English - Verbal - 3

Please mark your answers first before checking with the official answers given at the end.

The passage may appear tough for a few, but I purposely chose the same from a more than two decade old paper. I am sure many of you would do well.

English – Verbal - 3

Each of the following question consists of group of sentences. Suggested sequential arrangement is given. Select the best sequence from among the suggestions.

1.         a) Things we did as kids and thought nothing of, the standard capers of all young          animals, now make headlines and shake the police departments.

b) The young are always news.

c) When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young.

d) If they aren’t that is news too.

e) If they are upto something that is news.  

A)  c b e d a    B)  c b d e a    C)  e b d c a    D)  a b c e d

2.         a) You can be the first family on your block to wait out the H-Bomb in luxury.

            b) It has reached what is probably its high water mark.

                c) It was of course Thorstein Veblen who observed that people are torn between    

choosing pleasures for their own sake, and for the purpose of maintaining and      upgrading their social position.

d) The American thirst for status and its symbols has been sufficiently documented to need any belabouring here.

e) A radiation fall-out shelter is now available with lounge chairs and wall-to-wall carpeting as well as the usual paraphernalia of sledge hammers and first-aid kits.

 

A)   a c d b e    B) c d b e a     C) d c b e a     D) c b d e a

 

3.         a) The differences between minds of men and women are numerous, an we often joke about them.

            b) or, are they cultural, imposed perhaps in childhood by the different expectations and behaviour of the adults in our society toward the growing boy and girl?

 

            c) If a man’s car hits a laundry truck and he phones his wife about it, the first thing she asks is the name of the laundry.

 

            d) There are three kinds of mental differences that interest me, the difference      between men and women, between genius and stupidity and between different creative talents.

            e) Are such differences in outlook innate, a matter of sexual difference inbrain physiology and organization?

 

A)    d e c b a   B) e d c b a     C) d a c e b     D) c b e a d    

4.         a) In nuclear physicist has recently turned out that for ten years, the best experiments on beta-decay have been wrong or misleading. 

            b) But this field is lucky.

c) One of the troubles in science is that there are twenty  Lestrades messing up the foot prints and confusing the evidence for every Holmes who gets back to fundamentals and straightens it out.

d) Not really Lestrade results; just the elusiveness of wily Moriarty again; and they are on the track once more. 

e) Most fields have nothing but Lestrade results for a decade at a time.   

A)   c a d b e    B) c a d e b     c) c a b e d     D) c a e d b

5.         a) Every teacher imagines that one of the day dreamers is simply stepping to the music of a different drummer.

            b) (Think how slow a human would seem at Chimpanzee lessons)

            c) It is true that some of the great ones have been slow in school.

            d) Do most of the geniuses go unrecognized?

            e) But most of those who make their mark show some sign early and are picked for success.

 

A)   d b c a e    B) d c b a e     C) d e b c a     D) a c b d e

Answers:

1.      A             2. B                 3. C                 4. A                 5. B