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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.

1 .
S1:    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

Correct Answer : Option (C) - QSRP

2 .
S1:    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)
SQRP
B)
RSQP
C)
SQPR
D)
RSPQ

Correct Answer : Option (C) - SQPR

3 .
S1:    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)
QRPS
B)
SQPR
C)
SPQR
D)
PQRS

Correct Answer : Option (B) - SQPR

4 .
S1:    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)
QSRP
B)
QSPR
C)
SQRP
D)
SQPR

Correct Answer : Option (A) - QSRP

5 .
S1:    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)
PSQR
B)
QRPS
C)
RQSP
D)
SQRP

Correct Answer : Option (B) - QRPS

6 .
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 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)
PRSQ
B)
QSRP
C)
RSQP
D)
SRQP

Correct Answer : Option (D) - SRQP

7 .
S1:    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)
SRQP
B)
QPRS
C)
QRSP
D)
SQRP

Correct Answer : Option (C) - QRSP

8 .
S1:    Satyajit Ray made several films for children.
P :    Later film makers have followed his lead.
Q :    Today other nations are making the children's film in a big way.
R :    This was at a time when no director considered children as potential audience.
S :    Ray was, thus, a pioneer in the field.
S6:    But today few think of Ray as a maker of children's films.

The Proper sequence should be:
A)
RSPQ
B)
RSQP
C)
SQRP
D)
PSRQ

Correct Answer : Option (A) - RSPQ

9 .
S1:    The Hound of Baskervilles was feared by the people of the area.
P :    Some people spoke of seeing a huge, shadowy form a Hound at midnight on the moor.
Q :    But they spoke of it in tones of horror.
R :    Nobody had actually seen the hound.
S :    This shadowy form did not reveal any details about the animal.
S6:    The Hound of Baskervilles remains an unsolved mystery.

The Proper sequence should be:
A)
PQRS
B)
SPQR
C)
PSRQ
D)
SPRQ

Correct Answer : Option (C) - PSRQ

10 .
S1:    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)
PQSR
D)
SRPQ

Correct Answer : Option (D) - SRPQ