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Quiz on Parajumbles and Paragraph Summary based on New Pattern

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Question 1

Read the following sets of four sentences and arrange them in the most logical sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
I. Doubts Linger about Facebook’s ability to be a business. Financial markets had also crated since the Microsoft deal.
II. Big, as that is, it’s considerably less than the $15 billion valuation that Microsoft and Li Ka-shing accepte in October 2007.
III. Milner’s confidence that Facebook will eventually be profitable at a gigantic scale is what emboldened him to invest initially at a price that valued the company at $10 billon.
IV. But Milner’s enthusiasm is such that not only did he buy stock from Facebook, he will also be spending as much as $300 million more buying stock from employees and outside investors

Question 2

Read the following sets of four sentences and arrange them in the most logical sequence to form a meaningful paragraph.
I. No light, no sound comes in from the world.
II. My violin misses him more than I do. I tune it, and we enter my soundproof cell.
III. Electrons along copper, horsehair across acrylic create my only impressions of sense.
IV. I have not played Schubert for more than a month.

Question 3

Arrange the given sentences in the most logical sequence.
i. She was so innovative that she had begun to include the songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore in her repertoire even before the word “Rabindra Sangeet” was coined.
ii. Gauhar knew she could gain the goodwill of the Bengali babus by singing as many Bengali songs as she could in her soiress.
iii. Instead, she rendered them in her own style, giving them a classical twist.
iv. Gauhar was not afraid to defy the norms and in fact she seldom used the tunes that Tagore had set his songs to.

Question 4

Arrange the given sentences in the most logical sequence.
i. At dusk, I allowed Adele to put away books and work, and to run downstairs.
ii. Twilight and snowflakes together thickened the air hid the very shrubs
iii. The afternoon was wild and snowy and we passed it in the schoolroom.
iv. Left alone, I walked to the window but nothing was to be seen there.

Question 5

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

A) But this does not mean that death was the Egyptians' only preoccupation.
B) Even papyri come mainly from pyramid temples.
C) Most of our traditional sources of information about the Old Kingdom are monuments of the rich like pyramids and tombs.
D) Houses in which ordinary Egyptians lived have not been preserved, and when most people died they were buried in simple graves.
E) We know infinitely more about the wealthy people of Egypt than we do about the ordinary people, as most: monuments were made for the rich,

Question 6

Which of the following statements (A,B,C,D) most logically follow the passage given below -
Passage - 
It is important for shipping companies to be clear about the objectives for maintenance and materials management– as to whether the primary focus is on service level improvement or cost minimization. Often when certain systems are set in place, the cost minimization objective and associated procedure become more important than the flexibility required for service level improvement. The problem really arises since cost minimization tends to focus on out of pocket costs which are visible, while the opportunity costs, often greater in value, are lost sight of.

A- Shipping companies have to either minimize costs or maximize service quality. If they focus on cost minimization, they will reduce quality. They should focus on service level improvement, or else opportunity costs will be lost sight of.
B- Shipping companies should determine the primary focus of their maintenance and materials management. Focus on cost minimization may reduce visible costs, but ignore greater invisible costs and impair service quality.
C- Any cost minimization program in shipping is bound to lower the quality of service. Therefore, shipping companies must be clear about the primary focus of their maintenance and materials management before embarking on cost minimization.
D- Shipping companies should focus on quality level improvement rather than cost cutting. Cost cutting will lead to untold opportunity costs. Companies should have systems in place to make the service level flexible.

Question 7

Direction: Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.

The human race is spread all over the world, from the polar regions to the tropics. The people of whom it is made up eat different kinds of food, partly according to the climate in which they live, and partly according to the kind of food which their country produces. In hot climates, meat and fat are not much needed; but in the Arctic regions they seem to be very necessary for keeping up the heat of the body. Thus, in India, people live chiefly on different kinds of grains, eggs, milk, or sometimes fish and meat. In Europe, people eat more meat and less grain.
In the Arctic regions, where no grains and fruits are produced, the Eskimo and other races live almost entirely on meat and fish.

Question 8

Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.
You seemed at first to take no notice of your school-fellows, or rather to set yourself against them because they were strangers to you. They knew as little of you as you did of them; this would have been the reason for their keeping aloof from you as well, which you would have felt as a hardship. Learn never to conceive a prejudice against others because you know nothing of them. It is bad reasoning and makes enemies of half the world. Do not think ill of them till they behave ill to you, and then strive to avoid the faults which you see in them. This will disarm their hostility sooner than pique or resentment or complaint.

Question 9

Direction: Four alternative summaries are given below each text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text.
Although almost all climate scientists agree that the Earth is gradually warming, they have long been of two minds about the process of rapid climate shills within larger periods of change. Some have speculated that the process works like a giant oven freezer, warming or cooling the whole planet at the same time. Others think that shills occur on opposing schedules in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, like exaggerated seasons. Recent research in Germany examining climate patterns in the Southern Hemisphere at the end of the last Ice Age strengthens the idea that warming and cooling occur at alternate times in the two hemispheres. A more definitive answer to this debate will allow scientists to better predict when and how quickly the next climate shift will happen.

Question 10

Although in the limited sense of freedom regarding appointments and internal working, the independence of the Central Bank is unequivocally ensured, the same cannot be said of its right to pursue monetary policy without co-ordination with the central government. The role of the Central Bank has turned out to be subordinate and advisory in nature.
Which of the following best supports the conclusion drawn in the passage?
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