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Category: Sentence & Paragraph Skills
Topic: Ordering of Sentences
Exercise: Ordering of Sentences -1
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In questions below, each passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence are given in the begining. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences.

Question 71

S1: Sun birds are among the smallest of Indian birds.

P : Though they are functionally similar to the humming birds of the New World, they are totally unrelated.

Q : They do eat insects too.

R : They are also some of the most brilliantly coloured birds.

S : sun birds feed on nectar mostly and helped in pollination.

S6: Our common sun birds are the purple sun bird, the glossy black species and purple rumped sun bird, the yellow and maroon species.

The Proper sequence should be:

A SQPR

B RPSQ

C QPRS

D PSRQ

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Question 72

S1: For decades, American society has been calling a melting pot

P : Differences remained - in appearence, mannerisms, customs, speech, religion and more.

Q : The term has long been a cliche and half-truth.

R : But homogenisation was never acheived.

S : Yes, immigrants from diverse cultures and traditions did cast off vestiges of their native lands and become almost imperceptibly woven in to the American fabric.

S6: In recent years, such differences accentuated by the arrival of immigrants from Asia and other parts of the world in the United States - have become something to celebrate and to nurture.

The Proper sequence should be:

A QRSP

B SQRP

C SQPR

D QSRP

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Question 73

S1: Far away in a little street there is a poor house.

P : Her face is thin and worn and her hands are coarse, pricked by a needle, for she is a seam stress.

Q : One of the windows is open and through it I can see a poor woman.

R : He has a fever and asking for oranges.

S : In a bed in a corner of the room her little boy is lying ill.

S6: His mother has nothing to give but water, so he is crying.

The Proper sequence should be:

A SRQP

B PQSR

C QPSR

D RSPQ

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Question 74

S1: 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

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Question 75

S1: 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

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Question 76

S1: 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

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Question 77

S1: 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

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Question 78

S1: 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

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