Directions: Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph and choose the correct one from the options.

I. To avoid this fate, they grow high up on the central plateau where it is too wet for the fames to take hold.

II. Last week a huge and uncharacteristically dry electrical storm flashed its way across the state, igniting the land.

III. But a desiccating spring and summer has turned even the wettest rainforest dells and high-altitude bogs into tinder.

IV. If burned, they die.

V. Unlike Australia's eucalyptus forests, which use fire to regenerate, Nothofagus trees have not evolved to live within the natural cycle of conflagration and renewal.

I. By taking a closer look at Camus' life and thought, we may discover that there really is no contradiction here the literary establishment has a constant tendency to lump thinkers together into easily digestible categories.

II. The Fall is a work absolutely drenched in Christian, particularly Catholic, symbolism.

III. Yet the novel was written by Albert Camus, aman generally considered a leading light of the atheistic French existentialist movement of the mid-twentieth century.

IV. I believe that Camus was, at least partially, a victim of this lust for simplicity.

V. The title is an obvious reference to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve; the novel's setting of Amsterdam is a stand-in for Dante's Nine Circles of Hell; and the work is structured as an extended confession of the narrator's sins, with the reader playing the role of the priest.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

I. There are many good reasons why women have left little in the way of literary monuments, especially poetry.

II. The main reason is education, or more specifically, the lack of it in most women's lives until well into the twentieth century.

III. This meant she generally produced poetry that was at best imperfect, at worst, frankly bad

IV. In the light of this, what is surprising is not that so few women wrote poetry, but that any women wrote poetry at all.

V. When a woman who had never been to grammar school, never learned Latin and did not know the rules of syntax, let alone of prosody, set herself to writing lines that rhymed, she was imitating art that, admire it though she might, she did not understand a male art, a male tradition.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

I. Following a serious health scare, the opportunity to get involved with the family business was something that I didn't want to pass up.

II. Having worked in administration for over 10 years, the decision to pursue a career in farming may perhaps not have seemed the obvious choice for a 28-year-old woman.

III. Left a job that I loved and my life in the city and moved 100 miles away to run a 300-acre mixed arable and livestock farm in a rural area.

IV. But four years ago that is exactly what I did.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

I. Psychologists David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano, at the New School for Social Research in New York, have proved that reading literary fiction enhances the ability to detect and understand other people's emotions, a crucial skill in navigating complex social relationships.

II. Have you ever felt that reading a good book makes you better able to connect with your fel- low human beings?

III. In a series of five experiments, 1,000 participants were randomly assigned texts to read, either extracts of popular fiction such as bestseller Danielle Steel's The Sins of the Mother and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, or more literary texts, such as Orange-winner The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, Don DeLillo's The Runner, or work by Anton Chekhov.

IV. If so, the results of a new scientific study back you up, but only if your reading material is literary fiction-pulp fiction or non-fiction will not do.

V. Scores were consistently higher for those who had read literary fiction than for those with popular fiction or non-fiction texts.

VI. The pair then used a variety of Theory of Mind techniques to measure how accurately the participants could identify emotions in others.

I. His view is grounded in the belief that the facts about social life are accessible to anybody interested in them.

II. To whom or to what, if to anything at all, should intellectuals be responsible?

III. The longstanding view of Noam Chomsky is that intellectuals are obliged to tell the truth and to expose the lies of those in positions of authority.

IV. Here "intellectuals” is used broadly to refer to anyone interested in ideas and abstract thought, in cerebration, in theorising.

V. They can be found in documents and case studies, in the alternative press, in policy journals, in the reports of human-rights organisations, the testimony of witnesses to power abroad.

I. While the World Health Organisation suggests one doctor per 1,000 people, India's ratio is as low as 1:1,428 and then 74% of these doctors serve in urban areas.

II. One of the priority areas for strengthening healthcare in India is dealing with the low doctor to population ratio.

IV. The government has tried many measures to increase the number of doctors in the population.

III. These include permitting the establishment of private medical colleges and encouraging institutions which give training in Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.

I. The trip was led by two young women and I thought, "If they can do it, maybe I can”, so I applied for a job with the company as soon as I got back.

II. It was a rewarding job and I had great colleagues, but I was always restless.

III. I cried when it finished—the idea had been to cure me of my wanderlust, but it backfired!

IV. The idea that I could do something else came after I took a four-week overland trip to Africa with overland adventure specialist Dragoman. It was the longest time I could get off work and it was amazing.

V. I was a cardiac physiologist working at St Thomas's Hospital in London and had spent seven years working, studying and watching the NHS struggle.

I. Our children, George, then seven, and Lucy, then four, went to a local school, where we discovered to our consternation that Spanish was not the first language.

II. In 2004, I was a financial controller in manufacturing and Sally, my wife, was customer services manager with a building society.

III. We had not realised until then that Valenciana, a dialect of Catalan, was what was generally spoken.

IV. Without any clear plan, we sold our house and moved to Spain, eventually buying a house in a remote mountain community: the Vall de Gallinera, about 40km from Benidorm.

V. Maybe it was a mid-life crisis, but we just could not face the prospect of another 25 years doing the same.