Ordering of Sentences MCQs

41. S1: Obesity is a curse of modern times. P: As a result, what is lost is the natural goodness of roughage and important nutrients. Q: Invariably, fat and sugar which cause obesity are added to make food more palatable. R: In these days, food gets more refined and cooking methods are more intricate. S: Therefore, there are more obese people today than ever before. S6: This is because today’s changed life styles often mean less physical exertion and an over indulgence in unhealthy food. The Proper sequence should be:

A. QPRS
B. RPQS
C. RPSQ
D. RQPS
✅ The correct answer is option D.

42. S1: A small pool in the rocks outside my cottage in the Mussoorie hills provides me endless delight. P: I stood very still, anxious that it should drink its fill. Q: And once I saw a barking deer, head lowered at the edge of the pool. R: Water beetles paddle the surface, while tiny fish lurk in the shallows. S: Sometimes a spotted fork tail bird comes to drink, hopping delicately from rock to rock. S6: It did and then, looking up, saw me and leapt across the ravine to disappear into the forest. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PRSQ
B. PSQR
C. RSQP
D. SQPR
✅ The correct answer is option C.

43. S1: Moncure Conway devoted his life to two great objects : freedom of thought, and freedom of the individual. P: They threaten both kinds of freedom. Q: But something also has been lost. R: There are now dangers, somewhat different in form from those of the past ages. S: In regard to both these objects, something has been gained since his time. S6: Unless a vigorous and vigilant public opinion can be aroused in defence of them, there will be much less of both a hundred years hence than there is now. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. QSPR
C. RSPQ
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option D.

45. S1: There is nothing strange in the fact that so many foreign students should wish to learn English. P: If any valuable book is written in another language, an English translation of it sure to be speedily published. Q: Anyone who masters the English tongue acquires a key. R: Most books found to be generally useful are written in English. S: The English speaking people want no monopoly of knowledge. S6: This key will open to him whatever is valuable in the literature of the world. The Proper sequence should be:

A. SQRP
B. SRPQ
C. RSPQ
D. RPSQ
✅ The correct answer is option D.

46. S1: A certain young man was entrusted to the care of a teacher. P: This dullard will come to grief if I send him away without a single lesson, thought the teacher. Q: He was so dull of mind that he could not, even in three months, time, learn as much as a single lesson. R: The young man came to ask the teacher’s permission to go home. S: It’s my business to provide agood education to my pupils, to get on in life. S6: The teacher asked him to wait. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PSRQ
B. QPSR
C. RQPS
D. SRQP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

47. S1: It was early 1943 and the war in the East was going disastrously. P: How this unlikely bunch of middle aged civilians accomplished their missions makes fascinating reading. Q: To stop the sinkings a spy ring had to be broken, a German ship assaulted, and a secret radio transmitter silenced. R: U-boats were torpedoing Allied ships in the Indian ocean faster than they could be replaced. S: And the only people who could do the job were a handful of British businessmen in Calcutta-all men not called out for active service. S6: Boarding party, James Leasor’s latest best-seller is a record of this tale of heroics tinged with irony and humour. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PRSQ
B. QSRP
C. RQSP
D. SQPR
✅ The correct answer is option C.

49. S1: A man handed a pair of trousers to the departmental store-clerk and said,”I’d like these altered, please”. P: He said that free alteration is not possible without a receipt. Q: The man said,”Okay, I’d like to return the trousers”. The clerk took them back and returned his money. R: The man pushed the money and said,”Now I want to buy them”. The clerk put the trousers in a bag, issued receipt and handed him both. S: The clerk asked for the sales receipt but after searching his pockets the man replied that he had lost it. S6: Triumphantly he put the trousers and the receipt on the counter and said,’I’d like to have these altered, please.” The Proper sequence should be:

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

50. S1: The press enables us to know about the world and happenings around us. P: It governs the current ideas in the country and controls the course of events. Q: There is no doubt that the newspaper is the only teacher of the common man. R: It is indeed the mouthpiece of the people. S: It is feared that in the absence of the press, government would be less responsible, the judge less honest and civil servant lees efficient. S6: While moulding it mends and mending it moulds the public opinion. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. QPSR
C. RSQP
D. SRPQ
✅ The correct answer is option A.
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