English Practice Questions with Explanation (Sentence Rearrangement) Set-19:
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Direction (Q. 1-10): In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S1) and the final sentence (S6) are given. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as A), B), C) and D). You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the five alternatives.
1). S1:Discussions on drug addiction should also be concerned with the vast majority of people who are not addicts.
A) What makes him dangerous is the desperate need for money to buy the next dose.
B)Their homes and lives are insecure because our narcotics laws drive such people to crime.
C)Drugs are available only in an illegal black market.
D)The drug addict is almost never dangerous when he is under the influence of drugs.
S6:The costs are stupendous, and this is what drives the addict to steal, rob and even kill.
a) DBAC
b) BDAC
c) BDCA
d) DACB
e) DCBA
2).S1: Many doctors flatly refused to believe Jenner when he announced that he had found a preventive against smallpox.
A) Some of the ‘vacca’ used by Jenner were not pure and some harms were done; but when supplies of pure vaccine were available, the practice of vaccinating spread all over England and from England to other countries.
B)The Latin word for cow is ‘vacca’; it is the root from which the word vaccination was formed.
C) They declared vaccination to be a dangerous practice.
D) But the dread of smallpox was in everybody’s heart, and people flocked to Jenner to be vaccinated.
S6: We hardly hear of outbreaks of smallpox now.
a) ADCB
b) CABD
c) BCAD
d) DCBA
e) CDBA
3).S1: The sky was already full of rusting wings.
A) The house above the world had its huge bay-windows through which one could see the horizon from one edge to the other.
B)Then he suddenly swam back to land and clambered up the winding path to his house.
C) But when Jean stepped into the still lusterless water, he seemed to be swimming in an indeterminate darkness until he saw the streaks of red and gold over the horizon.
D) After a great deal of panting he reached a little gate, pushed it open and climbed a stairway.
S6: Here, no one complained of exhaustion; everyone had his joy to conquer, every day.
a) CBDA
b) BCAD
c) ADBC
d) DACB
e) ACBD
4).S1: Fortunately, it is as yet only through fantasy that we can see what the destruction of the scholarly and scientific disciplines would mean to mankind.
A) The ability of the man of disciplined mind to direct this power effectively upon problems for which he has not specifically trained is proved by examples without number.
B)The sheer power of disciplined thought is revealed in practically all the great intellectual and technological advances which the human race has made.
C) The real evidence for the value of liberal education lies in history and in the biographies of men who have met the valid criteria of greatness.
D) From history we can learn what their existence has meant.
S6:These support overwhelmingly the claim of liberal education that it can equip a man with fundamental powers of decision and action, applicable not only to boy-girl relationship, to tinkering hobbies, or to choosing the family dentist, but to all the great and varied concerns of human life not least, those that are unforeseen.
a) ACBD
b) DCAB
c) DBAC
d) BDCA
e) CADB
5).S1: The art of growing old is one which the passage of time has forced upon my attention.
A) Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past.
B)It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days.
C) This is not always easy; one’s past is a gradually increasing weight.
D) One’s thoughts must be directed to the future.
S6:The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth on the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality.
a) DBCA
b) CBDA
c) BDAC
d) ABDC
e) ADCB
6).S1: It is said that ideas are explosive and dangerous; to allow them unfettered freedom is, in fact, to invite disorder.
A) It is impossible to draw a line round dangerous ideas, and any attempt at their definition involves monstrous folly.
B)But, to this position, there are at least two final answers.
C) For disorder is not a habit of mankind.
D) If views, moreover, which imply disorder, are able to disturb the foundations of the state, there is something supremely wrong with the governance of the state.
S6:We cling so eagerly to our accustomed ways that, as even Burke insisted; popular violence is always the outcome of a deep popular sense of wrong.
a) DABC
b) BDCA
c) CADB
d) ACBD
e) BADC
7).S1: The psychological causes of unhappiness, it is clear, are many and various; but all have something in common.
A) A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion.
B)There is, however, a further development which is very common in the present day.
C) The typical unhappy man is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, comes to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other, and has therefore given to his life a one-side direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it.
D) He then becomes a devotee of ‘pleasure’. This is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive.
S6:Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide – the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
a) ABDC
b) DACB
c) CBAD
d) BDCA
e) ACDB
8).S1: The world is very full of people-appallingly-full, it has never been so full before, and they are all tumbling over each other.
A) The other way is much less thrilling, but it is on the whole the way of the democracies, and I prefer it.
B)Most of these people one doesn’t know and some of them one doesn’t like.
C) Well, what is one to do? There are two solutions. One of them is the Nazi solution.
D) If you don’t like people, kill them, banish them, and segregate them.
S6: If you don’t like people, put up with them as well as you can; don’t try to love them; you can’t, you’ll only strain yourself. But try to tolerate them.
a) ADBC
b) DABC
c) BCAD
d) BCDA
e) ACDB
9).S1: We should preserve nature to preserve life and beauty.
A) A beautiful landscape, full of green vegetation, will not just attract our attention but will fill us with infinite satisfaction.
B)Man will perish without Nature, so modern man should continue this struggle to save plants, which give us oxygen, from extinction.
C) In a few places, some Natural reserves are now being carved out to avert the danger of destroying Nature completely.
D) Unfortunately, because of modernization, much of nature is now yielding to towns, roads and industrial areas.
S6:Moreover, Nature’s essential to man’s health.
a) ADCB
b) CABD
c) BCAD
d) DCBA
e) CDBA
10).S1: In nearly all human populations a majority of individuals can taste the artificially synthesized chemical phenylthiocarbamide (PTC).
A) Among European populations 90% of individuals have a sticky yellow variety rather than a dry, gray one, whereas in northern China these numbers are approximately the reverse. Perhaps like PTC variability, cerumen variability is an incidental expression of something more adaptively significant.
A) Among European populations 90% of individuals have a sticky yellow variety rather than a dry, gray one, whereas in northern China these numbers are approximately the reverse. Perhaps like PTC variability, cerumen variability is an incidental expression of something more adaptively significant.
B)A somewhat more puzzling human polymorphism is the genetic variability in earwax, or cerumen, which is observed in two varieties.
C) That this polymorphism is observed in non-human primates as well indicates a long evolutionary history which, although obviously not acting on PTC, might reflect evolutionary selection for taste discrimination of other, more significant bitter substances, such as certain toxic plants.
D) However, the percentage varies dramatically--from as low as 60% in India to as high as 95% in Africa.
S6: Indeed, the observed relationship between cerumen and odorous bodily secretions, to which non-human primates and, to lesser extent humans, pay attention suggests that during the course of human evolution genes affecting body secretions, including cerumen, came under selective influence.
a) ACBD
b) DCAB
c) DBAC
d) BDCA
e) CADB
1) b; 2) e; 3) a; 4) c; 5) d; 6) e; 7) c; 8) d; 9) a; 10) b;
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