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JUMBLED SENTENCES

DIRECTIONS : For questions 1 to 6, arrange the sentences a, b, c and d to form a logical sequence
between sentences 1 and 6.
1.
1.
a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

King Dane, who ruled Denmark from 1016 to 1035, got his feet wet to prove that only God could
control the tide.
Then he leapt up saying that nobody was worthy of the name King "save Him whose nod heaven
and earth and sea obey under laws eternal".
He allowed the tide to come in round his feet and waves to lap round his legs.
He set his throne on the beach and commanded the tide not to rise in order to show his courtiers
how limited - and not how great - his powers were.
Afterwards Dane never wore his crown again
As a mark of respect he placed it instead on a crucifix, above Christ's head
1] cabd

2.
1.
a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

6.

4] bcad

2] bdac

3] dacb

4] dcab

Of the 250 marsupial species in the world today, around two thirds are found in Australia.
The rest live in Central and South America, apart from two species in North America.
We now know that not all female marsupials have deep, bag-like, forward opening pouches, like
the kangaroo.
In burrowing marsupials such as bandicoots and wombats, the abdominal pouch opens backwards.
Such pouches are found only in climbing and leaping species.
In mouse opossums, there are merely two narrow flaps of skin, and a few marsupials, such as the
numbat, are completely pouchless to avoid filling with soil.
1] abdc

4.
1.

3] bacd

A new type of peppered moth, Betularia, has evolved in order to survive in a changing, man-made
environment.
This camouflages it against lichen on the tree trunks where it rests by day.
The newcomer had a great advantage over the grey moths because the dark colour blended in with
the soot-covered trees and so the black moths were less easily spotted by predators.
But in about 1860, a black variety - a natural mutation - appeared in industrial areas.
The moth is normally coloured a pale, speckled grey.
By 1900, in industrial areas the black form of the peppered moth, far outnumbered the pale form.
1] bcad

3.
1.

2] cbad

2] cbad

3] bacd

4] badc

Alexander the Great created the greatest empire the world had yet seen - and also the shortest
lived.
a) Two years later in 334 BC, he led a large army to conquer Persia.
b) When his weary army refused to march further eastwards into India, Alexander turned to Babylon.
c) During the next 11 years he conquered an area nearly as large as the United States.
d) He became the King of Macedonia in 336 BC at the age of 20 and then subdued the Greek states.
He died there of a fever in 323 BC, aged 33.
1] bcad

2] adbc

3] dacb

4] adcb

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5.
1.

The city of Mohenjo Daro built about 4500 years ago, was no haphazard construction.
Its streets were laid out north-south and east-west in the gridiron fashion used today in many
Canadian and US cities.
b) The houses were usually 30 ft. by 26 ft. and most were two storeys high.
c) They had blank walls facing the streets and opened inwards to courtyards and small alleyways.
d) Main streets were about 45 ft. wide and side streets about 30 ft.
The walls kept out the heat of the sun and the dust of the passing cart traffic.
a)

6.

1] cabd
6.
1.

6.

2] badc

3] dbca

4] adbc

The ruby-throated humming bird tips the scale a mere 0.1 oz - the weight of 60 small postage
stamps.
a) The epic voyage includes a 1000 km nonstop crossing of the Gulf of Mexico.
b) But the humming bird is not unique, for countless other birds crisscross the globe in their annual
migrations.
c) Yet each autumn, this tiny creature flies upto 3200 km from the eastern USA to spend the winter in
Central America.
d) It is an amazing feat that requires the bird to store relatively huge nectar reserves for its travels.
How do they know where to fly?
1] dabc

2] abdc

3] abcd

4] cadb

DIRECTIONS : In questions 7 to 12, a number of sentences are given below which, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical
order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
7.
a)
b)
c)
d)

A Greek philosopher, believed that the history of the universe was a series of cycles in which love
and strife dominated in turn.
Initially, love was dominant and earth, water, air and fire intermingled.
Strife then entered to separate these elements, which eventually became rearranged in partial
combinations in certain places
Volcanoes and springs, for example, show the presence of both fire and water in the earth.
1] abcd

2] bcda

3] bdca

4] dcba

8.
a)
b)
c)
d)

A species of fish is found in pools of near boiling water in the hot springs in New Zealand.
Others can live and reproduce in sub-zero temperatures.
Living organisms survive in the most unexpected places.
And one species of alga actually thrives in hot, concentrated sulphuric acid.
1] adcb

2] abdc

3] abcd

4] cabd

9.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Even the word 'wed' comes from the Anglo-Saxon term for a security given in order to bind a
promise.
The idea of a wedding ring as a symbol of love is relatively modern.
The ring was originally regarded as both a down payment on the bride and a sign to other men that
she was no longer available.
It was, in effect, a 'property sold' sign.
1] acbd

2] bcda

3] cdab

4] adcb

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10.
a)
b)
c)
d)

They must also have a high 'power/weight ratio'

A pigeon's heart muscles, which operate its wings, account for more than a third of its body
weight.
That is, their flight muscles must be extremely powerful in relation to their body weight.
Air is such a thin medium - compared with water or earth, for instance - that travellers passing
through it must have light bodies and aerofoils or wings, if they are to exploit it fully.
1] bcad

2] dacb

3] abdc

4] abcd

11.
a)
b)
c)
d)

That had passed to aristocratic military leaders called shoguns.

Other families took over the shogunate down the centuries, and rigid classes were established.
The Emperor of Japan was regarded as a god, but he had precious little power.
The title shogun dated back to the 12th century when after years of civil wars, a warrior family
called Minamoto defeated all their rivals and established themselves as the rulers of Japan.
1] cdab

2] bcda

3] cadb

4] bcad

12.
a)

A symbol for a limb, for instance might represent, not only the limb, but also its activity, so that
the symbol of leg might represent, not only the legs, but also walking.
b) Scholars now know that Egyptian hieroglyphics did begin with crude pictures of natural things.
c) Later, however, the same kinds of symbols were used to express more complicated things.
d) In turn, the sign of a man with upraised hands could mean prayer, worship or praise.
1] bcad

2] abdc

3] bacd

4] adcb

DIRECTIONS : In questions 13 to 16, a number of sentences are given below which, when properly
sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical
order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
13.
A. And yet there are people who remain enslaved, by an estimate based on a compilation of reports from
governments and nongovernmental organizations, perhaps 27 million of them around the world.
B. Every country, after all, has made it illegal to own and exercise total control over another human being.
C. If slaveholders no longer own slaves in a legal sense, how can they still exercise so much control that
freed slaves sometimes deliver themselves back into bondage?
D. To many people, it comes as a surprise that debt bondage and other forms of slavery persist into the
21st century.
E. This is just one of the puzzles that make slavery the greatest challenge faced by the social sciences
today.
1] ABCDE

2] DABCE

3] DBACE

4] BDCAE

5] CABED

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14.
A. Moscow's political leaders, as well as its corporate leaders in oil and gas, are portraying Russia's oil
firms as stable sources of supply, willing to add output to the market to keep prices reasonable and thus
revive the global economy.
B. The nearly 1 mbd increase in its production over the last two years came at a time when OPEC cut
output, thus losing market share, to put a floor under prices.
C. Russia's oil revival has coincided with a downturn in the global economy and the first major reduction
in the global demand for oil since the early 1980s.
D. Not surprisingly, Moscow's motivations are being questioned and are often seen as an attempt to grab
power in the global arena.
E. But Russia's petroleum revival has also coincided with the terrorist attacks of September 11, which
have provided Moscow a chance to displace OPEC as the key energy supplier to the West.
F. In the eyes of these leaders, the new geopolitics of energy can help Moscow gain both economically
and politically.
1] FADBEC

2] ABCDEF

3] AFCDEB

4] CBDEAF

5] BCDAFE

15.
A. This should be of no surprise, given that China too is an active campaigner against the globalised
politics of terror.
B. Now, India's equation with Nepal in the new global context of an anti-terror "campaign" will not at all
be divorced from Kathmandu's enduring relationship of mutual benefit with Beijing.
C. However, an entirely new element of candour is beginning to influence, if not also define, the strategic
scope of the Indo-Nepalese interactions at this juncture.
D. The Nepalese have traditionally tried to exercise a high degree of strategic autonomy consistent with
their perception of having to coexist comfortably with their giant neighbours India and China.
E. The candid exchanges seem related to New Delhi's strong views about the Pakistani intelligence
establishment's alleged ability to access Nepal (not its Government) to foment anti-India trouble
1] BDCEA

2] BCEAD

3] DBACE

4] ECABD

5] EBCDA

16.
A. Today, there are nearly thousand schools, many of them employing teachers who have undergone
training in standardised courses in imparting special education.
B. It is not surprising that this has resulted in the undertaking of considerable studies
C. Educating Special children has thrown up many challenges to programmers and curriculum planners
D. About three and a half decades ago, in India, there were hardly 30 schools with special educational
programmes for such children.
E. There has been a quantum jump in the facilities for teacher training and for upgrading their skills.
1] CBDEA

2] DBCEA

3] EADCB

4] CBDAE

5] ABCDE

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Answer Key
1-2

2-3

3-1

4-3

5-4

6-4

11-3

12-1

13-3

14-4

15-3

16-4

7-1

9-2