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SSC: Parajumble Quiz: 08.01.2020

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Question 1

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P: One of these is the smoke and pollution that it creates.
Q: The motor car is one of the most useful gifts of modern science. It has made short and medium distance journeys fast and comfortable.
R: The other is that it has made journey by road hazardous. Finally in this age of energy crisis a personal car is an expensive thing.
S: Yet we can’t say that a motor car is a blessing without disadvantages.

Question 2

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P: Her farmhouse stood on the edge of the woods.
Q: Once upon a time, there lived a very old woman and her name was Mrs. Tubbs.
R: It was not far from the village.
S: She lived on a little farm, way off in the country.

Question 3

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P: I went on a visit to South-East Asia in the early eighties and there I was impressed by the smart girls.
Q: They did all types of work, from filling petrol to servicing and washing cars.
R: They were clad in shorts or jeans.
S: I was inspired. I introduced the concept at home.

Question 4

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P. Although it was a revolutionary vehicle, it was a commercial disaster.

Q. Some years ago, a three-wheeled electric car was launched by Hindustan Electric
Company.

R. As a result it did not appeal to adults.

S. The car did not have a powerful engine, so it was not very fast.

Question 5

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P. However, with time it becomes an exaggerated form of self-display.
Q. Egotism is the most common fault of mankind. It is the product of a perfectly natural desire to display oneself.
R. This is necessary as it impairs the personality and frustrates all efforts at self-improvement. One should always be on guard not to give into egotism.
S. Beyond any shadow of doubt, it is a defect that ought to be constantly hunted down, and scotched.

Question 6

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P. Whatever we know about her poetry today is from the quotations found in the works of others. No doubt, she was one of the best lyric poets of Ancient Greece.
Q. Sappho was one of the greatest and earliest of women poets. She lived on the island of Lesbos in the late 600’BC
R. Most of Sappho’s works - about 10 books of verse have been destroyed.
S. Only one of her poems has survived in its complete form.

Question 7

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P. Books have been present since the time the first scripts were formed about 5000 years ago but the books of that time looked different from the ones available today.

Q. Then an important invention, letterpress printing, also known as ‘black art’ changed the world. There was no longer the need to write text by hand: instead, copies of text could be made with the help of a printing press.

R. Later, the books came in the form of rollers, or texts were stapled together and covered with a wooden book cover.

S. Initially, people bound the small clay tablets together with leather bands.

Question 8

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P. There are a lot of ways to communicate speaking, singing, clapping, hooting. Even animals communicate with one another.
Q. Only humans can express their thoughts and feelings in words because of our superior brain.
R. Both humans and animals also communicate through body language. Sometimes we don't use words but make gestures (like traffic signs) or simple movements of the hand in order to communicate.
S. But their ways differ from the humans.

Question 9

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P. We are well aware that the intellectuals are leaving our country for better employment opportunities.
Q. The question remains unanswered because our country cannot show opportunities to the intellectuals. This situation of ‘Brain-Drain’ leads to a variety of problems.
R. Then, what about their obligation to the Motherland?
S. It is easy to criticize the people at the helm, for the slow progress in every field. First, we should ask ourselves as to what is happening to the young intellectuals in India.

Question 10

Direction: Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

P. If representatives do not rule according to the wishes of the people, they are changed in the next election.
Q. Democracy is the primary goal of our Indian Constitution. In a democracy, the people are the rulers.
R. New representatives who are aware of the needs of the people take their place. Thus in a democracy, the responsibilities of the people are great.
S. They rule through their elected representatives.

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