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Para Jumbles
Total Time: 45 mins
Practise Exercise no. 1
Directions for each set: Arrange the given set of
sentences to form a coherent paragraph and then
answer the questions that follow.
Set 1
a. He accumulates some capital and goes into
a business venture with his sons.
b. In order to increase his salary he works
through the night.
c. They open a shop to create men’s garments.
d. Later he takes the garments and sells it on
New York streets.
e. He takes garments from the sweatshop to
finish at home with the help of his wife and
older children at night.
f. A Russian tailor artisan comes to America,
takes to the needle trade, works in
sweatshop for small salary.
Arrange the given sentences to find the
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Set 2
a. But in the industrial era destroying the
enemy's productive capacity means
bombing the factories which are located in
the cities.
b. So in the agrarian era, if you need to
destroy the enemy's productive capacity,
what you want to do is bum his fields, or if
you're really vicious, salt them.
c. Now in the information era, destroying the
enemy's productive capacity means
destroying the information infrastructure.
d. How do you do battle with your enemy?
e. The idea is to destroy the enemy's
productive capacity, and depending upon
the economic foundation, that productive
capacity is different in each case
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f.
Total no. Of sets: 8
With regard to defense, the purpose of the
military is to defend the nation and be
prepared to do battle with its enemy.
Arrange the given sentences to find the
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Set 3
a. The able bodied men of the tribe gathered to
discuss how to climb the mountain
b. As part of their plundering they kidnapped a
baby of one of the families.
c. One day the mountain tribe invaded those
living in the valley
d. “We couldn’t” climb the mountain. How could
you?” they asked. “It wasn’t your
baby!” she replied.
e. There were two tribes in the Andes-One lived
in the valley and the other high up in
the mountains.
f. Two days later they notices the child’s mother
coming down the mountain that they
hadn’t yet figured out how to climb.
Arrange the given sentences to find the
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Set 4:
a. While these disadvantages of biofuels are
serious, they are the only alternate energy
source for the future and the sooner we
find solutions to the disadvantages, the
faster we will be able to solve the
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problems we are now facing with
gasoline.
b. Biofuels can also help to stimulate jobs
locally since they are much safer to handle
than gasoline and can thus have the
potential to turnaround a global economy.
c. These include using fossil fuels to run the
machinery required to produce biofuel that
ends up polluting as much as the burning
of fossil fuels on roads. However,
exorbitant cost of biofuels makes it very
difficult for the common man to switch to
this option.
d. This turnaround can potentially help to
bring world peace and end the
dependence on foreign countries for
energy requirements.
e. Biofuels are made from plant sources. As
these sources are available in abundance
and can be reproduced on a massive
scale, they form an energy source that is
potentially unlimited.
f. However, everything is not as green with
the biofuels as it seems as there are
numerous disadvantages, which at times
overshadow their positive impact.
Arrange the given sentences to find the
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Set 5:
a. Although there are large regional
variations, it is not infrequent to find a
large number of people sitting here and
there and doing nothing.
b. Once in office, they receive friends and
relatives who feel free to call any time
without prior appointment.
c. While working, one is struck by the slow
and clumsy actions and reactions,
indifferent attitudes, procedure rather than
outcome orientation, and the lack of
consideration for others.
d. Even those who are employed often come
late to the office and leave early unless
they are forced to be punctual.
e. Work is not intrinsically valued in India.
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f.
Quite often people visit ailing friends and
relatives or go out of their way to help
them in their personal matters even during
office hours.
Arrange the given sentences to find the
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Set 6:
a. The ultimate goals of a bank are to
increase its market share, become more
diversified, reduce the risk of entering a
new business and redefine the competitive
edge through acquiring different streams
of business.
b. The strategic factors for existing banks
competing with private and international
players would be the size, quality of
service and low-cost finance by achieving
‘critical mass’.
c. Consolidation will provide banks with new
capabilities, technologies and products,
help to overcome entry barriers, ensure
immediate entry into new markets and
lower
operating
costs
through
consolidation of resources.
d. In the liberalized era, banks in India will
have to be competitive in order to face the
challenges and leverage the opportunities.
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e. Consolidation may also take place through
strategic alliance or partnerships covering
specific areas of business such as smallto
medium-sized
enterprise
(SME)
lending, credit cards and insurance.
f. In contrast to the earlier experience of
mergers being initiated by the regulator to
protect the interest of depositors of weak
banks, the trend of market-led mergers
between private banks and private banks
with public sector banks may gain
momentum.
Arrange the given sentences to find the
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Fifth Sentence:
Sixth Sentence:
Set 7:
a. “What is waste of my tax money”, I
thought, walking past the people having
free Californian Chardonnay.
b. “Speak to her”, he said, “She's into
Arrange the given sentences to find the
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books”.
c. The friend who had brought me there
noticed my noticing her.
d. In late 2003, I was still paying taxes in
America, so it horrified me that the US
Consulate
was
hosting
a
“Gallo
drinkingappreciationevent”.
e. Behind them, a pianist was playing old film
tunes, and a slim short woman was
dancing around him.
Arrange the given sentences to find the
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Set 8:
a. But how much above 5 per cent will it
clock still remains a matter of
interpretation.
b. But in a welcome development, the global
institutions, along with a fair number of
other agencies, believe that 2015-16 will
see the economy climbing even higher to
above 6 per cent.
c. Amid wide expectations that the Indian
economy is on the mend, an analysis of
the various economic data that are
released periodically assume plenty of
importance.
d. The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
and the World Bank have estimated the
Indian economy to grow at around 5.4 per
cent this year.
e. That the economy will finally break out of
the sub-5 per cent growth phase during
this current fiscal seems certain.
f. Forecasts of growth have varied from 5
per cent to almost 6 per cent with the
Reserve Bank of India sticking to 5.5 per
cent while many private forecasters are
estimating slightly lower rates of growth.
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Set 2: FDEBAC
Set 3: CAEDB
Set 4: EBDFCA
Set 5: EADBFC
Set 6: DACBFE
Set 7: CDBAE
Set 8: CEAFDB