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

S₁ : People very seldom have everything the want.
S₆ : Our decisions indicate our scale of preferences and therefore our priorities.
P : Usually we have to decide care fully how to spend our income.
Q : They may all seem important, but their true importance can be measured by deciding which we are prepared to live without.
R : When we exercise our choice, we do so according to our personal scale of preferences.
S : In this sclae of preferences essential commodities come first, then the kind of luxuries which helps us to be comfortable and finally those non-essentials which give us personal pleasure.
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S₁ : On 5th October, 1818, when young Lincoln was approaching his 10th years, his mother Nancy died of fever.
S₆ : His total education at school comprised only about a year during which he, however, managed to master reading, writing, spelling and some arithmetic.
P : She was illiterate, but she brought with her several books, among which were Pilgrim’s Progress, Sindbad the Sailor, Robinson Crusoe and Aesop’s Fables.
Q : Lincoln always acknowledged this moral and intellectual debt to his step mother.
R : The following year, his father married Sarah Bush Johnson, a widow with three children.
S : These books provided Lincoln with a mass of knowledge.
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S₁ : Crude oil obtained from the field is taken to a refinery for treatment.
S₆ : Lubricating oils os various grades are obtained last of all.
P : The gas that comes off later is condensed into paraffin.
Q : This allows substances with different boiling points to be separated.
R : The first vapours to rise when cooled provide the finest petrol.
S : The commonest form of treatments is heating.
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S₁ : There have been many stories of propoises saving human lives.
S₆ : Marine Marine scientists point out that the porpoise’s spirit of play is responsible for such incidents.
P : ‘When I got to my feet no one was near, but in the water about 18 feet out a porpoise was leaping about’.
Q : One woman was wading waist deep off the Florida coast when an undertow pulled her down.
R : ‘I felt something give me a terrific shove up on to the beach’, she says.
S : ‘A man standing nearby said that the porpoise has shoved me ashore’.
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S₁ : Rome the greatest city of the ancient world, did not achieve its glory all of a sudden.
S₆ : Achievement of great moment cannot be accomplished without patient perseverance and a considerable interval of time.
P : The same is true of every great achievement.
Q : We should carry on our work with patience and perseverance.
R : It took several years to build Rome and bring it to the state of pomp and splendor.
S : When we wish to do great thing, we cannot expect success in a moment.
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S₁ : The bus stopped.
S₆ : Then, his eyes rested with cold malice on the dog.
P : The conductor came in and took the fares.
Q : A woman and a man got in together.
R : The young woman was carrying a pet dog.
S : They took their seats.
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S₁ : James Watt used the power of steam to drive machines.
S₆ : The jet engine is relatively more recent.
P : With petrol engines people were able to build motor cars and aeroplanes.
Q : Then, many years later, the petrol engine was invented.
R : These provided quicker means of travelling.
S : His invention was used later by other clever men to give us the railway engine.
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S₁ : A man handed a pair of trouser to the departmental store clerk and said, ‘‘I’d like these altered, please’’.
S₆ : Triumphantly he put the trousers and the receipts on the counter and said, ‘‘I’d like to have these altered, please.’’
P : He said that free alteration is not possible without a receipt.
Q : The man said, ‘‘Okay, I’d like to return the trousers.’’ The clerk took them back and returned the money.
R : The man pushed the money and said, ‘‘Now I want to buy them.’’ The clerk put the trousers in a bag, issued a receipt and handed him both.
S : The clerk asked for the sales receipt but after searching his pockets the man replied that he had lost it.
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S₁ : It is generally assumed by the admirers of democracy that the right to vote also confers a right for power which threaten the very existence of democracy.
S₆ : As a result, the political scene witnesses endless dogfights for power which threaten the very existence of democracy.
P : These qualities are very rare and cannot be had for the wishing.
Q : For the right for power must, if it is to be useful, be accompanied by the ability to exercise it with competence, wisdom, foresight and broadmindedness.
R : Yet all those who have the right to vote believe that they have them and try by hook or crook to capture power.
S : The former has much to commend it but one cannot be so sure about the latter.
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S₁ : There are several tribes in East Africa.
S₆ : All the other tribes were afraid of them because of their skill in war.
P : The Masias were famous fighters.
Q : They used to raid the neighbouring tribes and carry away their cattle.
R : They lived on the wide plains in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania.
S : But the most famous among them is Masai tribe.
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