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)
- (A) that highlighted more than just the end of the Ba’ath party’s decades-long reign. Within a month, U.S. President George W. Bush had declared “mission accomplished” in Iraq.
- (B) The war, which began on March 20, 2003, had no legitimate basis, being founded on misleading intelligence information, if not downright lies
- (C) a 39-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s al-Fardous Square was brought down under the watch of American troops. It was an iconic moment
- (D) Fifteen years ago, on April 9, a few weeks into the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq,
- (E) But one and a half decades later, the country is still fighting the ghosts of the destructive war.
- (1) DCAEB
- (2) DBACE
- (3) DBCAE
- (4) DACBE
- (5) DEACB
2. (4)
- (A) Devise a viable Cauvery scheme soon, stop disruptive protests. The Centre cannot continue
- (B) The court’s frustration was evident, as the Bench headed by the Chief Justice of India was surprised and disappointed that the Centre had not put a scheme in place or sought an early clarification.
- (C) For the Centre, it was embarrassing to be asked to demonstrate its bona fides by submitting a draft scheme for the court’s consideration by May 3.
- (D) to evade its legal obligation to create a mechanism to implement the Supreme Court’s final verdict in the Cauvery dispute.
- (E) This was the broad message conveyed by the court on Monday when it admonished the government for failing to frame a scheme within the six-week time limit given earlier.
- (1) ABCDE
- (2) AEDBC
- (3) AEBCD
- (4) ADECB
- (5) ACBDE
3. (5)
- (A) an absence of ground truths has meant that areas that look green, such as tea estates and commercial plantations, have been counted as forests.
- (B) Environmentalists stress that it is difficult to believe that India’s forest cover has become more dense in the last two years simply because this process takes much longer.
- (C) For this, we need a more rigorous integration of the forest policy with other existing environmental legislation and policy. This, in turn, will help decentralise information on forests.
- (D) The point is that there is a need to create mechanisms to calculate our actual forest cover and natural wealth, and this should form the basis for a forest policy.
- (E) Crucially, the claim of new forests being created is questionable. In several consecutive forest reports,
- (1) EABCD
- (2) EBADC
- (3) EDCAB
- (4) ECBDA
- (5) EABDC
4. (2)
- (A) I am the first to say that governments shouldn’t over-regulate — they are the ones who want to ensure that people’s data arecaptured for them — but you can’t expect these companies to play god either.
- (B) We’ve been dragged into this arena not by choice but by default. We’ve been raising this issue for a while,
- (C) There has to be regulation.
- (D) where four or five companies have complete monopoly of data and there is no regulation whatsoever,
- (E) which is problematic.
- (1) BDAEC
- (2) BDEAC
- (3) BEADC
- (4) BDCAE
- (5) BCADE
5. (3)
- (A) Once I visited a friend in Delhi. When the morning papers came, he would take the puzzle page and start attacking the sudoku with whichever pen or pencil at hand,
- (B) his attitude conveying a victor’s contempt at the loser programme that had set the puzzle.
- (C) Within minutes he would be done, the extra diabolical puzzle killed in an ugly splatter of pen marks, scratching out, and overwriting.
- (D) With a sniff only Bengali men of a certain age can produce, he would drop the page and march to the bathroom,
- (E) while drinking tea, talking on the phone, playing with his cat, screaming at some guy three floors below for parking too near his car.
- (1) ABCDE
- (2) ABCED
- (3) AECDB
- (4) ACDEB
- (5) ADBCE