SP Bakshi Solutions for Exercise 3: Work Book Exercise C

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are requested to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: There is no doubt that democracy is the best of the systems of government available to us.

S6: It is this feature that puts democracy in a class by itself among political systems. 

P: For another, even an individual can, through appeal to the judiciary, prevent the government from doing any injustice.

Q: This means that, in a way, the people can exercise some control over the rulers even during their period of rule.

R: This right of the individual to secure justice even against the powerful government is even more important than the right to vote.

S: For one thing, it permits, if necessary, a periodical change of those who govern the country.

The proper sequence should be

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are requested to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: The authorities decided to streamline the procedure, for admitting students, to the new course.

S6: The selection was made from the list in the order of priority.

P: Those who performed badly at the interview were eliminated.

Q: The candidates were first required to take a written test.

R: A list of successful candidates at the written test was prepared in the ascending order of total marks.

S: The top fifty among those who qualified were called for an interview.

The proper sequence should be

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are requested to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: In almost all developing countries, estimates indicate that every six seconds, one child dies and another becomes disabled as a consequence of diseases that can be prevented with immunization.

S6: After each round of immunization during the IIP all computerized data were brought up-to-date. 

P: At the start of the program, local Anganwadi centers for pre-school children operating as a part of the National Integrated Child Development Services Scheme were involved in conducting house-to-house surveys.

Q: The experiment has been launched with the objective of introducing new and efficient strategies for large-scale immunization programs which, if successful, could be used as models for similar endeavors in the future.

R: Two areas were included in the IIP: Trilokpuri and Khanjawala. 

S: Between December 1983 and March 1984, a large-scale experiment the Intensive Immunization Programme (IIP) was conducted in Delhi.

The proper sequence should be:

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: If we dump sewage into a stream, on a small scale, the stream dissolves it and purifies it.

S6: For this overwhelming kind of pollution we need to coin a new term which we call super-pollution.

P: It can no longer deal even with the small quantity of sewage which it once accepted without difficulty.

Q: Ten miles downstream the water is pure again.

R: The system has broken down.

S: But if we dump large quantities of sewage, we end by killing the purifying bacteria, and then the stream has lost its power to purify.

The proper sequence should be:

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: She was born into a poor family of laborers and died because poverty could not let her live. 

S6: So, while the world was celebrating International Women's Day, Rita's mother, Mrs. Veena, spent the day trying to get her daughter justice, which eluded her in life.

P: She died not because she was ill, but because she had been allegedly beaten by her husband and in-laws for not bringing insufficient dowry.

Q: At the young age of twenty, Rita breathed her last at JP Hospital in February 20.

R: Ironically, however, no one paid heed to Rita's woes when she said to cry for help.

S: The police have not taken any action either to date.

 The proper sequence should be

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1 : We were so evenly matched that for a time the end was difficult to tell.

S6 : Then, his comrade's knife, thrown at me, struck him on the back and piercing it, quite finished him.

P : Already I was counting him a dead man and myself victorious.

Q : I had only to wear him out to have him at my mercy.

R : Presently, however, there came a change.

S : My opponent's wild living made him incapable of coping with a prolonged bout and his strength seemed to start ebbing away.

The proper sequence should be

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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: Isaac possessed a wonderful faculty of acquiring knowledge by the simplest means.

S6: Thus, even in his boyish sports, he was continually searching out the secrets of philosophy.

P: Yet nothing could be more simple.

Q: You will never guess how the boy could compel that unseen wonder, the wind to tell him the measure of its strength.

R: For instance, what methods do you suppose he took to find out the strength of the wind?

S: He jumped against the wind and by the length of the jump he could calculate the force of the wind.

The proper sequence should be

MEDIUM
UPSC CDS
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In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences.

S1: The common man has a vote in Parliament.

S6: For that, his sole resource is his native wit and will.

P: If he likes to make use of the machinery of democracy, he can have questions asked in the house.

Q: But there is no machinery by which he can control the organs which mold opinion.

R: In the last resort he can destroy one government and make another.

S: He has a parliamentary representative whom he can badger and heckle.

The proper sequence should be