JUMBLED PARAGRAPH

1. A. This is prime lion country.

B. Late February in Kuno Sanctuary, the world is all sunshine, crisp
air and flowering trees.
C. But in the 1880s, lions vanished from this open, rugged scrubland
along the Vindhiyas.
D. Today, in an ambitious conservation step, work is on here at a
freuctic pace to bring back the Lord of jungle.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ACBD
CADB
CABD
BACD

2. A. Thus brings the search for relief: painkillers, ice, yoga, herbs even
surgery.
B. most computers users develop disorders because they ignore
warnings like tingling fingers, a numb hand or a sore shoulder.
C. They keep pointing and dragging until tendons chafe and scar
tissue forms, along with bad habits that are almost impossible to
change.
D. But cures are elusive, because Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI)
present a bag of ills that often defy easy diagnosis.
a.
b.
c.
d.

BDAC
BADC
BCAD
ABCD

3. A. Most are small and many have had a bumpy ride.

B. But fliers have benefited from the fierce competition which has
slashed the fares charged by one pampered state airline.
C. Lined up cheekily at airport across Europe, beside planes bearing
familiar logos like British Airways and Lufthansa, and operated jets
by carriers with name like Easy Jet, Debonair Virgin express.
D. Only 20 of the 80 airlines started up since, 1993 remain, their
ranks thinned by the difficulty of obtaining landing slots and by high
air traffic control cost.
a.
b.
c.
d.
4.

DCAB
CADB
ACDB
CDAB

1. A high-powered consultant, on assignment in Cleveland, was scheduled

to fly straight to Paris the next night.
A. But then her secretary swung into action.

B. almost every manager yearns to have a secretary with that kind

of initiative, particularly now that were all working harder and need
all the help we can get.
C. Suddenly it hit her: Oh my god! Ive left my passport at home in
New York and its expired!
D. She arranged to retrieve the old passport, cajole the State
Department into expediting a new one, have the airlines tickets rewritten, and deliver the whole package to her boss, who was wating
at the Jhon Kennedy airport.
E. What we need is someone who can handle the administrative
chores that the now missing managers used to perform.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ADCB
CADB
DABC
DBCA

EXERCISE
Directions for Questions :
The sentence given in each question, when properly sequenced, from a coherent
paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of
sentenced from among the given choices to construct a paragraph.
1. A. According to these scientists every summer will see severe
conflicts over water not just between states but individual as well, if
the issue of scarcity of the planets most essential natural resources
is not addressed on a war footing.
B. Water scarcity in India is just not confined to the stand-off
between Tamilnadu and Karnataka over Cauvery water or between
Delhi and Haryana for control of river Yamuna.
C. They say the days of easy water are over.
D. Social scientists these are gentle disputes as compared to the
doomsday scenario they are predicting.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ABDC
BDCA
DCAB
BADC

2. A. For it is here, that that the practice of polygamous marriage has

survived since time
immemorial.
B. Yet, to behavioural scientists and ethnologists it is a very
important place.
C. Almost every able-bodies youth in this village boasts of four to
eight wives, living in perfect harmony.

D. Dhadigam is atiny, nondescript hamlet I western Gujarat that

hardly ever shows up in any tourism map.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ADBC
CDBA
DBAC
BDAC

3. A. One expected him to die any time.

B. One imagine that he spoke of so remote a subject to escape from
the actualities that have become so grim.
C. The great war has just broken out and the peace loving
philosopher was shocked to see civilized nations take to barbarism.
D. When Russel spoke at Columbia Univercity in 1914, he looked like
his subject epistemology thin, pale and moribund.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ADBC
BADC
CABD
DACB

4. A. Mankind has been traveling from time immemorial.

B. In the earliest of times, travel was merely a way to find suitable
food, until man learned to grow his own food.
C. Travelling is by no means a twenty first century idea.
D. Perhaps one of the earliest reasons to travel was to develop trade
and commerce to tap resources in other lands.
a.
b.
c.
d.

CABD
DCAB
ADBC
DABC

5. A. While not strictly true, it is interesting to see that most of our

food and the living things around us contain a great deal of water.
B. From the earliest of times people understood the significance of
water.
C. In Indian thought too, the universe is believed to be made of five
elements, one of which is water.
D. There was even a time when people believed that all substances
were composed primarily of water.
CDAB
DBCA
ADCB
BDAC

6. A. And, pursuing the claim for compensation, he had virtually become a

court bird.
B. He was not old; probably, in his early fifties; but, he looked
exhausted.
C. The wrinkles were already beginning to show on his face; the road
accident appeared to have taken a
lot out of him.
D. During the last two years, he had gone through two surgeries for
the repair of his femur.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ABCD
DCBA
CBAD
BCDA

7. A. If we are masters of innovation, we are also adept at emulation.

B. A reproduced Rembrandt, Constable or a Leonardo da Vinci or
even a Raja Ravi Verma howsoever skilled the effort, would still be
lacking that something which made the original what it was.
C. It is nearly impossible to reproduce works of art, even it is the
creation of a relatively unknown artist.
D. However good we try in a seemingly mundane routine as cooking,
one often has to bear with critical appraisal by the family that
proclaims. that was delicious, but grandmothers was stillwell,
different.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ABCD
ACDB
ADBC
CBAD

8. A. Planet Earth is in urgent need of a healing touch to save it from the

impending environment disaster.
B. Which is why the earth day, celebrated on April 2 every year,
assumes such special significance.
C. The world over ambient standards of air and water pollution are
likely to exceed the limits prescribed by the WHO and the impact of
air pollution on cities could result in hundreds of thousands of
premature deaths and millions of cases of hospitalization.
D. In India alone, the cost of population when computed in health
terms could exceed Rs. 5,000 crore per annum to cure health
problems caused by it.
a.
b.
c.
d.

CDBA
ABDC
DBAC
DBCA

9. A. States cannot use force except when there is legitimate reason, but
it is the state, which decides weather its reasons are legitimate.
B. Even if the international community accepts the principle that
intervention is justified in the vent of human rights violations, different
states will have different interpretations whenever aconcrete case
comes up.
C. But when do you not fallow procedures, every state can simply
assert that it is right; so we have come back to the 19th century
definition of international law.
D. According to Prof. Corten, all law contains procedures for dealing
with interpretation.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ABCD
BDCA
BDAC
CABD

10.
A. Is he orchestrating the Taliban protests to consolidate his
own position at home, or is he driven by the fear that he could lose
support if he tried to curb their activities?
B. If it is the former, then he is banking on the US limitations in
dealing with an army-ruled nuclear Pakistan.
C. The targeting of American establishments in Islamabad has raised
questions about the role of Pakistans chief executive General
Pervez Musharraf.
D. If it is the latter, then it indicates Pakistans inability to prevent
the resurgence in militancy that it has itself been nurturing across
its eastern and western borders.
a.
b.
c.
d.

CABD
CDAB
BDCA
ABCD

11.
A. While it is fun frolic for most, there is also a service motive
associated with many of these.
B. What very often passed as just another one of those days with
schools closed and going ga-ga over Chacha Nehru, it has taken on
the aura of a day with immense marketing potential and colour.
C. So there are the message, which could be read between the lines
without being too obvious.
D. With that goes TV and photo opportunities, innovative shopping
schemes and mega offers that would have not only the kids, but
even their parents drooling.
a.
b.
c.
d.

BADC
BDAC
CBAD
ABCD

12.
A. They believed that cupid used these splinters as arrow
heads.
B. In India, according to ancient vedic texts, diamond represent the
planet Venus the symbol of love and comfort.
C. From the earliest of times, diamonds have captured the
imagination of the people.
D. The Romans called them splinters of the stars.
a.
b.
c.
d.

BADC
DBAC
CDAB
DACB

13.
A. Productivity depends on how well the knowledge created by
individual and groups can be captured, and packaged for reuse by
others inside, and outside, the company.
B. However, KM Technologies must provide individuals with the tools
to discover and mine corporate knowledge that has already been
created.
C. Once people find the corporate knowledge assets they need, they
can improve upon those assets by applying them to new processes
and problems.
D. Employee skills are a natural target for KM Technologies.
a. ADCB
b. ACDB
c. ABCD
d. CADB
14.
A. Research has shown that innovation fallows a regular
brainstorming cycle and the companies that consistently succeed
at innovation fallow a specific process.
B. They can select from these ideas, the one that seems to be the
most likely to succeed.
C. its members generate as many good ideas as they can.
D. they return to the idea generation stage, except now they focus
on good ideas about this one good idea.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ABCD
ACBD
BDCA
ACDB

15.
A. The realization that knowledge is the new competitive resource
has hit organizations like lightning.
B. Knowledge focused strategies create that environment for system
thinking which enhances an organizations ability to sense
opportunities and challenges; its ability to discern patterns of

relationships; its ability to define and develop innovative solutions and

to learn from its experience.
C. Businesses are increasingly appreciating the power of systems
thinking; where understanding of the business depends upon
contemplating the whole and not an individual sub-system as the subsystems are intricately bound by invisible strands of interdependent
activities.
D. Translated in sharply defined terms, knowledge management offers
benefits from two different perspectives.
a.
b.
c.
d.

ABCD
ACBD
ADCB
ACDB

16.
A. In order to do so, it is necessary that we identify risks to our
health and then try to manage them.
B. Going by the definition, we see that there are countless risks or
threats to human health.
C. Although there are many definitions of the word Risk experts at the
World Health Organization (WHO), it as probing of an adverse
outcome, or a factor that raises this probability.
D. It is everybodys wish to lead a healthy longer life without the
bother to visit a doctor.
a.
b.
c.
d.

CABD
CDBA
DCBA
DACB

17.
A. Finish specialists recommend a chewing gum containing xylitol a
natural sweetener present in birch, maple, corn and straw to be used
several times a day by young children.
B. Chewing gum is a new solution that may work for parents whose
children suffer from chronic ear infection.
C. An experiment was conducted involving three hundred and six
children between two and six years.
D. After finishing studies showed that xylitol is effective in preventing
cavities, a team of researchers decided to investigate its effects on a
very smaller type of bacteria which caused ear infection.
a.
b.
c.
d.

BADC
BCDA
ABCD
CBAD

18.
A. Oddly, there was no university in bad Saarow, but it did house the
Medical Academy of The National Peopals Army.
B. After the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989, West Germany sent experts
into the former East Garmany