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Held on 14 February, 2016
S6 :The test of how much you
know is : how much can you
say without having to think
how you are going to say it?
P : What is often meant by thinking in a language is really the
ability to use it without thinking
about it.
Q : We grown-up people have to filter it through our minds - a
much more laborious process.
R : That is why children learn a new
language so effortlessly: it
comes straight from their
instincts.
S : But we cannot say that we know
a language, or know what we
have studied of it, until we can
use it instinctively.
The proper sequence should be
(a) SQRP
(b) RPSQ
(c) PQSR
(d) RQSP
Answer: (d)
3. S1:For seventeen years she led
a sheltered life in the convent.
S6 :Two years later she left the
Loreto Convent where she
had spent many happy and
useful years.
P : Her heart went out to the people living there.
Q : In 1946 she asked for permission to work in the slums.
R : Then one day, while she was
returning from an errand, she
saw the slums of Calcutta.
S : She felt she had found her second vocation, her real calling.
The proper sequence should be
(a) P R S Q
(b) R P S Q
(c) R P Q S
(d) Q R P S

ORDERING OF SENTENCES
Directions for the following 10
(ten) items :
In the following items each passage
consists of six sentences. The first and
the sixth sentence are given in the
beginning as S1 and S6. The middle
four sentences in each have been
removed and jumbled up. These are
labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required
to find out the proper sequence of the
four sentences and mark your response
accordingly on the Answer Sheet.
1. S1:Once upon a time there was
a king who had a wonderfully nice garden.
S6: In the trees lived a nightingale that sang so sweetly
that all who passed by stood
still and listened.
P : In the middle of the garden
there was a lovely forest with
tall trees and deep lakes.
Q : In this garden were to be seen
the most wonderful flowers with
silver bells tied to them.
R : The garden was so large that
even the gardener himself did
not know where it began and
where it ended.
S : These bells always sounded so
that nobody should pass by
without noticing the flowers.
The proper sequence should be
(a) QPRS
(b) SPQR
(c) QSRP
(d) QPSR
Answer: (c)
2. S1:One of the first things the
learning of a new language
teaches you is that language
comes from the region of the
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S : From that time to this, civilization has always been changing.
The proper sequence should be
(a) Q R S P
(b) Q P S R
(c) Q S R P
(d) P R S Q
Answer: (a)
6. S1:In our youth we are apt to
think that applause and publicity constitute success.
S6 :So let us be initiated into the
mysteries of maturity and be
taught how to resist and
spum the lure of hollow
shows.
P : The man who values the
applause more than his own
effort has not outgrown his
youth.
Q : It is our achievement or work
which wins lasting rewards.
R : But these are only the trappings, the ephemeral illusions.
S : One should concentrate on ones
work knowing that applause will
come unsought.
The proper sequence should be
(a) S R Q P
(b) P S R Q
(c) Q P S R
(d) R Q P S
Answer: (d)
7. S1:My office sent an urgent
email asking me to return.
S6 : It was evening before I
could sit and write to my
parents that I would be joining them soon.
P : I immediately replied requesting
a few days of grace as I had to
book the return passage, pack
and attend sundry matters
before winding up my establishment here.
Q : On the way, I went to the laundry and made sure I would get
my clothes in time.
R : Then I rushed to the bank, collected all my money and made
reservations for my return journey.

Answer: (c)
4. S1:Good memory is so common
that we regard a man who
does not possess it as eccentric.
S6 :She wheeled away the perambulator, picturing to herself his terror when he
would come out and find the
baby gone.
P : I have heard of a father who,
having offered to take the baby
out in a perambulator, was
tempted by the sunny morning
to pause on his journey and slip
into a public house for a glass of
beer.
Q : A little later, his wife had to do
some shopping which took her
past the public house where to
her horror, she discovered her
sleeping baby.
R : Leaving the perambulator outside, he disappeared into the
drink shop.
S : Indignant at her husbands
behaviour, she decided to teach
him a lesson.
The proper sequence should be
(a) P Q R S
(b) P R Q S
(c) P S Q R
(d) P Q S R
Answer: (b)
5. S1:Human ways of life have
steadily changed.
S6 :Even if we try to do nothing,
we cannot prevent change.
P : Ancient Egypt - Greece the
Roman Empire the Dark Ages
and the Middle Ages - the
Renaissance the age of modern science and of modem
nations one has succeeded the
other; the history has never
stood still.
Q : About ten thousand years ago,
man lived entirely by hunting.
R : A settled civilized life only began
when agriculture was discovered.
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