Verbal Ability Quiz 10

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass motorization that will one day come to China or India.
B) But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass or extracted from underground coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole system.
C) In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver better total fuel economy than any existing engines.
D) That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only five percentage points better than a diesel hybrid.
E) Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil, coal or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30%.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) The two neighbors’ never fought each other.
B) Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.
C) They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
D) We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbor, an ally.
E) We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.
B) In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World war Two appeared hopeless.
C) In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed.
D) The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E) The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.

a) In America, highly educated women, who are in stronger position in the labour market than less qualified ones, have higher rates of marriage than other groups.
b) Some work supports the Becker thesis, and some appears to contradict it.
c) And, as with crime, it is equally inconclusive.
d) But regardless of the conclusion of any particular piece of work, it is hard to establish convincing connections between family changes and economic factors using conventional approaches.
e) Indeed, just as with crime, an enormous academic literature exists on the validity of the pure economic approach to the evolution of family structures.

a) Personal experience of mothering and motherhood are largely framed in relation to two discernible or "official" discourses: the "medical discourse and natural childbirth discourse". Both of these tend to focus on the "optimistic stories" of birth and mothering and underpin stereotypes of the "good mother".
b) At the same time, the need for medical expert guidance is also a feature for contemporary reproduction and motherhood. But constructions of good mothering have not always been so conceived - and in different contexts may exist in parallel to other equally dominant discourses.
c) Similarly, historical work has shown how what are now taken-for-granted aspects of reproduction and mothering practices result from contemporary" pseudoscientific directives" and" managed constructs". These changes have led to a refraining of modern discourses that pattern pregnancy and motherhood leading to an acceptance of the need for greater expert management.
d) The contrasting, overlapping, and ambiguous strands within these frameworks focus to varying degrees on a woman's biological tie to her child and predisposition to instinctively know and be able to care for her child.
e) In addition, a third, "unofficial popular discourse" comprising "old wives" tales and based on maternal experiences of childbirth has also been noted. These discourses have also been acknowledged in work exploring the experiences of those who apparently do not "conform" to conventional stereotypes of the" good mother'.

a) Indonesia has experienced dramatic shifts in its formal governance arrangements since the fall of President Soeharto and the close of his centralized, authoritarian “New Order” regime in 1997.
b) The political system has taken its place in the nearly 10 years since Reforms began. It has featured the active contest for political office among a proliferation of parties at central, provincial and district levels. Direct elections for the presidency (since 2004): and radical changes in centre-local government relations towards administrative, fiscal, and political decentralization.
c) The mass media, once tidily under Soeharto’s thumb, has experienced significant liberalization, as has the legal basis for non-governmental organizations, including many dedicated to such controversial issues as corruption control and human right.
d) Such developments are seen optimistically by a number of donors and some external analysts, who interpret, them as signs of Indonesia’s political normalization.
e) A different group of analysts paint a picture in which the institutional forms have changed, but power relations have not. Vedi Hadiz argues that Indonesia’s democratic transition” has been anything but linear.

a) I had six thousand acres of land, and had thus got much spare land besides the coffee plantation. Part of the farm was native forest, and about on thousand acres were squatters’ land, what the Kikuyu called their shambas.
b) The squatters’ land was more intensely alive that the rest of the farm, and was changing with the seasons the year round. The maize grew up higher that you head as you walked on the narrow hard-trampled footpaths in between the tall green rustling regiments.
c) The squatters are Natives, who with their families hold a few acres on a white man’s farm, and in return have to work for him a certain number of days in the year. My squatters, I think saw the relationship in a different light, for many of them were born on the farm and their fathers before them, and they very likely regarded me as a sort of superior squatter on their estates
d) The Kikuyu also grew the sweet potatoes that have a vine like leaf and spread over the ground like a dense entangled mat, and many varieties of big yellow and green speckled pumpkins.
e) The beans ripened in the fields, we gathered and thrashed by the women, and the maize stalks and coffee pods were collected and burned, so that in certain seasons thin blue columns of smoke rose here and there all over the farm.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) Experts such as Larry Burns, head of research at GM, reckon that only such a full hearted leap will allow the world to cope with the mass motorization that will one day come to China or India.
B) But once hydrogen is being produced from biomass or extracted from underground coal or made from water, using nuclear or renewable electricity, the way will be open for a huge reduction in carbon emissions from the whole system.
C) In theory, once all the bugs have been sorted out, fuel cells should deliver better total fuel economy than any existing engines.
D) That is twice as good as the internal combustion engine, but only five percentage points better than a diesel hybrid.
E) Allowing for the resources needed to extract hydrogen from hydrocarbon, oil, coal or gas, the fuel cell has an efficiency of 30%.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) The two neighbors’ never fought each other.
B) Fights involving three male fiddler crabs have been recorded, but the status of the participants was unknown.
C) They pushed or grappled only with the intruder.
D) We recorded 17 cases in which a resident that was fighting an intruder was joined by an immediate neighbor, an ally.
E) We therefore tracked 268 intruder males until we saw them fighting a resident male.

Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) He left justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves.
B) At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
C) Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D) Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
E) Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the Whitehouse does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.