English
Language Para Jumbles Practice Questions
Directions
(1 – 10): In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The
first sentence (S1) and the final sentence (S6) are given. The middle four
sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as A),
B), C) and D. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four
sentences from the five alternatives.
1. S1: I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the
generation that gave it birth.
A. They are
museum pieces.
B. They are revived now and then because
a famous part tempts a leading actor or a manager in want of a stop gap thinks
he will put on a play on which he has no loyalties to pay
C. A
few comedies have haphazardly travelled down a couple of centuries or so.
D. The
audience laughs at their wit with politeness and at their farce with
embarrassment.
S6: They
are not held nor taken out of themselves.
a) CDBA
b) CDAB
c) ABDC
d) BACD
e) DABC
2. S1: The
ears are fragile instruments.
A. These impulses travel via the
auditory nerve to the brain, where they are interpreted as, say, words, music
or an approaching vehicle.
B. When sound waves enter the ear, they
cause the eardrum to vibrate.
C. These in
turn stimulate auditory nerve fibers, each attuned to a different frequency.
D. The vibrations are transmitted to the
cochlea, in the inner ear, where fluid carries them to neatly organized rows of
hair cells.
S6: Damage to this delicate apparatus results from both volume and
length of exposure to sound.
a) BCAD
b) DABC
c) BDCA
d) BDAC
e) CDAB
3. S1: All human beings are aware of the existence of a power greater
than that of the mortals – the name given to such a power by individuals is an
outcome of birth, education and choice.
A. Logically,
therefore such a power should be remembered in good times also.
B. Their other philanthropic
contributions include the construction and maintenance of religious places such
as temples or gurudwaras.
C. Industrial organizations also
contribute to the veneration of this power by participating in activities such
as religious ceremonies and festivities organized by the employees.
D. This power provides an anchor in
times of adversity, difficulty and trouble.
S6: The top
management/ managers should participate in all such events, irrespective of
their personal choice..
a) CADB
b) BCAD
c) ADCB
d) DBCA
e) DACB
4. S1: A thorough knowledge of the path or course to be followed is
essential for achieving success.
A. Seniors must show the path clearly by
laying down the precise expectations of the management in terms of job
description, key result areas and personal targets.
B. They should
also ‘light the path’ by personal example.
C. Advice tendered or help offered must
be objectively evaluated for its effectiveness in achieving the desired goal.
D. A display of arrogance and a false
sense of ‘self-worth’ in order to belittle those who come up to help, prove
dysfunctional.
S6: The
individuality of each employee must be respected.
a) CDAB
b) CADB
c) BADC
d) ABCD
e) DBAC
5. S1: In the long run, national recognition of same-sex marriage is
inevitable.
A. It is only a matter of time before
all state laws reflect that view.
B. Prudence counsels that marriage
equality should be allowed to continue gaining support in the states, and that
a federal resolution should be left for another day.
C. Same-sex marriage rights, at first
imposed by courts, have now been recognized by state legislatures and prevailed
in all four states where they were on the ballot in last year’s election.
D. Young people overwhelmingly support it, and public
opinion has shifted on this issue faster than on almost any other social issue
in history.
S6: What is
more, the court’s doctrine dictates just this deferral.
a) CDAB
b) ACBD
c) BACD
d) DCBA
e) ABDC
6. S1: Water is a renewable natural resource and public good.
A. However, most rivers, ponds, lakes
and aquifers are common property.
B. Hence, excluding others from using
water is not possible and the results are competition, over extraction and
conflict.
C. But the
ownership right on land bestows a private character on water.
D. Therefore, water rights are not
clearly defined and the right to using the resources is not protected.
S6: However, cooperation has a greater role in achieving social
harmony in water allocation and increasing human welfare.
a) DACB
b) CADB
c) ACDB
d) BCAD
e) DBAC
7. S1:
Currency movements can have a dramatic impact on equity returns for foreign
investors.
A. This is not surprising as many
developing economies try to peg their exchange rates to the US dollars or to a
basket of currencies.
B. Many developing economies manage to
keep exchange rate volatility lower than that in the industrial economies.
C. India has
also gone in for the full float on the current account and abolished the
managed exchange rate.
D. Dramatic exceptions are Argentina,
Brazil and Nigeria.
S6: Another
emerging market specific risk is liquidity risk.
a) ADBC
b) CDAB
c) BDAC
d) CABD
e) DBAC
8. S1: 1. Conflicting demands for resources are always voiced by
different functions/ departments in an organization.
A. Every manager examines the task
entrusted to him and evaluates the resources required.
B. Availability of resources in full
measure makes task achievement easy because it reduces the effort needed to
somewhat make-do.
C. A safety cushion is built into demand
for resources to offset the adverse impact of any cut imposed by the seniors.
D. This aspect
needs to be understood as a reality.
S6: Dynamic, energetic, growth-oriented and wise managements are
always confronted with the inadequacy of resources with respect to one of the
four Ms (men, machine, money and materials) and the two Ts (time and technology).
a) DABC
b) ACBD
c) ABCD
d) BCDA
e) CDAB
9. S1: The
top management should perceive the true worth of people and only then make
friends.
A. Such ‘true
friends’ are very few and very rare.
B. Factors such as affluence, riches,
outward sophistication and conceptual abilities are not prerequisites for
genuine friendship.
C. Such people
must be respected and kept close to the heart.
D. Business realities call for
developing a large circle of acquaintances and contacts; however, all of them
will be motivated by their own self-interest and it would be wrong to treat
them as genuine friends.
S6: There is always a need for real friends to whom one can turn
for balanced, unselfish advice, more so when one is caught in a dilemma.
a) ABCD
b) ADBC
c) ACDB
d) ABDC
e) ACBD
10. S1: Despite the passage of time, a large number of conflicts
continue to remain alive, because the wronged parties, in reality or in
imagination, wish to take revenge upon each other, thus creating a vicious
circle.
A. At times, managers are called upon to
take ruthless decisions in the long-term interests of the organization.
B. People hurt others, at times
knowingly, to teach them a lesson and at other times because they lack correct
understanding of other person’s stand.
C. The delegation of any power to any
person is never absolute.
D. Every ruthless decision will be
accepted easily if the situation at the moment of committing the act is
objectively analyzed, shared openly and discussed rationally.
S6: Power is misused; its effects can last only for a while, since
employees are bound to confront it someday.
a) BCAD
b) ADBC
c) BADC
d) DABC
e) CDBA
Answers:
1. A) 2. C)
3. E) 4. D) 5. A)
6. B) 7. D) 8. B)
9. E) 10. C)
