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Verbal Ability Quiz 14
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Question 1
Choose the most logical order of these four sentences for among the four given choices to construct a coherent paragraph from sentences 1 to 6.
(1) Horses and communism were, on the whole, a poor match.
(A) Fine horses bespoke the nobility the Party was supposed to despise.
(B)Communist leaders, when they visited villages, preferred to see cows and pigs
(C) Although a working horse was just about tolerable, the communists were right to be wary.
(D) Peasants from Poland to the Hungarian Pustza preferred their horses to party dogma.
(6)"A fanner's pride is his horse; his cow may be thin but his horse must be fat,” went a Slovak saying.
(1) Horses and communism were, on the whole, a poor match.
(A) Fine horses bespoke the nobility the Party was supposed to despise.
(B)Communist leaders, when they visited villages, preferred to see cows and pigs
(C) Although a working horse was just about tolerable, the communists were right to be wary.
(D) Peasants from Poland to the Hungarian Pustza preferred their horses to party dogma.
(6)"A fanner's pride is his horse; his cow may be thin but his horse must be fat,” went a Slovak saying.
Question 2
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.
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.
Question 3
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.
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.
Question 4
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.
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.
Question 5
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.
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.
Question 6
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%.
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%.
Question 7
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 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.
Question 8
Sentences given in the question, when properly sequenced form a 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- Paucity of serious thought is no surprise in the government, but one would have thought that the considerably educated PM, who at one time did research of some quality, would have tried to answer for his own satisfaction how effective reservation policies have been.
B- In his approach to Pakistan, he has gone about enthusiastically looking for out of the box solutions.
C- Assuming that he came to the above conclusion-it is hard to imagine how he would come to any other?
D- My question is why should they be confined to the Pak policy only? SC/ST’s deserve them more
A- Paucity of serious thought is no surprise in the government, but one would have thought that the considerably educated PM, who at one time did research of some quality, would have tried to answer for his own satisfaction how effective reservation policies have been.
B- In his approach to Pakistan, he has gone about enthusiastically looking for out of the box solutions.
C- Assuming that he came to the above conclusion-it is hard to imagine how he would come to any other?
D- My question is why should they be confined to the Pak policy only? SC/ST’s deserve them more
Question 9
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 revelling, 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) 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 revelling, 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.
Question 10
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 now 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
E) Decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.
A) The likelihood of an accident is determined by now 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
E) Decide what to do without knowing what the other is doing.
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