ENGLISH TEST

ORDERING OF SENTENCES S: It was only a step further that he made a

Directions: In this section, each item consists rude weapon by fastening a stone to the end
of six sentences of a passage. The first and of a stick.
sixth sentences are marked as Sl and S6. The
middle four sentences in each have been The proper sequence should be
jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. This A. PQRS
is followed by four options each suggesting a B. QRSP
sequence of the sentences. Identify the most C. SPRQ
appropriate option. D. SRQP

1. S1: A reporter is someone who gathers and 3. S1: The detective walked into the dark
writes news room alone.
S6: The reporter and the editor are both S6: He carefully picked up the gun making
called newsmen. sure not to smudge the fingerprints.

P: An editor is someone who prepares all the P: It was later that he found the gun lying
news for printing in the newspaper. under a chair.
Q: First he felt for the switch and turned on
Q: A reporter cannot do a good job unless he the light.
has a good understanding of the R: The furniture was smashed and the
requirements of the editor of his newspaper. curtains torn.
S: At once he saw the disorder and confusion
R: The editor decides how important each in the room.
news story is and where it should be placed.
The proper sequence should be
S: Many editors are former reporters. A. SQPR
B. PQRS
The proper sequence should be C. QSRP
A. QPRS D. RPSQ
B. QRSP
C. PRQS 4. S1: Last night I was very tired and dropped
D. RSPQ off to sleep.
S6: A goat was chewing up my rose plants.
2. S1: Of man's earliest inventions we know
very little. P: I thought I heard somebody move outside.
S6: Once man had fire, he was the master of Q: All of a sudden, a slight noise disturbed
all lower creatures. my sleep.
R: I got out of bed quietly and peeped out of
P: Man used stick and stone long before he the window.
dared to middle with fire. S: I was frightened.
Q: The first was to use a stone to crack a nut
R: The next was the use of a stick to strike an The proper sequence should be
enemy. A. QPRS
B. QSPR
C. SPQR
D. RSPQ S6: He clasped his hands, he was so gratified
that he could scarcely speak.
5. S1: The parents of Bose wanted him to
become an ICS Officer. P: Therefore she visited this shop once again.
S6: His resignation showed that his country's Q: It was a shop she always liked to visit.
freedom was more important to him than his R: He beamed whenever she came in.
personal ambitions. S: And the man who kept it was very fond of
serving her.
P: But his heart was not for government The proper sequence should be
service.
Q: He studied zealously and got through the A. PSQR
ICS examination in the fourth rank. B. PRQS
R: Soon he resigned from the ICS to the C. QPSR
bewilderment of all. D. QSPR
S: Very much against his will, he was sent to
England. 8. S1: My friend Todd owes me a dollar.
S6: I see that I shall never get it back.
The proper sequence should be
A. QRPS P: Whenever, I meet him, he does not show
B. RPSQ any indication that he owes me a dollar.
C. SQPR Q: My dollar has gone out of his mind.
D. PSQR R: Thus, he meets me in the same frank
friendly way as always.
6. S1: The train was running fast and the next S: He has owed it to me for twelve Months,
station was nearly an hour ahead. and I fear there is little prospect of his ever
S6: She bought four cups of ice-cream and all returning it.
of them became busy with eating.
The proper sequence should be
P: The children were. Pestering their aunt A. RSPQ
with embarrassing questions. B. SPRQ
Q: The occupants of the first carriage among C. SQPR
others were a tall girl, a little girl and a little D. RQSP
boy.
R: Luckily an ice-cream vendor came to the 9. The lions used to be widely distributed in
rescue of the aunt. Africa and Asia.
S: Their aunt was occupying a corner seat. S6: No hunting is permitted in such reserved
areas.
The proper sequence should be
P: There are special forest zones set aside for
A. PQRS wildlife in various countries.
B. RPQS Q: Indiscriminate killing by hunters has been
C. QSPR the cause of this drastic fall in their numbers.
D. SRQP R: Today they are a relatively rare species.
S: If the species survives at all, it will be only
7. S1: One winter afternoon, she had been in national parks.
buying something in a little antique shop in
Curzon street. The proper sequence should be
A. RSQP
B. RQSP Q :Polymers are essentially a long
C. SQRP chains of hydrocarbon molecules.
D. SRPQ R :Today polymers as strong as
metals have been developed.
10. S1 : The woman who lives a normal life is S :These have replaced the
able to check the swelling conceit and traditional chromium-plated
egotism of her menfolk simply because her metallic bumpers in cars.
outlook is so different.
S6: Many Indian Institutes of science and
S6: And both ranges of interest make her Technology run special programmes on
what only fools deny her to be namely, polymer science.
essentially practical, her eye is steadily fixed A. QRSP
on the concrete thing and she mistrusts that B. RPQS
chasing of the wild goose, which is on C. RQPS
the chief pastimes and delights of man. D. PSRQ

P: She is primarily concerned with little 12. S1: Since the sixties there has
ordinary things, the minutiae of talk and been an increasing interest in
behaviour e.g. on the one hand and with neurophysiology, which deals with
very big ones, the colossal elementary facts the neural bases of mental activity
of life, such as birth, mating and death on and behaviour.
the other. P: It has format which is very similar
to that of Brain and Language, a
Q: The first are personal and particular, sister journal.
whereas the second, those enormous facts Q :Since then, a number of journals
about life which women are never allowed to devoted entirely to this area of
lose sight of, are, of course, universal, research have appeared.
meaning just as much in the Fiji Islands as R :Before the 1960's when this field
they do here was the concern of a small number
of investigators, research articles were
R : Her interests are at once narrower and scattered in various neurological journals.
wider than those of men. S :Brain and cognition is one such journal.
S : It is more personal and yet more
impersonal. S6: So far the journal has published
the mixture of articles including
The proper sequence should be reports and investigations.
A. PQSR A. RQSP
B. PRSQ B. QRSP
C. SPQR C. QSPR
D. SRPQ D. RSPQ

11. S1: Metals are today being 13.S1: Our ancestors thought that
replaced by polymers in many anything which moved itself was
applications. alive.
P :The philosopher Descartes thought that
P :Above all, they are cheaper and both men and animals were machines.
easier to process making them a Q :But a machine such as a motorcar
viable alternative to metals. or a steamship moves itself, as
soon as machines which moved P :But they succeed in playing games of
themselves had been made, people chess.
asked "Is man a machine?" Q :Some patients, for example fail to
R :And before the days of machinery find the names of objects presented
that was a good definition. to them.
S :He also thought that the human R :They can even use the concepts
machine was partly controlled by needed for chess playing, though
the soul action on a certain part of they are unable to express many of
the brain, while animals had no the concepts in ordinary language.
souls. S: They even find it difficult to
S6: Therefore some scientists think interpret long written notices.
that life is just a very complicated
mechanism. S6: How they manage to do this we do not
know.
A. PRSQ A. PSQR
B. RPQS B. RPSQ
C. PSQR C. QSPR
D. RQPS D. SRPQ

14. S1: Moncure Conway devoted his 16.S1: The path of Venus lies inside
life to two great objects freedom of the path of the Earth.
thought, and freedom of the
individual. P :When at its farthest from the
P :They threaten both kinds of Earth, Venus is 160 million away
freedom. Q :With such a wide range between
Q :But something also has been lost. its greatest and least distances it
R :There are now dangers, somewhat is natural that at sometimes Venus
different in form from those of appears much brighter than at
the past ages. others.
S regard to both these objects, R :No other body ever comes so near
something has been gained since the Earth, with the exception of
his time. the Moon and occasional comet or
S6: Unless a vigorous and vigilant asteroid.
public opinion can be aroused in S :When Venus is at its nearest to the
defence of them, there will be much earth it is only 26 million miles away.
less of both a hundred years hence
then there is now. S6:When at its brightest, it is easily
A. PQRS seen with the naked eye in broad
B. QSPR daylight.
C. SQRP A. SRPQ
D. RSPQ B. SQRP
C. PSQR
15. S1: The study of speech D. QPRS
disorders due to brain injury
suggests that patients can think 17. S1: Biogas is a mixture of
without having adequate control over their methane, carbon dioxide and
language. hydrogen with others.
P. Biogas is produced by anaerobic a distance of around 107 km from
degradation of animal wastes (some plant Jaipur.
wastes) in presence of water.
P. The park has historical
Q. Thus, biogas is a non-polluting, monuments and temples.
cleaned and low-cost fuel. Q. These depict the legacy of the
R. Anaerobic degradation means Kings of Alwar.
breakdown of organic matter which R. Both carnivores and herbivores
is done in the absence of oxygen. are found in the place.
S. It is mostly used in rural areas S. The park is bigger than
where ample animal and agricultural Ranthambore National Park.
waste is available.
S6. The Tad Vriksh (palm tree) is
S6. Biogas eliminates the risk of usually found at this place.
health hazards offered by other A. PSQR
fuels. B. QSPR
A. SPQR C. SRPQ
B. QSPR D. RQPS
C. RQSP
D. PRQS 20. S1: The master always says,
"Refuse to be miserable"
18. S1: Great people can direct the masses
with their strong determination and will. P: Before you fall into self-pity and
blame games, remember that
P. Gandhiji introduced the very responsibility comes to only those who feel
powerful concept of 'Satyagraha' responsible.
which was not a new one to India. Q: Challenges are faced by the
Q. He himself took up the strong and courageous, and if life
responsibility of breaking the brings you such opportunities, then
shackles of India. turn failures into success.
R. The ways and method he chose R: Life can be painful, but it need
for that was not violence and not be sorrowful.
harshness. S: If you want to be happy, find
S. Mahatma Gandhi is a perfect occasions to be cheerful.
example of this.
S6: This is the art of right contact in 0
S6. With this, in the days where no life.
media channels and no social
media existed, he could pull millions A. RSPQ
towards a mighty goal. B. SQPR
C. QRSP
A. PQRS D. RQSP
B. RSPQ
C. SQRP ORDERING OF WORDS IN A
D. PRSQ SENTENCE
Directions : Each of the following
19. S1: Sariska National Park is a items in this section consists of a
wildlife sanctuary which is located at sentence, parts of which have been
jumbled. These parts have been 23. P) It is welcome that capital
labelled as P, Q R and S. Given markets regulator Securities and
below each sentence has four Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has
sequences, namely (a), (b), (c) and eased fund- raising norms for listed
(d). You are required to re-arrange companies, amidst the Covid
the jumbled parts of the sentence pandemic and resultant uncertainty.
and mark your response accordingly. Q) The mandatory cooling-off
period of six months between two
21. P) Tesla has updated its panels to QIPs has been reduced to two
be about 10 percent more efficient, weeks.
and has also lowered its prices. R) Further, Sebi has amended its
Q) The company also engineers, takeover code for the financial year
manufactures and installs solar 2020-21, to allow promoters to raise
panels — both the traditional kind and their stakes by up to 10% without
modules that look like ordinary roof triggering an open offer.
tiles. S) It has relaxed norms for qualified
R) And while the latter seems like it institutional placements (QIP), a
could be a path to more mainstream rather popular route to raise fresh
adoption of renewable energy, the capital from institutional investors.
former is still the go-to solution for A. PQSR
the solar industry. B. PSQR
S) Tesla doesn't just make cars. C. SQRP
A. PQSR D. SRQP
B. PSQR
C. SQRP 24. P) As a child, you may have paid
D. SPQR little attention to your father's
financial hardships.
22. P) The team of researchers in Q) You may also be unaware about
Nottingham refined the equation how your father intends to sustain
using new data and assumptions. himself through his non-working
Q) They found that there are likely years.
between four and 211 civilizations R) These are some of the conversations you
capable of communicating with need to have with your father to ascertain his
others, with 36 the most likely financial security needed to lead his golden
number. years with dignity.
R) Our current technology makes it S) Does he have a pension plan? Has
nearly impossible to detect or he invested adequately? Does he
communicate with possible alien have health coverage?
life.
S) Finding these civilizations is A. PQSR
another issue entirely scientists said B. PSQR
they would be thousands of light C. SQRP
years away. D. RSQP
A. PQSR
B. PSQR 25. P) I became a father on April 21,
C. SQRP 2012, when my son, Fox, was born.
D. RQSP Q) Being a father is wonderful, and
easily the most important aspect
of my life. prescribed format
R) So, in a way, being a father S) from Indian Nationals for
prepared me for the current Deployment
situation we're in. A. QPRS
S) You quickly leam the importance B. SRPQ
of fluidity. C. PQRS
D. RSQP
A. PQSR
B. PSQR 29. P) has been below normal since
C. SQRP last week
D. SRQP Q) the minimum temperature
R) in some part of the city
26. P) The number of seats available S) when rain and hailstorm activity
on a train is limited and due to the recorded
large gap between demand and A. RSPQ
supply, ticketing is instrumental in B. SPRQ
achieving the objective of C. QPSR
decongestion when limited services D. PSQR
are available for such a large
population. 30. P) a hailstorm activity in the
Q) We are a country of 130 crore evenings
with people across the social strata Q) there is a possibility of
moving between states and cities. R) while there could be
R) One of the major reasons behind S) heavy rain towards the weekend
the idea is to regulate the flow of A. SQPR
people who are availing the service. B. QSRP
S) We need to first understand the C. QRPS
underlying purpose of ticketing. D. SPRQ
A. PQSR
B. RQSP FILL IN THE BLANK
C. QPRS
D. SRQP
Directions:
27. P) the company are often asked Each of the following sentences in this
Q) the formal or informal interviews section has a blank space and four words
R) employees who are leaving or group of words given after the
S) for their opinions during sentence. Select the word or group of
words you consider most appropriate for
A. RPSQ the blank space and indicate your
B. RQPS
response on the Answer Sheet
C. PSQR
accordingly.
D. PQSR

28. P) for contractual assignment at 31. in the face of the overwhelming mass
Cultural Centres abroad evidence against him, we cannot … him
Q) as Teacher of Indian Culture for of the crime.
two years
R) applications are invited in a (a) punish