.
c. The nature of displacement in Bengal makes it an interesting case study.
d. Since displacement due to erosion is well spread over a long period of time, it remains invisible.
e. Rapid displacement would have helped sanitize the public to its human costs.

13.

A. In many cases time inconsistency is what prevents our going from intention to action.
B. For people to continuously postpone getting their children immunized, they would need to be constantly
fooled by themselves.
C. In the specific case of immunization, however, it is hard to believe that time inconsistency by itself
would be sufficient to make people permanently postpone the decision if they were fully cognizant of its
benefits.
D. In most cases, even a small cost of immunization was large enough to discourage most people.
E. Not only do they have to think that they prefer to spend time going to the camp next month rather than
today, they also have to believe that they will indeed go next month.

14.

A. Much has been recently discovered about the development of songs in birds.
B. Some species are restricted to a single song learned by all individuals, others have a range of songs.
C. The most important auditory stimuli for the birds are the sounds of other birds.
D. For all bird species there is a prescribed path to development of the final song
E. A bird begins with the subsong, passes through plastic song, until it achieves the species song.

15.

1. One argument is that actors that do not fit within a single, well-defined category may suffer an “illegitimacy
discount”.
2. Others believe that complex identities confuse audiences about an organization’s role or purpose.
3. Some organizations have complex and multidimensional identities that span or combine categories, while
other organizations possess narrow identities.
4. Identity is one of the most important features of organizations, but there exist opposing views among
sociologists about how identity affects organizational performance.
5. Those who think that complex identities are beneficial point to the strategic advantages of ambiguity, and
organizations’ potential to differentiate themselves from competitors.
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1. His idea to use sign language was not a completely new idea as Native Americans used hand gestures to communicate
with other tribes.
2. Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, for example, observed that men who are deaf are incapable of speech.
3. People who were born deaf were denied the right to sign a will as they were “presumed to understand nothing;
because it is not possible that they have been able to learn to read or write.”
4. Pushback against this prejudice began in the 16th century when Pedro Ponce de León created a formal sign language
for the hearing impaired.
5. For millennia, people with hearing impairments encountered marginalization because it was believed that language
could only be learned by hearing the spoken word.

Answers:

1. E
2. E
3. C
4. B
5. D
6. A
7. D
8. B
9. B
10. D
11. D
12. E
13. D
14. C
15. A
16. B