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English II Ordering Of Sentences II 19.08.2019
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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: Improvement of the quality of education has always been the key concern for education.
S6: Not in terms of the number of years of schooling but the quality aspect of the development of the individual.
P: Quality of education should not be considered in fragmented terms but in a more holistic and expanded manner.
Q: It has become synonymous with employability, preparation for the word of work, less and less consideration is given to the subject of education.
R: In recent times, quality education has been defined in more pragmatic terms.
S: That is an individual student and his/her full development as a human being.
S6: Not in terms of the number of years of schooling but the quality aspect of the development of the individual.
P: Quality of education should not be considered in fragmented terms but in a more holistic and expanded manner.
Q: It has become synonymous with employability, preparation for the word of work, less and less consideration is given to the subject of education.
R: In recent times, quality education has been defined in more pragmatic terms.
S: That is an individual student and his/her full development as a human being.
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: Every government faces challenges and there are some more prominent than others.
S6: So we are in a way on the cusp of decision-making about providing meaningful and sustainable jobs to millions of India’s youth over the next many years.
P: The inevitable realities of artificial intelligence, digitalization, and automation will keep the productivity clock ticking.
Q: In the face of declining agriculture opportunities, tough industrial competition, rising protectionism, and reshoring.
R: Job creation is perhaps the most prominent of them all.
S: The trade-off is that some of these technologies will replace some mental tasks, some physical ones and some that are both.
S6: So we are in a way on the cusp of decision-making about providing meaningful and sustainable jobs to millions of India’s youth over the next many years.
P: The inevitable realities of artificial intelligence, digitalization, and automation will keep the productivity clock ticking.
Q: In the face of declining agriculture opportunities, tough industrial competition, rising protectionism, and reshoring.
R: Job creation is perhaps the most prominent of them all.
S: The trade-off is that some of these technologies will replace some mental tasks, some physical ones and some that are both.
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: A mouse and a frog were friends.
S6: One day he felt he had been humiliated enough. When it was time for him to take leave of the mouse, he tied one end of a string around his own leg, tied the other end to the mouse’s tail, and hopped away, dragging the hapless mouse behind him.
P: The mouse delighted in his friend’s company unaware that the friend was slowly turning into an enemy.
Q: Every morning the frog would hop out of his pond and go to visit his friend who lived in a hole in the side of a tree.
R: The reason; the frog felt slighted because though he visited the mouse every day, the mouse on his part, had never made an attempt to visit him.
S: He would return home at noon.
S6: One day he felt he had been humiliated enough. When it was time for him to take leave of the mouse, he tied one end of a string around his own leg, tied the other end to the mouse’s tail, and hopped away, dragging the hapless mouse behind him.
P: The mouse delighted in his friend’s company unaware that the friend was slowly turning into an enemy.
Q: Every morning the frog would hop out of his pond and go to visit his friend who lived in a hole in the side of a tree.
R: The reason; the frog felt slighted because though he visited the mouse every day, the mouse on his part, had never made an attempt to visit him.
S: He would return home at noon.
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: She gets on the train in Salzburg.
S6: Then, sticking her head through the door, she asks hesitantly if the other seats are taken.
P: A European woman in her late 40s; very well-turned-out in a peach jacket and a long, black, silk skirt.
Q: As it pulls out of the station, I see her standing in the passage outside my compartment.
R: I watch her from the corner of my eye, hoping she would walk on and find a seat elsewhere.
S: She lingers there for a few minutes, looking up and down the corridor, somehow undecided.
S6: Then, sticking her head through the door, she asks hesitantly if the other seats are taken.
P: A European woman in her late 40s; very well-turned-out in a peach jacket and a long, black, silk skirt.
Q: As it pulls out of the station, I see her standing in the passage outside my compartment.
R: I watch her from the corner of my eye, hoping she would walk on and find a seat elsewhere.
S: She lingers there for a few minutes, looking up and down the corridor, somehow undecided.
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: Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation.
S6: Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything.
P: But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks.
Q: They all try to make it through their shifts–and maintain their sanity–under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence.
R: Yet behind the headsets, everybody’s heart is on the line.
S: Skilled in patience–and accent management–they help American consumers keep their lives running.
S6: Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything.
P: But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America: Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks.
Q: They all try to make it through their shifts–and maintain their sanity–under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence.
R: Yet behind the headsets, everybody’s heart is on the line.
S: Skilled in patience–and accent management–they help American consumers keep their lives running.
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.
S1: Brain drain is the migration of skilled human resources for trade, education, etc.
S6: These countries have invested in the education and training of young health professionals.
P: Trained health professionals are needed in every part of the world.
Q: This is of growing concern worldwide because of its impact on the health systems in developing countries.
R: However, better standards of living and quality of life, higher salaries, access to advanced technology and more stable political conditions in the developed countries attract talent from less developed areas.
S: The majority of migration is from developing to developed countries.
S6: These countries have invested in the education and training of young health professionals.
P: Trained health professionals are needed in every part of the world.
Q: This is of growing concern worldwide because of its impact on the health systems in developing countries.
R: However, better standards of living and quality of life, higher salaries, access to advanced technology and more stable political conditions in the developed countries attract talent from less developed areas.
S: The majority of migration is from developing to developed countries.
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.
S1: Once there lived a poor woodcutter. He used to cut trees in the woods. One day he was cutting wood on the bank of a river.
S6: Then he brought an iron axe. The woodcutter took it gladly. Mercury was much pleased. He rewarded the woodcutter with the other two axes.
P: His axe fell down into the river. The river was deep. He could not take his axe out. He sat on the bank and began to weep.
Q: Mercury, the god of water appeared. He asked the reason of his weeping.
R: The woodcutter told the whole story. Mercury dived into the water and brought a golden axe.
S: The woodcutter refused to take it. Mercury again dived and brought a silver axe. The woodcutter did not take it either.
S6: Then he brought an iron axe. The woodcutter took it gladly. Mercury was much pleased. He rewarded the woodcutter with the other two axes.
P: His axe fell down into the river. The river was deep. He could not take his axe out. He sat on the bank and began to weep.
Q: Mercury, the god of water appeared. He asked the reason of his weeping.
R: The woodcutter told the whole story. Mercury dived into the water and brought a golden axe.
S: The woodcutter refused to take it. Mercury again dived and brought a silver axe. The woodcutter did not take it either.
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.
S1 : One fine morning, I heard a sound of fire engines with loud alarm bells.
S6 : It was a terrible scene, as huge flames of fire were coming out of the house.
P : I thought, perhaps a house was on fire.
Q : They were regulating the crowd.
R : The policemen were standing around a big house.
S : I immediately rushed out to see what was happening.
The proper sequence should be
S6 : It was a terrible scene, as huge flames of fire were coming out of the house.
P : I thought, perhaps a house was on fire.
Q : They were regulating the crowd.
R : The policemen were standing around a big house.
S : I immediately rushed out to see what was happening.
The proper 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 : Some students may feel that fast readers do not understand as much as slow readers.
S6 : This statement, however, needs to be made with caution.
P : Some slow readers will have good comprehension and others poor.
Q : A quick glance at the scores will show that fast readers sometimes have very good comprehension and sometimes poor.
R : This fallacy can easily be disproved when you give the first reading test in a class.
S : In short, there is little relation between reading speed and comprehension.
The proper sequence should be
S6 : This statement, however, needs to be made with caution.
P : Some slow readers will have good comprehension and others poor.
Q : A quick glance at the scores will show that fast readers sometimes have very good comprehension and sometimes poor.
R : This fallacy can easily be disproved when you give the first reading test in a class.
S : In short, there is little relation between reading speed and comprehension.
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 : There isn’t a cricketer worth his salt who does not aspire for captaincy.
S6 : It is against this background that any emotions surrounding the captaincy should be viewed.
P : Even parents are proud when their sons become the captain.
Q : At the lower levels, it is the best player who gets to lead the team.
R : In cricket, the greatest honour any player can get is the captaincy.
S : Right from their school days, boys dream of leading the team.
The proper sequence should be
S6 : It is against this background that any emotions surrounding the captaincy should be viewed.
P : Even parents are proud when their sons become the captain.
Q : At the lower levels, it is the best player who gets to lead the team.
R : In cricket, the greatest honour any player can get is the captaincy.
S : Right from their school days, boys dream of leading the team.
The proper sequence should be
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