
Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. For six decades, power in Pakistan has teetered between military dictatorship and civilian rule.
B. Men like Baitullah Mehsud, Mangal Bagh and Maulana Faziullah are very different breeds from the mullahs who have already been co-opted and corrupted by the system.
C. When the credibility of civilians was exhausted the people welcomed the army, when the generals over-stayed their welcome, the citizen returned to political parties.
D. How long before the poor and the middle classes turn to the theocrats waiting to take over? The state has already handed over a province like Swat to Islamic rule.
E. Pakistan is facing a dangerous moment when the credibility of both the military and politicians seems to have ebbed beyond recovery.
F. They have a supplementary query that resonates with the street and the village after : why is Pakistan's army fighting America's war against fellow Muslims?
B. Men like Baitullah Mehsud, Mangal Bagh and Maulana Faziullah are very different breeds from the mullahs who have already been co-opted and corrupted by the system.
C. When the credibility of civilians was exhausted the people welcomed the army, when the generals over-stayed their welcome, the citizen returned to political parties.
D. How long before the poor and the middle classes turn to the theocrats waiting to take over? The state has already handed over a province like Swat to Islamic rule.
E. Pakistan is facing a dangerous moment when the credibility of both the military and politicians seems to have ebbed beyond recovery.
F. They have a supplementary query that resonates with the street and the village after : why is Pakistan's army fighting America's war against fellow Muslims?


Important Questions on Paragraph Jumbles
Directions: The first line [A] of each question is fixed. Arrange the remaining lines in a logical order.
A. We could also take a leaf out of Britain's book in what they do to combat racism within the police, as well as enhance cross-cultural knowledge, offering training courses to white officers that include a long weekend' spent living with a minority family.
B. But we must acknowledge the grave risk to the national fabric of any community being alienated from the police.
C. Of course, India is not Britain, and no foreign ideas can simply be imported wholesale into our country.
D. Britain is far from perfect as the current discrimination case filed by Deputy Commissioner Tariq Ghafoor suggests--but many Hindu policemen, especially in Gujarat and the suburbs of Mumbai, would benefit immeasurably by spending a few days in a Muslim mohalla.
E. Let's face it: if our police are not properly and continuously trained in minority relations, the current problems will continue.
F. Our police forces must reflect the diversity of India. Such a policy would be the "other side of the coin" to a tough security policy which is indispensable to reassure the common urban resident, terrorized by the bomb blasts, that the Government can keep them safe.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
I. Let's understand what motivates behaviour change. Say you want to create a website or app to help people exercise more, but you're not sure how to motivate users.
II. Rewarding someone for an activity they already inherently enjoy might lead to a short-term increase in behaviour, but as soon as the reward is taken away, the activity is often pursued less than before the reward was given. This phenomenon is called the "over-justification effect".
III. A website or app that encourages people to exercise more might offer a reward whenever a user exercises, thus creating extrinsic motivation for the person to show that behaviour. The Pact app runs with this idea by allowing users to earn money by reaching their health goals.
IV. In psychology, we distinguish between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. This means that someone can be driven to do something either by external factors, like the prospect of receiving a reward, like money, or by internal factors, like the enjoyment derived from doing an activity.
V. Research has shown that this approach works well for people who do not enjoy the behaviour. However, for people who do enjoy the behaviour but would like to improve on it or are not doing it for some reason, giving a reward could actually have a negative effect.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
I. Yet while Francis Crick revealed the hidden secrets of DNA through a model, his attempts at applying similar techniques to neuroanatomy in an exploration of our inner sense of "self" were less successful.
II. "We brought a couple of neuroscientists in to look at them and bafflement was the result of that encounter too," admits Emily Sargent, curator of the Wellcome Collection's latest exhibition States of Mind. Nevertheless, Crick's wide-ranging work in the field was influential, not least in breaking the taboo of tackling the topic in scientific circles.
III. For these are, in fact, part of a determined effort by a great scientist to explore one of the most curious facets of being: consciousness.
IV. On a crumpled sheet of tin foil in the Wellcome Collection's conservation studio lies an odd assortment of Plasticine forms.
V. One looks suspiciously like the footprint of a chicken, another like a deformed pot, while a large, red lump bears more than a passing resemblance to a gammon joint. But the comparisons are hopelessly wide of the mark.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
I. I felt pretty hopeless about my future.
II. When I was in high school I took the ACT, a college aptitude exam used as an admission criterion by most American universities.
III. That was painful enough but, adding insult to injury, the ACT score report informed me that, based on my score, my expected probability of succeeding at my hometown college, the University of Utah, was around 15%. As I remember it, my chance of success at my dream school of Harvard University was less than 3%.
IV. My score was in the lowest third of all students.
V. After all, these stark percentages were endowed with the sober authority of mathematics. Before I took the exam, I had thought that one day I might become a scientist or neurologist, but no- what a silly fantasy that was.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
I. "Some studies indicate that solitary confinement can worsen existing mental illnesses and even trigger new ones."
II. "Research suggests that solitary confinement has the potential to lead to devastating, lasting psychological consequences," Mr. Obama wrote. "It has been linked to depression, alienation, withdrawal, a reduced ability to interact with others and the potential for violent behaviour."
III. U.S. President Obama banned the practice of holding juveniles in solitary confinement in federal prisons, saying it could lead to "devastating, lasting psychological consequences."
IV. Mr. Obama on Monday said federal prisons would no longer use solitary confinement for juveniles or for inmates serving time for low-level infractions. He said the change, along with expanded mental health treatment, would affect as many as 10,000 inmates in the federal system, about a tenth of those being held in solitary confinement in the United States, including in state prisons.
V. The move, which Mr. Obama outlined in an op-ed article published by The Washington Post on Monday night, adds the weight of the federal government to a growing movement among state prison administrators, who have begun sharply limiting or ending the use of solitary confinement.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
I. Five or 10 or 20 years from now, when all those who care about the basketball team here talk about the gloriously unexpected winning streak that began in October, stretched until mid- January and covered 28 games in six countries, they will talk about the upset in Madrid that started it all.
II. Sikma said: “There was some homeless drifter to it, some mountain man. It was very solid."
III. "He looked like Shaggy from 'Scooby-Doo, but on steroids," said Luke Sikma, one of three American players on the team. "The hair was everywhere, the beard was everywhere."
IV. Or the late comeback in Germany. Or maybe the overtime game against Bilbao. Then they will talk about the beard.
V. The beard, otherwise known as the unkempt, untamed, unruly thicket of wires located on the cheeks and chin of forward John Shurna, became the unofficial mascot of Valencia's winning streak, a lucky charm that inspired everyone around it but unlike most other furry mascots-also seemed to grow like virulent kitchen mold.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
I. Ahead of a first-round match pitting Lara Arruabarrena and David Marrero against Andrea Hlavackova and Lukasz Kubot, large amounts of money poured in on what would normally be an obscure contest, said Marco Blume, head of a sports book at the website, Pinnacle Sports, one of the largest and most influential betting websites in the world.
II. Nearly all the money, Blume said, came down for Hlavackova and Kubot, which he said was an indication that the match might be fixed.
III. Hlavackova and Kubot won, 6-0, 6-3. The first set lasted only 20 minutes.
IV. A major sports betting website suspended betting on Sunday for a mixed double match at the Australian Open, raising suspicions of match-fixing at one of the world's most prestigious tennis Tournaments.
V Arruabarrena, the 33rd-Ranked doubles player on the women's tour, and Marrero ranked 32nd among men, rejected any possibility of fixing in an interview after the match. Marrero, who like Arruabarrena is from Spain, cited a knee injury in explaining their performance.

Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to form a coherent paragraph.
I. Now Islamic scholars have added their voice to a crescendo of spiritually-inspired cries for action to conserve the planet.
II. The statement was hailed by Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Vatican's council for justice and peace, and by Eco-religious groups like the green-minded Franciscans who in common with the pope find inspiration in the nature-respecting, the wealth-abjuring example set by Francis of Assisi 800 years ago.
III. "We particularly call on the well-off nations and oil-producing states to lead the way in phasing out greenhouse gas emissions as early as possible and no later than the middle of the century," it said.
IV. From a meeting in Istanbul attended by senior Muslims from Morocco to Bosnia to Indonesia there came a passionate and impressively detailed appeal for a new global pact at the Paris climate summit in December.
V. When Pope Francis issued his 192-page encyclical on climate change and pollution, this was rightly hailed as a landmark in the history of the papacy, and of environmentalism.
