A. And that the pursuit of money by whatever design within the law is always benign.
B. And it holds broadly that the greater the amount of money, the greater the intelligence.
C. This is the institutional truth of Wall Street, this you will be required to believe.
D. The institutional truth of the financial world holds that association with money implies intelligence.
A. Then think of by how much our advertising could increase the sales level.
B. Advertising effectiveness can be best grasped intuitively on a per capita basis.
C. Overall effectiveness is easily calculated by considering the number of buyers and the cost of advertising.
D. Think of how much of our brand the average individual is buying now.
A. The age of pragmatism is here, whether we like it or not.
B. The staple rhetoric that was for so long dished out also belongs to the bipolar world of yesterday.
C. The old equations, based on the cold war and on non-alignment no longer holds good.
D. But contrary to much of what is being said and written, it is a multipolar rather than unipolar world that appears to be emerging out of recent events.
A. Past research has uncovered the fact that cognitive age is inversely related to life satisfaction among the elderly.
B. A person may feel young or old irrespective of chronological age.
C. That is, the younger an elderly person feels, the more likely she or he is to be satisfied with life in general.
D. Cognitive age is a psychological construct that refers to ones subjective assessment of ones age.
A. It was a fascinating tempting green, like the hue of the great green grasshopper.
B. Her teeth were very white and her voice had a cruel and at the same time a coaxing sound.
C. While she was uncorking the bottle I noticed how green her eyeballs were.
D. I saw, too, how small her hands were, which showed that she did not use them much.
A. By intelligence we mean a style of life, a way of behaving in various situations, and particularly in new, strange and perplexing situations.
B. When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get a good score on a certain kind of test, or even the ability to do well at school.
C. The true test of intelligence is not how to do, but how we behave when we dont know what to do.
D. These are at best only indicators of something large, deeper and far more important.
A. In formal speech, syllables are likely to be more deliberately sounded than in informal speech.
B. Yet dictionary editors have no choice but to deal with each word as an individual entity.
C. The pronunciation of words is influenced by the situation.
D. Further, the pronunciation of a word is affected by its position in the sentence and by the meaning it carries.
A. To have settled ones affairs is a very good preparation to leading the rest of ones life without concern for the future.
B. When I have finished this book I shall know where I stand.
C. One does not die immediately after one has made ones will; one makes ones will as a precaution.
D. I can afford then to do what I choose with the years that remain to me.
A. It is sad that India has always been in a hurry to conform to western thought, especially the American.
B. Even the smaller countries have the guts to take a firm contrarian stand if they feel the policies happen to compromise their countrys interest.
C. Its one thing to sprout theories on liberalization, and entirely another to barter the interests of the nation in its name.
D. In this case too, while a large number of countries are yet to ratify the GATT, India has not only ratified the treaty, but is also preparing to amend the Patents Act.
A. But instead you are faced with another huge crag and the weary trail continues.
B. No, the path wind on and another mountain bars your way.
C. When for days you have been going through a mountain pass, a moment comes when you are sure that after winding around the great mass of rock in front of you, you will come upon the plain.
D. Surely after this you will see the plain.
A. During one exhibition, however, some air became mixed with the hydrogen, and in the words of the shaken performer: The explosion was so dreadful that I imagined all my teeth had been blown out!
B. An entertainer would finish his acts by blowing the hydrogen he had inhaled towards a lighted candle; as the hydrogen caught fire, flames would shoot menacingly from his lips.
C. A paper bag filled with hydrogen amazed guests by zooming off into space.
D. When people learned about its unique lighter-than-air property, they began to use it in all sorts of parlor stunts.
A. It is exciting and various.
B. I am a writer as I might have been a doctor or a lawyer.
C. The writer is free to work in what he believes.
D. It is so pleasant a profession that it not surprising if a vast number of persons adopt it who have no qualifications for it.
A. Where there is division there must be conflict, not only division between man and woman, but also division on the basis of race, religion and language.
B. We said the present condition of racial divisions, linguistic divisions has brought out so many wars.
C. Also we went into the question as to why does this conflict between man and man exist.
D. May we continue with what we were discussing last evening?
A. No other documents give us so intimate a sense of the tone and temper of the first generation poets.
B. Part of the interest of the journal is of course historical.
C. And the clues to Wordsworth's creative processes which the journal affords are of decisive
significance.
D. Not even in their own letters do Wordsworth and Coleridge stand so present before us than they do
through the references in the journal.
A. These high plans died, slowly but definitively, and were replaced by the dream of a huge work on
philosophy.
B. In doing whatever little he could of the new plan, the poet managed to write speculations on theology,
and political theory.
C. The poet's huge ambitions included writing a philosophic epic on the origin of evil.
D. However, not much was done in this regard either, with only fragments being written.
A. We can never leave off wondering how that which has ever been should cease to be.
B. As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time.
C. Nothing else, indeed, seems to be of any consequence; and we become misers in this sense.
D. We try to arrest its few last tottering steps, and to make it linger on the brink of the grave.
A. There is no complete knowledge about anything.
B. Our thinking is the outcome of knowledge, and knowledge is always limited.
C. Knowledge always goes hand in hand with ignorance.
D. Therefore, our thinking which is born out of knowledge, is always limited under all circumstances.
Direction for questions 45 to 50: Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a
logically coherent paragraph.
A. Still, Sophie might need an open heart surgery later in life and now be more prone to respiratory
infections.
B. But with the news that his infant daughter Sophie has a hole in her heart, he appears quite vulnerable.
C. While the condition sounds bad, it is not life threatening, and frequently corrects itself.
D. Sylvester Stallone has made millions and built a thriving career out of looking invincible.
Direction for questions 45 to 50: Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a
logically coherent paragraph.
A. However, the severed head could not grow back if fire could be applied instantly to the amputated part.
B.To get rid of this monstrosity was truly a Herculean task, for as soon as one head was cut off, two new
ones replaced it.
C. Hercules accomplished this labour with the aid of an assistant who cauterized the necks as fast as
Hercules cut off the heads!
D. One of the twelve labours of Hercules was the killing of hydra, a water monster with nine heads.
Direction for questions 45 to 50: Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a
logically coherent paragraph.
A. That Hollywood is a man's world is certainly true, but it is not the whole truth.
B. Even Renaissance film actress, Jodie Foster, who hosts this compendium of movie history, confesses
surprise at this.
C. She says that she had no idea that women were so active in the industry even in those days.
D. During the silent era, for example, female scriptwriters outnumbered males 10 to 1.
Direction for questions 45 to 50: Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a
logically coherent paragraph.
A. Its business decisions are made on the timely and accurate flow of information.
B. It has 1,700 employees in 13 branch and representative offices across the Asia-Pacific region.
C. For employees to maintain a competitive edge in a fast-moving field, they must have quick access to
JP Morgan's proprietary trade related data.
D. JP Morgan's is one of the largest banking institutions in the US and a premier international trading
firm.
Direction for questions 45 to 50: Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a
logically coherent paragraph.
A. The Saheli Programme, run by the US Cross-Cultural Solutions, is offering a three week tour of India
that involves a lot more than frenzied sightseeing.
B. Participants interested in women's issues will learn about arranged marriages, dowry and infanticide.
C. Holiday packages include all sorts of topics, but female infanticide must be the first for tourism.
D. Interspersed with these talks and meetings are visits to cities like New Delhi and Agra, home to the
Taj Mahal
Direction for questions 45 to 50: Arrange the four sentences in their proper order so that they make a
logically coherent paragraph.
A. Something magical is happening to our planet.
B. Some are calling it a paradigm shift.
C. Its getting smaller.
D. Others call it business transformation
A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined
at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishmans question: Is this a private fight or can anyone
join in?
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors
and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However, binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre
will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper sequence of order of the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
1. Impartiality and objectivity are fiendishly difficult concepts that can cause all sorts of injustices even if transparently implemented.
2. It encourages us into bubbles of people we know and like, while blinding us to different perspectives, but the deeper problem of ‘transparency’ lies in the words “…and much more”.
3. Twitter’s website says that “tweets you are likely to care about most will show up first in your timeline…based on accounts you interact with most, tweets you engage with, and much more.”
4. We are only told some of the basic principles, and we can’t see the algorithm itself, making it hard for citizens to analyse the system sensibly or fairly or be convinced of its impartiality and objectivity.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
1. The eventual diagnosis was skin cancer and after treatment all seemed well.
2. The viola player didn’t know what it was; nor did her GP.
3. Then a routine scan showed it had come back and spread to her lungs.
4. It started with a lump on Cathy Perkins’ index finger.
The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper sequence of order of the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
1. But now we have another group: the unwitting enablers.
2. Democracy and high levels of inequality of the kind that have come to characterize the United States are simply incompatible.
3. Believing these people are working for a better world, they are, actually, at most, chipping away at the margins, making slight course corrections, ensuring the system goes on as it is, uninterrupted.
4. Very rich people will always use money to maintain their political and economic power.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
1. The woodland’s canopy receives most of the sunlight that falls on the trees.
2. Swifts do not confine themselves to woodlands, but hunt wherever there are insects in the air.
3. With their streamlined bodies, swifts are agile flyers, ideally adapted to twisting and turning through the air as they chase flying insects – the creatures that form their staple diet.
4. Hundreds of thousands of insects fly in the sunshine up above the canopy, some falling prey to swifts and swallows
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
1. It was his taxpayers who had to shell out as much as $1.6bn over 10 years to employees of failed companies.
2. Companies in many countries routinely engage in such activities which means that the employees are left with unpaid entitlements
3. Deliberate and systematic liquidation of a company to avoid liabilities and then restarting the business is called phoenixing.
4. The Australian Minister for Revenue and Services discovered in an audit that phoenixing had cost the Australian economy between $2.9bn and $5.1bn last year.
The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper sequence of order of the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer:
1. In the era of smart world, however, ‘Universal Basic Income’ is an ineffective instrument which cannot address the potential breakdown of the social contract when large swathes of the population would effectively be unemployed.
2. In the era of industrial revolution, the abolition of child labour, poor laws and the growth of trade unions helped families cope with the pressures of mechanised work.
3. Growing inequality could be matched by a creeping authoritarianism that is bolstered by technology that is increasingly able to peer into the deepest vestiges of our lives.
4. New institutions emerge which recognise ways in which workers could contribute to and benefit by economic growth when, rather than if, their jobs are automated.
The four sentences (labelled 1,2,3,4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper sequence of order of the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer:
1. They would rather do virtuous side projects assiduously as long as these would not compel them into doing their day jobs more honourably or reduce the profit margins.
2. They would fund a million of the buzzwordy programs rather than fundamentally question the rules of their game or alter their own behavior to reduce the harm of the existing distorted, inefficient and unfair rules.
3. Like the dieter who would rather do anything to lose weight than actually eat less, the business elite would save the world through social-impact-investing and philanthro-capitalism.
4. Doing the right thing — and moving away from their win-win mentality — would involve real sacrifice; instead, it’s easier to focus on their pet projects and initiatives.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, and 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper order for the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer.
1. Self-management is thus defined as the ‘individual’s ability to manage the symptoms, treatment, physical and psychosocial consequences and lifestyle changes inherent in living with a chronic condition’.
2. Most people with progressive diseases like dementia prefer to have control over their own lives and health-care for as long as possible.
3. Having control means, among other things, that patients themselves perform self-management activities.
4. Supporting people in decisions and actions that promote self-management is called self-management support requiring a cooperative relationship between the patient, the family, and the professionals.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below,
when properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer.
1. Metaphors may map to similar meanings across
languages, but their subtle differences can have
a profound effect on our understanding of the
world.
2. Latin scholars point out carpe diem is a
horticultural metaphor that, particularly seen in
the context of its source, is more accurately
translated as “plucking the day,” evoking the
plucking and gathering of ripening fruits or flowers,
enjoying a moment that is rooted in the sensory
experience of nature, unrelated to the force implied
in seizing.
3. The phrase carpe diem, which is often translated
as “seize the day and its accompanying
philosophy, has gone on to inspire countless
people in how they live their lives and motivates
us to see the world a little differently from the
norm
4. It’s an example of one of the more telling ways
that we mistranslate metaphors from one
language to another, revealing in the process our
hidden assumptions about what we really value.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below,
when properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer.
1. If you’ve seen a little line of text on websites that
says something like "customers who bought this
also enjoyed that” you have experienced this
collaborative filtering firsthand.
2. The problem with these algorithms is that they
don’t take into account a host of nuances and
circumstances that might interfere with their
accuracy.
3. If you just bought a gardening book for your
cousin, you might get a flurry of links to books
about gardening, recommended just for you! –
the algorithm has no way of knowing you hate
gardening and only bought the book as a gift.
4. Collaborative filtering is a mathematical algorithm
by which correlations and co-occurrences of
behaviors are tracked and then used to make
recommendations.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below,
when properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer.
1. We’ll all live under mob rule until then, which
doesn’t help anyone.
2. Perhaps we need to learn to condense the
feedback we receive online so that 100 replies
carry the same weight as just one.
3. As we grow more comfortable with social media
conversations being part of the way we interact
every day, we are going to have to learn how to
deal with legitimate criticism.
4. A new norm will arise where it is considered
unacceptable to reply with the same point that
dozens of others have already.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given below,
when properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequence of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer.
1. People with dyslexia have difficulty with printreading,
and people with autism spectrum
disorder have difficulty with mind-reading.
2. An example of a lost cognitive instinct is mindreading:
our capacity to think of ourselves and
others as having beliefs, desires, thoughts and
feelings.
3. Mind-reading looks increasingly like literacy, a
skill we know for sure is not in our genes, since
scripts have been around for only 5,000-6,000
years.
4. Print-reading, like mind-reading varies across
cultures, depends heavily on certain parts of the
brain, and is subject to developmental disorders.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) Tensions and sometimes conflict remain an issue
in and between the 11 states in South East Asia
(Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam).
(2) China’s rise as a regional military power and its
claims in the South China Sea have become an
increasingly pressing security concern for many
South East Asian states.
(3) Since the 1990s, the security environment of
South East Asia has seen both continuity and
profound changes.
(4) These concerns cause states from outside the
region to take an active interest in South East
Asian security.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) Man has used poisons for assassination
purposes ever since the dawn of civilization,
against individual enemies but also occasionally
against armies.
(2) These dangers were soon recognized, and
resulted in two international declarations—in 1874
in Brussels and in 1899 in The Hague—that
prohibited the use of poisoned weapons.
(3) The foundation of microbiology by Louis Pasteur
and Robert Koch offered new prospects for those
interested in biological weapons because it
allowed agents to be chosen and designed on a
rational basis.
(4) Though treaties were all made in good faith, they
contained no means of control, and so failed to
prevent interested parties from developing and
using biological weapons.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) Relying on narrative structure alone, indigenous
significances of nineteenth century San folktales
are hard to determine.
(2) Using their supernatural potency, benign shamans
transcend the levels of the San cosmos in order
to deal with social conflict and to protect material
resources and enjoy a measure of respect that
sets them apart from ordinary people.
(3) Selected tales reveal that they deal with a form
of spiritual conflict that has social implications
and concern conflict between people and living
or dead malevolent shamans.
(4) Meaning can be elicited, and the tales
contextualized, by probing beneath the narrative
of verbatim, original-language records and
exploring the connotations of highly significant
words and phrases.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the
sentences and key in the sequence of the four
numbers as your answer:
1. While you might think that you see or are aware
of all the changes that happen in your immediate
environment, there is simply too much information
for your brain to fully process everything.
2. Psychologists use the term ‘change blindness’
to describe this tendency of people to be blind to
changes though they are in the immediate
environment.
3. It cannot be aware of every single thing that
happens in the world around you.
4. Sometimes big shifts happen in front of your eyes
and you are not at all aware of these changes.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the
sentences and key in the sequence of the four
numbers as your answer:
(1) But the attention of the layman, not surprisingly,
has been captured by the atom bomb, although
there is at least a chance that it may never be
used again.
(2) Of all the changes introduced by man into the
household of nature, [controlled] large-scale
nuclear fission is undoubtedly the most
dangerous and most profound.
(3) The danger to humanity created by the so-called
peaceful uses of atomic energy may, however,
be much greater.
(4) The resultant ionizing radiation has become the
most serious agent of pollution of the environment
and the greatest threat to man’s survival on earth.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the
sentences and key in the sequence of the four
numbers as your answer:
(1) It also has four movable auxiliary telescopes
1.8 m in diameter.
(2) Completed in 2006, the Very Large Telescope
(VLT) has four reflecting telescopes, 8.2 m in
diameter that can observe objects 4 billion times
weaker than can normally be seen with the naked
eye.
(3) This configuration enables one to distinguish an
astronaut on the Moon.
(4) When these are combined with the large
telescopes, they produce what is called
interferometry: a simulation of the power of a
mirror 16 m in diameter and the resolution of a
telescope of 200 m.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) Each one personified a different aspect of good
fortune.
(2) The others were versions of popular Buddhist
gods, Hindu gods and Daoist gods.
(3) Seven popular Japanese deities, the Shichi
Fukujin, were considered to bring good luck and
happiness.
(4) Although they were included in the Shinto
pantheon, only two of them, Daikoku and Ebisu,
were indigenous Japanese gods.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) Complex computational elements of the CNS are
organized according to a “nested” hierarchic
criterion; the organization is not permanent and
can change dynamically from moment to moment
as they carry out a computational task.
(2) Echolocation in bats exemplifies adaptation
produced by natural selection; a function not
produced by natural selection for its current use
is exaptation -- feathers might have originally
arisen in the context of selection for insulation.
(3) From a structural standpoint, consistent with
exaptation, the living organism is organized as a
complex of “Russian Matryoshka Dolls” -- smaller
structures are contained within larger ones in
multiple layers.
(4) The exaptation concept, and the Russian-doll
organization concept of living beings deduced
from studies on evolution of the various
apparatuses in mammals, can be applied for the
most complex human organ: the central nervous
system (CNS).
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when
properly sequenced would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) It advocated a conservative approach to antitrust
enforcement that espouses faith in efficient
markets and voiced suspicion regarding the merits
of judicial intervention to correct anticompetitive
practices.
(2) Many industries have consistently gained market
share, the lion’s share - without any official
concern; the most successful technology
companies have grown into veritable titans, on
the premise that they advance ‘public interest’.
(3) That the new anticompetitive risks posed by tech
giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon,
necessitate new legal solutions could be
attributed to the dearth of enforcement actions
against monopolies and the few cases
challenging mergers in the USA.
(4) The criterion of ‘consumer welfare standard’ and
the principle that antitrust law should serve
consumer interests and that it should protect
competition rather than individual competitors was
an antitrust law introduced by, and named after,
the 'Chicago school'.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:
1. In the central nervous systems of other animal species, such a comprehensive regeneration of neurons has not yet been proven beyond doubt.
2. Biologists from the University of Bayreuth have discovered a uniquely rapid form of regeneration in injured neurons and their function in the central nervous system of zebrafish.
3. They studied the Mauthner cells, which are solely responsible for the escape behaviour of the fish, and previously regarded as incapable of regeneration.
4. However, their ability to regenerate crucially depends on the location of the injury.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:
1. The work is more than the text, for the text only takes on life, when it is realized and furthermore the realization is by no means independent of the individual disposition of the reader.
2. The convergence of text and reader brings the literary work into existence and this convergence is not to be identified either with the reality of the text or with the individual disposition of the reader.
3. From this polarity it follows that the literary work cannot be completely identical with the text, or with the realization of the text, but in fact must lie halfway between the two.
4. The literary work has two poles, which we might call the artistic and the aesthetic; the artistic refers to the text created by the author, and the aesthetic to the realization accomplished by the reader.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) below, when properly sequenced would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer:
1. A popular response is the exhortation to plant more trees.
2. It seems all but certain that global warming will go well above two degrees—quite how high no one knows yet.
3. Burning them releases it, which is why the scale of forest fires in the Amazon basin last year garnered headlines.
4. This is because trees sequester carbon by absorbing carbon dioxide.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) Fish skin collagen has excellent thermo-stability
and tensile strength making it ideal for use as
bandage that adheres to the skin and adjusts to
body movements.
(2) Collagen, one of the main structural proteins in
connective tissues in the human body, is well
known for promoting skin regeneration.
(3) Fish skin swims in here as diseases and bacteria
that affect fish are different from most human
pathogens.
(4) The risk of introducing disease agents into other
species through the use of pig and cow collagen
proteins for wound healing has inhibited its
broader applications in the medical field.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) The creative element in product design has
become of paramount importance as it is one of
the few ways a firm or industry can sustain a
competitive advantage over its rivals.
(2) In fact, the creative element in the value of world
industry would be larger still, if we added the
contribution of the creative element in other
industries, such as the design of tech accessories.
(3) The creative industry is receiving a lot of attention
today as its growth rate is faster than that of the
world economy as a whole.
(4) It is for this reason that today's trade issues are
increasingly involving intellectual property, as
Western countries have an interest in protecting
their revenues along with freeing trade in nontangibles.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) Some company leaders are basing their
decisions on locating offices to foster innovation
and growth, as their best-performing inventors
suffered the greatest productivity losses when
their commutes grew longer.
(2) Shorter commutes support innovation by giving
employees more time in the office and greater
opportunities for in-person collaboration, while
removing the physical strain of a long commute.
(3) This is not always the case: remote work does
not automatically lead to greater creativity and
productivity as office water-cooler conversations
are also very important for innovation.
(4) Some see the link between long commutes and
productivity as support for work-from-home
scenarios, as many workers have grown
accustomed to their commute-free arrangements
during the pandemic.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the
sentences and key in the sequence of the four
numbers as your answer:
(1) From chemical pollutants in the environment to
the damming of rivers to invasive species
transported through global trade and travel, every
environmental issue is different and there is no
single tech solution that can solve this crisis.
(2) Discourse on the threat of environmental collapse
revolves around cutting down emissions, but
biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are
caused by myriad and diverse reasons.
(3) This would require legislation that recognises the
rights of future generations and other species that
allows the judiciary to uphold a much higher
standard of environmental protection than
currently possible.
(4) Clearly, our environmental crisis requires large
political solutions, not minor technological ones,
so, instead of focusing on infinite growth, we could
consider a path of stable-state economies, while
preserving markets and healthy competition.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the
sentences and key in the sequence of the four
numbers as your answer:
(1) Women may prioritize cooking because they feel
they alone are responsible for mediating a toxic
and unhealthy food system.
(2) Food is commonly framed through the lens of
individual choice: you can choose to eat healthily.
(3) This is particularly so in a neoliberal context where
the state has transferred the responsibility for
food onto individual consumers.
(4) The individualized framing of choice appeals to a
popular desire to experience agency, but draws
away from the structural obstacles that stratify
individual food choices.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph.
Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the
sentences and key in the sequence of the four
numbers as your answer:
(1) The trajectory of cheerfulness through the self is
linked to the history of the word ‘cheer’ which
comes from an Old French meaning ‘face’.
(2) Translations of the Bible into vernacular
languages, expanded the noun ‘cheer’ into the
more abstract ‘cheerful-ness’, something that
circulates as an emotional and social quality
defining the self and a moral community.
(3) When you take on a cheerful expression, no
matter what the state of your soul, your
cheerfulness moves into the self: the interior of
the self is changed by the power of cheer.
(4) People in the medieval ‘Canterbury Tales’ have a
‘piteous’ or a ‘sober’ cheer; ‘cheer’ is an
expression and a body part, lying at the
intersection of emotions and physiognomy.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) Various industrial sectors including retail, transit
systems, enterprises, educational institutions,
event organizing, finance, travel etc. have now
started leveraging these beacons solutions to
track and communicate with their customers.
(2) A beacon fixed on to a shop wall enables the
retailer to assess the proximity of the customer,
and come up with a much targeted or personalized
communication like offers, discounts and combos
on products in each shelf.
(3) Smart phones or other mobile devices can capture
the beacon signals, and distance can be
estimated by measuring received signal strength.
(4) Beacons are tiny and inexpensive, micro-locationbased
technology devices that can send radio
frequency signals and notify nearby Bluetooth
devices of their presence and transmit
information.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) The more we are able to accept that our
achievements are largely out of our control, the
easier it becomes to understand that our failures,
and those of others, are too.
(2) But the raft of recent books about the limits of
merit is an important correction to the arrogance
of contemporary entitlement and an opportunity
to reassert the importance of luck, or grace, in
our thinking.
(3) Meritocracy as an organising principle is an
inevitable function of a free society, as we are
designed to see our achievements as worthy of
reward.
(4) And that in turn should increase our humility and
the respect with which we treat our fellow citizens,
helping ultimately to build a more compassionate
society.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) below,
when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent
paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the
order of the sentences and key in the sequence of
the four numbers as your answer:
(1) If I wanted to sit indoors and read, or play Sonic
the Hedgehog on a red-hot Sega Mega Drive, I
would often be made to feel guilty about not going
outside to "enjoy it while it lasts".
(2) My mum, quite reasonably, wanted me and my
sister out of the house, in the sun.
(3) Tales of my mum's idyllic-sounding childhood in
the Sussex countryside, where trees were
climbed by 8 am and streams navigated by
lunchtime, were passed down to us like folklore.
(4) To an introverted kid, that felt like a threat - and
the feeling has stayed with me.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given
below, when properly sequenced, would yield a
coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing
of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence
of the four numbers as your answer.
1. What precisely are the “unusual elements” that
make a particular case so attractive to a certain
kind of audience?
2. It might be a particularly savage or unfathomable
level of depravity, very often it has something to
do with the precise amount of mystery involved.
3. Unsolved, and perhaps unsolvable cases offer
something that “ordinary” murder doesn’t.
4. Why are some crimes destined for perpetual
re-examination and others locked into permanent
obscurity?
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given
below, when properly sequenced, would yield a
coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing
of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence
of the four numbers as your answer.
1. Algorithms hosted on the internet are accessed
by many, so biases in AI models have resulted in
much larger impact, adversely affecting far larger
groups of people.
2. Though “algorithmic bias” is the popular term,
the foundation of such bias is not in algorithms,
but in the data; algorithms are not biased, data
is, as algorithms merely reflect persistent
patterns that are present in the training data.
3. Despite their widespread impact, it is relatively
easier to fix AI biases than human-generated
biases, as it is simpler to identify the former than
to try to make people unlearn behaviors learnt
over generations.
4. The impact of biased decisions made by humans
is localised and geographically confined, but with
the advent of AI, the impact of such decisions is
spread over a much wider scale.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given
below, when properly sequenced, would yield a
coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing
of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence
of the four numbers as your answer.
1. Veena Sahajwalla, a materials scientist at the
University of New South Wales, believes there is
a new way of solving this problem.
2. Her vision is for automated drones and robots to
pick out components, put them into a small
furnace and smelt them at specific temperatures
to extract the metals one by one before they are
sent off to manufacturers for reuse.
3. E-waste contains huge quantities of valuable
metals, ceramics and plastics that could be
salvaged and recycled, although currently not
enough of it is.
4. She plans to build microfactories that can tease
apart the tangle of materials in mobile phones,
computers and other e-waste.
The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given
below, when properly sequenced, would yield a
coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing
of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence
of the four numbers as your answer.
1. Centuries later formal learning is still mostly
based on reading, even with the widespread use
of other possible education-affecting technologies
such as film, radio, and television.
2. One of the immediate and recognisable impacts
of the printing press was on how people learned;
in the scribal culture it primarily involved listening,
so memorization was paramount.
3. The transformation of learners from listeners to
readers was a complex social and cultural
phenomenon, and it was not until the industrial
era that the concept of universal literacy took
root.
4. The printing press shifted the learning process,
as listening and memorisation gradually gave way
to reading and learning no longer required the
presence of a mentor; it could be done privately.
