GMAC Solutions for Chapter: Language Skills, Exercise 2: Practice Questions

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) When an entire lump or suspicious area is removed, it is called an excisional biopsy.

(b) It involves the removal of cells or tissues to examine and to determine the presence or extent of a disease.

(c) The removed tissue is examined under a microscope by a pathologist, or is analysed chemically.

(d) Biopsy is a commonly used medical test these days.

(e) But when only a sample of tissue is removed with preservation, it is incisional or core biopsy.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Most of these places are high up on mountains.

(b) This hardened ice is what comprises the glacier.

(c) Repeated snowfalls compress the lower layers of snow.

(d) Glaciers form in extremely cold places.

(e) Finally, the lowest layer hardens and turns into ice.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Mass outreach to people in the North-East (very often the worried parents) and in Bangalore using SMS and social media, debunking the very specific allegations and rumours that were floating around, would have been welcome.

(b) Even a Canadian interning in our organisation received a reassuring SMS from the Canadian government.

(c) The best antidote to the rumours that spread far and wide and caused a mass movement of people would have been clear debunking of those rumours.

(d) However, almost no government officials actually used social media platforms to reach out to people to debunk false information and reassure them.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) He’d say, undoubtedly, that he’d found a nation of poets.

(b) There was hardly any such thing as slang in his day, for no graphic trope was too virile or uncommon for acceptance, if its meaning were patent.

(c) If Shakespeare came to Chicago and heard “the man in the street,” he’d find himself more at home than in London.

(d) In the mouths of clerks he’d find English used with all the freedom of unexpected metaphor and the plastic, suggestive diction that was the privilege of the Elizabethan dramatists.

(e) His own heroes often spoke what corresponds to the slang of today.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Getting involved in a hobby is a better way to beat stress as it provides relaxation, sharpens the mind, increases creativity, and also helps in making friends and acquiring valuable skills.

(b) Regrettably, we now regularly spend our free time watching TV or surfing the internet.

(c) Ironically, modern life has become more stressful when there is more of this free time, and yet the best we do is lie down on the couch.

(d) Just a few years back, free time or leisure time was used as an outlet for doing something different, pursuing one’s passion by taking up hobbies.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) In other words, our desire to stand out leads us to do silly things and we, not satisfied with being unique, try to be very unique.

(b) We sometimes go to ridiculous extents to appear unique.

(c) This, of course, is a defect in character which, in adults, stems out of some sort of insecurity that desperately needs to be compensated for.

(d) It leads to such contexts that could perhaps permit the use of expressions like ‘very unique’.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Chiropractic has caused many disabilities and even death in some cases.

(b) Yet few chiropractors disclose to their patients the risks of cervical manipulation.

(c) This is not necessarily true.

(d) Significant risks accompany some alternative therapies.

(e) Most people think a treatment is safe if it is alternative.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

(a) Bees and other insects are vital for global food production as they pollinate three-quarters of all crops.

(b) The plummeting numbers of pollinators in recent years has been blamed, in part, on the widespread use of pesticides.

(c) The EU banned the use of neonicotinoids on flowering crops that attract bees, such as oil seed rapeseed and so on, in $2013$.

(d) But in $2017$, a major report from the European Union’s scientific risk assessors concluded that the high risk to both honeybees and wild bees resulted from any outdoor use, because the pesticides contaminate soil and water.