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.

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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. 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.

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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. 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.

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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. 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.

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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. 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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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. There are numerous kinds of superstitions in different parts of the country.
S6. A dog's howling predicts death-this is a typical superstition.
P. But people go on respecting it through force of blind custom.
Q. Most of them have a bearing on "luck"-good or bad.
R. Superstitions usually have their origin in fear and ignorance.
S. Nobody remembers now how a superstition first started in remote ages.

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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. Society in every country shapes itself out of its own initiative.
S6. And our Indian women are capable of doing it as any other woman in the world.
P. No one can or ought to do this for them.
Q. Our part of duty lies in imparting true education to all men and women in society.
R. Women must be put in a position to solve their own problems in their own way.
S. It will not be then necessary to pull down or set us anything in society by coercion.

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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. Many people believe that it is cruel to make use of animals for laboratory studies.
S6. It is in view of these facts that the Government of India has banned the export of monkeys to America.
P. They point out that animals too have nervous systems like us and can feel pain.
Q. These people, who have formed the Anti-vivisection Society, have been pleading for the more humane treatment of animals by scientists.
R. Monkeys, rabbits, mice, and other mammals are used in large numbers by scientists and many of them are made to suffer diseases artificially produced in them.
S. We can avoid such cruelty to animals if we use alternative methods such as tissue culture, gas chromatography, and chemical techniques.

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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. A spider's web, after a shower of rain, is a very beautiful thing.
S6. They are also feared because their bites may have unpleasant effects like a rash on the skin.
P. This explains partly why spiders are thoroughly disliked.
Q. But no poet has ever sung of the beauty of the spiders, for most spiders are not beautiful.
R. On the contrary, most of them are rather unattractive, if not ugly!
S. Poets have sung about the beauty of the spider's webs, comparing the water drops on them to ropes of pearls.

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