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5171. S1: India’s non-alignment has not been an attitude of negative neutrality. P: In other words, it is not an aloofness from or indifference to other nations. Q: Instead, it has been an attitude of constructive neutrality. R: On the contrary, India has been taking a keen interest in all international developments. S: India wants the goodwill of all nations and is hostile towards none. S6: This policy has been accepted, if not actually appreciated by the leading powers of the world. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PSRQ
B. QPRS
C. QRPS
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option B.

5172. S1: The path of Venus lies inside the path of the Earth. P: When at its farthest from the Earth, Venus is 160 million miles away. Q: With such a wide range between its greatest and least distances it is natural that at sometimes Venus appears much brighter than others. R: No other body ever comes so near the Earth, with the exception of the Moon and an occasional comet or asteroid. S: When Venus is at its nearest to the Earth, it is only 26 million miles away. S6: When at its brightest, it is easily seen with the naked aye in broad daylight. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PSQR
B. QPRS
C. SQRP
D. SRPQ
✅ The correct answer is option D.

5175. S1: Welcome to Madam Tussaud’s. P: Famous faces, notorious faces haunt these halls; royalty, and world leaders mingling with sports stars and murderers. Q: But don’t expect any responses to your smiles or greetings. R: Don’t be surprised at anything you see here. S: See how many you can recognise. S6: These life-like, casually posed figures are mere wax statues, though they may look alive. The Proper sequence should be:

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

5176. S1: Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. P: An individual human existence should be like a river-small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Q: In the young there is a justification for this feeling. R: Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best thing that life has to offer. S: But in the old man who has known human joys and sorrows, the fear of death is somewhat object and ignoble, and the best way to overcome it is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal. S6: Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea and painlessly lose their individual being. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQSR
B. QPSR
C. QRSP
D. RSQP
✅ The correct answer is option C.

5177. S1: Love for the country is a necessity. P: But it should in no way exceed the limits and take the shape of jingoism. Q: Similarly nationalism has to be sacrificed at the altar of internationalism. R: There is no reason why the nations of the world cannot treat one another as belonging to one family of nations. S: Provincialism has to be sacrificed in the interest of the nation as a whole. S6: God created the globe, but man drew lines on it to demarcate countries and sow the seeds of hatred and enmity on it. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PSQR
B. QRSP
C. RQPS
D. SPRQ
✅ The correct answer is option A.

5178. S1: Just as some men like to play football or tennis, so some men like to climb mountains. P: This is often very difficult to do, for mountains are not just big hills. Q: Paths are usually very steep, and some mountain sides are straight up and down, so that it may take many hours to climb as little as one hundred feet. R: There is always the danger that you may fall off and be killed or injured. S: Men talk about conquering a mountain, and the wonderful feeling it is to reach the top of a mountain after climbing for hours and may be, even for days. S6: You look down and see the whole country below you. The Proper sequence should be:

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

5179. S1: Go to the library and see the clerk. P: When you have chosen the books you wish to take home, you take them to the clerk with the tickets. Q: You will probably have to sign a form promising to take care of the books. R: Then you are usually given two or three ticket with your name and address on them. S: The clerk keeps the tickets until you return the books. S6: He stamps the books with a date. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. QRPS
C. RQSP
D. SPRQ
✅ The correct answer is option B.

5180. S1: There were no finger prints anywhere. P: First of all it was impossible even for a child to enter through the hole in the roof. Q: When the investigators tried to reconstruct the crime, they came up against facts. R: Moreover, when the detectives tried to push a silver vase, it was found to be double the sizeof the hole. S: Again, the size of the hole was examined by the experts who said that nothing had been passed through it. S6: These conclusions made the detectives think that it was a fake theft. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. PSRQ
C. QPRS
D. SQPR
✅ The correct answer is option C.