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This section includes 338 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Skills Ability knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 101. |
S1: You live either in a village or a town of India.P: Many villages and towns form a tehsil or a taluka.Q: There are also some areas in our country called Union Territories.R: Many tehsils or talukas form a district and many districts form a State.S: These, together with all the states of our country make India.S6: India is our motherland.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | RQS |
| C. | PRS |
| D. | PQS |
| Answer» C. PRS | |
| 102. |
S1: In a good many cases unnecessary timidity makes the trouble worse than it need be.P: I am not, of course, thinking of extreme forms of defiance.Q: If you show that you are afraid of them, you give promise of good hunting, whereas if you show indifference, they begin to doubt their own power and, therefore, tend to let you alone.R: A dog will bark more loudly and bite more easily when people are afraid of him than when they treat him with contempt, and the human herd has something of this same characteristic.S: Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.S6: If you hold in Delhi the views that are conventional in Delhi, you much accept the consequences.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PRS |
| B. | SPQ |
| C. | RPQ |
| D. | RQP |
| Answer» C. RPQ | |
| 103. |
S1: There is no transportation system in any city that can compare in efficiency with the circulatory system of the body.P: The larger one goes from the heart to the various other parts of the body.Q: If you imagine two systems of pipes, one large and one small, both meeting at a central pumping station, you'll have an idea of the circulatory system.R: These pipes are called arteries, veins and capillaries.S: The smaller system of pipes goes from the heart to the lungs and back.S6: Arteries are blood vessels in which blood is going away from the heart.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QSR |
| B. | SPR |
| C. | SQP |
| D. | PRQ |
| Answer» C. SQP | |
| 104. |
S1: Exercising daily is a must for good health.P: Luckily, there is no link between the amount of money spent and beneficent exercise, else the poor would have creaking bodies for ever.Q: While some cost you nothing, others may require the investment of some amount of money.R: However, it is important to remember that exercises should not be overdone.S: It can take any form from sedentary ones like walking to vigorous work - outs like a game of squash.S6: The key word, always, is moderation.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QSR |
| B. | PRS |
| C. | SQP |
| D. | QPR |
| Answer» B. PRS | |
| 105. |
S1: Urban problem differ from State to State and city to city.P: Most of the cities have neither water nor the required pipelines.Q: The population in these cities has grown beyond the planners imagination.R: However, certain basic problems are common to all cities.S: Only broad macro - planning done for such cities, without envisaging the future growth, and this has failed to meet the requirements.S6: There is no underground drainage system in most cities, and the narrow historical roads are already congested.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QSR |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | QPS |
| D. | SQP |
| Answer» E. | |
| 106. |
S1: The right way to get people do things the way you want is not to compel them, drive them or for that matter even beg them or entreat them.P: The sure way to antagonise an individual is to give him the impression that you are out to force or compel him to do something.Q: The correct way is, therefore, to arouse a want in them and make them do, whatever you want them to do willingly, happily and eagerly.R: It is the most difficult thing in the world to make an individual do anything against his will.S: Even young, innocent children resent being made to do things.S6: The secret of motivation, therefore, lies in your ability to arouse the right kind of want or thirst in the other people.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RQS |
| B. | SPR |
| C. | PSQ |
| D. | RQP |
| Answer» D. RQP | |
| 107. |
S1: Religion is not a matter of mere dogmatic conformity.P: It is not merely going through the ritual prescribed to us.Q: It is not a question of ceremonial piety.R: Unless that kind of transformation occurs, you are not an authentically religious man.S: It is the remaking of your own self, the transformation of your nature.S6: A man of that character is free from fear, free from hatred.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQ |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | PQR |
| D. | PRQ |
| Answer» C. PQR | |
| 108. |
S1: India's non-alignment has not been an attitude of negative neutrality.P: In other words, it is not an aloofness from or indifference to other nations.Q: Instead, it has been an attitude of constructive neutrality.R: On the contrary, India has been taking a keen interest in all international developments.S: India wants the goodwill of all nations and is hostile towards none.S6: This policy has been accepted, if not actually appreciated by the leading powers of the world.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQ |
| B. | PRS |
| C. | RPS |
| D. | QRP |
| Answer» C. RPS | |
| 109. |
S1: Several sub-cities have been planned around the capital.P: Dwarka is the first among them.Q: They are expected to alleviate the problem of housing.R: It is coming up in the south-west of the capital.S: It will cater to one million people when completed.S6: Hopefully the housing problem will not be as cute as at present after these sub-cities are built.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | RSQ |
| C. | PRS |
| D. | RSP |
| Answer» D. RSP | |
| 110. |
S1: Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation, and the world perhaps from their writings.P: Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn.Q: Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree.R: But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university.S: A place of learning without this could scarcely be calleduniversity.S6: There classes of persons, then, go to compose a university as we know it - the scholar, the scholar who is also a teacher, and those who come to be taught, the undergraduate.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PSR |
| B. | QSP |
| C. | PRQ |
| D. | RPQ |
| Answer» B. QSP | |
| 111. |
S1: The press enables us to know about the world and happenings around us.P: It governs the current ideas in the country and controls the course of events.Q: There is no doubt that the newspaper is the only teacher of the common man.R: It is indeed the mouthpiece of the people.S: It is feared that in the absence of the press, government would be less responsible, the judge less honest and civil servant lees efficient.S6: While moulding it mends and mending it moulds the public opinion.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | SQP |
| D. | RPQ |
| Answer» B. PSR | |
| 112. |
S1: It is regrettable that there is widespread corruption in the country at all levels.P: So there is hardly anything that the government can do about it.Q: And there are graft and other malpractices too.R: The impression that corruption is a universal phenomenon persists and the people do not cooperate in checking this evil.S: Recently several offenders were brought to book, but they were not given deterrent punishment.S6: This is indeed a tragedy of great magnitude.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QSR |
| B. | SRP |
| C. | SQP |
| D. | QRP |
| Answer» C. SQP | |
| 113. |
S1: Plastic containers are being used more and more to package soft drinks, milk, oil, fruit juices, ketchup, etc.P: Most people think that this is the right thing to do, as it is economical.Q: Plastic containers are cheap and light.R: It is easier to transport materials packaged in them than in glass bottles.S: They also involve the least transport costs.S6: Yet as plastics do not decompose by bacteria or naturally in the air, they are a big threat to the environment.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | QSR |
| C. | RSP |
| D. | SPR |
| Answer» C. RSP | |
| 114. |
S1: Progress and success are attained in slow degrees.P: But slow progress makes us grow impatient, disheartened and discouraged.Q: The general tendency is to find fault with the system.R: It is for this reason that people condemn and criticise the government.S: People expect miracles and nothing short of a magical transformation can convince them.S6: However, we must realise the truth that perfection is attained in slow proportions to the amount of labour put in by us.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SQR |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | SPQ |
| D. | QRP |
| Answer» B. PSR | |
| 115. |
S1: He took two cigarettes from my case.P: But when the fit of coughing was over, he replaced it between his lips.Q: He lit one of them and placed it between the lips.R: Then with a feeble hand he removed the cigarette.S: Slowly he took a pull at it and coughed violently.S6: Then he continued to draw on it.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SQR |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | SRP |
| D. | RPQ |
| Answer» D. RPQ | |
| 116. |
S1: Much of our adult behaviour and our attitudes are determined by our upbringing.P: But the process does not stop here.Q: In particular by the effects of that small part of society which is our family.R: As we grow we are constantly and increasingly affected by new forces such as the social pressure of our friends and the larger world of society.S: The family and our early life have profound effect on our later life.S6: Psychologists have studied these forces in depth.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RSQ |
| B. | SPR |
| C. | PSR |
| D. | RPQ |
| Answer» C. PSR | |
| 117. |
S1: Production of coins starts with the buying of unmixed metals and their testing by the Assay Department.P: These ingots are reheated until the temperature is hot enough for hot rolling.Q: During this stage, the ingots pass through a series of rollers until they form long, thin sheets which are the thickness of a coin.R: From these thin strips, blank discs are punched.S: Then the metals are alloyed in oil - fired or electric arc furnaces, and cast into ingots 40 cm wide, 15 cm thick and 6 m long.S6: The blanks are heated to soften them, then rolled so that the rim is raised and are stamped with the design of the coin.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RSQ |
| B. | SQR |
| C. | PQR |
| D. | QRP |
| Answer» D. QRP | |
| 118. |
S1: Widowhood in India used to be specially miserable.P: There were widows even in ages ranging from five to ten.Q: A widow was a widow always.R: However, several communities began to rebel against the ill-treatment of widows.S: She could not marry again however tender in age she might be.S6: Today nobody looks upon remarriage of widows with disgust or disapproval.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RSQ |
| B. | SPR |
| C. | SQP |
| D. | PQR |
| Answer» C. SQP | |
| 119. |
S1: American private lives may seem shallow.P: Students would walk away with books they had not paid for.Q: A Chinese journalist commented on a curious institution: the library.R: Their public morality, however, impressed visitors.S: But in general they returned them.S6: This would not happen in China, he said.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SQR |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | PSQ |
| D. | QPS |
| Answer» E. | |
| 120. |
S1: A certain young man was entrusted to the care of a teacher.P: This dullard will come to grief if I send him away without a single lesson, thought the teacher.Q: He was so dull of mind that he could not, even in three months, time, learn as much as a single lesson.R: The young man came to ask the teacher's permission to go home.S: It's my business to provide agood education to my pupils, to get on in life.S6: The teacher asked him to wait.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQ |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | QPS |
| D. | RQP |
| Answer» C. QPS | |
| 121. |
S1: The fifty seven storey Wool-worth Tower is in New York.P: Soon it became one of the famous buildings in the world.Q: It was completed in 1912.R: Americans took pride in this tall skyscraper.S: However, it was not long before five other buildings topped the Woolworth Tower.S6: A new champion is the Empire State Building which rises 102 storeys into the sky.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | PRS |
| C. | RSP |
| D. | PQS |
| Answer» C. RSP | |
| 122. |
S1: Just as some men like to play football or tennis, so some men like to climb mountains.P: This is often very difficult to do, for mountains are not just big hills.Q: Paths are usually very steep, and some mountain sides are straight up and down, so that it may take many hours to climb as little as one hundred feet.R: There is always the danger that you may fall off and be killed or injured.S: Men talk about conquering a mountain, and the wonderful feeling it is to reach the top of a mountain after climbing for hours and may be, even for days.S6: You look down and see the whole country below you.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | QPS |
| D. | RQP |
| Answer» B. PSR | |
| 123. |
S1: Governments are instituted among men to secure their certain inalienable rights.P: Accordingly, men are more disposed to suffer than to right themselves by abolishing the forms of governments to which they are accustomed.Q: But prudence will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.R: They derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and therefore, can also be changed by them.S: But whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these rights of the people, it is their duty to throw off such a government.S6: Such was the necessity which constrained the united colonies of America to give up their allegiance to the British Crown and declare themselves free and independent states.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RSQ |
| B. | RPS |
| C. | QPS |
| D. | RQP |
| Answer» D. RQP | |
| 124. |
S1: Useful human beings are divided into two classes : those whose work is work and pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.P: The long hours in the office or factory give them keen appetite for pleasure even in its most modest forms.Q: Their life is a natural harmony.R: Of these the former are in majority.S: But fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.S6: For them the working hours are never long enough.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SQR |
| B. | PRS |
| C. | PSQ |
| D. | QPR |
| Answer» D. QPR | |
| 125. |
S1: In ancient Indian history the city of Ujjain was quite famous.P: Here lived at one time the poet Kalidasa.Q: He was a famous learned astronomer.R: And here also worked and visited Rajah Jaysingh of Jaipur.S: It was always renowned as a seat of learning.S6: So one can see what a great love all who care for India must feel for the ancientry of Ujjain.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQ |
| B. | SRP |
| C. | PRQ |
| D. | RPQ |
| Answer» D. RPQ | |
| 126. |
S1: I never took payment for speaking.P: The Sunday Society would then assure me that on these terms I might lecture on anything I liked and how I liked.Q: It often happened that provincial Sunday societies offered me the usual ten genuine fee to give the usual sort of lecture, avoiding controversial politics and religion.R: Occasionally to avoid embarrassing other lecturers who lived by lecturing, the account was settled by a debit and credit entry, that is, I was credited with the usual fee and expenses and gave it back as a donation to the society.S: I always replied that I never lectured on anything but very controversial politics and religion and that my fee was the price of my railway ticket third class if the place was farther off than I could afford to go at my own expense.S6: In this way I secured perfect freedom of speech, and was warmed against the accusation of being a professional agitator.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SPR |
| B. | SRP |
| C. | QPR |
| D. | QRP |
| Answer» C. QPR | |
| 127. |
S1: At the age of four, Jagadish Chandra Bose was sent to a village 'pathshala'.P: This step proved beneficial to the boy, for he thus became familiar with his mother tongue and learnt to read and write it.Q: This was very unusual because a man of his father's status was expected to send his son to an English school.R: He also became acquainted with some people of the rich treasures of Indian culture.S: At the same time he mixed with children of all castes and lost the sense of class superiority.S6: His mother, too, reinforced what he learnt and did at school.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQ |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | SQP |
| D. | QRP |
| Answer» C. SQP | |
| 128. |
S1: Machines have parts made of iron.P: They must be painted or chrome plated.Q: Some parts rub against each other.R: Iron gets rusted.S: They must be lubricated with oil or grease.S6: When the machine is not in use, it should be covered.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RQS |
| B. | RPS |
| C. | SRP |
| D. | PQS |
| Answer» E. | |
| 129. |
S1: The future beckons to us.P: In fact we have hard work ahead.Q: Where do we go and what shall be our endeavour?R: We shall also have to fight and end poverty, ignorance and disease.S: It will be to bring freedom and opportunity to the common man.S6: There is no resting for anyone of us till we redeem our pledge in full.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQ |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | SRP |
| D. | RPQ |
| Answer» D. RPQ | |
| 130. |
S1: The real cause for the rise and fall of the sea level was not known to men for a long time.P: They found out that the Moon is a satellite and it travels a regular path around the Earth.Q: As time passed and knowledge increased, men began to learn more about the heaven and the stars and the planets.R: They noticed that the Moon rose each day about an hour later than it rose the day before and the peak of the high tide also comes about an hour later each day.S: Some imagined that the Earth itself was alive and the rising and falling of the tide was caused by the breathing of the Earth's big body.S6: So they concluded that the Moon and the tide are connected in some way.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RQS |
| B. | PRS |
| C. | QPR |
| D. | RQP |
| Answer» D. RQP | |
| 131. |
S1: The exact cause of migraine is still not known.P: Several factors like digestive disorders and psychological disturbances, have been said to be causative factors.Q: Certain foods like cheese, chocolate or red wine have also been found to trigger off an attack.R: The causative factors are numerous : psychologically, anxiety and frustration play an important part.S: It seems to be hereditary and a majority of sufferers are women.S6: On the other hand physical overexertion, fatigue, irregularities in dietary habits, prolonged eye strain are common precipitating factors.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PRS |
| B. | QPS |
| C. | PQR |
| D. | QPR |
| Answer» D. QPR | |
| 132. |
S1: In the eighteenth century people expected most of their children to die before they were grown up.P: Improvement began at the beginning of the nineteenth century, chiefly owing to vaccination.Q: The general death rate in 1948(10.8) was the lowest ever recorded up to that date.R: In 1920 the infant mortality in England and Wales was 80 per thousand, in 1948 it was 34 per thousand.S: It has continued ever since and is still continuing.S6: There is no obvious limit to the improvement of health that can be brought about by medicine.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQ |
| B. | RPS |
| C. | QPS |
| D. | PQR |
| Answer» B. RPS | |
| 133. |
S1: We don't see many banyan trees in our cities now-a-days.P: But in our overcrowded cities, where there is barely enough living space for people, banyan trees don't have much of a chance.Q: These trees like to have plenty of space in which to spread themselves out.R: Of course, many parks have banyan trees.S: After all, a full grown banyan takes up as large an area as a three-storey apartment building.S6: And every village has at least one.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | SQP |
| D. | RPQ |
| Answer» C. SQP | |
| 134. |
S1: There are divergent theories of education.P: There is still another which holds that education has to be considered rather in relation to community than to the other.Q: Yet again, some believe that a right proportion of all the theories should go into every system.R: The other holds that the purpose of education is to impart culture.S: The first considers that the sole purpose of education is to provide opportunities for growth.S6: No actual education proceeds wholly and completely on any one of the theories.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | QSR |
| C. | RPQ |
| D. | RQP |
| Answer» D. RQP | |
| 135. |
S1: When Weiner was travelling in India, he visited a factory where he saw small frail children sitting on damp ground.P: And the answer he got was that they were weaving carpets there.Q: So he asked,"What are they doing there?"R: And then he decided to study the problems of child labourers in India.S: Weiner was shocked at the plight of the child workers.S6: Recently he has published this book and it is winning him acclaim all over the world.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | PSR |
| C. | PQS |
| D. | PSQ |
| Answer» C. PQS | |
| 136. |
S1: Hungary, with a population of about ten 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: |
| A. | RSQ |
| B. | RSP |
| C. | PSQ |
| D. | QSP |
| Answer» D. QSP | |
| 137. |
S1: After the firing that evening the street that used to be full of people was completely deserted.P: Nor were any windows open or lighted.Q: Suddenly I detected a movement to my left.R: There was no trace of any human being and all doors were firmly closed.S: Surprisingly, even the stray dogs had disappeared.S6: I was so frightened that I ran for my life.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | SQR |
| C. | PSQ |
| D. | SPQ |
| Answer» D. SPQ | |
| 138. |
S1: Those are fortunate people who have good, true and faithful friends.P: It is a scared attachment or a bond of intimacy between two persons of a congenial mind.Q: True friendship increases our happiness in prosperity and diminishes our misery in adversity.R: Friendship often springs from similarity of taste, feelings and sentiments.S: However, true friendship should be based on truth and such vices as selfishness, greed and falsehood should be kept out of it.S6: It must be borne in mind that prosperity breeds and multiplies friends and adversity tests them.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | RPS |
| C. | PQS |
| D. | PRQ |
| Answer» D. PRQ | |
| 139. |
S1: Reena went shopping one morning.P: Disappointed she turned around and returned to the parking lot.Q: She got out and walked to the nearest shop.R: She drove her car into the parking lot and stopped.S: It was there that she realised that she'd forgotten her purse at home.S6: She drove hoe with an empty shopping basket.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | PRS |
| C. | QSP |
| D. | SQP |
| Answer» D. SQP | |
| 140. |
S1: In hunting and gathering societies people live in what anthropologists call "the seasonal round".P: When the salmon are running, it comes to the stream; when the wild grasses must be gathered, the band moves on again.Q: The tribal band is delicately adjusted to nature.R: It circulates through space in the rhythm of the seasons each year.S: It moves through space with the flow of time.S6: The circle is not broken into a line; the tribe does not stay in one place altering nature to suit the needs of the human settlement.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RQS |
| B. | PRS |
| C. | SPR |
| D. | PQS |
| Answer» D. PQS | |
| 141. |
S1: Nobody likes staying at home on a public holiday - especially if the weather is fine.P: We had brought plenty of food with us and we got it out of the car.Q: The only difficulty was that millions of other people had the same idea.R: Now everything was ready so we sat down near a path at the foot of a hill.S: We moved out of the city slowly behind a long line of cars, but at last we came to a quiet country road and, after sometime, stopped at a lonely farm.S6: It was very peaceful in the cool grass-until we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | SQR |
| C. | SPR |
| D. | PQR |
| Answer» D. PQR | |
| 142. |
S1: While talking to a group, one should feel self-confident and courageous.P: Nor is it a gift bestowed by providence on only a few.Q: One should also learn how to think calmly and clearly.R: It is like the ability to play golf.S: It is not as difficult as most men imagine.S6: Any man can develop his capacity if he has the desire to do so.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RSP |
| B. | SPR |
| C. | SQP |
| D. | QPR |
| Answer» C. SQP | |
| 143. |
S1: The 'age of computers' is considered to have begun in 1946.P: Those early computers were huge and heavy affairs, with problems of speed and size.Q: It was only with the introduction of electronics that the computers really came of age.R: But computers were in use long before that.S: They had several rotating shafts and gears which almost always doomed them to slow operation.S6: And now it is difficult to find a field where computers are not used.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RQS |
| B. | RSQ |
| C. | PQS |
| D. | PSQ |
| Answer» E. | |
| 144. |
S1: In the last few years, there has been increasing realisation of the importance of fibrous diet.P: Its role in human nutrition was not fully understood.Q: Plants contain indigestible substances in their cell-walls, and these contain fibre.R: Later research has thrown light on many other ingredients that are not digested by man.S: In the early days, people only knew that this fibre prevented constipation.S6: This has resulted in a better appreciation of the role of fibrous food in human health.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | SRP |
| C. | PRQ |
| D. | QPR |
| Answer» D. QPR | |
| 145. |
S1: Welcome to Madam Tussaud's.P: Famous faces, notorious faces haunt these halls; royalty, and world leaders mingling with sports stars and murderers.Q: But don't expect any responses to your smiles or greetings.R: Don't be surprised at anything you see here.S: See how many you can recognise.S6: These life-like, casually posed figures are mere wax statues, though they may look alive.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | SRQ |
| B. | RPS |
| C. | PSQ |
| D. | QRP |
| Answer» D. QRP | |
| 146. |
S1: As I say, I was born and brought up in an atmosphere of the confluence of three movements, all of which were revolutionary.P: I was born in a family which had to live its own life, which led me from my young days to seek guidance for my own self-expression in my own inner standard of judgement.Q: No poet should borrow his medium ready-made from some shop of respectability.R: But the language which belonged to the people had to be modulated according to the urging which I as an individual had.S: The medium of expression, doubtless, was my mother tongue.S6: He should not only have his own seeds but prepare his own soil.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | QSR |
| C. | SRQ |
| D. | SRP |
| Answer» D. SRP | |
| 147. |
S1: Evolution is not progress.P: And yet, for all their differences, it is not wholly wrong to identify evolution with progress.Q: As a noted scientist had said,"the tapeworm in its inglorious lot in man's intestine is an outcome of evolution as well as the lark at heaven's gate."R: Three hundred million years after the first land creatures crawled out of the sea, the one-called amoeba is man himself.S: The physical facts of evolution betray such advance.S6: For, like progress, evolution does, over the long run, imply betterment.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | PSR |
| B. | PSQ |
| C. | PQR |
| D. | RQP |
| Answer» D. RQP | |
| 148. |
S1: The earliest reference to the playing card has been found in China, as long ago as the tenth century.P: They appeared in Italy around 1320.Q: Long before that the Chinese use paper money which was similar in design to the playing cards.R: It is believed that perhaps travelling gypsies introduced them to Europe.S: In olden days cards were used both for telling fortune and playing games.S6: The current pack of 52 cards was only regulated in the seventeenth century.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RSP |
| B. | SRP |
| C. | QSP |
| D. | SQP |
| Answer» B. SRP | |
| 149. |
S1: The motor car is one of the useful gifts of modern science.P: One of these is the smoke and pollution that it creates.Q: It has made short and medium distance journeys fast and comfortable.R: The other is that it has made journey by road hazardous.S: Yet we can't say that a motor car is a blessing without disadvantages.S6: Finally in this age of energy crisis a personal car is an expensive thing.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | QRS |
| B. | SPR |
| C. | SPQ |
| D. | PQR |
| Answer» C. SPQ | |
| 150. |
S1: Forecasting the weather has always been a difficult business.P: During a period of drought, streams and rivers dried up, the cattle died from thirst and the crops were ruined.Q: Many different things affect the weather and we have to study them carefully to make an accurate forecast.R: Ancient Egyptians had no need of this weather in the Nile valley hardly ever changes.S: In early times, when there were no instruments, such as thermometer or the barometer, man looked for tell-tale signs in the sky.S6: He made his forecasts by watching flights of the birds or the way smoke rose from fire.The Proper sequence should be: |
| A. | RQS |
| B. | PRS |
| C. | RPS |
| D. | PQR |
| Answer» C. RPS | |