Directions(1-5) : Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) , (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
(A) “Hello, my dear, I see you may need a little more help, and can you pay me my fees?” said a voice.
(B) The girl gave him a shiny emerald ring and the wheel went whhirr whhirr, and the dwarf hummed, , the bobbins went whizzz and the night went faster than any shooting star in the sky. When he had finished, the dwarf bowed before the girl, then disappeared as fast he had come.
(C) The king’s obsession was fairly well known throughout his kingdom, and one day a miller, who had a very beautiful daughter, thought he could take advantage of this. He told the king about his daughter, claiming that she could spin straw into gold.
(D) In a kingdom far to the east, all the citizens were very wealthy and the whole land was covered in fields of wheat, which grew abundantly and apparently effortlessly. This way, some of this kingdom’s citizens were just as wealthy as the king.
(E) The rich kingdom’s king wasn’t happy and he had been looking at the straw, as it was brought from the fields, and the colour of the straw reminded him very much of the colour of gold. So he began to think of ways to turn the straw into gold, and this became an obsession.
(F) But of course the poor girl had no idea how to turn straw into gold; she was not even very good at using a spinning wheel. She started to cry, when she was asked to do so, locked in a room.
Q1. Which of the following would be the ‘Second’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) E
(c) C
(d) D
(e) F
Q2. Which of the following would be the ‘First’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) F
(b) B
(c) D
(d) A
(e) E
Q3. Which of the following would be the ‘Fourth’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) D
(c) C
(d) B
(e) F
Q4. Which of the following would be the ‘Third’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q5. Which of the following would be the ‘Last’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) F
(e) E
Directions(6-10) : Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) , (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
(A) They calculated they would have more success against him. So it came to pass that they raised a great army and invaded Britain.
(B) My father had fought many battles with invading Danes and Saxons, and had always successfully defended his realm, but these foreign invaders rejoiced greatly after his death, when they heard that Constantius the Monk, as people referred to him, had been crowned king.
(C) My name is Uther Pendragon, and I was the third and youngest son of a great king, Constans.
(D) Once upon was a time, long before the inhabitants of Britain wrote down their histories for us all to read, that country was inhabited not just by people like you and me, but wizards, ghouls, monsters, dragons, tricksters, and worse, demons.
(E) During this time some of my father’s most loyal friends took my brother Aurelius and myself out of the country, and across to sea to Brittanny, or Little Britain as it was then commonly known, in a country which you now know as France.
(F) Along with the sons of The great Constans, I fought a gruesome battle which lasted a fortnight and successfully caught hold of our ancestors’ reign.
Q6. Which of the following would be the ‘Second’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) E
(b) C
(c) B
(d) A
(e) D
Q7. Which of the following would be the ‘First’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) A
(c) C
(d) E
(e) D
Q8. Which of the following would be the ‘Fourth’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) F
(b) E
(c) C
(d) B
(e) A
Q9. Which of the following would be the ‘Third’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) F
(c) D
(d) B
(e) E
Q10. Which of the following would be the ‘Last’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) C
(b) D
(c) E
(d) F
(e) B
Directions(11-15) : Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below.
(A) He spent the whole night moving the tree inch by inch and at last was rewarded with all the gold.
(B) One day a hurricane blew through the town; after it had passed the place looked even worse than before, but the worst thing was that an enormous tree had been blown over and thrown right across the main road leading to the market place.
(C) Lazy Town’s Chief made his servants dig a hole under the tree and he hid some gold there. A weak lad the other night thought of elder’s discomfort as the tree block the main road.
(D) There was a town where all the people were exceedingly lazy.
(E) Lazy Town’s inhabitants didn’t like to do any kind of work at all! They didn’t clean up their yards, they didn’t keep their streets clean, and they couldn’t be bothered to weed their vegetable patches.
(F) The chief heard about the tree blocking the road. He asked; “Why don’t some of these people get together and move it?” But days went by and nobody did anything about it and the tree remained where it was.
Q11. Which of the following would be the ‘Last’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) F
(b) B
(c) A
(d) D
(e) E
Q12. Which of the following would be the ‘Second’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) F
(d) D
(e) E
Q13. Which of the following would be the ‘Third’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) F
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D
(e) E
Q14. Which of the following would be the ‘Fourth’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) F
(d) D
(e) E
Q15. Which of the following would be the ‘First’ sentence after rearrangement?
(a) A
(b) B
(c) D
(d)C
(e) E
