Ordering of Sentence (Part-3) (CDS-Solved Paper)

Total Questions: 31

1. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2016 (I)]

S₁ : Wordsworth knew the behaviour of owls in the night better than most of us know the ways of black birds in day time.
S₆ : His great poetry owes much to the night.
P : Out of school there were no restrictions on the hours he kept.
Q : No poet ever had happier school days.
R : He would skate by the light of the stars, snare woodcocks at dead of night, watch the sunrise after a log ramble.
S : Throughout life he was an inveterate walker by night.
The correct sequence should be

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

2. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2016 (I)]

S₁ : Science has already conferred an immense boon on mankind by the growth of medicine.
S₆ : The general death rate in 1948 (10-8) was the lowest ever recorded up to that date.
P : It has continued ever since and is still continuing.
Q : In the 18th century people expected most of their children to die before they were grown-up.
R : In 1920, the infant mortality rate in England and Wales was 80 per thousand; in 1948 it was 34 per thousand.
S : Improvement began at the start of the 19th century, chiefly owing to vaccination.
The correct sequence should be

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

3. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2016 (I)]

S₁ : The young traveller gazed out into the dismal country with a face of mingled repulsion and interest.
S₆ : He quickly restored it to his secret pocket.
P : At intervals he drew from his pocket a bulky letter to which he referred and on the margins of which he scribbled some notes.
Q : It was a navy revolver of the largest size.
R : From the back of his waist he produced something which one would hardly have expected to find in the possession of so mild-mannered a man.
S : As he turned it slantwise to the light, the glint upon the rims of the copper shells within the drum showed that it was fully loaded.
The correct sequence should be

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

4. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

S₁ : While teaching in the class-room, our teacher suddenly fainted(d).
S₆ : The headmaster at once sanctioned his leave.
P : The headmaster soon joined us and spoke to them in a soft voice.
Q : He was told that the patient needed complete rest for a month.
R : He was at once taken to the hospital.
S : the doctors examined him with serious faces.
The correct sequence should be

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

5. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

S₁ : The colonial powers had a very simple technique to rule the world.
S₆ : Partition was the culmination.
P : They lumped tribes and people together, played one against the other.
Q : India’s provinces were more elaborately designed to play the game of divide and rule.
R : Africa was divided, believe it or not, on the basis of the lines of longitude and latitude.
S : They also purchased the loyalties of those locals who were needed as supports for the colonial presence.
The correct sequence should be

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

6. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

S₁ : The bank opened at 10 : 00 am.
S₆ : The safe was empty.
P : The peon opened the safe and returned the keys to the manager.
Q : The manager and the peon went to the safe in the valult.
R : The manager and the peon looked into the safe.
S : They were shocked at what they saw there.
The correct sequence should be

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

7. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

S₁ : The crowd swelled round the thief.
S₆ : They were followed by the crowd which left the thief alone.
P : Suddenly he whipped out a knife from under his shift.
Q : The thief stood quiet, his head hung is shame.
R : The two young men holding him were scared by the sight of the shining knife.
S : They took to their heels. The correct sequence should be
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (a) QPRS
Solution:QPRS is the proper sequence.

8. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

S₁ : The old man wanted to cross the road.
S₆ : Holding him by hand the driver helped him to cross the road.
P : The driver got off and came to him.
Q : He was fed up and was about to return.
R : Then a car stopped in front of him.
S : He waited for a long time.
The correct sequence should be

Correct Answer: (a) SQRP
Solution:SQRP is the proper sequence.

9. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

S₁ : The first thing you have to do is to speak with a strong foreign accent and speak broken English.
S₆ : Half a dozen people will immediately overwhelm you with directions.
P : He will interested in you because you are a foreigner and he will be pleased that he could figure out what you said.
Q : He will not expect you be polite and use elaborate grammatical phrases.
R : Then every English person to who you speak will at once know that you are a foreigner and try to understand you and be ready to help you.
S : If you shout, ‘‘Please! Charing Cross! Which ways?’’ you will have to difficulty..
The correct sequence should be

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

10. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark you response accordingly. [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

S₁ : When a lamb is born its mother may die.
S₆ : If a means of a overcoming this natural tendency is found, the lives of millions of lambs can be saved.
P : Thus, there will nearly always be both motherless lambs and sheep without lambs.
Q : However a sheep which has lost its own lamb will not feed or look after a motherless lamb.
R : At the same time some new born lambs are too weak to live. S : This happens in large flocks where many sheep give birth to lambs at the same time.
The correct sequence should be

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