1.S1: We are living in an age in which technology has suddenly 'annihilated distance'.
P: Are we going to let this consciousness of our variety make us fear and hate each other?
Q: Physically we are now all neighbours, psychologically we are still strangers to each other.
R: How are we going to react?
S: We have never been so conscious of our variety as we are now that we have come to such close quarters.
S6: In that event, we should be dooming ourselves to wipe each other out.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQSR
b) PSQR
c) QSRP
d) RQSP
2. S1: As a dramatist Rabindranath was not what might be called a success.
P: His dramas were moulded more on the lines of the traditional Indian village dramas than the dramas of the modern world.
Q: His plays were more a catalogue of ideas than a vehicle of the expression of action.
R: Actually drama has always been the life of the 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 his dramas.
S6: Therefore, drama forms the essential part of the traditional Indian culture.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPSR
b) QSPR
c) RSQP
d) SRQP
3.S1: One of the most dangerous insect pests is the locust.
P: At first they look just like ordinary grasshoppers, which are harmless and unable to fly very far.
Q: Until about thirty years ago, no one knew where locusts came from or why they appeared in the different countries they attacked.
R: Then they change in appearance and develop wings which enable them to fly long distance.
S: Then it was discovered that there are two stages in the life of locusts.
S6: At this stage, they gather in huge numbers and rise from the ground on theri powerful wings in cloud.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) PSRQ
c) QSPR
d) QSRP
4. S1: In 1857, fighting broke out all over the country.
P: Everywhere the people rose in rebellion.
Q: In March 1858 British troops attacked the fort of Jhansi.
R: Thousands of people were killed on both sides.
S: The British fought back.
S6: The Rani's troops fought back bravely.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QSPR
c) RPSQ
d) SQPR
5. S1: Savita was lonely in the house.
P: She was very good at that.
Q: She sat all day in a little room off the main drawing room.
R: She would sit on the rug and do needle work.
S: It was a little room with nothing in it but a few chairs and a rug.
S6: It was the only thing she had learnt from the Convent school.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QSRP
c) RSPQ
d) SRPQ
6.S1: Just as some men like to play football or tennis, so some men like to climb mountains.
P: This is often very difficult to do, for mountains are not just big hills.
Q: Paths are usually very steep, and some mountain sides are straight up and down, so that it may take many hours to climb as little as one hundred feet.
R: There is always the danger that you may fall off and be killed or injured.
S: Men talk about conquering a mountain, and the wonderful feeling it is to reach the top of a mountain after climbing for hours and may be, even for days.
S6: You look down and see the whole country below you.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QPSR
c) RQPS
d) SRQP
7. S1: The fifty seven storey Wool-worth Tower is in New York.
P: Soon it became one of the famous buildings in the world.
Q: It was completed in 1912.
R: Americans took pride in this tall skyscraper.
S: However, it was not long before five other buildings topped the Woolworth Tower.
S6: A new champion is the Empire State Building which rises 102 storeys into the sky.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QPRS
c) QRSP
d) RPQS
8. S1: A certain young man was entrusted to the care of a teacher.
P: This dullard will come to grief if I send him away without a single lesson, thought the teacher.
Q: He was so dull of mind that he could not, even in three months, time, learn as much as a single lesson.
R: The young man came to ask the teacher's permission to go home.
S: It's my business to provide agood education to my pupils, to get on in life.
S6: The teacher asked him to wait.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QPRS
c) RQPS
d) SRQP
9.S1: American private lives may seem shallow.
P: Students would walk away with books they had not paid for.
Q: A Chinese journalist commented on a curious institution: the library.
R: Their public morality, however, impressed visitors.
S: But in general they returned them.
S6: This would not happen in China, he said.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) QPSR
c) RPSQ
d) RQPS
10. S1: Widowhood in India used to be specially miserable.
P: There were widows even in ages ranging from five to ten.
Q: A widow was a widow always.
R: However, several communities began to rebel against the ill-treatment of widows.
S: She could not marry again however tender in age she might be.
S6: Today nobody looks upon remarriage of widows with disgust or disapproval.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) QSPR
c) SRQP
d) SPQR