Ordering of Sentences MCQs

21. S1: The houses in the Indus Valley were built of baked bricks. P: This staircase sometimes continued upwards on to the roof. Q: Access to the upstairs rooms was by a narrow stone staircase at the back of the house. R: The drains were incorporated in the walls. S: The houses had bathrooms and water closets, rubbish chutes and excellent drainage systems. S6: They led outside into covered sewers which ran down the side of the streets. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PSQR
B. QPSR
C. QRPS
D. SPQR
✅ The correct answer is option B.

22. S1: This year many States have been badly affected by the drought situation prevailing in the country. P: No better is the situation elsewhere, where floods have ravaged the standing crop. Q: Though some have been less affected, even these are facing an uphill task in managing the situation. R: Especially pitiable is the plight of the poor farmer who cannot afford a tubewell to irrigate his land. S: Here the predicament is more equitable, for everybody’s land is similarly submerged under ten feet of water. S6: Either way, it seems the lot of the Indian farmer to be at the mercy of the elements. The Proper sequence should be:

A. RSPQ
B. QRPS
C. PSRQ
D. PRQS
✅ The correct answer is option B.

24. S1: Anything you do that gives you some form of regular exercise will benefit your heart. P: In fact, never choose an activity just because it is good for you. Q: By all means work up a good sweat, and even a thirst perhaps. R: If you can combine this with enjoyment, then so much the better. S: You will soon get bored of it. S6: But do not push too hard; tune into the warning signals from your body. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PRSQ
B. PSRQ
C. QRPS
D. RPSQ
✅ The correct answer is option D.

25. S1: In the eighteenth century people expected most of their children to die before they were grown up. P: Improvement began at the beginning of the nineteenth century, chiefly owing to vaccination. Q: The general death rate in 1948(10.8) was the lowest ever recorded up to that date. R: In 1920 the infant mortality in England and Wales was 80 per thousand, in 1948 it was 34 per thousand. S: It has continued ever since and is still continuing. S6: There is no obvious limit to the improvement of health that can be brought about by medicine. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PSRQ
B. QRPS
C. RQPS
D. SPQR
✅ The correct answer is option A.

26. S1: In other words, grammar grows and changes, and there is no such thing as correct use of English for the past, the present and the future. P: “The door is broke.” Q: Yet this would have been correct in Shakespeare’s time. R: Today, only an uneducated person would say,”My arm is broke.” S: For example, in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, there is the line. S6: All the words that man has invented are divided into eight classes, which are called parts of speech. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PSQR
B. QPSR
C. RSPQ
D. SPRQ
✅ The correct answer is option D.

27. S1: The ‘age of computers’ is considered to have begun in 1946. P: Those early computers were huge and heavy affairs, with problems of speed and size. Q: It was only with the introduction of electronics that the computers really came of age. R: But computers were in use long before that. S: They had several rotating shafts and gears which almost always doomed them to slow operation. S6: And now it is difficult to find a field where computers are not used. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PRQS
B. PRSQ
C. RPQS
D. RPSQ
✅ The correct answer is option D.

29. S1: There have been many myths about women in world literature. P: Odysseus found a way to save himself and his sailors from this evil fate. Q: The sirens were beautiful maidens whose songs enchanted sailors on the seas. R: Odysseus encounter with the sirens during his return home after the fall of Troy is typical of this. S: Their songs were so captivating that the sailors swam towards them and died miserable deaths. S6: He filled his rower’s ears with wax and had himself bound to the mast so that he could hear the sweet singing without diving overboard to his death. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. PQSR
C. QSPR
D. RQSP
✅ The correct answer is option D.

30. S1: Today the Earth has many satellites besides the moon. P: But the pull of the Earth keep them from doing so. Q: The artificial satellites do not fall because they are going too fast to do so. R: They are artificial satellites made by man and very much smaller than the man. S: As they speed along, they tend to go straight off into space. S6: As a result, they travel in an orbit round the Earth. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PRQS
B. QPSR
C. RQSP
D. SPRQ
✅ The correct answer is option C.
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