1.S1: Gandhi's first political fast was made soon after his return from Africa.
P: He had also received help from this man's sister.
Q: This was when the poor labourers of the cotton mills of Ahmedabad were on strike.
R: He was a friend of the largest mill-owner.
S: Gandhi had made the strikers promise to remain on strike until the owners agreed to accept the decision of an arbitrator.
S6: He did not fast against the mill owners, but in order to strengthen the determination of the strikers.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQSR
b) QSRP
c) RPQS
d) SRPQ
2. S1: Kabir knew that Ramananda got up very Early in the morning and went down on the steps of the 'ghat' to the bathe in the waters of the sacred Ganges.
P: As Ramananda came down the steps before daybreak for his usual bath, he trod on the sleeping man.
Q: Kabir at once jumped up and threw himself at the feet of the preacher.
R: "Ram, Ram" he exclaimed in astonishment.
S: One dark night, Kabir went to the 'ghat' and lay down on one of the river steps.
S6: He said, "You have given me the mantra, 'Ram, Ram,' I have become our disciple".
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQSR
b) PRQS
c) RQPS
d) SPRQ
3.S1: We must also understand that the fruits of labour are sweeter than the gifts of fortune.
P: Moreover, too much of thinking is also a disease.
Q: Indeed, thought and action can be separately analysed but can never be separated from each other.
R: Hence, thought to be complete demands action and action without thought also has no value.
S: It keeps us depressed and gloomy.
S6: The best life, therefore, is lived both in thought and deed.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QRSP
c) RQPS
d) SPQR
4. S1: The houses in the Indus Valley were built of baked bricks.
P: This staircase sometimes continued upwards on to the roof.
Q: Access to the upstairs rooms was by a narrow stone staircase at the back of the house.
R: The drains were incorporated in the walls.
S: The houses had bathrooms and water closets, rubbish chutes and excellent drainage systems.
S6: They led outside into covered sewers which ran down the side of the streets.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) QPSR
c) QRPS
d) SPQR
5. S1: Most of the perishable foods are shipped by refrigerator ships.
P: They are placed in the refrigerated hold of the ship.
Q: Some foods, such as bananas, are shipped before they get ripe.
R: As the green bananas are loaded, a man watches closely the signs of yellow on them.
S: The cool temperature keep the bananas from getting ripe during the trip.
S6: Ripe bananas are poor travellers and even one ripe banana at the start of the trip can spoil a whole ship load of fruit.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PSQR
c) QPSR
d) SRPQ
6. S1: Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.
P: An individual human existence should be like a river-small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.
Q: In the young there is a justification for this feeling.
R: Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best thing that life has to offer.
S: But in the old man who has known human joys and sorrows, the fear of death is somewhat object and ignoble, and the best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal.
S6: Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea and painlessly lose their individual being.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQSR
b) QPSR
c) QRSP
d) RSQP
7. S1: It was early 1943 and the war in the East was going disastrously.
P: How this unlikely bunch of middle aged civilians accomplished their missions makes fascinating reading.
Q: To stop the sinkings a spy ring had to be broken, a German ship assaulted, and a secret radio transmitter silenced.
R: U-boats were torpedoing Allied ships in the Indian ocean faster than they could be replaced.
S: And the only people who could do the job were a handful of British businessmen in Calcutta-all men not called out for active service.
S6: Boarding party, James Leasor's latest best-seller is a record of this tale of heroics tinged with irony and humour.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) QSRP
c) RQSP
d) SQPR
8. S1: The distinction between state or sovereign and government is developed by Rousseau with utmost exactness and accuracy.
P: While 'state' denotes the community as a whole, created by social pact and manifesting itself in supreme general will, 'government' denotes merely the individual or groups of individuals that is designated by the community to carry into effect the sovereign will.
Q: Government, to Rousseau, means executive power.
R: The individuals, to whom this power is assigned are the officers or the agents of the sovereign.
S: The government is created not by any contract but by a decree of the sovereign, and its function is in no sense to make but only to administer law.
S6: Collectively, they may be called 'prence' or 'magistracy'.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) QSPR
c) RPQS
d) SQRP
9. S1: Primitive man was helpless and weak.
P: He conceived of some divinity behind this.
Q: As ages passed, he began to think and to investigate nature's mysteries.
R: He bowed down before natural phenomena.
S: The flash of lightning, the clap of thunder struck him with awe.
S6: Today the knowledge gained from science has armed him with superhuman strength.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) RPSQ
c) RSPQ
d) RSQP
10. S1: We and all other animals breathe in and breathe out air all the time.
P: If we stop breathing, we die.
Q: It is because of this fact that we are able to live.
R: It is called the atmosphere.
S: All parts of the earth are surrounded by air.
S6: It is a part of the earth.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PRQS
c) QPSR
d) SRQP