Ordering of Sentence (Part-2) (CDS-Solved Paper)

S₁ : Ramu was in a great hurry.
S₆ : Fortunately, it wasn’t a very serious one.
P : As a result of this carelessness, he met with an accident.
Q : The examination was to begin in five minutes time.
R : He just rushed across the road.
S : So he forgot to look to the left or right as he always did.
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S₁ : Chandran was terribly angry.
S₆ : Saro ran screaming.
P : His pen was in her hand and Chandran rushed at her.
Q : Just then his sister, Saro, appeared at the door-step.
R : His pen was missing from the place where he had left it.
S : He thought it was lost.
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S₁ : One fine morning, I heard a sound of fire engines with loud alarm bells.
S₆ : It was a terrible scene, as huge flames of fire were coming put of the house.
P : I thought, perhaps a house was on fire.
Q : They were regulating the crowd.
R : The policemen were standing around a big house.
S : I immediately rushed out to see what was happening.
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S₁ : The sun-dried stalks of rice had caught fire and burst into flames.
S₆ : Even those who were too feeble to keep up with the first rush were on their feet, eager to join the fire-fighters.
P : Then came most of the older people, and mothers with babies at their backs.
Q : And all the active women and girls followed them to assist them in fighting the fire.
R : All the young men and boys were soon on the spot.
S : Staring wildly at the blazing rice, the people of the village ran to extinguish the fire.
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S1 : People’s fear of snakes seems to be based on a series of misconceptions.
S6 : Yet people will insist that they cannot touch a snake because of its sliminess.
P : The most common one is the conviction that all these creatures are poisonous.
Q : Another very popular idea is that these reptiles are slimy to touch.
R : Snakes are really dry and cold; not slimy like a wet cake of soap, but rather like a crocodile-skin handbag to the touch.
S : In fact, the non-poisonous ones outnumber the poisonous ones by about ten to one.
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S₁ : The first great discovery that man probably made was that of fire.
S₆ : The animals were not clever enough to learn anything from this.
P : Fires sometimes occur by themselves in the forests perhaps by rubbing together of flints or something else.
Q : We light a fire now by a match.
R : In olden times fires were made by striking two flints against each other till a spark came for setting fire to a dry thing.
S : But matches are quite recent things.
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S₁ : A common disease of the eye is conjunctivitis or ‘pink eye’, which often occurs in school-children.
S₆ : Students with this condition should be sent to the doctor.
P : This disease spreads among school-children.
Q : A white discharge also appears in the corners of the eyes.
R : One or both eyeballs turn quite red and have a feeling or irritation.
S : This discharge forms a crust which can often be seen in the morning after the eyes have been shut all night.
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S₁ : My office sent a message with a terrific urgency asking me to return.
S₆ : It was the evening before I could sit and write to my parents that I would join them soon.
P : I immediately sent a message requesting a few days of grace as I had to book the return ticket and attend sundry matters before winding up my establishment here.
Q : On the way, I went to the laundry and made sure I would get my clothes in time.
R : Then I rushed to the bank, collected all my money and made reservations for my return journey.
S : From the shop next to it, I bought a strong box to dump my books and other odd articles so that I could send them away in advance.
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S₁ : Harsten’s theory was that plants definitely react to music.
S₆ : He found that this plant grew faster and 70% taller than the other plant.
P : In his experiment, he used two banana plants.
Q : The music was in fact a highpitched humming sound.
R : He gave both plants the same light, heat and water.
S : But for about an hour a day, one of the plants ‘listened’ to some music.
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S₁ : Some students may feel that fast readers do not understand as much as slow readers.
S₆ : This statement, however, needs to be made with caution.
P : Some slow readers will have good comprehension and others poor.
Q : A quick glance at the scores will show that fast readers sometimes have very good comprehension and sometimes poor.
R : This fallacy can easily be disapproved when you give the first reading test in a class.
S : In short, there is little relation between reading speed and comprehension.
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