The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 

(A) If caught in the act, they were punished, not for the crime, but for allowing themselves to be caught, with another lash of the whip.

(B) The bellicose Spartans sacrificed all the finer things in life for military expertise.

(C) Those fortunate enough to survive babyhood were taken away from their mothers at the age of seven to undergo rigorous military training.

(D) This consisted mainly of beatings and deprivation of all kinds like going around barefoot in winter, and worse, starvation so that they would be forced to steal food to survive.

(E) Male children were examined at birth by the city council and those deemed too weak to become soldiers were left to die of exposure.

 

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 

(A) This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world.

(B) Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of truth.

(C) But being educated by photographs is not like being educated by older images drawn by hand; for one thing, there are a great many more images around, claiming our attention.

(D) The inventory started in 1839 and since then, just about everything has been photographed, or so it seems.

(E) In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.

 

A paragraph has been divided into some sentences. The sentences are jumbled up and labelled A, B, C, D and E. Rearrange the sentences to form a coherent paragraph and choose the most logical order from the given choices.

(A) To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world.

(B) Nor is it confined to one social class; quite the contrary.

(C) It is by no means confined to "culture", narrowly understood as an acquaintance with the arts.

(D) Cultural literacy constitutes the only sure avenue of opportunity for disadvantaged children, the only reliable way of combating the social determinism that now condemns them.

(E) The breadth of that information is great, extending over the major domains of human activity from sports to science.

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 

(A) Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.

(B) The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).

(C) A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over property.

(D) These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.

(E) A bank may purchase more and more complicated and sophisticated safes, forcing safecrackers to invest further in safecracking equipment.

The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, forma coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph. 

(A) The likelihood of an accident is determined by how carefully the motorist drives and how carefully the pedestrian crosses the street.

(B) An accident involving a motorist and a pedestrian is such a case.

(C) Each must decide how much care to exercise without knowing how careful the other is.

(D) The simplest strategic problem arises when two individuals interact with each other and each must decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.

Arrange sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences I to 6.

1. Making people laugh is tricky.

(A) At times, the intended humour may simply not come off.

(B) Making people laugh while trying to sell them something is a tougher challenge, since the commercial can fall flat on two grounds.

(C) There are many advertisements which do amuse, but do not even begin to set the cash tills ringing.

(D) Again, it is rarely sufficient for an advertiser simply to amuse the target audience in order to reap the sales benefit.

6. There are indications that in substituting the hard sell for a more entertaining approach, some agencies have rather thrown out the baby with the bath water.

Arrange sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences I to 6.

1. Picture a termite colony, occupying a tall mud hump on an African Plain.

(A) Hungry predators often invade the colony and unsettle the balance.

(B) The colony flourishes only if the proportion of soldiers to workers remains roughly the same, so that the queen and workers can be protected by the soldiers, and the queen and soldiers can be serviced by the workers.

(C) But its fortunes are presently restored, because the immobile queen, walled in well below ground level, lays eggs not only in large enough numbers, but also in the varying proportions required.

(D) The hump is alive with worker termites and soldier termites going about their distinct kinds of business.

6. How can we account for her mysterious ability to respond like this to events on the distant surface?

Arrange sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences I to 6.

1. According to recent research, the critical period of developing language skills is between the ages of three and five and a half years.

(A) The read-to child already has a large vocabulary and a sense of grammar and sentence structure

(B) Children who are read to in these years have a far better chance of reading well in school, indeed, of doing well in all their subjects.

(C) And the reason is actually quite simple

(D) This correlation is far and away the highest yet found between home influences and school success.

6. Her comprehension of language is therefore very high. 

Arrange sentences A, B, C and D to form a logical sequence between sentences I to 6.

1. High-powered outboard motors were considered to be one of the major threats to the survival of the Beluga whales.

(A) With these, hunters could approach Belugas within hunting range and profit from its inner skin and blubber.

(B) To escape an approaching motor, Belugas have learned to dive to the ocean bottom and stay there for up to 20 minutes, by which time the confused predator has left.

(C) Today, however; even with much powerful engines, it is difficult to come close, because the whales seem to disappear suddenly just when you thought you had them in your sights.

(D) When the first outboard engines arrived in the early 1930s, one came across 4 and 8HP motors.

6. Belugas seem to have used their well-known sensitivity to noise to evolve an 'avoidance' strategy to outsmart hunters and their powerful technologies,