Directions (1-5): In the following questions few sentences are provided. Identify and mark the sentence which may fail to become the part of the paragraph coherently. In questions where “none of these” is an option and all the sentences are meaningful and logical with the context of the paragraph mark “none of these” as your answer choice. Also, rearrange the sentences, with the same context, to form a coherent paragraph.
Q1.
(a)Test results weren’t shared with local public health centres or GPs – the people who could have worked to prevent transmission in their local communities.
(b)After a summer of social gatherings, “eat out to help out” and urging commuters to “get back to the office”, the government appears to be losing control of the pandemic.
(c)But although the government is right to tighten social distancing, this alone won’t solve the problem of rising cases.
(d)Almost 3,000 new cases were reported in the UK over the weekend and many people have gone into isolation after cases were discovered at more than 90 schools.
(e)Gatherings of more than six people will now be banned in England from Monday in an attempt to curb this rise in case numbers.
Q2.
(a)Then we cannot escape the conclusion that the NEP involves a paradigm shift in India’s education system that is highly retrograde and deleterious.
(b)Those who receive education and are destined for proper jobs will have a curriculum that imitates those of metropolitan universities.
(c) The totality of speech consists of both what is said and what is not said.
(d)That’s why, for understanding the new National Education Policy we have to look both at its words and its silences.
(e)This shift is from a conception of education as a means of ‘nation-building’ to one that prepares students to become mere fodder for neoliberal capitalism.
Q3.
(a)Among states, Kerala still leads with 96.2 per cent literacy, followed by Delhi, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
(b)With the passing of another International Literacy Day, India needs to confront the problem of its literacy levels.
(c)This is far from the goal of full literacy by 2030.
(d)More, illiteracy in the 21st century is dangerous from the point of view of survival: reading is now a life-skill.
(e)A report based on a 2017-18 survey by the National Statistical Office puts the country’s overall literacy rate at 77.7 per cent.
Q4.
(a)Narendra Modi stated in Parliament in 2015 about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act as a monumental failure of the Congress regime.
(b)Over-the-top technological interventions have pushed the MGNREGA towards centralization, with transparency and local accountabilities being compromised.
(c)The measures announced by the Centre are inadequate to address the issues of food and nutrition insecurity, unemployment and livelihoods.
(d)That program which, since its inception, has suffered from the lack of political intent, leakages and bureaucratic negligence.
(e)The statement may have been a political jibe, but it showed that the government had no intention of boosting a programme.
Q5.
(a)Surprisingly, most of these governments headed by authoritarian leaders have been democratically elected through reasonably free and fair elections.
(b)After being elected, they have in some cases postponed elections or made themselves heads of state, commander of the military, and chiefs of their political parties.
(c)Those who follow international political developments have observed that there has been an increase in the number of countries with authoritarian heads of state.
(d)Gradually, during the 1990s, more and more nations began to turn to democracy with elected representatives as a superior means of governance.
(e)However, other heads of state have been termed as authoritarian for the activities and practices they promote or promulgate within the democratic process.
Solutions:
S1. Ans. (a)
Sol. The correct sequence is BDEC while statement (a) fails to become the part of the paragraph coherently. Hence, option (a) is the right answer choice.
(b)After a summer of social gatherings, “eat out to help out” and urging commuters to “get back to the office”, the government appears to be losing control of the pandemic.
(d)Almost 3,000 new cases were reported in the UK over the weekend and hundreds of pupils have gone into isolation after cases were discovered at more than 90 schools.
(e)Gatherings of more than six people will now be banned in England from Monday in an attempt to curb this rise in case numbers.
(c)But although the government is right to tighten social distancing, this alone won’t solve the problem of rising cases.
S2. Ans. (b)
Sol. The correct sequence is CDAE while statement (b) fails to become the part of the paragraph coherently. Hence, option (b) is the right answer choice.
(c) The totality of speech consists of both what is said and what is not said.
(d)That’s why, for understanding the new National Education Policy we have to look both at its words and its silences.
(a)Then we cannot escape the conclusion that the NEP involves a paradigm shift in India’s education system that is highly retrograde and deleterious.
(e)This shift is from a conception of education as a means of ‘nation-building’ to one that prepares students to become mere fodder for neoliberal capitalism.
S3. Ans. (d)
Sol. The correct sequence is BECA while statement (d) fails to become the part of the paragraph coherently. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
(b)With the passing of another International Literacy Day, India needs to confront the problem of its literacy levels.
(e)A report based on a 2017-18 survey by the National Statistical Office puts the country’s overall literacy rate at 77.7 per cent.
(c)This is far from the goal of full literacy by 2030.
(a)Among states, Kerala still leads with 96.2 per cent literacy, followed by Delhi, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
S4. Ans. (c)
Sol. The correct sequence is AEDB while statement (c) fails to become the part of the paragraph coherently. Hence, option (c) is the right answer choice.
(a)Narendra Modi stated in Parliament in 2015 about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act as a monumental failure of the Congress regime.
(e)The statement may have been a political jibe, but it showed that the government had no intention of boosting a programme.
(d)That program which, since its inception, has suffered from the lack of political intent, leakages and bureaucratic negligence.
(b)Over-the-top technological interventions have pushed the MGNREGA towards centralization, with transparency and local accountabilities being compromised.
S5. Ans. (d)
Sol. The correct sequence is CABE while statement (d) fails to become the part of the paragraph coherently. Hence, option (d) is the right answer choice.
(c)Those who follow international political developments have observed that there has been an increase in the number of countries with authoritarian heads of state.
(a)Surprisingly, most of these governments headed by authoritarian leaders have been democratically elected through reasonably free and fair elections.
(b)After being elected, they have in some cases postponed elections or made themselves heads of state, commander of the military, and chiefs of their political parties.
(e)However, other heads of state have been termed as authoritarian for the activities and practices they promote or promulgate within the democratic process.
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