Important Questions BASED on NEW Pattern (Day-4): English (Sentence Rearrangement):
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Direction (Q. 1-10): In each of the questions below, four sentences are given which are denoted by A), B), C) and D). By using all the four sentences you have to frame a meaningful paragraph. The correct order of the sentences is your answer. Choose from the five alternatives the one having the correct order of sentences and mark it as your answer.1. A. This is a clear signal of the gravity with which the government views the situation at Doklam, and the bipartisan iteration of the national interest that New Delhi would like to underline at a time of heightened rhetoric from the Chinese foreign office and media.
B. The Defence, Home and External Affairs Ministers and senior officials, including the National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary, spent two evenings explaining the ground position and the strategy ahead to Opposition leaders representing the political spectrum and different States.
C. The Centre’s briefing to the Opposition on the ongoing stand-off with China on the Doklam plateau was long overdue.
D. The message the government sent, beyond the facts of how the stand-off began, was threefold: that Indian troops now sit across from Chinese troops for a second month at a part of the tri-junction claimed by Bhutan; that India is upholding its commitment to Bhutan with its military presence there; and finally, that it is pursuing all diplomatic options in order to resolve differences with China on the dispute.
1). Answer: C
2. A. Even in the first three months of 2017, the number of cases and deaths were fairly high, at over 6,000 and 160, respectively.
B. Maharashtra could have recorded the highest number of cases and deaths caused by the H1N1 virus because of better awareness and and a relatively more robust surveillance system.
C. According to official data, Maharashtra alone has registered 284 deaths, which by itself is much more than the total mortality figure of 265 in the country as a result of H1N1 in 2016.
D. So far this year, 12,500 people have been infected with the influenza A (H1N1) virus, of which 600 have died.
2). Answer: E
3. A. The Union Cabinet’s in-principle nod to the purchase of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has cleared the decks for India to have its own oil giant.
B. The acquisition is expected to be consummated over the next year with ONGC buying the government’s 51% stake in HPCL.
C. The decision follows the Finance Minister’s announcement in this year’s budget that the government would seek to merge public sector oil companies to create larger entities.
D. This would offer ONGC access to HPCL’s refining and retail facilities.
3). Answer: B
4. A. Mr. Kumar would like two things: keep his government going with the help of the RJD, and, at the same time, protect his own image as a clean politician who will not compromise on the issue of corruption.
B. An alliance forged out of immediate self-interest as opposed to shared, long-term goals allows only for fleeting moments of togetherness.
C. Slowly, but surely, Mr. Kumar is building pressure on Mr. Prasad’s son, Tejaswi Yadav, to step down as Deputy Chief Minister following CBI searches that point to him being a beneficiary of political corruption.
D. The very same high-risk political strategising that drove Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar into the arms of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad is now forcing him to hurriedly disentangle from the tight embrace.
4). Answer: D
5.A. About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of them with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), highlighting the silent spread of the disease.
B. According to a 2015 study, of the over 600 children who had tested positive for TB in four cities, about 10% showed resistance to Rifampicin, a first-line drug.
C. Since the incidence of TB among children is a reflection of the prevalence of the disease in the community at large.
D. Though the actual prevalence of MDR-TB among children in India is not known, the results from a limited number of children tested in this sample, under the Revised National TB Control Programme, is worrying.
5). Answer: A
6. A. he Madras High Court verdict striking down the Tamil Nadu government order that had earmarked 85% of seats in undergraduate medical and dental courses for students from the State Board is no surprise at all.
B. Tamil Nadu had abolished entrance tests in 2006, and since then has been admitting students based on their marks in the qualifying school examination.
C. Once it was laid down by law as well as by the Supreme Court that the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test will be the sole basis for admission to medical courses, it was unlikely that any court would have allowed a classification of students based on the stream through which they passed their higher secondary examinations.
D. The only way out for the State was to get its legislation for an exemption from NEET approved by the President.
6). Answer: E
7. A. These cases involved either suspected fake encounters or the use of excessive or retaliatory force.
B. It has taken the view that the killing of a person who was possibly innocent cannot be overlooked owing to mere lapse of time.
C. By ordering an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation into more than 80 cases of suspected extra-judicial killings in Manipur, the Supreme Court has reiterated the principle of accountability as an essential part of the rule of law.
D. The court has rightly rebuffed an attempt by the government to stall any probe into these deaths on the ground that they were too old to be raked up now.
7). Answer: A
8.A. Evidently, the vigorous national campaign for the rehabilitation of those engaged to manually clean insanitary latrines, and urban structures into which human excreta flows without sewerage, has been unable to break governmental indifference and social prejudice.
B. The recent order of the Madras High Court asking the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government to ensure the strict enforcement of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, in the wake of the death of 30 people engaged in the activity in the State in recent years, points to the malaise.
C. Despite the most stringent penal provisions in the law against manual scavenging, it continues in parts of India.
D. Manual scavenging persists mainly because of the continued presence of insanitary latrines, of which there are about 2.6 million that require cleaning by hand, according to the activist organisation, Safai Karmachari Andolan.
8). Answer: B
9.A. Yet, the manner in which the latest transition was effected has left much bitterness.
B. Ravi Shastri’sappointment as the Indian cricket team’s head coach was a foregone conclusion ever since the strained equation between skipper Virat Kohli and the then coach, Anil Kumble, forced the latter to resign.
C. Kohli has always had a comfortable working relationship with Shastri, who was the team director from 2014 to mid-2016, a phase during which India emerged as the number one Test team besides qualifying for the 2015 World Cup semi-final in Australia.
D. It raises the question whether a captain should have such overwhelming influence in picking the team’s coach.
9). Answer: D
10. A. Economists, including Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, have openly questioned the assumptions made by the majority of the members of the RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee with regard to prices and have urged a reboot of the policy rationale.
B. Core inflation, which strips out the relatively volatile food and fuel prices, has also trended lower and eased below 4% for the first time in at least five years.
C. The latest Consumer Price Index data show headline retail inflation has decelerated to a record low of 1.54% in June.
D. That the reading has slid below the 2% lower bound of the Reserve Bank of India’s medium-term target for CPI inflation has understandably led to calls for the RBI to support economic growth by cutting interest rates.
10). Answer: C
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