Directions (Qs. 1 - 7): In the questions given below, a paragraph is given with four words labelled (A), (B), (C) and (D), arranged not necessarily in the correct order. You have to find the correct order of arrangement from the options given below. In case, the sentence is correct in its original form, please select (E) as your answer. Ignore the errors in punctuation, if any.
1. In any country, achieving the Self Development Groups will recognize
(A) government, business, aid agencies, multilateral banks, and civil society to work
(B) together, adopt flexible approaches
(C), share knowledge, measure progress effectively, and require
(D) that the various targets are interconnected.
A) DBCA B) BADC C) CABD D) DBAC E) No word swapping required
2. Delhi has so many private cars because a functional
(A), predictable, integrated public transport system with available
(B) last mile connectivity is absent. If cars are disallowed
(C) while an expanded public transport is still not efficient
(D), three wheelers and cabs will ply all the more.
A) CDBA B) ADCB C) BACD D) DBAC E) No word swapping required
3. Fishing is a crucial part of the blue economy
(A). Today some 3.2 billion people rely on seafood for a fifth of their fisheries
(B) protein. However, fish populations have declined alarmingly over the past 20 years due to overfishing
(C), competition and climate change. This has led to a major decrease in animal
(D) production in many countries.
A) ACDB B) BADC C) ADCB D) DBAC E) No word swapping required
4. A headache is usually trigger
(A) due to spinal misalignment of the head due to poor posture. Sleeping the stomach
(B) with the head turned to one side and bending over position for a long time makes it worse
(C). It is known that shift in the level of body hormones and chemicals, certain foods and drinks, and environmental stress can also caused
(D) them.
A) ADBC B) DBAC C) BADC D) DBCA E) No word swapping required
5. Radium provided the first bombarding
(A) treatment for some types of cancer, destroying the diseased human cells by effective
(B) them with radioactive particles. The Curies had spent the historic
(C) day pouring measures of purified pitchblende into the last of some 6,000evaporating bowls. Marie Curie believed that the black mineral ore contained a completely new and dynamic element whose rays could destroy
(D) unhealthy body tissue.
A) BACD B) BDCA C) CDAB D) DBAC E) No word swapping required
6. Two principles are involved in the interest
(A) about the presence of foreign controlled
(B) media in the country; the free flow of ideas and images across national borders and the need to safeguard the national controversy
(C) and preserve cultural autonomy. Both are valid but both are at loggerheads
(D) because each has been used to promote less lofty goals.
A) DBAC B) CBAD C) CDBA D) ABDC E) No word swapping required
7. The deregulation
(A) between petrol and diesel prices has narrowed substantially since the government commenced the sales
(B) of diesel pricing in 2013, and diesel now is only 22 per cent cheaper than petrol. But diesel vehicles, including the sport utility vehicles, or SUVs, that are ubiquitous
(C) status symbols in the National Capital Region and beyond, now constitute 50 percent of the auto industry’s passenger car differential
(D).
A) ACDB B) CADB C) DACB D) DBAC E) No word swapping required
Key
1-A 2-B 3-C 4-D 5-A 6-B 7-C
