Para Jumbles: Moderate Level

Directions: In the following exercise, the first and last sentence of a paragraph is given as S1 and S6. The remaining sentences of the paragraph are jumbled in various parts, i.e. P, R, R and S. Rearrange these four parts into a logical order to make a coherent paragraph.

S1: The mother tongue is the true vehicle of mother wit.

P: Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas.

Q: It is through the vernacular that the new conceptions of mind should press their way to birth in speech.

R: But the mother tongue is one with the air in which a man is born.

S: This is almost universally true, except in cases so rare as to emphasis the general rule.

S6: A man's native speech is almost like his shadow, inseparable from his personality.

S1: Egypt is located in North-East of Africa.

P: The land should be productive.

Q: It is on the coast of Mediterranean Sea.

R: The most important thing is not just the area

S: Its area is almost four times that of England

S6: Egypt is mostly desert or semi-desert.

Options
a. RPQS

S1: Life is hazardous.

P: And prey have evolved adaptations that reduce the risk of being eaten.

Q: Many animals are killed and eaten by other animals.

R: And many predators die from starvation because they fail to secure prey.

S: Predators have continued to evolve adaptations that enable them to locate and kill prey.

S6: Everything points to a special kind of arms race with elaborate strategies and counter strategies for attack and defence.
Options
a. QRSP

S1: Music, like literature, is an art that deals with sound.

P: Literature makes use of words which are sounds.

Q: They also have meanings

R: And the writer must be concerned with the effect produced by the sounds he uses.

S: But the words are not only sounds.

S6: They refer to specific things other than themselves such as objects and ideas.

Options
a. RPSQ

S1. Several sub-cities have been planned around the capital.

P: Dwarka is the first among them.

Q: They are expected to alleviate the problems 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 acute as present after these sub-cities are built.

Options
a. QPRS

S1: Urban problems differ from State to State and city to city.

P: Most of the cities have neither water nor the required pipelines.

Q: The population of these cities has grown beyond the planners' expectations.

R: However, certain basic problems are common to all the cities.

S: Only broad macro-planning was done for such cities, without envisaging the future growth and this has failed to meet the requirements.

S6: There is no underground drainage system in most cities and the narrow historical roads are already congested.

Options
a. RQPS

S1: He took two cigarettes from my case.

P: But when the fit of coughing was over, he replaced it between his lips.

Q: He lit one of them and placed it between the lips.

R: Then with the feeble hand he removed the cigarette.

S: Slowly he took a pull at it and coughed violently.

S6: Then he continued to draw on it.

Options
a. QSRP

S1: Widowhood in India used to be specially miserable.

P: There are 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 and disapproval.
Options
a. RSQP
b. SPQR
c. PRSQ
d. QSPR

9. 
S1: It is very easy to acquire bad habits.
P: If we do not continue to do it, we feel unhappy.
Q: The more we do a thing, The more we tend to like doing it.
R: The force of habit should be fought against.
S: This is called the force of habit.
S6: Even good things should be done time to time only.
Options
 a. QPSR
b. SQRP
c. PSQR
d. RPSQ

10.
S1: The similarity between the human body and a machine is rather superficial.
P: Beyond that, comparison fails.
Q: No machine grows in size; no machine sees, hears or feel.
R: It can be summed up in the statement that both require fuel and oxygen and obtain energy.
S: No machine thinks.
S6: The point of difference far outweigh the point ofresemblance.
Options
a. RPSQ
b. SQPR
c. RPQS
d. QSPR

Answer key

1. c
2. d
3. a
4. c
5. a
6. b
7. a
8. d
9.  a
10. c 

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