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English II Ordering Of Sentences II 09.11.2019
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Question 1
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
S1) There was once a boy whose father one day told him that he is old enough to look after the sheep.
S6) He cried ‘Wolf! Wolf!’ until the entire village came running with stones to chase away the wolf before it could eat any of the sheep.
(P) Every day he had to take the sheep over the grass fields and watch them as they grazed to become strong sheep with thick wool.
(Q) The boy was unhappy though.
(R) He wanted to run and play, not watch the boring sheep.
(S) So, he decided to have some fun instead.
Question 2
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
S1) Adil Dar, who carried out the suicide blast that killed 40 CRPF soldiers in Pulwama, was in constant touch with his Jaish-e-Mohammad handler using the virtual SIM technology
S6) Officials said the numbers used were pre-fixed with “+1,” the Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN) used for the U.S.
(P) the number is linked to social networking sites
(Q) Under the method, the computer generates a telephone number and
(R) the user downloads an application of the service provider on his smartphone
(S) The verification code generated by these networking sites is received on the smartphone, and the user is ready.
Question 3
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
S1 : One of the first things the learning of new language teaches you is that language comes from the region of the unconscious.
S6 : The test of how much you know is : how much can you say without having to think how you are going to say it?
P : What is often meant by “thinking in a language” is really the ability to use it without thinking about it.
Q : We grown-up people have to filter it through our minds – a much more laborious process.
R : That is why children learn a new language so effortlessly : it comes straight from their instincts.
S : But we cannot say that we know a language, or know what we have studied of it, until we can use it instinctively.
The proper sequence should be
S6 : The test of how much you know is : how much can you say without having to think how you are going to say it?
P : What is often meant by “thinking in a language” is really the ability to use it without thinking about it.
Q : We grown-up people have to filter it through our minds – a much more laborious process.
R : That is why children learn a new language so effortlessly : it comes straight from their instincts.
S : But we cannot say that we know a language, or know what we have studied of it, until we can use it instinctively.
The proper sequence should be
Question 4
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
S1 : For seventeen years she led a sheltered life in the convent.
S6 : Two years later she left the Loreto Convent where she had spent many happy and useful years.
P : Her heart went out to the people living there.
Q : In 1946 she asked for permission to work in the slums.
R : Then one day, while she was returning from an errand, she saw the slums of Calcutta.
S : She felt she had found her second vocation, her real calling.
The proper sequence should be
S6 : Two years later she left the Loreto Convent where she had spent many happy and useful years.
P : Her heart went out to the people living there.
Q : In 1946 she asked for permission to work in the slums.
R : Then one day, while she was returning from an errand, she saw the slums of Calcutta.
S : She felt she had found her second vocation, her real calling.
The proper sequence should be
Question 5
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
S1 : Good memory is so common that we regard a man who does not possess it as eccentric.
S6 : She wheeled away the perambulator, picturing to herself his terror when he would come out and find the baby gone.
P : I have heard of a father who, having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to pause on his journey and slip into a public house for a glass of beer.
Q : A little later, his wife had to do some shopping which took her past the public house where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby.
R : Leaving the perambulator outside, he disappeared into the drink shop.
S : Indignant at her husband’s behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson.
The proper sequence should be
S6 : She wheeled away the perambulator, picturing to herself his terror when he would come out and find the baby gone.
P : I have heard of a father who, having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to pause on his journey and slip into a public house for a glass of beer.
Q : A little later, his wife had to do some shopping which took her past the public house where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby.
R : Leaving the perambulator outside, he disappeared into the drink shop.
S : Indignant at her husband’s behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson.
The proper sequence should be
Question 6
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
SI: Mass production has increased the tendency to view things as useful rather than delightful.
S6: Indeed a lowering of quality usually results when mass production is substituted for more primitive methods.
P: These various things share nothing with the buttons except money value.
Q: All the rest you wish to exchange for food, shelter, and many other things.
R: Suppose you are a manufacturer of buttons: however excellent your buttons may be, you do not want more than a few for your own use.
S: And it is not even the money value of the buttons that is important to you: what is important is profit which may be increased by lowering their quality.
The correct sequence should be
S6: Indeed a lowering of quality usually results when mass production is substituted for more primitive methods.
P: These various things share nothing with the buttons except money value.
Q: All the rest you wish to exchange for food, shelter, and many other things.
R: Suppose you are a manufacturer of buttons: however excellent your buttons may be, you do not want more than a few for your own use.
S: And it is not even the money value of the buttons that is important to you: what is important is profit which may be increased by lowering their quality.
The correct sequence should be
Question 7
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
SI: In democratic countries, men are equal before the law.
S6: And they live like this not for fun, but because they are too poor to afford another room.
P: While some few people live in luxury, many have not enough to eat, drink and wear.
Q: There are many families of five or six persons who live in a single room.
R: But the sharing-out of money - which means the sharing-out of food and clothing and houses - is still very unfair.
S: In this room they sleep and dress and wash and eat, and in this same room they die.
The correct sequence should be
S6: And they live like this not for fun, but because they are too poor to afford another room.
P: While some few people live in luxury, many have not enough to eat, drink and wear.
Q: There are many families of five or six persons who live in a single room.
R: But the sharing-out of money - which means the sharing-out of food and clothing and houses - is still very unfair.
S: In this room they sleep and dress and wash and eat, and in this same room they die.
The correct sequence should be
Question 8
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
SI: First and foremost, there are order and safety in our civilization.
S6: Nobody may come and break into my house and steal my goods.
P: Thus in disputes between man and man, right has taken the place of might.
Q: If today I have a quarrel with another man, I do not get beaten merely because I am physically weaker.
R: I go to law, and the law will decide fairly between the two of us.
S: Moreover, the law protects me from robbery and violence.
The correct sequence should be
S6: Nobody may come and break into my house and steal my goods.
P: Thus in disputes between man and man, right has taken the place of might.
Q: If today I have a quarrel with another man, I do not get beaten merely because I am physically weaker.
R: I go to law, and the law will decide fairly between the two of us.
S: Moreover, the law protects me from robbery and violence.
The correct sequence should be
Question 9
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
S1 : In our youth we are apt to think that applause and publicity constitute success.
S6 : So let us be initiated into the mysteries of maturity and be taught how to resist and spurn the lure of hollow shows.
P : The man who values the applause more than his own effort has not outgrown his youth.
Q : It is our achievement or work which wins lasting rewards.
R : But these are only the trappings, the ephemeral illusions.
S : One should concentrate on one’s work knowing that applause will come unsought.
The proper sequence should be
S6 : So let us be initiated into the mysteries of maturity and be taught how to resist and spurn the lure of hollow shows.
P : The man who values the applause more than his own effort has not outgrown his youth.
Q : It is our achievement or work which wins lasting rewards.
R : But these are only the trappings, the ephemeral illusions.
S : One should concentrate on one’s work knowing that applause will come unsought.
The proper sequence should be
Question 10
Direction: In the given question six sentences of a passage are a given. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly.
S1: February began with Abdulla Yameen in complete charge of Maldivian politics.
S6: That protected Mr Yameen from impeachment, among other inconveniences.
P: One by one, he had seen off his political opponents.
Q: The Election Commission stripped 12 opposition MPs of their seats, and the Supreme Court made it impossible for pro-government MPs to defect to the opposition and keep their parliamentary jobs.
R: They had also awarded him control of the ruling party, which was being contested by his half-brother, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Mr Yameen’s predecessor-but-two, who had ruled as a dictator for 30 years.
S: The courts had meekly convicted his predecessor-but-one as president, his vice president, his defence minister and the heads of two opposition parties.
S6: That protected Mr Yameen from impeachment, among other inconveniences.
P: One by one, he had seen off his political opponents.
Q: The Election Commission stripped 12 opposition MPs of their seats, and the Supreme Court made it impossible for pro-government MPs to defect to the opposition and keep their parliamentary jobs.
R: They had also awarded him control of the ruling party, which was being contested by his half-brother, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Mr Yameen’s predecessor-but-two, who had ruled as a dictator for 30 years.
S: The courts had meekly convicted his predecessor-but-one as president, his vice president, his defence minister and the heads of two opposition parties.
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