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Arrange sentences A, B, C and D between sentences 1 and 6, to form a logical sequence of six sentences.

1.

1. The researchers examine a psychological advantage that pioneering companies often encounter.

A. But they caution that this advantage must be weighed against the existence of inexpensive local products, underdeveloped communication infrastructure, and cultural fragmentation.
B. Customers in emerging markets tend to be strongly loyal to first – mover brands, even after viable alternatives appear.
C. First – movers there have the opportunity to seize loyal consumers – if only they can reach them.
D. In Myanmar, for example, there is only one television set per hundred people.

6. The bottom line, according to the study, is that it does not always pay to move first.

a. ACBD b. DABC c BCAD d. BADC

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ANSWER: d. BADC

2.

1. The effect can be rather indirect.

A. This revenge is not taken on the parents who caused the damage because they are now old or dead.
B. This happens in human populations, too, that juveniles are ill – treated in a way that leads to violent revenge.
C. Instead, it is taken on parent – substitutes.
D. For instance, one of the results of animal overcrowding is that parental care suffers and the young do not receive the usual love and attention.

6. Violence against these individuals appears senseless.

a. DCBA b. CBDA c. DBAC d. BACD

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ANSWER: c. DBAC

3.

1. The flaws in this view are obvious enough to anyone who has studied animal aggression and the way it is organized.

A. Animals fight, but they do not go for war.
B. There is a good reason for this.
C. In either case, physical combat is reduced to a minimum and disputes are nearly always settled by display, by threat and counter – threat.
D. Their fighting is done on a personal basis, either to establish a dominant position in a social hierarchy, or to defend a personal territory.

6. In the tooth – and – claw fury of close combat, the ultimate winner is likely to be wounded almost as badly as the loser.

a. BCDA b. ADBC c. ACBD d. ADCB

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ANSWER: d. ADCB

4.

1. Look at any industry and you will see three kinds of companies.

A. They are the oligarchy
B. Next are the rule takers, the companies that pay homage to the industrial “lords.”
C. IBM, CBS, United Airlines, Merill Lynch, Sears, Coca – Cola, and the like are the creators and procreators of industrial orthodoxy.
D. First are the rule makers, the incumbents that built the industry.

6. Fujitsu, ABC, US Air, Smith Barney, J.C. Penny and numerous others are peasants.

a. DCAB b. DCBA c. CBDA d. BCAD

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ANSWER: a. DCAB

5.

1. Rebelling against conventional practice, pop icon Madonna and Hollywood actress Jodie Foster have decided to have children out of wedlock.

A. Their decision – to be single mothers by choice – can, however no longer be viewed as an individual and impulsive act of non – conformism.
B. The trend originates from the female sexual revolution that led women to believe that their identity could exist independently of men.
C. It points to a social trend, where a growing number of women are choosing to become single mothers.
D. After nearly half a century, the message has truly rung home.

6. Women have begun to marginalize the role of men in their lives.

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

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ANSWER: d. ACBD

6.

1. The train had just left Nagpur.

A. The horizon lay interspersed with silken clouds – plain white balls of unblemished cotton.
B. It would be some time before it reached Hyderabad, my destination.
C. It was as if I was in the midst of a celestial play.
D. The deep blue sky spread over the craggy Deccan expanse.

6. The sun was at its playful best.

a. ADCB b. BCDA c. ACBD d. BDAC

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ANSWER: b. BCDA

7.

1. A few days later I was on an overnight bus to Karimnagar.

A. Birds flew out of their nests for their day’s search.
B. The rays of the rising sun had given them a golden orange tone.
C. Clouds had a different look.
D. Dawn was breaking over the horizon.

6. The men around me slept, ensconced in their world of dreams.

a. DBCA b. DABC c. DACB d. DBAC

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ANSWER: c. DACB

8.

1. This is a company that prides itself on its carefully nurtured extensive distribution bricks and mortar network.

A. The company also plans a foray into the service sector by setting up a chain of laundrettes across the country.
B. Yet today, pre -cooked chappatis and ready – made mixes are a big market.
C. And that’s not all.
D. Today the idea may appear a trifle ambitious but remember that it was not so long ago that the same things were said about the market for ready to eat foods and branded cereals.

6. Disposable incomes are rising in the metros and big cities and time is at a premium.

a. ADBC b. CADB c. ABDC d. CABD

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ANSWER: b. CADB

9.

1. Venture capital started about 15 years ago with some government – backed funds.

A. In India, in the last 4 – 5 years, some US funds have entered.
B. US funds like draper and Walden have played an important role in kick-starting the venture capital industry in India.
C. Draper in particular played a pioneering role.
D. This was the second wave of venture capital.

6. The third wave is people coming back from the US and moving into venture capital – like myself.

a. BACD b. DABC c. ABCD d. CDBA

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ANSWER: c. ABCD

10.

1. Just because the Japanese are having fewer children does not mean there are not plenty of bodies to do the work.

A. All – Japan has to do is open the doors a little bit.
B. Millions of Chinese would love to work in Japan.
C. Another idea is to import a few million considerate males.
D. It’s not that Japanese women don’t want children; they don’t want Japanese husbands and the inevitable dreaded mother – in – law that comes with most husbands, since so many young Japanese men are only sons.

6. In the past, there were many second and third sons who did not carry the mother in law baggage because first sons inherited everything.

a. CBAD b. DCAB c. ABCD d. CABD

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ANSWER: c. ABCD

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