1.S1: At the age of four, Jagadish Chandra Bose was sent to a village 'pathshala'.
P: This step proved beneficial to the boy, for he thus became familiar with his mother tongue and learnt to read and write it.
Q: This was very unusual because a man of his father's status was expected to send his son to an English school.
R: He also became acquainted with some people of the rich treasures of Indian culture.
S: At the same time he mixed with children of all castes and lost the sense of class superiority.
S6: His mother, too, reinforced what he learnt and did at school.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QPSR
c) RSQP
d) SQRP
2. S1: I never took payment for speaking.
P: The Sunday Society would then assure me that on these terms I might lecture on anything I liked and how I liked.
Q: It often happened that provincial Sunday societies offered me the usual ten genuine fee to give the usual sort of lecture, avoiding controversial politics and religion.
R: Occasionally to avoid embarrassing other lecturers who lived by lecturing, the account was settled by a debit and credit entry, that is, I was credited with the usual fee and expenses and gave it back as a donation to the society.
S: I always replied that I never lectured on anything but very controversial politics and religion and that my fee was the price of my railway ticket third class if the place was farther off than I could afford to go at my own expense.
S6: In this way I secured perfect freedom of speech, and was warmed against the accusation of being a professional agitator.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QSPR
b) QSRP
c) SQPR
d) SQRP
3.S1: In ancient Indian history the city of Ujjain was quite famous.
P: Here lived at one time the poet Kalidasa.
Q: He was a famous learned astronomer.
R: And here also worked and visited Rajah Jaysingh of Jaipur.
S: It was always renowned as a seat of learning.
S6: So one can see what a great love all who care for India must feel for the ancientry of Ujjain.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QSRP
c) SPRQ
d) SRPQ
4. S1: Useful human beings are divided into two classes : those whose work is work and pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.
P: The long hours in the office or factory give them keen appetite for pleasure even in its most modest forms.
Q: Their life is a natural harmony.
R: Of these the former are in majority.
S: But fortune's favoured children belong to the second class.
S6: For them the working hours are never long enough.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) QPRS
c) RPSQ
d) SQPR
5. S1: Governments are instituted among men to secure their certain inalienable rights.
P: Accordingly, men are more disposed to suffer than to right themselves by abolishing the forms of governments to which they are accustomed.
Q: But prudence will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
R: They derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and therefore, can also be changed by them.
S: But whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these rights of the people, it is their duty to throw off such a government.
S6: Such was the necessity which constrained the united colonies of America to give up their allegiance to the British Crown and declare themselves free and independent states.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) QRPS
c) RQPS
d) SRQP
6. S1: This year many States have been badly affected by the drought situation prevailing in the country.
P: No better is the situation elsewhere, where floods have ravaged the standing crop.
Q: Though some have been less affected, even these are facing an uphill task in managing the situation.
R: Especially pitiable is the plight of the poor farmer who cannot afford a tubewell to irrigate his land.
S: Here the predicament is more equitable, for everybody's land is similarly submerged under ten feet of water.
S6: Either way, it seems the lot of the Indian farmer to be at the mercy of the elements.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RSPQ
b) QRPS
c) PSRQ
d) PRQS
7. S1: There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney.
P: "No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least.
Q: Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress.
R: It was 1729.
S: The best he could do, as he got to the bedside was : "I say, Ramanujan, I thought the number of the taxi I came down in was a very dull number."
S6: It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes."
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) QSPR
c) QSRP
d) SQRP
8.S1: I also demand adventure for myself.
P: As a physiologist I can try experiments on myself.
Q: Life without danger would be like life without mustard.
R: Love of adventure does not mean love of thrills.
S: I can also participate in wars and revolutions of which I approve.
S6: The satisfaction of adventure is something much more solid than a thrill.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRQS
b) QPSR
c) RPSQ
d) SQRP
9. S1: A small pool in the rocks outside my cottage in the Mussoorie hills provides me endless delight.
P: I stood very still, anxious that it should drink its fill.
Q: And once I saw a barking deer, head lowered at the edge of the pool.
R: Water beetles paddle the surface, while tiny fish lurk in the shallows.
S: Sometimes a spotted fork tail bird comes to drink, hopping delicately from rock to rock.
S6: It did and then, looking up, saw me and leapt across the ravine to disappear into the forest.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) PSQR
c) RSQP
d) SQPR
10. S1: Always remember that regular and frequent practice is essential if you are to learn to write well.
P: Even with the most famous writers, inspiration is rare.
Q: Writing is 99 percent hard work and one percent inspiration, so the sooner you get into the habit of writing, the better.
R: It is no good waiting until you have an inspiration before you write.
S: You learn to write by writing.
S6: If you keep your eyes and ears open, you will find plenty of things to write about around you to be able to discipline yourself to write.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPSR
b) RPSQ
c) SPRQ
d) SRPQ