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In questions below, each passage consist of six sentences. The first and sixth sentence are given in the beginning . The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled as P, Q, R and S. Find out the proper order for the four sentences.

01.

S1: The heart is pump of life.
P : They have even succeeded in heart transplants.
Q : Nowadays surgeons are able to stop a patients heart and carry out complicated operations.
R : A few years ago it was impossible to operate on a patient whose heart was not working properly.
S : If heart stops we die in about five minutes.
S6: All this was made possible by the invention of heart-lung machine.
The Proper sequence should be:

A.	SRQP	B.	SPRQ
C.	SQPR	D.	SRPQ

Answer and Explanation

Answer: SRQP

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S1: Sun birds are among the smallest of Indian birds.
P : Though they are functionally similar to the humming birds of the New World, they are totally unrelated.
Q : They do eat insects too.
R : They are also some of the most brilliantly coloured birds.
S : sun birds feed on nectar mostly and helped in pollination.
S6: Our common sun birds are the purple sun bird, the glossy black species and purple rumped sun bird, the yellow and maroon species.
The Proper sequence should be:

A.	SQPR	B.	RPSQ
C.	QPRS	D.	PSRQ

Answer and Explanation

Answer: SQPR

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S1: Forecasting the weather has always been a difficult business.
P : During a period of drought, streams and rivers dried up, the cattle died from thirst and were ruined.
Q : Many different things affect the weather and we have to study them carefully to make accurate forecast.
R : Ancient Egyptians had no need of weather in the Nile Valley hardly ever changes.
S : In early times, when there were no instruments, such as thermometer or the barometer, man looked for tell-tale signs in the sky.
S6: He made his forecasts by watching flights of the birds or the way smoke rose from fire.
The Proper sequence should be:

A.	PRQS	B.	QPRS
C.	QRPS	D.	SPQR

Answer and Explanation

Answer: QPRS

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04.

S1: Far away in a little street there is a poor house.
P : Her face is thin and worn and her hands are coarse, pricked by a needle, for she is a seam stress.
Q : One of the windows is open and through it I can see a poor woman.
R : He has a fever and asking for oranges.
S : In a bed in a corner of the room her little boy is lying ill.
S6: His mother has nothing to give but water, so he is crying.
The Proper sequence should be:

A.	SRQP	B.	PQSR
C.	QPSR	D.	RSPQ

Answer and Explanation

Answer: QPSR

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05.

S1: Our ancestors thought that anything which moved itself was alive.
P : The philosopher Descartes thought that both men and animals were machines.
Q : But a machine such as a motorcar or a steamship moves itself, as soon as machines which moved themselves had been made, people asked "Is man a machine?"
R : And before the days of machinery that was a good definition.
S : He also thought that the human machine was partly controlled by the soul action on a certain part of the brain, while animals had no souls.
S6: Therefore some scientists think that life is just a very complicated mechanism.
The Proper sequence should be:

A.	PRSQ	B.	RPQS
C.	PSQR	D.	RQPS

Answer and Explanation

Answer: PSQR

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