Read the following group of sentences. The first and the last are numbered 1 and 6 while all others are given by P,Q,R and S. Arrange these four parts in proper order to form a meaningful sentence/paragraph.
1.Indian Aerospace engineers
P. wise to supplement their engineering.
Q. who are hoping to advance their
R. coursework with courses in writing,
S. careers and earning potential would be
6. communication, management, and business.
RSPQ
PQSR
QSPR
SRQP
Here the correct answer is QSPR.
• The first part of a sentence talks about the noun 'Engineers', which must be referred to or connected with the next part.
• This is only given by Q, which begins with 'who are', directly referring to the noun in the first part.
• So, Q must be the first part of the correct sequence.
• This is only shown by option 3, which gives the sequence QSPR.
Therefore, the correct answer is QSPR.
Question 2:
Directions: Given below are four jumbled sentences.
Out of the given options select the one that gives their correct order.
A. The boat floated down the river and reached the other bank.
B. Thinking that she was dead, her friends secretly took her and abandoned her in a boat.
C. The people on the bank took her to a hospital and saved her.
D. Smelling a flower given by the magician, Shweta fell down unconscious.
DBAC
ACDB
DABC
BCAD
The correct answer is 'DBAC'.
The sentence 'D' is independent of any other sentences as it is giving general information about the noun "Shweta". Hence, 'D' is the first part.
The pronoun "she" mentioned in the sentence 'B' refers back to the noun 'Shweta' mentioned in the sentence 'D'.
Hence, 'B' follows 'D'.
• The "boat" mentioned in the sentence 'A' refers back to the "boat" mentioned in the sentence 'B'.
Hence, 'A' follows 'B'.
The sentence 'C' is the concluding sentence. Hence, 'C' is the last sentence.
Paragraph after rearranging the sentences:
• Smelling a flower given by the magician, Shweta fell down unconscious. Thinking that she was dead, her friends secretly took her and abandoned her in a boat. The boat floated down the river and reached the other bank. The people on the bank took her to a hospital and saved her.
• Important Rules to Solve the Para Jumbles:
• Read the sentences attentively and try to comprehend the idea or theme of the sentence and eliminate the irrelevant options.
• Try to identify the opening (independent sentence) and closing sentences (concluding sentence).
• Try to identify the mandatory pairs. Two sentences can be connected through various connectors and other determinants.
Question 3:
Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A: Reena studied hard for her maths exam.
B: However, Reena completed the paper well in time as she was well prepared
C: Most of the students could not attempt all the questions.
D: The examination paper was tough.
ADCB
DCBA
BACD
ACBD
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. ADCB.
The first sentence should be A as it introduces the subject i.e. Reena studying for exam.
Next sentence should be D as it describes the examination.
•C follows D as it tells what was the response of the students to the examination.
• Last is B as it starts with 'however' and contradicts the previous sentence.
• Hence, the correct sequence is ADCB.
Question 4:
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options pick the one that gives their correct order.
A. This kindness converted his street into a neighbourhood.
B. He and his wife were always ready to lend a helping hand.
C. Mohan was an ideal neighbour in every way.
D. Whether it was lending tools or watering fields, the couple embodied neighbourly kindness.
BDAC
CBDA
CDAB
DBCA
• The correct answer is Option 1.
• The correct answer begins with sentence C as it is introducing a subject 'Mohan'.
• B & D make paired sentences as sentence B is talking about how kind Mohan and his wife are and their readiness to lend a helping hand. It is continued by sentence D saying they were always ready to help whether it was lending tools or watering fields.
• Sentence A is the last sentence as it is giving an overall opinion.
• Therefore, this sequence is followed by option 1 'CBDA'.
Question 5:
Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options pick the one that gives their correct order.
A. Much of this war had taken place along the Western Front.
B. Both sides had dug in deep and each lost many men over little ground.
C. This front was a line of trenches across which the two sides faced each other.
D. Andre Maginot had fought a war with the French against the Germans.
DBCA
BCDA
DACB
ACDB
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. DACB
The passage begins with statement D which introduces the topic at hand - Andre Maginot's fight against the Germans. This is followed by statement A which talks about the war in detail - the Western Front as the location, the comes statement C which talks about the Western Front in further detail and finally comes statement B which talks about how the men on either side dealt with the terrain.
Thus, the correct answer is option 3.
Question 6:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The Assembly election in Bihar will be taking place in (1) _____________ circumstances over three phases, in the last week of October and the first week of November. This will be the first Assembly election since COVID-19 (2) ___________ normal life, and the performance of the governments on the health and economic fronts will become an issue in the election campaign. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's record of 15 years is mixed. After initial improvements in (3) ____________ after he took over in 2005, there was an evident downslide, (4) _________ in the bungled handling of the pandemic. He deserted the BJP in 2013 and won the 2015 Assembly election in alliance with the RJD, only to return to the BJP's embrace soon. His popularity is (5) ___________ while the BJP is on the defensive on questions of border security, economic stagnation, and farmer backlash.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 1.
Unprecedented
Prodigious
Extra ordinary
Tiring
The correct answer is Option 2) i.e. 'Unprecedented'
⇒ Unprecedented:
►Parts of Speech: Adjective
►Meaning: Never having happened or existed before
►Example:
• Unemployment has reached an unprecedented level.
⇒Something that is unprecedented is not known, experienced, or done before.
The passage is talking about a situation that has never existed before i.e. the spread of Covid 19 across the globe.
Extra ordinary: Very common, usual, fixed, prevailing.
Tiring: Making you want to rest or sleep.
If you describe something as tiring, you mean that it makes you tired so that you want to rest or sleep. Example: It had been a long and tiring day.
Synonyms: Exhausting, demanding, wearing, tough.
►Prodigious: Prodigious is defined as something very big or powerful.
An example of someone prodigious is a child who is gifted at playing the piano at a young age.
Thus, the word 'Unprecedented' is the only appropriate word for the given sentence. Hence, Option 2) is the correct answer.
Question 7:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The Assembly election in Bihar will be taking place in (1) _____________ circumstances over three phases, in the last week of October and the first week of November. This will be the first Assembly election since COVID-19 (2) ___________ normal life, and the performance of the governments on the health and economic fronts will become an issue in the election campaign. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's record of 15 years is mixed. After initial improvements in (3) ____________ after he took over in 2005, there was an evident downslide, (4) _________ in the bungled handling of the pandemic. He deserted the BJP in 2013 and won the 2015 Assembly election in alliance with the RJD, only to return to the BJP's embrace soon. His popularity is (5) ___________ while the BJP is on the defensive on questions of border security, economic stagnation, and farmer backlash.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 2.
Disruption
Disrupted
Disrupting
Orchestrated
The correct answer is Option 1) i.e. 'Disrupted'.
⇒Disrupt:
►Parts of speech: Verb
►Meaning: To stop something happening as or when it should.
►Infinitive - Disrupt
►Present participle - Disrupting
►Past tense - Disrupted
⇒The sentence is describing a past event.
In English, we use 'since' to refer to a 'point of time'. 'Since' can refer to a point after a specific time or event in the past, or it can refer to a particular point beginning sometime in the past and continuing until the present time.
⇒ 'Disruption' is a noun, so Option 3 is eliminated, we need a verb to fill in the blank.
⇒ 'Orchestrated' is a complete mismatch because the meaning of 'Orchestrate' is: Plan or coordinate the elements of (a situation) to produce the desired effect, especially surreptitiously. So, the past tense of 'Disrupt' will be used.
Thus, the word 'Disrupted' is the only appropriate word for the given sentence. Hence, Option 1) is the correct answer.
Question 8:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The Assembly election in Bihar will be taking place in (1) _____________ circumstances over three phases, in the last week of October and the first week of November. This will be the first Assembly election since COVID-19 (2) ___________ normal life, and the performance of the governments on the health and economic fronts will become an issue in the election campaign. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's record of 15 years is mixed. After initial improvements in (3) ____________ after he took over in 2005, there was an evident downslide, (4) _________ in the bungled handling of the pandemic. He deserted the BJP in 2013 and won the 2015 Assembly election in alliance with the RJD, only to return to the BJP's embrace soon. His popularity is (5) ___________ while the BJP is on the defensive on questions of border security, economic stagnation, and farmer backlash.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 3.
Technology
Patronage
Government
Governance
The correct answer is Option 2) i.e. 'Governance'.
⇒ Governance:
Parts of speech: Noun
►Meaning: The action or manner of governing a state, organization, etc.
→In the lines of the passage, there is a discussion about the performance of the Government.
→In the lines of the passage, the record of 15 years of Nitish Kumar Government is talked about, which means, there is again a discussion about the performance of the Government, i.e. Governance.
►Government: The group of people who rule or control a country.
►Patronage: The system by which an important person gives help or job to somebody in return for his/her support.
Political patronage: Political patronage is the hiring of a person to a Government post based on partisan loyalty.
►Technology: The scientific knowledge and/or equipment that is needed for a particular industry, etc.
The word 'Technology' and 'Patronage' is also not suitable to fill in this blank because the line describes the initial success of Nitish Kumar in the field of Governance when he took over as the chief minister in 2005.
Thus, the word 'Governance' is the only appropriate word for the given sentence. Hence, Option 2) is the correct answer.
Question 9:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The Assembly election in Bihar will be taking place in (1) _____________ circumstances over three phases, in the last week of October and the first week of November. This will be the first Assembly election since COVID-19 (2) ___________ normal life, and the performance of the governments on the health and economic fronts will become an issue in the election campaign. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's record of 15 years is mixed. After initial improvements in (3) ____________ after he took over in 2005, there was an evident downslide, (4) _________ in the bungled handling of the pandemic. He deserted the BJP in 2013 and won the 2015 Assembly election in alliance with the RJD, only to return to the BJP's embrace soon. His popularity is (5) ___________ while the BJP is on the defensive on questions of border security, economic stagnation, and farmer backlash.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 4.
Percolating
Culminated
Culmination
Culminating
The correct answer is Option 1) i.e. 'Culminating'.
⇒ Culminate:
►Parts of Speech: Verb
►Meaning: To reach a final result.
►If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
⇒Culminate in - If an event or series of events culminates in something, it ends with it, having developed until it reaches this point.
Example: My arguments with the boss got worse and worse, and finally culminated in my resignation. (Culminated - past participle)
My arguments with the boss got worse and worse, culminating in my resignation. (Culminating- Gerund)
• Infinitive: To culminate
• Gerund: Culminating
• Past participle: Culminated
• Simple past: Culminated
⇒In this sentence, Gerund will be used to fill in the blank.
A gerund is the -ing form of a verb that functions the same as a noun.
⇒ Culmination (Noun) - The action of culminating.
⇒ Culminating: Adjective
Meaning: Final; decisive
Example: She heard the sound of the door being unlatched, then a moment of ghastly silence culminating in a single shot.
⇒Percolate (Verb) - (used about a liquid, gas, etc.) to move gradually through a surface that has very small holes or spaces in it.
Thus, the word 'Culminating' is the only appropriate word for the given sentence. Hence, Option 1) is the correct answer.
Question 10:
Read the following passage and fill in each blank with words chosen from options given.
The Assembly election in Bihar will be taking place in (1) _____________ circumstances over three phases, in the last week of October and the first week of November. This will be the first Assembly election since COVID-19 (2) ___________ normal life, and the performance of the governments on the health and economic fronts will become an issue in the election campaign. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's record of 15 years is mixed. After initial improvements in (3) ____________ after he took over in 2005, there was an evident downslide, (4) _________ in the bungled handling of the pandemic. He deserted the BJP in 2013 and won the 2015 Assembly election in alliance with the RJD, only to return to the BJP's embrace soon. His popularity is (5) ___________ while the BJP is on the defensive on questions of border security, economic stagnation, and farmer backlash.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 5.
Wained
Waning
Waned
Waining
The correct answer is Option 4) i.e. 'Waning'
⇒Wane:
►Parts of Speech: Verb
Meaning: To become gradually weaker or less important. ⇒The verb 'Wane' will be used in the present continuous tense(is/are+v1+ing) to fill in the blank.
⇒ Let's see the usage of Wane in different tenses and forms.
• My enthusiasm for the project was waning.
• The group's influence had begun to wane by this time.
• The smile was beginning to wane.
Some countries' taste for purely American pop culture has waned.
His popularity in the state began to wane almost immediately after the election.
⇒Wain (Noun): A wagon or cart.
Thus, the word 'Waning' is the only appropriate word for the given sentence. Hence, Option 4) is the correct answer.
