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- The test is designed to check your current understanding of the language and whether you are able to logically co-relate different parts of a paragraph.
- Directions for individual questions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.
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Question 1 |
1. To much of the Labour movement, it symbolizes the brutality of the upper classes.
2. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolizes the government’s weakness.
3. To foxhunting’s supporters, Labour’s 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it symbolizes the party’s metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside.
4. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power.
5. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes, foxhunting symbolizes the ancient roots of rural lives.
2. And to everybody watching, the current mess over foxhunting symbolizes the government’s weakness.
3. To foxhunting’s supporters, Labour’s 1991 manifesto commitment to ban it symbolizes the party’s metropolitan roots and hostility to the countryside.
4. Small issues sometimes have large symbolic power.
5. To those who enjoy thundering across the countryside in red coats after foxes, foxhunting symbolizes the ancient roots of rural lives.
A | 45132 |
B | 53421 |
C | 35142 |
D | 42153 |
Question 1 Explanation:
4 is the general sentence. 5 and 1 form a mandatory pair because the 'it' mentioned in sentence 1 talks about the 'fox hunting' mentioned in sentence 5. Option A is the right choice.
Question 2 |
1. In the case of King Merolchazzar’s courtship of the Princess of the Outer Isles, there occurs a regrettable hitch.
2. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
3. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighboring princess; dispatches messengers with gifts to her court, beseeching an interview.
4. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along pretty smoothly.
5. Royal love affairs in olden were conducted on the correspondence method.
2. She acknowledges the gifts, but no word of a meeting date follows.
3. The monarch, hearing good reports of a neighboring princess; dispatches messengers with gifts to her court, beseeching an interview.
4. The princess names a date, and a formal meeting takes place; after that everything buzzes along pretty smoothly.
5. Royal love affairs in olden were conducted on the correspondence method.
A | 13245 |
B | 12345 |
C | 53412 |
D | 53214 |
Question 2 Explanation:
Here, 32 is a mandatory pair. However, looking closely reveals that the 'she' of 2 and the princess of 4 are two different entities. The monarch and the princess of 3 are general. Then, 'she' of 2 is the princess of 1. Therefore, 53, 34 and 41 are mandatory pairs. Option C is the right choice.
Question 3 |
1. Who can trace to its first beginnings the love of Damon for Pythias, of David for Jonathan, of Swan for Edgar?
2. Similarly with men.
3. There is about great friendships between man and man a certain inevitability that can only compared with the age old association of ham and eggs.
4. One simply feels that it is one of the things that must be so.
5. No one can say what was the mutual magnetism that brought the deathless partnership of these wholesome and palatable foodstuffs about.
2. Similarly with men.
3. There is about great friendships between man and man a certain inevitability that can only compared with the age old association of ham and eggs.
4. One simply feels that it is one of the things that must be so.
5. No one can say what was the mutual magnetism that brought the deathless partnership of these wholesome and palatable foodstuffs about.
A | 13254 |
B | 35421 |
C | 13524 |
D | 35124 |
Question 3 Explanation:
35 is a mandatory pair as can be seen by the line 'these.....food stuffs' of 5. however, this still leaves us with three answer choices. 2 should follow 5as can be seen by the word 'similarly'. Hence, option C is the right choice.
Question 4 |
1. Events intervened, and in the late 1930s and 1940s, Germany suffered from “over-branding”.
2. The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.
3. But reunification and the federal government’s move to Berlin have prompted Germany to think again about its image.
4. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas Cook in 1855.
5. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself abroad.
2. The British used to be fascinated by the home of Romanticism.
3. But reunification and the federal government’s move to Berlin have prompted Germany to think again about its image.
4. The first foreign package holiday was a tour of Germany organized by Thomas Cook in 1855.
5. Since then, Germany has been understandably nervous about promoting itself abroad.
A | 13524 |
B | 45312 |
C | 24153 |
D | 42153 |
Question 4 Explanation:
Statement 2 is the generic opening of the para-jumble. This is followed by statement 4 which explains the impact of 1. Then this sequence is countered by the pair 15 (which introduce an opposing sentiment). The final conclusion (present times) is provided by 3.
Question 5 |
1. The wall does not simply divide Israel from a putative Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders.
2. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic ‘separation wall’ now being built in the West bank by Israel.
3. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals.
4. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometers at a stretch.
5. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall is going up with scarcely a peep from Israel’s American allies who are going to pay for most of it.
2. A chilling omission from the road map is the gigantic ‘separation wall’ now being built in the West bank by Israel.
3. It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals.
4. It actually takes in new tracts of Palestinian land, sometimes five or six kilometers at a stretch.
5. Almost a decade after the end of South African apartheid, this ghastly racist wall is going up with scarcely a peep from Israel’s American allies who are going to pay for most of it.
A | 23145 |
B | 21435 |
C | 15432 |
D | 53142 |
Question 5 Explanation:
Here, 14 is clearly a mandatory pair as 4 talks about the extra closures. Also 'this....,wall' of 5 should follow from 1,4 and 3. Option B is the right choice.
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