1.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.
Q: And there are graft and other malpractices too.
R: The impression that corruption is a universal phenomenon persists and the people do 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) PQSR
b) QSRP
c) RSQP
d) SQRP
2.S1: The press enables us to know about the world and happenings around us.
P: It governs the current ideas in the country and controls the course of events.
Q: There is no doubt that the newspaper is the only teacher of the common man.
R: It is indeed the mouthpiece of the people.
S: It is feared that in the absence of the press, government would be less responsible, the judge less honest and civil servant lees efficient.
S6: While moulding it mends and mending it moulds the public opinion.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QPSR
c) RSQP
d) SRPQ
3.S1: Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation, and the world perhaps from their writings.
P: Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn.
Q: Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree.
R: But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university.
S: A place of learning without this could scarcely be called university.
S6: There classes of persons, then, go to compose a university as we know it - the scholar, the scholar who is also a teacher, and those who come to be taught, the undergraduate.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPSR
b) RQSP
c) SPRQ
d) SRPQ
4. S1: Several sub-cities have been planned around the capital.
P: Dwarka is the first among them.
Q: They are expected to alleviate the problem of housing.
R: It is coming up in the south-west of the capital.
S: It will cater to one million people when completed.
S6: Hopefully the housing problem will not be as cute as at present after these sub-cities are built.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PRSQ
c) QPRS
d) QRSP
5. S1: India's non-alignment has not been an attitude of negative neutrality.
P: In other words, it is not an aloofness from or indifference to other nations.
Q: Instead, it has been an attitude of constructive neutrality.
R: On the contrary, India has been taking a keen interest in all international developments.
S: India wants the goodwill of all nations and is hostile towards none.
S6: This policy has been accepted, if not actually appreciated by the leading powers of the world.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QPRS
c) QRPS
d) SQRP
6. S1: In a good many cases unnecessary timidity makes the trouble worse than it need be.
P: I am not, of course, thinking of extreme forms of defiance.
Q: If you show that you are afraid of them, you give promise of good hunting, whereas if you show indifference, they begin to doubt their own power and, therefore, tend to let you alone.
R: A dog will bark more loudly and bite more easily when people are afraid of him than when they treat him with contempt, and the human herd has something of this same characteristic.
S: Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
S6: If you hold in Delhi the views that are conventional in Delhi, you much accept the consequences.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPRS
b) RSPQ
c) SRPQ
d) SRQP
7. S1: You live either in a village or a town of India.
P: Many villages and towns form a tehsil or a taluka.
Q: There are also some areas in our country called Union Territories.
R: Many tehsils or talukas form a district and many districts form a State.
S: These, together with all the states of our country make India.
S6: India is our motherland.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PRQS
c) QPRS
d) RPQS
8. S1: The tooth had abscessed and was causing considerable pain.
P: Finally, in desperation, she went inside a wooden pyramid model and sat down praying for miracles.
Q: Since it was Sunday morning, no dentist was available.
R: What happened she is not sure, but after ten minutes the pain simply faded away.
S: Common pain killers had been of no avail.
S6: It has not returned to this day.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QSPR
c) QRSP
d) SRQP
9. S1: The third five - year plan ran into rough weather from the very start.
P: Large funds had to be diverted from development to defence.
Q: Food situation became critical and prices began to rise steep after the Indo - Pak conflict.
R: During this period, there was also the war with Pakistan in 1965.
S: There was the China War in 1962 which completely upset our economy.
S6: The government had to resort to devaluation of the rupee.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QPSR
c) RPQS
d) SPRQ
10. S1: The art of growing old is one which the passage of time has forced upon my attention.
P: One of these is undue absorption in the past.
Q: One's thoughts must be directed to the future and to things about which these is something to be done.
R: Psychologically, there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age.
S: It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead.
S6: this is not always easy; one's own past is a gradually increasing weight.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPRS
b) RPQS
c) RPSQ
d) QSRP