1.S1: While talking to a group, one should feel self-confident and courageous.
P: Nor is it a gift bestowed by providence on only a few.
Q: One should also learn how to think calmly and clearly.
R: It is like the ability to play golf.
S: It is not as difficult as most men imagine.
S6: Any man can develop his capacity if he has the desire to do so.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QRSP
b) QSPR
c) RSQP
d) SQPR
2. S1: Nobody likes staying at home on a public holiday - especially if the weather is fine.
P: We had brought plenty of food with us and we got it out of the car.
Q: The only difficulty was that millions of other people had the same idea.
R: Now everything was ready so we sat down near a path at the foot of a hill.
S: We moved out of the city slowly behind a long line of cars, but at last we came to a quiet country road and, after sometime, stopped at a lonely farm.
S6: It was very peaceful in the cool grass-until we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PSQR
c) QSPR
d) SPQR
3.S1: In hunting and gathering societies people live in what anthropologists call "the seasonal round".
P: When the salmon are running, it comes to the stream; when the wild grasses must be gathered, the band moves on again.
Q: The tribal band is delicately adjusted to nature.
R: It circulates through space in the rhythm of the seasons each year.
S: It moves through space with the flow of time.
S6: The circle is not broken into a line; the tribe does not stay in one place altering nature to suit the needs of the human settlement.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRQS
b) QPRS
c) QSPR
d) RPQS
4. S1: Reena went shopping one morning.
P: Disappointed she turned around and returned to the parking lot.
Q: She got out and walked to the nearest shop.
R: She drove her car into the parking lot and stopped.
S: It was there that she realised that she'd forgotten her purse at home.
S6: She drove hoe with an empty shopping basket.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QPRS
c) RQSP
d) RSPQ
5. S1: Those are fortunate people who have good, true and faithful friends.
P: It is a scared attachment or a bond of intimacy between two persons of a congenial mind.
Q: True friendship increases our happiness in prosperity and diminishes our misery in adversity.
R: Friendship often springs from similarity of taste, feelings and sentiments.
S: However, true friendship should be based on truth and such vices as selfishness, greed and falsehood should be kept out of it.
S6: It must be borne in mind that prosperity breeds and multiplies friends and adversity tests them.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QRPS
c) RPQS
d) SPRQ
6. S1: After the firing that evening the street that used to be full of people was completely deserted.
P: Nor were any windows open or lighted.
Q: Suddenly I detected a movement to my left.
R: There was no trace of any human being and all doors were firmly closed.
S: Surprisingly, even the stray dogs had disappeared.
S6: I was so frightened that I ran for my life.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PSQR
c) RPSQ
d) SRPQ
7. S1: Hungary, with a population of about ten million, lies between Czechoslovakia to the north and Yugoslavia to the south.
P: Here a great deal of grain is grown.
Q: In recent years, however, progress has been made also in the field of industrialisation.
R: Most of this country consists of an extremely fertile plain, through which the river Danube flows.
S: In addition to grain, the plain produces potatoes, sugar, wine and livestock.
S6: The new industries derive mainly from agricultural production.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RPQS
b) QRSP
c) RPSQ
d) RQSP
8. S1: When Weiner was travelling in India, he visited a factory where he saw small frail children sitting on damp ground.
P: And the answer he got was that they were weaving carpets there.
Q: So he asked,"What are they doing there?"
R: And then he decided to study the problems of child labourers in India.
S: Weiner was shocked at the plight of the child workers.
S6: Recently he has published this book and it is winning him acclaim all over the world.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QPSR
c) RPQS
d) RPSQ
9. S1: There are divergent theories of education.
P: There is still another which holds that education has to be considered rather in relation to community than to the other.
Q: Yet again, some believe that a right proportion of all the theories should go into every system.
R: The other holds that the purpose of education is to impart culture.
S: The first considers that the sole purpose of education is to provide opportunities for growth.
S6: No actual education proceeds wholly and completely on any one of the theories.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PQSR
c) SRPQ
d) SRQP
10. S1: We don't see many banyan trees in our cities now-a-days.
P: But in our overcrowded cities, where there is barely enough living space for people, banyan trees don't have much of a chance.
Q: These trees like to have plenty of space in which to spread themselves out.
R: Of course, many parks have banyan trees.
S: After all, a full grown banyan takes up as large an area as a three-storey apartment building.
S6: And every village has at least one.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QPSR
c) RSPQ
d) SRPQ