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[1] English Language

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[1] English Language

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The passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence is given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, R, and S. You are required to find out the proper order for the four sentences and mark them accordingly.

S1:	At the roadside, the driver will be asked to blow through a small glass tube into a plastic bag.
S6:	The driver will be asked to go to the police station.
P:	And if the colour change does not reach the line, the driver cannot be punished under the new law.
Q:	Inside the tube are chemically treated crystals which change colour if the driver has alcohol on his breath.
R:	But if the colour change does reach the line then the test has proved positive.
S:	If the colour change goes beyond a certain line marked on the tube, this indicates that the driver is probably over the specified limit.

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S1:	Hope springs eternal in the heart of man.
S6:	This is the central idea of the poem.
P:	But hope is everlasting.
Q:	Love, friendship, and youth perish.
R:	It is nursed by the glorious elements of Nature.
S:	Man drives hope from Nature in his gallant struggle after some noble ideal.

S1:	Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson were spending a weekend in a University town.
S6:	It was clear that something very unusual happened.
P:	One evening, they received a visit from an acquaintance, Mr. Hilton Soames.
Q:	On that occasion, he was in a state of great agitation.
R:	They were staying in furnished rooms, close to the library.
S:	Mr. Soames was a tall, thin man of a nervous and excitable nature.

S1:	The machines that drive modern civilization derive their power from coal and oil.
S6:	Nuclear energy may also be effectively used in this respect.
P:	But they are not inexhaustible.
Q:	These sources may not be exhausted very soon.
R:	A time may come when some other sources have to be tapped and utilized.
S:	Power may, of course, be obtained in the future from forests, water, wind, and withered vegetables.

S1:	The body can never stop.
S6:	It comes from food.
P:	To support this endless activity, the body needs all the fuel for action.
Q:	Sometimes it is more active than at other times, but it is always moving.
R:	Even in the deepest sleep, we must breathe.
S:	The fuel must come from somewhere.

S1:	First and foremost, there is order and safety in our civilization.
S6:	Nobody may come and break into my house and steal my goods.
P:	Thus in disputes between man and man, the right has taken the place of might.
Q:	If today I have a quarrel with another man, I do not get beaten merely because I am physically weaker.
R:	I go to law, and the law will decide fairly between the two of us.
S:	Moreover, the law protects me from robbery and violence.

S1:	In democratic countries, men are equal before the law.
S6:	And they live like this not for fun, but because they are too poor to afford another room.
P:	While few people live in luxury, many do have not enough to eat, drink and wear.
Q:	There are many families of five or six persons who live in a single room.
R:	But the sharing out of money which means the sharing out of food and clothing and house is still very unfair.
S:	In this room, they sleep and dress and wash and eat, and in this same room, they die.

S1:	Tomorrow it will be a year since we lost our great leader.
S6:	Though he is no more with us. the qualities he possessed and the ideals he cherished remain with us.
P:	To these, he added a feminine sensitiveness to the atmosphere.
Q:	He was involved in the major events of his time.
R:	He participated in them all while maintaining the highest standards of public conduct.
S:	He was incomparably the greatest figure in our history a man of dynamic force, intellectual power, and profound vision.

S1:	It would be possible to adduce many examples showing what could be done with the limited means at our ancestor's disposal in the way of making life comfortable.
S6:	I hope, in this essay, to make that connection manifest.
P:	What has comfort and cleanliness to do with politics, morals, and religion?
Q:	But look more closely and you will discover that there exists the closest connection between the recent growth of comfort and the recent history of ideas.
R:	They show that If they lived in filth and discomfort, it was because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles, political, moral, and religious.
S:	At a first glance, one would say that there could be no causal connection between armchairs and democracies, sofas and the family system, hot baths, and religious orthodoxy.

S1:	To most people, the term technology conjures up images of mills or machines.
S6:	It includes ways to make chemical reactions occur, ways to breed fish, plant forests, or teach history.
P:	The classic symbol of technology is still the assembly line created by Henry Ford half a century ago.
Q:	The invention of the horse collar in the Middle Ages led to changes in agricultural methods and was such a technological advance.
R:	Moreover, technology includes techniques, as well as machines that may or may not be necessary to apply.
S:	This symbol, however, has always been inadequate, for technology, has always been more than factories and machines.

S1:	I was the secretary of the Philosophical Society of Patna College.
S6:	I have been to Kolkata many times since, but never has it been more pleasant than that first visit.
P:	It was my first visit to the city and its impression on my mind was indelible.
Q:	In that capacity, I once led a trip to Kolkata.
R:	I felt I had landed in the midst of a beautiful dream world of a fairyland.
S:	I saw the roads, the trams, the skyscrapers, and the magnificent shops at the Chowrang-hee lane.

S1:	The union finance ministry announced a series of concessions to trade and industry last month.
S6:	Manufacturers feel that prices of certain components may not be brought down because of the imposition of a 30 percent duty where there was none earlier.
P:	Together, these will result in a loss of revenue of Rs. 100 crore to the exchequer.
Q:	Earlier, these were attracting customs duty varying from zero to 100 percent.
R:	The chunk of the relief of Rs. 60 crore has gone to the electronics industry.
S:	Raw materials and piece parts now carry customs duty of 30 percent and 40 percent ad valorem respectively.

S1:	At four o'clock this morning, Hitler attacked and invaded Russia.
S6:	Under its cloak of false confidence, the German armies drew up in immense strength along a line that stretches from the White Sea to the Black Sea.
P:	No complaint had been made by Germany of its Inon-fulfilment.
Q:	All his usual formalities of perfidy were observed with scrupulous technique.
R:	No one could have expected that Hitler would do it.
S:	A non-aggression treaty had been solemnly signed and was in force between the two countries.

S1:	Roderick Usher has always been a quiet person who talked little of himself.
S6:	In the part of the country where he lived, the "House of Usher" had come to mean both the family and its ancestral mansion.
P:	Many of his ancestors had been famous for their artistic and musical abilities.
Q:	Others were known for their exceptional generosity and charity.
R:	Yet I did know that his family was an old one.
S:	So I did not know too much about him.

S1:	Mass production has increased the tendency to view things as useful rather than delightful.
S6:	Indeed a lowering of qµality usually results when pass production is substituted for more primitive methods.
P:	These various things share nothing with the button except money value.
Q:	All the rest you wish to exchange for food, shelter, and many other things.
R:	Suppose you are a manufacturer of buttons however excellent your buttons may be, you do not want more than a few for your own use.
S:	And It is not even the money value of the buttons that are important to you: what is important is profit which may be increased by lowering their quality.

S1:	He no longer dreamed of storms, nor women, nor great occurrences, nor great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength nor of his wife.
S6:	He urinated outside the shack and then went up the road to wake the boy.
P:	He never dreamed about the boy.
Q:	He only dreamed of places and of the lions on the beach now.
R:	He simply woke, and looked out through the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
S:	They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy.

S1:	We do not know, after 60 years of education, how to protect ourselves against epidemics like cholera and plague.
S6:	This is the disastrous result of the system under which we are educated.
P:	If our doctors could have started learning medicine at an earlier age, they would not make such a poor show as they do.
Q:	I have seen hundreds of homes. I cannot say that I have found any evidence in them of knowledge of hygiene.
R:	I consider it a very serious blot on the state of our education that our doctors have not found it possible to eradicate these diseases.
S:	I have the greatest doubt whether our graduates know what they should do in case one is bitten by a snake.

S1:	The weak have no place here, in this life, or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery.
S6:	This is a great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.
P:	They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold of us, until our mind is weakened.
Q:	Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness ls death.
R:	But they cannot harm us unless we become weak until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.
S:	There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us.

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