Paragraph formation - Verbal ability online test - Part 11


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Select the choice that arranges the given sentences A, B, C and D between 1 and 6 in a coherent paragraph.

1) 1. Sports involve not only brawn but also aptitude and technique.

A. The Asian pride, of course, has been protected to a large extent by the performance of China.
B. While there may be something historical and perhaps even genetic about the brawn part of it, aptitude and technique can be acquired over a period of time, provided there is a concerted, scientific, effort to cultivate them.
C. If this is in fact so, our political leaders and bureaucrats have to shoulder squarely the blame for the sheer ignominy of finding ourselves at the bottom of the medals – tally list, among countries whose population is a fraction of our own
D. But, for how longer is anybody’s guess?

6. But surely, it would have been so much better if India and China had found themselves together at the top of the list instead of the former barely meaning to get a toehold in it.

a. CADB
b. ABDC
c. DCAB
d. BCAD

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ANSWER: BCAD

2) 1. There could be a situation in which a firm is dominant in one market and earns profit, but is constrained by a fringe firm or a competitor in another.

A. The loss thus incurred by the dominant firm would be sustained by the profit it earns in its monopoly market.
B.The domestic firm can sell its products below cost in the other market to eliminate the competitor or the fringe firm.
C. Predatory pricing involves time in a fundamental way.
D. The firm can also produce varieties of its differentiated product, competing with a number of rivals, each producing one competing brand of a product.

6. A firm may lose by selling below cost in a short time, but by driving its rivals out of business, the dominant firm can raise price and earn high profits in the long run.

a. BADC
b. ACBD
c. ADBC
d. CBDA

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ANSWER: BADC

3) 1. Indigenisation activities have become part and parcel of the manufacturing activities in the company.

A. In addition to overcoming the dependence on foreign sources for supply, which helps the company to provide long term and sustained product support to the customers.
B. This has gained more significance during the past two to three years when the company had to face restriction on import from US and European countries.
C. Indigenisation activities have been given a very clear focus under the overall efforts taken by the company in the area of cost reduction.
D. The task forces set up in the company to address cost reduction in various areas have looked into possibilities of indigenisation in a great number of the products and succeeded to a large extent.

6. These efforts will be intensified in the coming years.

a. ABDC
b. BACD
c. DBAC
d. CABD

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ANSWER: BACD

4) 1. Many people do not exercise and yet live to a ripe old age.

A. Living is not important – living with excellent health throughout is more meaningful.
B. It is non – invasive and without side – effects
C. But the quality of life of such persons may not be as good as one would like it to be.
D. Exercise, yogic exercise, is the only tool that can maintain health in a cellular sense.

6. However, practice of asana and pranayama needs what modern thought calls motivation.

a. ADBC
b. CDBA
c. CADB
d. DABC

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ANSWER: CADB

5) 1. This is not a story about the Net.

A. The entire Info Tech industry has shown healthy growth of 30% over the previous year, according to IDC
B. And this, in a year that saw an ‘economic slowdown’ and a war.
C. This story is about one of the tools used to get on to the World Wide Web: the ubiquitous PC
D. The ‘techies’ are busy popping bottles of champagne, as total shipment of PCs crossed the one million mark for the first time this year.

6. A record of sorts, according to IDC.

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

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ANSWER: CABD

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