Paragraph based Problems – Learning Quiz 9

(i) The Supertag scanner could revolutionise the way people shop, virtually eradicating supermarket queues;

(ii) The face of retailing will change even more rapidly when the fibre optic networks being built by cable TV companies begin to be more widely used;

(iii) The scanner would have a double benefit for supermarkets – removing the bottleneck which causes frustration to most customers and reducing the number of checkout staff;

(iv) An electronic scanner which can read the entire contents of a supermarket trolley at a glance has just been developed.

The best sequence is:

(i) Of course, modern postal services now are much more sophisticated and faster, relying as they do on motor vehicles and planes for delivery.

(ii) Indeed, the ancient Egyptians had a system for sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Zhou dynasty in China a thousand years later.

(iii) Letters, were, and are, sent by some form of postal service, the history of which goes back a long way.

(iv) For centuries, the only form of written correspondence was the letter. The best sequence is:

(i) Converting money into several currencies in the course of one trip can also be quite expensive, given that banks and bureaux de change charge commission on the transaction.

(ii) Trying to work out the value of the various notes and coins can be quite a strain, particularly if you are visiting more than one country.

(iii) Travel can be very exciting, but it can also be rather complicated.

(iv) One of these complications is, undoubtedly,

The best sequence is:

(i) She was right about three-curiosity, freckles,  and doubt-but wrong about love.

(ii) “Four of the things I’d be better without: love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt”.

 (ü) Love is indispensable in life.

 (iv) So wrote Dorothy Parker, the American writer.  The best sequence is:

(i) This clearly indicates that the brains of men and women are organised differently in the way they process speech.
(ii) Difference in the way men and women process language is of special interest to brain researchers.
(ii) However, women are more likely than men to suffer aphasia when the front part of the brain is damaged. .
(iv) It has been known that aphasia – a kind of speech disorder – is more common in men than . in women when the left side of the brain is damaged in an accident or after a stroke.
The best sequence is:

(i) The Collector said that the Dams should receive
(ii) To ensure uninterrupted
(iii) Water up to a particular level
(iv) Supply of water for irrigation
The best sequence is:

(i) He loved to distribute them among small kids.
(ii) He wore a long, loose shirt with many pockets.
(iii)And in doing so his eyes brightened.
(iv) The pockets of his shirt bulged with toffees and chocolates.
The best sequence is:

(i) As we all know, a legislation
(ii) Needs the assent of the President
(iii)Passed by the Houses of Parliamen
(iv) To become law.

The best sequence is:

(i) The farmers grow food for the whole country.
(ii) And therefore it is our duty to improve their lot.
(iii) Yet these fellows are exploited by the rich.
(iv) Hence they are the most useful members of the society.
The best sequence is:

(i) The ripples looked enchanting in the light of the Sun.
(ii) We went to the pond.
(iii) We flung stones to create ripples.
(iv) We stood knee-deep in the muddy water of the pond.

The best sequence is:

i) built on the site of a church destroyed
(ii) in the hilly area of the city is the famous Shandon Steeple
(ii) the bell tower of St. Anne’s Church
(iv) when the city was besieged by the Duke of Marlborough

(i) no law giving effect to the policy of the state towards securing all or any of the principles laid in part IV
(ii) notwithstanding anything contained in Article 13
(iii)and no law containing a declaration that it is for giving effect to such policy shall be called in question in any court on the ground that it does not give effect to such policy
(iv) shall be deemed to be void on the ground that it is incansistent with or takes away or abridges any of the rights conferred by Article 14 or 19

(i) neither House shall proceed further with the Bill,
(ii) if he does so, the houses shall meet accordingly
(iii)but the President may at any time after the date of his notification summon the Houses to meet in a joint sitting for the purpose specified in the notification and,
(iv) where the President has under clause (1) notified his intention of summoning the Houses to meet in a joint sitting.

A. People who start up their own business typically come from two extreme backgrounds: One is the business family background and the other is a steady professional family background.
B. Typicallypeople from different backgrounds face different kinds of basic problems.
C. The people from both the backgrounds find it very difficult to establish and manage an enterprise.
D. Starting up and managing a small business is no joke.

A. Venture capital is recommended as the ideal source of financing for a successfully small business.
B. Several companies including start ups have been funded by dedicated venture funds during this decade.
C. Despite this, an average Indian entrepreneur understands and appreciation of venture capital
concept has been woefully inadequate.
D. In the Indian context, though venture capital has been a relatively late entrant, it has already made a reasonable impact.

A. Progress in diagnosis, in preventive medicine and in treatment, both medicinal and surgical,has been rapid and breathe taking.
B. Much in medicine which is not taken for
C. Presently small pox has been eradicated, poliomyelitis practically banished, tuberculosis has become curable and coronary artery disease surgically relievable.
D. The dramatic surge in the field of molecular biology and research by immunologists and geneticists has succeeded in controlling parasitic diseases like malaria and river blindness that affect millions of people round the world.

A. Instead, many deaths and injuries result from falling objects and the collapse of buildings, bridges and other structures.
B. Earthquakes almost never kill people directly.
C. Fire resulting from broken gas or power lines is another major danger during a quake
D. Spills of hazardous chemicals are also a concern during an earthquake.

A. The Winchester or hard disk drives can store much more data than what can be stored on a floppy diskette.
B. Hard disks come sealed and they cannot be removed or changed like floppy diskettes.
C. Often floppy disk system is used in conjunction with the Winchester disk system.
D. This makes for an ideal system for secondary storage.

(A) Payment for imports and exports is made through a system called foreign exchange. The value of the money of one country in relation to the money of other countries is agreed upon.
(B)The rates of exchange vary from time to time,
(C)For example, an American dollar or a British pound sterling is worth certain amounts in the money of other countries.
(D)Sometimes a US dollar is worth 60 rupees in India.

(A)When a dictionary is being edited, a lexicographer collects all the alphabetically arranged citation slips for a particular word.
(B)The moment a new word is coined, it usually enters the spoken language.
(C) The dictionary takes note of it and makes a note of it on a citation slip.
(D)The word then passes from the realm of hearing to the realm of writing.

(A) The impression that corruption is a universal fr phenomenon persists and the people do not co operate in checking this evil.
(B)So there is hardly anything that the government can do about it now.,
(C)It is regrettable that there is a widespread corruption in the country at all levels.
(D)Recently several offenders were brought to book, but they were not given deterrent punishment.

(A) In all social affairs convention prescribes more or less generally accepted rules of behaviour.
(B)of course, there is nothing absolute about conventions,
(C) They vary from country to country, from age to age.
(D)Convention has a necessary part to play in the life of everyone.

(A) In fact, only recently there have been serious studies to find out how many of us actually have nightmares.
(B)Now that is changing
(C)The study of nightmares has been curiously neglected.
(D)While results so far are inconclusive, it seems ti fair to say that at least half the population has W occasional nightmares.

P : You couldn’t have asked for a nicer, more respectable-looking fellow than Jack, the day he arrived in town for grandpa’s funeral.
Q:He’d just arrived that morning, got the word that the old Judge was gone’ he said.
R:He rode into the yard on his motorbike – the one he’d sold last summer, which wasn’t a patch on the big red one he’d bought later.
S:He was glad he was in time for the services. He sat with Paresh all through the funeral; he even cried – or if it wasn’t crying, it was a darned good show.

The proper sequence should be

P: Anything to do with his parents had always been vague to Manish.
Q: He had been too young to remember them; he only knew the story of the fatal weekend at the Airondack camel and the overturned canoe.
R: Then, as the years swept by and the tragedy faded into time, they began taking him there; and the lake again became a quite lake in the foothills’ a camping place where the three of them had a good time.
S: Grandpa had still owned the camp a long while afterwards he and Grandma hadn’t gone there.

The proper sequence should be