Ordering of Sentence (CDS-Solved Paper)

Total Questions: 50

21. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : Truth is far more important than the teacher.
P : Without self-knowledge, the airplane becomes the, most destructive instrument in life; but with self-knowledge, it is a means of human help.
Q : Wisdom begins with self-knowledge; and without self-knowledge, mere information leads to destruction.
R : In other words, you have to be the perfect teacher to create a new society; and to bring the perfect teacher into being, you have to understand yourself.
S : Therefore you, who are the seeker of truth, have to be both the pupil and the teacher.
S₆ : So, a teacher must obviously be one who is not within the clutches of society, who does not play power politics or seeks position or authority.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (b) SRQP
Solution:SRQP is the correct sequence.

22. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : Though most of us talk of discipline, what do we mean by that word?
P : The teacher would understand each child and help him in the way required. Q : But if you have five or six in a class and an intelligent understanding teacher with a warm heart, I am sure there would be no need discipline.
R : When you have a hundred boys in a class, you will have to have discipline; otherwise there will be complete chaos.
S : Discipline in schools becomes necessary when there is one teacher to the hundred boys and girls.
S₆ : And most of us are interested in mass movements, large schools with a great many boys and girls; we are not interested in creative intelligence, therefore we put up huge schools with enormous attendances.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (d) RQPS
Solution:RQPS is the correct sequence.

23. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : Tolstoy Farm was founded in 1910 by which time Gandhi had already conceptualised ideas that he would develop in India.
P : He was rich and used his money to buy the land and help set up the farm.
Q : A Jewish architect, Kallenbach was by his side through this period.
R : Tolstoy Farm became the subject of research for different kinds of cooperative communities across the world.
S : He first put in the social, moral, religious components of his doctrine.
S₆ : Both he and Gandhi often referred to the time that they spent in Tolstoy Farm as among the happiest in their lives.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (e) SRQP
Solution:SRQP is the correct sequence.

24. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : Decentralised planning is a process of planning that begins from the grassroots level taking into confidence all the beneficiaries.
P : Under decentralised planning, the operation is from bottom to top.
Q : It can be said that it is more connected with the capitalistic economies.
R : It empowers the individuals and small groups to carry out their plans fro their achievement of a common goal.
S : The decentralised planning is implemented through market mechanism.
S₆ : But it cannot be described as undemocratic for most national states adopt such a planning now.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (c) SQRP
Solution:SQRP is the correct sequence.

25. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : It is doubtful if mankind, throughout his long histroy, has ever lived at all ‘sustainably’.
P : But in general mankind has regarded the environment as an endless ‘resource’ to be exploited and plundered.
Q : May be a few isolated tribal groups found the necessary balance with nature lived without the desire for endless ‘more’.
R : Now we have reached a point where we are on the verge of destroying ourselves and most of the life on Earth.
S : This process has accelerated greatly since the industrial revolution.
S₆ : The concept of ‘sustainable’ is so far from reality that it is almost laughable.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (b) QPSR
Solution:QPSR is the correct sequence.

26. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : Measurement is an important concept in performance management.
P : It also indicates where things are not going so well, so that corrective action can be taken.
Q : It identifies where things are going well to provide the foundations for building further success.
R : It is the basis for providing and generating feedback.
S : Measuring performance is relatively easy for those who are responsible for achieving quantified targets for example sales.
S₆ : It is more difficult in the case of knowledge workers e.g. scientists and teachers.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (b) QPSR
Solution:QPSR is the correct sequence.

27. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : Equity theory is concerned with the perception people have about how they are being treated compared with others.
P : To be dealt with equitably is to be treated fairly in comparison with another group of people or a relevant other person.
Q : Equity involves feelings and perceptions and is always a comparative process.
R : Equity theory states, in effect, that people will better motivated if they are treated equitably and demotivated if they are treated inequitably.
S : It is not synonymous with equality, which means treating everyone the same, since this would be inequitable if they deserve to be treated differently.
S₆ : This explains only one aspect of the process of motivation and job satisfaction, although it may be significant in terms of morale.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (c) RSQP
Solution:RSQP is the correct sequence.

28. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : We cannot understand the power of rumours and prophecies in history by checking whether they are factually correct or not.
P : The rumours in 1857 began to make sense when seen in the context of the policies the British pursued from the late 1820s.
Q : Rumours circulate only when they resonant with the deeper fears and suspicions of people.
R : Under the leadership of Governor-General Lord William Bentinck, the British adopted policies aimed at reforming India society by introducing Western education, Western ideas and Western institutions.
S : We need to see what they reflect about the minds of people who believed them-their fears and apprehensions, their faiths and convictions.
S₆ : With the cooperation of sections of Indian society they set up English-medium schools, colleges and universities which taught Western sciences and liberal arts.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (a) SQPR
Solution:SQPR is the correct sequence.

29. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Evening Shift-2018 (II)]

S₁ : The Constitution of India thus emerged through a process of intense debate and discussion.
P : This was an unprecedented act of faith, for in other democracies the vote had been granted slowly, and in stages.
Q : However, on one central feature of the Constitution there was substantial agreement.
R : Many of the provisions were arrived at through a process of give and take, by forgiving a middle ground between two opposed positions.
S : This was on the granting of the vote to every adult Indian.
S₆ : In countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, only men with education were allowed into the charmed circal
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (b) RQSP
Solution:RQSP is the correct sequence.

30. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2018 (I)]

S₁ : First and foremost, there are order and safety in our civilisation.
S₆ : Nobody may come and break into my house and steal my goods.
P : Thus in disputes between man and man, right has taken the place of might. Q : If today I have a quarrel with another man, I do not get beaten merely because I am physically weaker.
R : I go to law and the law will decide fairly between the two of us.
S : Moreover, the law protects me from robbery and violence.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (c) QRPS
Solution:QRPS is the correct sequence.