Verbal Ability - Ordering of Sentences
Exercise : Ordering of Sentences - Section 1
- Ordering of Sentences - Section 1
Directions to Solve
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.
11.
| 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. |
12.
| 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. |
13.
| S1: | A gentleman who lived alone always had two plates placed on the table at dinner time. |
| P : | One day just as he sat down to dine, the cat rushed in to the room. |
| Q : | One plate was for himself and other was for his cat. |
| R : | she drooped a mouse into her own plate and another into her master plate. |
| S : | He used to give the cat a piece of meat from his own plate. |
| S6: | In this way the cat showed her gratitude to her master. |
14.
| S1: | Ants eat worms, centipedes and spiders. |
| P : | They are usually much quicker than the ant itself. |
| Q : | Nevertheless, these animals do not make easy game for ants. |
| R : | Besides, they have an extraordinary number of ways of escaping. |
| S : | They also eat larvae and insect adults such as flies, moths and spring tails. |
| S6: | Some jump, and some give out a pungent repellent substance. |
15.
| 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. |
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