Quiz on parajumble and sentence correction for PO, Clerk, SO, Insurance Exams

Question 1

Direction: The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 and 6 as the first and the last statements respectively.

1. It doesn't take a highly esteemed medical expert to conclude that women handle pain better than men.
A) First, the men would give birth, and then take six months to recover.
B) As for labor pains, the human species would become extinct if men had to give birth.
C) They do, however, make life hell for everyone else with their non-stop complaining about how bad they feel.
D) The men in my life, including my husband and my father, would not take a Tylenol for pain even if their lives depend on it.
6. And by the time they finish sharing their excruciating experience with their buddies, all reproduction would come to a halt.

Question 2

Direction: In each of the following questions, there are four statements A, B, C, D that have to be arranged in a logical order to make a paragraph between 1 and 6.

1. A few years ago, hostility towards Japanese-Americans was so strong that I thought they were going to reopen the detention camps here in Kolkata.
A) Today Asians are a success story.
B) I cannot help making a comparison to the anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi Germany when Jewish people were successful in business.
C) But do people applaud President Clinton for improving foreign trade with Asia?
D) Now, talk about the ‘Arkansas-Asia Connection’ is broadening that hatred to include all Asian- Americans.
6. No, blinded by jealousy, they complain that it is the Asian-Americans who are reaping the wealth.

Question 3

Direction: In each of the following questions, four sentences are given between the sentences numbered 1 and 6. You are required to arrange the four sentences so that all six together make a logical paragraph.

1. Michael Jackson, clearly no admirer of long engagements, got married abruptly for the second time in three years.
A) The latest wedding took place in a secret midnight ceremony in Sydney, Australia.
B) It is also the second marriage for the new missus, about whom little is known.
C) The wedding was attended by the groom's entourage and staff, according to Jackson's publicist.
D) The bride, 37-year-old Debbie Rowe, who is carrying Jackson's baby, wore white.
6. All that is known is that she is a nurse for Jackson's dermatologist.

Question 4

Direction: In the given question, there are six sentences 1, A, B, C, D and 6, which when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 and 6 as the first and the last statements respectively.

1. Liz Taylor isn't just unlucky in love.
A) She, and husband Larry Fortensky, will have to pay the tab — $4,32,600 in court costs.
B) The duo claimed that a 1993 story about a property dispute damaged their reputations.
C) Taylor has just filed a defamation suit against the National Enquirer.
D) She is unlucky in law too.
6. Alas, all levels of the California court system disagreed.

Question 5

Direction: The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

A) It begins with an ordinary fever and a moderate cough.
B) India could be under attack from a class of germs that cause what are called atypical pneumonias.
C) Slowly, a sore throat progresses to bronchitis and then pneumonia and respiratory complications.
D) It appears like the ordinary flu, but baffled doctors find that the usual drugs don't work.

Question 6

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

The Romanians may be restive under Soviet direction — but they are tied from Moscow in ideological and military links.

Question 7

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E), which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

In a penetrating study, CBS-TV focuses on these people without hope, whose bodies are care for by welfare aid, but whose spirit is often neglected by a disinterested society.

Question 8

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E), which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative.

Contemplating whether to exist with an insatiable romantic temperament, he was the author and largely the subject of a number of memorable novels.

Question 9

Direction: In each of the following questions, a part of the paragraph or sentences has been underlined. From the choices given to you, you are required to choose the one which would best replace the underlined part.

How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start to make sense? There is a monster out there, and it is rushing towards me over the uneven ground of consciousness.

Question 10

Direction: In the given question, a part of the sentence is printed in bold. Below the sentence alternatives to the bold part are given at (A), (B), (C) and (D) which may help improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case the given sentence is correct, your answer is (E) i.e. No correction required.

In Martin Amis' new novel, the narrator is trapped — and hurtling towards a terrible secret, its resolution and the dreadful revelations it brings, ally to give an excruciating vision of guilt.