07-08-2021 Answers

 1. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph

1) Merchants soon grew rich as the demand for products increased.

2) Trade started from person to person but grew to involve different towns in different lands.

3) Eventually, people got a greater variety of things to choose from.

4) People found work in transporting the goods or selling them.

Answer: 2413

2. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph

Dear Lodger, I agree, the roof is leaking, but

(P) there would be no need

(Q) while it is raining

(R) and when the sun shines,

(S) I can't get it repaired

Answer: SQRP

3. Re-arrange the following sentences to form a logical paragraph.

A. The celebrations of economic recovery in Washington may be as premature as that "Mission Accomplished" banner hung behind Bush on the USS Abraham Lincoln to hail the end of major combat in Iraq.

B. Meanwhile, in the real world, the struggles of families and communities continue unabated.

C. Washington responded to the favorable turn in economic news with enthusiasm.

D. The high-fives up and down Pennsylvania Avenue are not to be found beyond the Beltway.

E. When the third quarter GDP showed growth of 7.2% and the monthly unemployment rate dipped to 6%, euphoria gripped the US capital.

Answer: CEBDA

4. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph

1) Sony has been valued at around Rs. 800 crore.

2) IBM is a leading consultancy firm.

3) This valuation has been done by IBM.

4) They have relied on the excess value approach.

Answer: 1324

5. Re-arrange the following sentences to form a logical paragraph.

A. This fact was established in the 1730s by French survey expeditions to Equador near the Equator and Lapland in the Arctic, which found that around the middle of the earth the arc was about a kilometer shorter.

B. One of the unsettled scientific questions in the late 18th century was the exact nature of the shape of the earth.

C. The length of one-degree arc would be less near the equatorial latitudes than at the poles.

D. One way of doing that is to determine the length of the arc along a chosen longitude or meridian at one-degree latitude separation.

E. While it was generally known that the earth was not a sphere but an ‘oblate spheroid’, more curved at the equator and flatter at the poles, the question of "how much more" was yet to be established.

Answer: BEDCA

6. Re-arrange the following sentences to form a logical paragraph.

A. "This face off will continue for several months given the strong convictions on either side", says a senior functionary of the high-powered task force on drought.

B. During the past week-and-half, the Central Government has sought to deny some of the earlier apprehensions over the impact of drought.

C. The recent revival of the rains had led to the emergence of a line of divide between the two.

D. The state governments, on the other hand, allege that the Centre is downplaying the crisis only to evade its full responsibility of financial assistance that is required to alleviate the damage.

E. Shrill alarm about the economic impact of an inadequate monsoon had been sounded by the Centre as well as most of the states, in late July and early August.

Answer: ECBDA

7. Re-arrange the following sentences to form a logical paragraph.

A. Luckily the tide of battle moved elsewhere after the American victory at Midway and an Australian victory

over Japan at Milne Bay.

B. It could have been no more than a delaying tactic.

C. The Australian military, knowing the position was hopeless, planned to fall back to the south-east in the hope

of defending the main cities.

D. They had captured most of the Solomon Islands and much of New Guinea, and seemed poised for an invasion.

E. Not many people outside Australia realize how close the Japanese got.

Answer: EDCBA

8. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph

1) Otherwise the Congress would not have opposed PSU disinvestment today.

2) It is clear that there is no consensus on economic reform.

3) Nor would allies of ruling NDA oppose privatisation.

4) All this would stop India from becoming the next superpower.

Answer: 2134

9. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph

1) Dr.Ramesh's personality sets him apart from the rest.

2) Nothing is too small for his attention.

3) He has a fanatical devotion to detail.

4) This is what makes him a different guy.

Answer: 1324

10. Re-arrange the following sentences to form a logical paragraph.

A. The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders.

B. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic "separation wall" now being built in the West Bank by

Israel.

C. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals.

D. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometers at a stretch.

E. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall is going up with scarcely a

peep from Israel's American allies who are going to pay for most of it.

Answer: BADCE

11. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph

(1) Fair play demands that

(P) which may tend to give a poor impression

(Q) before any comments are made

(R) the person concerned should be asked

(S) about a person

(6) to give his side of the story

Answer: QPSR

12. Re-arrange the following sentences to form a logical paragraph.

A. Having a strategy is a matter of discipline.

B. It involves the configuration of a tailored value chain that enables a company to offer unique value.

C. It requires a strong focus on profitability and a willingness to make tough trade offs in choosing what not to do.

D. Strategy goes far beyond the pursuit of best practices.

E. A company must stay the course even during times of upheaval while constantly improving and extending its distinctive positioning.

F. When a company's activities fit together as a self-reinforcing system, any competitor wishing to imitate a strategy must replicate the whole system.

Answer: ACEDBF

13. Re-arrange the following sentences to form a logical paragraph.

A. Call it the third wave sweeping the Indian media.

B. Now, they are starring in a new role, as suave dealmakers who are in a hurry to strike alliances and

agreements.

C. Look around and you will find a host of deals that have been inked or are ready to be finalized.

D. Then the media barons wrested back control from their editors, and turned marketing warriors with the brand

as their missile.

E. The first came with those magnificent men in their mahogany chambers who took on the world with their

mighty fountain pens.

Answer: AEDBC

14. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph

1) I think even more urgent than privatizing existing state-owned firms is to allow the entry of private firms into sectors earlier reserved for the state.

2) Indian thinking has traditionally been encumbered by a zero-sum view of the economy.

3) In reality, economic life is full of complementarities.

4) A government that facilitated private business was assumed to be working against the interest of the workers and the public sector.

Answer: 2431

15. Choose the correct order of the sentences so that they form a meaningful paragraph

1) His political career came to an abrupt end with China's military operation.

2) He attracted as he repelled.

3) He was responsible for the debacle.

4) A man of paradoxes, Menon remained an enigma.

Answer: 4213