The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : The master always says, "Refuse to be miserable".

S6 : This is the art of right contact in life.

P : Before you fall into self-pity and blame games, remember that responsibility comes to only those who feel responsible.

Q : Challenges are faced by the strong and courageous, and if life brings you such opportunities, then turn failures into success.

R : Life can be painful, but it need not be sorrowful.

S : If you want to be happy, find occasions to be cheerful.

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The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : Gandhiji reached Newcastle and took charge of the agitation.

S6 : The treatment that was meted out to these brave men and women in jail included starvation and whipping, and being forced to work in the mines by mounted military police.

P : During the course of the march, Gandhiji was arrested twice, released, arrested a third time and sent to jail.

Q : The employers retaliated by cutting off water and electricity to the workers' quarters, thus forcing them to leave their homes.

R : Gandhiji decided to march this army of over two thousand men, women and children over the border and thus see them lodged in Transvaal jails.

S : The morale of the workers, however, was very high and they continued to march till they were prosecuted and sent to jail.

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The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : One of the most important forces in the modern world, socialism was a direct result of the Industrial Revolution.

S6 : This is how socialism as a theory and practice came into being.

P : Socialism was a direct challenge to capitalism and sought to put an end to such an exploitative economic structure.

Q : The gulf between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' continued to increase and out of this gap between the rich and poor sprang disputes.

R : It generated new wealth but as this new wealth only went to a minority, it could not solve the question of distribution.

S : The Industrial Revolution solved the question of production.

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The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : Institutions define and play a regulatory role with regard to human behaviour.

S6 : It shows how important it is for a nation to build institutions for nurturing democracy.

P : Once established, institutions set a dynamic relationship with the members constituting them and they mutually affect each other.

Q : They shape preferences, power and privilege.

R : At the same time, institutions themselves can be transformed by the politics they produce and such transformation can affect social norms and behaviours.

S : They also provide a sense of order and predictability.

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The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : Idioms are a colourful and fascinating aspect of language.

S6 : Idioms may also suggest a particular attitude of the person using them, for example, disapproval, humour, exasperation or admiration, so you must use them carefully.

P : Your language skills will increase rapidly if you can understand idioms and use them confidently and correctly.

Q : They are commonly used in all types of language, informal and formal, spoken and written.

R : In addition, idioms often have a stronger meaning than non-idiomatic phrases.

S : One of the main problems students have with idioms is that it is often impossible to guess the meaning of an idiom from the words it contains.

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The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : Each organism is adapted to its environment.

S6 : What can be taken in and broken down depends on the body design and functioning.

P : There is a range of strategies by which the food is taken in and used by the organism.

Q : For example, whether the food source is stationary (such as grass) or mobile (such as deer), would allow for differences in how the food is accessed and what is nutritive apparatus used by a cow or a lion.

R : The form of nutrition differs depending on the type and availability of food material as well as how it is obtained by an organism.

S : Some organisms break down the food material outside the body and then absorb it and others take in the whole material and break it down inside their bodies.

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The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : "When I was alive and had a human heart," answered the statue, "I did not know what tears were, for Hived in the Palace of Sans-Souci where sorrow is not allowed to enter.

S6 : And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.'

P : So I lived, and so I died.

Q : Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful.

R : My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness.

S : In the daytime I played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening I led the dance in the Great Hall.

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The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, "Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter."

S6 : "Does she live far off?" said the wolf.

P : He asked her where she was going.

Q : The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and talk to a wolf, said to him, "I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother."

R : As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest.

S : She set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.

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The question given below consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and choose the correct alternative.

S1 : I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater.

S6 : It was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything.

P : I bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy.

Q : The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me.

R : As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which I was facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees.

S : I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night.

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