English || Ordering of Sentences Quiz || 21.12.2019

S1) According to NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke, the Perseids are perhaps the most popular meteor shower of the year.
P. In 2017, the Perseids will be a little more difficult to see due to the presence of the moon, which will be three-quarters full and will rise shortly before the shower hits its peak around midnight local time.
Q. Typical rates are about 80 meteors an hour, but in outburst years (such as in 2016) the rate can be between 150-200 meteors an hour.
R. The meteor shower's actual peak is around 1 p.m. EDT Aug. 12, which means that the night before and the night after will both have good rates; Cooke said the show would be slightly better in the predawn hours of Aug. 12, but that there'd be a decent show both nights.
S. "Rates will be about half what they would be normally, because of the bright moonlight," Cooke told Space.com.
S6) "Instead of 80 to 100, [there will be] 40 to 50 per hour. And that's just because the moon's going to wash out the fainter ones." "But the good news is that the Perseids are rich in fireballs; otherwise the moon would really mess with them," Cooke added.

S1) Curious to know what it is, the monkey
P. not before trapping the legs of the monkey
Q. into the rift of the log.
R. began furiously tugging at the wedge.
S. At last the wedge came off,
S6) Very soon, not able to get his legs out of the closed wood, the monkey died.

S1). Speech was the first means of conveying information.
P. Thirdly printing helped on dissemination of knowledge in a permanent form.
Q. Then writings as a means introduced a capacity for storing information.
R. Computer is the only medium that can not only store but analyze information to make decision.
S. However, all these are passive media.
S6). Therefore, computer is hailed as the fourth information revolution.

S1). Wars always give rise to patriotic feelings.
P. This does not mean that they are absent.
Q. However, in times of peace they lie dormant.
R. After all, a good economy is also a deterrent to inimical foreign forces.
S. They, rather, covertly urge the society to work.
S6). Hence, we should focus our energies on the overall development of our nation.

S1). We were taking tea at the Rathna Tea stall.
P. We found a tourist bus which had just rammed into a tamarind tree on the roadside.
Q. We rushed out of the tea stall.
R. We helped the passengers to get out of the bus.
S. Suddenly, we heard a loud noise followed by cry for help.
S6). We informed the hospital and also the police about the accident.

S1). One day at school, Newton was kicked by a bigger boy from a higher class.
P. He also decided to beat him at Lessons and this made him study harder.
Q. So he turned on the bigger boy and gave him a good beating.
R. The kicking made Newton very angry.
S. After that he improved in his studies.
S6). Perhaps the big boy who kicked Newton did service to the world.

S1). In 1945, America faced two powerful enemies in the world war.
P. America found conventional weapons insufficient to crush them.
Q. These were Germany and Japan Who posed strong opposition to America.
R. The result of this was the production of the atom bomb.
S. The government ordered the scientists to conduct research and produce a new deadly weapon.
S6). This was the weapon that ended the second world war.

1. A century ago, the cinema was just a mechanical toy.
p. Thus, it gained respectability and acceptance.
Q. It gradually came to be considered as an art form of the new era.
R. By the l920s, even its worst critics had to take it seriously.
S. Later, it was viewed as an extension of photography.
6. Finally, it has evolved as the century’s most potent and versatile art form.