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Ordering of Sentences problems


  • 1. 
    S1: Venice is a strange and beautiful city in the north of Italy.
    P : There are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the island of Venice.
    Q : In this city there are no motor cars, no horses, no buses.
    R : These small islands are near one another.
    S : It is not an island but a hundred and seventeen islands.
    S6: This is because Venice has no streets.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. PQRS
  • B. PRQS
  • C. SRPQ
  • D. PQSR
  • Discuss
  • 2. 
    S1: The Hound of Baskervilles was feared by the people of the area.
    P : Some people spoke of seeing a huge, shadowy form a Hound at midnight on the moor.
    Q : But they spoke of it in tones of horror.
    R : Nobody had actually seen the hound.
    S : This shadowy form did not reveal any details about the animal.
    S6: The Hound of Baskervilles remains an unsolved mystery.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. SPQR
  • B. SPRQ
  • C. PSRQ
  • D. PQRS
  • Discuss
  • 3. 
    S1: A gentleman who lived alone always had two plates placed on the table at dinner time.
    P : One day just as he sat down to dine, the cat rushed in to the room.
    Q : One plate was for himself and other was for his cat.
    R : she drooped a mouse into her own plate and another into her master plate.
    S : He used to give the cat a piece of meat from his own plate.
    S6: In this way the cat showed her gratitude to her master.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. QSPR
  • B. PSRQ
  • C. QRSP
  • D. RPQS
  • Discuss
  • 4. 
    S1: Ants eat worms, centipedes and spiders.
    P : They are usually much quicker than the ant itself.
    Q : Nevertheless, these animals do not make easy game for ants.
    R : Besides, they have an extraordinary number of ways of escaping.
    S : They also eat larvae and insect adults such as flies, moths and spring tails.
    S6: Some jump, and some give out a pungent repellent substance.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. SQPR
  • B. SPRQ
  • C. SQRP
  • D. SRQP
  • Discuss
  • 5. 
    S1: Satyajit Ray made several films for children.
    P : Later film makers have followed his lead.
    Q : Today other nations are making the children's film in a big way.
    R : This was at a time when no director considered children as potential audience.
    S : Ray was, thus, a pioneer in the field.
    S6: But today few think of Ray as a maker of children's films.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. PSRQ
  • B. RSQP
  • C. RSPQ
  • D. SQRP
  • Discuss
  • 6. 
    S1: Hungary, with a population of about 10 million, lies between Czechoslovakia to the north and Yugoslavia to the south.
    P : Here a great deal of grain is grown.
    Q : In recent years, however, progress has been made also in the field of industrialisation.
    R : Most of this country consists of an extremely fertile plain, through which the river Danube flows.
    S : In addition to grain, the plain produces potatoes, sugar, wine and livestock.
    S6: The new industries derive mainly from agricultural production.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. QRSP
  • B. RPSQ
  • C. PRSQ
  • D. RQSP
  • Discuss
  • 7. 
    S1: Palaeobotany is the study of fossil plants preserved in rocks dating back in millions of years.
    P : Records of the history of the world are contained in fossils.
    Q : Through the ages, plants have evolved from simple to more complex forms.
    R : First there were water plants then land plants appeared during the Paleozoic era.
    S : But since the fossil remains appear locked in rock layers, they are closely related to the geologist area of investigation.
    S6: The fossil plants indicate the age of the rock, and also point to facts regarding climate, temperature and topography.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. RQSP
  • B. SQRP
  • C. PSQR
  • D. QRPS
  • Discuss
  • 8. 
    S1: On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street cafe.
    P : At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me, a single gold tooth and a dingy fez.
    Q : soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me.
    R : But this one wouldn't budge.
    S : We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them.
    S6: Finally a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy this guy is your waiter and he wants your order"
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. SQRP
  • B. SQPR
  • C. QSRP
  • D. QSPR
  • Discuss
  • 9. 
    S1: And then Gandhi came.
    P : Get off the backs of these peasants and workers, he told us, all you who live by their exploitation.
    Q : He was like a powerful current of fresh air, like a beam of light, like a whirlwind that upset many things.
    R : He spoke their language and constantly dre their attention to their appalling conditions.
    S : He didn't descent from the top, he seemed to emerge from the masses of India.
    S6: Political freedom took new shape and then acquired a new content.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. QSRP
  • B. SRQP
  • C. RSQP
  • D. PRSQ
  • Discuss
  • 10. 
    S1: Biological evolution has not fitted man to any specific environment.
    P : It is by no means a biological evolution, but it is a cultural one.
    Q : His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, makes it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change.
    R : And that series of inventions by which man from age by age has reshaped his environment is a different kind of evolution.
    S : Among the multitude of animals which scamper, burrow swim around us he is in the only one who is not locked in to his environment.
    S6: That brilliant sequence of cultural peaks can most appropriately be termed the ascent of man.
    The Proper sequence should be:

  • Options
  • A. QPRS
  • B. SRQP
  • C. QRSP
  • D. SQRP
  • Discuss

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