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Direction for questions 1 to 10: Arrange sentences A,
B, C and D between sentences 1 and 6, so as to form a logical sequence of six
sentences.

1.    1. It
doesn’t take a highly esteemed medical expert to conclude that women handle
pain better than men.

A. First the men would give birth, and then take six
months to recover.

B. As for labour pains, the human species would become
extinct if men had to give birth.

C. They do, however, make life hell for everyone else
with their non-stop complaining about how bad they feel.

D. The men in my life, including my husband and my
father, would not take a Tylenol for pain even if their lives depends on it.

       6. And by
the time they finish sharing their excruciating experience with their buddies,
all reproduction would come to a halt.

a. ABDC                b. DCBA              c. CDBA                 d. BACD

2.    1. A few years ago, hostility towards
Japanese-Americans was so strong that I thought they were going to reopen the
detention camps here in Kolkata.

A. Today Asians are a success story.

B. I cannot help making a comparison to the
anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi Germany when Jewish people were successful in
business.

C. But do people applaud President Clinton for
improving foreign trade with Asia?

D. Now, talk about the ‘Arkansas-Asia Connection’ is
broadening that hatred to include all Asian- Americans.

         6. No,
blinded by jealousy, they complain that it is the Asian-Americans who are
reaping the wealth.

a. DBAC             b. ABDC            c. DABC              d. ACBD

3.      1. Michael Jackson, clearly no admirer of
long engagements, got married abruptly for the second time in three years.

A. The latest wedding took place in a secret midnight
ceremony in Sydney, Australia.

B. It is also the second marriage for the new missus,
about whom little is known.

C. The wedding was attended by the groom’s entourage
and staff, according to Jackson’s publicist.

D. The bride, 37-year-old Debbie Rowe, who is carrying
Jackson’s baby, wore white.

6. All that is known is that she is a nurse for
Jackson’s dermatologist.

a. ACDB                b. BDCA              c. DABC               d. CDBA

4.     1. Liz Taylor isn’t just unlucky in love.

A. She, and husband Larry Fortensky, will have to pay
the tab – $4,32,600 in court costs.

B. The duo claimed that a 1993 story about a property
dispute damaged their reputations.

C. Taylor has just filed a defamation suit against the
National Enquirer.

D. She is unlucky in law too.

       6. Alas,
all levels of the California court system disagreed.

a. CDAB             b. DCAB             c. DABC             d. CDBA

5.    1. Hiss
was serving as Head of the Endowment on August 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers
reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

A. Chambers, a portly rumpled man with a melodramatic
style, had been a Communist courier but had broken with the party in 1938.

B. When Nixon arranged a meeting of the two men in New
York, Chambers repeated his charges and Hiss his denials.

C. Summoned as a witness, Hiss denied that he had ever
been a Communist or had known

Chambers.

D. He told the Committee that among the members of a
secret Communist cell in Washington

during the 1930s was Hiss.

         6.
Then, bizarrely, Hiss asked Chambers to open his mouth.

a. CBAD             b. ADBC             c. ADCB             d. ACDB

6. 1. Since its birth, rock has produced a long string
of guitar heroes.

A. It is a list that would begin with Chuck Berry and
continue with Hendrix, Page and Clapton.

B. These are musicians celebrated for their sheer
instrumental talent, and their flair for expansive, showy and sometimes
self-indulgent solos.

C. It would also include players of more recent
vintage, like Van-Halen and Living Colour’s Vemon Reid.

D. But with the advent of alternative rock and grunge,
guitar heroism became uncool.

6. Guitarists like Peter Buck and Kurt Cobain shy away
from exhibitionism.

a. ACBD              b. ABCD                c. BCAD              d. BADC

7.       1. For
many scientists, oceans are the cradle of life.

A. But all over the world, chemical products and
nuclear waste continue to be dumped into them.

B. Coral reefs, which are known to be the most
beautiful places of the submarine world, are fast disappearing.

C. The result is that many species of fish die because
of this pollution.

D. Of course man is the root cause behind these
problems.

        6. Man
has long since ruined the places he visits – continents and oceans alike.

a. ACBD            b. BACD           c. ABDC             d. BCAD

8.     1. Am I
one of the people who are worried that Bill Clinton’s second term might be
destroyed by the constitutional crisis?

A. On the other hand, ordinary citizens have put the
campaign behind them.

B. In other words, what worries me is that Bill
Clinton could exhibit a version of what George Bush used to refer to as Big Mo.

C. That is, he might have so much campaign momentum
that he may not be able to stop

campaigning.

D. Well, it’s true that I’ve been wondering whether a
President could be impeached for refusing to stop talking about the bridge we
need to build to the 21st century.

         6. They
now prefer to watch their favourite soaps and ads on TV rather than senators.

a. DBCA              b. ABDC            c. BACD            d. CBDA

9.       1. So how big is the potential market?

A. But they end up spending thousands more each year
on hardware overhaul and software

upgradation.

B. Analysts say the new machines will appeal primarily
to corporate users.

C. An individual buyer can pick up a desktop computer
for less than $2,000 in America.

D. For them, the NCs best-drawing card is its promise
of much lower maintenance costs.

          6.
NCs, which automatically load the latest version of whatever software they need
could put an end to all that.

a. BCAD               b. DABC              c. BDCA                d. DCAB

10.        1. Historically, stained glass was almost
entirely reserved for ecclesiastical spaces.

A. By all counts, he has accomplished that mission
with unmistakable style.

B. “It is my mission to bring it kicking and
screaming out of that milieu,” says Clarke.

C. The first was the jewel-like windows he designed
for a Cistercian Church in Switzerland.

D. Two recent projects show his genius in the separate
worlds of the sacred and the mundane.

            6.
The second was a spectacular, huge skylight in a shopping complex in Brazil.

a. CBAD                 b. BADC            c. ABDC                d. DBAC

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Answers

1(a)    2(a)    
3(a)    4(b)     5(c)    
6(a)   7(a)    8(a)    
9(c)    10(b)