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5111. 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.

5112. 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.

5114. S1: The domestic cat is a contradiction in itself. P: But the adult pet dog also sees its human family as the dominant members of the pack. Q: Nursed in kittenhood it develops extraordinary intimacy with mankind. R: The dog, like the pet cat, sees its owners as pseudo-parents. S: At the same time, however, the cat continues to retain its independence. S6: Hence it has won such a reputation for obedience and loyalty. The Proper sequence should be:

A. QSPR
B. QSRP
C. SQPR
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

5115. 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.

5116. 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.

5117. S1: Silence is unnatural to man. P: Even his conversation is in great measure a desperate attempt to prevent a dreadful silence. Q: In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world. R: There are few things of which he stand in more fear than of the absence of noise. S: He begins with a cry and ends it in stillness. S6: He knows that ninety nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he longs to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a wax-work figure. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. PRQS
C. QPRS
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option D.

5120. Modern :

A. Up-date
B. Recent
C. Cast
D. Ancient
✅ The correct answer is option D.