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

S1: Yes, a mirage can be photographed.

S6: That kind of mirage obviously cannot be photographed.

P: That is hallucination.

Q: Anything reflected by the lens of the human eye will naturally be picked up by the photographic lens.

R: Sometimes, however, a person imagines he is seeing something, but actually he is not.

S: The image, of course, will be hazy and simmering because of the refraction of light.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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Important Questions on Sequence of Sentences

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

S1: One of the greatest curses of the world is the belief in the necessity of poverty.

S6: We have been poor in the very midst of abundance, simply because of our own blighting limiting thought.

P: There need not be a poor person on the planet.

Q: But there was no poverty, no want, no lack, in the creator's plan for man.

R: Most people have a strong conviction that some must necessarily be poor, that they were made to be poor.

S: The Earth is full of resources which we have scarcely yet touched.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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

S1: There is nothing strange in the fact that so many foreign students should wish to learn English.

S6: This key will open to him whatever is valuable in the literature of the world.

P: If any valuable book is written in another language an English translation of it is sure to be speedily published.

Q: Anyone who masters the English tongue acquires a key.

R: Most books found to be generally useful are written in English.

S: The English-speaking want no monopoly of knowledge.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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

S1: Much of our adult behavior and our attitudes are determined by our upbringing.

S6: Psychologists have studied these forces in depth.

P: But the process does not stop here.

Q: In particular by the effects of that small part of society which is our family.

R: As we grow we are constantly and increasingly affected by new forces such as the social pressure of our friends and the largest world of society.

S: The family and our early life have a profound effect on our later life.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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

S1: Chanakya, by his foresight and strength of character, built up the Mauryan Empire.

S6: It is not true as some people said that Sardar Patel was not particular about the means as long as he achieved his end.

P: They were men of iron.

Q: Therefore, they were impervious to criticism and had implicit confidence in themselves.

R: Both of them were guided by stern realism and would tolerate no deviations from the objectives which they pursued relentlessly.

S: Similarly, Patel refashioned a compact India out of the fragments left by the British.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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

S1: The spiritual training of the boys was a much more difficult training.

S6: And I held that this was an essential part of the training of the young and that all training without the culture of the spirit was of no use and might be even harmful.

P: I had realized that the training of the spirit was a thing in itself.

Q: Of course, I believed that every student should be acquainted with the elements of his own religion and have a general knowledge of his own scriptures.

R: I relied little on religious books for spiritual training.

S: To develop the spirit is to build character and to enable one to work towards a knowledge of God and self-realization.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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

S1: The word 'victory' generally reminds us of wars and conquerors like Alexander and Napoleon.

S6: The victories of peace are more lasting and useful to humanity than the victories of the war.

P: Thousands of people are killed and hundreds of towns and cities are destroyed.

Q: But the victory associated with war comes after so much destruction.

R: In this category, we may include the achievements of scientists and scholars, statesmen and social reformers, and the like.

S: However, there is another type of victory which is creative and constructive.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?

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

S1: Europeans are not used to the serpentine queues we encounter in the Indian subcontinent.

S6: That the European youth was willing to go through these hardships to pay tribute to a spiritual head was unthinkable.

P: We line up even for our filthy public toilets and to pay the electricity bills.

Q: We wait eternally at railway crossings, ration shops, and bank counters.

R: Particularly so in Europe where it is claimed that God is dead and religion defunct.

S: Hence, the fact that millions, and mostly the youth, made it to the funeral of Pope John Paul II, braving long journeys and queueing for hours on end, is truly remarkable.

Which one of the following sequence is correct?

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

S1: If India is hot right now, its thanks to a host of random developments.

S6: The SARS outbreak in 2002-03 bypassed India and the tsunami-affected countries like Thailand more than it impacted India.

P: Nature helped too.

Q: Arguably, it all began with the IT boom, which coupled with the unceasing tide of outsourcing, made India a global buzz.

R: And, as the saying goes, today's business travellers are tomorrow's leisure travellers.

S: That put in the global consciousness and led to a surge in business travellers.

Which one of the following sequences is correct?