Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. As the recession deepens, people across the ideological spectrum declare that capitalism has failed.
B. Yet, recessions are not aberrations of capitalism but an intrinsic part of it.
C. A bust is an occasion for cleaning out deadwood and failed experiments, and re-inventing capitalism.
D. Almost every economic news report carries Countries in recession words like 'crisis' and 'disaster'.
E. Markets create boom and bust cycles, arising from human tendencies to swing from euphoria to fear and back.
B. Yet, recessions are not aberrations of capitalism but an intrinsic part of it.
C. A bust is an occasion for cleaning out deadwood and failed experiments, and re-inventing capitalism.
D. Almost every economic news report carries Countries in recession words like 'crisis' and 'disaster'.
E. Markets create boom and bust cycles, arising from human tendencies to swing from euphoria to fear and back.
Important Questions on Paragraph Jumbles
Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. Two decades ago, economist Jerry Muller chronicled never-ending predictions of the demise of capitalism, by its friends as well as foes.
B. The Great Depression of the s provoked further predictions of capitalism's demise.
C. Lenin harbored similar illusions: his book was titled Imperialism: the Last Stage of Capitalism.
D. In the s, Karl Marx claimed capitalism was dying.
E. Rosa Luxembourg wrote in The Accumulation of Private Capital (), "Though imperialism is the historical method prolonging the career of capitalism, it is also a sure means of bringing it to a swift conclusion."
Directions: The sentences given below are not arranged in proper order. Rearrange these sentences to form a coherent and meaningful paragraph and answer the question. The first line [A] of the given question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. Building new towns are the key to raising the productivity of the Indian economy as well.
B. Expensive real estate makes education and health care costly as well.
C. This jacks up the cost of quality healthcare and education, and these higher costs feed into business costs, affecting India's competitiveness in the global marketplace.
D. Right now, the artificial shortage of urban land has put a premium on the cost of real estate.
E. Office rentals, hotel accommodation, land for factories, all these cost the earth and add to the cost of the goods and services emerging from these expensive sites of production.
F. Hospitals and schools in urban areas will find that upwards of percent of their capital cost is accounted for by the real estate.
Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. In other words, instead of more "reservations", with the resentment that breeds, let us make it easier for minorities to join the police.
B. Unless young people from minorities see that the police service offers real career opportunities and good quality of life in the workplace; they will not overcome their negative perceptions.
C. In India, the promotion of minority police personnel at senior and middle levels and using them as visible symbols of the police force would constitute a powerful model to the minority community.
D. The fact that, in many Western countries, there are several officers from the visible minorities now a senior officer rank, sends a powerful message to these communities.
E. But let's not stop with recruitment; we also need to focus on the retention and progression of minority officers.
Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. So when fear happens, just become totally aware and don't get identified with that thought.
B. You feel insecure because you have a concept of what is security and from that concept, you are seeing life.
C. Anything that does not fit that concept makes you insecure.
D. With wordless awareness, just watch.
E. This is called objective watching.
F. This watching will not allow the previous fears to have a snowballing effect.
Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. I'm a huge fan of Vikas Swarup's novel, one of the most delightful reads I've enjoyed in years.
B. He's rescued by a female lawyer who gets him to tell his life story and explain how he, an uneducated slum kid, knew the answers to such difficult questions.
C. But he has retained the novel's structure and premise, and Danny Boyle has brought its spirit alive in a way that I believe even Swarup would appreciate.
D. Screenwriter Simon has changed pretty much all of Swarup's stories, introduced a romantic element, and even re-baptized the hero.
E. It's about an orphan boy called Ram Mohammed Thomas who is about to win a TV quiz show based on Kaun Banega Crorepati and is arrested on suspicion of having gotten that far by cheating.
F. Ram then tells a number of stories, each of which explains how he knew what he happened to know.
Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. According to Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the troops close to PTK, the last remaining LTTE- held town at that time, passed on information about the two aircraft even before the radars detected them.
B. The Tiger craft flew over Mannar and Wilpattu en route to Colombo. It was their normal route. The troops would have captured the LTTE planes within days, and the LTTE had acted before they lost the craft on the ground."
C. The Defence Ministry said each aircraft was loaded with explosives weighing kg and added that the pilots failed to drop any bomb.
D. He said: "The LTTE may have used a straight road in their last stronghold for taking off as the outfit had lost all the airstrips to the troops during the past few months.
E. There was no explanation as to how the two light-wing aircraft managed to make their way from PTK to the heart of the national capital and come within metres of their purported targets.
Directions: The first line [A] of the following question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. Over a span of fewer than two years, some families have been displaced at least a dozen times and are haunted by memories of sleepless nights spent in bunkers, constant bombardment, and an uncertain future.
B. The worst nightmare for them was the possibility of forcible recruitment of their young boys and girls by the Tigers as the military began to corner them from mid-.
C. Reporters who visited the village heard horror tales of innocent citizens caught in the crossfire.
D. Every one of the -odd families in the village has gone through more or less the same trauma.
E. The choice before them was the known devil, the Tigers, and the unknown deep sea, the military.
Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. US President Barack Obama made a significant commitment to reversing the previous president's attitude towards combating climate change earlier this week.
B. The California regulations would force automakers to reduce vehicle emissions by a third by , four years before new federal standards take effect.
C. The move would increase fuel efficiency by as much as eight miles per gallon.
D. If, as expected, California receives permission from the EPA to move ahead, it would mean that both US and other automakers would have to produce cars that are more fuel-efficient than current models.
E. He directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider allowing the state of California to set stricter fuel-emission standards on vehicles than federal limits.
