1.S1: For decades, American society has been calling a melting pot.
P : Differences remained - in appearence, mannerisms, customs, speech, religion and more.
Q : The term has long been a cliche and half-truth.
R : But homogenisation was never acheived.
S : Yes, immigrants from diverse cultures and traditions did cast off vestiges of their native lands and become almost imperceptibly woven in to the American fabric.
S6: In recent years, such differences accentuated by the arrival of immigrants from Asia and other parts of the world in the United States - have become something to celebrate and to nurture.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QRSP
b) SQRP
c) SQPR
d) QSRP
2. S1: I took cigarettes from my case.
P : But when the fit of coughing was over, he replaced it between his lips.
Q : I 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 continues to draw on it.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) QPSR
c) QSRP
d) SRPQ
3.S1: There is difference between Gandhiji's concept of secularism and that of Nehru's.
P : Nehru's idea of secularism was equal indifference to all religions and bothering about none of them.
Q : According to Gandhiji, all religions are equally true and each scripture is worthy of respect.
R : Such secularism which means the rejection of all religions is contrary to our culture and tradition.
S : In Gandhiji's view, secularism stands for equal respect for all religions.
S6: Instead of doing any good, such secularism can do harm instead of good.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SQPR
b) PSQR
c) QSPR
d) PRSQ
4. S1: As a dramatist Rabindranath was not what might be called a success.
P : His dramas were moulded on the lines of the traditional Indian village dramas than the dramas of modern world.
Q : His plays were more a catalogue of ideas than a vehicle of the expression of action.
R : Actually the drama has always been the life of Indian people, as it deals with legends of gods and goddesses.
S : Although in his short stories and novels he was able to create living and well defined characters, he did not seem to be able to do so in dramas.
S6: Therefor, drama forms the essential part of the traditional Indian Culture.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SRQP
b) QPSR
c) QSPR
d) RSQP
5. 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 now.
Q : And there are graft and other malpractices too.
R : The impression that corruption is universal phenomenon persists and the people 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) QSRP
b) SQRP
c) RSQP
d) PQSR
6. S1: In other words, grammar grows and changes, and there is no such thing as correct use of English for the past, the present and the future.
P: "The door is broke."
Q: Yet this would have been correct in Shakespeare's time.
R: Today, only an uneducated person would say,"My arm is broke."
S: For example, in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, there is the line.
S6: All the words that man has invented are divided into eight classes, which are called parts of speech.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) QPSR
c) RSPQ
d) SPRQ
7. S1: The Bhagavadgita recognises the nature of man and the needs of man.
P: All these three aspects constitute the nature of man.
Q: It shows how the human being is a rational one, an ethical one and a spiritual one.
R: More than all, it must be a spiritual experience.
S: Nothing can give him fulfilment unless it satisfies his reason, his ethical conscience.
S6: A man who does not harmonise them, is not truly human.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) PSRQ
c) QPSR
d) RSPQ
8. S1: Silence is unnatural to man.
P: Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence.
Q: In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world.
R: There are few things of which he stand in more fear than of the absence of noise.
S: He begins with a cry and ends it in stillness.
S6: He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a wax-work figure.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PRQS
c) QPRS
d) SQRP
9. S1: During the middle ages the manufacture of cloth was divided amongst a number of associations of skilled workers who performed different operations required in its production.
P: But the association of skilled workers lacked capital to buy it.
Q: Consequently, he began to assume the role of the employer.
R: With the mechanisation of these operations, complicated apparatus became necessary for economic production.
S: The banker, therefore, stepped in to finance the industrialisation of these operations.
S6: This was one of the reasons why the industry flourished in such rich countries as Flanders, Italy and Britain.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRQS
b) PRSQ
c) RPQS
d) RPSQ
10. S1: I put the phone down and shook my head in bewilderment.
P: Then I am taken in tow by some moonlighting hare-brain with a passion for veteran aircraft, flying his own Mosquito through the night who happens to spot me.
Q: What a night, what an incredible night!
R: Then I get lost and short of fuel.
S: First I lose my radio and all my instruments.
S6: And finally a half-drunk ground-duty officer has the sense to put his runaway lights on in time to save me.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPSR
b) QSRP
c) SPRQ
d) SRPQ