Para Jumbles:Test-20

A. However, the severed head could not grow back if fire could be applied instantly to the amputated part.
B. To get rid of this monstrosity was truly a Herculean task for as soon as one head was cut off two new ones replaced it.
C. Hercules accomplished this labour with the aid of an assistant who cauterized the necks as fast as Hercules cut off the heads!
D. One of the twelve labours of Hercules was the killing of hydra, a water monster with nine heads.

1. Almost a century ago, when the father of the modern automobile industry, Henry Ford, sold the first model T car, he decided that only the best would do for his customers
2. Today, it is committed to delivering the finest quality with over six million vehicles a year in over 200 countries across the world.
3. And for over ninety years this philosophy has endured in the Ford Motor Company.
4. Thus, a vehicle is ready for the customer only if it passes the Ford ‘Zero Defect Programme’.

1. But, clearly, the government still has the final say.
2. In the past few years, the Reserve Bank of India might have wrested considerable powers from the government when it comes to monetary policy.
3. The RBIs announcements on certain issues become effective only after the government notifies them.
4. Isn’t it time the government vested the RBI with powers to sanction such changes, leaving their ratification for later.

1. I sat there frowning at the checkered table-cloth, chewing the bitter cud of insight.
2. That wintry afternoon in Manhattan, waiting in the little French restaurant, I was feeling frustrated and depressed.
3. Even the prospect of seeing a dear friend failed to cheer me as it usually did.
4. Because of certain miscalculations on my part, a project of considerable importance inmy life had fallen through.

1. Perhaps the best known is the Bay Area Writing Project founded by James Gray in 1974.
2. The decline in writing skills can be stopped.
3. Today’s back-to-basics movement has already forced some schools to place renewed emphasis on the three Rs.
4. Although the inability of some teachers to teach writing successfully remains a big stumbling block, a number of programmes have been developed to attack this problem.