English Quiz On Parajumble Day 12 Bag
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Directions: The following five sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow
(a) If the vaccine does indeed prove to be ready for large-scale use, it will be a milestone in the fight against malaria.
(b) Beginning next year, the World Health Organisation will begin pilot tests of the injectable malaria vaccine RTS,S (or Mosquirix) on 750,000 children aged 5-17 months in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.
(c) Any decision on wider use will be taken based on the results of the pilot tests in the three countries.
(d) Although the number of cases globally and in the African region came down by 21% between 2010 and 2015, in 2015 itself the number of deaths worldwide on account of the disease was as high as 429,000.
(e) The vaccine has been successfully put through a Phase III trial, in which the drug is tested for safety and efficacy.
(f) According to WHO estimates, Africa accounted for 92% of these deaths, and 90% of the 212 million new cases that year.
- After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the second sentence?
A) a
B) f
C) e
D) c
E) b
- After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the fourth sentence?
A) b
B) e
C) d
D) a
E) f - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the first sentence?
A) b
B) a
C) d
D) f
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the last(sixth) sentence?
A) a
B) f
C) d
D) e
E) c - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the fifth sentence?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) e
Directions: The following five sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow
(a) For instance, the Supreme Court’s recent order banning the sale of liquor near highways could adversely affect the tourism sector and result in the loss of a great many jobs.
(b) A lack of economic analysis while passing judgement has the potential to create an adverse impact on employment, growth of infrastructure, hospitality, tourism, real estate and other economically relevant sectors, revenue of state and Central governments, and balance sheets of banks and financial institutions, without having the desired positive impact on social behaviour.
(c) The higher judiciary is increasingly dealing with issues which have large-scale economic and commercial impact.
(d) Alcohol consumption is not a social ill but irresponsible drinking is.
(e) These include allocation of natural resources such as spectrum, coal blocks, allowing mining of sand and sandstone, use of the Aadhaar card to access essential services, data privacy and security and waiver of farm loans.
- After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the first sentence?
A) b
B) d
C) a
D) c
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the third sentence?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the fourth sentence?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the second sentence?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the last(fifth) sentence?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) e
Directions: The following five sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow
1) The idea that downloading music free of cost is illegal got pushed aside and stored away in some corner of our minds, if it was even there in the first place.
2) Since nobody knew any better, nobody minded.
3) For the longest time, we were required to purchase music in the form of tapes or cassettes.
4) We are now in the 17th year of this century and have already moved on from using old cassettes and reached a point where they can be passed off as vintage collectibles.
5) How then, after years and years of piracy, has the market evolved to introduce us to platforms that actually convince us to turn towards paid music downloads?
6) It was only a matter of time that technology entered, touched and conquered the beautiful world of music.
7) With a smartphone in hand and internet waves all over the place, it has never been so easy to listen to music.
8) However, that was until we were introduced to the internet.
- After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the second sentence?
A) 7
B) 2
C) 6
D) 4
E) 5 - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the third sentence?
A) 8
B) 6
C) 3
D) 2
E) 5 - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the fifth sentence?
A) 6
B) 5
C) 3
D) 2
E) 7 - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the sixth sentence?
A) 1
B) 8
C) 6
D) 4
E) 2 - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the last sentence?
A) 1
B) 8
C) 3
D) 2
E) 5
Directions: The following five sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow
1) The new study shows human plasma can aid older mice’s memory and learning. Experts said it could have a similar beneficial effect in humans.
2) The findings could lead to new treatments for age-associated declines in mental ability.
3) A protein found in umbilical cord blood may help reverse mental ageing.
4) An earlier study showed that direct infusion of young mice’s plasma benefited old mice.
5) The researchers identified a protein, abundant in human cord blood but decreasingly so with advancing age, that had the same effect when injected into the animals.
6) Human umbilical cord blood can rejuvenate learning and memory in older mice, according to a new study.
- After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the sixth sentence?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 6
D) 2
E) 1 - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the third sentence?
A) 1
B) 4
C) 6
D) 5
E) 2 - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the second sentence?
A) 1
B) 6
C) 3
D) 4
E) 2 - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the first sentence?
A) 3
B) 2
C) 4
D) 5
E) 1 - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the fourth sentence?
A) 3
B) 1
C) 6
D) 4
E) 2
Directions: The following five sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow
a) The vault is on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and contains almost a million packets of seeds, each a variety of an important food crop.
b) It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever.
c) When it was opened in 2008, the deep permafrost through which the vault was sunk was expected to provide “failsafe” protection against “the challenge of natural or man-made disasters”.
d) But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.
e) But soaring temperatures in the Arctic at the end of the world’s hottest ever recorded year led to melting and heavy rain, when light snow should have been falling.
- After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the SECOND sentence?
A) d
B) c
C) a
D) b
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the FIFTH (LAST) sentence?
A) a
B) e
C) b
D) d
E) c - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the FIRST sentence?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the THIRD sentence?
A) b
B) e
C) c
D) a
E) d - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the FOURTH sentence?
A) e
B) d
C) c
D) b
E) a
Directions: The following five sentences have to be arranged in the proper sequence, so as to form a meaningful paragraph. On the basis of your sequencing, answer the questions that follow.
a) Every nerve cell in our brain acts on ‘inputs’, or information, from thousands of other nerve cells. Each one integrates these ‘inputs’ into a single goal – whether to fire or not to fire.
b) As the election draws nearer many us feel dread at how a complex array of issues facing our country gets squeezed into a winner takes all, first past the post voting process.
c) Once it does and the impulse is transmitted, all the richness and complexity of the other cell inputs is lost.
d) It doesn’t seem right that the diversity of the electorate’s views is simplified into a simple decision. But that’s the way it works.
e) There’s no grey area or halfway house: a nerve cell either fires an action potential or it doesn’t.
f) And, strangely enough, this is exactly how the brain works, too. Neurones either fire or they don’t; each nerve cell returns a single result despite the infinite number of thoughts and decisions that lead up to it.
- After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the FIRST sentence?
A) a
B) d
C) b
D) c
E) f - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the SIXTH(LAST) sentence?
A) a
B) d
C) b
D) c
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the FIFTH sentence?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) e - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the THIRD sentence?
A) b
B) c
C) d
D) e
E) f - After the rearrangement of sentences, what will be the SECOND sentence?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) f
Direction: In each of the following questions few statements are given. You have to arrange them and choose the correct arrangement from the given options.
- a) Now a distinguished observer of the universe and a proponent of underlying laws that govern it, Stephen Hawking has pointed out in a BBC programme that human beings need to colonise a planet soon and they must start in the next 100 years if the species is to be kept alive.
b) Science fiction has traditionally used its imagination to show earthlings in a struggle with beings from another planet.
c) Only recently in movies has the tide been turned towards making an attempt to colonise other planets, mainly Mars.
d) This is because humanity is in danger of extinction because of climate change, overpopulation, chemical and nuclear wars.
A) bcda
B) bdac
C) cadb
D) bcad
E) cabd - (a) This particular worldwide security threat, which hasn’t yet run its course, was dismantled by a UK security expert who activated an address that the “kill switch” in the ransomware was compelled to search for.
(b) ranging from the UK National Health Service to a French carmaker with an alliance plant in Chennai, the German railways, the Andhra Pradesh police and entire Russian systems.
(c) A massive cyberattack brought computers to a halt on Friday and Saturday, the malware affecting over one lakh computers and systems in nearly 150 nations worldwide,
(d) Such ransomware attacks are commonplace, with an estimated 600 million attacks likely recorded in 2016 alone.
A) cbda
B) cdba
C) cadb
D) adbc
E) abdc - a) This sector employs 42.5 lakh Indians directly, and has created over twice as many jobs indirectly in other fields.
b) Automation would then replace entry-level jobs, denying jobs to college-leavers, and lead to the retrenchment of mid-level professionals who couldn’t remain relevant via constant reskilling.
c) The landscape of the $150-billion IT sector, one of India’s largest job-providers, is changing fast, owing to technological advances in automation and robotics.
d) But it is gradually moving away from the linear growth model, with rise in revenue matching net employee addition, to a non-linear one where income growth is independent of additional hiring.
A) cdba
B) abdc
C) badc
D) cadb
E) dcba - a) All jobs that don’t require exceptional thought processes and those that could be accomplished by analysing data with a simple algorithm could be replaced.
b) A study by Oxford University suggested that 100 professions or occupations are at risk of being eliminated by automation in the future.
c) It is a matter of concern as with growing population, the demand for jobs is also on rise.
d) People whose jobs require them to come up with solutions on a case- by-case basis can rest assured that their jobs will not be replaced.
A) abdc
B) badc
C) dcab
D) dcba
E) cdab - a) India’s IT sector must make the Digital India programme its pivot for India-focused opportunities, whose solutions could be profitably deployed in a large number of developing countries.
b) With around 16 lakh graduates entering the job market every year amid slow job creation due to global protectionism and automation threats, the urgent issue for the Indian government is to redesign its job creation strategy.
c) As former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan once said, it’s time for the government and Indian industry to focus on “Make for India”, rather than the export-driven “Make in India”.
d) The focus on the export-led model alone may not work.
A) dbca
B) bdac
C) acdb
D) cadb
E) cdab - c) In the United States, the world’s most advanced nation, there has been a strange issue that is being discussed. It is being written about in books, and there are talks on it (which one can access on YouTube), but there is yet no action on it, though this is expected soon.
b) The issue is that of artificial intelligence becoming smarter than man.
d) To us in India this does not seem like something to think about much. Computers are to us devices that we have control over. Our laptop or mobile phone is to us a tool and our servant. It is not our master.
a) However in America, some of the smartest people working on technology are thinking about and discussing what will happen when artificial intelligence, meaning computer programs, overtakes man in the ability to think.
A) bcad
B) adcb
C) badc
D) cbda
E) bacd - a) The incident involving a Jet Airways expat pilot who allegedly not only harassed a woman passenger but also apparently assaulted her and let loose racist abuse at Indians in general, and a physically challenged passenger in particular, is disgraceful.
b) But when such a nasty trait is publicly displayed by a foreigner working in India for an Indian airline, it shows how acute the problem of racism is in our country. The airline expressed regret and de-rostered the pilot, but only belatedly after cricketer Harbhajan Singh tweeted on it.
c) But it’s clear a fuller remedy is needed: this problem simply can’t be tolerated where the customer and the staff interact face to face.
d) Racism of all kinds may be inherent in a variety of people.
A) abdc
B) dcab
C) adbc
D) cadb
E) dbca
Direction (8-10): Rearrange the given sentence to form a meaningful passage and answer the questions that follow.
a) Why are fewer Americans paying for the sports leader? One big reason is that fewer people are subscribing to pay-television overall—a phenomenon known as “cord-cutting”.
b) This has turned off customers and potential customers. Sports fans can get highlights free on social media; non-sports fans can get their fix from Netflix and Amazon.
c) For much of this century ESPN, the television sports network, has been Disney’s cash machine, collecting billions more dollars from American subscribers each year than the company gets from its blockbuster “Star Wars”, Marvel and Pixar films combined.
d) As the bundle of channels offered to homes has grown fatter, it has also become more expensive—the typical pay-TV bill in America has nearly doubled in a decade to more than $100 a month.
e) But for the past six years, fewer and fewer people have been paying for ESPN: the network’s subscribers base has declined from a peak of 100m households in 2011 to less than 88m now.
f) ESPN is by far the most expensive channel in the bundle—the network gets paid $7.86 per subscriber, according to Kagan, a research firm, while no other basic cable channel commands even $2 per subscriber.
- Which of the following is the third sentence after rearrangement?
A) a
B) b
C) c
D) d
E) e - Which of the following is the fifth sentence after rearrangement?
A) f
B) b
C) a
D) c
E) e - Which of the following is the second sentence after rearrangement?
A) f
B) e
C) d
D) a
E) c
