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.
41.
| S1: | Growing up means not only getting larger, but also using our sense and our brain is to become more aware of things around us. |
| P : | Not only does he have a memory but he is able to think and reason. |
| Q : | In this, man differs from all other animals. |
| R : | Before we spray our roadside plants or turn sewage in to our rivers, we should pause to think what the results of our action are likely to do. |
| S : | This is to say, he is able to plan what he is is going to do in the light of his experience before he does it. |
| S6: | In other words, we must develop and use our ability to reason, because the destruction or the preservation of the places in which we live depend on us. |
42.
| S1: | Jawaharlal Nehru was the greatest plan-enthusiast. |
| P : | Under Nehru's advice, the pre-Independent congress set up National Planning Commission in 1938. |
| Q : | But he forgot that what could be achieved by force under the communist dictatorship of Russia was not possible under the democratic set up of India. |
| R : | He took the idea from Russia where Five year plans transformed a very backward country into a top power of the world. |
| S : | No free government can call for compulsory sacrifice and suffering from the whole people. |
| S6: | Nehru himself became the chairman of the commission. |
43.
| S1: | Duryodhana was a wicked prince. |
| P : | one day Bhima made Duryodhana fall from a tree from which Duryodhana was stealing fruits. |
| Q : | He did not like that Pandavas should be loved and respected by the people of Hastinapur |
| R : | Duryodhana specially hated Bhima. |
| S : | Among the Pandavas, Bhima was extraordinary strong and powerful |
| S6: | This enraged Duryodhana so much that he began to think of removing Bhima from his way. |
44.
| S1: | Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad on 14 Nov 1889. |
| P : | Nehru meet Mahatma Gandhi in February 1920. |
| Q : | In 1905 he was sent to London to study at a school called Haroow. |
| R : | He became the first Prime Minister of Independent India on 15 August 1947. |
| S : | He married Kamla Kaul in 1915. |
| S6: | He died on 27 May 1964. |
45.
| S1: | It was a dark moonless night. |
| P : | He turned over the pages, reading passages here and there. |
| Q : | He heard them on the floor. |
| R : | The poet took down his books of poems from his shelves. |
| S : | Some of them contained his earliest writings which he had almost forgotten. |
| S6: | They all seemed to him to be poor and ordinary mere childish words. |
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