Sentence Arrangement – Exercise – 1

16. S1: Smoke oozed up between the planks.
P: Passengers were told to be ready to quit the ship.
Q: The rising gale fanned the smouldering fire.
R: Everyone now knew there was fire on board.
S: Flames broke out here and there.
S6: Most people bore the shock bravely.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) SRQP
(b) QPSR
(c) RSPQ
(d) QSRP

17. S1: What are the causes of our chronic food shortage ?
P: To find for these growing new millions is desperate task.
Q: every year, we add more than a crore of persons to our population.
R: Despite stupendous efforts by our government, the population is growing unabated.
S: The chief cause is the population explosion.
S6: This unprecedented growth can drag us to the doors of starvation very soon.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) QRSP
(b) SQPR
(c) QPRS
(d) PSQR

18. S1: The December dance and music season in Madras is like the annual tropical cyclone.
P: A few among the new aspirants dazzle witht he colour of youth, like fresh saplings.
Q: It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight.
R: Thick clouds expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements.
S: At the end of it one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-routed trees.
S6: Many a hastily planed shrub gets washed away in the storm.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) RQPS
(b) QRPS
(c) RQSP
(d) QRSP

19. S1: Jawaharlal Nehru was the greatest plan-enthusiast.
P: Under Nehru’s advice, the pre-Independent congress set up National Planning Commission in 1938.
Q: But he forgot that what could be achieved by force under the communist dictatorship of Russia was not possible under the democratic set up of India.
R: He took the idea from Russia where Five year plans transformed a very backward country into a top power of the world.
S: No free government can call for compulsory sacrifice and suffering from the whole people.
S6: Nehru himself became the chairman of the commission.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) PSQR
(b) SRQP
(c) QPRS
(d) RQSP

20. S1: There is difference between Gandhiji’s concept of secularism and that of Nehru’s.
P: Nehru’s idea of secularism was equal indifference to all religions and bothering about none of them.
Q: According to Gandhiji, all religions are equally true and each scripture is worthy of respect.
R: Such secularism which means the rejection of all religions is contrary to our culture and tradition.
S: In Gandhiji’s view, secularism stands for equal respect for all religions.
S6: Instead of doing any good, such secularism can do harm instead of good.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) SQPR
(b) PSQR
(c) QSPR
(d) PRSQ

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