Sentence Arrangement – Exercise – 1

21. S1: Payment for imports and exports is made through a system called foreign exchange.
P: The value of the money of one country in relation to the money of other countries is agreed upon.
Q: These rates of exchange vary from time to time.
R: For instance, an American dollar or a British pound sterling is worth certain amounts in the money of other countries.
S: Sometimes a United States dollar is worth 12 pesos in Mexico.
S6: Another time it may be worth eight pesos.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) PQRS
(b) QPRS
(c) PRQS
(d) RPQS

22. S1: Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race.
P: One may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way of greetings when he meets someone he knows.
Q: A man of another country will not to do so.
R: It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth.
S: Obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country.
S6: In any case, we should not mock at others habits.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) RPQS
(b) RPSQ
(c) PRQS
(d) QPRS

23. S1: The art of growing old is one which the passage of time has forced upon my attention.
P: One of these is undue absorption in the past.
Q: One’s thought must be directed to the future and to things about which there is something to be done.
R: Psychologically, there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age.
S: It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friend who are dead.
S6: This is not always easy one’s own past is gradually increasing weight.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) QSRP
(b) RPQS
(c) RPSQ
(d) QPRS

24. S1: The Hound of Baskervilles was feared by the people of the area.
P: Some people spoke of seeing a huge, shadowy form a Hound at midnight on the moor.
Q: But they spoke of it in tones of horror.
R: Nobody had actually seen the hound.
S: This shadowy form did not reveal any details about the animal.
S6: The Hound of Baskervilles remains an unsolved mystery.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) SPQR
(b) SPRQ
(c) PSRQ
(d) PQRS

25. S1: We speak today of self-determination in politics.
P: So long as one is conscious of a restraint, it is possible to resist it or to near it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit.
Q: Slavery begins when one ceases to feel that restraint and it depends on if the evil is accepted as good.
R: There is, however, a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture to another.
S: Political subjection primarily means restraint on the outer life of people.
S6: Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start.

The Proper sequence should be:

(a) SPRQ
(b) RSQP
(c) SPQR
(d) RSPQ

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