CDS Exam (II)- 2016 - English Defence Question Paper

ORDERING OF SENTENCES
Directions (Next 14 Questions): In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1: History shows that the growth of civilization depends upon the gifts of nature, particularly the wealth yielded by the soil.
S6: In fact, most of the wars in the beginning of humanity’s history were fought for the gain of territory.
P: The more land they had, the more they were satisfied.
Q: The nature and the quality of the land they possessed were of great importance to them.
R: All ancient communities worked hard to produce food.
S: There was also a great desire among them to possess as much land as possible.
The proper sequence should be

S1: There were shots as I ran.
S6: Staying submerged was only too easy with so much clothing and my army boots.
P: The water was icy, but I stayed until I thought my lungs would burst.
Q: I tripped at the edge and went in with a splash.
R: The minute I came up I took a breath and plunged down again.
S: I ducked down, pushed between two men and ran for the river.
The proper sequence should be

S1: Why do the English travel?
S6: For here, in cosmopolitan England, one is always exposed to the danger of meeting all sorts of peculiar aliens.
P: Besides, they are taught that travel broadens the mind.
Q: They do so mainly because their neighbour does this and they have caught the bug from him.
R: Although they have now discovered the sad truth that whatever travel may do to the mind, it certainly broadens other parts of the body.
S: But, and perhaps mainly, they travel to avoid foreigners.
The proper sequence should be

S1: Jumbo, the famous 3.3 metre elephant was born in Africa over a hundred years ago.
S6: Before his death in September 1882, he had been seen by over 20 million Americans.
P: After disembarkation in New York, he was taken in a procession to the place where he was to be kept.
Q: Another admirer was the famous American showman Barnum who bought it for a huge sum in February 1882.
R: Transported from his native land to London Zoo, he became a favourite of Queen Victoria.
S: He made his transatlantic voyage aboard SS Assyrian Monarch.
The proper sequence should be

S1: The bureaucrat and the social worker are men of totally different orientations and styles of functioning.
S6: The world will be a better place to live in if they learn a little from each other.
P: The other is considered to be a man ever on the move.
Q: He is portrayed as a man fond of rules above all other things.
R: The one is regarded as given to sedentary habits, doing a lot of paper work.
S: Driven by an urge to help others he is impatient with red tape and unnecessary delays.
The proper sequence should be

S1: Universities are peculiar institutions.
S6: It is the most important institution in the complex process of knowledge creation and distribution.
P: Traditionally elite institutions, the modern university has provided social mobility to previously disfranchised groups.
Q: The contemporary university stands at the centre of its society.
R: They have common historical roots yet are deeply embedded in their societies.
S: Established in the medieval period to transmit established knowledge and provide training for a few key professions, universities have become a primary creator of new knowledge through basic research.
The proper sequence should be

S1: At the age of eighteen Gandhi went to college, but remained for only part of the year.
S6: This was against his religion, and most of his relatives were against his going.
P: Soon after this, he was advised to go to England to study to be a lawyer.
Q: Studies did not interest him and he did not do well.
R: It was difficult for him to leave India and go to a foreign land where he would have to eat and drink with foreigners.
S: This would not be easy.
The proper sequence should be

S1: Helen graduated in 1904 with special honours in English.
S6: Her dress was torn and roses were snatched from her hat.
P: She was twenty-four years old.
Q: She was invited to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 to awaken worldwide interest in the education of the deaf-blind.
R: But on Helen Keller Day the crowds got out of hand.
S: Requests were already flowing in for appearances and for magazine articles.
The proper sequence should be

S1: One of the many young scientists who chose to throw in their lot with Rutherford was an Oxford physical chemist, Frederick Soddy.
S6: We now know that Gamma rays are a particularly fierce form of X-rays.
P: His association with Rutherford lasted only two years, but that was long enough to change the whole face of physics.
Q: He was just 23.
R: They found that thorium changed into a new element, thorium X, and in the process gave off what was apparently a gas and at the same time a third type of ray, which they named after the Greek letter ‘Gamma’.
S: When he teamed up with Rutherford, they investigated thorium which, as Marie Curie had shown, was radioactive.
The proper sequence should be

S1: The boy felt his way up the creaking stairs through thick darkness.
S6: He was just telling himself he was safe when the door was flung open and the gaunt old man grabbed his shoulder.
P: All he had to do was just get past the central door on the landing.
Q: He stopped as the great clock below whined for a few seconds and gave out a single, solemn stroke.
R: His eyes were raised to the faint moonlight that shone above the landing.
S: He hesitated as the sound died down and then crept on, thinking that if they could sleep through that, they would sleep through any noise he could make.
The proper sequence should be