Practice MCQ Questions and Answer on Ordering of Sentences
191.
S1: One of the most dangerous insect pests is the locust.
P: At first they look just like ordinary grasshoppers, which are harmless and unable to fly very far.
Q: Until about thirty years ago, no one knew where locusts came from or why they appeared in the different countries they attacked.
R: Then they change in appearance and develop wings which enable them to fly long distance.
S: Then it was discovered that there are two stages in the life of locusts.
S6: At this stage, they gather in huge numbers and rise from the ground on theri powerful wings in cloud.
The Proper sequence should be:
- (A) PSQR
- (B) PSRQ
- (C) QSPR
- (D) QSRP
192.
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) SQRP
- (B) SQPR
- (C) QSRP
- (D) QSPR
193.
S1: Today the Earth has many satellites besides the moon.
P: But the pull of the Earth keep them from doing so.
Q: The artificial satellites do not fall because they are going too fast to do so.
R: They are artificial satellites made by man and very much smaller than the man.
S: As they speed along, they tend to go straight off into space.
S6: As a result, they travel in an orbit round the Earth.
The Proper sequence should be:
- (A) PRQS
- (B) QPSR
- (C) RQSP
- (D) SPRQ
194.
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) SRPQ
- (D) PQSR
195.
S1: The motor car is one of the useful gifts of modern science.
P: One of these is the smoke and pollution that it creates.
Q: It has made short and medium distance journeys fast and comfortable.
R: The other is that it has made journey by road hazardous.
S: Yet we can't say that a motor car is a blessing without disadvantages.
S6: Finally in this age of energy crisis a personal car is an expensive thing.
The Proper sequence should be:
- (A) PQRS
- (B) QSPR
- (C) RSPQ
- (D) SPQR
196.
S1: Moncure Conway devoted his life to two great objects freedom of thought, and freedom of the individual.
P : They threaten both kinds of freedom.
Q : But something also has been lost.
R : There are now dangers, somewhat different in form from those of the past ages.
S : In regard to both these objects, something has been gained since his time.
S6: Unless a vigorous and vigilant public opinion can be aroused in defence of them, there will be much less of both a hundred years hence then there is now.
The Proper sequence should be:
- (A) PQRS
- (B) QSPR
- (C) SQRP
- (D) RSPQ
197.
S1: Work with retarded children, in particular, involves superhuman patience and long-delayed rewards.
P: Another woman faithfully spent two hours a day, five days a week, with a bed-ridden retarded girl.
Q: It was three years before the girl made her first cut in a piece of paper.
R: The girl had never before responded to, or recognised anyone.
S: One woman decided to teach a young brain-damaged girl how to use scissors.
S6: After five years, the girl finally began to smile, when her foster grandparents entered the room.
The Proper sequence should be:
- (A) PSQR
- (B) QSPR
- (C) RQSP
- (D) SQPR
198.
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) RQSP
- (B) SQRP
- (C) PSQR
- (D) QRPS
199.
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
200.
S1: Man has existed for about a million years.
P: Science, as a dominant factor in determining the beliefs of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years.
Q: When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.
R: In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force.
S: He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer.
S6: What its future effects will be is a matter of conjecture, but possibly a study of its effects hitherto may make the conjecture a little less hazardous.
The Proper sequence should be:
- (A) PQSR
- (B) PRSQ
- (C) RQPS
- (D) SPRQ