1. Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race.
P : One may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way of greetings when he meets someone he knows.
Q : A man of another country will not to do so.
R : It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth.
S : Obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country.
S6: In any case, we should not mock at others habits.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RPQS
b) RPSQ
c) PRQS
d) QPRS
2. Throughout history man has used energy from the sun.
P : Today, when we burn wood or use electric current we are drawing an energy.
Q : However we now have a new supply of energy.
R : All our ordinary life depends on sun.
S : This has come from the sun.
S6: This energy comes from inside atoms.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SQPR
b) RQPS
c) QSRP
d) PSRQ
3. This weather-vane often tops a church spire, tower or high building.
P : They are only wind-vanes.
Q : Neither alone can tell us what the weather will be.
R : They are designed to point to direction from which the wind is coming.
S : Just as the barometer only tells us the pressure of air, the weather-vane tells us the direction of wind.
S6: The weather-vane can, however give us some indication of other.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PSRQ
c) PRSQ
d) SPQR
4. But how does a new word get into the dictionary?
P : When a new dictionary is being edited, a lexicographer collects all the alphabetically arranged citation slips for a particular word.
Q : The dictionary makers notice it and make a note of it on a citation slip.
R : The moment new word is coined, it usually enter the spoken language.
S : The word then passes from the realm of hearing to the realm of writing.
S6: He sorts them according to their grammatical function, and carefully writes a definition.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PRSQ
c) RQPS
d) RSQP
5. Growing up means not only getting larger, but also using our sense and our brain is to become more aware of things around us.
P : Not only does he have a memory but he is able to think and reason.
Q : In this, man differs from all other animals.
R : Before we spray our roadside plants or turn sewage in to our rivers, we should pause to think what the results of our action are likely to do.
S : This is to say, he is able to plan what he is is going to do in the light of his experience before he does it.
S6: In other words, we must develop and use our ability to reason, because the destruction or the preservation of the places in which we live depend on us.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QRSP
b) SPQR
c) SPRQ
d) QPSR
6. Palaeobotany is the study of fossil plants preserved in rocks dating back in millions of years.
P : Records of the history of the world are contained in fossils.
Q : Through the ages, plants have evolved from simple to more complex forms.
R : First there were water plants then land plants appeared during the Paleozoic era.
S : But since the fossil remains appear locked in rock layers, they are closely related to the geologist area of investigation.
S6: The fossil plants indicate the age of the rock, and also point to facts regarding climate, temperature and topography.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RQSP
b) SQRP
c) PSQR
d) QRPS
7. On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street cafe.
P : At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me, a single gold tooth and a dingy fez.
Q : soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me.
R : But this one wouldn't budge.
S : We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them.
S6: Finally a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy this guy is your waiter and he wants your order".
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SQRP
b) SQPR
c) QSRP
d) QSPR
8. And then Gandhi came.
P : Get off the backs of these peasants and workers, he told us, all you who live by their exploitation.
Q : He was like a powerful current of fresh air, like a beam of light, like a whirlwind that upset many things.
R : He spoke their language and constantly dre their attention to their appalling conditions.
S : He didn't descent from the top, he seemed to emerge from the masses of India.
S6: Political freedom took new shape and then acquired a new content.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QSRP
b) SRQP
c) RSQP
d) PRSQ
9. Biological evolution has not fitted man to any specific environment.
P : It is by no means a biological evolution, but it is a cultural one.
Q : His imagination, his reason, his emotional subtlety and toughness, makes it possible for him not to accept the environment but to change.
R : And that series of inventions by which man from age by age has reshaped his environment is a different kind of evolution.
S : Among the multitude of animals which scamper, burrow swim around us he is in the only one who is not locked in to his environment.
S6: That brilliant sequence of cultural peaks can most appropriately be termed the ascent of man.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPRS
b) SRQP
c) QRSP
d) SQRP
10. The dictionary is the best friend of you task.
P : That may not be possible always.
Q : It is wise to look it up immediately.
R : Then it must be firmly written on the memory and traced at the first opportunity.
S : Never allow a strange word to pass unchallenged.
S6: soon you will realize that this is an exciting task.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) SPQR
c) QRPS
d) SQPR
11. An elderly lady suddenly became blind.
P : The doctor called daily and every time he took away some of her furniture he liked.
Q : At last she was cured and the doctor demanded his fee.
R : She agreed to pay a large fee to the doctor who would cure her.
S : On being refused, the doctor wanted to know the reason.
S6: The lady said that she had not been properly cured because she could not see all his furniture.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) RPQS
c) RSPQ
d) RQPS
12. What are the causes of our chronic food shortage ?
P : To find for these growing new millions is desperate task.
Q : every year, we add more than a crore of persons to our population.
R : Despite stupendous efforts by our government, the population is growing unabated.
S : The chief cause is the population explosion.
S6: This unprecedented growth can drag us to the doors of starvation very soon.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QRSP
b) SQPR
c) QPRS
d) PSQR
13. Our ancestors thought that anything which moved itself was alive.
P : The philosopher Descartes thought that both men and animals were machines.
Q : But a machine such as a motorcar or a steamship moves itself, as soon as machines which moved themselves had been made, people asked "Is man a machine?"
R : And before the days of machinery that was a good definition.
S : He also thought that the human machine was partly controlled by the soul action on a certain part of the brain, while animals had no souls.
S6: Therefore some scientists think that life is just a very complicated mechanism.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) RPQS
c) PSQR
d) RQPS
14. Payment for imports and exports is made through a system called foreign exchange.
P : The value of the money of one country in relation to the money of other countries is agreed upon.
Q : These rates of exchange vary from time to time.
R : For instance, an American dollar or a British pound sterling is worth certain amounts in the money of other countries.
S : Sometimes a United States dollar is worth 12 pesos in Mexico.
S6: Another time it may be worth eight pesos.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QPRS
c) PRQS
d) RPQS
15. Moncure Conway devoted his life to two great objects freedom of thought, and freedom of the individual.
P : They threaten both kinds of freedom.
Q : But something also has been lost.
R : There are now dangers, somewhat different in form from those of the past ages.
S : In regard to both these objects, something has been gained since his time.
S6: Unless a vigorous and vigilant public opinion can be aroused in defence of them, there will be much less of both a hundred years hence then there is now.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QSPR
c) SQRP
d) RSPQ
16. Reliogion is not a matter of mere dogmatic conformity.
P : It is not merely going through the ritual prescribed to us.
Q : It is not a question of ceremonial piety.
R : Unless that kind of transformation occurs, you are not an authentically religious man.
S : It is the remarking of your own self, the transformation of your nature.
S6: A man of that character is free from fear, free from hatred.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SPRQ
b) QPSR
c) PSRQ
d) SPQR
17. We speak today of self-determination in politics.
P : So long as one is conscious of a restraint, it is possible to resist it or to near it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit.
Q : Slavery begins when one ceases to feel that restraint and it depends on if the evil is accepted as good.
R : There is, however, a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture to another.
S : Political subjection primarily means restraint on the outer life of people.
S6: Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SPRQ
b) RSQP
c) SPQR
d) RSPQ
18. Once upon a time an ant lived on the bank of river.
P : The dove saw the ant struggling in water in a helpless condition.
Q : All its efforts to come up is failed.
R : One day it suddenly slipped in to water.
S : A dove lived in the tree on the bank not far from the spot.
S6: She was touched.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RQSP
b) QRPS
c) SRPQ
d) PQRS
19. The December dance and music season in Madras is like the annual tropical cyclone.
P : A few among the new aspirants dazzle witht he colour of youth, like fresh saplings.
Q : It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight.
R : Thick clouds expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements.
S : At the end of it one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-routed trees.
S6: Many a hastily planed shrub gets washed away in the storm.
The Proper sequence should be
a) RQPS
b) QRPS
c) RQSP
d) QRSP
20. 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 beside was "I say Ramanujan, I thought the number of 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) RPQS
b) RPSQ
c) PRQS
d) QPRS
21. A force of exists between everybody in the universe.
P : Normally it is very small but when the one of the bodies is a planet, like earth, the force is considerable.
Q : It has been investigated by many scientists including Galileo and Newton.
R : Everything on or near the surface of the earth is attracted by the mass of earth.
S : This gravitational force depends on the mass of the bodies involved.
S6: The greater the mass, the greater is the earth's force of attraction on it. We can call this force of attraction gravity.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRQS
b) PRSQ
c) QSRP
d) QSPR
22. Calcutta unlike other cities kepts its trams.
P : As a result there horrendous congestion.
Q : It was going to be the first in South Asia.
R : They run down the centre of the road.
S : To ease in the city decided to build an underground railway line.
S6: The foundation stone was laid in 1972.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) PSQR
c) SQRP
d) RPSQ
23. For some time in his youth Abraham Lincoln was manager for a shop.
P : Then a chance Customer would come.
Q : Young Lincoln way of keeping shop was entirely unlike anyone else's.
R : Lincoln would jump up and attend to his needs and then revert to his reading.
S : He used to lie full length on the counter of the shop eagerly reading a book.
S6: Never before had Lincoln had so much time for reading as had then.
The Proper sequence should be
a) SRQP
b) QSPR
c) SQRP
d) QPSR
24. All the land was covered by the ocean.
P : The leading god fought the monster, killed it and chopped its body in to two halves.
Q : A terrible monster prevented the gods from separating the land from the water.
R : The god made the sky out of the upper part of the body and ornamented it with stars.
S : The god created the earth from the lower part, grew plants on it and populated it with animals.
S6: The god moulded the first people out of clay according to his own image and mind.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PQSR
c) QPSR
d) QPRS
25. Smoke oozed up between the planks.
P : Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.
Q : The rising gale fanned the smouldering fire.
R : Everyone now knew there was fire on board.
S : Flames broke out here and there.
S6: Most people bore the shock bravely.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SRQP
b) QPSR
c) RSPQ
d) QSRP
26. A noise started above their heads.
P : But people did not take it seriously.
Q : That was to show everyone that there was something wrong.
R : It was a dangerous thing to do.
S : For, within minutes the ship began to sink.
S6: Nearly 200 lives were lost on the fateful day.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQSR
b) PRQS
c) QPRS
d) QPSR
27. American private lies 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) RQPS
d) RPSQ
28. The path of Venus lies inside the path of the Earth.
P : When at its farthest from the Earth, Venus is 160 million away
Q : With such a wide range between its greatest and leat distances it is natural that at sometimes Venus appears much brighter than at others.
R : No other body ever comes so near the Earth, with the exception of the Moon and occasional comet or asteroid.
S : When Venus is at its nearest to the earth it is only 26 million miles away.
S6: When at its brightest, it is easily seen with the naked eye in broad daylight.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SRPQ
b) SQRP
c) PSQR
d) QPRS
29. In India marriages are usually arranged by parents.
P : Sometimes boys and girls do not like th idea of arranged marriages.
Q : Most young people accepts the state of affairs.
R : Shanta was like that.
S : They assume their parents can make good choices.
S6: She felt she was a modern girl and not subject for bargaining.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SPRQ
b) PSRQ
c) QSPR
d) RQPS
30. She said on the phone that she would report for duty next day.
P : We waited for few days then we decided to go to her place.
Q : But she did not.
R : we found it locked.
S : Even after that we waited for her quite a few days.
S6: Eventually we reported to the police.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) QPSR
c) QPRS
d) SQPR
31. You know my wife, Madhavi, always urged me to give up smoking.
P : I really gave it up.
Q : And so When I went to jail I said to myself I really must give it up, if for no other reason than of being self-reliant.
R : When I emerged from jail, I wanted to tell her of my great triumph.
S : But when I met her, there she was with a packet of cigarettes.
S6: poor girl!.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) SPQR
c) QPRS
d) RSPQ
32. When a satellite is launched, the rocket begins by going slowly upwards through the air.
P : However, the higher it goes, the less air it meets.
Q : As the rocket goes higher, it travels faster.
R : For the atmosphere becomes thinner.
S : As a result there is less friction.
S6: Consequently, the rocket still does not become too hot.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPRS
b) QSPR
c) PQRS
d) PQSR
33. A father having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to slip into a pub for a glass of beer.
P : Indignant at her husband's behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson.
Q : She wheeled away the pram.
R : A little later, his wife came by, where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby.
S : Leaving the pram outside, he disappeared inside the bar.
S6: She waited for him, anticipating the white face and quivering lips which would soon appear with the news that the baby had been stolen.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SRPQ
b) RQPS
c) SPQR
d) PQSR
34. The city is almost a slum and stinks most of time.
P : The slush on the road did not deter them.
Q : The occasional slips and falls were considered a small price to pay for the trip.
R : They were excited, fascinated by the sight of fresh snow on the roads.
S : Even so, it looked beautiful to tourists of various categories.
S6: But some visitors came away with the unforgettable sight of young labours scantily clad.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RQPS
b) QPRS
c) RSQP
d) SPQR
35. Venice is a strange and beautiful city in the north of Italy.
P : There are about four hundred old stone bridges joining the island of Venice.
Q : In this city there are no motor cars, no horses, no buses.
R : These small islands are near one another.
S : It is not an island but a hundred and seventeen islands.
S6: This is because Venice has no streets.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PRQS
c) SRPQ
d) PQSR
36. The Bhagavadgita recognises the nature of man and the needs of man.
P : All these three aspects constitute the nature of man.
Q : It shows how the human being is rational one, an ethical one and a spiritual one.
R : More than all, it must be a spiritual experience.
S : Nothing can give him fulfilment unless it satisfies his reason, his ethical conscience.
S6: A man whom does not harmonise them, is not truly human.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) RSPQ
c) QPSR
d) PSQR
37. I usually sleep quite well in the train, but this time I slept only a little.
P : Most people wanted it shut and I wanted it open.
Q : As usual, I got angry about the window.
R : The quarrel left me completely upset.
S : There were too many people too much huge luggage all around.
S6: It was shut all night, as usual.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RSQP
b) SQPR
c) SQRP
d) RSPQ
38. In 1934, William Golding published a small volume of poems.
P : During the World War II(1939-45) he joined the Royal Navy and was present at the sinking of the Bismarck.
Q : He returned to teaching in 1945 and gave it up in 1962, and is now a full time writer.
R : In 1939, he married and started teaching at Vishop Wordsworth school in Salisbury.
S : At first his novels were not accepted.
S6: But the Lord of the files which came out in 1954 was welcomed as "a most absorbing and instructive tale".
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RPQS
b) RPSQ
c) SRPQ
d) SQPR
39. The future beckons to us.
P : In fact we have hard work ahead.
Q : Where do we go and what shall be our endeavour?
R : We shall also have to fight and end poverty, ignorance and disease.
S : It will be to bring freedom and oppurtunity to the common man.
S6: There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QPSR
c) QSRP
d) SRPQ
40. Most of the universities in the country are now facing financial crisis.
P : Cost benefit yardstick thus should not be applied in the case of universities.
Q : The current state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue for long.
R : Universities cannot be equated with commercial enterprises.
S : Proper development of universities and colleges must be ensured.
S6: The Government should realise this before it is too late.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QRPS
b) QSPR
c) QRSP
d) QPRS
41. 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) SQPR
b) QSPR
c) QRSP
d) RSQP
42. A ceiling on urban property.
P : No mill-owner could own factories or mills or plants.
Q : And mass circulation papers.
R : Would mean that.
S : No press magnate could own printing presses.
S6: since their value would exceed the ceiling fixed by the government.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QSRP
b) RPSQ
c) SRPQ
d) QPSR
43. 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 thought must be directed to the future and to things about which there 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 friend who are dead.
S6: This is not always easy one's own past is gradually increasing weight.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QSRP
b) RPQS
c) RPSQ
d) QPRS
44. I keep on flapping my big ears all day.
P : They also fear that I will flip them all away.
Q : But children wonder why I flap them so.
R : I flap them so to make sure they are safely there on either side of my head.
S : But I know what I am doing.
S6: Am I not a smart, intelligent elephant?
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SRQP
b) QPSR
c) QPRS
d) PSRQ
45. Once King Shantnu met a young and beautiful fisher girl.
P : He went to the fisherman and asked him for her asked him for her hand in marriage.
Q : The King was extremely sad and returned to his palace.
R : He fell in love with the fisher girl.
S : The fisherman agreed to it condition that the son of his daughter should be heir to the throne of Hastinapur.
S6: Devavrata, the King's son, asked him the reason of his sadness.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) RPSQ
c) QSPR
d) PSQR
46. There is only one monkey we can thoroughly recommend as an indoor pet.
P : They quickly die from colds and coughs after the first winter fogs.
Q : It is beautiful and intelligent Capuchin monkey.
R : The lively little Capuchins, however, may be left for years in an English house without the least danger to their health.
S : The Marmosets, it is true, are more beautiful than a Capuchins and just as pleasing, but they are too delicate for the English climate.
S6: Finally let me say that no other monkey has a better temper or winning ways.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QRPS
c) QSPR
d) RPSQ
47. A man can be physically confined within stone walls.
P : But his mind and spirit will still be free.
Q : Thus his freedom of action may be restricted.
R : His hopes and aspiration still remain with him.
S : Hence, he will be free spiritually if not physically.
S6: No tyranny can intimidate a lover of liberty.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) SRQP
c) QPRS
d) QPSR
48. Once upon atime there lived three young men in a certain town of Hindustan.
P : All the people of the neighbourhood were mortally afraid of them.
Q : They were so powerful that they could catch growing lions and tear them to pieces.
R : Someone told them that they would become immortal if they killed Death.
S : The young men believed themselves to be very good friends.
S6: All of them set out in search of their foe called Death.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPRS
b) SQPR
c) RSQP
d) SRPQ
49. Metals are today being replaced by polymers in many applications.
P : Above all, they are cheaper and easier to process making them a viable alternative to metals.
Q : Polymers are essentially a long chains of hydrocarbon molecules.
R : Today polymers as strong as metals have been developed.
S : These have replaced the traditional chromium-plated metallic bumpers in cars.
S6: Many Indian Institutes of science and Technology run special programmes on polymer science.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QRSP
b) RSQP
c) RQSP
d) QRPS
50. Since the sixties there has been an increasing interest in neurophysiology, which deals with the neural bases of mental activity and behaviour.
P : It has format which is very similar to that of Brain and Language, a sister journal.
Q : Since then, a number of journals devoted entirely to this area of research have appeared.
R : Before the 1960's when this field was the concern of a small number of investigators, research articles were scattered in various neurological journals.
S : Brain and cognition is one such journal.
S6: So far the journal has published the mixture of articles including reports and investigations.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) RQSP
b) QRSP
c) QSPR
d) RSPQ
51.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
52. 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
53.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
54. 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
55. 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
56. 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
57. 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
58.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
59. 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
60. 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
61.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
62. 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
63.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
64. 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
65. 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
66.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
67. 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
68. 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
69.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
70. 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
71.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
72. 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
73.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
74. 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
75. 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
76. 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
77. 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
78. 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
79. 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
80. 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
81.S1: A father, having offered to take the baby out in a perambulator, was tempted by the sunny morning to slip into a pub for a glass of beer.
P: Indignant at her husband's behaviour, she decided to teach him a lesson.
Q: She wheeled away the pram.
R: A little later, his wife came by, where to her horror, she discovered her sleeping baby.
S: Leaving the pram outside, he disappeared inside the bar.
S6: She waited for him, anticipating the white face and quivering lips which would soon appear with the news that the baby had been stolen.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) RQPS
c) SPQR
d) SRPQ
82. S1: In the present day it is not necessary that generals or great officers should fight with their own hands, because it is their duty to direct he movements of their followers.
P: But in the ancient times, kings and great lords were obliged to put themselves into the very front.
Q: Therefore, it was of great consequence that they should be strong men and dexterous in the use of their arms.
R: The artillery and the soldiers shoot at the enemy, and men seldom mingle and fight hand to hand.
S: They fought like ordinary men with the lance and other weapons.
S6: Robert Bruce was so remarkably active and powerful that he came through many personal dangers.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQSR
b) QRSP
c) RPSQ
d) SQRP
83.S1: And then Gandhi came.
P: Get off the backs of these peasants and workers, he told us, all you who live by their exploitation.
Q: He was like a powerful current of fresh air, like a beam of light, like a whirlwind that upset many things.
R: He spoke their language and constantly drew their attention to their appalling conditions.
S: He didn't descend from the top, he seemed to emerge from the masses of India.
S6: Political freedom took new shape then and acquired a new content then.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRSQ
b) QSRP
c) RSQP
d) SRQP
84. S1: Love for the country is a necessity.
P: But it should in no way exceed the limits and take the shape of jingoism.
Q: Similarly nationalism has to be sacrificed at the altar of internationalism.
R: There is no reason why the nations of the world cannot treat one another as belonging to one family of nations.
S: Provincialism has to be sacrificed in the interest of the nation as a whole.
S6: God created the globe, but man drew lines on it to demarcate countries and sow the seeds of hatred and enmity on it.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) QRSP
c) RQPS
d) SPRQ
85. S1: There has been an alarming increase in the number of vehicles on Delhi roads.
P: The pedestrians has, however, been the worst sufferer.
Q: There is no place where the pedestrian can move freely without the fear of traffic.
R: Zebra crossings like the pavements are no longer safe.
S: This has further aggravated the problem of pollution in the city.
S6: Should the pedestrians case be allowed to go by default?
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) SPRQ
c) SQRP
d) RSPQ
86. S1: Go to the library and see the clerk.
P: When you have chosen the books you wish to take home, you take them to the clerk with the tickets.
Q: You will probably have to sign a form promising to take care of the books.
R: Then you are usually given two or three ticket with your name and address on them.
S: The clerk keeps the tickets until you return the books.
S6: He stamps the books with a date.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QRPS
c) RQPS
d) SPRQ
87. S1: There were no finger prints anywhere.
P: First of all it was impossible even for a child to enter through the hole in the roof.
Q: When the investigators tried to reconstruct the crime, they came up against facts.
R: Moreover, when the detectives tried to push a silver vase, it was found to be double the sizeof the hole.
S: Again, the size of the hole was examined by the experts who said that nothing had been passed through it.
S6: These conclusions made the detectives think that it was a fake theft.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PSRQ
c) QPRS
d) SQPR
88. S1: In the middle of one side of the square sits the Chairman of the committee, the most important person in the room.
P: For a committee is not just a mere collection of individuals.
Q: On him rests much of the responsibility for the success or failure of the committee.
R: While this is happening we have an opportunity to get the 'feel' of this committee.
S: As the meeting opens, he runs briskly through a number of formalities.
S6: From the moment its members meet, it begins to have a sort nebulous life of its own.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QSRP
c) RSQP
d) SQPR
89. S1: Over the centuries the face of the earth has become crowded with monuments and memorials.
P: Films, pictures and even miniature models can be made of the relics for prosperity interested in knowing about them.
Q: Some people however would contend that antiquity should be preserved for future generations.
R: If they were all to be preserved we will have very little space for other, more useful, things.
S: Personally, I do not agree with their contention.
S6: We must have more space for building new things and developing open countryside.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QRSP
c) RQSP
d) SQRP
90. S1: Helen Keller has an ageless quality about her in keeping with her amazing life story.
P: Although warmed by this human reaction, she has no wish to be set aside from the rest of mankind.
Q: She is an inspiration to both blind and the seeing everywhere.
R: When she visited Japan after World War II, boys and girls from remote villages ran to her, crying "Helen Keller".
S: Blind, deaf and mute from early childhood, she rose above her triple handicap to become one of the best known characters in the modern world.
S6: She believes the blind should live and work with their fellows, with full responsibility.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) SRPQ
b) RSQP
c) SRQP
d) SQRP
91.S1: Evolution is not progress.
P: And yet, for all their differences, it is not wholly wrong to identify evolution with progress.
Q: As a noted scientist had said,"the tapeworm in its inglorious lot in man's intestine is an outcome of evolution as well as the lark at heaven's gate."
R: Three hundred million years after the first land creatures crawled out of the sea, the one-called amoeba is man himself.
S: The physical facts of evolution betray such advance.
S6: For, like progress, evolution does, over the long run, imply betterment.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QPSR
b) RPSQ
c) SPQR
d) SRQP
92. S1: As I say, I was born and brought up in an atmosphere of the confluence of three movements, all of which were revolutionary.
P: I was born in a family which had to live its own life, which led me from my young days to seek guidance for my own self-expression in my own inner standard of judgement.
Q: No poet should borrow his medium ready-made from some shop of respectability.
R: But the language which belonged to the people had to be modulated according to the urging which I as an individual had.
S: The medium of expression, doubtless, was my mother tongue.
S6: He should not only have his own seeds but prepare his own soil.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PQRS
c) PSRQ
d) QSRP
93.S1: Welcome to Madam Tussaud's.
P: Famous faces, notorious faces haunt these halls; royalty, and world leaders mingling with sports stars and murderers.
Q: But don't expect any responses to your smiles or greetings.
R: Don't be surprised at anything you see here.
S: See how many you can recognise.
S6: These life-like, casually posed figures are mere wax statues, though they may look alive.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QRPS
c) RPSQ
d) SQRP
94. S1: In the last few years, there has been increasing realisation of the importance of fibrous diet.
P: Its role in human nutrition was not fully understood.
Q: Plants contain indigestible substances in their cell-walls, and these contain fibre.
R: Later research has thrown light on many other ingredients that are not digested by man.
S: In the early days, people only knew that this fibre prevented constipation.
S6: This has resulted in a better appreciation of the role of fibrous food in human health.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) QSRP
c) SPRQ
d) SQPR
95. S1: The 'age of computers' is considered to have begun in 1946.
P: Those early computers were huge and heavy affairs, with problems of speed and size.
Q: It was only with the introduction of electronics that the computers really came of age.
R: But computers were in use long before that.
S: They had several rotating shafts and gears which almost always doomed them to slow operation.
S6: And now it is difficult to find a field where computers are not used.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PRQS
b) PRSQ
c) RPQS
d) RPSQ
96. S1: Your letter was a big relief.
P: How did your exams go?
Q: After your result, you must come here for a week.
R: You hadn't written for over a month.
S: I am sure you will come out with flying colours.
S6: But don't forget to bring chocolate for Geeta.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSRQ
b) QRPS
c) RPSQ
d) RSPQ
97. S1: Ram Mohan Roy was a lover of his country.
P: He said that it would be a good plan to build an English school or college.
Q: One evening he was talking with David and a few friends on the wisest way of uplifting the mind and character of the people of India.
R: But he thought of subjects beyond watches.
S: David was a watchmaker.
S6: Indians and Europeans met next year to put this idea into shape.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) QSRP
c) RSPQ
d) SPRQ
98. S1: The role of the precious yellow metal is undergoing a dramatic change.
P: In developing countries like India, where gold is used mainly for ornaments, a distinct change in attitude is in the offing.
Q: Slowly, the use of gold in the form of ornaments will be on the decline and even if gold prices shoot up, women folk would not like to sell off their ornaments.
R: The yellow metal will soon be treated as an investment instrument.
S: The maxim, "Larger the gold reserves, richer the country" will not hold good for a long time.
S6: Again, it would not be an economic proposition to buy and sell gold ornaments as an instrument of investment as buying would be costlier and selling will be at a discount.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PSQR
b) PSRQ
c) SPQR
d) SPRQ
99. S1: The December dance and music season in Madras is like the annual tropical cyclone.
P: A few among the new aspirants dazzle with the colour of youth, like fresh saplings.
Q: It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight.
R: Thick clouds of expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements.
S: At the end of it one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well rooted trees.
S6: Many a hastily planted shrub gets washed away in the storm.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) QRPS
b) QRSP
c) RQSP
d) RQPS
100. S1: The coming of the computer sparked the need for remotely operated controls.
P: It is silicon chip that is at the heart of the remote control.
Q: This produces an infra-red beam, which is made up of electromagnetic waves.
R: When you press the button on the remote control, the chip sets off an electronic vibration.
S: The beam carries a coded signal such as switch on, raise volume, etc.
S6: The code is based on binary digits.
The Proper sequence should be:
a) PQRS
b) PQSR
c) PRQS
d) RPQS