PARA JUMBLE:TEST-8Question 1

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph 1. Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a large number of people sitting here together and doing nothing. 2. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior appointment. 3. While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes. Procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of consideration for others. 4. Even those who are employed often come late to the office and leave early unless they are forced to be punctual. 5. Work is not intrinsically valued in India. 6. Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of their way to help them in their personal matters even during office hours.A531426

B514362

C514263

D126325

Question 2

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph 1. But in the industrial era destroying the enemys productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities. 2. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemys productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if youre really vicious, salt them. 3. Now in the information era, destroying the enemys productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure. 4. How do you do battle with your enemy? 5. The idea is to destroy the enemys productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case. 6. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle With its enemy.A645213

B631254

C452136

D465213

Question 3

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph 1. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint. 2. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him. 3. He acknowledges too -- in fact he returns to the point often -- that best translators of poetry always fail at Home level. 4. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings 5. In terms of the gap between worth and reward, translators come somewhere near nurses and street - cleaners.A51342

B14523

C51324

D43512

Question 4

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph 1. Passivity is not, of course, universal. 2. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well be different. 3. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive. 4. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another. 5. This depends on an assessment of the political situation.A25413

B34125

C54213

D12345

Question 5

1. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishmans question: Is this a private fight or can anyone join in? 2. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable. 3. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules. 4. However binding the obligation to kill, members or feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.A4123

B1342

C3214

D4213

Question 6

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. To much of the Labour movement, it symbolizes the brutality of the upper classes. 2. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolizes the governments weakness. 3. To foxhuntings supporters, Labours 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it symbolizes the partys metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside. 4. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power. 5. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes, foxhunting symbolizes the ancient roots of rural lives.A45132

B53421

C35142

D42153

Question 7

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. In the case of King Merolchazzars courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles, there occurs a regrettable hitch. 2. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows. 3. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighboring princess; dispatches messengers with gifts to her court, beseeching an interview. 4. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along pretty smoothly. 5. Royal love affairs in olden were conducted on the correspondence method.A13245

B12345

C53412

D53214

Question 8

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. Who can trace to its first beginnings the love of Damon for Pythias, of David for Jonathan, of Swan for Edgar? 2. Similarly with men. 3. There is about great friendships between man and man a certain inevitability that can only compared with the age old association of ham and eggs. 4. One simply feels that it is one of the things that must be so. 5. No one can say what was the mutual magnetism that brought the deathless partnership of these wholesome and palatable foodstuffs about.A13254

B35421

C13524

D35124

Question 9

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. Events intervened, an in the late 1930s and 1940s, Germany suffered from over-branding. 2. The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism. 3. But reunification and the federal governments move to Berlin have prompted Germany to think again about its image. 4. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas Cook in1855. 5. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself abroad.A13524

B45312

C24153

D42153

Question 10

Directions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 1. The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders. 2. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic separation wall now being built in the West bank by Israel. 3. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals. 4. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometers at a stretch. 5. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall is going up with scarcely a peep from Israels American allies who are going to pay for most of itA23145

B21435

C15432

D53142

Question 1 Explanation:Out of the given options, the first sentence seems to be 5 and 51 forms a mandatory pair as it moves from the general 'India' to specific 'regional variations' . 42 is the second mandatory pair with 'office' being mentioned in 4 and then 2 starting with the 'office'. Hence, option C is the right choiceQuestion 3 Explanation:Here, statement 5 is the opening sentence. 2 with 'but' is the point of inflexion and 4 ends the paragraph on an optimistic note.Question 4 Explanation:Between the options, the best option for the opening sentence seems to be 1 and 2. Again the option with 2 as the first sentence does not flow logically. 1-2 is a better sequence as it moves from general to specific. This makes choice D as the right answer.Question 5 Explanation:Here, 23 is a mandatory pair with 'calculable' and 'only controlled applications'. Option A is the right choiceQuestion 6 Explanation:4 is the general sentence. 5 and 1 form a mandatory pair because the 'it' mentioned in sentence 1 talks about the 'fox hunting' mentioned in sentence 5. Option A is the right choiceQuestion 7 Explanation:Here, 32 is a mandatory pair. However, looking closely reveals that the 'she' of 2 and the princess of 4 are two different entities. The monarch and the princess of 3 are general. Then, 'she' of 2 is the princess of 1. Therefore, 53, 34 and 41 are mandatory pairs. Option C is the right choiceQuestion 8 Explanation:35 is a mandatory pair as can be seen by the line 'these.....food stuffs' of 5. however, this still leaves us with three answer choices. 2 should follow 5as can be seen by the word 'similarly'. Hence, option C is the right choiceQuestion 10 Explanation:Here, 14 is clearly a mandatory pair as 4 talks about the extra closures. Also 'this....,wall' of 5 should follow from 1,4 and 3. Option B is the right choiceQ2 ANS 4Q9 ANS 2