
In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. Nowadays, soap is going almost out of use as a washing agent.
S6. There are better washing agents than soap, but scientists are yet not sure if their use is harmless to man.
P. They produce lather due to the presence of calcium salts in water.
Q. Its place has been occupied by a new range of chemicals, called detergents.
R. So, they are called soapless soap.
S. Detergents are not soap because they are not sodium or potassium derivatives of fatty acids, as normal soap is.
The proper sequence should be:
S6. There are better washing agents than soap, but scientists are yet not sure if their use is harmless to man.
P. They produce lather due to the presence of calcium salts in water.
Q. Its place has been occupied by a new range of chemicals, called detergents.
R. So, they are called soapless soap.
S. Detergents are not soap because they are not sodium or potassium derivatives of fatty acids, as normal soap is.
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Important Questions on Rearrangement of Sentences/Words
In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. Our house is high up on the Yorkshire coast and close to the sea.
S6. Between the two, shifting backward and forwards at certain seasons of the year lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire.
P. One is called the North spit and another the South.
Q. The sandhills here run down to the sea and end in two stretches of rock, sticking out opposite each other.
R. This one leads through a dark plantation of fir-trees and brings you out between low cliffs to the loneliest and ugliest little bay on all our coast.
S. There are beautiful walls all around us in every direction except one.
The proper sequence should be:

In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. Unhappiness and discontent spring not only from poverty.
S6. We suffer from the sickness of spirit and, hence, we should discover our roots in the eternal.
P. Man is a strange creature fundamentally different from other animals.
Q. If they are undeveloped and unsatisfied, he may have all the comforts of the wealth, but will still feel that life is not worthwhile.
R. He has far horizons, invariable hopes and spiritual powers.
S. That, what is missing in our age, is the soul; there is nothing wrong with the body.
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In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. Before we left Bareilly Jail, a little incident took place which moved me then and is yet fresh in my memory.
S6. This spontaneous act of courtesy and the kindly thought that prompted it touched me and I felt very grateful to him.
P. He told me the packet contained German illustrated magazines.
Q. The Superintendent of Police of Bareilly, an Englishman, was present there and as I got into the car, he handed to me rather shyly a packet.
R. I had never met him before, nor have I seen him since and I do not even know his name.
S. He said that he had heard that I was learning German, and so he had bought these magazines for me.
The proper sequence should be:

In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. Our ancestors thought that anything which moved was alive.
P. This philosopher Descartes thought that both men and animals were machines.
Q. But a machine such as a motorcar or a steamship moves and as soon as machines moved had been made, people asked, "Is man a machine"?
R. And before the days of machinery that was a good definition.
S. He also thought that the human machine was partly controlled by the soul action on a certain part of the brain, while animals had no souls.
S6. Therefore, some scientists think that life is just a very complicated mechanism.
The proper sequence should be:

In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. On vacation in Tangier, Morocco, my friend and I sat down at a street cafe.
S6. Finally, a man walked over to me and whispered, "Hey buddy... this guy's your waiter and he wants your order".
P. At one point, he bent over with a big smile, showing me a single gold tooth and a dingy fez.
Q. Soon I felt the presence of someone standing alongside me.
R. But this one wouldn't budge.
S. We had been cautioned about beggars and were told to ignore them.
The proper sequence should be:

In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. The heart is the pump of life.
S6. All this was made possible by the invention of the heart-lung machine.
P. They have even succeeded in heart transplants.
Q. Nowadays surgeons are able to stop a patient's heart and carry out complicated operations.
R. A few years ago, it was impossible to operate on a patient whose heart was not working properly.
S. If the heart stops, we die in about five minutes.
The proper sequence should be:

In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. In 1934, William Holding published a small volume of poems.
S6. But Lord of the flies which came out in 1954 was welcomed as 'a most absorbing and instructive tale'.
P. During World War II (1939-45) he joined the Royal Navy and was present at the sinking of the Bismarck.
Q. He returned to teaching in 1945 and gave it up in 1952, and is now a full-time writer.
R. In 1939, he married and started teaching at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury.
S. At first his novels were not accepted.
The proper sequence should be:

In this question, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled as P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences from the given alternatives (a), (b), (c), and (d). If none of the following options is correct, your answer is (e).
S1. Sunbirds are among the smallest of Indian birds.
S6. Our common sunbirds are the purple sunbird, the glossy black species, and purple rumped sunbird, the yellow and maroon species.
P. Though they are functionally similar to the hummingbirds of the New World, they are totally unrelated.
Q. They do eat small insects too.
R. They are also some of the most brilliantly-colored birds.
S. Sunbirds feed on nectar mostly and help in pollination.
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