Verbal Ability Quiz 7 for CAT & MBA Exams

Question 1

In the following question, there are six parts marked S1, S6, P, Q, R and S. The position of S1 and S6 are fixed. Some parts of the sentence have been jumbled up. Rearrange these parts and choose the proper sequence from the given options.

S1. The future of MBA education in India is quite good and fetching.

S6. So, many students these days are opting for MBA with great spirit.

P. Once hired, the students enjoy high positions and bulky pay checks.

Q. They're looking for professional and well-skilled management pass-outs.

R. An MBA degree can generate these qualities in an individual.

S. More and more number of foreign companies are being launched in India.

Question 2

S1 : The colonial powers had a very simple technique to rule the world.
S6 : Partition was the culmination.
P : They lumped tribes and people together, played one against the other.
Q : India’s provinces were more elaborately designed to play the game of divide and rule.
R : Africa was divided, believe it or not, on the basis of the lines of longitude and latitude.
S : They also purchased the loyalties of those locals who were needed as supports for the colonial presence.
The proper sequence should be:

Question 3

Direction: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : The bank opened at 10.00 a.m.
S6 : The safe was empty.
P : The peon opened the safe and returned the keys to the manager.
Q : The manager and the peon went to the safe in the vault.
R : The manager and the peon looked into the safe.
S : They were shocked at what they saw there.
The proper sequence should be:

Question 4

Direction: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1: The crowd swelled around the thief.
S6: They were followed by the crowd which left the thief alone.
P: Suddenly he whipped out a knife from under his shirt.
Q: The thief stood quiet, his head hung in shame.
R: The two young men holding him were scared by the sight of the shining knife.
S: were scared by the sight of the shining knife.

The proper sequence should be:

Question 5

Direction: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : The old man wanted to cross the road.
S6 : Holding him by hand the driver helped him to cross the road.
P : The driver got off and came to him.
Q : He was fed up and was about to return.
R : Then a car stopped in front of him.
S : He waited for a long time.
The proper sequence should be:

Question 6

Direction: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : The first thing you have to do is to speak with a strong foreign accent and speak broken English.
S6 : Half a dozen people will immediately overwhelm you with directions.
P : He will be interested in you because you are a foreigner and he will be pleased that he could figure out what you said.
Q : He will not expect you to be polite and use elaborate grammatical phrases.
R : Then every English person to whom you speak will at once know that you are a foreigner and try to understand you and be ready to help you.
S : If you shout, “Please! Charing Cross! Which way?” you will have no difficult.
The proper sequence should be:

Question 7

Direction: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : When a lamb is born its mother may die.
S6 : If a means of overcoming this natural tendency if found, the lives of millions of lambs can be saved.
P : Thus there will nearly always be both motherless lambs and sheep without lambs.
Q : However a sheep which has lost its own lamb will not feed or look after a motherless lamb.
R : At the same time some new born lambs are too weak to live.
S : This happens in large flocks where many sheep give birth to lambs at the same time.
The proper sequence should be:

Question 8

Direction: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : People very seldom have everything they want.
S6 : Our decisions indicate our scale of preferences and therefore our priorities.
P : Usually we have to decide carefully how to spend our income.
Q : They may all seem important, but their true importance can be measured by deciding which we are prepared to live without.
R : When we exercise our choice, we do so according to our personal scale of preferences.
S : In this scale of preferences essential commodities come first, then the kind of luxuries which help us to be comfortable, and finally those non-essentials which give us personal pleasure.
The proper sequence should be:

Question 9

Direction: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : On 5th October 1818, when young Lincoln was approaching his tenth year, his mother Nancy died of fever.
S6 : His total education at school comprised only about a year during which he, however, managed to master reading, writing, spelling and some arithmetic.
P : She was illiterate, but she brought with her several books, among which were Pilgrim’s Progress, Sindbad the Sailor, Robinson Crusoe and Aesop’s Fables.
Q : Lincoln always acknowledged this moral and intellectual debt to his step mother.
R : The following year, his father married Sarah Bush Johnson, a widow with three children.
S : These books provided Lincoln with a mass of knowledge.
The proper sequence should be:

Question 10

Direction: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. you are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 : Crude oil obtained from the field is taken to a refinery for treatment.
S6 : Lubricating oils of various grade are obtained last of all.
P : The gas that comes off lather is condensed into paraffin.
Q : This allows substances with different boiling points to be separated.
R : The first vapours to rise when cooled provide the finest petrol.
S : The commonest from of treatment is heating.
The proper sequence should be: