Directions (1-5): Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below. 1. (1)
- (A) ambient air pollution together globally every year.
- (B) accounts for 34% or 2.4 million of the seven million premature deaths caused by household and
- (C) Southeast Asia region to aggressively address the double burden of household and ambient (outdoor) air pollution,
- (D) The WHO has called upon member-countries in its
- (E) saying the region, which comprises India,
- (1) DCEBA
- (2) DCBEA
- (3) DBCEA
- (4) DABCE
- (5) DECBA
2. (3)
- (A) I must confess that I am intrigued by your invitation to me to join the members of the Indo-Korean War Veterans
- (B) was the Chairman and General Thorat was the Commander of the Custodian Forces of India.
- (C) It is of course true that
- (D) in welcoming the new Ambassador from South Korea.
- (E) I spent some few months of my life in Panmunjom in my capacity as Alternate Chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission of which General Thimayya
- (1) ACBED
- (2) ADCBE
- (3) ADCEB
- (4) ABCDE
- (5) AEDCB
3. (4)
- (A) held talks against a classic Chinese landscape of gardens and lakes, with and without aides.
- (B) Indian and Chinese troops engaged in a tense stand-off lasting 73 days.
- (C) on the high Himalayan plateau of Doklam on the borders of Bhutan, India and China, overlooking the vital Siliguri Corridor connecting ‘mainland’ India to the Northeastern States,
- (D) The optics were reassuring and optimism about the outcome of these conversations was implied. Only a year ago,
- (E) For the duration of a day and a half, the leaders of the world’s two most populous countries
- (1) ECBDA
- (2) EDCBA
- (3) EACDB
- (4) EADCB
- (5) EBCDA
4. (5)
- (A) The authorities may claim that the situation is stable but the daily litany of violence tells a different story.
- (B) on different planes across the country.
- (C) The authorities need to analyse why simultaneous upheavals are taking place
- (D) Each day, a concatenation of events and situations are contributing to feelings of deep unease.
- (E) Take internal security, for instance.
- (1) CAEDB
- (2) CEBAD
- (3) CDEAB
- (4) CBEAD
- (5) CBDEA
5. (5)
- (A) Strong patent protection is a crucial part of this process.
- (B) Transgenic technologies such as Bt cotton are an important part of India’s cotton production arsenal.
- (C) that fail when used improperly, as was the case with Bollgard-2. The important thing for India
- (D) They are not infallible. But this is true of all technologies, like antibiotics,
- (E) is to keep incentivising the development of such technologies and to use them properly.
- (1) BECDA
- (2) BACDE
- (3) BDAEC
- (4) BCDAE
- (5) BDCEA